Doctor Griffin and Detective Woods

Chapter Thirteen: Sniper

Detective Mara's POV

I checked my watch 10.15, I grabbed my car keys off the desk and got ready to go and meet Lexa.. I got one of my fellow cops to cover for me.

I hated lying to them but I knew they would never let me go alone and Lexa was adamant not to bring anyone else.

"You need to let me bring back up"
"You are they back up Mara" Lexa said to me on phone.

I stayed quite letting her talk, I was still unsure.

Lexa must have got my hesitant because she carried on speaking

"Look Mara if we get back up, he will sense it from a mile away and he will never open up to me, this is our best shot.. and I need your your the best in the department and I don't have jurisdiction over here".

I played the conversation over and over again in my head while I sat in the car out side Rosso's wait for Lexa to arrive.

After another five minutes of waiting Lexa finally turned up, I was half expecting her to turn up with Clarke because even though she has only been here for five days every time iv seen Lexa it has been with Clarke. But she was alone.

I got out the car, "Where's Clarke?"

"I made her stay at home"
"What and she just agreed?"
"yeah after a few words of persuasion and me begging" she smiled at me.

Lexa's POV

I watched as Mara suited up and checked her gun.

"Stay in the car, ill call you if I need you, i'll be fine"

I could tell on her face that she thought this was a bad idea and if I was honest she's not the only one.

The Rosso's are bad people and dead body's keep "popping up" when they are involved, though Danny is the weakest behind the family don't mean we should underestimate him.

I took a deep breath to compose my self and headed for the door.

It was dark in side and there was no movement, I drawn my gun out.

"You'll not need that" a voice said coming from behind me.

I turned around and there was Danny.
I put my gun in its place at the side of my hip.

He walked closer to me, with a metal thingy in his hand.
He swiped it up and down my body, it can't be a metal detector because he knew I was carrying.

Know he was checking for bugs he still didn't trust me and to be honest the feeling was mutual. 

"So what do you know about my two victims?" I said getting strait to it.

"Come have coffee, it's fresh!"
He said handing me a cup we sat in a both near the window"

I noticed he never answered my question so I tried again.. "Is your family involved with their death?" I was just starring at him.

"Look.. detective you have to under stand.." he said hesitant

"Come on Danny spit it on" I said starting to lose my patients.

"Ok.." he said taking a sip of his coffee

"No my family aren't involved.. But my brother Jack, he knew them, It all started five years ago... My brother was dating this chic Olivia... and"
he paused, I could tell what he was about to tell me, went against every thing him and his family stood for.

There's like this family code they have.. first rule, never talk to cops. Second rule.. never grass your family up and so on"

I leaned in close he started to whisper.

"Well Olivia ended up dead, just like your victims.. So one is trying frame my brother"

"Like who?"

"There's only one person i can think off...."

Danny got cut off my aloud smash. It took me a second to realise what had just happened. A bullet had come through the window and hit Danny in the chest"

He flung back and all this blood came rushing out of his mouth, I dragged him up the floor holding as tight as I could trying to stop the bleeding. 

I reached for my phone and I called Mara but before the cell started to ring, she came bursting through the door"

"Lexa?... Lexa are you ok?" she said moving closer to me gun drawn.. I heard gun shots so I ran strait in.

"Yes i'm fine, i'm not hit,"

"I already called for back up" she said with a "Told you so look" on her face.

"So what did he say?"

"Nothing! ... he said nothing" I said looking up at her.
Trying to hide my anger.