Perps were almost in place. Night was as dark as it was gonna get. Cops were around every corner. If things went bad it would become a bloodbath, nonetheless the police would still prevail. The plan was perfect, and Alexandria was sure the only way they would fail is if some outside force interfered or one of her officers broke nerve (one of the ones outside that is, not her perfection squad). With the plan all thought out she had her knife and pistol at the ready, with a .400 Magnum at the ready if things went really really bad.
Weapons at the ready Alex and a small squadrant of cops atop the second floor of an oak wooden storehouse. The perps were trading guns and had paid off the owner of a bar owner in the city to use one of his storehouses to do their deal. It was spacious and offered a lot of cover, both sides clearly paranoid of the other starting an ambush. Alex had been waiting in there with her squad for a good few hours now. A squad of her most trusted and talented officers. They knew when to put duty ahead of all else but also they were adaptable and knew when it was time to stop, to quit, to run, to fight another day, to fight on, to fight until the very last breath and if necessary make it the final day to fight. Any other officer would have come in a few minutes before the perps were intended to show. Not these boys. Others may be sipping the wine until the deal was about to go down. Not these girls. These were the finest cops this side of Yuteni had to offer and she was gonna use them to beat down crime until it begged for mercy, then kick it when its down and punch it below the belt. The squad was interchangeable and thus if one was hurt they could be replaced by another who had proven themselves but these were Sherrif Alexandria North's personal honour guard, her own miniature swat team. If they lives a thousand years earlier you'd see these men fighting with Elliot Ness to bring down Al Capone and be portrayed by Kevin Costner and Sean Connery.
The deal was upon them. The perps were entering the building, suspicious as hell but mainly of each other. They gave the place a brief search to make sure nothing was up, but they kept their eyes on each other out of fear of getting shot with their backs turned. The two main speakers sent their men to scout the area and act as guards to the two story building as the two gangs stood opposite each other with their main force looking intimidating and strong. Alex waited as they spoke their macho bullshit to each other. Meanwhile any guards who roamed upstairs were being discreetly taken out by her men and women in uniform. Alex waited silently as they were nearing ever so close for the words she needed to hear and the sounds of them wheeling in their merchandise. The only gangster who went upstairs to look for trouble who wasn't taken out was Alex's rat who she made a deal with in order to nab the leaders of this deal. He shouted down that everything was smooth sailing.
Finally, after what seemed a millennia of over arrogant, asinine machismo they were rolling in the merch. Two large carts, covered up for now but they all knew what was inside; at least if one side wasn't being fucked over. Saying that would be an understatement. More talk. More fucking talk. Threats if the deal wasn't completed with honesty and the right goods. On and on and on they went until finally she heard it. "Open 'em up." And the carts were uncovered. With the rat looking down and coughing as his signal to clear, the squad moved in, overlooking the balcony with guns drawn.
"FREEZE!" Yelled Alex as every gangster looked up and drew their guns at her and her compatriots. It did them no good as the doors were then breached by dozens of officers, every damn gangster covered and about to get their head blown off if they made a move.
The two leaders looked at each other in shock with repeated cries of "You set us up!"
Replied by "No you set us up!"
They were getting violent and turned their guns on each other before Alex intervened.
"Everybody shut your god damn mouths and drop your weapons unless you wanna add to the Yuteni police body count, cos trust me I'll sleep better than I have in months knowing your dead. So go ahead, fucking kill each other I don't care. But one pull of one trigger and all of you are gonna gain a lot more holes to breathe through but with a lot less breathing! Trust me a cell makes a much better home than hell." Eyes darting from cop to gangster the perps all slowly lowered their weapons and offering no resistance. She had the drop on them. THEY had the drop on them. For each gangster there were at least 3 officers with enough handguns, shotguns and rifles at their heads to know that 3 square meals are better than none at all.
Swiftly officers had cuffed every last one of the perps. One however had a tiny pin concealed in his bracelet, as they were all being rounded up outside he used it to pick the lock off of his cuffs. Though for his expertise in lock picking he certainly was not one for common sense for as soon as he was free he made a break for it. He made it 5 feet away. Alex herself had made sure of that. Whipping out her magnum she took aim between his shoulders. The resulting shot didn't bring an entrance or exit wound-rather a crater in his shoulders were the neck and skull used to remain. She turned her head, her arm still outstretched and aiming at the dead gangster as she turned her attention to the gangsters. "Anyone else thinking of playing runaway?" They looked to her utter lack of compassion in shock, as if she was one of them. "Good."
