Spit? Especially strings of it?
Harmony shuddered.
“Okay,” she heard the frustration in Crois’ voice, “let’s get you in the cruiser.”
The woman was on her feet at that point. Pilar moved forward with her cuffs in hand and that’s when the woman balked.
Planting her feet on the ground, and bending her knees, she leaned back and kicked out with her feet. Her shoes, spindly heels that looked fairly close to stilettos flailed out.
One foot nailed Pilar’s leg and the officer tensed, swallowing a painful sound.
“Stop that!” Crois lifted the woman off of the ground. How he managed it, Harmony couldn’t really see, but it looked effortless. “You’ve just gotten yourself a guaranteed charge of assault on a LEO.”
The woman tossed her head back, lifting her face up. Her hair was even more disheveled than better. “So that bitch cop is a Leo? I would have said she was a Capricorn.”
Crois froze and then shook his head. “LEO meaning Law Enforcement Officer.”
“Huh,” the drunk woman laughed out loud “well, that’s just silly.”
Pilar approached from the side and back of the woman and together with Crois managed to get cuffs on the woman as she was flirting with Crois.
The overly fawning looks and increasingly crass comments were getting on Harmony’s nerves.
She could tell that Pilar wasn’t feeling any better.
When a second ambo showed up and took the victim from the other car, Vega helped Crois get into the back of the ambo and cuffed her to the gurney.
She gave Vega a look or two, but she really only had eyes for Crois.
When Vega climbed in the back with her and Crois started to close the back doors, the woman let out a screech of sound. Harmony turned and saw that Pilar was writing something in a notebook. Crois was standing beside her.
“You going to be okay, Harm?”
She narrowed her eyes at him, but one corner of her mouth was tipped up. “
“Harm?”
He shrugged. “It’s a nickname in progress.”
She nodded. “I think you said it before, but I wasn’t sure if you meant it or you just tripped over my name.”
He laughed softly. “Around you, I’d probably trip over my tongue.”
She frowned at his words, not quite understanding what he said. “Okay, well I better get the ambo on the road.”
“Well, we need to stay with her to keep her in custody. They can also draw her blood at the hospital if she doesn’t agree to a blood draw for the DUI.”
“Oh?” Harmony smiled. “Are you going to drive along with us?”
Pilar looked up from what she was doing. “I’ll stay with the cars. When the tow trucks come to take the cars, I’ll have the accident reports ready.”
Crois looked at his partner. “I could stay and write the report.”
Pilar gave him a look that was dark and foreboding. “If you make me stay with that… that woman, I’m going to end up doing some bodily harm to her.”
Harmony raised a brow at that. “I can’t believe you’d do that.”
Pilar smiled and it almost looked real. “She’s a prize and I think she’s saying what she’s saying to get a rise out of us.”
