Things surprisingly went well after that. Karkat himself called the station for back up and the two partners kept quiet until the force arrived to help them out. The sun was just starting to set when the Calvary arrived. Led by Sollux, the rest of the department broke into the abandoned factory, and the thugs gave in quickly realizing that they were outnumbered. When Karkat and Jade realized that it was safe, they left the small hostage room and rejoined the rest of the force. A group of seven officers are walking in and out of the building doing investigations and exporting the drugs. The police officer partners walk to Sollux to conform their safety. Chief Zahhak is instructing officers a little ways away.

"About time you fuckers got here," complains Karkat. "I was getting really bored hiding in that fucking room waiting for you."

Jade smacks the back of his head, "Control yourself. We owe them our lives right now."

Sollux chuckles a little, "How you two are able to work together is beyond me. The Chief must have been out of his mind when he assigned you two together." Sollux looks behind to make sure the Chief is out of earshot, "He‟s going to want to talk to you about this. There were too many mistakes made."

The tired troll officer groans, "I know, but I really do not want to fucking deal with it right now."

Sollux turns solemn, "You do realize that the Chief is going to be furious about this? He has a really short temper."

Karkat sighed, "Maybe, but doesn‟t he always have one?" Karkat then proceed to grab a long needed cigarette, but after a short pause for thought, he offers one to Jade before putting them back in his pocket. She graciously accepts and Karkat walks back inside to check the factory‟s cargo, "I‟m just going to avoid him for a while."

Just like the light green blooded troll told him, this is where all the drugs were. There are probably enough drugs here to put a great number a people happy for a while with the profits. Karkat sighs, this was supposed to be the case that would put him back on top alone; instead it had the exact opposite effect. He realizes now that Jade and he could probably work better than anyone else on the force. This whole situation could cause him to lose his job because of how much he fucked it up. Someone giggles behind him, and Karkat turns around to find the blind bounty hunter laughing at him leaning on her cane.

"Now what could you possibly be thinking about, Officer Vantas?" she smirks.

Karkat raises his eyebrow suspiciously, "Why so formal Terezi? And what, no fucking insult?" He continues to smoke his cigarette angrily.

The bounty hunter taps her fingers on her cane, a habit she has when thinking, "Well I thought that I should be kind to the officer who solved this case."

Officer Vantas stares at her, "What are you talking about? I didn‟t solve this case, Jade did."

Terezi cocks a wide smile, "Now that seems more likely than what I heard."

Karkat throws his cigarette down and stares tired at Terezi, "And where did you hear that exactly?" He questions smashing his cigarette.

"Why from Ms. Lime herself," Terezi answers trying not to burst out laughing. "She said that you found out the base, and when you both got captured because Jade had a misstep you had the genius plan of asking for a cigarette; which you used to escape from your binding ropes. Then you called for us."

Karkat looks down at his feet ashamed, "Did she really say all that?"

"Yup! And Chief Zahhak completely believed her."

Karkat rubs his face in his right hand, "I‟m so fucking stupid." He lifts his face, "Jade did all of that, not me. Okay well I did call for help, but not until after Jade tried to do so multiple times before we got caught."

The bounty hunter twirls her cane around, "Well she must have thought you deserved all the credit for solving the case then; instead of getting the lecture like she is getting right now."

"What?" Karkat tries to make a run out of the building, but Terezi uses her cane to whack Karkat‟s feet from under him; which makes Karkat fall face first into the hard floor of the factory. Karkat lifts his face from the floor, "What the fuck Terezi? Why didn‟t you tell me? She could get-"

"She‟s not going to get fired you idiot," the bounty hunter interrupts. "She‟s new; she‟s allowed a rookie mistake or two. You however have been fucking up and complaining like a bitch. So unlike you, she won‟t be fired. You know how the Chief is."

Karkat drops his face back onto the floor, "I am the biggest fucking moron ever."

Terezi taps on his head with the bottom of her cane, "Maybe, but that should mean you‟ll try harder next time to make it up to Ms. Lime." Terezi giggles again, "I must say, cherries and limes usually don‟t go together, a horrible taste, but you two could actually make it happen." Terezi lightly kicks his head, "Now get up again, you look really pathetic, and someone who just solved a case should not act this way."

Karkat slowly pulls himself back up, "I still can‟t believe she did that for me." He turns to Terezi, "Why the fuck do you call her Ms. Lime?"

The female troll snickers, "Well she‟s not married!" Karkat groans at her horrible joke. "Alright alright, it‟s because of her eyes. They are the most interesting shade of green. Haven‟t you noticed?"

Karkat thinks for a second but shakes his head, "No, I‟ve never really looked."

The bounty hunter tilts her head a little to look like she‟s looking at Karkat in a new way, you know if she could see at all. "You care about this girl, don‟t you?" Terezi asks taping her fingers across the head of her cane.

Karkat looks annoyed at Terezi, "She‟s my partner, so I have to care for her, don‟t I? It‟s not like it‟s anything more than coworkers that get on each others nerves."

Terezi giggles to herself, "Yes I understand exactly how it is," she answers sarcastically. "We used to work together after all."

