DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters, except for Matthew and Moxie. The rest of them belong to James Duff and the Major Crimes franchise.
Chapter 14
Ricky D'Angelo was sitting in his office when John knocked on his door. "You wanted to see me, sir?" John asked D'Angelo as he walked in his office. "Yes, apparently Mikey got himself arrested by the police tonight" D'Angelo said to him. "I have a feeling that the end is close and that they will be coming for this business soon" D'Angelo continued to say to John as D'Angelo walked with him. "What do you need me to do, sir?" John asked him as the door closed behind them.
Mikey sat across the table from Sharon and Provenza. He still didn't answer their question. Provenza glanced at Sharon and then back at Mikey. "We will ask you again, what were you doing at that school tonight?" Provenza asked him. Mikey smiled at them. "I was there to pick up a child of a friend of mine" Mikey said to them. "Really? What's the child's name then?" Sharon said to Mikey, not buying that story for a moment. "Marco" Mikey answered. "The child's first name is Marco?" Provenza asked him. "Yes" Mikey said. "Okay, what's the last name?" Sharon asked him. "Please don't say Polo" Andy said under his breath as he watched the interview unfold over the monitors. Julio chuckled when Andy said that. Andy glanced over at Matthew who was completing his homework. Just then, Amy walked in to the electronics room with a box from where they ordered the food. She placed the box on another table in the room. "What did I miss?" Amy asked them. "Nothing really, this guy's being a real smart-ass" Julio said to Amy. "Amy, can you hand me Matthew's child hamburger?" Andy said to Amy and she did. Andy then placed it on the table next to him and went back to watching the monitors.
"The child's last name?" Mikey asked them and then hesitated to think of one. Sharon and Provenza both looked at Mikey as he was trying to come up with an answer. "Forget it Mikey, you have bigger worries on your hands than that" Provenza said to him. "We will make it as simple as possible for you to understand, Mikey" Sharon started to say to him. "You see, we know who you work for" Provenza said to him. "Now, we can charge you with assaulting a police officer, stalking two police officers, conspiracy for kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, I mean the list could go on and on" Provenza stated to him. "What do you want?" Mikey said to them. "We want your boss, Mikey" Sharon said to him as she placed her hand on the table. "You got nothing on D'Angelo" Mikey said to her. "Oh but you see we do, and since you confirmed working for him, then we can get you too" Sharon said to him. "We can just add another charge of conspiracy to your list and call it a day" Provenza said as he started to stand up. "What? You can't do that!" Mikey said back to them. "Oh we can and we will Mikey. You see the assault charge is going to stick to you and then everything else is a trickle-down effect" Sharon said to him.
Matthew was all done with his homework and turned around to watch what the rest of the team was doing. He then looked up at Andy who was also watching the monitors and lightly tugged on his suit jacket. Andy looked over at him and smiled. Matthew took off his headphones. "I'm all done" he said quietly to Andy. "Okay, good. Do you want to eat now?" Andy asked him as he helped Matthew maneuver his books with his children's hamburger container. Matthew nodded his head. He was hungry since he arrived back to the office with Sharon and Andy. He knew that his foster parents were busy and he didn't want to complain about being hungry. Andy had set him up nicely by moving his books over to the side and helped get his hamburger all set for him. Besides the child's burger, there was also a cup of fruit to go with it. Special Agent Morris and Chief Howard glanced back at Andy helping Matthew out. "I didn't know they had a kid together" Agent Morris whispered to Chief Howard. Chief Howard didn't say anything to Morris. Matthew started to eat his hamburger and heard his foster mom yelling at someone through the speakers in the room. Matthew turned around and looked at the monitors but couldn't see anything. Andy looked back down at Matthew. "Hey buddy, you got to keep those headphones on. Sorry" Andy told Matthew as he placed the headphones back on his ears. Andy smiled at Matthew and then Matthew turned around and ate his hamburger.
