Hee, Ran Long Warrant Call

Enroute to Hee Warrant Call

Leah was partnered with Sam today. She had only been on the team for two weeks. They sat in silence in the SUV for a long time. Leah liked Ed but didn't get why he constantly rode Sam and singled him out. Sam looked like a competent officer and he was ex-military.

The dynamic between them was weird. A week ago in debrief after a call gone bad Ed had raged at Sam. Sam sat calmly and silent, he just took it. It was unfair to say the least. It wasn't Sam's fault the guy's hand got sweaty and dropped the live grenade. Sam saved the guy, Jules and himself when he picked up the grenade and chucked it away into the river.

Then this morning again. What the hell was that all about? Ed was angry then laughing and Sam shocked then laughing. Leah sighed and shook her head.

Sam heard and glanced at her "Leah, everything okay?"

Looking at Sam, knowing it wasn't her place to say anything, but with confusion evident in her voice Leah said "You and Ed. I just don't get it."

Leah forgot that the headset was on and was surprised to hear the entire team laugh, including Sam. Would she ever get used to having every word heard by six others? Why were they all laughing?

Spike chimed in "Join the crowd."

Wordy looked at Ed and said to Leah "Ed's just special. Sam gets under his skin."

Ed smirked at Wordy and responded "Well if he weren't such a cocky kid."

Sam snorted and retorted "And you weren't an enigmatic old man."

Greg gave Jules a sideways glance and saw her huge smile. He cut in laughing but knowing they were getting close to the location and needed to refocus "Let's keep the peace. Sam, Eddie play nice today."

A lighthearted "Copy that" was heard from five members as Leah just shook her head. Man she had a lot to learn about this team.

Sam muted his headset and motioned to Leah to do the same "Don't worry Leah, you'll get the hang of it soon. And with Ed, don't worry. He's just fiercely protective of the team. He gets upset if he thinks we take unnecessary risks. Like the grenade. He doesn't mean anything by it. Just needs to burn off steam."

Then he smiled and unmuted. Leah smiled wanly and unmuted hers too.

Hee Warrant Call Location

The team arrived in silent mode and stopped the SUVs in the back alley way outside visual range of the building. They were in the back gearing up. Sam and Leah were donning rappelling gear and had their MP5s attached to the vest cords.

Jules had already grabbed the Remi and kit and was just about to take off to the Sierra One location. Sam thought she looked a little too happy. But then again, she didn't often get to be Sierra One. Warrant calls were about it these days because she was nearly always Sarge's second and working profiles.

Ready, Jules turned to go and Sam called out "Jules, catch" as he tossed her a water bottle. She looked quizzically at him and he said "Sarge's orders remember."

Jules smiled and touched the bottle to her head in salute and pivoted then hurried to her position.

As she trotted off Sam watched her a moment. He and Ed had plotted and determined that Jules should have the opportunity for sniper position when no negotiations were likely, like in warrant calls. Ed wanted her to keep her skills sharp.

Sam however had an ulterior motive. Warrant calls tended to get very physical and although Jules could protect herself and handle guys double her weight, Sam felt she was safer as Sierra One. Especially after the call five months ago were the damned crack head had gotten the drop on her. He still cringed thinking about the bruises to her beautiful face after that call. Not realizing it, Sam laughed out loud at a memory.

Wordy said "Sam what's so funny" as he pulled the ram bar from the back.

Sam replied "Just remembering the night we all went to the Goose after that call where Jules got beat-up. Remember the bruising."

Wordy nodded and smiled "That was awesome and awful, nearly rivaled your bruising."

Again Leah was at a loss. Why would they laugh at Jules being hurt? But Leah was saved from asking when Ed piped in.

"Christ I thought you were a dead man that night Samo. Those eight guys surrounded you in the parking lot threatening to teach you a lesson that you don't hit women" Ed laughed out.

Sam picked up where Ed left off "Hell they wouldn't believe me that I didn't hit her. I was really trying to end it peacefully. But you know Jules. When the guy sucker punched me she went ballistic. She had three of them on the ground in seconds flat. The looks on their faces were priceless. They were so contrite that I got a free round of beer that night. Jules didn't pay for a single one of hers."

As he finished adjusting his rope Sam turned to Leah "Ready?"

Leah nodded.

Sam tossed her a water bottle too and grabbed one for himself tucking it into his pack before slinging it over his shoulder. The two headed off to the top of the building to rappel to the backside of the building.

Wordy whispered to Ed "Did you see that? The kid is taking the Boss serious about hydration."

Ed grinned "Hell we better too. We won't hear the end of it if we succumb and he doesn't after the jibe this morning." He grabbed one and shoved it in his pack then tossed one to Spike, Wordy and Greg.

Wordy, Spike, Ed and Greg headed to the front of the building and up to the fifth floor of the ten story building.

Ed called over the headset "Bravo team ready?"

Sam and Leah had rappelled to just above the fifth floor bank of windows. They would wait for the go signal and act as backup if the suspects exited on the fire escape stairs. The stairs were between Leah and Sam. Leah was on the left side closer to the stairs since she had a single window. Sam was to the right he had a triple window between him and the stairs.

