Suburbia

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

Suburbia
Setting: Suburb outside a large city 2010

"are you sure he didn't screw up the directions?" my friend Michelle asked. "yeah it should be" i responded. Michelle leaned against a parked police car as i asked an officer standing around in the lot where the auxilary youth vice squad was. the officer pointed to a small 2 story building at the end of the parking lot and said up the steps and knock on the door. Me and Michelle walked upstairs and knocked on the door. A voice called from inside said "im happy with my religion and no i don't want to buy anything". I said I was told to report here to an Officer McGrady. Enter said the voice.

When we walked in we were gretted by Officer McGrady who had been expecting me. "so your the new udercover auxilary?". "yes sir James Russo" i replied and shook his hand. fill out this paperwork he said as he handed me a stack of papers. He looked at Michelle and asked who she was. she replied "Michelle Garcia". he gave her a look that said "where have i heard that name before?" After i filled out the paperwork and showed department and school ID to confirm that i wasnt a nutjob posing as a Underage Auxilary Police Officer. He noticed that i was a student at Winslow High School which was known for a high drug problem and said "your going to be seeing alot of action, how much experaince do you have?" "I have been an auxilary cop since i was 16 and when i turned 17 i was put through vice training  and the instructor told me to report here". Ok I guess i should show you around. Kitchens over there bathrooms there and my office is behind that door and the garage and the vehicle sign out is downstairs, ok follow me and ill show you the garage and your car.

"This is your car its a 2004 crown vic. I heard Michelle say somthing about it being a grandpa car. I saw you drive up in your car. Its the 1992 caprice right?" "yeah" i said. "so your used to big cars like this". "yeah" i said. ok come back tommorow at 4 and bring your program from school. As me and michelle left the police station she asked me to come to her house to listen to a song that she has written.

We walked itno her house and saw her mother passed out on the couch with a half empty bottle of Vodka on the floor which was her way of self medicating after her husband was killed in the line of duty several years ago. When her husband was killed it destroyed the family. Michelle's mother had a self medication ritual which was drinking a bottle of vodka and passing out in front of the big screen. sometimes she added perscription painkillers to that ritual. either way she neglected her 2 daughters.

We went upstairs and Michelle played her song on her guitar the lyrics were somewhat depressing lyrics so after she finished i asked her why it was so depressing. she looked at me and said her mother was getting her so stressed because she has to take car of her sister by herself and so i said to her calm down and relax. and that it was alright to be upset after all the things that have happened to her in her life

ill handle dinner tonight i cant do this every night. Me and Michelle made dinner for all family members that werent passed out on the couch which was Michelle and her little sister Alexia. and before i left for the night they both thanked me and Michelle walked me to the caprice and looked me straight in the eye and said i really appreciate you being around since my father died.

End of First Episode
what do you think?
tell me whats good and tell me what sucked. keep in mind that im extreamly tired so cut me some slack

[ChrisaL27]

Nice story Merc...a bit depressing at the end but good...thanks for sharing...Looking forward to the new episode...

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

Nice story Merc...a bit depressing at the end but good...thanks for sharing...Looking forward to the new episode...

glad you liked it ill put a few more episodes on today

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

Episode 2 Confusion

I was pulling an all nighter at the police station getting ready for the offical unveiling and activation of the auxilary youth vice squad. There was currently a few issues over giving us decent equipment and the budget and i needed to fill out a request for some equipment and more officers. another issue was arming auxilary youth vice squad officers. While i was filing out recqusition forms i was thinking about Michelle who had latley been acting strange and distant the past few days

My supervisor PO McGrady walked in and said that the CO of the Vice Enforcement unit wanted to speak to me. "What does he need" i asked himl. He said "I dont know but your too new to the squad to be in trouble but you should get over there before you are". I dont normally look good after pulling an all nighter so i grabbed myself a cup of coffee before i went to his office. I walked down the stairs contemplating calling Michelle. I pulled out my phone flipping it open and selecting her number before noticing the time, 2:30 am not the time to call to ask if someones ok. Realizing that i was going to meet the person that would make or break my career and that i looked like crap. I checked how i looked in the mirror of my caprice which i somehow managed to get a decent parking spot for that night. i smoothed out my hair and continued walking towards the main building. I walked past the desk sergeant and flashed my badge, he didnt even look up from his book. I made my way to the Vice Enforcment unit and knocked on the door that said Capt. Murphy

Captain Murphy was sitting behind a large wodden desk and an impressive computer behind him was a wall of awards and commendations. While Captain Murphy was a small man sitting in front of his large desk and wall of awards was an intimidating experience. He Looked up and introduced himself and i started to introduce myself. "Hi my name is James Russo". He looked me straight in the eye and said "I know everything about you I read your folder and ive been watching you for awhile." I began to question what he was saying before he interupted me again. "Your best friend Michelle Garcia her father worked for me when i was a Lieutenant. This was back about 12 years ago i was in the second car that responded to the scene that day. This was right after Michelle's sister was born. That day was the worst day in department history. I never expected to see Alex's Daughter again. The reason i called you here is too tell you one thing. Theres the right way and my way it sould be obvious what i expect in my unit. Now go about your business officer".

