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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yttermayn" data-source="post: 5409562" data-attributes="member: 31390">Tommy finally roused, nodded, and waved his hands at Billy, but still with his eyes closed.  "I'm up.  I'm up!"  The gesture reminded Billy of the time he had had to get going to the station early one AM.  He hadn't wanted to leave his previous evening hook-up Claudia- He was shocked he remembered her name- in his pad, so he had tried to wake her like a gentleman.   When that didn't work he had braced his back against the wall and pushed her hung-over, naked body off of the bed and onto the cold floor.  The meaty, wet slap was satisfying in a way Billy couldn't put words to, but he didn't think he'd be seeing Clauida again. After mimicing some of Claudia's gestures, Tommy did finally open his eyes and lumbered off.Jorge stared at the water swirling around on the tiles, waiting for his stomach to settle.  It was strangely comforting, watching the flow of tiny suds meander their way to the old bronze drain grate in the floor.  Many of the tiles had a crack through them, were miscolored and blotchy from mold or soap scum.  One was perfect though.  One tile out of perhaps four hundred.  Jorge found himself drawn to it.  He focused on it, and everything else went away.  The one tile seemed huge and it filled Jorge's perception.  Then, it fractured.  The loud snapping sound brought Jorge back to himself in the shower.  He could not find one perfect tile, but he did find one that bore a peculiar spider-web shaped pattern of cracks in it that he hadn't noticed before.Joe stumbled over something in the pavement, but made it to Roman.  His freind was breathing, but still clearly unconscious.  Joe's first responder training took over, and he looked up to assess the situation and not just focus on one individual.  The cops were also down, the rise and fall of their torsos said they were breathing, at least for now.  Then Joe's eyes swept across the unknown shooting victim.  Something looked very wrong with him.</blockquote>

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