chapter word count: 474
noir heart: forty-nine
Message from: Aster
12:46
U done with Mrs Black yet?
Frowning, Jack's fingers nimbly tap out a reply and send it on its way, before relaxing back into the leather driver's seat of his Impala.
What's that supposed to mean?
Sent: 12:47
Message from: Aster
12:48
I meant if U managed 2 get anything out of her, or was she 2 busy trying 2 get into ur pants?
Jack's eyes rise to the heavens to the point that it's almost painful; the perfect accompaniment to the exasperated groan that escapes his throat. For a moment, he briefly considers forcefully applying his forehead to the steering wheel, but chooses instead to fire off another reply.
No, I didn't. And shut the fuck up.
Sent: 12:48
Message from: Aster
12:50
Easy there, Frostbite. Just asking.
He can't decide what's annoying him more; Aster's line of questioning, or the fact that he still butchers the English language in text form, consistently and relentlessly.
Message from: Aster
12:52
Anyway, boss lady wants us in her office pronto, so soon as ur done with w/e or whoever ur doing, get back to the precinct sharpish.
Aster's reply puzzles him quite a bit; the last time he was in Maleficent's office, he was being taken off his active cases and subjected to investigative limbo as per I.A's edict. Resting his head on his hand, with his top lip against his left index finger, he ponders what else the boss has in store for him.
Fired, maybe.
Why?
Sent: 12:55
The answer only deepens the puzzlement.
Message from: Aster
12:58
New case.
Of the things that don't make sense to him, like Justin Bieber's success and the fact that someone actually fell in love with Aster, this reply is up there with them. Looking a gift horse in the mouth is standard operating procedure for detectives in the APD, and he's not so much looking as examining with a magnifying glass. Why, after being removed from the important, active cases, has Maleficent suddenly done a reversal?
He ponders his options for a moment, but cynically realises that the only way he will get any answers is to go along with it, so with what the King would define as a suspicious mind, he shoots his answer.
Be there in a couple of hours, something to do first.
Sent: 13:04
Message from: Aster
13:05
Like what?
The left side of his lips twitch into half a smirk, and his eyes flick up from his phone, through his windshield, and rest upon the building to which the parking lot he's currently idling in belongs.
Arendelle High.
I'm going back to school.
Sent: 13:07
oh aster, y u no text proprly.
Replying to Guest, since I assume it was you that reviewed about OGaV on both this story and on OGaV itself, asking for an update - it will come when it's ready, and when my laptop is fixed. No way in hell can my fingers cope with 10k words plus on a phone. Sorry!
special thanks to: stefalove, hornedgoddess, heartonfire, oninoko-masquerading-as-guest and jpbake for reviewing!