V1S10- Alec (May Have) Did A Bad, Bad Thing- Psych! It's Magnus Verse

Chapter 5-My Head Was Spinning

Alec and Hodge recap the last case they worked going after Valentine. We find out what could possibly distract Alec from spending time with Magnus... (You know it has to be bad to pass THAT up.)

Story Notes:

(Kay... So, by this point both Raph AND Alec have referred to Valentine as a monster...here we are going over the Case from 9 years ago with Hodge and Alec... Do I really need to say it's not going to be an overly pleasant conversation?

They are just recapping the events, but, umm...they're pretty violent... way more than we've had in the series up to this point. I don't think it needs an actual like 'Warning' kinda tag, but just so the bases are covered; violence, fire, people die, more violence. More people die, Kay?)

Also, we're just gonna say the records of the case were sealed, so the reactions are more genuine, right?

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"As far as we can tell it's the closest anyone's ever came to catching Valentine...We HAD him, had him in custody, it seemed air tight, like the bastard was finally really caught. Would at last pay for everything he had done."

Hodge began, shaking his head

"It was pure luck we even got a shot; we hadn't even been after him originally.

We were working a sting operation on a suspected dealer; it wasn't even that big of a case. We set up surveillance on this guy, Devon Mahzun. Got photos, video, the whole nine yards; everything was airtight, had the guy dead to rights.

Everything went according to plan, we'd got all the evidence we could possibly need and went to bring him in. He saw us coming, spooked and rabbited. Jumped in his car and took off. There was a car chase, it lasted for nearly an hour, in the process he lost control and the car ended up crashing and bursting into flames. Officers at the scene got him out, but he kept trying to rush back in, trying to get something out of the car.

It turns out he was transporting a box for Valentine... he didn't know what was in it, all he knew was it was Valentine's and if it did not make it to its destination the consequences would be dire.

We never did find out what was in the box, whatever it was seemed to almost work as an accelerant. By the time they got the flames out, nearly an hour after the initial crash, the entire thing was little more than a smoldering heap. They tried running a chemical test to find out what it was but it came up with nothing.

Mahzun panicked, seemed completely out of his mind. A few of the paramedics at the scene ended up actually having to sedate him; it was the only way to get him to stop trying to run back into the burning car. No one could understand what could possibly be so important." Hodge paused shaking his head

Alec nodded continuing

"When he came to in the medical ward the first thing he said was asking about the car, about the package. When we'd told him it had been destroyed...

Man, I don't know, I had never seen that level of fear in someone's eyes, that level of hopelessness.

I mean, I wasn't completely new to this; I'd worked a few homicides and other violent cases, I'd seen people in fear for their lives... but this was different. Looking back, I really wasn't prepared for this kind of a case. I'd just been partnered with Hodge for a few months. I'd never worked anything like this, nothing this big." He paused shaking his head.