Post by silent.lullaby on Apr 2, 2010 13:52:18 GMT -5
//We Run This Town//Chapter 016// Searching
“Son of a bitch!” Antonio shouted as his daughter ran through the door. “Maximo, call Preston back, tell him to search all of her usual crashing places.”
“Yes Father,” Maximo responds sitting down on to the gym floor looking totally distraught and taking out a phone.
“We’ll help you find her Mr Lombardi,” Detective Burke insists.
“Let her stay lost,” Lexie shouts, “look at what she did to my face!”
“Lex!” Kara whispers angrily, “she just got very bad news, it’s understandable to respond badly to it. What would you do if something happened to me?”
Lexie bit the smart ass remark off of her tongue when Kara finished her last sentence, she would do anything for Kara, but that was different, they were law abiding citizens. They were Mafia, they had this coming to them.
“I want to help find her,” Kara informs her father.
“You what?” Lieutenant Reid responds.
“You heard me dad, it’s the right thing to do, I want to help.”
“She can die in a ditch for all I care, I’m going the hell home,” Lexie shouts making her point known before heading to the doors.
Kaper held onto Gavin, “we should help find her.”
Gavin nodded, “yeah we should.”
“You shittin’ me?” Darren asked his best friend. “You want to help find that bitch!”
“Would you respond well to something happening to Grayson?” Gavin asked referring to Darren’s older brother.
Darren rubbed his temples. “That’s different.”
“I texted Cesar, Adam, and Matt to help out too.” Maximo says upon standing. “I’m going to go try and find her.”
“No you’re not.”
“What?”
“You’re going to head home Max.”
“What, no way, Lilianna is still out there.”
“Exactly, I have one son in critical condition, he’s so bad I can’t let my daughter see him, and that daughter is out there somewhere, I’m not having another one of my children out there right now.” Maximo looked ready to protest but Antonio put up his hand, “go to your mother, she needs you. Go straight home, you understand me Maximo Faust, home. Now. We will find Lilianna.”
Maximo sighed, “you’ll phone if you find her, or if you get word of Sergio’s condition right?”
“Yes son, now go to your mother, she needs you now.”
Maximo left and Antonio turned back to the law men he’d spent the majority of his life avoiding.
“Try phoning your daughter.” Detective Burke suggested.
Antonio pulled out his phone, “she usually ditches things when she gets like this.”
“She’s done this before?” Detective Burke asks.
“If something bad happens. She’ll run till she can’t run anymore. If she’s near an area she’s been before, she’ll hole up in the same spot till she’s ready to come home or someone finds her. If she’s in a new spot she’ll run until she either collapses or decides to hole up somewhere.”
“Like what other things?” Darren asks.
“Like none of your damned business.” Antonio responds quickly and listens to his phone. A polytone rings and Antonio follows it outside the rest of the people following him. He picks up her shoes and her bag. “Apparently stilettos aren’t good for running.” Antonio’s phone rings and he answers it. “Yes,” A pause. “Alright, keep looking Preston,” Antonio shut his phone. “Preston checked all of her past places, and she’s not around.”
“Alright, Kara go with your father, patrol the North end and drop off Kaper along the way, Darren with your father, go and check the west side, Gavin and I will check out the East side Antonio-“
“South side, I got it,” Antonio responded holding his daughter’s belongings and heading off toward his vehicle.
“I guess, I’ll see you at school,” Kaper said sadly looking up at Gavin. “Call me if you guys find her, she’s my friend, I want to know she’s okay... I heard you don’t like her at all, but she’s always been really nice to me and to October. Please, just let me know if she’s found okay.”
“Yeah, I will, this wasn’t exactly the first date we were expecting was it...”
Kaper shook her head, “no, it wasn’t.”
“I’ll see you at school, Monday.”
“Yeah, right, okay.”
“Should we even be doing this?” Gavin asked as he sat in the car with his father. He didn’t want his father to say no. He couldn’t believe the look of pain on Lilianna’s face. He hadn’t known what was going on then, but he knew it was bad. Devastatingly so. After a good tutoring session with Lilianna, he felt closer to her. He didn’t like her father, what her family did, but Lilianna was alright, not a total bitch, Sergio wasn’t a bad guy either, not from what he’d seen on the football field. He seemed pretty normal, a nice guy. Stabbed. He didn’t deserve it, even if his father was the biggest crime lord of NYC.
“Yes son, as a police officer, I help people. I may not approve of Antonio Lombardi, hell I locked him up, but... I couldn’t imagine losing a child. To have a child missing, she’s a pretty young girl, and who knows where she’s run to, there are plenty of bad areas around here.” Detective Burke started driving the police cruiser. “He’s a good father from what I’ve seen. There is no evidence any of his children are involved. They are just kids, are they likely to join the business, yes. As of now, they are innocent, they haven’t done anything wrong, they were just born to the wrong family.” Detective Burke shook his head. “It’s sad.”
“Stop!” Gavin shouted a moment later.
“What?”
“Pull over dad,” Gavin popped his seat belt. “I’m not sure if that is her, I’ll check.”
Stepping out and into the alleyway Gavin peered around the dumpster where he seen the red fabric, but that was all it was a dirty piece of red fabric stuck to the dumpster wheel. Heading back to the police car he felt disappointed. He wanted to find her, to ensure she was alright. He didn’t like Lilianna Lombardi. She was everything he wasn’t. Her family was everything his wasn’t. She’d grow up to be a crime lord herself, and he’d be the cop trying to put her away. Gavin rubbed his temples. “How far could she have gotten.”
“I guess that depends how fast she can run barefoot.”
Gavin thought back to running the laps in gym class. “Pretty fast.”
“Then pretty far son.”
Gavin straightened up, “this part of the city is pretty shitty.”
“Very shitty,” Detective Burke agreed. “A lot of bad things happen here. Gang fights, random shootings, rapes, murders, break ins, prostitution, muggings...”
“Encouraging.”
“She could have ran the opposite way for all we know,” Detective Burke responded.
Looking out the window at the tough looking thugs, the spaced out crack whores Gavin got a shiver down his spine. “I sure hope so.”