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Obviously I am...completely random today, so more links!

NY Correction History Society
New York Police Department
NYPD Forensic Investigation Division

Right, you know you're doing something wrong when you forget what your characters look like. Past My Shoulder, get back here with your eye candy!

The next chapter of New York Minute is getting written tonight if I have to kill something to get it there. Mac, you haven't been injured, you're fair game.

...oh, wait, then I couldn't write your trilogy, could I?

YOU CAN STILL BE HIT BY A CAR OR SOMETHING.

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YOU CAN STILL BE HIT BY A CAR OR SOMETHING.
*splorfle*

Mac needs to watch his back. CSIs have been shot, kidnapped, shot some more, hit by car, attempted kidnapping, intent to rape...

Not like we've run out of options, or anything. ;-)

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*vaguely curious* Who was the attempted kidnapping?

We shall never run out of options when it comes to torturing the CSIs! Never, I say, never! Coming up soon: attempted drowning! Er, maybe.

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Who was the attempted kidnapped?
Um. No clue who I was referring to when I typed that. Might've been starting to type something referring to Aiden, got distracted, and then kept up typing.

Coming up soon: attempted drowning!
You know, I actually did write something where Danny got chucked into the water by a perp he was chasing? (e.g, the East River). I can't remember if you were reading my fic when I wrote that one. Or even if I typed it...

It's hard to run out of options re: torture anyway, since there's a lot you can do before someone actually...you know... dies. (Officer Callahan gives me a look and says, "No shit.")

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Um. No clue who I was referring to when I typed that. Might've been starting to type something referring to Aiden, got distracted, and then kept up typing.

Hmmm. Well, it's not like it can't happen. Flack takes a minute to glare at me and say, "Once was enough, all right?" *cringes* I'm...sorry...?

You know, I actually did write something where Danny got chucked into the water by a perp he was chasing? (e.g, the East River). I can't remember if you were reading my fic when I wrote that one. Or even if I typed it...

Oh, I remember that fic! I wasn't reading your stuff when you wrote it, but I found it on the Great Excavation of Your Journal. It was one of the ones I printed out.

It's hard to run out of options re: torture anyway, since there's a lot you can do before someone actually...you know... dies. (Officer Callahan gives me a look and says, "No shit.")

And it all happens to the CSIs. I thought this job was supposed to be, well, safer. Or not. Well, these things happen when one of you is the nephew (crap, wrote "son" which isn't technically true) of a Mafia don that most of the Five Families want dead, one of you is the son of a cop that happens to be living with said nephew, one of you is emotionally screwed in the head, another is an orphan whose father...just...got out of jail (er. well, that's my Stella), and...okay, Aiden's pretty much normal, but the people she works with? Not a safe occupation.

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Well, it's not like it can't happen.
Kidnapping Mac. Hoo boy, now *there's* an exercise in crazy. Not to mention unorthodox application of pharmaceuticals.

I wasn't reading your stuff when you wrote it, but I found it on the Great Excavation of Your Journal. It was one of the ones I printed out.
*smirk* "Excavation", indeed. I think I originally wrote a couple of different versions of that. ...wonder what Mac would do if tossed into the East River? He's not had luck with suspects catching him unawares (or I guess he has, being that Stella's been there both times).

(crap, wrote "son" which isn't technically true)
Somehow the line, "He was an orphan, and we adopted him!" exchange from Lilo & Stitch comes to mind. (for some reason that one usually reminds me of when Danny gets in canonical hot-water -- "He hasn't been here that long"/ "Neither have I!" specifcally)

another is an orphan whose father...just...got out of jail (er. well, that's my Stella),
Your Stella would actually probably fit with CBS' initial thing that she'd witnessed the murder of her parents, in a weird sort of way. (That, and I'm still trying to parse how much Canon!Stella, with her orphanage span, knows about her family, e.g., how much the nuns knew and told her.)

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Kidnapping Mac. Hoo boy, now *there's* an exercise in crazy. Not to mention unorthodox application of pharmaceuticals.

Suddenly, I'm certain that wouldn't go well at all. I wonder how it'd work in the Snafu/Bloody Sunday-verse...? Surprisingly likely, actually, considering that someone is going to a lot of trouble to set Mac's dad up for murder. Hey, kidnap his son, it all works out well!

Your Stella would actually probably fit with CBS' initial thing that she'd witnessed the murder of her parents, in a weird sort of way. (That, and I'm still trying to parse how much Canon!Stella, with her orphanage span, knows about her family, e.g., how much the nuns knew and told her.)

I'm just thinking that there has gotta be a point where it becomes unrealistic for too many characters' relatives to be criminals. Except Stella didn't technically know, so...her dad didn't murder anyone, but was involved in a bank robbery (to get money for his family) where one of his partners shot someone, and Bonasera took the fall for it. He did thirty-some years, during which his wife dropped baby Stella on the doorstep of either St. Basil's or the local precinct house/fire station (looking up child abandonment laws as we speak), then took a Greyhound to Omaha. OR Stella's mother died, and the police/CPS/whoever put her in the orphanage. However, it's surprisingly hard to find info on what happens to your kid when you go to jail and there are no relatives.

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Hey, kidnap his son, it all works out well!
What if he doesn't *like* his son very much? (Damn boy never could keep himself out of trouble...) ;-)

He did thirty-some years, during which his wife dropped baby Stella on the doorstep of either St. Basil's or the local precinct house/fire station (looking up child abandonment laws as we speak)
There's various baby safe-haven laws which are recent, and I remember from one of my books that at least one of the foundling homes in NYC (in fact the New York Foundling Hospital, I believe) had a crib in the foyer, that babies could be left safely and without scrutiny. The thing is, the cops probably would've tried to find Ma Bonasera to charge her with abandonment and/or child endangerment, but the orphanage would've figured, "Well, our sprog now. Hmm. Wonder if it's got a name?"

However, it's surprisingly hard to find info on what happens to your kid when you go to jail and there are no relatives.
Now? Hmm. The child would probably... I'd expect go through CPS/ACS, and...actually, if the child was in the home when the parent was arrested then they might be taken to the precinct to wait for ACS, who'd then find an opening in an emergency shelter for an older child or an emergency foster home (hotline homes, I think they're called in MA, which will take emergency placements) for a young child or infant. And then go to court the next day to determine placement--are there relatives capable of caring for the child, who want the child, if not, ACS wants custody, etc. It is hard to find info on this whole thing. Two books I'd recommend on that count are Marc Parent's "Turning Stones" (working with Emergency Children's Services in NYC), and "The Lost Children of Wilder", which is *dense* as all hell, but has informative bits.