Every Breath You Take

Stakeout (Arthit)

Looking at my watch I realize that I've been in this damn car for five hours staring at an empty building. I hate stakeouts, sitting patiently and waiting are not really strong suits of mine.

"Stop fidgeting." My partner P'Dan utters.

"I have to piss, what do want me to do?" I snap back at him.

"Have at it." He says as he hands over an empty bottle.

Well beggars can't be choosers so I pee in the bottle and toss it out the door.

"I can't believe you did that." He says looking surprised.

I simply shrug. It's not like I could leave him.

"Hey, you told me to." I argue.

"Not that. You threw out the bottle. What if I have to piss?" he complains.

"That's gross man. First I am not about to hold onto a bottle of my own urine and two you are not going to use a bottle I just pissed in." I say.

A knock at the window gets our attention. P'Dan rolls down the window.

"We're here to relieve you." The detective says.

"Perfect timing." P'Dan says as he starts the car.

"Anything to report?" The detective asks.

"Nope. No one has come or gone. I think we may have been wasting our time watching this place. I feel like we've been set up." He says.

"Really man? What do we do?" The guy asks.

"You guys wait here and watch while we check to see if we're at the wrong place. If we are, we'll come back and let you know. No use in you guys wasting eight hours like we did." He replies.

"Alright. Thanks man." He says and backs away as we leave.

"Call for backup nong." He tells me.

"What? Why?" I ask.

"He's not one of ours. We got pretty lucky, he could have just shot us instead of trying to figure out what we knew." He explains.

"But we really don't know anything." I respond.

"We didn't know anything. Now we know this is a place of interest." He informs me.

I make the call and soon we meet up with vice. I hate vice, they always swoop in with their cocky attitudes and take over other people's investigations.

"Looks like this officially becomes our case." Vice squad detective douchebag says.

"Fine by us. I don't think our murderer plays well with others anyway." P'Dan says and motions for me that it's time to go.

"I don't know why but it pisses me off that they're taking over." I complain.

"They're taking over this spot, not our case. We have other leads to follow nong." He says but I'm still irritated.

"What the fuck was that?! You just handed it over to vice?" We hear as soon as we enter the squad room.

"Hey, you know what, it's not our fault vice swooped in. How did they find out about it anyway?" P'Dan asks our commander.

"I told them." The chief says walking in.

"It was an area they had been interested in for a while now and when you called in the suspicious activity I thought it had to do with their case more than yours." He justifies.

Yeah. That's why. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that one of the vice detectives is his son. Nope, there's no way he'd be swayed by that.