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LET SLEEPING BLOOD LIE
Chapter 3 - dealing
Jane pokes her head into Maura's office, "I got the location of that address, wanna come check it out with me?" she gives Maura an irresistible smile raising her eyebrow slightly.
"Sure" Maura replies closing her laptop, "I am hungry anyway."
They head towards the car, Korsak plans to meet them there after he finishes speaking to the university principal.
"Jane" Maura sounds aghast, "crumbs!"
"Sorry" Jane mumbles still chewing her raspberry cream croissant and sweeps the crumbs off the seat.
"Next time we take your car. I can't believe you brought that, It can hardly be considered food let alone a nutritious meal." she scowls not hiding her disapproval
"It taste's amazing" Jane retorts
They are parked outside the address on the other side of the street, Korsak hasn't appeared yet, it's quiet anyway so they wait.
Its a derelict building with boarded up windows. Possibly should be condemned.
"So how are you going on the case?" Maura asks breaking the silence
Jane groans "Not great. Nothing really makes sense yet. And your 'strange stuff' doesn't fit with anything logical."
"You mean it doesn't fit with any of your widely speculative theories?"
Jane grins cheekily, "It does fit with one. But Korsak said a vampire wouldn't fall cause he would turn into a bat and fly to safety. But maybe his bat powers didn't work" She shugs meekly eyeing Maura out the corner of her eye.
Maura turns her head on the side evaluating if her best friend is teasing or serious.
"Oh look." Jane points Maura's attention to the few kids gathering across the street from them.
The group starts to congregate outside the front doors of the address in question, chatting and laughing. Jane eyes up the group for a few moments "Be right back." she says putting her gun in the glove box and her badge in her back pocket and exiting the car, Maura doesn't have time to respond before Jane is gone, she is left with her mouth wide open.
Jane struts towards the entrance, the group is mainly teenagers probably in high-school, all boys except one very young looking girl, two of the boys look a little older than the rest but not by much.
"Sup" Jane calls out assessing their body language. They don't look perturbed by her presence at all.
"Hey" one of the younger boys calls out, "looking for someone?"
Jane looks around cautiously, it's the middle of the day, these kids should be in school.
"Yeah" she replies looking directly at the oldest boy. He is casually dressed with blonde hair, thin lips pressed together.
"Yeah? What do you and your pretty girl over there need?" He doesn't break eye contact but nods in Maura's direction. It's a little game of control and evasion, no-one is quite sure what the other needs or knows, but these kids probably aren't smart enough to figure out Jane has no clue what to say to get their trust, but she is sure this guy is the leader of their little band. And she is sure this is a drug house of sorts. And considering their victim was shot up with coke it's probably a safe bet. She isn't sure if she should interrogate them about the victim lying in the morgue or about the drugs. She decides neither is best...
Let's see what they know
"I'm Jane" she smiles coyly, trying to give the air that it means something and they should know what she wants. The older boy glances at the younger boy giving away his nervousness.
"Uh..." the younger boy tries, he looks more confident than the other boy, jet black hair in a terrible mullet style, baggy clothes at least two sizes too big, he looks like he would be the troublemaker in his classes, "Whatcha need lady?" He would be a good looking boy if he dressed a bit better and had a haircut. Jane shakes her head slightly, her thoughts sounds like her Ma' and wants that image gone.
"I'm here about the stuff, I've um... been sent..." Jane bluffs, stabbing in the dark. She sniffs and rubs her nose with the back of her hand and checks around the street cautiously again. Gotta look the part right.
The boys exchange looks
"Sam send ya?" the younger one ventures looking her up and down
"What do you think?" Jane gives them a sideways annoyed look and digs her hands in her pockets
The boys both visibly relax. The older boy smiles warmly completely changing his appearance, he is older than she thought, looks like he comes from a decent family, "Ahhh sure, yeah, come in." He gestures her inside. "Is she coming too?" Jane looks over her shoulder at Maura who is standing beside the car looking somewhat petrified. "Nuh, she's good. She will keep an eye out here." As Jane walks through the door, Maura's eyes begging her not too, even from this distance Jane can see the fear plainly in her friends features.
She steps inside cautiously, the place has almost no furniture and whats there is broken and doesn't smell pleasing. There are holes in almost every wall and two in the ceiling. The walls are bare and there are no lightshades. Power sockets hang off the wall and a few bare wires hang down in the corner. The only light source is a mangled lamp and the daylight seeping between the boards on the windows.
"Have a seat." the boy gestures towards a stained looking tub chair in front of a rocky desk, that has one leg is propped up on some probably-never-read books.
"Nuh I'll stands thanks...um..." She raises her eyebrow at him, he is new at this 'business', fresh, trying to hide it as best he can.
"Oh yeah, you can call me Blade." He says sitting down across from her, the desk between them.
