sam_mm (sam_mm) wrote in morningstar_mnr, @ 2008-10-14 09:30:00 |
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Entry tags: | chad, icene, sniper |
City PD, Morning, Icene and Chad
Icene walked into the police department's offices with a smile on her face and a folder under her arm. She flashed her badge and was waved through security checks. She made her way down the now mostly familiar corridors to where Chad normally sat, and was pleased to see he was actually in, then again, they probably wouldn't have let her in if he wasn't here. "Hey Chad, I think I might have something for you on the shootings case? I picked up some new info over the weekend while doing the laundry and checked it out yesterday to make sure I had most of it down right, wanna hear it?"
Stuff the small talk, this was important and could give them something concrete to go on. Hopeful much? Yeah, but there was no point in being hopeless about it.
Chad looked up from his desk to see her standing in the doorway. He closed the folder on his desk and for once in the time he was here, wished he had an actual office not just the half wall cubicle. "As long as it'll shed some light, I'm up for hearing good news."
As long as she was being direct he figured it was a good policy. Using his left hand he gestured to the chair across from his desk. "Grab a chair and close the door." He said with a smirk, more for the eavesdroppers on the left to get back to work.
Icene stepped through the doorway and then slid into the chair that sat alongside one end of his desk. "I had the good luck it might be said to run into Emma over the weekend," one hand reached out and shoved the door shut, "In the laundry of all places. A couple of little idle questions about how she's doing and she was talking to me about that Sadie girl?"
Icene opened her folder and pulled out a sheet, everything she had found about Sadie Ashford. "I did a bit of a summary, but the key fact here is that she was at Andover as well, and this is, from what she told Emma, the second shooting she's missed. I spoke to Mr Reyes, and he thinks we should look at the Andover School shooting being the first one? I can't find anything about the current spate of them, so I have to agree with him. What do you think?"
Chad pulled the paper closer and glanced over it. He was fairly certain Logan had kept something from him, maybe this could have been it. "Seems sort of convenient for her to have missed more than one shooting incident." He mused as he read over the summary. "It couldn't hurt taking a poke on the possibility."
"So, how you gonna do that? Attendance Records? I couldn't think of any other way, but, unless all the kids who got shot at are on there, we're still looking at a big fat zero." Icene shook her head, "I shouldn't be so pessimistic, I know. But, I really want to catch this guy and I have to keep thinking sensible thoughts."
Chad shrugged, eyebrows knitted together skeptically. "If that's what it takes. I've been thinking about switching out the uniform patrolling around the school. Put in somebody less seasoned." He'd thought about it for a while now. Maybe switching to a younger officer will bring something forward. For all he figured, a younger officer could probably infiltrate through the high school, and may even be able to pick up on some of the gossip.
"We all want to catch this bastard. Everybody's thinking ways to make him slip up." Even his own mind had wandered to the what if side a couple times. "The crazy impractical thoughts help the sensible ones out. Makes 'em more sensible."
"Well, I'm hoping you can come up with something on this information that will be useful in the extreme, maybe a really good link between the victims?" Icene smiled hopefully, "Hope's allowed right?"
Chad nodded. "Hope is more than allowed. It's encouraged." Sometimes hope was all they had to go on.
"I'd best let you get on," Icene stood up, still smiling, "I have to get back to the labs anyway, even though I'm doing the shooter cases I still have a full caseload of regular stuff. Let me know what you come up with yeah? Especially if you come up with anything good!"
Chad stood, contemplating handing back the summary page or asking to keep it. Might be better off keeping it, he decided. "I'll let you know what I put in action. Mind if I hang on to this summary for a while?"
"That's your copy, I have my own anyway." Icene grinned, and then opened the door, "I'll see you soon hopefully! Bye Chad."
She shook her head slightly at the sight of the people still looking at Chad's door, then cast a slightly saucy look over her shoulder before striding off along the corridor, humming happily. Let Chad deal with the curious cops. She had work still to do back at the labs.