"So what's it going to be, Mikey?" Provenza asked him as he pointed to him. Mikey shifted uncomfortable in his chair. He was not going to snitch on his boss. Mikey decided to say nothing at that point and just sat there. Sharon had enough of the games Mikey was playing and started to stand up. "Okay, have it your way, Mikey. You will be charged with assault on a police officer and we will go from there" Sharon said to him. Mikey knew that was the only charge that they could get him on. Everything else was purely circumstantial. Sharon turned around as she was leaving the room and Mikey smiled at her which gave her an unsettled feeling. Provenza stood up and told the patrol officers to take him down to holding. Sharon and Provenza then entered electronics to speak with the rest of the team. "So, Mikey doesn't want to give up his boss. We have seen that with Jimmy as well" Provenza said as he entered the room. Sharon looked around and was surprised to see Andy standing in the room as she had asked him to watch Matthew. She then saw Matthew sitting in the back of the room, eating his dinner. Matthew turned around and saw Sharon in the room now and he gave her a little wave. Sharon waved back to him, smiled and then glanced at Andy. "Andrea, Mikey assaulted Andy earlier this evening. Here are the pictures from that assault" Sharon said to Andrea as she showed her the photos on her phone. "Okay, Captain. I can write up the assault charges first thing in the morning. Please send me those photos in an email" Andrea said to Sharon and then she left the room.
Amy started to distribute the food everyone ordered and they all trickled out of the electronics room except for Sharon, Andy, and Matthew. Andy looked at Sharon and he could tell that she was not pleased having Matthew sitting in the electronics room. "Now look, before you yell at me you asked me to watch Matthew, which I have been doing" Andy said to Sharon as he raised his hands up. "I'm not mad, Andy. I just wasn't expecting Matthew to be in here with the rest of the team, that's all" Sharon said to him as she looked at Matthew who was still eating, wearing his headphones. "Come on, let's eat our food before it gets cold" Andy suggested to Sharon as he grabbed their food. He then tapped Matthew on his shoulder. Matthew took his headphones off as he looked up at Andy. "Come on and gather your things, Matthew. We are going to eat somewhere else now" Andy said to Matthew. All three of them exited electronics and headed back towards Sharon's office. "Don't be mad at Andy, Sharon" Matthew said as he was carrying his things walking with Sharon. Sharon looked down at him. "Oh, I'm not mad at Andy, sweetie" she said as she smiled at him. She then held the door to her office open for Matthew and Andy and they walked inside.
It was now closer to 9 o'clock by the time Mike had gathered all of the evidence electronically against D'Angelo. From emails to text messages, they had what they needed. Buzz had helped organize all of the findings and they presented them in Sharon's office. "Captain, here's all that we have" Mike said to her as he showed her the list they had compiled. Sharon looked it over and was having a hard time concentrating on the list. All of the different emails and messages were jumbling up in her mind. She blamed the concussion and then handed the list over to Special Agent Morris who also looked over the list. "This is all really good, thank you" Special Agent Morris said to them. "Captain, I say we call it a night and we will get started on this tomorrow morning with the FBI" Chief Howard said to Sharon. Sharon agreed and they all left her office.
Sharon rubbed her head as she walked out of her office and looked out at the Murder Room. Her team were all sitting at their desks. Matthew was sitting at an empty desk next to Andy's and he was watching some cartoons on Andy's phone. "Everyone go home, get some rest, and then we will reconvene tomorrow morning" Sharon said to her team. "Goodnight Captain" Amy said as she gathered her things and left. "Ma'am" Julio said to Sharon as he nodded and left the office. Sharon walked over to Andy and placed her arm on his shoulder. "Let's go home" she said to him. Andy gathered Matthew's backpack and stood where Matthew was sitting. "Come on Matthew, time to go home" Andy said to him as he saw Sharon gather her bag in her office. "One more minute" Matthew said to Andy as he was watching his favorite cartoon on Andy's phone. Sharon then came out with her things and nodded to Andy. She then walked over to Provenza. Andy turned his attention to Matthew. "Okay let's go" he said to Matthew as he took his phone from him and turned off the video. Matthew huffed but grabbed his backpack from Andy and they joined Sharon at Provenza's desk.
"Try to get some sleep, Captain" Provenza said to Sharon and she smiled at him and then held her hand out for Matthew to grab. They started to walk out to the hallway. "Flynn, keep an eye on her tonight. Patrice says a mild concussion could become worse at night" Provenza said to Andy stopping him. "I will, see you tomorrow" Andy said to Provenza and then he joined Sharon and Matthew out in the hallway. They headed down to the car and once everyone was all set inside, Andy drove them home.
