This is my second Psycho-Pass fanfic, and a sequel to "Shion's Unexpected Visitor."
The premise of the first part of the fic goes between Kougami and Shion. I tried another interaction with them again. I took the liberty to make a fic of them after Episode 18 and after Psycho-Pass radio dramas 2 and 7. It seems Shion really likes to pick on Kougami and tease him or slave him around. Check out "Men's aesthetics: Glasses chapter, 24 hours a day" and "The doggy policeman, 24 hours a day."
The second part of the fic is about Tsunemori Akane and her thoughts on Kougami, with Ginoza and Dime at the background.
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It was three-thirty at dawn.
Kougami was up early because he had to go on with his plan of running away. But first, a nice cup of coffee will make him awake for the day.
In Shion's nice little kitchen, he made some coffee for him and Shion. He was grateful that she kept him for a night as a guest. He was sure that the lab analyst will keep his secret and not tell a soul about him and the bike he hid outside.
As he was pondering on his next move, a gentle feminine voice greeted him from the back.
"Good morning, Shinya-kun."
He turned around and smirked. Shion looked sleepy still, but had gone up for whatever reason that had jolted her to wake up. Shion wore a pink silk nightie with the hem three inches above the knee. He studied her as Shion covered her lips to let out a yawn.
"Good morning, Shion," Kougami replied. "You woke up so early."
"I should ask you the same," Shion said, bringing herself to sit on the chair across from where Kougami was making coffee.
"I need to go while it's dark," he grimly replied.
"I have figured," she told him.
"And hey, the bottles of wine," Kougami started.
Shion saw the bottles of wine on the sink. She remembered him and Kougami sharing wine and cigar the night before.
"And I cleaned up our mess… You know, the cigars and all," Kougami told her.
"Oh, shit, sorry for making you do that," Shion replied.
"That's okay," Kougami said. "I woke up early and cleaned the living room. Bottles, glasses, and all."
Shion's hand made its way to her head. "Itai…"
"I don't know wine could give you a hangover," Kougami teased her. "Or can you not handle it at all?"
"I can handle it, okay?" Shion replied with a smile. "It's just that… I just woke up too early, and it's still six hours before my actual waking time."
"Go back to sleep," Kougami informed her gently. "You don't need to look after me."
"I'll just go back to sleep when you're out," Shion told him. "You're my guest, remember?"
"Yeah."
When the coffee was done brewing, Kougami prepared two cups and poured coffee on each.
"Hey, you want creamer and sugar on yours?" he asked.
"Nah, I want it pure and bitter," Shion said.
"Pure and bitter. I like the sound of that," Kougami said with a smirk. "We sure are friends, are we?"
"Hm?"
"We both like our coffee pure and bitter."
"Yeah…"
Kougami carefully placed a cup where Shion was seated, and he also placed a cup across hers. He grabbed the chair from across and took his place. Shion reached for her cup, but because it was still hot and the air was chilly, she just let the warmth of the cup warm her cold fingers.
"Are you sure that… You won't get a peek on any of your former colleagues?" Shion asked him for the last time.
"Why does it sound like you're forcing me to face them?" Kougami asked, his voice huskier than ever. "Tsunemori will only cling on to me if I do that."
"Why are you saying goodbye to me in person, then?" Shion asked, her voice calm and collected as ever.
"Well, because I think you are not one to hold on to a person, someone who doesn't get in the way of what the other person wants," Kougami said.
"Not getting in the way?" Shion asked. "I wondered if you noticed that I sometimes pull you out of your quarters to help me up with some bunch of stuff, some of them transferring useless things."
"I noticed that," Kougami said.
"Remembered one time I had you help me clean up a warehouse? Ginoza chided me after that because you came in late."
"Well, what you had me do was reasonable," Kougami said as he grabbed his cup. "But after that, you did not bug me into more things that you can handle."
"Come on, Shinya-kun, don't be rude. You can properly say goodbye to Akane. The two of you were, like, the bestest of friends in the field," Shion replied.
Kougami sipped through his mug before putting it down. "I already said my goodbyes to her. In a letter."
Shion cocked her head. In a letter? Kougami told her that Akane and he had a talk, but he did not divulge what it was.
"Well, I guess that letters have more weight sometimes," Shion said before sipping from her cup.
"That's why I wrote it."
"Uh, hey, Shinya-kun, sorry for letting you sleep in the living room," Shion told him before biting her lower lip.
A smirk lit up Kougami's handsome features, "No worries. This bull can definitely handle anything, no matter how harsh."
After a few minutes of chit-chat, Kougami stood up and placed his cup on the sink.
"Don't bother with that," Shion told him. "I'll wash it."
"Thanks."
Shion's gaze followed the former Enforcer to the dining room, then to the living room. She stood up, her footsteps hastening. If she could only slow down time, she would, just so she could get a glimpse of Kougami longer. She watched him grab his bag from a couch, which he had brought along with him yesterday. Shion went near him and followed him to the door.