"Bravo team in position, ready" Sam responded.

Jules said "Sierra One in position. Have a solution on the subject. Four men and one woman in the apartment. Three men in the main room. I see three handguns and what appears to be lines of some type of drugs on the table. One man has a handgun tucked in the waist of his pants on the backside."

"Hee and the woman are in the back bedroom, closest to Leah." Jules blushed a bit as she said "Uh, em they are a little busy at the moment. If ya know what I mean?"

Jules heard slight snickers from the guys. Yeah they knew what she meant.

Sweat was pouring down Leah and Sam as they waited. It was too humid for it to evaporate and it was stifling. Leah chiding herself for her stupid rookie mistake. She had realized when they were at the roof she had forgotten her gloves. Her hands were getting slick and it was hard to hold the rope.

Sam saw the issue and looped his rope securely several times around his left hand. He reached his right hand to the left and undid the velcro then yanked off his glove with his teeth. Sam called out "Leah" and waited to gain her attention. "Catch. One's better than none" Sam said as he tossed his right glove to Leah.

Leah caught it and a using similar method as Sam used she managed to get the glove on. It was a little big but it would help. "Thanks."

Sam just nodded. He knew that Ed would ride Leah for that later. Probably himself too for not making sure the rookie was squared away properly in the first place. And they waited.

Jules gave one final update on the location of the people in the apartment then they heard Ed "Go, go, go."

Sam and Leah heard the door smash in. Given the guns inside it needed to be a hard and fast surprise entry.

Inside Ed, Spike and Wordy each were busy subduing the three men in the main room. The woman had run out of the bedroom and Greg had taken her into custody after having to take her scratching and clawing to the ground. She had gotten in a good scratch to his face before he finally had her cuffed. He was now having a hell of a time holding onto the cuffed but kicking, bucking and screaming oil slicked woman.

Hee had pulled on a pair of shorts and ran to the fire escape.

Leah swung forward to land on the stairs as Hee appeared.

"Gun" Sam yelled as Hee pointed at Leah who was in mid swing.

Sam placed his feet on the building and ran toward the fire escape.

As Leah landed on the fire escape, Hee had descended one flight of stairs and turned to fire.

Sam launched himself at Hee. The gun went off just before Sam slammed into Hee. The two of them rolled and rammed into the railing of the fourth floor landing.

"Leah status" Sam called out as he was struggling to get Hee under control.

Hearing no response Sam spared a quick glance at Leah's location and felt slight relief. Leah was stirring.

Hee was a slippery bastard, literally, he was covered in massage oil. Sam lost his hold on him and Hee started down the stairs. Sam had to disconnect the rappelling line before he could pursue. Hee had a three flight lead on Sam when Sam finally got the rope disengaged, a bit difficult with all the damn oil on his hands.

As he sped down the flights of stairs he called out again "Leah status?"

"In the vest, no harm" Leah finally responded trying to rise from the fifth floor landing to help the guys inside. There was no way she could run at the moment. Just trying to get air back into her lungs.

"In pursuit, east on Fennel street. Subject armed" Sam called out as he ran after the subject. He was gonna kill Spike for jinxing them. It was too damned hot to be running in full tact gear. Sam wiped the sweat from his forehead as he ran full speed.

Ed grunted out "Jules assist Sam" as the man he was working to subdue elbowed him in the stomach.

The men they were trying to subdue were high on drugs and extremely strong. They were having a hell of a time. Greg had finally gotten the woman secured by cuffing her to the fridge and was calling for backup and EMS. Spike finally got his subject down and in a choke hold after getting kicked hard in the shin and he was applying pressure. It was taking too long to get the guy out, he kept losing his grip as the man twisted and turned.

Wordy had wrestled his guy to the ground. After an intense struggle he had finally got his guy cuffed. He had quickly removed the gun from where it was tucked into the man's pants. As the man continued to struggle Wordy had to put his full weight kneeling on the man's back to hold the raging man down. It wasn't easy.

"Just what the hell are these guys on?" Wordy called out. He was rubbing his jaw where the guy had landed a punch.

Ed's man slipped out of the hold and was running for the door. He launched himself at the man and the two slammed into the solid steel door. They both crashed to the floor. Ed immediately rolled and rose ready to go again.

He breathed a sigh of relief as he rolled the unconscious man to his stomach, checked his pulse then cuffed him behind his back. Apparently the man had hit his head on the door hard enough to knock him out. Ed hit his shoulder and head too but luckily not that hard.

Ed then went to help Spike. Between the two of them they got the man cuffed. Spike knelt on him in the same manner as Wordy had his subject. The fight was slowly ebbing out of the man but it still took considerable effort to keep the man down.

Turning to Wordy Ed asked "Got it covered here?"

Wordy nodded.

Ed sprinted from the room and was calling out "Sam status" as Leah slowly made it into the room from the fire escape entrance.

Greg immediately pulled a chair over to Leah and said "Sit. EMS is on its way. You need to be checked out."

Leah sat and started to remove the vest needing more room to breathe.

Greg stopped her "Sorry Leah, but the vest needs to stay on until scene is secure. How are you?"

