BATTLE SCARS: (Indigo Symbols Book II)

Chapter Thirty-One: Back To Back

DETECTIVE AMELIA:
I stared at the gun, aimed at Huntor's forehead, stared at the death that was sitting right in front of him. "Soleil." I said, but she shot me a look of rage, "I'll get to you in a second, Detective, but right now. Close my doors." With that, three cops went over and closed the division doors and locked them. "In, now." Huntor smiled and walked in, followed by Becky, Sullivan, Jacobs, and another Detective, Detective Ming-Huaa, then I followed in. Lieutenant soleil slammed her door shut and said, "Explain." I stepped forward and said, "Lieutenant," But she cut me off, "Not you Bitch, Jacobs." Jacob's face was pale but he said, "Lieutenant, I, I'm afraid I don't—"Explain now." She said coldly. So he did, telling her everything from square one, from when we first got the all units alert and met Huntor and his two. He explained my plan within my plan, my plan to find out everything Lieutenant Soleil did and overthrow her for it. "So, Detectives Becky and Amelia. You both thought you could take me on, both thought you could hand me over to the Commander in a gift wrapped box?" "In a manner of speaking, yep." Becky said coldly.
Soleil walked over to her, very slowly, very deliberately, she stared deeply into Becky's eyes and said, "I wanted them to rape you first, wanted them to kill you so slowly, so painfully." Then she slapped Becky, a hard slap that left a red print on Becky's face. "You Bitch." Ming spat at Soleil. Soleil whirled and sent Ming to the ground with a roundhouse. "Don't even try me Sullivan." She said as Sullivan stepped in front of Jacobs. "I've been killing fool cops like you and Becky for years. Killing civilians like you're precious boy here for a long time, and enjoyed it." She turned to me, "Do you know how long I've been in this business, I know how the cards are played, I know how to use people. I've been playing you for months, years, it's made every day worth it." She smiled at Becky. "You should have been more careful, I could've used a loose canon like you. I could've used all of you, well, except you Amelia." she scowled at me. "You're too dangerous, too much like a real cop. I hate real cops."
Soleil sat on the edge of her desk, smiling openly now. her face, her whole attitude was scary. She wasn't just a killer, wasn't just a crooked cop, she reveled in her enemy's blood, enjoyed their pain. She said, "Since I have you all here, and since none of you will make it out of this Division alive I'll give it to you." She opened her desk and pulled out file after file on the Rogues, the Indigo, and, "That's right Amelia. I have more info on you than you'd ever hope to achieve on me. I have dates, times, conversations. I keep a tight leash on my cops. I even have information on your life before you came to America, and what happened to your family, that little explosion all those years ago. Even this." She puled out a walkie and pressed a button. "Back up, where's my fucking back up." My voice filled the room, begging, pleading. "That's right.  Amelia, I was tuned in, I heard every word. It made us laugh to be frank, to hear you begging and screaming for back up that would never ever come." She laughed, long and cold. "I was half tempted to send back up, but, but believe me Detective, it was more refreshing to hear you scream and cry for it." "You Bitch." Sullivan said. "I'm the Bitch, I'm the cold hearted one? What about Amelia here? She was the one who killed her family, who murdered them in cold blood, who set the explosion." "That's enough." Becky said. Soleil laughed.
