What do you still have from when you were young?There aren’t many things Murphy kept from her childhood. When she was sixteen, in a fit of teenage angst and a little under-aged drinking, she gave most of her stuffed animals and old clothes to the Salvation Army. They were very grateful and she was pretty bitter. She kept one shoebox of things, ( Read more... )

Cremation or burial? Talk about funeral arrangements.
[ooc: Not actually written from Murphy's POV... not sure it counts but it's what came to mind.]She wanted to be buried. She had to be cremated. A week in Lake Michigan had made her corpse unsuitable for a coffin. Most of her other wishes, however, her father followed. He had flown up from ( Read more... )

You made your bed. Now you can lie in it.Murphy doesn’t mean to do it. It’s like breathing to her, if she stops she’ll die. It separates her, makes her different and she knows it. She can’t stop though. She has to profile people. She looks at them and starts picking them apart like puzzles. She doesn’t even think about it anymore. It happens. One ( Read more... )

My therapist thinks this will be good for me.
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1. What are/were your parents’ names?

Joseph David Murphy and Estella Christine Cruz

2. Where are/were they from?

Dad was born on the south side of Chicago. Mom was from Florida and moved to Chicago when she was young.

3. How did they meet?

I don't know. I never asked.

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LinesI remember the car ride over to arrest Munzer. My dad and I were arguing about him staying in the car and Harry was trying to play referee. I didn’t want my dad going in, even though I knew he had his personal weapon with him and a life time of experience taking down criminals. Munzer had crossed that line every cop walks. He hadn’t just ( Read more... )

We've got five years, that's all we've got - Five years, David Bowe

April 24, 1984Twelve years old and her whole world changes. Twelve years old and Murphy realizes that Disney and fairy tales are a lie. Things don’t have happy endings. People who are supposed to love you forever don’t and when they don’t love you anymore, they leave. She’s twelve ( Read more... )

"Freedom lies in being bold." - Robert Frost ( Read more... )

What was the longest day of your life?There had been times before this day that Murphy felt time stretch into one long, never ending day. The day her mother left felt like it had taken a week. Her grandmother’s last breaths took days to finally leave her chest. The day of her father’s heart attack was slightly shorter, only because she was older ( Read more... )

Ten fears you have

01. Failing my daughter.
02. Convicting an innocent man.
03. Losing Harry.
04. Losing my badge.
05. Turning into my dad.
06. Seeing a guilty man go free.
07. Having no answers for a grieving family.
08. Having a command position one day.
09. Never getting off the anti-depressants.
10. Something happening to me on the job.

Ten things about your past ( Read more... )