One Shot, part II

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The Captain is not happy, to say the least. She has one officer out indefinitely - Romy isn't even up for filling out the paperwork following shooting the Scarecrow, little surprise that, given the circumstances. So she's been put on leave under heavy guard. Maggie knows the dangers as well as anyone... Gotham's rogues aren't going to sit quietly after one of their own was shot.

And then Cris... refused to take any down time, despite his hand. He's been helping Renee through it, but having his gun hand in a cast for at least three weeks... is hardly safe to go out on the streets with, but he insisted.

But to top it all off, ever since the headline, the GCPD offices are looking like its Christmas. Romy has been getting cards, flowers, thank you letters, outright fan mail, and then the presents... she shoots a maniac, and suddenly she's everyone's hero. The gifts just keep arriving, and its taking up valuable time to screen them, since who knows what might be Joker gas or a bomb? Plus, its getting hard to find walking room.

"Would someone find somewhere to put all this junk!"

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This is one of those areas where usually he'd agree. But he's wished the same on others here and there... spend long enough as a cop in Gotham, and its hard not to. And seeing the effect this has had on Romy and Renee... and to a degree, on him, he can't wish anything good on Crane.

"Yeah." he finally adds, quietly.

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She starts loading up her arms with boxes.

"They all here? I don't see the rainbow one."

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"The rainbow one, which... that the one... a little bigger than a breadbox?"

The captain looks somewhere between displeased and starting to get worried. "We've been here the whole time, it was there a minute ago."

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"It's not there now."

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Cris checks under the table, around the area. "Fuck. Check security tapes, everything." he calls, moving quickly into action.

Of course, it doesn't take long to discover that the camera in question had a brief malfunction.

This, of course, brings on more cussing. No one seems to have seen anything either.