As I walked back out to the parking lot i saw someone trying to use a coat hanger to break into My caprice. I yelled "Police Don't Move". The person walked towards me and said "Hello James". I grabbed my mini MAGLITE from my pocket and shined it in the persons face. She walked towards me.

I took one look at her and noticed her dilated, blood shot eyes and there was a sweet musky scent coming from where she was and said "why are you at my place of employment Melanie" She said "I rode along with my dad tonight and he said that your working with the cops now. arent you a bit of a hipocrite. remember back in freshman year we used to run from the cops". I replied "that was mostly you because i didnt smoke or drink or do as much of anything illegal as you did. thats why your parents sent you to boarding school remember?" She gave me a strange smile and said "I got you a present". I quickly replied "If its a severed head im going to be VERY upset." She handed me a valentines day card and said "i was going to leave this in your car". "You realize that this is june" I said.

Her father The EMS Supervisor walked out of the back of the station and said time to go and she got into the EMS SUV and her father quickly waved to me. I waved back and made my way back to my desk. PO McGrady asked me how it went and i said "the usual" and continued out my shift until about a half hour before it was over i got a text from Michelle saying that she needed to talk to me and that she would see me ver soon. I Figured that she would see me in school later on in the day so after my shift was over I walked down to the lot. i hoped that i would get atleast 2 hours of sleep before my first period started.

When i got to my car i noticed Michelle was Leasning against the Sergeant's SUV. I asked "what are you doing here?" She said that she wanted to say somthing. "ive known you for most of my life" She said "you have always been there for me especailly these past few years. So..."

I was confused so i asked her what that was about and she was almost crying and ran off. I figured that i would see her later and that i was too tired to think so i got into the car turned on the radio to the classic rock statio and drove home.

What do you think?

[ChrisaL27]

Nicely done again...Only one question...She cried after she kissed him?

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

Nicely done again...Only one question...She cried after she kissed him?

that will be explained in a future episode. so far ive only released the first 4 and episode 5 is in the works but ill put episode 3 up here today.

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

"Hey Michelle" i yelled out when i saw her in the hall on my way to lunch. After what had happened earlier this morning i was relieved to see her in school. She quickly said "Hey James im not feeling well i cant make it to lunch today" "Ok but when you get a chance we need to talk" i said. I thought i heardher say somthing as she walked towards the exit. As i walked towards the cafeteria i got a phone call from PO McGrady saying i was needed at the station right away.

20 minutes later i was in the vice unit office. PO McGrady and Captain Murphy had given me the OK for my first assignment... Underage alcohol buys. meaning that i they would be sending me undercover into clubs. And since this was my first time doing vice work PO Mcgrady and Captain Murphy would be observing me from a second car. PO McGrady told me to sign out a radio and an unmarked car. I signed out a black crown vic and walked out to the parking lot. Captain Murphy gave me a list of addresses to buy drinks from. The plan was for me to buy drink and an hour later an officer would issue a summons or revoke the liquor license.

We left the station in a convoy with me driving the crown vic and the others following in the captains impala about a block before we got to the club the captain radioed me and told me that he would be parking a few blocks away so it wouldnt be obvious that i was a cop. i stuffed the radio under the passenger seat and went in.

I walked up to the bar and ordered a whisky sour. the bar tender hesitated and gave me a strange look but still served me.

I took it to a back table where i drank a sip to confirm that it was liquor. it was but i didnt drink enough to impair my driving. My cell rang for some reason Michelle's little sister Alexia was calling so i picked up. She was crying because Michelle was bleeding. I asked her to put Michelle on but she said she took sleeping pills. This raised an eyebrow for my. So i asked where she was bleeding from and how badly she was bleeding. She said Michelle was bleeding alot from her wrists. I ran to my car and pulled the radio out from under the seat and screamed im taking a meal period.

Im not sure if anyone responded to what i had just said but i thought i heard Captain Murphy yelling at me but right now i didnt care. I turned the key and the car purred I wasnt that used to Crown Vics but that was a non issue today. I pulled the gear shit to drive and hauled ass out of there. As pulled out of my parking spot i hit the switch that turned on the cars emergency lights. I turned onto a main road flooring the car and i felt around the console in an attempt to find the siren. 60MPH and and an intersection apporaching i was still trying to find the siren. 70 MPH and the intersection was a few hundred feet away.

