Arms of Another

Chapter 3

My superpower is to make everything gay.

The sound of my pen scratching the paper was the only sound that filled my office. I've gotten used to the silence. Not only in here, but throughout the entire city. It's been an entire year today since Jinx and Vi both vanished. I do sometimes miss my partner, but then I remember that she was hiding that criminal from the law.

"Evening, Cait." I looked up at Jayce when he walked into the office. "Have you been working all day?"

"There isn't anything else to do." Placing my pen down, I pushed my chair away from my desk. "There hasn't been anything to do for a while, now."

"Isn't that a good thing?" He smiled, sitting on the edge of my desk. "In the past year, no buildings have been destroyed."

"That's true, but…"

"But?" He asked. Sighing, I looked at the thin pile of paperwork in front of me.

"Jinx was the, lets say, apex predator of the criminals in this city. Nobody else has even tried to come anywhere near close to that." Jayce hummed a low tone and gently placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I understand, but you don't have to worry about losing your job." I looked up at him with an eyebrow raised. "There are always going to be criminals, Caitlyn." That's not even my concern. I miss my partner. I wouldn't admit that out loud, though. "Come on, why don't we go for a drink?" I took his hand and let him pull me out of my chair. As I smiled, however, an explosion shook the ground, causing us both to lose our balance. As Jayce fell back, he pulled me with him. We landed in a….compromising position, as I landed between his knees, and fully onto his chest.

"Sheriff! Are you alright?" My head was reeling from where I hit my friend's chest. I swear, he puts bricks in his shirt.

"What was that?!" Jayce yelled, trying to get us both to our feet. "Caitlyn, talk to me."

"Hold on, I might have sustained a concussion from that." I kept a firm grip on his arm as he pulled me to my feet.

"Officer, what happened?" Jayce asked again. Keeping a hand over the impact point on my head, I looked at my crewmember.

"There- there must have been an explosion somewhere!" His radio started to crackle.

"Rockets fired at the treasury! Backup requested!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~X~~~~~~~~~~~~

(A short while before)

I can't say that I missed this place. It's always been too bright. Ah, who am I kidding? I missed Piltover! All my favourite bars are here! I jumped and looked back at the soft 'oof'.

"You okay, there?" Jinx laughed and smiled at me from the floor.

"Metal is slippy." She gripped my hand and let me pull her up when I walked over. "Gotta make a few more tweaks, then we're good to go!" Jinx jumped back onto the giant thing and stuck her hands into the wiring.

"Shame we couldn't get the paint into there."

"Nah, wouldn't have made a big enough boom." She kicked the glass container. "It'll work on the outside." We just kinda… tied it on.

"Rocket goes boom, and paint goes boom!" With a laugh, I turned back to look at the city. I don't even know what I feel for this place anymore. Sadness? Nah. Happiness? I can see the police station from here, so… fuck that.

"You're lookin' all gloomy." I heard Jinx jump off of the bomb again. "What's got you all gloomy?" Her arms hooked around my waist, and her cheek pressed into my back.

"Just memories, y'know?" I huffed. "Things didn't end well when we left."

"That's why we're back!" Without letting go, Jinx shuffled around until she was in front of me. "We're here to fix stuff!" Grinning, I lifted her up into another hug.

"Is the rocket ready to go?" I put her down and she ran over to it, snapping the lid shut. As Jinx started to ignite it, I cracked my knuckles and turned around. Finally, it started to slowly move forward, digging a groove into the ground. We're way above the city, so there's plenty of chance for it to get air. As the rocket really kicked off, I jumped on top of it, like I was on a skateboard.

"Hello, Piltover!" Jinx shouted, and then laughed. "Did you miss us?!" I reached out to her so she could grab my hand. "Lean left!" I shifted around, fighting to keep my balance. Jinx makes the calls when it comes to explosives. Any minute now… "Jump!" I pulled her up to me and pushed myself into the air. The bomb flew faster than we fell, and Jinx laughed harder as the rocket hit the building, completely destroying the wall and filling the place with fire. As I landed, Jinx on my hip, I looked up, and grinned as pink paint splashed all over the place.

"That was awesome." I grinned. Jinx moved away from me, and I pushed myself to my full height, grunting at the pain in my left knee.

"Looks like the hydraulics we put in your boots work well." The simple machinery starts in the bottom of my shoes, and runs up my calves, softening every jump I take.

"Yeah, but this probably wasn't the best time for a first test." I looked away from my partner, and up at the now destroyed building. "The entire city must have felt that."

"People are going to be here soon." Fishbones said from Jinx's back. "You don't want to be caught."

"He's right, but where should we even go?" I asked. "We probably don't have safehouses anymore."

"You're still into beating up idiots, right?" I nodded. "We can make one!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~X~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Well, that's not a good sign." Jayce said. I glared up at him, then back to the complete mess on the street. The fire crew were somewhat controlling the blaze, and some of my officers were trying to clear the street of rubble.

"I'm honestly surprised that Jinx didn't try and paint her name everywhere. She used to."

"All we know for now is that she's back." I looked up at Jayce again. "She doesn't need to use her name, we got the message."

"But if Jinx is here, where's Vi?" he looked down at me this time. I hate how much taller he is than me.

"We'll have to ask when we find Jinx. There's no way of knowing." He looked at the building again. "Like you said before, it's been a year. She could be anywhere." I hope I see her again. I miss Vi and her cute…stupid face. "Are you alright, Caitlyn?"

"I'm fine." Chuckling, Jayce put an arm over my shoulders in a hug.

"You were complaining about the lack of excitement. The excitement found us."

I was supposed to finish this a couple days ago, but one of my cousins turned 1, and I turn 20 on Wednesday. Yay.