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“I'm not missing I'm right here.” I tell the cop and he smiled at me… I think it was the first time he's ever smiled at me… “I'm mean really now Officer ummm” I stammered a little, you think I’d know this guys name by now.

“Parker.” He says and I nod.

”Well Officer Parker, as you can see I'm perfectly fine.” I tell him. “Just let Ray go.” I say and Officer Parker looks at me like he's somewhat amused. “Honest to god Ray did not kidnap me, no one did. I'm fine.” I say as he started to pat Ray down… He had Rays hands cuffed behind his back and he still had him facing the car, which was a good thing for me, cause I didn’t have to see the evil death glances Ray was probably giving me by now… Fuck. He’s gonna kill me when he gets out of this… I should've just let him bring me to the police station. Why the fuck do I have to argue about everything?

“I understand what you're saying Miss Waller.” Officer Parker tells me and I nod at him like great, then let Ray go. ”But we have procedures.” He says and I instantly frown.

“Yeah but there's nothing to ‘procede’ with, there's no crime except for maybe those few lights he blew through back there.” I try to reason with him and I hear Ray groan a little…

“Do you know why your husband would’ve reported you abducted?” Officer Parker says looking over at me and I frown a little confused.

“Gerard reported me ‘abducted’?” I ask stupidly. I suddenly pictured a space ship landing and little green men coming out and abducting me…Why Gerard make up a story like that?

“Your husband’s name is Gerard?” He replies and I shake my head no.

“No my husbands name is Bob.” I tell him and he frowned like he either thought I was stupid or I was high. But either way the look he was giving me was not good… “Gerard is my boyfriend.” I try to clarify but it was too late.

He said something about calling somebody to come and check me out and I got hysterical and refused. And he said something about it being standard procedures and I told him what he could do with his ‘standard procedures’ and long story short, I ended up pretty much next to Ray being carted ‘downtown’ for interfering or some shit like that…

I don’t know what they did to Ray cause as soon as we got there they stuck me in the worlds smallest office and just left me there for what seemed like hours… I mean I’d hardly even call it an office. There was no window, no desk, just a table with a tape recorder set up on it, a few chairs, and a plant on a stand in the corner… Nothing else… I think it was an interrogation room, but I wasn’t quite sure why I was even it…I wasn’t interfering. I mean maybe I was, just a little, but Officer Parker was a jackass and I was gonna tell them that too…

After what seemed like forever, some uniformed guy came and brought me a small cup of water from the water cooler but I wasn’t gonna drink it… He wouldn’t tell me anything either, no matter what I asked. Just that someone was gonna be in shortly and to just ‘sit tight’…

That was what Officer Parker said too… sit tight Hmm I wonder if they teach them fucked up sayings like that at some special school…Or maybe they sell like a handbook at that same store where they get those notebooks from…

Suddenly the door opens, I was praying it would be Pete’s dad but it wasn’t… It was some guy I’d never seen before. Dressed in plain clothes but he had a badge clipped on his belt…his gun belt…

He introduced himself as Detective Murphy. I didn’t say anything. I mean I figured he knew who I was…He kinda looked at me until I answered him.

“Um hi?” I offer not really sure what he wanted me to say.

“I wanted to talk with you Elle.” He says as he sits across the table from me and I just stared blankly back at him. What the fuck did he want me to say? Like I had a fucking choice to talk to him or not…

“Uh okay.” I tell him and he nods.

“Do you mind if I record this?” He says reaching for the thing on the table.

“Um yeah.” I say he freezes like he was surprised. “Do you have to?” I ask and he shrugged a little.

“It makes it a little easier.” He says and I wrinkle my face a little at it as he fusses with the tape, like he's gonna record it anyway, whether I say it’s okay or not.

“Yeah but I always sound like a mouse.” I tell him and he looked a little puzzled. “On those things -I sound like a mouse.” I explain and he smiles.

“Well no ones gonna hear it.” He says and I frown.

