I beginning to regret how much I had to drink last night at the gala, I was anything but some teetotaller who couldn't hold her liquor, but with the early morning at work I had, it was probably a bad idea; case in point, my hangover.
"Chief." luckily it wasn't that bad, so it was easy to resist the thought of putting Saikhan through a wall for increasing the mild pounding in my skull.
"Captain." I was pretty sure he still had some hard feelings from getting pushed down a rank when I got my job back, I couldn't but feel a little guilty about that. I had resigned of my own volition, but when the Equalists manage to take out the entire force in less than hour on your watch, it doesn't look very good on your resume. "Anything important to report?"
"Nothing big, just a hand full of complaints about the new Sato-Equalist school-" the captain's venom towards non-benders was not something I was in the mood for so I cut him off.
"That's 'Chi-blocking Academy' Saikhan, I expect you to remember that and to remain respectful of the council's decisions." I looked the captain dead in the eyes and lowered my voice "Especially those I agree with" I paused for a moment to let that sink in "or you could find a new job with the Triple Threats, I believe they're open your method of thinking. Now if there is anything real that requires the attention of the police please leave it in my office I'm going to get a fresh cup of coffee."
I left the captain to stew as I went to get my morning coffee, which my mild hangover was making all the more alluring. After getting a steaming cup of wake-up juice I made my way back to my office to be greeted by the usual morning reports, seemed the Triple Threats were still trying to pull themselves together; they could take all the time in the world for all I cared. It also seemed that the proliferation of black market Equalist tazer gloves was dropping as word got around about the new insulated armour for the police.
I smiled at the thought of my friend, dear Ms. Sato, I imagined that she was having quite a fun night with Korra, if she could work up the nerve; she deserved some happiness.
Then I came to a certain arrest report and almost laughed out loud, the list of charges on this jerk.
-Drunken disorderly
- Vagrancy
-Disturbing the peace
-Loitering
-Resisting arrest
and my favourite of them all
-Public urination
Currently sleeping off all the booze he'd obviously had last night, I called to Saikhan and told him to tell me when this particular perp woke up in his cell, I wanted to deal with this little acquaintance of mine personally.
The morning dragged on as noon and lunch approached, I used a little time to check the society pages in the paper, they'd covered the break up last night, hopefully Korra could stay out of the firing line; these guys could be pretty vicious. Just as I was about to head to get myself some lunch, Saikhan called out to me, "Hey Chief, that perp you asked about, he's awake, and demanding to see you."
"Well it would be rude to keep him waiting, I'll get right on that, thank you Captain." and with a smirk I set off to the prison cells, looking forward to putting this self-centred jerk in his place. As I got closer I heard him banging on the cell door a bit, I hoped he didn't get the bright idea that he had any authority here.
"Good Morning Mako, sleep well?" I tried not to sound smug as I addressed him through the eye slot in the cell door.
"Lin! It's about time, you have to get me out of here." always assuming he could just demand
"I don't have to do anything for you, you broke the law and now you're in jail. That's how things work in my city." especially for a sizable list of charges, even if they were all minor offences.
"Call Korra, she'll -" I took a bit of perverse pleasure in cutting him off.
"I don't really think your ex can help you here." I fed the paper through the slot, turned to the page with the article and then waited for his reaction.
"Avatar Korra rejects proposal and dumps boyfriend!" ah , that was so satisfying, as he read through the article detailing his being shot down and humiliated and his obvious racial insensitivity; I mean proposing to water tribe girl with a ring, really?
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to lunch, don't break the door or 'Destruction of public property' will be added to your list of charges." and with that I closed the eye slot and walked off as Mako started to bang and yell even more. I stopped at the guard to give him a few instructions.
"If he gets too rowdy, feel free to knock him out, warn him first though, only fair after all." and so after reccieving a quick salute and 'yes chief' from the officer on guard duty, I went off to lunch. I could use another cup of coffee to finish off this small hangover, and relish in this major amusement as I did.
AN: Okay so here's the first part of my companion piece to Reasons to Celebrate about the characters besides Korra and Asami, and how their little stories interweave with the main one. Please read and review as always.
