Welcome! Unfortunately, I do not own FAKE. That honor belongs to Sanami Matoh-sama. But I will shamelessly manipulate her characters for the time being.
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Thanks for reading so far! You're awesome, you know that? Yes you. I always appreciate a faithful (or extremely bored) reader. This chapter brings in an OC that will be giving our boys in blue a bit of trouble, both in and out of the office. Have fun.
When Ryo woke up, he was completely alone. But he was no longer lying on the floor, he'd been moved to the couch and covered with a blanket. He could smell Dee's scent on both and it made him smile.
But he had to get up. He had no idea what time it was, but he was undoubtedly late for work, judging by the bright sunlight that filled his apartment. After a quick shower, he dressed and went to the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee on the way out.
Beside the coffee pot was a note written in Dee's distinctive scribble.
'I wanted to get a head start on today's work, so I went in a little early. You looked so cute, I didn't wake you up. Don't pass out on the floor next time. I'll see you at the precinct if you're feeling better. Dee'
Ryo left the note on the counter, but mused about it all the way to work. Not the part about how cute he looked sleeping, or the concern behind his sleeping on the floor or being well enough to come back, or course. Get a head start? He normally had to threaten Dee just to get him to get up at all. But he had a massive headache from last night and decided that he'd just have to find out what this was all about when he saw Dee.
Everything at the precinct looked normal. The chief had greeted him in passing when he entered.
"Randy! I wasn't sure we'd see you today. Dee mentioned you were still feeling under the weather."
"I'm fine now, sir." He said. And he did feel fine, except for his head. Ryo went to his desk, once again buried in papers, and settled in. It seemed that Dee was off on other business. For all he knew, he could be on lunch break. Ryo hadn't looked at a clock all day.
As he began to go through the papers on his desk, he noticed that it was oddly quiet. Normally, the office was buzzing with noise and activity. But now there was nothing. Ryo looked around in confusion, but saw no one (which might explain the silence).
His first reaction was to head towards the conference rooms at the back of the precinct. Was he missing a meeting or something?
The closer he got to the rooms, the more noise he began to hear. There were shouts, cheers, peals of laughter. He'd found the people, but it was definitely did not sound like any meeting he'd ever been to. He discovered that the noise was coming from the largest conference room and the doors were closed. He opened one and raised an eyebrow at the sight before him. It looked like everyone in the precinct was inside.
His observant police-trained eyes picked up several things at their first glance of the crowded room. It was definitely not a meeting- it looked more like a party, with people standing around talking and joking casually. Also, it wasn't as if they weren't allowed to be standing around in the middle of the workday. The chief was lounging against the wall talking to Drake and a few other officers and looking very relaxed.
But this hadn't been planned, either. He hadn't known about it, for one, and there were no drinks or food of any kind, and there was no way the guys at the precinct would miss a chance to have refreshments at work if they'd gotten wind of whatever cause for festivity there was soon enough.
But what was the cause for the merriment? Most of the people were clumped around the middle of the room, and Ryo closed the door and moved in that direction. The tables and chairs that normally crowded the room had been moved somewhere, but he didn't see them.
He got several casual hellos as he moved through the crowd, but he didn't stop. He hadn't seen Dee yet, and he still had to find out what was going on.
"So I say to him 'You trying to tell me I'm too violent with these scum bag criminals?' And he says me 'Yeah.' like it was the most obvious thing in the world! So what else could I do?"
Ryo finally broke through the ring of people in time to see a strange man slam his fist into the side of Dee's head.
"What the hell, man!" He yelled, running to Dee and helping him up.
"What the hell is right, Tony! You think that's violent? Ryo here hits harder!" Dee laughed as he got to his feet, and was rewarded by having that point backed up with a punch from his partner.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Tony grinned, scratching his head. "I didn't want to hurt you or anything. Just demonstrating a point. But anyway, he wasn't too pleased, as you can imagine, so I told him to go ahead and transfer me if we couldn't work out our differences- and trust me, we couldn't. So he did, and here I am." He gave a bow and got a few cheers from the group. Then he turned to Ryo, who was now staring at the wall with his back turned to Dee, pretending his partner didn't exist.
"So this must be the infamous Randy Ryo Maclean. Your reputation precedes you, believe me. It's a pleasure, man, a real pleasure." He stuck out his head, and Ryo shot him a cold stare that was met by a friendly grin. He couldn't help but break down and smile too as he returned the handshake. Points to the new guy for charisma at least.
He still thought it was out of line for this man to have punched Dee, but Dee didn't seem too upset about it. So he should just drop it. Besides, if what this guy had said was true, then they'd be working together from now on. Might as well try to start off on a good foot.
"So...Tony? You seem to be on pretty good terms with Dee for this to be your first meeting- did you already know him?" He didn't actually mean for it to sound as suspicious as it did, but you don't just go punching people in a police station. Unless you were close. It was frankly dangerous.
"We're all old buddies from the Academy." JJ suddenly appeared beside Ryo, who jumped back in surprise.
"JJ!" Tony threw a friendly arm over the young officer's shoulder and tightened it into a headlock. JJ laughed and spent several minutes struggling free.
"It's been forever since we were all together like this, hasn't it?" JJ sighed with a smile, straightening the collar of his shirt.
"But I see you and JJ managed to stay together while I got sent off." Tony had an accusatory glare on his face, but he couldn't hold it for more than a few seconds before he burst into a fit of laughter. JJ joined in, but Dee was nervously watching Ryo, who was suddenly giving off very creepy vibes.
Tony noticed the tension and raised an eyebrow. "What, you aren't together any-?"
"I'm going to go get a drink." Ryo's voice could have frozen Hell over. He left without a second glance and didn't come back for the rest of the party.
Was it worth the wait? This relationship is definitely not going well at the moment. And I have no plans to improve it any time soon. Checkout 5, because the real trouble hasn't even started yet. And reviews are a good way to get me to update, so be sure to leave any comments, good or bad.
