Reputation- Armando Aretas

7

MOURNERS GATHERED AT THE CEMETERY. The crisp wind carried the sound of muffled sobs and occasional whispers, a palpable heaviness hanging in the air. The fallen officer was being laid to rest, an honorable man of valor and service.

Mike stood next to Marcus and the AMMO team as they saluted "Ready! Aim! Fire" a man yells as some officer shot at the air as the rest were still saluting.

Tears slid down Selena's cheeks as she stood beside Callie. A sea of officers surrounded her, the crowd gathered to pay their last respects to Captain Howard. He had been more than just a police officer he had been a mentor, a friend, a father figure to Selena.

The priest's words were a distant murmur in Selena's ears as she focused on the memories of Captain Howard.

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*FLASHBACK*
Selena's POV

I walk into my room with tears in my eyes as I slam the door shut. I sit down on the floor as I burst out into tears. I hear someone walk in.

"Hey what's wrong?" Howard asks. I didn't realize anybody was home. I quickly wipe my tears. "I'm fine just a bad day."

"No you're not fine. You can talk to me, is it Santiago did he do something to you?"

"No" I lie.

He then sits next to me on the floor as I begin to cry again. "Look I don't know what happened and I can't force you tell me, but I will say this, embrace the courage to walk away from anything that doesn't serve you, grow you, or make you happy. Your worth isn't negotiable even when the world is silent one voice becomes powerful."
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The memory fades as the ceremony came to an end. People begin to walk away. Selena heads to her car driving away wanting to be alone and not speak to anyone.
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Armando's POV.

I pick up my phone to call my mom. "Mamá, todos se han ido, Pero no Selena"

"No te preocupes, mátalo a los dos Pero antes de que lo hagas, mírale a los ojos y dile algo por mí."

"Que mama?" I say slightly annoyed.
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Third person point of view.

Selena gets out of the shower grabbing her towel drying herself with it. She grabs her lotion before hearing her phone start to ring.

She grabs it looking at it. "Dickhead" aka Mike.
"Hola." She greets. "Hey guess what?

"What?"

"Quitter decided he could help us with this case."

"That's great. So why did you call me?" She says as she puts on her lotion.

"Because we are outside your house."
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The three are in the car as Selena speaks up "so where are we going?"

"I ran a suspicious financial report on Booker all his LLC fronts have the same accountant so where headed to the accountants house." Mike says as she nods looking over at Marcus who reads the name.

"Picante Jenkins, CPA." Marcus says

"Yea we don't meet too many Picantes." Mike says as the three finally arrive.

"Don't get aggressive alright? We're just gonna do a knock and talk." Marcus says to Mike and Selena.

"Yeah?" Mike says opening the car hood revealing guns. "What the hell you talking about?"

"Mike you don't need a grenade launcher." Marcus says.

"Why not?" Selena says "yeah but I want one." Mike reply's to Marcus. "He's an accountant Mike." Marcus says closing the hood as he heads towards the stairs.

"Look we're not going on there like that." Marcus says annoyed.

"Like what?" Selena asks. "All our lives we've been bad people alright? Now it's time to be good men."

Mike turns to Marcus flabbergasted. "Who I'm the hell wants to sing that song? Good men good men, what you gonna do?" Mike says mockingly singing. Selena chuckles before they all continue walking.

"Maybe if you sang the song like you meant it it'll catch on." Marcus continues.

They reach the door as Mike is about to kick the door down Marcus stops him. "Nah knock and talk."

"Yeah knock, knock!" Selena says before kicking the door down she quickly pulls out her gun "Miami PD get down!" She yells pointing the gun at the big guy.

"What happened to knock and talk?" Marcus yells as Mike is also pointing the gun at the guys.

"Hey! You broke my door! You broke my door!" The man speaks obviously coked out.

"Sir so sorry about that okay? A little gorilla glue will make that just fine." Marcus says frustrated by the girls actions.

"Hey where's your warrant?"

"I need you on your knees with your hands behind your head right now! Or I'll shoot you in your face!" Selena tells picante.

"No she's not!" Marcus says

"Yes she is!" Mike says

The two start bickering back and forth before getting paper thrown at them stopping them.

"I'm gonna penetrate his souls with my heart." Marcus says as Mike and Selena look at each other confused.

Marcus begins to walk towards the man as he speaks "hey! ass licker I'm gonna fast food fist fuck you!" He says as Selena laughs at his comment. "Sir that's just nasty." Marcus reply's.

Picante starts to punch the punching bag near him as Marcus starts to speak to him. Suddenly he gets punched on the right cheek.

"Oohhhh" Mike and Selena say in sync.

Marcus then gets up again "don't you turn that other cheek Marcus." Mike says.

"Sometime fear just-" Marcus get interrupted by getting punched on the left cheek and gets thrown towards a table.

Marcus and Selena point the gun at the man "bring it big boy." Mike says before they hear a taser go off as picante starts moving weird he then falls to the floor revealing Rafe behind him. "Left line clear!" Kelly says. "Cuff him!"

"The fuck you guys doing here?" Selena asks

"I called." Marcus says getting up from the floor.

"What? What happens to bad boys for life? One last time?"

"It is one last time Mike, but this is the remix. We work with ammo now."
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This chapter is so long I'm sorry!

Thoughts?