She put it on the top of her head and took a moment to look around.
Her neighbourhood was pretty far from downtown, it was still a very busy district though.
With dozens of tall buildings all around, and some luxury stores on front of them, filled with all kinds of expensive technology, jewelry and clothing.
She thought for a minute and started heading towards the street corner, to the Blue Cafe, her favourite place in the city
"I deserve this" she thought while waling down the street. "The day was very long and I haven't eaten anything since breakfast, I totally deserve this"
The place made the best desserts in town, and Caitlyn had been looking for tasting a new vanilla-flavored cupcake that a friend had told her about a few days ago.
She twisted the handle and went inside, ringing the bell above the door.
"Hey Doug" she greeted the tall man that stood behind the wooden counter.
"Hello Cait, how was your day?" he answered while cleaning the conter top.
"Tiring" she said sighing, "but very productive" she continued resting her arms on the counter.
"We were able to track and arrest one of the biggest arms dealer of the city, the one they call "King"
She took a sip of water from the glass he'd just put on front of her "It was not an easy task, those guys are like ghosts..." she took another sip "but well, no one can hide from me for very long" she said with a grin.
"But, what about the other three 'emperors'?" The cafe owner started after drinking some coffee from a cup under the counter, "aren't they going to move now that one of them has fallen?"
Caitlyn took a moment to think whilst looking at the ceiling and then answered.
"Well, yes. We're expecting a response from them, but it's hard to know what's going to be, whether they're going to vanish from the city or show their faces and start a war"
"And that's what you guys are looking for? A war?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"No" she said, anticipating that question, "We"re looking for order, and that's not easy to reach. Those bastards had reigned over Piltover's underworld for far too long, if we're going to take them down, we need to begin somewhere, right?"
She slapped the balcony top sharply to signal the end of that conversation "Now" she said, calmly "Could you, please bring me one of those new vanilla flavored cupcakes? I'm been looking for tasting one for the whole week"
Doug stood a little taken back by her sudden change of tone "Well, anything else?" he said
"Yes" she answered, now cheerfully "Could you recommend me a nice tea to 'harmonize' with it" She giggled of her own joke, Doug just turned around and entered the kitchen Cait opened her case and picked her mobile phone, the clock on the screen was marking 19:55, she looked through the window to see the sun still shining brightly "Almost eight o'clock and you're still up there huh? I hate summer, really" she thought Having her attention again to the phone, she saw a new message popping up, it was Vi, asking whether she wanted to go to a night club later, Caitlyn took a second to think, but she was already decided about it, she was way too tired, the only thing she wanted to do after leaving the cafe was having a warm bath and then sleeping all night.
She opened the conversation and typed an answer
"Nah, I'm so tired I can barely walk, maybe another time"
"Aw, common Cupcake, it's been ages since we hanged out together" Vi answered after a while
Caitlyn giggled after reading, she had hated that nickname at first, it made her fell somehow 'disrespected', but nowadays she didn't care, she actually kinda liked it.
She interrupted the silly about hypothetical cupcake realizing that her actual cupcake was taking to long to come, the clock already marking 20:30.
Quickily re-denying Vi's offer, Cait got up from the tall stall and started to walk around the cafe to search for Doug She walked along the counter, seeing some employees walking with hurry in the busy establishment, she cogitated asking one of them for the owner's location, but quickly discarded the idea, she was rather curious about his location.
"He'd never took more than 10 minutes to bring what I have ordered, and it's already half an hour" she said to herself whilst looking around "maybe he got a little mad with the way I acted?"
She continued walking till the end of the counter that extended all the way through the cafe, it had two doors at each end, standing next to the opposite door from which she, Caitlyn looked around the cafe once again searching for Doug's location, just in time for seeing a boy entering from the other door, carrying a huge wooden box, and being followed close by Doug who carried a similar one.
Caitlyn saw them walking in with a slightly annoyed look on her face, she quickly started walking in their direction stepping decidedly. Doug was setting the box on the kitchen's entrance, sweat was rolling down his face as he left the box on top of the one the boy had put on the floor
"How do you carry those things?" The tall man asked with an astonished face.
