Ch. 8 Hinges

Todou-kun POV at first then Haru's.

Forgive me lieblings, I did not have internet connection this weekend and could not update for you beauts.

Let me reiterate for those who might have not done so yet. I messed up and published chapter 6 before chapter 5. I highly recommend that you go back and read chapter 5 till now if you're confused about anything.

Enjoy!


Warnings

+It isn't too bad to me, but some people might have different feelings about the situation being described towards the end. Its not beautiful action between our couple. Its just something Todou's gonna see on the job. Again, some of you might not care, others might be appalled while others might freak out over it. I don't know, just warning ya'll.


Hinges

If we had hinges on our heads
There wouldn't be no sin,
'Cause we could take the bad stuff out
And leave the good stuff in.

~Shel Silverstein


Nothing's really changed. The only thing that's different from before is the parting kiss to the forehead or cheek, but its been three weeks and nothing new has come up.

Well at least not really, because now, every accidental touch, any flirty comment or close proximity has us both flustered and embarrassed. I can see it in his eyes, how much he loves me. And in the way he acts, how much he cares for me. I try to express my own feelings the best that I can, but nothing's really changed.

I don't think we've become more of a couple, but neither have we become less of one. We're stuck at this intersection and it's probably my fault we haven't been able to make any progress. I know there's something I can do, but I have no idea where to start thinking.

Maybe we should try meeting up more? I pull out my phone and send a brief text asking if I can come over and that I'll rent a movie I wanted to see, including whether he wanted to see any certain ones himself.

So far we only get together three or four times a week at most. Maybe I could try... spending the night tonight? But that might lead him on and I don't think I'm ready to have- to do it with him yet. We've only kissed once and I-

Okay, just scratch that thought, we're gonna just watch a movie.

We should get together maybe a little more though. But as of late there's been a string of connected break ins and besides my normal shift hours, I shouldn't take too much time off of work. Plus Haruhiko's job at the neighborhood thing is coming to a close and while it sounds like he's done, he explained that the tough part has only just now started. Last minute odds and ends that the workers don't understand have to be explained by him so he's spent most of his days at the site.

Is being a couple supposed to be this hard? Glancing over to Rikki-san, who was finishing up his burger, I pondered on weather or not it would be smart to ask him what his wife and he did when they dated. Not that I wanted to end up being Haruhiko-san's wife... just tha-

"273Delta to available officers near XXX."

"Woah, something new?" Rikki-san mumbled through the food in his mouth. After tossing the rest of the food in a trashcan, we listened in for the location and found that we were nearby. Childishly, Rikki-san rubbed his hands together, started up the car and pulled out of the parking lot, "Finally some action."

Shaking my head, I picked up the radio and replied, "This is 413, that's a 10-4 en route."

The dispatch continued giving details, and I had to raise be eyebrows - it sounded more serious than normal. It was a domestic dispute and multiple calls had been made from both annoyed and concerned neighbors.

It didn't take much time at all to arrive and what awaited us was devastating. There were three children sitting on the lawn all of them bawling their eyes out, one had a busted lip and the other two were covered in bruises. I requested for an ambulance and luckily another officer arrived, he took care of the children as I followed Rikki-san up the steps into the home. The door was left open and I could hear screaming and yelling coming from inside.

Carefully, we crossed the living room avoiding the piles of rubbish lying around. We cleared the surrounding rooms quickly before heading to the source of the yelling. Upon entering the room, we found a man beating a woman senselessly with a gun. Rikki-san and I instinctively ducked for cover, the man was obviously drunk as the smell of alcohol wafted through the air and the rubbish in the living room was primarily made up of empty beer cans. I quickly requested for backup again, raising the level of importance as there was now a firearm added to the equation.

While staring at each other, we wordlessly created a plan of action to subdue the offender and get the woman to safety. However just before we began we heard, "YOU FUCKING BITCH, I'LL BLOW US ALL TO HELL!"

I carefully peeped in just in time to see the man press a button and quickly evaluated the contraption to which it was connected. I found that he'd just set off the timer for a bomb to detonate in two minutes. Rikki-san saw this as well and without hesitation, shot the armed man on the wrist to disarm him, stormed in with me close behind, and cuffed the bleeding assailant who was silenced from shock. I quickly pulled the woman to her feet and we ran out as fast as we possibly could.

When we crossed the hazardous living room, Rikki-san and I began shouting to the other officer to get out of the way. Flying down the porch steps we yelled there was a bomb and demanded the officer to run the kids behind a car, just as more squad cars arrived I could feel the force of the explosion knock me, along with the battered woman, off my feet. I tried to ease the fall for the already hurt woman with my body, but stumbled too much to get proper angle, as I impacted with the ground, I felt a sharp pain run through my head and to my horror, everything went black.


Ha, so that police code stuff is for America as far as I know... which isn't a lot...I didn't try looking up that jazz in japanese cause when i tried to see if the officers were allowed to take their weapons home... all i found was a wiki page on Japanese Law Enforcment and that didn't get me anywhere. =_= and also sorry if it sounded unofficial and lame cause I have no clue what exactly they say when all that stuff happens so I just tried to make it sound as cool as possible.

I wonder if I should open up reviews for people who want to see something particular happen? Maybe I could come up with a drabble thingy for this pairing... like .5's or something... how about we give it a try, maybe request me something and i'll see if maybe it'll work... ne? I know I'd love to hear your ideas.:)

Sorry for that cliff hanger! See you next weeeeeeek! (*3*)