When they arrived home, Sharon and Matthew walked in to the house first. Matthew ran inside and Moxie was excited to see him. Both Matthew and Moxie were chasing each other inside the house. "Matthew, no running please!" Sharon called out to him. Rusty was sitting in the kitchen waiting for them to come home. Rusty stood up from the kitchen table and walked over to where Sharon was and gave her a hug. "I'm glad nothing serious happened today with your accident. How's your head?" Rusty said to her as he pulled away. "Oh, it's fine Rusty. Thank you for picking Moxie up tonight" Sharon said to Rusty as she placed her purse on the kitchen island. Andy then came inside the house and locked up behind him. "Hey Rusty" Andy said to Rusty as he came in. "Well, I'm going to get going back to my place" Rusty said as he gathered up his books and placed them in his backpack. "Good night!" he said as he walked out the door and headed to his apartment over the garage. "Where's Matthew?" Andy asked Sharon as she stood at the island. She was rubbing the back of her neck as he walked over to her. Matthew then came running into the kitchen with Moxie chasing him. "Hey, slow down and plus it's time for bed" Andy said to Matthew as he stopped him in the kitchen. "Go upstairs and get ready for bed" Sharon said to Matthew after Andy stopped him. Matthew then turned around and ran upstairs, with Moxie chasing him. "How are you feeling?" Andy asked Sharon as he grabbed her hand and started to rub it. "It's been a long day, I just want to go to bed" Sharon said to him as she grabbed his hand and pulled him with her.
"Where did he get all of that energy all of a sudden?" Sharon asked Andy as Sharon and Andy walked towards the stairs. "While you were in your office, I did see Provenza giving him some candy" Andy said to her as he made sure the front door was locked. "What did you tell your partner?" Sharon said as she climbed the stairs with Andy behind her. "I told him to stop giving him sugar" Andy said to her as they walked in to Matthew's room. Matthew had his pajamas on but his uniform clothes were scattered all over the floor. "He said that it was his job to give him sugary treats" Andy added as he stopped Sharon from picking up Matthew's clothes. "Matthew can do that" Andy said as they waited for Matthew to return to his room. Matthew ran back in to his room and saw Sharon and Andy standing there. "Matthew, you need to put your clothes in your hamper" Andy said to him and he did that. After his clothes were put away, he climbed into bed and Moxie jumped on top of him and settled down. "What's going to happen to that bad man?" Matthew asked both Andy and Sharon who was sitting on the edge of his bed. She pulled the covers up for him and tucked him in. "Well he is going away to jail for a long time, Matthew" Sharon said to him as she tucked a strand of hair behind his ear. "Good night sweetie" Sharon said to him as she kissed his cheek and then stood up. "Good night buddy" Andy said to him. "Good night" Matthew said as they closed his door.
When Sharon closed Matthew's door, she leaned up against the wall next to it and held Andy's hand. "Are you okay?" Andy whispered to her as he looked at her. "I don't know what we would have done if Mikey took him" Sharon said to Andy quietly as Andy tugged on her hand and they walked to their bedroom. Andy closed the door to their room and was met with a hungry kiss from Sharon. She ran her hands up to the back of his head and he placed his hands around her waist. She pulled back, breaking the kiss and looked Andy in his eyes. She saw all of the love he had for her and for Matthew and it showed tonight when he chased Mikey down the hall of the school. She gently caressed his jaw, seeing the bruise starting to come out to a deeper purple-ish color. "How did you keep up with Mikey?" Sharon asked him as she continued to lightly touch his jaw. "He was there to take Matthew, and I wasn't going to let him get away" Andy said to her as their foreheads touched. He kissed her again. He pulled away and looked at her. "Now, we need to make sure that you are okay tonight" Andy said to her as he caressed her face. Sharon's eyes were still dilated a little. "I can help you change into your pajamas if you need me to" he said to her. "No, I'll be fine" Sharon said to him as she grabbed her pajamas and walked in to their bathroom to change. Andy quickly changed as well and by the time Sharon stepped out of the bathroom, he was sitting on the bed waiting for her. "Does your head still hurt you?" Andy asked her as she climbed into bed with him. "No, I took some Tylenol before we came upstairs for the night" Sharon said as she settled back into Andy's arms. "Okay, so I have to wake you every two hours to make sure you are okay" he said to her as he settled back against the pillows and held her in his arms. Sharon hummed as she closed her eyes and relaxed. "I love you" she said to him in a sleepy voice. "I love you too" he said back to her and then held her in his arms as she fell asleep. He glanced over at his phone and made sure that he would wake her up in two hours.
TBC