chapter 149

word count: 1257

as trudy slammed the car to a stop in the precinct parking lot,, she couldn’t help but notice the crown vic buzz always used was parked in its usual parking space.. 

“motherfucker..” trudy mumbled under her breath as she strode past it, shoulders held high,, chest extended,, ready for battle.. 

as trudy entered the precinct,, she ignored the desk jocky that was trying to get her attention at the check in desk,, and went straight for the elevator.. as long as she outwardly held onto her composure,, she reasoned with herself,, she should be able to make it to buzz’s office without causing a stir..

as the doors to the ascending elevator opened on the second floor,, trudy blew her breath out noisily in a last ditch effort to appear calm..  her eye quickly scanned the squad room for buzz. when she didn’t see him there,, she adjusted her unflattering frock,, and strode knowingly thru the maze of cubicles toward buzz’s office.. 

the shades were drawn.. 

‘so help me god if he is in there with that bitch!’ trudy exclaimed passionately to herself as she hastened her pace,, quite ready to storm the door and catch him in the act.. 

“excuse me ma’am!!” an authoritative voice piped up from somewhere behind her,, but trudy never even broke her stride.. 

“ma’am!! excuse me!! you cannot go in there!!” the voice called out to her again.. 

trudy could tell who ever it was,, they were quickly closing the distance between them.. just as she swung the door open wide, she felt a steely grip take hold of her upper arm..

priscilla jumped,, at the sound of the door being so forcibly swung open,, but did not relinquish her cushy spot in buzz’s desk chair..

“well hello!!” she could be heard exclaiming just as the tall, good looking, latino, detective yanked the indigenously dressed woman,, that could only be trudy hunt,, out of the doorway and slammed her against the plate glass window that was the front of buzz’s office in effort to restrain her.. 

“let me go!!” trudy bellowed as she felt her arm being twisted unnaturally against her back,, and the full weight of whoever it was that was trying to keep her from doing what she came here to do,, came crashing down on her, holding her tight against the thick pane of glass.. 

“trudy??” a puzzled gil could be heard asking as he took half a step back for a closer look,, thereby momentarily loosening his grip on the oddly dressed woman he was forcibly restraining.. 

“oh my god!!” trudy exclaimed.. “gil!! let me go!!” trudy demanded as she recognized the voice as none other than the gil machine himself.. 

despite,, (scratch that) in light of the fact that gil now knew the woman he was restraining to be none other than, trudy hunt,,  he held fast as she attempted to shake herself loose of his powerful hold on her..  trudy had a long history of wreaking havoc in the 45^th st homicide division squad room,, and gil was going to do everything within his power to see to it that today did not become just another one of those fiascoes..  

“let me go!!” trudy wailed as gil tightened his grip on her, yet again..

“calm down trudy!! i am not gonna let go till you calm down!!” gil informed her, “we are not gonna have another 'trudy gone wild' incidents here at the precinct!!”

neither of them had noticed priscilla emerge from buzz’s office,, and had she remained silent,, it was very possible neither of them would have. 

“well, well,, what have we here?” priscilla chided, as she stood just outside the office door,, hands on her hips,, with a snicker of a smile gracing her lips.. 

“you stay out of this!!” gil informed her in a no nonsense tone of voice.. 

“just get back in there and close the door!! i’m gonna have enough trouble diffusing this without you in the mix!”

“that bitch!!” trudy screamed as she tried to lunge at a sneering priscilla,, who was making no attempt to follow gil’s direction.. 

“lemme at her!!” trudy screamed just before the reinforcements showed up,, and she felt the all too familiar yank of her arms to the small of her back,, followed by the distinct click of handcuffs around her wrists.. 

“what the fuck!!” trudy could be heard yelling amidst the flurry of detectives that had descended upon her,, taking her swiftly to the floor.. 

“i  didn’t do nothing”!!!”

“trudy!! you are not under arrest!! at least not yet!! but you have to settle down!! i need you to calm down!!” gil thundered as he relinquished his hold on her to two very capable looking detectives.. 

“and you!!” he pointed his finger directly at priscilla as he lifted his intimidating girth up off the floor,, “you get back in that office and shut the door,, or you’re next!!”

***

just as buzz was going for his cell,, john called out to him from across the waiting room..

“buzz!! thank god you’re here!!” john cried out as he hurriedly crossed the floor in buzz’s direction. 

“ i need you to sit with the boys so i can join lisa in elliot’s room.. he needs surgery.. emergency surgery!! the x-rays showed a foreign object in his stomach and they think that is what is causing him the excruciating pain!!”

“hold on a minute!!” buzz demanded as he grabbed johns arm,, “what the hell is going on here??”

“the boys will fill you in.” john informed him as he shook free of the hold buzz had on his arm.. 

“right now i have to get to elliot before he goes into surgery!!”

with that, john disappeared behind the swinging doors that led to the triage unit,, leaving a confused,, and visibly disgruntled buzz in his wake.. 

“oh, no!” adam whispered to eric.. “do you see what i see??”

“i sure do.. just keep calm, my brother, there is no way he can blame any of this on you.. i got you’re back!!” eric reassured him as the two of them watched an overly agitated buzz stampeding across the waiting room headed straight for them.. 

“you don’t know my dad!” adam eked out, just before buzz exploded on the boys.. 

“what the hell’s going on here??” he demanded, yet again. “i want answers and i want them now!!” 

eric remained unintimidated,, even in the face of buzz’s formidable wrath.. 

“elliot is sick.. he collapsed in pain, just as these two thugs were breaking into the house.. lucky for us,, we set a trap for them,, so we had enough time to call 911 before they could get to us.” eric stated calmly, as a matter of fact.. 

buzz reached out as if he was going to grab adam.. eric jumped in between them,, on the ready in his brothers defense..

“you leave your hand off of him!!” he bellowed loud enough for all to hear.. “he didn’t have anything to do with any of this!!”

eric’s proclamation, quickly brought the scuffle to the attention of the emergency rooms security team,, and without a moment’s hesitation they tackled buzz to the floor..   

eric grabbed adam’s arm and quickly yanked him out of harm’s way,, as the two security officers went to work restraining buzz.  

through it all, buzz could be heard yelling, “i’ll fuckin’ have your job!! don’t you know who i am??”

in fact, it was the last thing john and lisa heard as the orderly’s rolled elliot swiftly out of the triage unit and into the hall,, headed toward the waiting operating room..