Hello everyone! Finals are over and I'm making the most of my break playing lots of league (dat new abam map) and writing! If you've read my previous stories, every chapter is really long with 5 mini-chapters. I've decided to break it up and put 2 or 1 sections as individual chapters to make it easier to read =D. I will be updating regularly since I get so obsessed once I start a story!

Prologue

A handcuff clicked around his pale wrist, and a smirk slid across his face.

"You are under arrest… C. I've finally caught you."

Caitlyn's triumphant and serious face looked up at C, who smirked amusedly down at the handcuff around his wrist. They stood once again at the top of Constance Tower, Demacia's city lights glittering below them. Below the magnificent and high tower, pedestrians littered the streets ignorant as to the scene going on thousands of feet above them. The wind blew through Caitlyn's brown hair, as her eyes locked with the handsome brown eyes of the elusive thief.

Her eyes widened. She had never gotten a full look at his face before. The thief had always made a point of hiding his image below the broad brim of his hat. She had not imagined him to be young and ruggedly handsome. So this is the face of all my trouble, she thought, as she stared back into his eyes gleaming with amusement.

"Sorry," He said, as he leaned in and pecked her on the lips, "Try again."

Caitlyn cried out as the handcuff came loose, and her treasured prisoner disappeared in a cloud of dust. She fell to the floor, grasping at the cards that he left. They all said C, and the three cards were in red, blue and yellow. Caitlyn was never one to cry, and she would not start now. Instead of crying out in anger or falling to tears, she hastily flew down the steps of the tower, pushing past security guards. As she ran out into the busy streets, she pushed past the crowd searching for his familiar figure.

After hours of searching, she had come up with nothing.

1.

"Caitlyn!" Vi said loudly as she pulled open the curtains, filling the dark room with bright sunlight, "Get up! It's time for work." Caitlyn groaned, turning over in her bed and staring at the alarm clock.

"Come on, cupcake. Jayce's waiting for us at the police station." Vi sighed, her hands on her hips.

"I had the strangest dream." Caitlyn said in the patrol car, as she sipped a cup of coffee.

"Eh?" Vi grunted.

"I dreamt that I finally caught C… but he escaped again."

Vi shrugged, "If you hit a wall, hit it hard."

Caitlyn scoffed, "How is that supposed to help me, Vi?"

"I donno." Vi stared boredly out the window as she drove. When they arrived at the station, they found Jayce sitting in front of a cell that housed the person they had arrested yesterday, Elise. As Caitlyn opened the door to the jail cells, her heart beat quickly as she looked at Jayce's back. She was always attracted to him, but even she could tell that Jayce was more likely to be focused on his work than anything. He was the defender of Piltover, and it was more than a full time job. He didn't have time for women.

She watched him talk intensely with the strange woman behind the bars.

Caitlyn walked in, and Jayce immediately asked her if he could take Elise back to his lab for testing and experiments. She hesitated, but then decided that Jayce knew what he was doing. "Alright," She said, "Just fill out some paperwork when you're done."

When she made her way outside, she sat down at her desk and stared at the thick file she had collected on C. Her slim fingers pulled out the last card he had left her… a blue one. Where would he be striking next? She thought, trying to decipher it. The top corner of the card was slightly folded from its age. C had not struck again for a while.

She thought about the face that she saw, she couldn't remember it at all. It was a vague blur in her memory, and she was infuriated that she couldn't remember his features. But she did remember one thing- he was handsome. Caitlyn quickly stopped herself in her thoughts.

Sighing, she threw the card back into the folder as Jayce approached from the jail cells. He hastily signed some paperwork, and Caitlyn made arrangements for him to take Elise back to his lab. She watched his car leave into the distance, as Vi stood by her.

"If you have the hots for him, you should tell him." Vi sighed, shaking her head.

"Vi, you know as well as I that he's more focused on his work than anything. Neither of us have time for a relationship." Her eyes softened as the car finally disappeared around the corner.

"A call for you, Miss Caitlyn!" The secretary, Elisa, called from the office. Caitlyn went over to the phone, picking it up.

"Caitlyn, I'm Liza Sword. I'm in charge of an artifact museum in Demacia. One of our most precious artifacts was found stolen an hour ago from our safe…"

Caitlyn held her breath, listening.

"And we believe that it was C. His trademark card is there, after all."

She exhaled, and said "I'll be there as soon as I can."

