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.That will be a primary offense in this new act, so I suggest you not try and lie to me about not having one."Aprille tried to swallow.The pounding in her head was getting worse."I don't know it off the top of my head.And anyway, if it wasn't against the rules when I did it, how can I be in trouble for it now?""It's more of a voluntary thing to make sure you are in compliance," the Deputy Superintendent added.Chief Tovarich closed his eyes and tried to breathe."Well I'm not volunteering," Aprille said.She turned toward Chief Tovarich, "Is it true you shut down our detective division?" Aprille said.Junior snorted slightly as he lowered his head to keep writing, "If you call that a division.""The CID unit from Manor Farms will be handling investigations for both agencies.It's called streamlining, Officer Macariah.In the past three years this department has lost four senior members to either retirement or death and now Frank O'Ryan has decided to abandon ship as well.The remaining personnel are going to be reorganized to conduct patrol operations.""You know that doesn't include me, right?""Come again?""I'm assigned to the FBI Narcotics Task Force under Special Agent Dolos.I'm cross-sworn as a federal officer.I'm practically an FBI agent."Chief Tovarich looked at the Deputy Superintendent briefly, who shook his head."That's under review right now.What's most important to me is getting this house in order.After that's accomplished we can begin to explore other opportunities.""You don’t understand," Aprille said."It's an extremely prestigious thing for this entire department.Do you know how much money we've seized? Do you have any idea the major cases I've helped them put together?""Be that as it may, your duties in this police department are to patrol, young lady.The FBI will just have to find some way to carry on without you.""This is bullshit," Aprille snarled."I'm going to make one phone call and you're going to have judges and US attorneys calling you to tell you what bullshit this is."Chief Tovarich shrugged and said, "My number is listed.You're dismissed."She fled the office before the tears could erupt from her eyes.She raced down the hallway toward the parking lot and smashed the door open, grabbing her phone off her hip and was about to call the first number on her favorites list, when she decided it might be better just to call his office line.Lately she'd just been getting voicemail on his cellphone."Pick up, goddamn it," she muttered, waiting for Dez's phone to ring.From his Center City office, Dez stood by the window overlooking I-95 and held his cellphone close to his face, "So you haven't found anything out?""Not a thing.Nobody even asked me what I was doing there," Skip Fitzpatrick said into the phone."And not a word from Ondrey.""Did you expect one? He's probably afraid to talk on the phone.""That doesn't stop him from coming to see one of us.He could send an email for Christ's sake.Something.""He's just spooked, I bet," Fitzpatrick said."God damn it.It has to be us," Dez said."If it was a big enough IAD job that involved the twenty-ninth district, one of us would have caught wind of it.""Well if it was us, why hasn't anyone stepped in to stop our operations? Think about it, Dez.What if we went out and hurt somebody while they were supposed to be investigating us? They'd be negligent.But so far, nobody's said anything about the Task Force.For all we've been told, we can keep running ops until the cows come home.I say we keep things going and maybe ease up on the extra-curricular shit, you know what I mean?"Dez nodded, knowing exactly what he meant."I think he's taking this rabbit thing a little bit too far.""You're the one who asked him to come on board," Fitzpatrick said."You knew his background.I tried to warn you.""Spare me the God damn lectures, okay?" Dez said.The phone on Dez's desk rang and he said, "I'll call you tomorrow.I'm gonna take that in case it's Ondrey." He ended the call with Fitzpatrick and picked up the receiver on his desk, "Agent Dolos, FBI Philadelphia, can I help you?"A woman's voice screamed into his phone, "This fucking cocksucker is pulling me off the task force!""Slow down and stop yelling.Who is he and what is he doing?""The new Chief.He's pulling me off the team and sticking me back in uniform.""Oh.Shit," Dez said quietly."That's not good."She could hear him shuffling papers on his desk and moving things around, keeping his hands active to prevent having to say anything."Well?" Aprille barked."Aren't you going to step in for me?""Of course," he said."I'll call him later on and tell him that's not a good idea.""I need you to do more than that, Dez! I need you to protect me here.""Okay," he said."It's done.I'll call him as soon as we get off the phone [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]