30th September
< Louis' POV >
The phone rang twice before it picked up
"Hi, I need a favour"
"A favour? It's been a long time"
"Yeah I know"
"And you're calling in a favour?"
"I know how shitty it looks on my end but you owe me"
"Where in hell did you get that idea from?"
"Remember 4 years ago?"
"Of course"
"Then you'll remember the arrest, the judge, the jury, the evidence, the court case"
"Is there a point to all this? Obviously I remember"
"Then you'll also remember that you walked"
"So?"
"You walked because of me, that evidence had you banged up of what would've been 10 years, you were in court for 15 minutes before the Judge had the case dismissed. You owe me"
"What do you want?"
"Info"
"Care to elaborate?"
"Background check, family, friends, anything really"
"Do-able, a bit hard without a name though mate"
"Styles, Harry Edward Styles"
"What that copper who nicked you? No way"
"How did you hear about that?"
"Word travels surprisingly fast in the right circles"
"Well yes, he's the copper who nicked me"
"Hell no"
"Excuse me?"
"I am not going round investigating and trying to dig up dirt on a ranking copper. Are you out of your mind? Get Stan to do it, doesn't he normally do your dirty work?"
"I have, he came up blank. Look mate I really need this"
"Why do you even think I would be able to get something on this guy then?"
"Don't bullshit me, one of your mates must've been arrested by him, or come across him. You move in criminal circles and coppers become quite well known, especially when it's the DCI"
"Fine I'll try, and if I come up blank?"
"Then I'm going in blind I guess, wait a minute hang on" I rummaged around in my suit pocket until I found the card "If the name comes up a blank try Cartwright instead"
"What?"
"If you can't find Styles, look for Cartwright as a surname"
"Hang on are you talking about Harry Edward Cartwright? As in the son of Robin Cartwright, the billionaire? As in Harry Edward Cartwright the sole male air to Cartwright Industries?"
"Fuck"
"Fuck off, don't tell me you didn't know? You and your status move in those sort of circles"
"No that makes no sense, why would the male air to a multi-billion pound dynasty become a copper"
"About 27? Dark brown hair? Sightly curly? Green eyes?"
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Privileged Murder
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