[RP] Playing With Fire
{{If your character would normally be in Hogan Place, or has reason to be in Hogan Place this afternoon, please feel free to respond here with their reactions or RP/write their reactions elsewhere. Also, if your character would have a police scanner nearby or even would at some point just hear about this through the news or NYPD/DA’s office grapevine, feel free to have them react as well.}}
Monday Afternoon, Hogan Place
Manhattan District Attorney’s SVU Bureau {located across the hall from the Major Case Bureau and next door to the Homicide Bureau}.
The blond ADA stood in the epicenter of SVU’s wing of Hogan Place, making copies on the Xerox machine. One of the file clerks, a kid training to be a paralegal, came in holding a package.
“Hey, MacManus,” the clerk said, “This was just delivered. It’s addressed to ‘SVU attorney’ but it doesn’t say whether it’s for you or Peluso.”
The ADA smirked. Peluso was out of the office for the afternoon. Had the other man been here, they may have engaged in a brief pissing contest over who should get to open the parcel. As it was, Colin was more than happy to get a head start on whatever information was being sent to their office.
“Hand it over,” he told the woman. The clerk, a woman in her early twenties, nodded and started to walk over to him.
“Wonder what it is,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like paperwork.”
“No?” MacManus asked.
She shook the box, which seemed to rattle for a moment. “Nope. It’s kind of heavy, though…”
The lawyer reached for the box. Once it was in hand, he started to tear the packaging off. He frowned. “What the hell-”
The clerk leaned over close to him. “What is -”
Before either of them had a chance to react, the contents of the package exploded, sending them both flying backward.
Outside of the SVU bureau (that is, next door at Homicide and across the hall at Major Case), the sounds of the explosion echoed, followed by what felt like a minor earthquake as the building rattled.
Monday Afternoon, Hogan Place
Manhattan District Attorney’s SVU Bureau {located across the hall from the Major Case Bureau and next door to the Homicide Bureau}.
The blond ADA stood in the epicenter of SVU’s wing of Hogan Place, making copies on the Xerox machine. One of the file clerks, a kid training to be a paralegal, came in holding a package.
“Hey, MacManus,” the clerk said, “This was just delivered. It’s addressed to ‘SVU attorney’ but it doesn’t say whether it’s for you or Peluso.”
The ADA smirked. Peluso was out of the office for the afternoon. Had the other man been here, they may have engaged in a brief pissing contest over who should get to open the parcel. As it was, Colin was more than happy to get a head start on whatever information was being sent to their office.
“Hand it over,” he told the woman. The clerk, a woman in her early twenties, nodded and started to walk over to him.
“Wonder what it is,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like paperwork.”
“No?” MacManus asked.
She shook the box, which seemed to rattle for a moment. “Nope. It’s kind of heavy, though…”
The lawyer reached for the box. Once it was in hand, he started to tear the packaging off. He frowned. “What the hell-”
The clerk leaned over close to him. “What is -”
Before either of them had a chance to react, the contents of the package exploded, sending them both flying backward.
Outside of the SVU bureau (that is, next door at Homicide and across the hall at Major Case), the sounds of the explosion echoed, followed by what felt like a minor earthquake as the building rattled.