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[CENTER][I][h1][color=lightgreen]Dean Rivers[/color][/h1][/i][/CENTER]

[Color=lightgreen]Time:[/color] Afternoon 
[Color=lightgreen]Location:[/color] Downtown San Francisco to River Intel PI Office 
[Color=lightgreen]Interaction:[/color] 

Dean was at his cousin’s place of residence who was using his powers to investigate Paige’s belongings to get any more information they could. He’d presented to him the whole situation from before & after Paige’s involvement. As they sat together in the office sipping crown, watching the news & going through material they began to fully see & Realize just how interconnected everything truly was.

[Color=lightgreen]”Damn I never knew how much this all tied together. I mean when I pulled up here I was just worried about Paige & I knew that would be the only way you’d give a damn much less actually speak to me. But to see that what she got herself into trying to take out this Banker kid might have actually helped with everything else is…damn”[/color] Dean didn’t have the luxury of having any powers to help him with his police work like Paige had or like Devin did. So it was a relief to finally have the enemies parlor tricks on his side rather than entirely against him.

Devin wasn’t doing this for Dean, like he said this was for Paige. By using his power he could get see the history of objects he placed his hands on. For Dean he’d uncovered that an altered human named Niko was behind the string of missing women as well as a major key to the Salzaras Cartel gettin drugs in the country with his portal powers. Floyd Banker was getting drugs from the Salzaras Cartel & selling them here as well as transporting them to other states for additional profit. He played a direct hand in other people’s addictions, as well as other situations tied to the drugs including overdoses, addicts committing crimes to support habits, & other criminals fighting for drug territory. 

“As usual Paige was right about something and you weren’t, are you really surprised? I’ll admit you played a part to, instinct was refusing to give up on this missing girl case even when your superiors said to, that I’m surprised about to it’s not like you to not just follow orders. Maybe I wouldn’t be so reluctant to help you if you had that same backbone when internal investigations was cracking down on me.” Devin couldn’t help but retort, it stung a bit that Dean had actually started to fight back against his orders but never had so much as an inkling or motivation to do when his family was involved.

[Color=lightgreen]”If I could change things I would, but I can’t cuzzo. So what you’re saying is this this guy can make portals, and he’s the one kidnapping girls. You were able to find out all of this just from the discarded belongings of the girls I brought from the evidence locker?[/color] Dean was impressed, he knew of Devin’s powers through Paige who’d let it slip thinking that his cousin had shared his altered status with him. She wasn’t oblivious to what went down when he was fired, but figured they’d already kissed & made up which wasn’t the case at all.

“Of course, don’t be shocked you came to get help from the best and that’s exactly what the hell you got. Some things never change, I’ve been a better detective then you even before I got this gift and you know it. Like I said you were the one who refused to give up on this case, refusing to listen to the knuckleheads spouting nonsense like maybe it’s just an overblown case of runaways or that they just up and moved because of all the crazy shit going on out here. The force already let me go, but if they told me some bullshit like that to my face when it’s obvious someone is kidnapping these poor girls I woulda decked em In the face and been on unpaid leave.  Ya know I feel like I can do more for people as a private investigator than I ever could as a cop. Sometimes the rules make sense, other times they get in my way more than the damn criminals operations.” Devin replied, thinking back on his days working with the SFPD. In a way he was happy things played out how they did, and that he was a free agent. 

He’d had a rough time of it at first, sure running an independent PI firm in California of all places. The staggering high rent for the building, the cost of keeping his few employees well paid & keeping up with the proper licensing for everything required to effectively carry out the operations were all obstacles. But his big heart & desire to do the right thing, actually clean up the state he grew up in outgrew all that other stuff. It was strange to be sitting around drinking liquor & working a case with Dean. Someone he swore to never speak to again after he refused to stick up for him during the final proceedings that led to hm being disqualified as a law enforcement officer. However seeing what happened to Paige, he could slightly sympathize with Dean. His strict abiding of the rules was probably what kept him from loosing it & ending up like Paige. Getting to a point where bombing a gas station to take out a cartel head at the cost of innocent lives. With how driven and obsessive Dean could be, he needed a set of rules to reel him in. He didn’t have the self control it took to work outside the lines without veering off the deep end.

[Color=lightgreen]”Here you asked me to pull up the police database for you right, I’m guessing you were able to catch a glimpse of the monster kidnapping these girls, the man summoning the portals right. You know we’ve got some good sketch artists down at the office, but if you recognize the guy maybe you can find him already in the criminal database, besides the foul shit he’s been doing to our women with the power you described him having I’m betting he plays a massive role in transporting the Salzaras drugs into the country without having to worry about the border[/color] Dean turned the laptop over to his cousin, and went back to sibling through the paperwork they had strewn across the room.

Paige’s death was hitting him hard, and they hadn’t even confirmed her passing. Even with her powers it was looking like she’d bit the bullet some how. He could imagine a few ways to send her to her maker even with the powers she’d attained from the plague. With her last known location being the Banker residence, it was all but confirmed to him that his former friend was no longer among them in the land of the living. [Color=lightgreen][I]I wish I woulda listened to you Paige, you were right about everything. This Banker kid is a fucking demon, I can’t believe I sat you down & told you that you were in the wrong for trying to plat those drugs in his car. Monsters like him don’t deserve fairness, they need to be taken down by any means necessary. I know you weren’t a evil woman, with what I know now you were just trying to silence a greater evil even at the cost of your morality, your soul[/I][/color] Dean was locked in deep thought about Paige, the kidnappings, the Salzaras Cartel, the streets flooded with illegal narcotics, & the role Floyd Banker played in the middle of all this madness.