"None of you get it do you? She murdered her own family, for reasons only she can explain. Go ahead Amelia, tell us, why did you set the explosions, why did you kill them?" There was a roaring in my head, a scream that wouldn't escape my lips, a pain that dug in my throat. I heard them, the explosion of fire, the screams as my family was burned alive, the pain as I was flung from the windows four stories above. "Oh speechless suddenly are you?" Soleil asked. "Suddenly can't talk?" "I could say more, could say things that could really strip you of everything you tried so hard to hide away." Soleil flipped through pages and said, "Ah, yes, here it is." She lifted a file and said, "You, dearest Amelia—"That's enough." The voice wasn't Becky's, or Ming's, or even Sullivan, the voice was Huntor's. He pushed himself off the wall and swaggered forward, his face cold and unforgiving. Soleil looked up from the file, and her face paled, fear, horror, recognition, flew over her face like a hummingbird's wings. Then greed landed there and stayed, "You." She said. "Me." Huntor replied. "Oh the Keeper's would love to have you back in their hands, or even the Rogues." "I'm sure they would. But I'm sorry to say I wouldn't want to be in their good graces." Soleil said, "Trust me, the graces won't be good." Huntor rolled his eye, "Here's something, because most of your breed Soleil, are all the same, what do you want for the Detective?" Soleil frowned, as if not comprehending, but I did. "Huntor." I said horsely. But he ignored me. "What are you meaning boy?" "Usually people of your breeeding want something for a trade, what do you want/' Soleil let an evil smile cross her face, "I'll take you and her in instead of these aweful Officers and your precious Detective Amelia." "No." I said. Huntor shot me a warning look, "It's fine Amelia, you go, you be safe. You got that, be, safe." I frowned as Becky stepped to his side. "Yes indeed, be safe, go and let the true players play cards." Soleil taunted. Huntor turned and his eye seemed to drill into my face, "Go." He said. "Go now." I stepped back and opened the door. Cops lined the Division, guns aimed at me. "Let the Bitch through, she isn't worth our time, not like these two are." She gestured to Huntor and Becky. Huntor smiled and walked over to Soleil, then he tripped and fell. I saw his right hand flatten against the floor, and sweep in my direction, a small device skidding across the tiles. I realized what it was as soon as Soleil did.
    The device bounced lightly against my boots and I leaned down to pick it up. "What is that?" Soleil asked. "A bit of evidence." Huntor said as he rose. "Go Amelia, be safe, keep her safe too." Who was he talking about. Then Becky turned, her face shining with understanding and I really felt put out. "What are you talking about?" I asked, but a piece of ice began to make itself home in my heart. "Fool Bitch." Soleil laughed. "He means your little victim." The world dropped from my feet and I felt my knees hit the floor. "No, no no no no. They're locked away, those—"You really thought he could lock them in cells. He doesn't have the material to lock any Rogue away." Soleil laughed harshly. "Go and try to save your little whore, go ahead and try to save her, it's most likely too late anyway." I turned and took a step in the direction of the Division doors. The cops raised their guns and I raised my own. But it wasn't either side who pulled the trigger, it was Huntor who moved. He ripped each gun out of the cops' hand and dangled them above their heads. "Now is where you run, run Amelia." Three seconds passed as I ordered Sullivan and ming to follow me, three seconds as I ordered Jacobs to the safe-house, then they moved. But it was too late. We were already out of the doors and moving through the hall. I turned back one last time to see Huntor and Becky back to back as if they did it a hundred times. Then the doors closed behind us. "Get to the hospital, break all speed regulations, just get there." "You're driving." Sullivan said to Ming-Huaa. I ran up the escalators, through the sprawl of the Cop House. Passing Officers Detectives alike who yelled over their shoulders at me. I made a turn and ran into the Captain's door, sending it off it's hinges. Six people were sitting in her office, talking but all conversations stopped as I stumbled in. "Detective Amelia." The Captain seemed to be pulling her wits together and struggled with surprise, shock, anger, and frustration. "What validates this interruption?" "This." I gasped out as I sat the device on the table and hit the only button on it. Soleil's voice echoed out, speaking as she did in her office, planning and admitting. When it was over, the Captain snapped, "How the hell." Then she stopped, and said, "There's something else, you look like there's more." "I have to get to the hospital, my victim is in trouble, Soleil hinted that the two Rogues were going to finish what they started." "Go now, get there, do whatever you have to. I'll put the House on lockdown, and get a message out to lock the hospital down too."