-Autopsy Chapter Three-
"The second bullet came in through the occipital region and exited through the front of the neck and eventually lodged in the right knee."
Brittany was going over the body while I was holding the recorder for her. Britt likes to recorder herself so that when she goes to write up the notes it was easier for her.
"According to the trajectory we can conclude that the victim was seated at the time of the shooting."
She looks so hot right now in her little suite with gloves and goggles on. I watch as she is lifting up his legs to make sure there is nothing she missed. She feels me looking at her because she keeps her head in the same position but moves her eyes to the corner so she's looking back at me with a grin on her face. She turns so that she is looking at me dead on and I smile moving my eyes to the floor.
"What?" she asks
"Nothing… it's just that I like listening to you… you draw so much detail from just a bullet hole. You look really professional"
She really did It's been a long time since we were friends and Britt has done a lot of changing, she is so smart. She pushes past me and I think I might have said something wrong. I feel nervous now. She walks over to a table and grabs a saw pulls her mask over her mouth and nose and walks over to the body. She begins to open is his skull when blood shoots out across her face. Good thing she is wearing the goggles and mask.
I put the recorder down and pick up a wet wipe from the counter.
"Let me"
I wipe the blood that is on her forehead.
"You're a mess, Britt"
She doesn't say anything maybe I was making her nervous maybe she still had feeling for me. No why would she it's been eight years and I think I overheard someone saying that she was with some guy and that they were engaged.
"Raise your hear"
I wrap a stand of her hair around her ear.
"There all better"
She smiles for a minute and then it's like she realizes she is and pushes past me
"So what happened with you and Sam?" I ask
"He cheated on me"
I am sitting up against the edge of the counter I turn to look at her and my jaw drops I noticed I did it and pull it back up as fast as I can. Why would anyone cheat on her?
"Well if they don't cheat on me they leave me… or I leave them cause they have flaws, or I get scared. That's why I have a huge collection of ex-boyfriends. You?
"Me? I fell in love looking out a window"
She gave me a confused look
"I was a secretary my office was on the second floor, when I wanted to smoke I would stand at the window. One day I was looking out across the street and I saw a women crying, she was crying inconsolably in front of a mirror. After a minute she fixed her hair put on her jacket composed herself and left the house. She looked calm I watched her walk away"
Brittany looked like she wanted to hear more so I continued
"The next day I saw her cry again and the next and the next. Started to arrive to work early, I would leave the office late. I would watch her eat breakfast, do her hair and cry. She always cried and that made me feel tenderness, so I started to follow her, and that's how it began.
I look over at her and her looks mesmerized a smile plastered to her face.
":And why did she cry?" Britt asked
"Because she had killed a man"
She took a deep breath in and we sat in silence of a few minutes I just looked at the ground. It was hard talking about this it brought up old memories, not feelings just memories.
"Shall we continue?" she asks
She me back to reality. She grabbed a tool I don't even know what and walk over to the head.
"After separating the solar plexus we can see the brain looks normal and has normal color."
She looks up at me and smiles.
"The test allows us to date his death was approximately thirty days ago"
She covers the body with a blanket
"Shows the victim died from the second shot that was made at the distance from two meters away"
She takes her gloves off and throws them in a nearby trash I do the same
"Do you want to get something to eat?" I ask
"Sure… This autopsy stuff always makes me hungry"
I just laugh at her and smiled.
"Is that girl way you joined the police?" she asked
"Yeah because the women who cried was a deputy inspector and I am such a romantic fool"
She smiled at me and I walk to the door open it and motion for her to go ahead
The next day we in a team meeting I am so board.
"You've got any questions at all? Ask Uncle Mike"
I turn my head to look at the guy whose desk I am sitting on.
"Nothing happens in this precinct without the people down here knowing about it"
Mr. Pierce was past me and I stand up to greet him
"Wow is it Santana? Watching how the co-workers work? Have you come here to work or to watch?"
"I came here…"
He cut me off
"Bring us a rocking chair …. And a few beers" he says
To a guy standing behind him, I glance over and I see Brittany walking up
"I was waiting Don Lorenzo for you to give me a partner to patrol with"
"A partner?"
The man standing behind him speaks "Don Lorenzo I could accompany her and teach her the procedure, I mean I will volunteer to be her partner"
"You'll do what I you're ordered, dimwit." Mr. Pierce said
He turned to look at me "take a car immediately and go to the warehouse where they found the body. Stay in the car, do surveillance from there"
"At the warehouse?"
"Yes, the warehouse"
"Yesterday we were there don't you think they will begin to notice us?"
