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WHEN IT RAINS
Illiandyanndra
Stephanie Plum
Pairings: Stephanie/Ranger & Merry Men(Core Team)
Spoilers: Anything & everything up through Sizzling Sixteen is fair game…I can never remember what book what stuff happens in.
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“Speech”
AN: I have made an Executive Decision. No longer will I force you to read long sections of poorly translated Spanish…from now on if it is spoken by Hector, it will be italicized, and you can automatically assume that it is in Spanish. Google Translate will greatly thank me for this decision, since now they can go back to helping high schoolers pass their foreign language classes (Why was there no Google Translate when I was in High School)…
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CHAPTER 18
Stephanie Point of View
          “That’s Bullshit.” Morelli shouted brazenly, despite the knife still being pressed against his throat. “Leo still lives with Aunt Loretta and Uncle Micky. He can’t kidnap anybody.”
          “Let’s just go and see about that.” Frank Plum growled as he yanked Morelli up by his hair. “You’d better hope that my granddaughter is ok. Otherwise the Plums might have to declare vendetta against the Morellis…hear you’ve already ran afoul of the Mazur anger...how you been sleeping Detective?”
          I stood back a look of pride glowing on my face. I knew however that Daddy was getting closer and closer to his threshold of patience. I needed to give him a reason to not slit Morelli’s throat. At least not here in front of all these witnesses. “Daddy, once we get MA back, me and the guys, we’re gonna start working on your grandson. But if you go to jail, who’s gonna take him fishing?”
          Daddy threw me a smile. “Don’t worry Pumpkin. I’m not gonna kill the cazzone, unless he makes me.” Daddy said his voice darkly calm. “Leo, he’s dead. But Joe will be safe if he cooperates and we get MA back safe and sound.”
          “Cupcake…you cannot seriously be considering having a kid with one of those fucking thugs.” Morelli yelled. Apparently he found it more important to bitch and moan about my life choices than to plead for his cousin’s worthless life.
          Daddy’s knife flew and in seconds Morelli was bleeding from six diagonal cuts. Three in each cheek. “Those boys aren’t thugs and you know it. You’ve been spreading that BS all over Trenton. But I never could figure out why. So I did a little checking on you Morelli. Part of me always wondered how you got home from the Navy for good after serving only two years. But to be honest I never really cared all that much. Until you started berating my daughter at every turn. Care to guess what I found?” Daddy asked sounding for all the world like he would love to rent a billboard just to put the answer up for everyone in the ‘burg to read.
          “He was dishonorably discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Apparently he got caught with a fellow seaman on board ship.” Lester said with a smile. Wonder how long he’d known. Probably all along. Its information Rangeman would know, they personally wouldn’t give a damn, but they would want to know. “It would seem that Joey-boy may like his women small, white and girly…but he likes his me big, black and burly.”
          Tank snorted. “He better keep his eyes off me. The only Italian I want is half Hungarian, blue eyed and female.”
          Bobby laughed. “Man Morelli, kinda hard to stay in the closet when they catch you taking it up the ass from your bunkmate.”
          “I was not caught taking anything up the ass. I’m not gay.” Morelli screamed again unmindful of Daddy’s knife. Yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark. “Damn it. We were just horney and bored. Shit.” He yelled.
          I looked around. “Just making sure here. I mean I don’t have a lot of training, but he was lying his ass off right there wasn’t he?”
          Ranger laughed. “Training or not your instincts are spot on as always, Babe. His mirco-expressions, body language and syntax all scream LIE.”
          “Look Morelli. I don’t give a rat’s ass if you like having a train run on you by the entire Giants offensive line. You’re going to come and help us get my Mary Alice away from your sick bastard of a cousin.” Daddy began calmly.
          Only to be interrupted by Bella Morelli running out of the house. “You leave my grandsons alone. Joey and his cousins are good boys. They have nothing to do with this. Your whore of a daughter has been throwing herself at my Joey for years.” She yelled. “Let him go Francis Plum, or I will put the eye on you.”
