New day on a new stage( open)

[Leo Henry]

Winces and head drops" need evidence can't go in till they snatch him up and threaten. So if we have to shoot them it will be valid"

He hated this but holding his breath, as the girl crossed fast getting close and snarling. Leo told the back up to get ready. When the claws sprouted he was out and headed for the door. Gun raised as he came in the door, spotting the owner hung up from her fist by his shirt front.

"Ripd your surrounded put him the hell down slow and step back hands up.you try anything funny your getting silver posioning"

[Wyetta Grim]

The answer was no. No they wouldnt make it in time to stop permanent damagr she could tell by the pained expression that the hands that had shifted that shed cut the owner. There were already droplets of blood on his shirt. She cursed under her breath meaning every syllable. She sighted down on the wolfstress.

Those eyes said she heard them but was running the chances of getting out of this alive. No chance of that New York still had KOS laws on the book for any known lycanthrope commiting any violent or drug related crime. The wording wad at tge discretion of peace officer present but everyone knew what that meant.

She inhaled exhaling quickly thereafter only the gun in her hands and the werewolf mattered. If she blinked wrong Wyetta would fire. No if ands or buts.

The werewolf turned slower than anyone would think was possible while holding a nearly two hundred pound man above the ground. She moved slowly one hand up feigning surrender.

Wyetta couldn't spare a look to Leo or the Unis but hoped they saw the ploy for what it was. She was now using the owner as a shield. Wyetta slid to her left trying for a better angle on the lycanthrope.

The lycanthropes partner was slidding the opposite way. She felt it more than watched it happen. That put him all too close to Leo and the Unis.

"Fine you got us. But if he moves again we shoot and take the chances of hitting everyone so long as you both are dropped."

Acceptable losses in theory. IA would hem and haw but in the theyd be cleared. Wyetta smirked as the brain trust realized she wasn't lying. Wyetta would shoot everyone not on her team if she could be sure that the lycanthropes would stop moving.

Sadly with nothing to lose the wolfstress decided to act she tossed the owner and leaped backwards through the door into the kitchen. Wyetta ducked to clear a firing lane but the owner glailed and dragged her back as his fingers caught her hair and collar.

[Leo Henry]

Lep was watching her but akso the other so his gun tracked the male. When the owner went flying he fired aiming for chest mas on the male. Two shots till he stumbled the rounds spreading apart in his chest. He was clutching at it screaming.

Giving the unis the head jerk yhey were supposed to cut the girl off in back after calling in. He would check the owner and his partner first not being stupid enough to chase her through the kitchen into a trap.

Rolling the man off her, knowing it was going to be bad for them both. Glad majority of the civies had left before. Less potential deaths, " can you get up on your own so I dont trigger it worse?"

Hed help if she asked though. Calling in a bus for the owner and wolf. He might live but probably not the human would and he was happy with that.

Hearing shots elsewhere he ran to help so she didnt get away. At least he'd try.

[Wyetta Grim]

Her anger rode high as Leo did his best makesure everyone was okay. The Uni’s were outmatched and heading to their deaths. But thats what they were all paid for. They weren’t shooters and it made her grit her teeth rising to her feet faster than she should have the old man was two hundred pounds of airborne fuckery. He’d caused her to torque her knee but she would push through it. Giving a modified chase as Leo took off she heard the shots and prayed for the best but feared the worse.



Skating around the corner full tilt eyes on a swivel she took in the scene before her feet stopped moving one Uni face down the other cut up bad and both missing their firearms. Hell hand basket and more. She tore the inside of her jacket pocket snatching up their mobile and called it in. “Shots fired officer down 999. Ten-ninety six in area armed and extremely dangerous. I repeat 999 ten ninety-six armed in area. Mexican or Latin female believed canine lycanthropy at or near Warren and Broadway!!!”



She knew there was nothing they could do for the officers but part of her kicked her all the same. There was a subway station one block in either direction they’d be able to track her if she went those ways. Foot was better more chances to remain unseen longer and with her speed it was a sure bet she’d be very close to clearing the borough before they could get eyes in the sky. “leo talk to me which way we’re gonna have to split to be effective the whole force is coming but we need to get close to her before she finds more victims…”

[Leo Henry]

He barely caught it as the second uni fell. The girl was to fast he yanked odf his glove and touchee the one still alive. It hurt oh god but it hurt, the claw marks burned.

He pointed a direction the one she ran in" that way"

Gasping for air he yanked free, stood and pulled on his glove. Shakjng free of ut he told yhe uni" they are coming for you"

It was true he could hear the sirens. They were close, they would save the uni and the owner but maybe not the wolf. He took off with wynetta after the girl.

[Wyetta Grim]

Taking Leo’s hint she was off bum leg or not she meant to put a bullet in her skull. It was wrong but she was on the side of the angels. She would sleep like a baby even knowing she was wrong. Trying to catch a lycanthrope on barefeet was the definition of insane trying to do so with a bum leg is even more impossible. She didn’t need to catch her per se she was a crack shot clearing thirty-five out of forty on the range. That meant she was lethal within half a block. That’s all she needed was one half a block.