"Blade"
"Yeah, so you're the transporter then?"
What the hell was she doing walking in without back-up, not knowing the situation.
"Sure" Jane says calmly looking around giving the appearance she is used to this type of thing.
She is starting to get a pretty good idea of whats going on, she has walked in on a new drug setup. She will transport the drugs probably, from A to B, so that they can get some traction without the police sniffing too hard.
"And the chick in the car? The boss said there was only gonna be one of ya."
"Yeah well, can't be too careful these days. Specially with an amateur setup like this ya know, trigger happy teenagers shot up on the merchandise most likely." Jane holds her breath, it was either a very wrong thing to say or they will assume she knows their inner workings.
The younger guy who has been standing near the door starts to look a little nervous, the boys make eye contact, and Jane tried to keep her composure.
"Just give it to her, Pete." the younger boy almost pleads beads of sweat on his forehead. She obviously hit the nail on the head, but the comment about them 'packing heat' being right has her nervously shifting between her feet especially since she is unarmed.
"Shut up!" Blade growls, his voice loud, obviously pissed his real name was just revealed.
Either these guys are super amateur or playing way outside their league.
Jane tries to calm the situation, "It's cool Blade, I don't want no trouble, just set me up and i'm outta here."
Blade pulls a package out of the desk drawer, his eyebrows furrowed together. He stands up and slams it down on the desk.
"Tommorow 3pm. Don't be late" Blade points at the package
Jane just watches him calmly.
"I assume you know about the changes?"
"Changes?" Jane gulps, damn, that could be the giveaway, get her made.
Blade runs his hand through his blonde sweaty matted hair, frustrated. He has not had enough experience to know how to handle this confidently, it had been Jane's saving grace up till this point.
"Shit" the boy pulls a few bits of paper out of the drawer, shuffles through them till he finds the one he needs, then hands it to Jane.
"Last minute I guess..." Blade shrugs at Jane apologetically.
"Yeah, for us both. It's all good." she smiles at him putting him at ease, picking up the package and shoving it under her top and heads towards the door. The younger boy steps out of the way for her, "Later" she calls over her shoulder.
"Tuesday same time." Blade calls after her.
The light blinds her as she emerges, squinting, she can make out Maura's Prius and heads towards it, she can see Maura's lips tight and brow creased through the window, she is not happy. She sees Korsak out of the corner of her eye getting out of his car, she makes eye contact then averts her eyes to the road and shakes her head slightly. He gets the message and climbs back in his car.
Jane opens her car door and shuffles inside depositing the package on the floor.
"Shit, shit shit" she breathes catching her breath, relief flooding her and her heart rate beginning to return to normal.
"What on earth?" Maura yells at her.
For a moment she isn't sure if Maura is mad she swore or went into the building, she assumes its the later but there is no time for a scene, the teenagers are back on the porch are watching them.
"Just drive Maur', please" she begs
Cavanaugh is pissed. The drug unit is pissed. Maura is pissed.
Korsak is half standing in front of Jane, physically trying to protect her from the verbal abuse Cavanaugh is throwing her way.
"Shit. I can only say how stupid that was so many times Jane" he screams, everyone in the bullpen frozen as the sound of his voice penetrates the walls of his office. He is frustrated and angry that Jane put herself in danger, and that the drug team wants to railroad the homicide to get to the kingpin drug dealer.
It was actually a stroke of genius Jane managed to so easily infiltrate their little business but now there was the politics to deal with. A high priority homicide of a rich kid with a prestigious daddy and a drug dealer possibly all tied up somehow.
Cavanaugh stares at Jane as if he can somehow change the situation this way.
Korsak clears his throat, "With the drug units help we can work both the drug case and the murder case, if one solves the other then everybody wins. Soon as we get hold of some drugs we can compare it to the case then question the dealers. These boys know Jane now so until her cover is broken she is their current point of contact. If you pull her out it's going to raise suspicion, we break those kids trust we are never going to get answers we need."
Cavanaugh says nothing, his face stern and his body tense, right now he is not a man you'd want to cross in a dark alley.
"Sir, without Jane going in there like she did the drug department wouldn't even know this was happening under their noses and that it might be linked to the school either." Korsak keeps trying.
The package sits in the middle of Cavanaugh's desk, opened. $30,000 neat inside. And they have instructions where to take it and where to pickup the drugs. They have 24hours to plan this thing.
Cavanaugh stares at Korsak, he knows he is right, but he still never expected his top detectives to be doing something so dangerous out of his department where he wouldn't be in charge.
"So long as the drug team is ok with it, then fine. You're both on undercover assignment."
He picks up the package and hands it to Jane.
"Those assholes better take care of you..." he fumes as he waves in Martinez from the bullpen.
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To be contined..
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