Chapter 9: Father's Girl
CS (Child Services)
It has been a month since Riggs had stopped drinking. He and Roger were on a new case. This was the first case he had been on since the whole trying to kill himself and detoxing thing. He walked up the steps to a very nice looking house. He and Roger walked up the stairs to the master bedroom. There they found other people in the room looking at the crime scene. Martin looked at saw a woman in a chair with a gunshot wound to the head. He stared at her with wide eyes. Roger looked over at him and knew that this was how he had found his own mother.
"The woman's name is Isabel York." Said Avery walking over to them.
"Riggs?" He asked him. Roger motioned for Avery to step aside. Avery and Roger moved to the side and talked low.
"Look, Riggs's mother killed herself and that is probably how she looked when he walked and saw her." Roger told Avery this. Avery looked over at Riggs and he was still staring at her. They both walked over, and Roger placed a hand on Riggs's shoulder and brought him back out of his memory. Riggs looked over at him.
"The thirteen year old girl Anne found her and called for help." Avery finished. Riggs looked at him.
"Where is she?" He asked.
"She is downstairs in the living room. She will not talk to anyone." His Captain told him. Riggs moved and ran downstairs to the living room. There on the couch was the thirteen year old girl. She had long black hair that stopped at the bend of her knees. She looked over at him. He could see her eyes they were the color of blue ice. He had to admit she kinda looked like a china doll. Riggs walked over to her and sat down on the table. She looked at him and smiled a small smile.
"Hi Anne, my name is Martin Riggs and I am the Cop that well be making sure that you are okay." He told her.
"How?" She asked him.
"Well I will make sure that you are safe and that no one will hurt you." He told her. He put his hand out and she looked at it and then smiled and placed her hand into his. Roger was standing there as well as Avery and Bailey. They could not believe that he got the girl to talk. They got up and walked over to Roger and the other's.
"I'm going to take her to the office okay." He told them.
"I'm sorry, but you can't sir." Said a voice behind Roger and them. They all looked and saw a woman standing there.
"No!" Anne yelled out and took off running upstairs.
"ANNE!" Riggs yelled and went to go after her, but the woman stopped him.
"Sir!"
"Why can't I? I work for the LAPD." Riggs kinda yelled out. Everyone was looking at them.
"She needs to go with me. I am with Child Services and I have to take her to a Foster Home." She said, and Riggs walked up to her and said in a serious voice.
"She is not going to that place. I have been in a home like that and it was hell, and I WILL NOT LET THAT GIRL GO INTO A HOME LIKE THAT!" he yelled out. Everyone looked shocked mainly Roger he didn't know that Riggs had been in Foster Care.
"SHE HAS BEEN IN A HOME LIKE THAT BEFORE!" The woman yelled back. Riggs turned and ran after the girl. The woman went to run after him when Roger stopped her.
"Look I don't know if this helps but he had found his mother dead just like she did. He knows what to do." Roger told her. The woman looked over toward Avery.
"It's true. He is the best one to talk to her."
Riggs ran up to the girl's room and looked around. He heard something in the closet. He walked over and opened it. There was Anne sitting there crying hard. He knelt down and hugged the girl. She hugged him tightly.
"Don't let them take me." She cried.
"I won't let them." Then he remembered what Miranda had told him. He smiled, this was the girl that need him. Roger was standing in the room and heard what Martin had told the girl. After the hugged ended Martin smiled at her and she smiled back.
"How about you tell me what happened?" Riggs asked her.
"I was going to my room when I heard my mom crying. I looked in and saw the gun in her hand. She was looking at the closet that was next to the door. Then I saw the other gun." She told him.
"Wait there was other gun?" He asked her with his eyebrows together.
"Yea, there in the mirror that was on the wall behind her I could see him standing there." She said, and Roger moved over toward them.
"Who is he?" He asked her kneeing down.
"My father." She said a voice that reminded him of Riggs when he was very serious.
"Your father was there with a gun?" Roger said and looked at Riggs. Riggs smiled.
"Why are you smiling." He asked.
"Now she had to stay with me, she is a witness."
"So that means the she can't take me away?" She asked. Martin looked at her and smiled.
"Nope." She smiled and hugged him.
"Okay what was you father doing with a gun?" Roger asked again. The girl leaned back and looked at him.
"He had it pointed to my mom and the other was at the door. I think he wanted me to walk in. I guess to make it look like a murder suicide thing." She said and both Riggs and Roger looked at each other, and then back at her.
"You know what that is?" Roger asked.
"Well yea." Now she did remind him of Riggs. Martin smiled and stood up.
They walked downstairs. When they got to the bottom the Child Services woman walked over. Riggs watched Anne go behind him. He looked from her to the woman.
"Sorry but she is coming with me."
"Riggs, she has to go with the woman." Avery told him.
"No, she don't, she has to come with us until we can get her father behind bars." Said Roger walking down the stairs.