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Sitting at her desk Alex waited for three young recruits to enter her office. They came quickly.
"Ma'am?" They each asked nervously as they entered. They knew why they was there.
"Can you answer me why each of you allowed a dangerous criminal to escape your watch?" They each gave an answer but were cut short by Alex.
"He picked the lock off his cu-
"We weren't allowing him to escape we would ha-"
"He didn't escape you got hi-"
"No no no no and no you allowed a perp to escape!" They shut up. She stood personally close to them one by one and exclaimed to each, "You Alvares didn't search him properly! You Hardy and You Imgemi didn't keep your guns trained on him! What did you think just cos all the perps were in cuffs that there was time to goof off? THERE IS NEVER TIME TO GOOF OFF ON THE JOB! You wait until they are back at the station, in the cells, off the streets before you make jokes and slack off your duty and SECURELY CUFFED!" She turned back to Alvares at the end there. "I'm glad I chose you as the outside force and not part of my squad. And after tonight throw any thoughts of joining that squad out the window, cos you're all gonna need to do a lot of work to get back into my good books!" Walking calmer behind her desk she sat down and put her gun on the table. "This gun killed the perp. None of yours. I was overseeing every perp being arrested and yet I was quicker on the draw than the three who were meant to be watching him. Docked pay and latrine duty for a month for all of you. Get out of my sight." They all apologised and scrambled out of her office. She re sheathed her Magnum and began looking through reports. Now that the excitement was over it was time for the paperwork.
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After hours of paperwork it was the early hours of the morning. Sun dawning and blazing piping hot in her office. She could have done this another time but Alex preferred to get this all out of the way as soon as possible. She made her way home having relieved herself from duty and making sure every cop was doing their duty or clocking out to get some well deserved rest. She unlocked the front door of her moderately sized house. Just because she was sheriff she didn't want no super fancy house, just something nice that she could appreciate. She yawned as she went into the living room were the baby sitter had fallen asleep reading.
"Nancy?" Said Alex gently as she softly woke up the teenager. "Nancy wake up."
Nancy rubbed her eyes awake as she looked to Alex with one eye barely open. "Miss North? What time is it?"
"Its almost time for Austin to go to school."
The girl's eyes widened in fear, not of harm but of losing her job. "Oh my gosh Miss North I am so so sorry-"
"Relax Nancy not for another 45 minutes. I just woke you up because I saw your parents on my way home on their way to work. They said they needed you home right away to do some painting?"
"Oh yes," she said, feeling relieved but still looking like she was in trouble, "I said I was gonna be home..." She looked at her watch, "2 hours ago! Gosh I better go."
"Do you want some breakfast before you go Nancy?" asked Alex.
"No I really can't I'll just grab something at my house, thank you." She sped towards the door in a groggy state when Nancy called to her just quiet enough so that her son couldn't hear.
"Wait, you forgot your carbon."
"Oh yes," she said as she stopped at the door.
"I weighed it this morning since I assumed I would be home this late." Said the sheriff as she handed some rocks of carbon to Nancy.
"Thanks Miss North."
"Take care now."
"Thanks I will." said Nancy as she quickly made her way out of the house. With the house quiet Alex got around reading a couple of chapters of the book Nancy left behind, it was Alex's anyway. She began making Austin's lunch and preparing his bag and before she knew it it was time to wake the boy up.
"Austin? Austin time to wake up" she softly awoke her child.
Austin groaned awake and replied "goroonnghhh just a few more minutes mama... Mama!" He exclaimed realising it was her.
Alex smiled and said "Yes baby boy I'm here. And its time for school."
Austin was still happy to see his mother home safe but his enthusiasm was dampened by the thought of education. "Mama can't I just stay in bed a couple more minutes?"
"No young man, a couple minutes becomes a few, then a lot, then an hour and you are not gonna be late. I had to tell off a few police officers last night I don't want my son to be on the receiving end of that by his teacher."
Austin was suddenly abbust with enthusiasm,"Ooh ooh can you tell me how the bust went mama??? Can you can you can you????"
Alex raised her eyebrow, "what's the word I'm not hearing?"
"Pleeaaasseee?... Sorry mama."
"That's better" she said more serious. "I'll tell you when you get home from school, but for now let's get you ready."
"Okay mama" said Austin. He didn't have to hear every detail of the story.