"Don‟t fucking remind me," Karkat says shuddering. "You‟re worse than Harley is."

The blind troll laughs but stops abruptly, "That reminds me, have you told her about Ms. Lime yet?"

Karkat looks straight at Terezi serious, "Who‟s her?"

"You know who I‟m talking about," Terezi responds annoyed.

Karkat sighs rubbing his head, "No, I haven‟t told her about Jade, but I figured she already knows what with her fucking connections in the department."

"Still," Terezi argues, "It might be nice to hear from your side. When was the last time you two talked?"

Karkat yawned, "It‟s been a long time, and I don‟t plan on talking to her soon."

"Karkat," Terezi says faking an astounded tone, "I‟m surprised. Don‟t you care about your ex-wife/matesprit?"

"It doesn‟t matter to her, Terezi." Karkat starts to leave the factory, "Now I‟d appreciate it if you wouldn‟t talk about her to Jade."

Karkat turns his back to Terezi and continues to walk forward out the factory‟s door. Terezi shouts a little response, "You haven‟t told Jade about her either, have you?" Karkat flips her off while still walking and Terezi laughs, "Well this is going to be interesting."

The troll officer walks out of the factory where he finds Jade receiving slight medical help for her arms. Karkat walks up to her, "How are you doing?" The medic leaves them alone.

She smiles caressing her arms, "I‟m fine, I‟m lucky they didn‟t break my arms or anything." She looks over at Karkat and frowns, "You should consider getting medical assistance for yourself. You‟re bleeding!" Indeed Karkat was bleeding do to all the smashing face on the ground shit, but the troll officer just shrugs his shoulders.

"Trolls have more blood than humans do, I‟ll be fine. It‟s already scabbing."

Officer Harley continues to frown, "That is probably not healthy, Karkat."

Karkat groans, "Will you stop worrying about me so much? I can take care of myself."

Jade snickers, "Can you?"

While Jade laughs, Karkat gets a decent look into her eyes. They were indeed an interesting shade of green, not unlike limes. Karkat would say they were sort of pretty, but that‟s not something Karkat would ever say. Jade brushes her hair back with her good hand and looks confused at Karkat.

"What are you staring at?"

Snapping back to reality Karkat replies quickly, "Oh nothing!" He gets a little red in the face embarrassed by what just happened. The officer tries to change the subject, "Jade, I wanted to apologize for how I‟ve been acting ever since we‟ve met. I was an asshole."

"I prefer fuckass," Jade interrupts.

"Right," agrees Karkat, "I want us to be able to cooperate from now on. Which means I need to respect your ideas better." Karkat snaps back into attention realizing his mistake, "But don‟t think that makes you fucking better than me or something! I still have authority over you."

Jade gives a small smile, "Of course Karkat."

Karkat takes a deep breath, "Whether I like it or not, you‟re a good officer Harley, not as great as me, but good. You‟re grandfather should be proud of you."

Officer Harley looks down a little sad, "Well I‟m sure he would if he was still alive."

"Wait what?" Karkat quickly asks realizing that he fucked things up again.

"Hello Mr. Vantas," darkly greets the chief; which makes Karkat jump a mile in the air (figuratively of course). Chief Zahhak turns to Jade who has lifted her head, "I hope you remember my lecture, Ms. Harley. I can only tolerate such actions for so long."

"Yes sir."

"Good. Now," The large troll turns to the small frighten troll officer, "I need to know if you know anything about a SJ?"

Officer Vantas looks up at the Chief is actually shading Karkat, "Only that he seems to be some sort of head honcho for this operation."

"Hmm, that‟s no more than what I found out," responds Zahhak. "I first heard of this person when we busted in and they were calling for said person for help. We‟re going to interrogate them about him, but I‟m not sure about how much information we‟ll get since these are low class thugs."

"I guess we‟ll all need to keep our eyes out for an SJ then?" Karkat assumes.

"Exactly, Mr. Vantas."

"I wonder who it could be?" Jade questions. "It could be anyone."

"Heeeeeeeey guys!" says a certain spider troll pushing Karkat to the side and nearly knocking him down.

"Damn it Vriska!" Karkat shouts regaining his balance. "Can‟t you see that we‟re working here?"

Vriska huffs, "Yeah? Well I was working for hours at the stations, and it is booooooooring!" She responds making an exaggeration of just how boring it really was.

Chief Zahhak grabs his handkerchief and dabs it on himself, "Ms. Serket, please control yourself. This is a crime scene."

Vriska waves off Equius‟s response, "Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Hey where are you putting the drugs anyways?"

Jade answers, "Well since it‟s evidence, we‟re keeping it for such purpose."

"You are not allowed to fucking touch it Vriska!" Karkat shouts at the troll.

The spider troll throws her hands up, "Please! I wouldn‟t dream of it." She turns around walking away from the factory, "Now if you don‟t mind, I have a date in the hospital." And then she was gone.

Karkat completes a two times face palm, "I swear that bitch is going to be the death of us."

'Agreed' thinks Chief Zahhak.