AN: what is this? It's not unlikely heroes or the other fics I described at the end of A Rose by Any Other Name! Calm thyself they're coming I just was inspired for this fic recently. Also at least for now this will be 1st-person POV & is set in the city of Atlas, a fictional city in the United States (Ala Gotham city from batman).

The Bust & Discovery

"They positive on the intel this time Weiss?" Neptune asks me as I'm driving down the road in our unmarked cruiser. We had gotten intel on an old abandoned house in the south part of Atlas that was being used as a drug plant, possibly connected to one of the 3 major gangs that run the underworld of Atlas. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to get some drugs off the street the chief got a search warrant so that I, my partner Neptune, and a small squad of officers can search the house and clear it out. We had gotten similar tips in the past and they had either been ambushes or dead ends, the few busts we got not giving us the info we need to go further up the chain.

"Here's hoping. It should be from a reliable source though. Unless one of our moles got compromised again." We eventually arrive to an old rundown house in a scummier neighborhood, the outside being devoid of any signs that someone actually had been there in years. The bright yellow paint peeling in several locations, where it isn't it's faded from to more of a pale beige color. 2 other squad cars follow behind, staying on the edge of the street not to alert those inside who we are. Neptune and I are in an undercover car wearing civilian clothes with body armor underneath so we stand out less. I'm wearing a white long sleeve dress shirt and dark black slacks, black tennis shoes sticking out the bottom. My partner is wearing a red jacket with a black undershirt and dark blue jeans, a pair of brown worn work boots to top it off. Both of us have guns strapped to our sides in holsters, but otherwise look fairly nondescript, if a little fancy for the area of town we're in. We had been partners since the academy, where we were unwillingly paired together by one of the teachers. There is no one else I'd trust to have my back in the heat of a case. It was Neptune's idea to become detectives instead of just street cops, something about it being more intellect based. The only reason we were here for the bust was because we were nearby and they needed to act fast. We approach the door, the uniformed officers following close behind, everyone having their guns drawn. Neptune signals with his hand, counting down from 3, before kicking down the door.

"ATLAS POLICE EVERYBODY DOWN! He shouts as we enter, surprising the 3 individuals preparing what appeared to be cocaine for shipment. 2 immediately drop to their knees but one darts upstairs. Neptune chases after him, one of the uniformed officers providing backup, while I clear out the rest of the bottom floor. Much like the outside the house is in serious needs of repairs, mold and rust cover most of the metal. Various drug making and packing paraphernalia litter the counters and lone kitchen table. Checking the rest of the house I find no others before returning to the handcuffed men.

"You've been busy haven't you?" I ask one of the men. "Who you working under? The Dragons? Red Fang? What about the Candlejacks?"

"We ain't working for anyone pig. We're our own operation, we don't need no crime boss breathing down our necks." He shouts at me.

"See that'd be almost believable if you weren't in the middle of the Dragon's territory. No way they'd let any competition set up in their turf."

"I ain't saying anything without a lawyer." I merely shrug and let the officers take him and his equally tight-lipped buddy away. I'm about to go check on Neptune when I hear his voice call from upstairs.

"Weiss you're going to want to see this." Moving upstairs I see the cop that backed Neptune up dragging the runner down the stairs, a look of confusion on his face. Stepping pass the side bedrooms into what used to be the master bedroom. Once in there I see the top of Neptune's head peeking over one of the large boxes, as he's kneeling down examining something. Stepping around the box I see him attending to what appeared to be a young girl with bright red hair that ends at her shoulders, probably around my age. She's wearing a bright red dress with an open back, like something someone would wear to a fancy dinner party, but no shoes. She also doesn't appear to be moving and a quick check of her pulse tells me she has none.

"Dispatch this is 1020 we've got a bo…" I'm about to report the body on the radio when suddenly the form begins breathing, and I get a pulse. "Scratch that we need a bus we've got a young woman, mid 20's at most. She's unconscious, no sign of injury."

"Roger that 1020, bus is en route to your location."

