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Kat groaned when she heard knocking on her bedroom door early the next morning.
"Wake up! Time for school!"
"Five more minutes!" She whined. She burrowed her face into the pillow and gripped the bedcovers closer to her body.
"I'm making bacon grilled cheese sandwiches," her mother said from the other side of the door.
Kat's eyes flew open at the mention of bacon. "I'm up!" She quickly threw the covers away and rolled out of her bed.
She quickly changed from her pajamas to the clothes she picked out last night after her night shower. After she fixed her hair and checked herself in the body mirror, she grabbed her backpack and walked out of her bedroom. She sniffed the air. Her mouth watered at the smell of cheese, bacon and coffee.
She dropped her backpack on the couch and went to the kitchen to serve herself some orange juice. "Doesn't smell like burnt toast," Kat smirked as she entered the small kitchen.
Olivia huffed. "If you want I can let it burn."
Kat chuckled and opened the fridge. "I'm good." She took out the juice cartoon and went to grab a glass club. "Any luck on the case lately?"
"Not discussing the case with you, sweetheart," Liv slid the grilled sandwich on a plate.
The teen sighed and poured the juice on the glass. She grabbed the plate when her mother passed it to her and went to sit on the small round dinner table. She could hear the news on the television as she ate her breakfast. Kat noticed her mother was just drinking coffee but she wasn't eating anything.
"Mom, aren't you going to eat something?" Kat took a bite of the sandwich.
Olivia shook her head. "I'm not that hungry. I will get a doughnut after I drop you off at school."
"Okay," Kat shrugged and continued to eat the grilled cheese bacon sandwich.
"You won't be accompanying me to the precinct again today," Liv took a sip of her coffee, breaking the silence. "So after school I want you straight home. Okay?"
"Sure," Kat took the last bite of the sandwich. The teen was glad that she didn't have to sit in the precinct and probably bumping into Porter.
The detective checked her watch and realized that time the minutes went by faster than she expected. "Hurry up and finish your juice or you are going to be late for school," Liv stood from the chair and went to grab the car keys.
Kat gulped the rest of her orange juice and went to get her backpack from the couch. She checked that she had everything before glancing at her mom. She saw the detective dropping the keys and smirked when her mother sighed.
Olivia bent down to grab her keys when she heard Kat blowing a raspberry. She quickly stood up straight and turned to look at her daughter. She noticed the teenager biting her lip, trying to not laugh out loud at what she did.
Kat couldn't hold it anymore and started to laugh at the shock expression on her mother's face. "Sorry," the teen continue to chuckle. "But your face is making it hard to stop."
Liv smiled faintly as she stared at her laughing daughter. She shook her head and picked up her keys before Kat could make another fart noise at her direction. "Let's get you to school before you are late."
The teen calmed herself after a few more seconds of laughing and went to pass her mother on her way to the front door. Kat didn't expect her mother's fingers squeezing her ribs, where she was the most ticklish. The teenager let out cry as she tried to squirm out of her mother's tickles.
"No!" Kat was able to wriggle out of the detective's hands. She ran out of the apartment before her mother could tickle her again.
"Come back here!" Liv laughed, running after her daughter.
"You seem happier today," Nick said as he continued to drive towards Delia Wilson's farm.
Porter had texted Olivia the text message this morning. As soon the female detective saw Nick in the squad room, she told him about the address and they both left. They hoped the three hour long ride to Cambridge would be worth it.
Olivia smiled on her daughter's prank this morning and let out a small chuckle. "That's because I am. Kat did a small prank at me but I got her back."
Nick smirked and glanced at his partner. "I'm sure you did," he turned his attention back to the road as his smile disappeared from his face. "Can we actually trust this Porter guy? You have worked with him before. Do you think he will actually try to help us and not to screw us?"
"Porter is a difficult man to work with," Olivia sighed heavily. She remembered the times whey will sometimes argue whenever they met in secret when she was undercover in Oregon. "We had our bumps but we always managed to finish the case."
"What about the last time you work together? You two had some kind of fallout?" Nick frowned. He remembered the way Kat and Fin reacted towards Porter. "Did something happen during your last case together?"
Liv pursed her lips. "Something like that."
"So you two dated, then?" Nick quickly glanced at Olivia before staring out at the road again.
"We did," Olivia said. She can still remember the last thing he said to her before he left her crying silently in the interrogation room. "Things didn't work out in the end."
Nick stayed silent, not wanting to push the personal matter anymore.
Kat walked out of the subway station with the other people. She yawned as she walked towards the direction of the apartment. Her classes her boring and all she wanted to do was to take a small nap before starting on her homework. She was lucky that the teachers didn't assign a lot of homework.
A commotion in the alley made Kat stop walking. She glanced around the alley and was startled when a grey garbage bin fell to the ground. She saw a black German shepherd walking around the garbage that fell from the bin and sniffing around.
Kat quietly walked in the alley, not wanting to startle the dog. It was no use. She was close to the dog when she kicked an empty water bottle, making it hit the brick wall of one of the buildings. The dog's head shot up and it started to growl at her. The teen stopped walking and raised her hands in surrender.
The dog didn't attack but it didn't relax it's posture. Kat took a step back and slowly took off her backpack. "It's okay," Kat gently said. "I'm just going to take out an apple from my backpack."
