Mike bursts through the doors of the agency where everyone is having their meeting. He immediately yells and doesn't give anyone the time to speak. My dad (Marcus) and I follow behind him.

"Connected to the cartel? Smuggling? The man is dead!," Mike yells out in one breath. He was clearly angry and speaking directly to Rita (our new captain.)

"Mike..." Rita starts.

"There's no way, Rita. Did you hear what they're saying on the news? How they're talking about him? Captain Howard would never do that! He was trying to take the cartel down not join them," Mike only raises his voice more defending Howard.

"Exactly Rita! Howard would never do something like this," I step in backing Mike up. I look over to my Dad to see if he would join but he's still wearing that same confused face.

"Guys...I'm in no position to deny the allegations. Look at all the proof left behind. I don't want to believe this either," Rita explains to us.

"Then don't! You really think he'd be dumb enough to leave all of this evidence behind?," I say back.

"Maybe Y/N, just maybe," Rita tells us with an annoyance growing in her voice.

"Bullshit Rita, you wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for Howard and you know it," Mike counters. Marcus and I let out a quiet gasp at his comment. Rita and Mike go way back, if Mike wasn't married they'd probably be together but that's just my thoughts.

"Mike.." Marcus starts but was cut off by an even angrier Rita.

"Remember who you're speaking to Mr.Lowrey. I am your boss," Rita finishes him while walking back over to her seat.

"I'm going to prove that he's innocent Rita, Howard just wouldn't do this," Mike says while calming down.

"Go ahead and try," Rita's fiancé Adam tells him. "You're living in a fantasy world Michael. Good people turn bad." He continues with a sly smirk on his face.

Mike looked like he was ready to jump over the table by how his body tensed up but my Dad grabbed him and walked out of the meeting room.

The boys went their separate ways promising to keep me updated on the situation. I however still had a job to tend to so I continued to treat patients and file more paperwork in my office. Millions of thoughts flooded my head. Captain Howard just couldn't do this, he's being framed. ——— I was taking two more patients and after my second one my phone started to ring. Before I answered I checked the time and it read 6:43 pm. I looked to see who was calling only to see Mike's contact name. I click on the green call button and answer.

"Any updates Mike?" I say first to him. The time is ticking and only more and more evidence against Howard is showing up.

"I'm sending you the location to an art gallery. Your dad and I got a personal tip that helps to protecting Howard," Mike explains to me.

"Alright, I'm leaving right now. Go ahead and send it." I hang up on him and walk the prisoner back to his supervisor. I quickly clock out and make my way downstairs and towards my car.

Once I get into my car I checked my phone again and see the location. As I put the location into my GPS, it tells me how I'm going to be at least 30 minutes away.

"Where could they possibly be?," I say to myself. I let out a tired huff and start my drive while texting Mike my ETA. Unlucky me, I'm stuck in Traffic.

Mike kept rapidly texting me and I could barely check any of them due to me driving. Once I finally came to a pause in traffic, I had Siri read out the messages.

"Hey siri, please read out Mike L's recent text!," I ask my phone while waiting for it to finish loading.

"Reading off Mike L's text..." — "We're talking to Fletcher" "Y/N you gotta come quick" "Fletcher was shot" "The entire place has been shot down, come quick. Ambulance and Rita are here and I trust none of them" — "Left them alone for a good hour and this happens," I whisper to myself annoyed. I continue my drive and make it there after a good 30 minutes. I finally walk in seeing cops and ambulances surrounding the building. "What is going on?," I ask Mike and Marcus who were also joined by Kelly and Dorn.

"Y/N, we don't have time to explain but we gotta get back to AMMO HQ stat. We got a piece of evidence that may help us," My dad explains quickly to me while rushing me over back outside and to my car. Just got here but okay. — "Well, there's our evidence. But how do we prove his innocence, they're gonna think he's lying?," I question while looking over to the group. Mike and I catch eyes and he just gives me a sad look.

"I dont know Y/N, we gotta keep looking. I'm going to ask around tomorrow with Marcus. I'll keep everyone updated," Mike answers also unsure. He had an unreadable expression but also looked lost. I hope he doesn't do anything dumb.

"Who all are you going to ask?", Kelly asks Mike.

"Manny, Rita and Adam... and my son," He says but quieter on the last part.

"Armando? The son of the crazy witch who almost killed us? THAT Armando?," Marcus asks starting to lose his breath and track of mind. "Mike no! No no no no! Sayanora," He continues

"Sayanora?," Dorn repeats confused.

"He means Sayanara," I correct my dad and tell Dorn.

"Marcus shut up. He's behind bars. I'm just gonna ask a few questions, alright?," Mike tells my dad. "And you have no choice. Now everyone go home and get some rest, we start early tomorrow and I need all of us to be ready to go," He finishes.

"Tell him to stay out of trouble too Mike, I just had a patient that got into a fight with him," I say to Mike while rolling my eyes and gathering all of my stuff to leave. Not only am I angry at Armando for killing Howard, I'm also opposed to inviting him into our investigation. He might double cross us. ——— 1k words!