And What Remains ((RP with 12yrs_life))

[control_issues]

((OOC: Takes place after this thread!

It always struck Dani as fucked up that out to the two of them, Charlie was the one who’d been to prison, when she was the partner who had committed actual felonies. But she’d had Karen on her side, she’d had her father’s reputation on her side, and those things were enough to keep her name out of papers and off the case reports.

Charlie hadn’t had anyone protecting him. Not anyone. But he did now. He had Dani, Ted, Stark, Tidwell. Even Karen had shown up for Charlie’s bail hearing, along with some of the other people in the office whose names Dani sometimes pretended to forget. He had a lot of people on his side.

But when visiting hours were over, he’d still been in that cell, alone. Dani didn’t know what that meant, or what that was going to mean.

He got bail. He got bail, and that was the important thing. And when the thing was called and people went off to the bar to celebrate, for some reason it was just Charlie and Dani left in the courtroom. She walked up to him with her arms crossed, not sure what to say.

“Crews?”

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[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

Bail was a good sign. If someone was setting him up again, they wouldn't let him get bail. They'd get him back in jail, put him in gen pop and get him stabbed. He got bail though and so he was a free man but he didn't feel that free.

Nor did he feel like celebrating. Only Ted seemed to get why, but he and Ted shared prison, Ted understood a lot other people didn't get. That left him alone with Reese, which never bothered him.

"Reese," he said.