"Any ID?" I ask Neptune as I take a closer look at the woman. Her skin is fairly pale, even paler than mine, which given how I've been compared to a vampire on more than one occasion is fairly impressive. What intrigues me more is the strange tattoo on her back, exposed by the dress. It's very intricate, something I would best describe as a bunch of intersecting stars within a circle, some sort of glyph in the middle, although what it actually means escapes me.

"Negative. Pockets are completely empty. I found her here after securing our runner. No clue on that strange tat. It's not something any of the Trinity use, unless they changed recently." The Trinity was a loose alliance formed by the 3 major gangs after a particularly vicious firefight happened 3 years ago, claiming a good chunk of all 3 gangs goons. They divided up the town into their zones and it remained relatively peaceful, although there have been some fights in the past, nothing compared to what happened 3 years ago. Most of the trouble that did cause was by the Candlejacks, Torchwick being against the meeting (only joining after realizing it would basically mean 2 against 1 against his favor).

I frown as I look her over. "You get a chance to question the runner about her?"

"Yea. He was as confused about her as we are. No idea who she is or where she came from. They said they mostly stayed on the bottom floor though. Used the upstairs only for storage."

"Damn. She might have information on… anything." I say as paramedics come in to examine her, soon taking her away on a stretcher.

"We have any identity on the Jane Doe we found in the house?" the chief asks as Neptune and I step back into the station.

"Negative Chief. She had no ID, no match on the DNA, and no missing persons that match her description in the system. She's still unconscious at the hospital so we haven't gotten a chance to question her." I answer.

"And our suspects don't seem to know anything about her either. Schnee I want you there when she awakens. See if we can even get a name off of her. Neptune start asking around local businesses and houses in the area we found her. See if anyone knows anything. Someone out there has to know who this girl is. I've got people looking to see what we can find about that symbol on her back."

"Sir if I may post a suggestion?" the chief nods. "I have some connections in both the Dragons and the Red Fang. If I fail to get anything from her when she awakens I can see if they know anything. She was found in Dragon territory but the RF have been known for operating nearby. That's what caused the shootout a year back."

"You know I don't like using that connection Schnee, or being reminded you have it. But if you think it will help it's worth a shot, but only if we can't figure out who she is in other ways." I nod before taking my leave.

Several hours later I sat in the waiting room of Atlas General Hospital, waiting for anything on our Jane Doe. Neptune had stopped by earlier with some dinner, stating that he'd asked around and nobody had even seen the girl, let alone knew who she was, which made no sense. How the hell has nobody seen a girl we find in the middle of a drug operation, no matter how small the operation actually was? Something wasn't adding up, somebody had to be lying. It's almost like she just appeared there that day. But that ain't possible, people don't just appear. I'll ask Yang and Blake, they might know something. 2 of the 3 leaders of the Trinity and I were actually high school friends, and despite ending up on opposite sides of the law, they at least remained peaceful. Funny how that works? The pair knew that Atlas police and I were looking to bust them, and while Blake was cautious, making it almost impossible to get anything on her, Yang treated it more like a game, toying with the police at many different turns. Hopefully they'll be at least willing to talk to me. I know Yang puppet runs Junior's bar downtown. Might get lucky and catch her when she's there. Or at least know where I can find her. I'm pulled from my thoughts as I notice a doctor walk through the doors and approach me and Neptune.

"How's she doing doc?" Neptune asks

"She's awake. Although I don't know how much info you're going to be able to get out of her. She appears to be mute. At least we haven't been able to get her to talk."

"Can we see her? We might be able to get her to talk." I reply.

"Yes. Follow me." the doctor leads us down the hall past several other rooms before stopping in front of a closed door. "She's in here." I nod and take the lead, slowly opening the door. Looking inside I see our mystery woman, sitting up in her bed, out of the dress and into a more traditional hospital gown. Although she has the back opened, exposing the tattoo to the world. She looks up in our general direction when the door opens, and I see something very strange. Her eyes glow a bright silver but appear to have no pupil, only an iris. Can she even see us? I slowly walk my way over to a nearby chair, trying to be as quiet as possible, before scraping the chair along the ground. Her head doesn't follow me until I scrape the chair, at which point her head whips towards me. Neptune uses the time to snap a picture of her face with her eyes open, adding it to the picture of her tattoo we got earlier.

