Partners (Rosa Diaz)

Chapter 4: The Vulture

Rosa and Evelyn are stood around Amy's desk when Jake walks over, "Hey, you guys see the dude I brought in today? The drug dealer? 81 years old. I think it's the oldest collar of my entire career."

"I once arrested a 96 year old for flashing. I was terrified he'd die in my backseat. Or flash me." Amy tells them.

"Would've been the most action you've seen in years." Evelyn jokes with a smirk as she high fives her girlfriend before she continues, "Mine was 89. Started hitting people in a park because they scared away his pigeons."

"My oldest collar was 78, but the PCP made her fight like she was 20." Rosa gives hers.

"What about two 50 year old twins? Does that count as a 100 year old?" Scully asks.

"No good."
"No."
"Nope" They all voice.

"You talking oldest bags? 68." Charles tells them, walking in with cups of coffee.

"That's not that old." Amy says unimpressed.

"Yeah, but I was only 20." Charles responds which confuses the team.

"20? We're you even a cop then?" Jake asks.

"No, man, it was before I got into the academy." Charles says which just confuses them even more.

They're all silent until Rosa says with an amused smirk, "Charles isn't talking about his oldest arrest."

It takes the team a second to catch on before they all groan, apart from Evelyn who bursts out laughing holding her stomach.

Charles, realising his mistake, tries to correct himself, "No. Yes, I am. Yeah, oldest arrest. 68, like I said."

"God, you had sex with a 68 year old when you were in your 20s?" Jake asks in disgust and disbelief.

"You know how it is. When you have a chance to bed an older woman." Charles tries reasoning.

"No, that is not an older woman. That's an old woman! That's someone's grandma!" Jake tells him.

"She was, actually. That's how I met her. I went to college with her grandson Marvin." As he's talking the team continues to laugh at him, Evelyn holding onto Amy's desk to keep her standing at this point as Charles continues to try and defend himself, "Don't knock it till you try it. She had a replacement hip with some serious torque. It was like having sex with a transformer."

"That is no one's fantasy." Jake tells him walking away.

Evelyn, who now has a tear rolling down her cheek from laughing tells Charles in between breaths, "Stay away from my car, lover boy." She grabs on to Rosa so she can make it to her desk, her girlfriend laughing at the comment.

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The team are now in the morning briefing as Terry starts, "Peralta, where are we on the Lincoln Place murder?"

"Like I told Captain Holt earlier this week, we are at the one yard line. It's a football reference." Jake tells the sarge.

"Yes, Jake. I played Linebacker at Syracuse." Terry responds.

"Really? In high school, I played centre field in the musical Damn Yankees." Charles says feeling proud.

"Yeah, you don't want to brag about that." Jake tells him.

"Peralta, you want to loop everyone in?" Holt says, bringing the conversation back on track.

"Ehh.." Jake trails off.

"That was not a request." The Captain tells him.

"Fine." He whines as he gets up and walks to the fronts, "Get ready for some stuff on a screen. Meet Fred Gorman. Prominent citizen, lawyer, corpse." The screen displays a picture of the man's body before an image of woman replaces it, "Now meet his wife, Ann Hoert. She did not take his last name, but I believe she did take his life."