"He laughed to himself. How could he pin this on her? There was always a fall guy, well, in this case, a fall girl. He was doing his best not to crack a smile. Looking at her, he could smell the fear she had of him. That made him relax."
What a wild fucking ride you've taken us on, girl! Is he laughing? Is he trying not to smile? Is he relaxing? More fascinating, he can smell by looking. That is pure talent, right there. Humans smell fear? Maybe he isn't human! After The Werewolf and His Boy, I am half-convinced that it is just normal for people to smell emotions, sexual orientation, and possibly thoughts so sure. Why the fuck not.
Then, in the very next paragraph, Crystal unexpectedly switches perspectives to Deanna, whose name I forgot so had to look up again. Apparently she's scared.
I still don't know why it's apparently standard protocol to have the two perps meet.
"Her trembling was a sign of fear."
I am just going to assume that Deanna has Parkinson's at this point.
Deanna has apparently been bleeding from a head wound this entire time, sitting in the police station, not handcuffed to a chair sitting beside the officer's desk.
It switches again to Officer Petersen's prose, where he beats himself up over her snapping at him and blaming him for her head wound.
With a mere eight sentences in contribution, Rachel scribbles in Deanna's new personality, this one bold and decisive. Rachel Personality takes charge and bolts from Officer Petersen, running down a doorway to escape the popo.
However, Sarah Personality rears her malformed head and has Deanna inhale paint fumes, which makes her faint. Petersen for worst cop ever? He let a suspect get away, after all.
The Painter Man whose paint had made Deanna faint goes to her and starts... dragging an unconscious woman across the floor by her arms. That seems healthy. Petersen hears Painter Man call for help and runs off toward him. Deanna must have gotten farther than any author has bothered to mention, because there are suddenly more officers that spawned from somewhere, all running toward Painter Man. Petersen overtakes them and arrives on the scene first.
Depicted: Child abuse.
Painter Man, I have to assume, is still dragging her across the floor when Petersen gets there, because no one ever mentions that he stopped. In fact, he is not mentioned again.
Petersen kneels beside her and examines the head wound, presumably crawling along beside her prone form as Painter Man continues to drag her. Deanna wakes up and thrashes at Petersen. He restrains her and picks her up, bride over a threshold style. Did he and Painter Man have a tug-of-war about this?
I'm sure the paramedics, and other officers and her court-appointed lawyer, will be pleased at his behavior.
Deanna and Petersen fight childishly; she whines about wanting to go home and he... won't let her? He claims that because her story and McCartney's don't match up, she can't leave. No words on being arrested or not. She accuses him of being a bad cop. That's true anyway.
And that's it. I still can't figure out why the authors thought that cops regularly introduce possible cohorts to one another, nor do I understand why they think it's appropriate to drag around someone who just fainted by the arms, or pick them up without waiting for a paramedic.
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