I admit that it's rather difficult write this fic and update it regularly, but I will try it at least until next week.
This is chapter 4
R&R
The sky line reddening above the city, the dawn greeted everyone as a sign of the darkness arrival. Haruka drove fast through the street with unbelievable speed. No one dare to yell at her car while the police department obviously written all over it. The call for a case is not unusual for the blonde detective, but this is the first time for her breaking 18 traffic rules not due to catching a perp.
The blonde just wanted to make sure the lawyer was okay. It's simple yet confusing and new feeling for her.
Haruka stepped on the brake as she parked the car nearby another patrol car in the block. She stormed out and ducked over the police line around the building. Again it's a familiar procedure, but Haruka's heart now beating uncontrollably. The feeling of fear, worries, and paranoid overcome her at once.
She stopped her track while she found the figure she had been searching for. Michiru sat on a stairway in the first floor. She was holding a plastic cup of warm coffee and blanket wrapped over her tiny body. Haruka approached the aquanette then kneeled down, leveled herself with Michiru.
"Hey." The blonde detective greeted first. Haruka's eyes were scanning Michiru's head to toe until she went back to look the lawyer's face.
"Hey. So, this is your case then?" Michiru greeted back with her usual compose expression.
"I don't know." Haruka replied honestly. She sat beside Michiru make a few distance so the lawyer wouldn't feel uncomfortable with her presence.
"Are you okay?" Haruka continued. She noticed the trembling in Michiru's body and hands. The lawyer was in shock.
"Yea… This is the first time someone broke in my apartment anyway." Michiru sipped a little her coffee and finally show her face to Haruka.
"I was lucky. When I got here, he was already gone." Michiru said, she hid the shakiness in her voice, she should stay strong in front of the detective.
"I should take you home instead to the precinct." Haruka responded, her jaw clenched like she holding back her anger.
"It's okay." Michiru let out a deep sigh. Today is the worst day in her life, quietly she took a glance at the blonde and realized one thing.
Is she worried about me? No way, she does her job, that's all. What I expect anyway?
"You should stay in another place for a while." Haruka suggested. "Until we catch this bastard, you should stay safe."
"I can't, detective."
"Haruka."
"Excuse me?"
"Call me Haruka, I prefer to keep the formality less between us. Miss Kaioh."
"Only if you call me Michiru then." The lawyer thought how long she has been wanted to call Haruka by her first name.
"Deal. Now, why you don't want leave the place? It's dangerous."
"Is it your guys' job to keep me safe?" Michiru replied back sharp. She hates it, hate when she trapped in a corner and had to runaway. The arrogance and cold mask she had have been rescuing her from the hopeless situations.
"… I understand. We only capable to let units patrol around this apartment every an hour, if that's sufficient for you?"
An hour? Anything could happen in an hour.
"I still suggest you to move to another place." Haruka also didn't like the fact about the lawyer being left alone unprotected. She should get the best, 3 units on her doorway if necessary. However, the police department couldn't waste human resources until further damage occurs.
Damn procedures.
"It's sufficient. I can take care myself, Haruka." Michiru enjoyed how the name comfortably spelled by her.
"No, you aren't." Haruka took out her badge and slipped out a card from it then handed it to Michiru.
"Call me if anything happens. I don't expect a call for you tonight, though." Haruka made a contact with Michiru's skin for a second and felt the coldness on her palm.
"I know, thank you."
"Are you sure you are okay?"
"I will occupy myself with cleaning up my apartment tonight." The lawyer ignored the blonde question.
Haruka wish she may stay for a while, but she only a stranger for the lawyer. So, Haruka stood up and left the place after make sure the uniforms patrol will do their job tonight. She asked them to patrol every half an hour instead an hour. She didn't have an authority to order them around, but she does have feet to kick their ass if they refuse.
Bad cop like a mad dog, that's everyone call her.
"I know who he is, Tenoh." The cold and threat from the voice tone sent a shiver down onto Haruka's spine. She was in her lieutenant's office now. The situation didn't seem so good while she argued to get to own the Eric's case.
"I am the one who get him last time, it will be no different this time." Haruka's persistence is famous in the precinct.
"We are talking about your traffic record today. You broke 18 rules when you are not even in duties!"
"The case still mine, sir." Haruka responded back.
"What the hell you answer me!" Lieutenant White is the scariest lieutenant in divisions. In the history of homicide, he is the best of best in the job and the one who remain in his ideal while the higher ups are quietly corrupted each other for power. Haruka likes him and admired him, but he is the most difficult ever and treated her like she is trouble maker in division.
"I will keep this record. This is a warning, Tenoh. Once more you create a trouble I will give this damn case to another detective. Is that clear?"
"Crystal, sir." Haruka nodded, in the end it has been always her victories. She exited the room and met Mamoru outside. Haruka knew that guy waited for her to finish. Mamoru wanted the case also, for a new guy like him, a big case could help him get a reputation more in the division. Mamoru is not a bad detective, he only had less experiences than Haruka. Now, they are partner and Haruka will treat him like one.
"It's okay. Let's go back." Haruka shot a victory smile.
