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"Your lawyer's on his way," Flack said, banging back into the interrogation room. He leaned his good shoulder against the door. "What the hell are you playing at, Danny?"

Danny didn't even glance up from his cigarette, feet kicked up on the table. "The NYPD kicked me out. You really think there's all that much I can do?"

"Something besides this," Flack snapped. "C'mon, Danny, you're better than this. Let me make a couple phone calls, see if I can hook you up."

Danny shook his head briefly and sent up another stream of somke. "Go to hell, Flack," he said, but there was a curious lack of emotion in his voice. He leaned forward and cupped his free hand around the cigarette he was holding.

"Those things'll kill you," Flack said.

"Good. I'll see you in hell."

Flack let out a frustrated sigh. "Danny --"

Someone knocked on the door. Flack turned. "I'll be back."

"No," Danny said, crushing out his cigarette on the table and lighting up another one. "You won't."

The report he'd written up hit him in the chest as soon as he closed the door behind him. "Your report's wrong," Yamata said. "Christ, I hate eyewitnesses."

"What the hell?" Flack snapped. "I was there. And what the hell are you doing here, this is my case."

"Not anymore," Yamata said bitingly. "Maybe you better get your eyes checked, Detective, because your facts are wrong. Pastore attacked you and you wrestled for your service piece. Upon gaining control of your weapon you discharged it into Pastore's head. It was a clearcut case of self-defense. Messer didn't come onto the scene until afterwards. You don't have a case."

"Are you insane?" Flack demanded, looking down at the report in his hand.

"Amend that report, Flack," Yamata said. "And fix that Oxford comma on page three before I bust you back down to rescuing kittens out of trees down in Staten Island." He banged into the interrogation room before Flack could say anything else.

"Hey, hold on there," Flack began, heading toward the crime scene tape with hands up and palms out. "This is a closed crime scene --"

The man held up his badge. "Detective Yamata, Organized Crimes."

"Detective Cloke," the woman said. She looked Flack up and down. "You're not Taylor," she added flatly.

"Detective Flack, Homicide," Flack said, raising an eyebrow. "Detective Taylor's inside with the vic. And what brings OCD out here?"

"It's too bad you can't bring a case to trial, Detective," Taccetta said, eyes bright.

Cloke was taking shallow, angry breaths. "Rot in hell, Taccetta," she grated out through clenched teeth, and turned away.

"Is that how you survived three months as a POW in Afghanistan?" Taccetta added, and Cloke turned around and punched him in the face.

"You fucking bastard!" she screamed. Yamata got his arms aorund her waist and pulled her away, off her feet, wincing as Cloke knocked her head back into the bridge of his nose. "Let the hell go of me, Yamata, I'm going to kill that Mafia bastard. Let go of me!"

Yamata held on grimly. Taccetta touched his jaw. "That bitch has a fucking hard right," he spat.

"Get out," Yamata snarled, Cloke still struggling to get ouf his grip and spitting out incoherent cusswords. "Get the hell out of my precinct before I develop a case of Gulf War Syndrome on your criminal ass."

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I'd concentrate on God's manipulation. Christ Jesus (no pun meant). Also, I'd have to reread the entire book, and I can't do that in forty-eight hours and write an outline. I read the book back in, like, October or November.

I'm sort of randomly pagan. Blame the fact that I grew up on the Greek myths.

That's what SparkNotes are for, seriously. Such an awesome resource. I usually read the books that I'm assigned, but sometimes, I just need Sparknotes to save my brain from exploding.

I looked into pagan, back when I first decided that I totally wasn't Jewish, but before I finally just resigned myself to not believing in anything at all.

That's what three-fourths of the people in my AP English class do. Especially with Walden. Freaking Thoreau.

My mom wants me to go Buddhist (her father and brother are Buddhist priests in Japan). Me? Totally not Buddhist. I'll take the pantheons, thanks.

Ew, Thoreau. I have an entire semester of William Blake next year, which kinda makes me want to cry. Too bad you can use sparknotes for poetry.

For me, it's just that I don't have any faith in anything. I don't believe in anything, not even so-called "reality". It makes my life a lot easier, though, seriously. I'd call myself a Nihilist, if I bothered to really put a label to it.

Man, Thoreau sucks. It's incoherent rambling, not literature!

I agree. Fully.

Also, I figured out how to use Cloke and Yamata in my original. Score!

Your original? The Spaceforce 'verse?

No, my main 'verse. It's urban fantasy/modern sci fi. Cloke and Yamata would be agents on a genen handler unit, out of Pariah, the Paranormal Investigation Agency.

Ooh, snazzy.

I know! And they get to be on a team where everyone is ex-military, and they get to direct government made genetically engineered killing machines.

*laughs* That seems like it would suit them rather well!

Mmm, maybe. The genens...well, the ones I've mostly developed are the rogues (Vittoria, Ceejay, Alec -- I've mentioned them briefly). But they're damn dangerous, and even five ex-military federal agents wouldn't be able to contain a unit if it went mad.

Are there any bits of this OC verse up on your LJ? Just curious.

...yes. I'm not sure how much, and I'm not sure what parts, though. It is vast, it contains multitudes. There are at least a dozen different groups of characters and stories all over the world -- it's like the DCU or the Marvel universe more than it is standard fantasy.

Oooh, interesting.

Oh, God, you have no idea. It's THE main reason I require a vast amount of notes just to keep track of the characters.

Your ability to keep track of so many characters and plot arcs seriously astonishes me.

Notes. Lots and lots of notes.

I can't even comprehend it. My idea of notes is scribbling ideas on my mirror and windows. And post-it notes.

Mostly character names, actually, organized by affiliation in the 'verse. Corinth HS, Pariah, X-series, NYPD SCU, BPD SCU, others...

Do you keep a notebook or something? A binder?

KeyNote file on my comp. I have a folder, but it's all writing, almost no notes except the ones I do by hand.

Oh yeah, you've mentioned that program before!

It's a lifesaver. Seriously.

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