There were a good many things Nicholas Rush didn't like and one of them was the fact that he was getting a new partner. He had been quite content not having to deal with somebody getting in his way while he was investigating, but it seems fate and the captain had other plans and had tossed him some kid to teach the ways of the cop. He had refused, of course, but no matter how much arguing he did against it, there was no budging and he was stuck with the kid for the near future.

So now they had a case, one of the weird ones Rush always seemed to get stuck with because nobody else wanted them, and they were heading to the crime scene now, Rush not wanting to really talk with the kid about anything because no matter what anybody else said, they weren't partners and never would be. Rush's partner was dead and buried and nobody else would be able to take her place as long as he stayed on the force.