          We all heard the hammer being drawn back. But it took me a minute to identify the familiar sound as belonging to Lula’s glock. “Look old lady. I don’t really want to shoot an old broad like you but I will if you start any of that hoodoo shit.” Lula said. She was anything but calm. “Hate that root shit.” She mumbled. Her gun was steady and aimed right at Bella Morelli’s head. “And those ‘good boys’, most of them are keeping the whores on Stark Street in business, the others are beating the crap out of their wives and girlfriends every other day and one of them has spent the last damn near month threatening to rap a child, so excuse me if I don’t buy your bull about their moral character. SO carry your old ass back into the house before I pull this trigger on sheer principality.”
          Silence rang through the night. No one could believe what had just happened. Uncle Jimmy looked at his boys. “I like her. Why couldn’t either of you have brought home a girl with moxie like her?”
          I swear even in the dim streetlights, I could see Lula blush. Hard to do in the best of lights so that tells you how flushed she was in that moment. Shaking it off she holstered her sidearm, and we all climbed into the vehicles. I wracked my brain for every memory I could dredge up about Mickey Morelli’s home. “Leo’s basement doesn’t have its own entrance. He’s have to take her through the kitchen.” I said into the tense quiet of the SUV. “We’ll need to get his parents out of the house. Dad is the blood Morelli, but he’ll be the easier, more cooperative, parent. He’s been trying to get Leo out of that house since before he loaned his car to Kenny.”
          Tank shook his head. “We need to go in silent, stun them both before either of them can give warning. I’d suggest we cut the phone line, but that would tip him off.”
          I looked at my men in the SUV with me, Tank and Lester in the back, Ranger next to me. “Leo’s not surviving this.” I said determinedly.
          “Babe.” Ranger said quietly. I took that to mean, ‘of course he won’t’.
          Lester, however, was not quite on board. “He may have to. If he’s made good on his sexual threats, MA may only be able to begin to heal if she confront him herself. Almost eighty percent of rape and molestation victims say that it is beneficial to testify against, to confront their attacker.” He said cautiously. At the outraged looks from myself and Tank, he continued. “That’s not to say he won’t meet with an unfortunate accident while he’s doing his bid once MA has her say.”
          “Or, we can let MA kick him in the balls until she feels better, and then shoot him after she’s left the room.” Tank suggested helpfully. “She can have her closure, and it’s one less asshole we have to worry about coming back after us later.”
          Lester looked at me quizzically. “Did you mean it, Beautiful?”
          “Yeah. I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of weeks.” I said, for once not even trying to pretend that I didn’t know what he was talking about.
          “Then you and Tank are right. We’ll have to find a way to give MA closure and then take him out.” Lester said definitively. “There is no way we’re going to even allow for the chance that he could get paroled or some bullshit. This town is such a fucking cesspool, he might actually get bail.”
          Ranger nodded. “No real home, no real connections to the community, the Morellis would hide any contact from the authorities. He’d be a worry to MA and Stephanie forever.” He reached over and grabbed my hand, squeezing it before continuing, “This may all be moot anyway. MA is a smart girl. She will be fighting him. She will be ok…and if she isn’t; then he will die, and we will help her get her happy back.”
          I gave him a smile that brightened considerably. I pressed the call button on the dash. “ Control room, is there any way to cut all calls going into and out of the home of Mickey and Loretta Morelli, without cutting their internet?”
          “Already done Bomber. Ranger called it in with the vocal ID.” Rogers said calmly. “We’ve diverted all calls directly to voicemail.”
          “Good work.” Ranger barked.
Lester PoV
          We approached the house dark. No lights and no sound. Rather than kicking in the door and announcing our presences as we would have been forced to do, had we been cops, we were able to pick the locks on the front and back doors and enter the house silently.
Lula and Bones lead the team into the front. Abegaile was with them as were five other men. They were tasked with getting the parents bagged and tagged and out of the house with little to no noise. Frank was with the JLS and Stephanie herself going in through the back door, and down into the basement. He had left Morelli laid out in the back of one of the SUV’s. The cop was unconscious, but he was still cuffed and gagged. Zero was left behind to watch him. Of course Zero was looking forward to tazing the hell out of the idiot if he started to come around.
Ram was approaching the scene, with a few of our cleaners. If Leo had to be disappeared they would be called in, so it was decided to bring them in just in case rather than having to wait on them to get here later. Part of me wanted to let them disappear Joe with Leo, but I knew that the cop’s disappearance would blow up in everyone’s faces. Besides, I couldn’t wait for it to make it through the ‘burg grapevine as to why he’d been kicked out of the Navy. Yeah, that would be worth letting him live for a few more months.