She quickly made arrangements to travel to Demacia by plane. Vi and Caitlyn quickly packed their bags, making their way to the other city. As they waited in the airport, Vi read a magazine that had Corki on the front page. "Hey! Corki designed the plane we're about to board on!" Vi said, her hand on her chin, "Imagine that!"

Caitlyn didn't reply, she just stared out at the landing strip of the Piltovian planes. The day was growing dark, and twilight was approaching. Her eyes narrowed, I'll catch him if it's the last thing I do…

Suddenly, a voice cut through their cuts. A woman cried "Thief!" Caitlyn and Vi turned to see a man running off with the woman's bag. They sprung into action, chasing after him. The man turned a corner, however, and before they knew it, he fell onto the ground with a cry. The purse fell onto the floor, and a man picked it up. When he looked up at them, Caitlyn had the feeling that his face was vaguely familiar.

He held it up, "This yours?"

Caitlyn frowned into the man's handsome eyes, "No…"

"Oh, thank God." The woman walked towards them frantically, taking the bag with tearful eyes, "I thought it was gone. Thank you so much for getting my purse back!"

"No problem, m'am. "The man said, smiling. Caitlyn stared at his face, trying to place where she had seen him. He had dark brown hair with chestnut colored eyes. When he smiled, he smiled with all of his face with crinkles in his eyes and dimples in his cheeks. "Looks like someone's got a crush!" Vi's voice broke into Caitlyn's thoughts. Caitlyn hit her on the shoulder and said "Quiet."

She cleared her throat, "Good work, kind stranger."

The man looked at Caitlyn, and frowned slightly, "You look familiar."

"I bet that's what you say to all the girls!" Vi said in the background.

"You look familiar also…" Caitlyn squinted, "But I can't quite place you."

He shrugged, "Me neither. I'm Will."

"Caitlyn, and this is Vi."

They shook hands, and Will asked where they were from. "We're from Piltover." Caitlyn explained.

"Ah, are you on a flight to Demacia?"

"How do you know that?"

"I just assumed." He smiled kindly, with that crinkle in his eyes again. Caitlyn said "Yes, we are. And where are you on your way to?" He said that he was going to Demacia also for an emergency. He explained that he worked in a museum, and one of the precious artifacts had gotten stolen. "Gilda's Short Sword," Caitlyn said. Will looked surprised, "Yes… how did you know that?" She smiled, and replied "Liza hired me on this case."

He nodded slowly, "I see."

"Hey!" Vi called from the airport shop which had a large picture of Corki painted on the display, "Look! They're selling mead…in the airport!"

Caitlyn turned to Will. The airport was almost empty, and the announcer's voice started to blare out the names of flights that were about to fly. "Flight 302 to Demacia…. Boarding in thirty minutes…"

Caitlyn looked up, and said "Well. That's our flight. I don't suppose you're on 302 either?"

"Yes, I am actually." Will grinned.

"Good, that will give us more time to talk about the case."

He nodded, and followed her into the airport shop to retrieve Vi. He turned to the side, his handsome eyes looking up to the giant clock that was in the center of the airport. A secretive smile grew on his face.

2.

After the flight landed, Caitlyn and Vi headed towards their hotel. Will was living in a different hotel that was in a much shoddier area. Caitlyn was a little wary about Will's safety, but he insisted that it was alright. They exchanged numbers, promising to meet in a few hours at the museum. Will watched Vi and Caitlyn leave into the taxi, which drove towards the opposite side of the city. A car pulled up to the curb, but it wasn't a taxi. The window drew down, and a woman with dark black hair and pale skin smiled back at him from the driver's seat. "Get in, fool." She said quietly.

"Hello Eve." Will smiled, "It's nice to see you again too."

He climbed into the car, which made its way across the bridge towards the city of Demacia. "Is she really that easy to fool?" Eve asked. Will looked up into the mirror and sighed softly, "I suppose so." He looked back at her, a smile crossing his face. She smirked and said "I wish you were that obsessed with me…"

"I'd say it was more like a game of cat and mouse." Twisted Fate replied, as he put on his old familiar hat. They arrived at a shoddy hotel with an electronic sign that stated "Roaches and Coaches" in the front. The only letters that were still working were the R and the C. He signed in, as 'Will Monte', and bid goodbye to Eve before heading towards his hotel room.