"What?" Bailey asked.
"She is a witness." Riggs said and stared to walk. He had the girl by the hand.
"What" Avery asked confused.
"The girl saw her father forced her mom to kill herself and then he was going to kill her, but she hide." Roger said and moved to the front door.
-Later in Avery's Office-
Riggs was standing as Anne was setting in the chair. Roger had watched Riggs and Anne talk about somethings. They really bounded. It was night now and they were deciding were she was going to stay the night at. The woman from CS was there.
"I think Murtaugh is the best chose." Avery said. Anne looked at him.
"No, I want to stay with Riggs." She said. Martin looked over at her and smiled.
"I don't mind it." He said.
"I don't think so." Said the woman.
"What did I do to piss you off?" Riggs asked her.
"Yea what did he do?" Anne asked her.
"You are a grown man and you want a thirteen year old girl to stay with you." The woman said and looked at him.
"It's not like he is going to rape me." Anne said and stood up and walked over the woman.
"You don't like him because he stood up to you and didn't kiss you ass." She said. The woman looked like she was going to hit her.
"Face it Eleanor, you met your match." She and folded her arms.
"That is it! You are coming with me." She said and grabbed the girl by the arm. Riggs and everyone could see that she was hurting her.
"HEY!" Riggs yelled out.
"Let her go." He said in a strong voice.
"She is coming with me." Martin spoke again. The woman looked at him.
"Fine but she will be checked in the morning." The woman told him, and she walked out. Anne looked at him and smiled. Riggs looked down at her and smiled back.
-Later that night-
Riggs and Anne had eaten their dinner and was not just driving around. Anne looked over at him and them back at the road. She watched as they pulled up to a trailer at the beach. There was no one else around. He put his truck in park and got out. She moved and got out as well. They walked to the trailer and Riggs let her in. She walked in and looked around.
"It's not as nice as you are use to but it will do." Riggs told her. She turned around and smiled at him.
"I like it." She smiled. She looked pass him and saw the only picture in the room.
"That must be your wife. How did she pass?" Martin looked at her.
"How did you know that she was…"
"Because you have not made one phone call all day and tonight. Must married men would call and tell their wives that they are going to be late." She said and walked over to him. She leaned down and looked at the picture of Miranda.
"She is very pretty though."
"Yea, I don't want to talk about it." He said and moved from the door.
"We don't have to if you don't want to, but I here if you want to tell me." He had his back to her. He looked up and smiled that is what he had told her. She walked over and sat on the couch. Martin moved and sat down in the floor and looked at her.
"What?" She asked.
"How are you doing with all of this?" He asked her.
"I'm okay I guess." She said and looked down. He watched as she closed her eyes and started to cry a little. Riggs got up and walked over to her and sat beside her. He hugged her up and she cried hard. He knew the pain that she was feeling.
"She was going to deliver our son when a truck hit her and killed them both." He said, and Anne looked up at him.
"I'm sorry." She said and wiped the tears from her face.
"What do you do about the pain. I remember you saying that you have live with pain." True he had told her that earlier that day.
"I use to drink all the time. If I did have a drink every hour I would get sick." He said not looking at her.
"But I'm in AA now and I have a boyfriend." He smiled. He turned his head and looked at her.
"You have a boyfriend?" She asked.
"Yea I do. Remember Murtaugh?" He asked her. She nodded her head and then smiled at him.
"I thought there was something between you two." She said.
"We need to get some sleep." He stood up and walked over to the floor and laid down.
"You can have the couch." He said and the remembered his badge and gun. He took them off and laid them next to him. Anne smiled and laid down.
-The Next Morning-
Martin awoke to gun shots. He moved to get his gun and it was gone. He looked up and saw that Anne was gone too. He got up and walked outside and looked around for her. He found her behind the trailer shooting his gun.
"Hey!" He yelled, and she turned around.
"Morning." She said with a smile. Riggs walked up to her and took his gun away from her.
"What are you doing with this?" He asked her.
"I was seeing if I was still a good shot. I have not shot in a while." He looked at her with an odd look.
"What?" He asked.
"Yea, my grandfather showed me how to shoot. I learned how to shoot a gun when I was five." She said with a smile.
"Really." He said.
"Okay, show me what ya got." He said and handed the gun to her. But this time he walked over and got an empty bottle and walked about two hundred yards out and was about to put it on the rock when the bottle broke from the bullet. He looked at her and she was hold the gun like cop do. His jaw dropped but then smiled.
"Not bad kid!" Yelled out.
He saw Roger run around the trailer with he gun drawn. He looked around and saw Riggs walking to him and Anne standing there with Riggs's gun.
"What are you thinking. Letting her shoot, your gun." Roger said which made Martin smile.
"She said that she could shoot a gun, so I wanted to see if she could." He said as he walked over and got another empty bottle.