It was an agony of an eternity waiting for the signal from the front. Finally it came. The bark like hoot of a non-native snowy owl, and we moved in. Ranger went in first followed closely by Frank Plum. Watching the older man move one would think he was barely forty not the sixty plus he really is. Given the way he eats, he must be where Beautiful gets her metabolism. I shook off my frivolous thoughts and focused on the task at hand. Fortunately Leo wasn’t in the kitchen looking for a snack. We made our way down the basement stairs, carefully. We found that the Morellis had taken measures to ensure their son’s privacy and closed off the front of the basement where the laundry area was, leaving Leo’s room behind a closed door. It took less time to get past that lock than it did to get past Steph’s old door. We entered a gamer’s cave. Huge ass TV, top notch X-Box 360 and PS3 set up, you know I think I’ll get MA one of those systems to take home with her when this is all done.
Leo wasn’t in this room; there was only one door on the other wall. Ranger shook his head, none of us wanted to contemplate the implication of the fact that Leo was in the room with MA. Ranger gestured to us to flank the door way.
“And if you bite me, you little bitch, you won’t live to regret it.” Came Leo’s harsh voice from the other side of the door. Frank and Stephanie gave Ranger identical looks of disbelief and defiance. There was no time for safe and secure measures. As one the father and daughter moved to the door. Frank lifted his foot and tore that bitch up off the hinges.
We moved in quickly. To provide cover and because we were all hoping to at least hit this mother fucker once. He was standing over a bound but no longer gagged MA his pants down around his knees. He whipped his head around at the sound of the door crashing in. In a turn of events that proved her to be the true Bombshell heir, MA lifted her bound hands and gave Leo a double fisted punch directly in the kibble and bits.
He screamed and folded like a house of cards. Mary Alice scrambled to her feet and started kicking him in the balls over and over. “I’m a little girl, you jerk. Little Girls are not supposed to do that. You aren’t supposed to ask or even want LITTLE GIRLS to do that, you sick freak.” She yelled kicking him over and over and over again. Her form was perfect, her balance good. She kept the strike long enough to hurt but short enough to make sure he would have trouble catching her leg. She’d taken her lessons to heart. I couldn’t help but feel a bit proud. “My Granddaddy and Aunt Stephy and her boyfriends are gonna kick your booty.” She ran around the prone figure on the floor, making sure to stay out of his reach. She flung herself at Frank who scooped her into his arms and started checking her over.
“Did he touch you, MA?” Steph asked giving the girl her own check. “Did he hurt you?”
Mary Alice might be little but she was also very smart. She knew what her aunt was asking. “No. You guys busted in when he was trying. He showed my his weeble and tried to make me put my mouth on it…but I wouldn’t I wouldn’t even open my mouth to scream cause I did NOT want that in my mouth.”
Frank gave her a strong hug. “I saw how you hit him when we distracted him. That was good Baby Girl. I’m very proud of you. Now I’m going to give you to Hector, and he’s gonna take you out to Ms. Lula. She and Ranger’s sister Abegaile are gonna take you back to Rangeman, Angie and Lisa are waiting on you there with your Mom and Albert and your Granmom and Grandma Edna.”
MA gave Frank a huge smile. “You’re going to hurt him aren’t you, Granddaddy?”
Frank nodded. “Is that ok?”
“Yeah. But Ranger and Lester and Tank and Bobby and Hector and Cal and Hal, they are all gonna want to hurt him too. If you are sending me with Hector…is he gonna miss his chance to hurt the sick freak too?” Mary Alice asked concerned.
Hector walked over and kissed MA on the cheek. “I am sure they will save some for me, dear heart.” He said gently. Frank translated for him easily.
“Ok then. I’ll go so you all can start hurting him. Hurt him good so he understands that he isn’t supposed to do sex stuff with little girls.” Mary Alice said sternly.
“We will Baby Girl.” Frank assured her.
Hector led her from the room, speaking in soothing tones the whole way. When we heard the outer door close we turned to the lump of excrement on the floor. Steph walked over to him and squatted down next to his head. “Why, Leo?” she asked her voice strident and angry. “What kind of person kidnaps a little girl and tries to molest her? You say I should be with you. Why? You don’t love me. You don’t even know me. You know me even less than Joe does, and he thinks I’d be happy being a ‘burg house wife. Did you honestly think I would ever agree to be with somebody who would hurt someone I care about, someone I love? You actually think I would leave men I love and respect for a horrible excuse of a thing like you. I don’t like you. I don’t love you…I barely even know you. And now after this I can honestly say I think I fully, truly hate you.” she snarled.
