A Heart Without a Beat
Zinnia
"Is that so?" Ryoko quirks a brow and crosses her arms slightly covering her bump.
"Space Pirate Ryoko, are you aware of the significant charges against you?" The middle-aged lieutenant steps forward. "May I remind you of the damage reports?! You have annihilated 368 ships, killing many young and promising police officers! Huh?!" His voice thundered throughout the ship.
Ryoko yawns noisily and looks to the rigid face man. There was a scar running from his right temple and beneath his eye. "Are you expecting me to care? If so, I hope you and your buddy brought food cause it's going to be a long night." Kiyone grasps the insolent woman's forearm pulling her back. Commander Ichizō steps between the lieutenant and pirate, looking at her calmly from head to toe.
Kiyone reaches and plants a firm hand on Ryoko's shoulder, setting the pirate behind her before addressing the officers.
"Forgive her." Kiyone bows her head.
"Stop kissing their ass," Ryoko nudges Kiyone shoulder, causing the two officers to frown at them.
"That is enough Ryoko!" Kiyone shouts at her and clears her throat, "With all due respect we are not within GXP's jurisdiction it is not plausible to arrest her."
"Well aware. But we could not help to notice the ship and grabbed the opportunity." The young and handsome commander explains innocently, his hazel eyes look over Kiyone's shoulder at Ryoko, locking eyes with her stern ones. "Congratulations. When are you due?"
"Tentatively next March." Washu approaches in her adult form. Ryoko tore her eyes away first to look at her grown mother. Ichizō nods looking between the two women. "You cannot arrest an expectant mother, can you?" The question was a good question, although Washu knew it cannot take place. Kiyone looks back questioningly at Ichizō, who smiles peculiarly.
"Affirmative. However, we can offer a suitable amount of time for her to be acquainted with the child before turning herself in."
"Please, she deserves nothing but the dark wards of prison. Screw her and the child!"
"That is my grandchild, how dare you!" Washu bellows coming forth.
Ichizō spreads his arms out blocking the irate lieutenant.
"Eiji! Back to the ship, now!" He ordered. When the lieutenant was gone, Ichizō apologized for his partner's behavior. "I will grant your daughter 6 months after the birth of the child, and I am hoping that detectives Kiyone and Mihoshi would follow the order and escort her to headquarters." He pivoted only to stop, his index finger tapping his lips "By the way Detective Kiyone and Mihoshi, I frown on this affiliation, the both of you will be undergoing scrutiny upon your return to HQ. Bye for now." He bows and disappeared leaving the women in silence.
"You and I know damn well, you should have arrested her. We had her! And you let the wench slip through our hands." Eiji poked at his partner as he walks through the portal and to the cockpit. "Whatever that wench is having-!" Eiji sentence was cut short by a fist, he hit the floor with a loud thud.
"It's best you shut your mouth about this!" Ichizō grabbed Eiji's chin tightly, gritting his teeth. "Just could not see things from my perspective, right? Next time, either you shut up or I'll put a bullet in your skull."
"Besides I have more dirt on you than you know. Your life is completely in my hands," He extends his gloved hand, and quickly closes it, "Don't try to test my boundaries." Ichizō felt exultant, for the last two months he underhandedly exposed the GXP's chain of command for fraudulent activity and now, the case of Space Pirate Ryoko. He smiled cryptically thinking of the amber-eyed woman, her pallid skin, her pouty lips, and her insolence.
"Sweetheart best believe I am going easy on you. I'm a starved predator and your solely my prey." He declared inwardly as he watches the ship sped off.
Ayeka and Yosho stood side by side, watching the ship descend for the purplish evening sky. Sasami, after spending the whole day moping, ran past her siblings and clutching the cabbit to her chest tears springing from her eyes.
"Glad you return to us unharmed," Yosho commented looking around at the depress faces of the remaining women, Washu had vanished before the ships landing. "What is troubling you all?"
Kiyone heaves a sigh, "There was no corpse found aside from a particular artifact. But, as we were heading back, we were impeded by GXP's new fleet…" Ayeka's purple hues narrow and look to Ryoko. The Jurians politely waits in anticipation for the detective to continue her account. "Er…maybe we should wait to tell Tenchi the news at the family meeting." Noticing the young man was missing.
"I see. Ryoko how are you feeling?" Ayeka focuses on her glowering comrade. Her answer came with the pirate breaking from the group making her way to the house.
"The nerve of that woman."