75 MPH 250 feet until the intersection I found the siren and switched it to yelp and tapped the air horn button a few times and the intersection was clear. I still had a few miles to go so as soon as i got to less crowded streets i switched to the priority siren tone and went to 110 MPH. After a few minutes i was a mile away from there house so i pushed the car i got it up to 125 MPH the steering wheel started to shake.A block away from there house there was a sharp turn so i had to slow down to take it. I hopped the curb in front of there house and pounded on there door.

Alexia answered she wasnt crying but still upset. I tried to talk to her to get a basic idea of what happened. According to Alexia, Michellehad been bleeding for about 20 minutes and tok some pills from her mothers medicine cabinet. I cringed when i heard this knowing what her took. I walked upstairs quietly listening for signs of life. I knocked on her door and said "Michelle its me" there wasnt any answer so i opened the door.

She was laying there eyes closed with an open bottle of pills next to the bed. I approached her and looked at the bottle. They were Valium which cannot kill anyone but next to the bottle i found a bloody razor blade then i  looked at Michelle. She was unconcious and her wrists were bleeding heavily. I looked for my radio which i thought i left on my belt. I screamed down the stairs "ALEXIA GET ME THE WALKIE TALKIE IN MY CAR IT SHOULD BE ON THE SEAT" within 3 minutes my radio was in my hand. I pushed the button on the side and spoke into the front "Dispatch i have a 10-54 sucide attempt i need an ambulance at 104 Maple Drive ForthWith.

Within 5 minutes Captain Murphy and PO McGrady were at the house along with an ambulance. After the Paramedics had stabilized Michelle and loaded her into the ambulance she became semi conscious. as we were gathering outside of the house to watch the ambulance pull away the Paramedic in the back jumped out and said that Michelle had asked if i could ride with her i looked at Captain Murphy and he nodded so i said to him "can you drop the crown vic off at the station and arrange to have the caprice left at the hospital?"  And then i jumped in the back of the ambulance.

Michelle had been drifting in and out of consciousness on the way to the hospital but when she was awake she gavme me a weird smile while the paramedic treated her. A minute before the ambulance got to the hospital she reached out so she could hold my hand. When i reached out to grab her hand i could feel the gauze and bandages. It was a weird feeling. Then the doors of the ambulance flew open and a team of doctors and nurses wheeled the gurney into the hospital. I followed them as far as i could but a hospital securiy gaurd stopped me. I grabbed a drink from the vending machine and exausted i walked back to the waiting room and layed down on the benches there.

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

WARNING: THIS EPISODE OF SUBURBIA IS PRETTY DARK SO IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ SOMETHING HIGH PG-13 TURN BACK NOW





A few days have past since Michelle's suicide attempt. I had been going through several leads to see who gave her the pills including the pharmacist. The pharmacist had identified several of the pills as mostly downers mixed in with some pills that when mixed with pain killers could easily kill a person. So who ever had sold her these pills wanted her dead.

Flash Forward a few days when a former friend had agreed to inform us of who had sold her the drugs. His name was Jason Coffey. He and Michelle had gone out a year or two ago. It was a relationship that i protested and it had really strained our friendship. A few months after they had started going out they had a bad breakup and Michelle came crying to me. She never told me what the breakup was about or what had happened during the relationship. To be completely honest i didn't want to know. I knew Jason since middle school and even back then he was bad news. He was caught several times with drugs and he always got a slap on the wrist.

A few hours ago Melanie decided to talk with me at the station about Jason's involvement in Michelle's suicide. She wrote about half a page about him selling a bottle of pills to her to help "Stabilize her depression" and how he realized the police may be looking for him so he ran to some abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of town.

'So what was going on with you and Michelle?' I heard as i was trying to focus on something other then Melanie. I look up and i see Melanie giving me that stupid grin that she always gives me when she wants something. 'There's nothing going on with us.' I said trying not to make eye contact. 'I can see right through you. You two have been together since we were in 3rd grade. Don't think i never noticed'. 'Ok you want the truth?' I look her straight in the eye and i give her the "you win but im annoyed that you won" look. 'Me and her have been best friends since 3rd grade everything was fine until the whole Jason thing and ever since there breakup ive been feeling some sort of tension between me and her, Then the day she overdosed she met me in the parking lot she kissed me'. 'Alrighty then' Melanie said with a happy look on her face. A few minutes later she handed over the papers to me.




I handed the papers to PO Mcgrady and he told me that the warehouse was going to be raided... Tonight. 'Also tell your friend that she has to stay in our custody until we get this guy. Wouldn't want her giving him a heads up.' 'Hey Melanie, Cancel your plans tonight your staying here'. She looked at me in disgust 'Unlike you i have plans tonight and i need to make them'. I look at her and say 'Yeah i think that keg can stand it self. Listen here's some money get some chinese or pizza delivered here and make yourself comfy.' I turn back to Mcgrady 'Where do you need me when this goes down'? There's going to be a tac meeting in the parking lot in 5 minutes you should grab a vest and radio and meet us down there.