Caitlyn looked up into the elegant bathroom mirror, her chocolate eyes tired and serious. Vi pulled out a bathrobe and said "Free bathrobes, cupcake!" Cait sighed, and looked back into the mirror, thinking about the case. Don't lose confidence in yourself, she thought, sometimes the truth is right under your nose.

C had not struck for years now, but now that he finally did, at least it meant that she would have more clues with which to catch him. The whole reason she entered league was to finally find C. She tried to conjure up the face she saw in her dream, but it drew a complete blank.

She glanced down at her watch, seeing that they were meant to meet Will at the museum in thirty minutes. They walked down the hotel lobby, and out onto the busy streets to call a cab. Caitlyn looked up at Constance Tower, her eyes narrowed with regret and determination. "Small Museum, please." Caitlyn said to the cab driver, who nodded and began to drive.

Her eyes followed a dancing bobblehead on the driver's dashboard, watching the way that it moved this way and that. Finally, the car stopped in front of a small building, true to its name, 'The Small Museum'. Will was waiting outside, dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans. He smiled at Caitlyn, and she felt a flutter inside of her stomach as she stepped out with Vi.

The doors of the museum were open, with a tall woman waiting outside for them. "I assume you are Caitlyn and Vi," the woman said in her stride towards them, "I'm Liza, the owner of the Small Museum. You've already met Will?"

Caitlyn nodded, glancing over at Will from the corner of her eyes. He gave her a kind-hearted smile.

"Good! Come with me please." Liza said, as she led them into the relatively small museum. Liza wore a maroon dress with beads slung around her long neck, and her face was decorated with a beady nose and very red lipstick. They walked past glass displays of sparkling weapons used on the league of legends battlefield. These were the more unknown weapons, such as 'Doran's Sponge' or 'Sweat Pots'. Caitlyn frowned at another display holding a sharp sword with a ruby encrusted in its handle, which was entitled 'The DE Sword'.

"What's the DE Sword?" She asked Liza, who chuckled and replied "Oh, it was not very popular at all. It stands for 'double edged sword' and the attacker would get hit by 50% of the damage they output… it was not that useful."

"Ahh…" Caitlyn smiled sarcastically.

They walked past the office desk, and into the backroom where there was an open safe surrounded by police tape. Her heart quickened at the sight of the card that lay on the floor. It was yellow, with the word C embedded on it. She walked quietly past the police tape, crouching underneath it and feeling it flick softly against her back.

Vi simply ripped the police tape apart and stepped through it, forcing an irritated frown from Caitlyn.

Caitlyn bent down to the card and picked up the card with a grim demeanor. Its glossy face mocked her in the dim light.

Twisted Fate, under the disguise of Will, watched as the girl picked up his card looking somber. He almost chuckled right then and there, she looked so determined. His hands fell to his hips, as he simply stared at her bent figure. Eve, in stealth, would be watching them from a distance.

"Where do you think he's going to strike next, cupcake?" Vi asked.

"I don't know…" Caitlyn said quietly, as she examined it for hints and clues, "The last time it was yellow… he was planning to strike the Guild Hall." Caitlyn looked up with a sigh, "This place doesn't look like somewhere he would strike either… and Gilda's Short Sword? It doesn't sound very precious."

"Oh, but it is!" Liza spoke up. The two turned to look at her.

"It looks like any average sword, but in truth it grants amazing powers… such as immortality!"

"Immortality." Caitlyn said.

"Yep!" Liza smiled happily.

Will sighed in the corner, as he stepped in to say "It looks like a mundane weapon, but it's extremely powerful if used right." He smiled at the two, knowing full well that Gilda's Short Sword really was an expired and useless weapon from long ago. But that didn't matter.

"I believe that he would strike at the guild hall again…" Caitlyn said, her hand on her chin, "But I'm not sure."

He watched her, a smile plastered on his face.

"It seems like you've been fighting this C for a long time." Will said. Caitlyn crossed her arms and said "Yes. I've made it my main purpose in life to catch this thief, he's my only open case."

"Hmm."

After more hours of investigating the crime scene, Caitlyn left the small museum with little to rely on. Liza related that she locked the museum up for the night, and when she returned the next morning, she found that the front door was wide open. When she ran to the back, where the safe was, she found that the safe was broken open and the only item missing was the short sword.

Caitlyn asked if Will would like to have a drink with them at the bar in the hotel lounge to discuss more about the case. He thought for a moment, and finally said yes.