All Beauty must die

Open Wounds

Just 10 minutes later they all arrived the LAPD headquarters office at the 100 West 1st Street Room. For more than 3 years now they haven’t seen the building from the inside and some melancholy was up in the air. It changed so much and if they hadn’t seen the sign at the door they wouldn’t have even recognized it. The kitchen changed now to a kind of lounge that allowed them to hang out after work or talk with the friends and family, when they came, but no one used these rooms as a place to relax. Also the dull dark grey turned to a bright yellow which made everything look brighter and bigger, but Lauren didn’t like the new color either. She was open for changes but she would have chosen a white. After all they were a police department and no facility that to impress anyone.

But there was something positive about the change, she liked the all the leather furniture. Finally she would be working without any back problems and could concentrate more on the cases instead of getting rid of that ugly pain.

They were guided by the only police man they knew from their days at this department. Anyone else was sent to another place, got fired or retired. Thomas must had done a pretty good job for creating a completely new team.

“The boss is in a meeting right now but he will come as soon as possible. But let me tell you, I’m happy to see everyone again” the police man left smiling the room.

“I always liked Charles. He’s a good man” Brian looked to everyone and saw them nodding to his statement.

Charles wasn’t just one simple colleague for them. It was like a second dad when they all started here, bloody young and needed someone that helped them out in different situations. He had seen them grow up and become to some of the best profilers in the Californian state.

So everyone sat down, grabbed the tablets on the table, except Brian who preferred using his own notebook to write down his notes. But he noticed his girlfriend keep checking her phone, seeing if her friend Anne might already replied to her text message.

“There’s still no news about her?” Brian caressed her hand.

“No” she shook her head “I fear she might be lost in that huge town. You know she’s from a small town in Louisiana. She never had been in Los Angeles” Lauren said while writing already the second text message.

“I think we already can start without her. So what case is so urgent that they decided to call each one of us? I’m just wondering what’s so important since Thomas once said we are just a bunch of idiots that aren’t made for this job” he breathed heavily.

That has been Thomas, their former boss, explanation before sending each one of them to a different place, even separating from his younger brother. Everyone knew that they were doing a good job, solved crime cases much faster as the rest and they worked great with each other as a team.

But especially Shannon had his problems with the boss, always got in trouble with him and there has been no day when they weren’t arguing about something. He never could stand people that pretended they were the kings just because they could call themselves ‘boss’ because they got all the honor from the press. They were doing the work out there, they could get in trouble easily while Thomas was in his office, drinking coffee and eating tons of donuts.

Although he should have been happy not facing that moron every day again, he was sad that he had been so far away from his friends and just got the opportunity to see them on his Laptop screen.