As she hadn’t shifted yet she was just a running woman in the city and unfortunately that didn’t catch many eyes. Sadly as she ran the adrenaline pumping its heady mix of cold focus and white hot call to arms there was no sight of her. She’d slowed to a crawl or found a way to run full tilt without causing attention to herself. Wyetta ran on legs pumping and arms churning her eyes on a swivel. She said a prayer and damned her luck all at once.

She couldn’t tell which way she’d gone or where she turned off and the sirens blaring their way had everyone now moving at clip. New York was nothing if not a city of survivors. And survivors got out of the way every chance they could or hunkered down and fought it out. This lycanthrope was not a fighter. She was in the wind instead of staying and fighting. That made her look up a way to travel relatively unseen until the birds came on line.

" I’m coming for you. You hairy bitch…” Looking for the nearest way up she called to Leo, “We have to get to the rooftops shes up there somewhere!”

[Leo Henry]

Leo knew she was hurt but he chugged along with her people got out of the way. He skidded to a stop and looked up." Call rhe bird and up we go?"

Not an order more a suggestion. There was a med high rise in the direction they had run and fortunately the girl was stupoid or didnt know the city as her sprint was pointing her toward one pp.

He smirked they would have cops on the roof stat and leo and his partner could box her ass in. He went in the closest building with an elevator. Commandeering it, it reached top floorvto roof acess fast.

He was betting the girl didn't know which buildings were stairs only.

[Wyetta Grim]

She was normally a good distance runner but her leg was spasming as they slowed. Nodding at Leo’s suggestion she snatched her phone out calling the switchboard. As expected the lines were chock full. She’d sent up a 999 every cop on-off or any state of duty would be converging on the area out for blood. Officers down was a surefire way to insure no one was going home today. No criminal would get a pass. No wrongdoing would get a brownbag. It was war. She was dead she just hadn’t realized it yet. As they got to the roof instead of staying and fighting she was already on the ledge. They’d guess right but her speed had made the stairs a navigable hurdle. “Detective Grim atop highrise Church and Murray. Ten ninety-six in sight. Need back-up and aerial.” She didn’t bother to turn towards them she stepped back off the ledge both sidearms in her hands still. Blood soaked and looking like a lost little girl. The lycanthrope turned slowly knowing her life was all but forfeit.



She looked from Leo to Wyetta then back nodding and sprinted to the edge leaping as her toes connected with the lip. It was an awe-inspiring leap combinded with her yell of “Thiy’ata” made Wyetta believe it was a suicide attempt. She rushed the edge to reach for her. Damn her instincts to preserve life. She thought many other curses as she saw the wolf crash into a window seven stories below them across the street. She looked to Leo silently asking could he believe that shit while still cursing a blue streak in her head.



She wasn’t the only one to watch the hurtling wolfstress and the street was awash in a terror and fear for what the hell that was. “You want to aim for the bushes or back down the elevator.” She said as she hobbled back to the door they’d burst from. She felt like Danny Glover in the first lethal weapon she was getting too old for this shit.

[Leo Henry]

He would have shot but no time her shouted word made him head tilt. Home? Leo had heard some of the tribal laungages and made sense since she'd run away from arizona.

Crap she was going to try to escape and make it back to the rez then it would become a fed thing. No they had to take her out. When wynetta looked at him he shook his head. " they are ridiculously powerful most forget that but still probably caught danage"

He fallowed, her down to the elevators and fallowed the screams as the runner got to the ground floor just before them and run into a line of unis guns drawn they had cleared the side walk.

[Wyetta Grim]

As they got to the ground floor Wyetta took a breath preparing to see the ruined remains of the girl. And yet bursting out of the building was a long haired blood splattered wreckage of person on her feet waving her hands and looking frantically around her. Surrounded the chase was over it was clear to anyone with any semblance of intelligence. Seven stories through a window and she was still on her feet Wyetta cursed. Doing the math in her head it took them four and half minutes each way in the express elevator.



She couldn’t shake that they were missing something. Probably nothing good the way the day was going. As they closed to the firing line something began niggling her about the runner who was grunted and sounded like screaming. Her clothes were blood stained. Her hair was streaked with blood she was dark-skinned and clearly in pain as she limped back and forth waving her hands. Her eyes as big as saucers clearly panicked. But something was different it felt as if her mind was playing a game of where’s Waldo and every time she got close it moved what it was trying to show her. Then it donned on her no matter how infected a lycanthrope was certain things would force a shift. Pain being the foremost. Second was fear and third was anger. The woman was also missing the firearms she’d picked up. Those could be explained in the fall well the leap but the woman in front of them was not shifted. She was covered in blood but she was not shifted. “Fuck!!!” She exclaimed. They were forty feet out of range closing as best they could when Wyetta broke into a run well tried to when her leg gave out the adrenaline that she’d been running on dissipating finally in a sheen of sweat, pseudo-calm due the elevator ride, and belief it was over.