Reaching out she grabbed a handful of the mutherfucker’s hair and pulled his head up until he could meet her eyes. “You are just like all the Morelli men. Weak, with a warped sense of entitlement and the worse attitude ever. Usually I try to see the best in people, but since you aren’t gonna live past tonight…I’ll be honest with you. The best thing about you is that soon there won’t be a you anymore.” She didn’t simply let his head drop back to the floor; no she threw it at the floor where it landed with a resounding thud.
No one turned when we heard the outer door open. We all assumed it was Hector returning. And while it was he was accompanied by an unexpected guest. “Is it true, Leo?” Mickey Morelli shouted at his son. “Never mind I can see from the fact that you’re lying there with your fucking boys blowing in the breeze that it is. You worthless piece of shit. Morelli men may not have much we can be proud about but none of us are fucking pedophiles. You are no son of mine.” He spat at the downed shithead on the floor.
Mickey turned to Frank. “I am so sorry, Frankie, I had no idea he was up to anything like this down here. Hell for the last few years I figured he was one of those queers. Would have been better if he had been. I know I don’t deserve to ask you any favors, but can you not kill him here. It’d be really hard to sell the place if we have to say somebody died here.”
Frank nodded. “Just go back up stairs. Let Loretta know he son is dead. If she asks her who did it? Tell her it was me.”
“Daddy, no!” Beautiful cried out.
“Shush Pumpkin.” Frank said over his shoulder. “You tell her I did it, and you tell her that he deserved it. I won’t do a minute’s time. Cause Mickey…I have to tell you, your son committed suicide this afternoon when he kidnapped my granddaughter.”
Mickey Morelli nodded. “Yes...yeah he did. But I tell you Frank, that thing over there isn’t any child of mine.”
Mickey Morelli headed upstairs. “Huh, there actually is one good Morelli.” Bobby blurted.
“There’s an exception to every rule.” I replied. “But then again maybe he’s a pig in the poke? It would be funny if one of those abused Morelli wives had stepped outside her marriage and given her husband a child born of someone else.”
Frank and Ranger exchanged looks. “They always like this, son?”
Ranger shrugged. “Sometimes Stephanie joins them.” He said simply.
Frank nodded. “Ahh, so sometime they are worse.”
That was the last moments of brevity. Together the nine of us spent the next hour bringing Leo Morelli as close to death as we could without actually killing him. We dragged him out of his parent’s house, and the cleaners moved in. We took him to TPD along with his cousin, who apparently had to be tazed a few more times by Zero during the wait.
Stephanie wouldn’t leave until he was booked and in a cell. Of course, he had to be rushed to St. Francis during the night. In such a public hospital, accidents often occur. At some point during his wait for a surgical bay in the secure ward at St. Francis his machines were all unplugged. Before he could be taken into surgery, Leo Morelli coded and died.
Detective Joseph Morelli was in quite a bit of trouble himself. He was being reprimanded for disobeying a direct order. And there was an investigation being brought to find out how he was accepted into the police academy with a Dishonorable Discharge. After all statements were taken, there was even talk of arresting Bella Morelli for obstruction of justice. But the ‘burg had a better punishment planned for the Morelli family.
By the time we got back to Haywood, we were met by the Plums, the Kloughns, and the Manosos and Santoses.
One look at my mom and Tante Lucia and Tio Cardo, and I knew that they knew. A glance at Junior and I knew who had let the cat out of the bag as well. “Mami, Tante…Tio, it was good of you to come to help search.” I said as I made my way to kiss my mother and aunt. “But we found the little girl, she’s back in the loving bosom of her family. So I’m sorry you came all this long way for nothing.”
“Not for nothing Nino…it is never nothing to see my son and my nephew. It is not for nothing to hear that my nino and my favorite sobrino have found love.” My mother said a lot too calmly.
“Oh but my Hermana, you forget to say that they have found love with the same woman.” Tante Lucia added caustically. “A woman that have hidden from the loving bosom of their family.”
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