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Vital Stats

Name: Sasha Marie Gray

Born: November 11th, 1979

POB: New York, NY

Height: 5'11''

Weight: 137

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Gray

Current Residence

1900 Taylor Ave N #G

Seattle, WA 98109

Phone: 206-555-8109

Email: sashamgray@aol.com

Current Assignment

Robbery/Homicide Division

Headquarters

610 Fifth Avenue

Seattle, WA 98124-4986

Distractions

I'm not convinced we're brought up to deal with our problems. Mostly, we just distract ourselves when something tough comes up. We learn that early.

As a kid, you'd always be given something good to help you deal with something bad. Go to the doctor, here's a balloon. Fall down and scrape your knee, here's a cookie. If you cry hard enough, you might even get two. And when you're grown up, it gets even better. You can eat the whole bag.

The problem with distractions, balloons, cookies, tequila, Brad Pitt... Is they never really solve anything. Most keep you from having to face your problems.Avoid them long enough though, and you never end up living an honest life. At some point, you've just got to stop distracting yourself, and deal with what's really bugging you.

Partners

There's a bond that many just don't understand. I suppose you have to be a cop to understand it. When you have a partner, you have someone, that thick or thin, has your back. And you have theirs. I've heard cop wives refer to their husband's partners, both male and female as the job wife. The bond is that tight.

In many ways, it's closer than a marriage. Marriages break up. Partners are for life, even after you get a new one, you know your ex will be there... provided he isn't dead.It's a loyalty that goes beyond even the uniform. It takes a lot to break that bond. A monumental fuck you to everything the badge stands for, to break it.

Or a mob boss, who offers your partner enough to make him turn on you. Which is why I went from being NYPD, to Seattle PD. After the IA investigation, my partner, the man whom I thought had my back, the man who led me into a trap, so those whose pockets he was dipping into, could kill me.

Fortunately for me, I got a tip from a snitch. A last minute reprieve. And then IA stepped in. They'd been watching my partner. Watching me. Digging into my activities and past as hard and heavy as they were his. They had to know if I was clean; to know if they were taking down one cop, or two...

Their hesitation damned near got me killed. Their action got me ostracized. I was a pariah in my own department. Everyone presumed I had gone IA on my partner. After Bobby was tried, and convicted, no one would partner with me.

I left New York, came to Seattle, and now... I have no partner. I've yet to be able to put that kind of trust into anyone.

Quotes

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. - William James

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. - William Somerset Maugham

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. - Janis Joplin