" Leo get them to stand down that’s not her!" She yelled trying to get to her feet and make it through the forest of officer each trying to get a clear unfettered shot, The lookey-loos trying to get footage and the cordon erected to keep as many gawkers safe as possible.

[Leo Henry]

As they came round he knew it wasn't her right away the clothes were diffrent do was the body build. He had been about to run forward when netta fell. That caused him a min to check her but she shouted to him to have them stand down.

So he kept moving and managed to with size and presence part the lookey loo types. Voice raised" stand down detective leo henry ripd. This isn't our suspect she was attacked. "

He put him self between the guns and woman. Badge flashed then turning to her." Miss I need you to calm down and tell me what happened"

As she looked at him he realized why her noises made no sense part of her lip and cheek were torn with a slash. The wolf had sent her out as bait so dhe could take another route." Shes still pn the loose this woman was a decoy. Shes gpnna try to get put of state we need border blockades for ever way out of new york. "

[Wyetta Grim]

Every one wanted to be the hero. Everyone wanted to be the clarion that saved the kingdom. Wyetta only wanted to be normal growing up. She wanted to only be invisible more days than she could remember. In the end, she chose the discipline she practiced every day. It was how she lived. It was how she continued.



Watching Leo shoulder on it was a wonder to behold and she was suddenly struck. She knew what it meant all of her sacrifices. All of her situational valor. She was chastened and choked that emotion down as she knew tactical would take the shot even with him there. Tactical weighed the situation and she knew they could see the wheels turning. They couldn’t afford missing not taking the shot. She fired three then four times into the air. One shot because it caught attention the rest to focus.



It was still a crap shoot but now they were focused on the live firearm instead of the live potential lycanthrope. She’d be written up and take a hit to her jacket. Leo was a credit to the department as he kept them from paying out an ungodly amount of cash.



The pause had the TAC captain approach Leo she couldn’t hear the conversation but she was sure it wasn’t positive . The TAC captain walked away yelling into his handheld. There’d be an investigation yes definitely but now the direction of their intel would be focused on closing the borders. She cursed very vocally pulling herself to her feet, she shoved her way forward as she couldn’t command as well. Speaking to Leo she said, “ Thanks Partner you did good saving her but we need to get her away from all this…” She waved her hand out at the scene unfolding. There wasn’t a bus in sight as they’d expected this to be a shooting scene. The rest of the department would be pissed they wanted blood for the fallen.



The lycanthropes in the city were officially on notice. She knew more than a few knew supposedly in the closet lycanthropes. It would be hell for them over the next few weeks.

[Leo Henry]

He hadn't thought it through he hadn't the guns remaining pointed at him made him swallow hard. First day last day oh fuck. The gun shot behind made him look but everyone else did too.

That crazy woman, he could kiss her despite the trouble she'd be in. When the tac leader came up to him he stared hom down despite the man wanting to scream in his face. "I chased her from the diner to the roof top that is not the woman we chased and had I survived you shooting at me I'd have them investigate you for profiling because when I told you it wasn't the woman we are chasing you still wanting to shoot. Now the real problem is getting away so focus on that."

The man huffed but did as told and walked away as wynetta came up he nodded. Looking around " this way"

He coaxed the woman who was scared but knew they would help. He ducked in thr building while people were trying to watch the cops. Then outva side door a bit in that let them out the next block

He called the hospital and flagged a cab.hustling them in.

[Wyetta Grim]

Doing her best to keep up she did her best to not gawk at the woman her cheek was slashed something horrible but the worse was her tongue the damned fiend had taken it. Shock hadn’t killed her which meant that there was hope that she would survive. Leo hailing the cab so quickly was a godsend it picking them up was a miracle.



She couldn’t talk candidly with the driver or the woman so she instead looked a question at Leo. She was sure his wheels were rolling as hard at hers. The wolf would try to make it out of the city yes but she had displayed a do anything to get away. That on top of her guile meant she would make it unless there was an actual manhunt. They needed sketch artist and an APB. The problem was she could shift forms most couldn’t tell the difference between one wolf or a large dog. She knew not every wolf was massive and it was a good chance as a female she wouldn’t be. Of course even she was one wolf shifted would look like another. It would be open season on any wolf that was seen shifting or shifted. That wouldn’t go over well with the community as a whole. There’d be pandemomium especially after the last few months with there being an all out wolf war against the police it was a mess.

[Leo Henry]

He couldn't talk now they would need to wait till the er who would test the woman for lycanthropy as well as trying to save her face. He pressed upon the driver speed and that he'd keep him from being fined.

The man took it to heart red lights run close calls but they made it he left the driver with a hundo and his card. The staff was waiting for them and rushed her off. He had someone else glove up carefully and looking at his partner asking very quietly " you need your leg checked you need them to make you sleep or can you handle it?"

No shame in him he had to be sedated for some of his office visits or things got intresting. Like the pediatric dr he punched as a young man who happened to be a molester. While she decided he called the captain to tell him what happened.

There was swearing and frustration notvat them but at the pr mess. He did slip and say that this was a horrible time for davis to be gone. That made leo frown but he shrugged it off.