“Then why do you have to record it?” I ask and he continued to smile.

“Its easier then paper.” He says and I pout a little. “It really is standard procedures.” He says and I smirk a little. “Ah but you don’t like our ‘procedures’ now do you?” He says seemingly lightheartedly and I bit my lip a little.

“Look I don’t know what Officer what's his name said I said-“ I try to say and he holds his hand up for me to stop.

“That’s not what I want to talk about.” He says and I guess he got the tape recorder thingy going cause he smiled in satisfaction as he slid it towards the center of the table.

“Its not?” I ask softly and he shook his head no. “I'm not in trouble for that?” I whisper over at him and he sorta smiled.

“No.” He whispers back. “Now can we start?” he continues to whisper and I couldn’t help but smile back at him. I kinda liked him… Well I liked him a hell of a lot better then Officer fuckface at least… I nodded and he opened up a folder and kinda leant it back, so I couldn’t see what was in it… Just like Mr. Samuel would always do to me. It pissed me off…

“Can you say your name for the record?” He says and I nod softly. He just sat there I guess waiting for me to do it, but there was no way I was going to… I mean I'm not speaking on a recording… I'm just not… I guess he realized I wasn’t going to, cause he sighed a little as he leant forward in his chair. “Can you do it now?” He says and I pressed my lips together tightly… He nodded encouragingly and I knew there was no way out of this…

“Michelle Waller.” I said so softly I'm surprised he even heard me…

“How bout louder.” He says sliding the recorder box closer to me. I shook my head no slightly and he frowned at me…I felt my eyes welling up with tears…I didn’t want to be here… Not alone like this. Where was Ray? Or Gerard? Or Bob? Hell I’d even take Frankie right now…

“I'm sorry, I can’t do this.” I mumbled as I started to cry and Detective Murphy reaches over and pulls a box of tissues out from behind the plant I suppose, I don’t even know where he got them from. But he puts them down on the table as I continued to sniffle…

“Why don’t we start over.” He says and I nod as I reached for the tissue box. I couldn’t see exactly where it was cause my vision was blurry from all the tears but I had a general idea what I was reaching for… What I didn’t see was the small cup of water that that cop had brought me before. I heard Detective Murphy say something about being careful, but by the time it registered in my head it was too late. I unintentional knocked the cup of water over… all over his tape recorder.

The machine kinda sparked and fizzled and I guess he grabbed the plug or something cause I heard him curse a little and I just started to cry.

“Oh my gosh!” I cry out jumping up in panic. “I didn’t mean to break it I swear!” I try to tell him but I don’t know if he understood me, I was becoming completely hysterical… Detective Murphy just looked at me for a second and then shook his head.

“Just please…sit back down.” He tells me helping me back into my seat.

“I didn’t mean to.” I tell him and he nodded a little.

“It’s all right, we’ll do it the old fashioned way.” He says opening his notepad up… I think he was a little annoyed but he was trying not to show it… “Let’s start again.” He says and I nodded…He was being so nice to me. The least I could do was try…

“Okay. My name is MICHELLE WALLER.” I said slowly and intentionally. And as loud as I could without it being considered yelling. He just looked at me curiously.

“What are you doing dear?” He says and I wrinkled my face at him. What did he mean what was I doing? I was doing what he asked. Didn’t he remember?

“I'm stating my name for the record.” I tell him and he smiled and nodded over towards the tape player, which still had a small stream of smoke emitting from it…

“Yeah but the record’s broken…” He says and I frowned a little confused. “Just … I’ll be right back.” He says a little frustrated with me and he just gets up and leaves…

A few minutes later he came back in, with a fresh cup of water no less, but I guess he learned his lesson cause he put it down on the table as far away from me as he possibly could. There was another man that came in with him. I guess since the tape recorder was broken, I don’t know…He introduced him as Detective James or some crap so I nodded like I cared… He opened up a folder too and they sorta exchanged glances and hushed whispers before Detective Murphy began his official ‘questioning’…