"That is no reason to give her a gun." Roger looked at him with wide eyes. Riggs through the bottle up and Anne shot it in the air. They both looked at Roger who had his mouth open.
"Now that is impressive." He said and looked at the girl.
"But still." He added.
"How sweet, the lovers are fighting." She said and looked at them both. Riggs laughed, and Roger looked at him and then at her.
"She knows?" He asked
"Yes Rog, she knows." Martin walked over and kissed him.
"Ah cute couple." She said, and that made Riggs laugh again.
-Later-
Riggs, Roger, and Anne were getting out of the car at LAPD. The two men were walking ahead of Anne. Just then a van pulled up and stopped and a man got out and grabbed Anne.
"ANNE!" Riggs yelled and got his gun. The guy that had Anne pulled out a gun and held it up to her head.
"If you want to see the girl again. Then come to the old plastics factory and bring one million in cash. You hear me Mr. Riggs." Man said to Martin. Riggs nodded his head. The guy got into the van and dragged Anne with him.
"No Martin!" She yelled as the van door closed. The van took off.
"Riggs!" Roger yelled at him. Martin looked at him.
"We got to go and tell Avery."
They ran up and told Avery what had just happened. Avery told Bailey to get the money ready that it would be a fall back plan.
"What do you mean a fall back plan?" Riggs yelled out.
"We will get her back." Roger turned and made Riggs look at him.
-Later that night-
Riggs walked in to the factory with a large bag. He had taken the money with out anyone knew it. He stopped about a hundred yards away from the men.
"I take it that is my money in the bag?" Asked a man walking up from behind the men that were in front of Riggs.
"Where is she?" He asked not playing around.
"My daughter is right here." He moved his hand a guy and Anne walked out from behind the van. He pushed her on the ground.
"I mush thank you Mr. Riggs for taking good care of my daughter." He said with a smirk. Riggs looked at him with hate in his eyes. Riggs dropped the money on the ground and kicked it to the middle.
"Here is the money now let her go." Anne's father looked at him with a new smirk on his face.
"Why she is my little girl." Riggs's eyes widen as the man walked up and took the money.
"You said that you would let her go." Riggs looked over at the girl. She was so scared. If this was the girl Miranda had told him about then he had to get her back. Just then SWAT team ran in and the men opened fire and started to shoot. Anne hit the guy in the face that was holding her now. She ran over to Riggs. He moved her a machine that was used for the factory.
"Stay here." He said and grabbed his gun and ran out and started to shoot, but no one saw the guy that was up in the rafters with a sniper rife. Anne looked up and saw the man.
"MARTIN!" She called out his name. He looked up and then the bang was heard by Anne and Roger. They watched in horror as Riggs fall to the ground. His gun slid out of his hand and over to Anne. She grabbed and shot the guy in the rafters. She hit the guy in the head and he fell to the ground taking out some of his own men. Anne looked over and her father pointing a gun at her. She breathed in and took the shot. The bullet hit him in head. After the bullets had stopped firing. Her and Roger ran over to Riggs. He had his eyes closed and was bleeding from his side of his head.
"Martin." Anne called out his name. Roger moved over to her, he knew that his love was gone.
"Anne." He said. She looked at him and so did Roger. Riggs went to move his head but the both stopped him.
"You got shot in the head." Roger told him.
"I know, I can feel it." He said in a weak voice. He looked up and saw Miranda leaning over him.
"You see her don't you?" Anne asked in tears.
"Yes I do." Tears came from Martin's eyes.
"Don't leave me." Anne begged him.
"I'm trying not to." He said not looking at her. He closed his eyes and stopped breathing. Anne screamed out and Roger cried as he held her. Then Martin started to breath again. Anne and Roger looked at each other and then back at Riggs.
"How is he alive?" Roger asked.
"He got another chance." Anne said and moved to him. She watched as Riggs opened his eyes again and looked at her and smiled.
"Hey your back." She said to him.
-At the Hospital-
Riggs was in the bed with Roger and Anne beside him. They were talking to him. Martin looked at the door as a different woman from CS came in.
"Hi. I am here to take Anne York." She told them.
"No, I don't want to go." She said and stood up.
"Are you her case worker?" Riggs asked the woman and she nodded her head.
"Anne go out with Roger and get something to eat, while I talk to her." He said, and Anne looked at him. He smiled at her. Her and Roger walked out. When they got back the woman was leaving Riggs's room and passed them and smiled at them. They looked at each other and walked into the room.
"I thought that she was taking her?" Roger asked him.
"Nope." Martin said with a smile.
"Why not?" Anne asked him.
"Cause they can't take my girl away." He said. Roger got what he was saying.
"What?" She asked and moved over sat on the bed.
"I am going to be your new father. I'm adopting you." He said with a smile. He watched as the biggest smiled came to her face.
"Really?" She asked in a cheerful voice.
"Yep." He said with a huge smile.