"I don't care young lady do as you're told"
He walks away I am a little upset that I am sent on this mission I don't want any reason for me to mess up this job. I like it here and I really don't wanna be on the run anymore.
"Don Lorenzo is this a real mission or are you trying to fuck me over?"
"Excuse me"
"Is this a real mission or are you trying to fuck me over?"
"Are you the captain? Tell me are you?"
"No sir"
Brittany tried to step in but the man that was talking to Mr. Pierce was holding her back
"Do what you're told I have to many problems to do what you said fuck you over right?"
"Yes"
He turned around and ran into Brittany
"Hi honey what's up?"
"Dad if you're not screwing her over she will need a partner and that will be me"
He didn't say anything and it was hard for me to keep from smiling.
We sat parker in the car I was playing around with my gun. I was staring off thinking about what happened at the station how Brittany stood up for me. She began to talk.
"Santana I think tonight were not going to see a damn thing"
"Not even the estrella's"
I look out the window and up into the sky, she does the same thing out her window.
"That's what I hate about this town Brittany you can't see a fucking star in the sky"
"There are stars out there it's just there is too much light from the street lamps if it were darker you could see them"
We stare out our windows until a car pulls up that we have been watching
"Get a pen" I tell her
"Eight one two fiv grey ford… did you get it?"
"Yes"
We sit in silence for a while until she turned the radio on
It may be over for now
But i am sure i'll see you again
One day my friend
When the lights fade away
The memory remains
Time may take us take us far away
Surely time time can bring us back together
Like an old school reunion
I'll be standing at the door
And you'll still look the same
I start to sing along to the song it was one that I use to listen to when I ran away and it always reminded me of Brittany
One heart with a million voices
One day it could all be gone
Hold on to the words they told us
Hold on to it all my son
Oh oh oh oh woah woah
Oh oh oh woah woah
Oh oh oh ohhhhh
She turned the radio off and I pulled my attention towards her
"You know you were my first kiss?"
"No"
I shake my head smiling
"Yes"
"I don't believe you! They say you never forget your first kiss"
"Well I remember the scandal more than the kiss"
"Oh thanks"
"I mean that just uhh"
"I get it stupid thing you did"
"We were young"
"Yeah"
"We were only sixteen"
"Yea Britt if we kissed now it would be different"
Wow did I really just suggest that we kiss?
"I just meant were not kids anymore and it wouldn't be your first"
She stayed quit for a while looking out the window. Then this car rolled up next to us with some guys trying to hit on us.
"Keep going"
I told them, they wouldn't leave. If there is one thing that pisses me off its guys that think they can treat women however they want. I couldn't hold back anymore. I wasn't going to hurt them I just wanted to scare them a little.
"What are you doing?" Britt asked
I was unloading my gun.
"I am just going to scare them"
I held the gun in the air from where I sat I told them that when they talk to women they need to show them respect and for them to apologize to Brittany. They did and drove off. I guess I scared Brittany because she was mad at me she wouldn't talk to me for the rest of the shift
I sat at the counter at Susan's bar staring off think back to the events that unfolded the night before. Brittany walked in and sat next to me she just stared at the side of my face. I felt horrible.
"I am so sorry about last night"
"You just scared me with your hot headedness and your gun I just don't want you to do anything you regret"
I can see that Susan is staring at us but is trying to hide that she is.
"Come on cheer up it wasn't my best night either"
"It not just about what happened soon everyone will know… I think I am just gonna go there is not reason for me to stay"
"Yes there is… and I am not going to say anything I promise"
"Yeah what is that?"
"Me"
I can feel the heat on my checks and I turn my head so that she can't see my face.
"Come on I want to show you something" she says
"Yeah?"
"Yeah let's get out of here"
We are sprawled out on top of Brittany's hood in the middle of nowhere, the stars are so bright its beautiful almost as beautiful as she is.
"Hundreds of stars"
She turns her head looking at me and then back at the sky.
"You just have to know where to go to find them"
"Yea the truth is this spot is perfect"
I look around and I see that there were supposed to be lights out here but they all look broken
"It looks like someone threw rocks at the lights and broke them"
I turn to look at her and she gives me a sheepish grin. We both start giggling.
"I use to go to the airport and sit under the run way outside of the gates of course. I would watch them take off right above me the rush the smell the sound I love the way it made me feel."
"Santana you have to show me all those things"
"You mean how to be a bad ass?"
"That too"
We laughed again for a few minute and then we just stared off into the sky. I wanted to hold her hand this is an amazing moment. I reached over and grabbed her hand. She took mine and intertwined our fingers, we didn't look at each other or nothing just held hands enjoying the stars