Leah winced in pain and said "I'm fine."

Spike called out with a bit of humor "Leah, better change that to okay and fast if you don't want everyone freaking out."

Leah looked at him with a mixture of pain and confusion on her face.

"Later, I'll explain later" Spike said as he pushed hard on the man as he continued to buck.

Sam called out a bit winded having been at a full run the entire time. The mugginess was sapping some of his normal endurance "North on Thatcher near Crescent, heading into the alley."

Jules called out "Almost there Sam."

She had sprinted to the SUV and quickly secured the Remi in the back and was driving to intercept Sam's location. Jules thought damn, Sam's gone nearly two miles so far. Spike's gonna pay big time for jinxing us.

The team all heard Sam call out loudly and firmly "SRU stop. Put your hands where I can see them. Drop your weapon. There's nowhere for you to go. Drop your weapon now."

Jules brought the SUV to a halt outside the alley. "Boss, Sam has the subject cornered in the alley between Crescent and Butte."

Apparently the man had hopped several walls and off Thatcher and made it all the way to Butte. Jules drew her weapon and joined Sam in the alley. Both men were dripping in sweat. Hee was not surrendering his weapon and had it pointed at Sam. Sam had his pointed at Hee.

As she approached behind Jules said "Sam at your seven" giving him notice she was approaching from behind on his left side.

"Almost there" Ed stated.

"Uniforms have arrived on scene. Sending more to secure surrounding area for you" Greg informed Ed.

As Jules came alongside Sam Jules tried to begin negotiations as she calmly said "Hee, my name is Jules Callaghan, with SRU. Let's end this peacefully so no one gets hurt. I need you to lower your weapon."

Hee switched his eyes from Sam to Jules. His gun moved in the same direction.

Sweat was dripping in Sam's eyes but he saw Hee's finger move to the trigger. Sam simultaneously launched himself toward Jules to knock her down out of the line of fire and fired his weapon at Hee just as Hee fired his at Jules.

Ed screeched to a halt and was out of the truck a split second after the shots were fired.

Jules, Sam and Hee all hit the ground at the same time. Jules rolled and stood up weapon ready instantly.

Ed approached weapon drawn pointed at Hee.

Sam rolled onto his back breath coming in quick gasps. He had landed hard and knocked the wind out of him.

The subject was on the ground clutching his bleeding hand to his chest screaming. Ed and Jules approached Hee. Jules kicked the weapon away from the subject. Ed noticed the wound was no more than a graze that had caused the man to drop the weapon so he cuffed the subject with his hands behind his back while Jules covered him.

Jules called out "We need EMS, subject injured."

Once Hee was cuffed Ed disgustedly wiped all the oil off his hands onto his pants. "Damn the man is slippery." When he was done Ed regained his weapon and covered Hee. "Jules check on Sam."

Jules hurried to Sam who was slowly sitting up and breathing normally now. "Just what the hell were you thinking Braddock?" she yelled at him.

Rolling his head around his neck and stretching one side, Sam replied causally eyeing Jules critically looking for injuries "No time to do anything else. He was firing. You okay? Not hit?"

It had scared the crap out of Sam when the gun moved from him to Jules. His only instinct and thought had been protect Jules. Sam could see Jules was extremely angry, more so than normal. He wondered why.

Crap, he was in deep trouble with her and he knew it. She didn't like it when he was over-protective. He tried real hard not to be but sometimes he just couldn't help himself.

Jules had been eyeing Sam just as critically as he had her. She finally huffed "God dammit Sam. I'm not hit but you are."

Sam blinked at her disbelievingly. He didn't feel hit.

"Your arm idiot" Jules said as she pointed to the growing stain of blood on his right arm.

Sam looked and just mouthed "Oh."

SRU HQ – Returning from Hee Warrant Call

It was a sweaty, rag tag bunch of SRU officers that dragged their butts slowly past Winnie's desk towards the briefing room. Winnie was stunned by their appearance. That must have been one heck of a warrant call she thought.

She had been assisting another team and so badly wanted to ask what the hell happened. But none looked like they wanted to talk. None had even acknowledged her as they usually do.

Winnie could see they were wiped out. All of them had their vests and long sleeve uniform shirts off.

Leah was gently massaging her upper right shoulder wincing at the touch and Winnie could see the bullet glinting in the vest she held.

Greg had a long thin scratch along his jaw line and a few on his hands.

Ed was kneading his shoulder and had the beginnings of a large bruise on the side of his head. His pants were covered in something.

Wordy was manipulating his jaw, testing it back and forth and she saw a bruise starting to form. That had to be one heck of a hit.

Jules was tenderly touching her left shoulder and clasping and unclasping her left hand like it hurt.

Spike was sporting the beginnings of a black eye and walked with a slight limp.

Sam had a bright bruise on his forehead, his right sleeve had been cut away at the shoulder and he had lightly blood stained gauze wrapped around his upper arm. His pants were covered in the same whatever that Ed's were.

The team was almost to the briefing room when Greg stopped and turned around "Everyone hit the showers first. Briefing room in thirty minutes. Winnie, no hot calls for Team One for at least thirty minutes."

Winnie answered "Copy that."