Chapter 4

This was terrible.

This thought repeated threw Lily's mind. It had only been one week she had spent with her new partner, and Mike made it a case to make every one of those days a living hell for her. It's not that he was purposely trying to irritate her, but whenever he had the chance to do so, he took it. For example, one day they were asked to patrol the city for the day. While they were out, they noticed a street vender that was having a dispute with one of his customers. When they went up to inspect, they found out that the customer was trying to swindle the vender for a free necklace, and he was caught in the act. When they settled the dispute, the vender wanted to give Lily a complimentary necklace as thanks. While Lily wanted to refuse, Mike took the opportunity to strike.

"Oh come on Kat. Are you saying his stuff is ugly?" Lily's eyes went wide and stared at him. She couldn't believe he put those words in her mouth like that. She looked back at the vender who was now looking down at his items completely upset.

"NO. No, no. Th-that's not-" before she could finish, she was filled with anger and grief. She ended up getting the biggest, flashiest necklace he had. As they walked away, Lily did her best to keep a smile on her face during the transaction. However, on the inside, she was filled with complete and total rage. Mike on the other hand, was fighting back tears as he resisted the urge to laugh out loud. He had manipulated her and humiliated her. This had been happening all day, and frankly, Lily was getting sick of it.

As the end of the day drew near, Lily decided to confront her superior. "Sir, may I speak with you for a moment?"

Mike had turned to her with a smile. "Sure, what's up Cat?"

Again she heard that infuriating nickname that was like needles stabbing her ears. Before she could speak, they heard a scream in the distance. They saw a women getting mugged and the thief jumping into his speeder to get away. Lily, noticing the crime, went to reach for the radio, however when she did, she noticed it was gone.

"Officer Frost to dispatch! We have a 10-27, blue speeder in pursuit, requesting back up!" Lily looked up at her partner who called in to dispatch, surprised at the serious. She was confused how 2 minutes ago he was messing with her with a smile on his face. Now he was all business.

"Copy that, sending backup." As they chased the speeder through the city, they finally managed to corner him with the help of their fellow officers. The criminal got detained, the victim recovered her stolen goods, and everything quickly returned back to normal, Including Mike. Lily still couldn't comprehend what happened to him during the pursuit.

"So you wanted to talk to me, Cat?" Lily was brought back from her thoughts when Mike addressed her. She had completely forgotten what she wanted to talk to him about, but instead had a new question to ask him.

"How did you do that?" Mike looked at her kind of confused for a sec, then she continued. "I thought I had you figured out. I was convinced that you didn't take any of this seriously, that it was all play and no work." She hesitated for a second, "then you pull a complete 180 on me and got completely focused on the job. You reacted faster then I did, so fast I wasn't able to keep up….How did you do it?"

Mike just looked at her a second. Then he put on a serious, yet understand, smile before he spoke. "An important quality for someone in our line of work to have is to know when to be serious and when to have fun. Believe it or not, there is nothing I take more serious than my job, however that doesn't mean im going to be a stick in the mud all day."

She noticed he looked at her with a smirk, as if implying she was a stick in the mud. She looked away with a huff as he chuckled and continued. "You'll find out that in our line of work, we will have good days and we will have bad days, and some….really bad days." Lily could see the sorrow in his eyes with his hesitation. "So having a little fun to keep you happy is important." His words lightened back up as he spoke, but Lily could still feel that something was off but thought it better not to ask. That will be a conversation for another day she thought. Again she found herself thinking she misjudged her partner and promised herself she would start to keep a more open mind about him in the future.

AN:

I know this was a shot chapter, but just think of it as an intermission. I couldn't think of a lot write for this chapter so I used it as a quick dive into the work day for the characters. Don't worry though, the next chapter is much longer and has a good balance of drama and humor in it that I hope you will enjoy. thank you for reading and I hope you stick around for the rest of the story.