"I'll be off now," Kougami whispered.
Whispers were all they could pass between the two of them for precautionary measures.
"Thanks for everything," he addressed her.
"I hope we'll get to see each other again and smoke like the old times," Shion told him. And with her voice turning soft, she told him again, "And hey, thanks for… everything… as well."
Kougami smirked. Shion had gotten what she wanted from him. Though they were only friends, Kougami granted Shion's "wish." He stood still as Shion tiptoed to give him a kiss on his cheek.
"Take care, and don't get caught," she told him.
"Yeah, take care too. And please take care of Akane for me," he requested her.
"Anything for you, Shinya-kun. Goodbye."
"Goodbye, Shion."
And that was the last thing she ever heard from him. Shion watched him walk out the door, out of her house, and into the dark lane where he parked the motorbike.
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Division 1 in MWPSB were less busy than usual, but they still had tasks. In the middle of the tasks, however, Akane would stop to look at the empty seats in their area. Kougami's ashtray and a pack of SPINEL was still on his desk. Kagari's red game console was still sitting along with some pack of candies. Only Masaoka's seat had been completely vacated, mainly because Ginoza kept his otousan's stuff and kept them in his place in the Enforcers' dorm. The new inspector, Shimotsuki Mika, had taken her place comfortably.
"Shouldn't we clean up Kougami and Kagari's areas?" Yayoi suggested. "The new enforcers are set to arrive either later this day or tomorrow."
"I'll take care of Kougami-san's stuff, you take care of Kagari's," Akane told her.
The ponytailed pale girl stood up and began to gather the stuff of her former colleague. Though she and Kagari were of the same age, Kagari often acted childishly, so she was like the oneechan. She sighed. She did not think she could ever get used to this. With so many losses, though, she did not think she could ever get immuned. Yayoi sighed again as she went to her cubicle, Kagari's toys and candies around her arms.
From where she sat, Mika saw her crush looking forlorn. She had no idea regarding Yayoi and Shuusei's dynamics, but it seemed the two were close friends. If only she could do something to ease the other woman's pain…
Akane stood up and dragged her heels towards Kougami's place. Her fingers trailed the outline of the letters of the cigarette brand. The brand itself became synonymous to Kougami, it seemed to her. And just as she finished spelling out the letters in her finger, a familiar ache made it through her chest. The same ache began to choke her throat, a sensation hit her in the head. In the eyes. And a tear began to fall. The pain was smothering her over and over and over again, ever since Kougami left.
Why did Kougami have to do that, she asked herself. Why did he break his promise?
"Tsunemori?" a familiar voice, but a gentler version, called out to her.
She turned around and saw a calm Ginoza, standing right behind her, staring at her.
"Are you okay?" he asked her.
Ever since the death of Masaoka-san, and after he was demoted to be an Enforcer, Ginoza had calmed down, ironically. His Psycho-Pass had clouded, his Crime Coefficient had raised, but he had come to terms with it and had grown milder with Akane. She welcomed that change in him.
"No…" a hurt in her voice was obvious as day.
Akane grabbed the ash tray and the pack of cigarette from Kougami's desk and brought these with her to her cubicle. The Enforcer gathered the other items from Kougami's desk and brought them to Akane's desk.
"Thank you, Ginoza-san," she weakly replied, staring at the piles of paper in his arms.
The Enforcer silently placed them on the other side of the desk to avoid crowding and getting in the way of Akane's work.
"Hey, this evening, I might walk my dog," Ginoza started a conversation.
"You have a dog?" Akane asked, turning to him.
"I guess I haven't shared it to you, have I?" the Enforcer calmly said. "Yes, I have a Siberian husky, and I will be bringing him to the soccer field to play catch. Wanna tag along?"
Akane turned her attention back at the cigarette pack sitting on her keyboard.
"Yeah…" without looking at him, she replied.
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Akane went with Ginoza in his car, and the first destination they went to was a convenience store. From there, Akane only got out, leaving Ginoza to wait for her. She entered the store and bought a lighter. When she got back to the car, Ginoza eyed the lighter curiously.
"You don't smoke, do you?" he asked.
"Yeah, I don't," she replied. "I just needed this to…"
But she didn't have to explain. Why would she ever explain? She just wanted people to leave her alone in her sadness. But Ginoza did not press any longer. He had an idea as to what Akane had in mind. He knew she just would use the cigarette she got his morning and the lighter, for them to burn like candles, something that will remind her of Kougami. His eyes, his gaze, his voice, his stance, his attitude, all of him could be everything with just the scent of the cigarette smoke. Ginoza knew how much Kougami meant to Akane. Akane's feeling of betrayal, he had that too. For him, Kougami betrayed her just as he betrayed him. Kougami betrayed the two of them. But Akane's feeling was somewhat new, unlike his that had gone on for years ever since Kougami had been labeled as a latent criminal by Sibyl. Both of them experienced losses, and were trying to deal with it.
"Shall we go now?" Ginoza asked gently.
"Yeah…"