I made my way to grab a battery for my radio and my vest. and walked downstairs.



The SWAT van was waiting in the parking lot with 5 officers waiting in it and Mcgrady and another cop were discussing what our roles were going to be. The plan was that SWAT get him before he tried to run and everything would go down peacefully but if he ran Mcgrady and another officer were going to intercept him. I was going to be the hospital car. If anyone got hurt i would drive them to the hospital lights and siren. 'So what car am i taking?' I asked. The other cop who was in charge of the operation told me that there were no cars available and i had to use my personal car and that i could be reimbursed for gas costs after my shift ended. So we left the station house with the SWAT van my caprice and 2 Marked cars.



I had found a good spot to wait if anything happened. I did my usual routine of getting out of the car to strech my legs. I was thinking about what really was going on with me and Michelle. I was wondering if maybe there was more to our friendship and i just didn't see it. Maybe i didn't want to see it. Maybe i was afraid that if i did like her that would make our friendship weird and awkward. Maybe Michelle thought that too. But what if there was a chance it would work. People at school have said that we would make a great couple. But what do i think of Michelle? Do i love her or do i just like her a friend? We've been there for each other for years. I even taught her how to drive on my car. I Heard a message go over the radio "Suspect headed westbound on mill road in a yellow mustang with no lights." I quickly shook out of this train of thought and jumped into action. I got in my car and slammed the gear shift into drive and pulled out into the road as a roadblock. I turned on the red light on the dashboard and i saw him. He must have been doing 75 and he slammed on the brakes as soon as i turned on my light. He didn't have enough time to stop.



He hit the front of my car. I felt the wheel collapse as his car hit mine. My head hit the pillar and i blacked out for a second. I woke up seconds later to see flashing lights a mile down the road. I got out of my car and saw him run into the woods. I gave chase and as i was running through the woods i yelled into my radio. "Suspect hit my car, Suspect is on foot in the woods. Im 2 miles sout of the raid location 200 feet deep in the woods. I need backup"



I saw him out of breath in a clearing 50 feet ahead of me. I yelled 'I know what you did to Michelle and im going to put you under the jail.' He looked at me and said in a very condescending voice. 'Did you ever wonder how Michelle paid for the pills?'



 That was the last straw. i Tackled him and put him in a headlock. Just making random punches. At this point i didn't care if he went to jail or not. All i knew was that he needed to be in alot of pain. The next two minutes were a blur to me.



The next thing i remember is getting pulled off of him by my backup and hearing 'that's enough go calm down'. Mcgrady came running to the clearing. 'What the hell happened?' He asked. I looked up triumphantly and said i got my suspect and im going to process him. He looked at me and said 'I'll process him you need to visit Michelle she needs you more then anything else. Your cars in bad shape chances are its going to be totaled so grab your stuff that you need for tonight and were going to talk in the morning about the department giving you a new car or something like that. Until then im going to have Romano Drive you to the hospital and then drive you home'



I got in the car with Romano and he tried to make conversation a few time about music. He seemed like a nice guy and everything but considering that i was running myself ragged the past few days and after coming down from the adrenalin from what had just happened i wasn't exactly in the talking mood. When we reached the hospital i looked over at Romano and told him i wasn't going to be long. I took the elevator up to the fifth floor where Michelle was. I passed the nurses station and they waved. I had been there so many times the past few days we were on a first name basis. 'Hey James' They said completely ignoring the fact that visiting hours had ended 4 hours ago.



When i arrived at Michelle's room i walked in quietly and sat down and started fidgeting, Not knowing what to say. 'We got Jason tonight, He cant ever hurt you again. Um, also the caprice is wrecked. I have to see how bad the damage is tomorrow.' I pause thinking that shes hanging onto my every word meanwhile she cant hear a thing i said. I start to feel stupid so i just walk up to her and hold her hand hoping that she can feel my presence. After a few minutes i kiss her on the cheek and tell her 'I love you'. I hear Romano hit the siren a few times meaning he want to get back on patrol. I make my way down to the nurses station. 'We know the drill' One of the nurses say. If there's any changes call you on your cell. I smile and i walk to the elevators.



Back in the Patrol car there is very little conversation. Then we get a message on the radio to go to the fleet services for my loaner car. We pull into the parking lot to find McGrady standing by an old unmarked crown vic. He throws me the keys. 'This is only temporary by thursday you should have a newer one courtesy of the department. This car is literally two days from retirement and the fleet services guys need something to auction off. So be careful.' 'Thanks.' I say taking a closer look at the car. After seeing 1994 on the registration sticker i sarcastically ask 'Is this one of the cars from the OJ case?' He looked at me and said 'Get some sleep'. I drove the car home and fell asleep. Until i got a phone call from the hospital...