She slowly unzipped the backpack's zipper. She carefully patted around inside her backpack without taking her eyes off the dirty black dog. When her fingers finally bumped into the apple, she slowly took red apple out of the backpack and closed it again.
Kat crouched down and motioned the dog to come close. When it didn't, she placed it on the ground and moved back a bit. The black German shepherd eyed the apple a little bit longer before approaching the fruit cautiously. It sniffed the apple before taking a bite off the apple.
Kat observed the dog as it continued to take bites from the apple. There was dirt clinging on its fur and paws. She frowned when she could see some of the ribs, indicating that the German shepherd was underweight. The dog must have been on the streets for a while now.
She wanted to pet the dog but she decided against it. She sighed heavily and stood up right. Kat stared at the black German shepherd for a little while longer before she decided to walk away. She hoped to see the dog again so she could bring another apple tomorrow.
Her ears perked when she heard soft footfalls coming behind her. She looked over her shoulder and her eyes widen when she saw the dog following her. She shook her head and smiled sadly at the animal, "Sorry, buddy. But that's all I got. I'll bring you some tomorrow."
She continued to walk away. Once again, she heard the dog following her. She turned around completely. "Seriously, I don't have anything else."
The dog didn't pay attention to her and stood close to her legs. The animal rubbed its nose on her hand and whined.
Kat gingerly ran her fingers through the dirty fur. "You can't come with me." With one last pet to the dog's head, she turned around and continued to walk away. She could hear the dog following her but she chose to ignore it. Kat hoped that if she continued to ignore the dog that it would go away by himself
But she was wrong.
When the teen arrived at the apartment building minutes later, she turned to look at the black German shepherd and frowned at the dog. "No. You can't follow me in here. You have to leave now."
The dog whined and sat on his hind legs. He tilted his head to the side and continued to stare for a couple of seconds. He whined again and slide to the floor on his belly, with his head resting on top of his front paws.
"Please go away," Kat told the black German shepherd. "As much as I want a dog, I can't right now. My mom won't be too happy if she sees you in the apartment without her knowing."
The dog just continued to stare at her. Kat shook her head and walked inside the building. She stopped short and slowly turned to look at the dog again. Kat noticed the sadness in the dog's eyes as he continued to lay on his stomach.
She groaned in defeat and said, "Well, come on then." She waved her hand and the German shepherd immediately rose on his legs. He barked excitedly and ran towards her. "You are lucky that they allow pets here."
She ran up the stairs with the dog following behind her. Kat hoped that her mother was still at precinct, working on the case and not in the apartment. When she arrived at the door of the apartment, she motioned the dog to stay put and unlocked the door. She poked her head inside before cautiously stepping inside.
"Mom?" Kat called out. She threw her backpack on the floor, near the entrance of the living room. "Mom?" She called again but heard nothing. The teen walked back to the front door and motioned the dog to get inside.
The German shepherd happily stepped inside the apartment. He stood close to the teen, and wagged his tail.
Kat stared at the dirty black dog by her feet. "Now what?"
The dog panted and continued to wag his tail.
"Well, since you dirty and haven't had a bath in a long time," Kat frowned at how dirty the fur of the dog was, "I think I should give you a bath."
The dog barked and Kat shushed him.
"I heard that Dawn soap washer is better than original shampoo," Kat went inside the kitchen and got the blue bottle. "Just follow me and try not to make a mess in the floor."
The teen walked out of the kitchen and to the bathroom with the dog following her. She filled the tub halfway with warm water and placed a clean towel on the sink. It took her a while to get the black German shepherd in the tub but she did it.
"I know it's a bad idea but I want to give you name," Kat said as she rinsed off the soap from the dog's fur. She noticed that the black dog was a boy and started to think of possible names. "I still don't know if I will be able to keep you."
The dog whined and stood still as he was been rinsed.
"Lets see…um Shadow?"
The dog whined again.
"Too cliché?" Kat smirked. "How about Opie from Sons of Anarchy?"
The German shepherd just stared at the teen.
"Ugh, fine. It was a good name though," Kat poured some more water over the dog. "Is not like you are going to like Batman or Riddler any—"
The dog barked and wagged his tail.
"Riddler?"
He barked again. This time he jumped a bit in the tub, slightly splashing the teen.
"You like the name Riddler? After a villain?" Kat laughed. When she the black dog wagging his tail again, she chuckled. "Riddler it is then."
After Riddler's bath, Kat had tried to dried him with a towel. But he decided to shake off the water from his fur, wetting the floor and Kat in the process.
"Jesus!" Kat shouted once Riddler ran out of the bathroom. She sighed and started to dry up the wet floor. She let the water run out of the tub and put the dirty towel in the hamper. She walked in her room and saw Riddler laying down on her bedcovers.
"Hey, off right now," Kat frowned at him. "I will make you a sift bed on the other side of my bed. So that way my mom won't be able to see you."
She got some blankets and placed them on the ground, next to her bed. When she was done, she went to stand in front of her bedroom door. She smiled to herself when she couldn't see the blankets on the other side of the bed. She tensed when she heard the front door open and her mother's voice soon following after.
"Kat! Come pick your backpack from the floor. And helped me with the groceries!"
Next chapter will be up as soon as possible. I also want to wish whoever is having finals this week and the next, GOOD LUCK!
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