<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #80FF80">Carlos Delgado</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/75418b36-82bd-4b2f-bdff-d44eb7e2deaf_zpsb78abdde.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Her reaction to his words was spontaneous and unexpected<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Don't do that! Stop it right now! You can't do that! You can't love me! You just can't! I'm not what you need! I'm not what you want!"</span><br/><br/>She scrambled out of the bed, frantically trying to dress. He was stunned, perplexed about that furious reaction. Yes, he had expected her to try to escape again, but not as vicious as she tried it now.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"I can't do that again. I can't be with someone again. It'll just end up like last time. I..."</span><br/><br/>It was a first confession of what may have caused that meltdown, but Carlos didn't dare to ask, as she kicked over a box, the same box he had checked earlier for drugs, newspaper clippings and photos spread over the door and Lea panicked and tried to swoop them up quickly. But still Carlos managed to have a look at two photos. One was a wedding photo of a very happy looking Lea with a handsome guy, the other was a photo of the two again with a baby. It gave him a pang of jealousy and envy, Lea was his love, but it looked like she was already married with kids. Was it the reason why she had not given in to his avances? That she was still married? But then he caught one word of the headline of a clipping before she swooped it away. Tragedy. Carlos knew then that the answers to Lea's problems were in that box. But looking into it was the wrong way. It would make her angry and he wanted her anyway to deal with her problems. She had to tell him what happened.<br/><br/>Carlos was so caught up in his thoughts that he missed what she actually planned. Only when the front door slammed shut he jumped out of bed and grabbed his clothes, dressing frantically.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Damn, Lea. What are you doing now?"</span><br/><br/>In less than two minutes he was at the door, checking if a key laying on a table was suiting to the door lock. When it fit he pushed it in his pocket and rushed out of the door, still fixing his weapon belt. A frightened sigh made him look up and he just managed to look into the shocked face of an old woman before her door slammed shut. Carlos rushed down the stairs, he had to find Lea before she did something silly. He was on the last flight when his mobile rang. Carlos pulled it out and looked at the number before he answered it.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Maria, what's so urgent?"</span><br/><br/>Maria Alvarez was the only other mexican with the force and Carlos knew that she had a crush on him. He liked her too, but more like a sister, not like a lover. Anyways she was closest to a friend he had at the force.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Carlos, we had an emergency call from an apartment house two minutes ago. An old woman telling us that she had seen her neighbour rushing out of her flat with a bruised face, a Mrs. Stevens. I gave the call to Starsky and Hutch to look out for her, as they are close. The same woman called again and that she had seen an officer exiting the same flat, a brutal guy, a beaner. Well, it doesn't need a genius to figure out that it was you and my bet is that our Mrs. Stevens is your old flame Lea. Better get your tracks covered, before Starsky and Hutch find her. And Carlos... I thought you were over her!"</span><br/><br/>He could hear the disappointment with her last words, but he thanked her anyway and got in his cars. Lea was some small point in the distance. He had planned to have an eye on her, but now that wasn't an option anymore. Starsky and Hutch or correct Simmons and Peters were two officers with a strange sense of justice and racists too. If they found Lea they would drag her to the station and if Carlos name would only drop from her lips, he would be in for some grilling. And none of the pleasant kind.<br/><br/>Carlos started his car and drove after Lea, pulling to the curb next to her.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Lea, get in. Your neighbor has alarmed the coppers and Starsky and Hutch are looking out for you and she gave them my description. I just got a call from Maria warning me, to get our asses covered."</span></div>