"Great! I'm hungry? How about a few drinks?"
"Are you hungry or thirsty?"
"Both, come on… few shots won't kill."
"Keep the bottles 'til we catch this guy. I want to stay alert tonight." Haruka refused.
"You wait for her call, don't you?"
"No. Can you just shut up?" Haruka threw a light punch on Mamoru's shoulder.
"Just go there and protect her. I know you want it too."
"Want what?"
"See her bed."
"Have told you to shut up?"
"Yes, But you forget to lock my mouth first." Mamoru chuckled, he always like teasing his partner and see her fluttered face.
"I'm serious. You know that some units are careless doing their job? They won't patrol after eleven, they will go to bar and have some fun."
"I don't know, I'd already threatened them today." Haruka shrugged.
"You really like this girl…" Mamoru concluded.
"I don't. It's just another job for me."
"Why don't you go there and make sure she's safe in her home?"
"Shut the hell up. This is the last warning."
The lawyer took her time slowly to clean up every inches of her apartment. Imagined how the things there had make contacts with Eric and how close she was to encounter him outside his cells were scaring her greatly. Her mind played back the events today, what if Haruka didn't annoy her and she got home early. She would meet with the sociopath and the rest…
Michiru took a seat on the couch. The damage was minor but the shocks left behind were huge. Michiru opened a bottle of wine which she had kept since a year ago. She had plan on the bottle to open it when she meets her soul mate or her other half. But now is the best time to open it, rather than waiting someone who would never come.
Michiru nodded and sipped slowly. She should relax her mind while stay alert tonight. A stun gun resting on her lap, the only weapon she had to defend from pervert and stalker.
She is facing a killer now.
Michiru finished one glass as her mind traveled to the blonde detective. She had notice the worries and fear in Haruka's eyes, the sudden relieve just because her presence only. She was trembling greatly before the blonde came, but after Haruka sat beside her and spoke casually with her, the fear slowly eased away.
I wonder why I always feel relax around her. Maybe the badge and authority make civilian like me feel safe. Michiru thought to herself.
Michiru went to the counter and place the bottle on it. She grabbed out a card she got from Haruka earlier, the consideration to call the blonde already crossed her mind many times. She can't call her unless she's in danger. Michiru wondered, may she call her without reason at all? The presence of the blonde has already enough for her.
Then that thing passed away below a sink in the kitchen. Michiru caught a flash on that thing, followed by a sound from the kitchen.
No, please… It can't be that… Michiru swore to herself, and screamed when it approached her.
Haruka didn't get it. What came into her and found herself in front of the lawyer's apartment. Mamoru's saying about the uni's carelessness got into her nerve and she felt suddenly need to check it herself.
The lamp still on. Haruka saw from her car. She prefers to stay inside her car and wait until the lamp on Michiru's apartment went off. The detective doubted that Michiru able to sleep tonight after the broke in her apartment.
What got into me? Haruka asked herself. Her actions lately regarding the lawyer was not like her at all. Offering to fix her car, apologizing, piggyback someone, and now looking out like a stalker in front of someone's apartment.
That time Haruka stumbled out from her car immediately after a scream echoed from Michiru's apartment.
She literally stood on the table, holding a frying pan and threw curses to little poor thing. If anyone caught her doing this, no one would believe that she's the best lawyer in the town.
"Go away! I said go hell away!" Michiru hissed and swung away the pan to chase out the thing.
The little thing called a mouse. A brown mouse was walking around Michiru's apartment and seem to take a liking to her. It went away after Michiru successfully threw the pan and scare the thing.
Michiru gasped when she saw the figure that standing on her doorway. She forgot to lock the door, great. But that person has been watching her show with a mouse along this time.
"You saw it?" Michiru avoided Haruka's face, try to rebuild her image and pride.
Haruka nodded.
"The door is unlocked… I think…" Haruka couldn't continue her sentence. She let out her laugh she has been holding in.
"Oh, laugh as your heart content detective." Michiru pouted, she wondered what Haruka's doing in her apartment.
"I'm sorry. The scene just now… was hilarious. Poor little thing."
"Don't you dare to defend that scary thing!" Michiru replied. She folded her arm on her chest.
"I forget you are the lawyer. I'm sorry." Haruka chuckled. "Want me to throw it away?"
"No, just let it be. As long as it doesn't go near me. Why are you here?"
Haruka found herself agape. She couldn't answer Michiru's question.
"I… I just want to make sure you are okay here. Since you don't want to move…" Haruka suddenly seem interested with a stain on the ceiling.
"I am okay…" Michiru began to understand. The detective indeed worrying her, and somehow she found it cute.
"I will go then." Haruka quickly went back to the door before a grip stopped her.
"Wait. Can you stay?"
Haruka turned and surprised with the sudden plea from Michiru.
"Is it okay?"
"I feel safe if you are around." Michiru said honestly. She couldn't bear the insecurity feeling in her heart. Just a minute since the appearance of the blonde, Michiru didn't want the presence to go away.
She wanted Haruka no, she needed her.
"Okay, I will stay."
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