In the 5 years of being a part of the police force, Levi had experienced his fair share of weird cases, but this was certainly proving to be one of the most irritating.
"Oh my god, it's been 4 hours, for the last fucking time, woman, get out of the damn tree."
Standing at the base of a towering oak tree, the man glared up at the figure tucked into the branches. It's a young woman with a short ebony bob cut, face concealed by a crimson scarf wrapped around her chin. Levi has been yelling to her through his megaphone since noon, when he got the call about some crazy protester staking out in a tree near the edge of town.
The job had seemed easy enough; tell this lunatic to go home and be over with it. But of course, Levi just had to get the one girl stubborn enough to ignore his demands.
"Oi, brat. Are you even listening?" His voice crackles through the megaphone, startling a flock of doves in the brush nearby. The woman's not as easily frightened, unfortunately, and the officer scowls when she shoots him a frigid look, pulling her scarf farther up her face.
"Goddamn shitty kid." He mutters under his breath. Part of him wants to call in for backup, but he bitterly acknowledges how much Auruo would tease him if he needed help with this case. Even damn Petra would get a laugh over the nameless treehugger defeating the dark-haired cop.
Levi's abruptly interrupted from thinking when something strikes him in the head, causing a string of curse words to fly from his mouth when he looks up.
There she is, that shitty woman, lounging almost casually across a tree limb, steel colored eyes glinting with mischief as she rolls an acorn between her fingers.
Before he can say a word, the seed has been flicked down, hitting Levi square in the forehead.
"Fuck!" He hisses, hand flying up to rub at the growing red spot. At his outburst, the woman's lips tilt up in a satisfied smirk, and the man makes up his mind at that second.
He will get this brat out of this tree if it's the last thing he does.