The boy giggled "just lift a few every day and you'll get used to it in no time"
"Think I'll have to pass it" Doug said before taking a huge sip from his water bottle. "Anyway" he continued "Those two are the only ones, so how much will it..." He stopped, looking to the other side of the cafe, seeing Caitlyn walking quickly on his direction with an annoyed expression.
Doug could just look at the approaching woman with widened eyes, h'd completely forgotten her order.
"Remember me Doug?" she started talking with a skeptical smile "You know, the girl who ordered some tea and a cupcake like, an hour ago?" Caitlyn wasn't actually mad, it was just the first time she'd seen the Cafe owner committing an error, he always liked to brag about how everything he did was flawless, so she just wanted to tease him a little
"That's some serious mistake you know, to leave one of your regular costumers waiting for this much time" Cait said half laughing, Doug was just looking straight at her with regret in his eyes, while the boy behind him was just openly laughing. He approached Doug putting a hand on his shoulder "You can pay me later man, it seems you already have something to deal with" he said almost whispering, then turning around and leaving, blinking to Caitlyn, she smiled back at him. Doug took a moment to gather his strenght, then he just did a little bow and said quite loudly
"I'm deeply sorry for making you wait, Cait I swear this is never going to happen again" Cait just bursted in laughter with his exaggerated apologize "There's no need for this, Doug I was just kidding with you. I was just surprised that once in your life you forgot about something" She said still laughing "Ah" was the only thing Doug as able to say, he'd been totally fooled with her acting, he stood there spacing for a little while more and then said
"Well, I'll go get your order and then you can continue your mocking"
"Oh, alright" she said smiling as she watched him entering the kitchen, she sat on one of the tall stalls resting her chin on her left-hand waiting until Doug appeared with the cupcake and a boiling cup of tea, she smiled on anticipation as he put the dessert on front of her
"This one is on the house" he said as a form of apology
"oh, thanks I've been looking forward to tasting this all..." she started, but got interrupted by the loud noise of an alarm.
She took one second to realize what was happening, then she quickly rushed for case and opened the door "gotta go" Caitlyn said to him while leaving, he just nodded, astonished.
Caitlyn stepped on the sidewalk, looking around searching for the alarm's source, she realized it was coming from a big tech store that stood up the road, the kind of store that had a lot of guards in it, she felt a chill down her spine
"Who'd be crazy enough to rob a shop like this one in broad daylight?" She said to herself while hastily opening her case and assembling her rifle, she rested it on her shoulder and rushed to the store, her hair swaying with the wind.
Stopping almost on front of the shop, she crouched with one knee on the ground, took a moment to catch her breath while looking around.
"Officer" a man standing beside the entrance called "you're late officer Caitlyn" the man continued "they already escaped"
"Who?" Cait asked "Who escaped?"
"Those punks who stole from us" the man started angrily "those three broke into the store and stole a very valuable hextech implement, you need to get it back"
"Did you see where they went?" she asked hastily
"I saw them running into that alley" he answered, pointing to the opposite side of the street.
"Right" she said, running.
While repassing the city's map on hep mind, Cait entered the alley. She knew that city like the back of her hand, she needed to know, in order to optimize any chase, she needed to recognize every single alleyway as it was part of her own house. She quickly understood their escape route, and went to its direction, unless they entered some building, the robbers could have only headed to one place. Caitlyn walked slowly into the small pass that stood in the middle of three building, it had become a very famous place among small lifters, because of how hard to perceive that it was there. She sneaked with her rifle up, and saw them, the "punks" as the manager said, were only children, two boys and a girl, all around eight years old.
"Oh great, she said to herself" "So I've been chasing kids" she sighed "Well, kids or not, they stole, so they'd receive the proper punishment for it" Caitlyn prepared her net and shot quickly, catching the three of them inside it, they screamed in surprise and started to struggle to escape from the heavy net, she approached them slowly, analyzing the situation. She could just retrieve the device and forget about the children.
She cogitated the option for a while but discarded it, someone must had ordered them to steal it, she needed to ask them some questions.. And that douchebag manager would probably want someone to put the blame on. She looked at the little robbers, one of the boys gave up struggling and just accepted his fate, sobbing quietly. While the other two continued their effort, to no avail. She didn't really want to handcuff children, but it was her duty. She knelt down while opening the handcuff "I'm sorry kids, but you'll have to come.." She started but went mute when she felt something pressing against her back.