Chapter 9

Why Am I Here?

1:00 in the morning on Monday at the police station

Mori stood at the little sink in the cell, moving her arms under the cold water, not even blinking as it moved over her burned skin. She had pulled off her shirt, leaving her in her black tank top and her shorts and her soaking scarlet shirt by the faucet. She looked to the bars as a tan muscular cop walked up to them.

"What happened to you?" he asked, his deep voice rumbling with tiredness.

"A few douches decided to throw hot coffee onto me…just cause I asked for a doughnut…" she stated, wringing out her shirt.

"Poor thing, anyways, come here, I may look mean but when those two idiots told me what they did…with a little encouragement…I wanted to give you something, here…" he stated, handing her a half eaten baloney sandwich.

"Thank you…officer Sid." she stated taking the sandwich from him and reading his nametag.

He gave her a smile "No problem, I'm not the kind of police officer to let the people starve…" he stated placing his hands on his hips, he looked to the side and inhaled as the door opened. "Oh no, hide it quick!" he muttered putting on a face that would scare a lion out of it's mane.

"Sid! What are you doing?" a slightly muffled voice asked sternly, as a African American woman walked in, her hair in dreadlocks, her face, arms and legs wrapped in bandages and the rest of her body covered in a female officer's uniform.

"Nothing Nygus, I was just telling this one to put her shirt back on." Sid lied, passing it off easily.

"Miss Ebony, please put your shirt back on." Nygus requested looking at the girl in the tank.

"With all due respect officer Nygus, my shirt has coffee spilled on it…the two idiots that brought you guys coffee and doughnuts decided to be assholes when I asked for a doughnut." Mori stated holding the soaking shirt up for them to see. The shirt had brown splotches on it where the coffee had stained and probably wasn't going to come out with out a proper wash.

"I see, well I'll fire those two, they have been harassing the overnight prisoners since they were hired…" she stated, rubbing her forehead.

"Thank you officer Nygus." Mori stated, then stayed quiet, letting a truly awkward silence grow between the three.

"Sweetheart, I know this sounds weird but would you like your burns to be healed? I'm pretty sure where your headed, they wont give a rats ass about you." Nygus stated one hand on her hip, the other behind her head.

"Really? You would do that for me?" Ebony asked, her eyes wide.

"Of course, we may be cops but we're not heartless…" Sid stated, giving her a smile "That's not the kind of police we are." he added.

"Follow me and we'll fix up those wounds of yours." Nygus chimed, unlocking the doors.

"Ok, give me a few minutes, let me wring out my shirt a little more so I can leave it here." she stated turning back around. She wrung out the shirt and stuffed the sandwich into her mouth, finishing it quickly as she turned and laid the still soaking shirt on the cell bed.

"Alright, you ready? Come on, lets get those burns looked at, Sid, tell Chief Death that I'm taking Ebony into the infirmary to have her fire burns looked at." she stated looking side ways at Sid, who nodded and walked away. Nygus opened the door and took her arm and lead her out into the maze of almost endless hallways, finally ending up at a room with white walls and every type of medicine, whether it be Neosporin or Aspirin.

"Thank you again…no cop has ever been this nice to me…" Mori stated looking at the female officer as she walked inside and sat down.

"Well maybe if you didn't kill or steal then the police would be nicer to you." Nygus stated softly.

"I don't kill unless its necessary and the person deserves to die. And I don't steal unless I really need the item, my alter ego says otherwise." Mori sighed looking at her lap as she sat down in a chair and put her arms on the desk.

"So your one of those…" Nygus stated. getting a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a towel.

She slapped a hand over her mouth, then sighed, "Nygus, you wont tell anyone would you?" she asked, her eyes on the woman in front of her.

"Absolutely not, not if you don't want me too, I believe you just need a second chance, you'll come around." she stated smiling as she walked over to the girl sitting in front of the desk "Alright, come over here and bite down on this, to keep from screaming, I don't want people to know I'm doing this, especially those idiots who did it." she stated, handing her a towel.

"…Alright" Mori muttered, taking the towel and folding it, wincing as a corner fell onto her burned arms. She put the folded towel in her mouth and held it between her teeth as she stretched her arms over the sink.

"This is going to hurt…" Nygus stated before tilting the bottle over so the liquid moved over Mori's arms, almost instantly Mori bit down hard enough to make her gag, the searing pain in her arms making her eyes water. "Sorry hon, but these need to be cleaned." she muttered as almost all of Mori's arm bubbled up. "Alright, I'll grab the gauze and we'll wrap it up after putting some gel on it." Nygus stated getting a little jar full of clear jelly gunk and a large roll of gauze. Mori bit down harder as pain shot through her arm as Nygus rubbed the gel on her arm as quickly and gently as she could, then wrapped it tightly with the gauze.

"T-thanks…" Mori whispered, her voice hardly a whisper when she took the towel from her mouth.

"Sorry, I had to make sure it would heal properly." Nygus stated bowing her head.

"I-its alright, it just hurts a lot…" Mori whimpered, as she walked towards the door.

"Hey Nygus! The-what the hell are you doing over here?!" the two cops from before barked at the black haired girl, almost gabbing her arms when Nygus stepped in front of her.

"You two are fired, pack your locker and go home, how dare you treat this poor girl like you did, all she asked for was a fucking doughnut!" Nygus snarled, scaring both of them.

"B-but she reached out side the bars, she is not supposed to do that!" the shorter cop stuttered.

"You offered her the doughnut! What is she supposed to do? Make the doughnut appear in her hands?" Nygus growled.

"T-they tasered me too…" Mori whispered holding onto Nygus's arm like a little child behind her mother.

"You did what?! You know what? Just go home you two, I'm not even letting you pack your things" Nygus growled.

"Bu-"

"Go! I'll tell Chief Death, just get the hell out of here." she sighed as both guys ran down the hall and disappeared.

"T-thank you…" Mori whispered, looking down.

"Hey sweetheart, look up at me, I will do anything for a young one like you, you do not deserve that kind of treatment. That is just torture, something we aren't allowed to do here. You of all people deserve a second chance, with your dual personalities, they shouldn't let anyone be arrested for an evil side of them selves that they cant control." Nygus whispered kneeling down to meet Mori's eyes, she gasped sharply as Mori hugged her tightly.

"Then why am I here?" Mori muttered.