Summary: This story is somewhat based off of Diana Ross and The Supremes hit song "Stop in the Name of Love". Mark Gordon will have the"stuff"!

"Stop In The Name Of Love"

Chapter 1:

A black lady is praying in a Hotel Room, her name is Diana Ross and she prayers, "Lord please hear my prayer, my cousin Thomas Ross is mixed in with gangs in Los Angeles. I do not know if he is there of his own free will, but his mama called and she is sure he is on drugs please help him Lord!"

Jonathan Smith and Mark Gordon are driving through Los Angeles when Jonathan says, "Mark, we got our next assignment the Boss has decided to give you the stuff on this one. Mark this assignment is very dangerous. Be careful, Mark and pray often. The Boss wants you to go to this address, 1756 King Avenue. I'll meet you there on Sunday in 2 days and a night from now."

Jonathan disappears.

Mark pulls into the address Jonathan gave him about 9pm. A light is on, the door is open. It's It's The Mountain Top Missionary Baptist Church. As Mark walks in he is dressed in a Policeman's uniform the Boss just gave him. He hears a man wailing in the Sanctuary, crying out to God saying, "The kids, Lord! the kids, Lord! Oh sweet Jesus, the devil done got a hold of them."

Mark asks, "Excuse me, can I help?"

The man wailing who was a black Pastor, Pastor Rodney Brown says, "I was praying for the Lord to help. Drugs and violence got a hold of this community dragging our kids to the devil. Mothers weeping! Dads going out of their minds! Shootings! A little girl not four years old shot in the head and killed coming out of a candy store sucking on a lollipop and for what? Cause some deranged punks want some extra drug money. I don't know man! You come in here with your badge. I've tried, God knows I've tried preachin the Word of the Lord and they don't seem to listen. They don't care they have no love for nobody."

Mark answered, "You're right, Love Is the answer. I've been on the force for some time. The crooks never have love for those they hurt. But it all goes back to the home. Kids, these days, they are raised on entertainment. Many are missing a good father figure. Many mothers have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet. Kids don't see their mommas. If there's trouble they turn to gangs for protection."

The gangs in the neighborhood are the Turks made up of Hispanics and the Mawmaws made up of Blacks.

Just as Mark finished talking to Pastor Brown a car screeches outside and a rock with a note gets thrown into the Church window and a voice says, "Hey Preacher one of your members, Thomas Ross is being held hostage. Meet our demands or else!"

The car screeches away.

The Pastor picks up the rock and reads the note: "We are tired of you blacks in our neighborhood we got your boy, Thomas Ross and he is going to die in 36 hours unless you are out of this neighborhood for good!" Signed the Turks.

The Mawmaws welcomed Thomas Ross in their gang as long as he kept his friends at school buying their drugs. They gave him money so he could pay his sister, Wilma Ross' Hospital bill. Now the Mawmaws are bent on going to war with the Turks for taking Thomas.

The Turks are driving Thomas Ross to a hideout in the hills on a dark road.

THUNDER, LIGHTING

A man appears on the road it's Jonathan Smith.

One of the Turks opens fire on Jonathan Smith the bullets bounce off. The Turks are not going to stop! They speed up, they come right up to Jonathan and just about run him over, when Jonathan in one swoop with both fists hammers the car's hood to the ground flattening both front tires.

"Man!," One of the Turks says, "This fool Is for real."

Then the Turks with Thomas Ross, whose hands are tied behind his back, with the Turks pushing him fled like flies out of a garbage can, into the hills.

What will happen next?

To Be Continued