"Hello Miss. My name is detective Weiss Schnee and this is my partner Neptune Vasilias, we're with Atlas Police Department. Can you actually see us?" She pauses for a moment, then shakes her head. "So you're blind. And as the doctors say you can't speak?" The woman pauses for a second again, before nodding. Great. How am I going to talk to her? "You can hear me though right?" she nods again Duh she's been responding to questions. "Do you have a name?" another pause, followed by a head shake and a shrugging of her shoulders. Great she doesn't know. "Do you remember anything? Like how you got to where we found you?" another pause, this one slightly longer, as if she's thinking, followed by another head shake. Either she's lying or she really doesn't remember anything. I approach and put my hand on hers. She flinches for a moment, starting to pull back but stops. "Listen I know you might be scared but we aren't going to hurt you. We just want to reunite you with your family, and we can't do that unless you tell us what you know." The girl looks extremely confused for a moment, shaking her head rapidly.

"Weiss I honestly don't think she remembers anything." Neptune interrupts. "We're not getting anywhere continuing to question her like this."

"You're right. I'm sorry Miss." I start to stand up when suddenly she grabs my hand. Turning around I see her making the motion of a pen and paper. I grab my pen and paper from my pocket and put it in her hands. Slowly she scribbles something before handing it back to me. It takes a minute to identify the crude drawing as 2 letters, well more accurately 1 letter written twice.

"RR?" the woman on the bed nods. "Does this have to do with your name?" A delayed nod, with a slight shrug of the shoulders. "Possibly?" another unsure nod. She might not be 100% what that has to do with anything. "Thank you R. Do you mind if I call you that, since we don't know your name?" She shakes her head. "If you remember anything, don't be afraid to let your nurses know, they will contact us." Another nod and we make our way out.

"Well we got something." Neptune comments as we make our way out of the hospital. "Initials possibly?"

"Possibly. It's better than what we had coming in." I pull out my cell phone, calling a specific number. "Hey Velvet I have something on the Jane Doe we found earlier today. Possible initials are RR. Any chance you could run that through the database, see if anything comes up."

"I'll try Weiss but nothing matching her description came up."

"Try expanding the search to include any missing person with that initials. We're work it down from there."

"Roger. Should I let the chief know what you found out?"

"Not necessary we're on our way back." The call ends and me and Neptune walk out of the hospital.

"That's disappointing." The Chief states once we give our report. "You say she's blind?"

"As far as we can tell. Which doesn't add up cause the doctors said physically she's perfectly healthy, they can't pinpoint her muteness or why she's blind. While her eyes look weird at a glance medically they're normal, hell she even has pupils they say even though she doesn't appear to have any when you look into her eyes." Neptune explains.

"She also doesn't appear to remember anything beyond the letters RR which we think might be her initials. Velvet's expanding our missing person search to see if anyone with those initials at least meets the age range or build or something on this person."

"Good call Schnee. You two are assigned to this case for now. Find out who this girl is and reunite her with her family. I don't care how you do it." With that he dismisses us. I turn to Neptune.

"You got the pictures of R and the tattoo on her back?" Neptune nods handing them to me. "Look I've got a couple people who might be able to help, but I need to go alone."

"Your high school friends?" I nod. "Be careful Weiss. They might be old friends but they're still criminals. Are you sure you don't want me to back you up?"

"Yes. I doubt they'll talk to me even if I come alone but I know they won't if you tag along. I'll let you know when I'm done talking to them." Without waiting for a reply I take my personal car to the seedier part of town, not terribly far from where we found R. Who are you R?

AN: There's the first chapter. A lot of setup but that's how a lot of fics have to start. Anyways I hope you guys enjoy & I'll catch you on the next chapter of Mystery of the Silver Eyes: The Friends & Enemies.