“Bingo!” Devin yelled out and turned the laptop too Devin. On the screen was a man with a rap sheet longer than Reed Richard’s arms. “Nikolai Rasputin, of Russian & Mexican descent, been arrested 11 times his whole life, he did a two year stint in prison for arms smuggling between 2015 to 2017. He’s supposed to be on parole till 2022, but he cut his monitor & went on the run a month after the energy storm. According to police intelligence he contracted the energy plague two weeks after the storm & was in critical condition. His parole officer contacted the courts to put a warrant out for his arrest, until getting confirmation that he was lying in a hospital bed fighting for his life.. Doctors said he was a goner, but he made a full recovery. After getting released he had to go straight to parole, apparently he was working as a driver for a CEO of some tech company. With a record like his I’m almost positive that’s a front, but the person he’s working for died in a home invasion 11 days after he got out.” Devin replied going through the information on Rasputin’s file.

[Color=lightgreen]”Sounds like the boss wasn’t covering his end of the bargain, there’s usually no loyalty among these types is there. Anyway it says he had a home visit during that 11 day period and even submitted to a surprise drug screen which he passed surprise surprise. Then again he had scripts for all types of pain medication cause of the plague, maybe he had enough drugs in his body to satisfy him or maybe drugs aren’t his poison. Either way that don’t matter, we’ve got that son of a bitch. He’s behind everything the missing girls & the drugs, which means he’s in league with or doing business with Banker. Banker’s not some street pusher, he owns two business’s himself, all of his files have been sealed, meaning he’s managed to buy his way into some powerful connections or he’s gotten himself mixed up with people bad enough that the best of the best is handling him themselves. But I’m not about to throw my hands up and say leave it to the professionals, Paige is probably dead cause of this bastard. Fuck a bigger picture, or some hidden plan, innocent girls are getting trafficked right along side these drugs, we need to finish what Paige started & take this bastard down ourselves![/color] Dean replied with vigor and newfound energy as he stood up to stretch a bit.

That wasn’t just the liquid courage talking, that was the deep seated resentment built up over years that he had towards anyone who profited from the drug trade with no regard for the lives of the people they destroyed through addiction. Devin clapped his hands in a celebratory yet mocking fashion. “Congratulations you finally grew a peer, this is the b biggest case of stunted growth I’ve ever seen. I need you to slow your roll, yeah we know he’s trafficking women mainly of color to avoid stirring up a major reaction from the cops. We know he’s playing an integral role in getting the Salzaras product into the country with the border closing. We don’t know where the hell he is, and with his powers he could literally be [I]ANYWHERE[/I] on the planet. Not to mention even if we had a for sure precise location we can’t go at him half ass. He wouldn’t think twice about sending us through a portal with a fatal end destination like say above a volcano, shark infested waters in the middle of the ocean or in the middle of some armed militia conflict in a third world country. “ Devin continued pointing out how dangerous someone with portal powers could be, not to mention the difficulty of bringing them in.

[Color=lightgreen]”Well I’m not about to sit on my ass and do nothing. Nor do we have any time to waste trying to follow any sort of rules or regulations. Lives are at stake, every minute we sit around twiddling our thumbs this sick fuck could be snatching another girl off the streets to sell to whomever on the other side of the country. Fuck bringing him in, we don’t need to hold him, we need to put a bullet in his head.”[/color] Dean was adamant in this instance, he couldn’t stand to let such unbridled evil go about undeterred anymore. Not when he’d confirmed the culprits identity & powers with Devin’s own abilities. The usually strict sticking to the rules officer was more then willing to shatter them to rid the world of this demon for the sake of hopeless addicts & enslaved kidnapped women.

“Holy shit, I didn’t expect to hear that from you. To be honest I had no intention of bringing him in, the only place I’m sending him to be held is Hell. Those girls are long gone, there’s no telling if there even alive. Not to mention like you said the logistics of trying to both capture & hold some who can walk across the street out here in San Francisco and end up in China by the time he reaches the end. I’m going to kill him,  I just wasn’t sure you’d be tagging along. Banker’s a different story, I have no sympathy for the devil. But him we need to bring in, he deserves to rot I a cell until his gray hairs get gray hairs, especially If he’s working with motherfuckers like this with no qualms as long as he’s lining his pockets. Really the only question of the matter is how we get him.” Devin replied frustratingly, as taking down Rita’s lover would be the final & most difficult phase of  his endeavors to end this madness & bring the people involved to justice.

Dean looked up at his cousin with a smirk on his face that was un befitting of the usually stoic & serious LEO. [Color=lightgreen]”Bringing in Banker, luring him into a vulnerable position? No, that’s not the problem, that’s the easy part. I know someone who can help, who’d be more than glad to help, especially if we present them with the full details of what’s going on. Leave drawing Banker out to me, I gotta make a call.”[/color] Dean replied earnestly before taking out his phone to go to his contacts. In a matter of seconds he had Lisa’s info pulled up and quickly made the call.  Evil would not be allowed to go unpunished and now it was time to set the stage to bring the  elusive multi business owning drug trafficker to rest.