And almost every single thing he asked I told him I didn’t know… I didn’t know anything about anything, or so I said… Except for Ray… I cant count how many times I told him Ray had nothing to do with anything. That he was just giving me a ride cause I asked him too…

“Yes I understand that.” Detective Murphy says and I nod. “I can assure you Mr. Toro is in no trouble.” He says and I nod once more… Thank God. I couldn’t handle Ray being in trouble cause of me…

“So I can go?” I ask and he sighed a little. “I mean I told you I don’t know what happened. I blacked out.” I tell him and he nods. “So whatever Gerard told you happened, he can untell you.” I say and he frowned a little.

“Were going by the report your husband filed.” He says and I shrug.

“Well whatever.” I tell him my mind wandering. “Hey is my husband here?” I ask and he nods…”Gerard too?” I add and he nods again. “Do you know if they're like getting along? –I mean like are they talking?” I ask him eagerly and he kinda made a face at me.

“Miss Waller, I don’t begin to understand your marital situation.” He says and I wrinkle my face a little, that wasn’t really an answer. I suppose I began to pout cause Detective James kinda shrugged at me.

”They seem to be in good accord.” He says and I struggled to think what that meant… didn’t sound bad…I guess he could tell though that I didn’t know what the hell was he saying… “They were both just worried about the man you left with.” He says and I nod.

“Yeah Gerard doesn’t like him.” I reply and Murphy marks something in the folder. “What are you doing?” I ask curiously…

“Well there's not enough evidence to warrant a kidnapping, since you insist you left voluntarily with him so I'm closing this.” He says and I look at him a little confused.

“You're what?” I ask and he shrugged a little.

“You obviously are refusing to cooperate.” He says and I frowned. Was it that obvious? “You obviously have something going on that neither your husband or your boyfriend seem to know about.” He says and I cringe a little… He thinks I'm fucking around with Mr S! “And I get the feeling that any advice I give you is going to fall on deaf ears.” He tells me.

“I don’t need advice.” I reply and he sorta smiled.

“I'm gonna chalk the whole incident up to a domestic dispute.” He says and I frowned a little at his tone… I was finding myself not liking him as much anymore… “And I suggest you try to keep your love life more organized Miss Waller, no one likes to find out they're not the only one, you understand what I'm saying?” He tells me and I'm still a little lost but I nod anyway.

“So I can go?” I ask and he shakes his head no.

“Well I'm finished.” He tells Detective James who nods, like now it’s his turn… what the fuck man! I mean he's gonna what ask me the exact same crap now!


“Now Elle, what I really want to talk about is what specifically happened once you were at the house.” He says and I frown at him,

“I told you I don’t know. I guess my blood sugar was low and I passed out” I continue to lie and he nods. I mean I didn’t tell them Mr S stuck me with anything. Or that I stabbed him! Just that he came to the house to check after he found out about the fire and I must’ve gotten sick and he brought me to his house to rest.

“Yes you told us that, but once you were there.” He says and I shrug.

“I called Ray and he came and got me.” I tell him and he nods…

“Elle, you do know I'm not an ordinary detective.” Detective James says and I looked at him untrustingly.

“What are you like a robo-cop?” I ask and Murphy kinda laughs as he gets up.

“I’ll be outside.” He tells Detective James who nods as he walks out… I dunno. I thought it was a fair question…

“I work in a special division.” Detective James says and I shrug.

“Uh well good for you.” I say and he nodded at me… I mean really what the fuck did he want from me?

“So I'm asking you Elle.” He says and he pauses a moment. I just kinda tried not to roll my eyes at him, would he just hurry up already…

“Yeah.” I sighed.

“Well do you know why Mr. Toro, -your friend Ray that is” he says and he pauses once again and I nod. “Do you know why he would say -that you told him, that Mr. Samuel sexually assaulted you…?”
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