<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;">Carlos had kissed Lea good-bye and somehow he was happy that she was out of the room for a while. What he had planned next was a little bit illegal, but he needed some ammunition against the department. Something that would discredit them totally and would swing the public opinion in his direction, even if his missteps he had done in the past months surfaced later. And he was sure that they would surface. They always did...<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Yeah, boy, everything's fine. My lady is in surgery now, but she is already eager to leave the hospital. No, Alfonzo, we come down. The things we have to speak better are done secretly. Yeah, see you at the back entrance."</span><br/><br/>Carlos hung up and a smirk was on his face when he looked to Mary-Ann.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000"> "I hope that you aren't too ethical when it comes to investigation work. I made a little change of plans to give you some more to work with. I have to cover up mine and Lea's ass...and yours probably too. Let's go down to the back entrance and talk to Alfonzo."</span> <br/><br/>Carlos had jumped up and they left the station, not without telling the nurse that if the DA showed up, he should wait for a minute on Carlos to return. When they were back in the elevator and again alone, Carlos turned to the young reporter. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"How did you become a reporter, Mary-Ann? It was always your wish to do that kind of work or was it by accident? I hope you know that this story may make you famous, but it will get you some mighty enemies too. Your life won't be the same after you told that story...you can still back out if you want to."</span><br/><br/>Carlos hoped she wouldn't give up on the story. She seemed a nice person and not so corrupted as a lot of other reporters. Somehow he liked her and if there wouldn't be Lea, he may have tried to woo her. They left the elevator on the ground floor and walked to the back entrance where a big body blocked out the light from the door. Carlos walked up to the big guy and he introduced Mary-Ann.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Hi, Alfonzo. May I introduce you. Mary-Ann, this is Alfonzo, head of the Southern Hood Boys or short SHB. Alfonzo, this is Mary-Ann Richard from Channel 5. She will work with us exclusively. Which means you can tell her whatever you like, even about me and our past and she will be our eyes when the police ransack our homes."</span><br/><br/>Carlos couldn't help but smile when he looked at Mary-Ann. She was a nice girl, not really petite, medium-sized, slender, eye-candy. Her eyes had a little frightened look when she looked up to Alfonzo. Alfonzo always had that impact on other people. Being over 6'7" tall, with the build of a wrestling star with thick muscles poking out of his oversized shirt he was already some impressive figure. The bare-head with the dragon-tattoo winding down over the neck made it just a little bit more intimitating. His eyes were coal-black and they always looked as if they were lifeless. Alfonzo could earn good money as a bouncer, he had once been a good ultimate fighter. But he had become head of the SHB and after he had befriended Carlos he had tried to keep SHB out of the big trouble. Which he had somehow achieved. <br/><br/>The big black guy looked at the reporter and then a smile broke on his face displaying three gold teeth.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Oh, I hav seen the lil' lady on TV. She's ok..."</span><br/><br/>And then a big prank came down on the shoulder of Mary-Ann. It was just a friendly clap, but Mary-Ann experienced it somehow differently if Carlos interpreted her face right.</div>