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Bella POV
From the look on their faces and their yelling I kinda of got the vibe that they weren't exactly thrilled with the idea of being replaced on a case. Hell I wouldn't be either, but if the job's not getting done, what can you do?
Being in the same room as Edward and Rosalie I felt so inferior physically. They were so gorgeous. Rosalie was blonde and body that any model would kill for. She wore a simple turquoise silk shirt with a gray dress jacket and matching pencil skirt, but she made seem so majestic.
She spoke with so much authority and clarity, but the words that came out made her seem like she had the biggest stick up her ass.
Edward had this sort of i-just-rolled-out-of-bed hairstyle going on, but it didn't take anything away from his professional aura. His eyes were an emerald green that shined brighter because of anger. I could feel myself getting lost in them even though he wasn't even looking at me.
I knew if he gazed at me I would probably faint. He was also decked out in a suit but it was navy blue and he completed it with a simple white shirt and gray tie. He was looking pretty sexy, but his I'm-better-than-you aura he had going on made me stop at the fact that he was only attractive; nothing else.
His jackass-y-ness majorly over weighed his pretty ass. He really need help pulling that stick out of his ass.
"Aro, this is an outrage! How do you expect rookies to solve a case of this level? They're fresh out of college while we have been the top of our division for the past three years!" Edward yelled.
I just sat there wondering why he speaks with so many hand gestures. I mean seriously, we get it.
"Wait, wait, wait." Emmett said while slowly stealing one of my soft tacos.
WHAT?
"I thought you guys were the only detectives. How can you possibly be the best if you never really had the chance to prove it?" Emmett said
"Nice, Emmett." I said patting him on the back.
"Now give that back you, bastard." I said taking my taco back and throwing my dirty napkin at him.
"Do you see this childish behavior?" He said gesturing towards us now.
"We're better and have more experience." Edward said.
That was out of line.
"No jackass, you're just cocky and stupid." I smirked at him.
"Yea man, and if you're gonna talk shit, well you better be prepared to back it up." Emmett retorted coming to my aid.
"You both are so unprofessional!" Rosalie snarled at us.
"But at least we get the job done." I said leaning back on the two back legs of my chair.
"Besides what gave you the idea that we would be professional, the Taco Bell or the matching Muse t-shirts?" Emmett asked.
"Enough." Aro slammed his hands on his desk.
To that remark we all turned towards a frustrated Aro who was speaking to Edward and Rosalie.
"First of all, I never said I was going to replace you two. You have done too many great things for this division to simply let you go." They both then turned towards me and Emmett and gave us their cocky glares. Who's acting childish now?
"But you two must understand that Bella and Emmett will be bringing in new perspective to this task force. Sure they are rookies, but I'm sure they weren't given the title of best in their class because of their behavior patterns. They will work just as hard and effectively as you two." Aro said.
"If it will make you feel better we could all work together on the case you guys are having trouble with," I said. If nothing works, compromise.
"Hell no," Rosalie sternly replied looking me straight in the eye.
"We don't need your help." Edward replied looking Emmett in the eye.
"Really?" Emmett said chuckling.
"That's why you've had this case for three weeks? A suicide? Come on." I mean really how hard was that? They killed themselves. It's not brain surgery.
"No I actually like that idea." Aro said looking up at the ceiling.
"All of you work together on this case. Find out her name. And remember serve, protect, and don't screw up."
And with that Aro handed Emmett the file and we were dismissed. No complains.
When we were on our way to our new office (we had also requested to share an offices we heard a series of thumps.
I looked at Emmett who only shrugged,
"Maybe they have a rodent infestation."
I really hope not.
Edward POV
After Aro dismissed us, I followed Rose out as she stomped down the hall towards my office. She then slammed the door shut paced through my office in a rage. Just when she opened her mouth to say something she stormed back to the door and began to repeatedly slam the door open and shut.
After I pulled her away, sat her down on the chair, and mumbled an apology to the officers and clerks looking towards the door I roughly slammed the door.
"How could this happen?" Rose said while crossing and uncrossing her legs. She settled on slumping in the chair exhausted.
"How am I supposed to know?" I retorted while leaning on the wall. I knew that Aro was only adding two more detectives to the force because he wanted to lighten the work load for Rose and I, but I still didn't agree.
"We can manage everything just fine! My concern is how we are supposed to solve cases while babysitting a bunch of rookies!" she said then randomly kicking my desk.
"Rose, I don't think taking your angry out on my office will help the situation. You know what we have to do now." I told her as stood up and began pacing in front of my desk.
"What?"
"We need to solve this case by the end of tomorrow."
"This is so stupid. We wouldn't have to do this if Aro hadn't-"
I grabbed Rose by the shoulders then and began to shake some sense in her,
"Rather than thinking of the negative aspects of the situation, we could turn it around into our benefit." I said.
She then crossed her and stared me straight in the eye. "Explain."
"We will be finally able to prove that we are the best detectives." She still wasn't swayed. I let out a frustrate breath,
"If we can prove that we are, in fact, the best and don't need any help " I said motioning with my hand for her to continue.
"Then Aro will see that we don't need the rookies." And with that her eyes lightened for the first time that afternoon.
"Now are you feeling better?"
She then turned around knocked my pencil cup onto the ground. She breathed in deeply, exhaling
"Ok. Let's solve a case."
Bella POV
"Emmett, this case doesn't make sense." I signed in frustrated
"That's what I was thinking. But there is no other evidence to prove otherwise."
"Well looks like we're going to have to make some." I said.
Emmett and I spent the last half hour going through the Jane Doe suicide case. When we got past the excitement of being on our first case we sat and analyzed the details, which of course did not match up. Right now we were just chillin' letting all of the information sink in.
I put my feet up on the desk and stared up at the ceiling (which had an ugly water stain) while nibbling on so Reese Pieces. Emmett was on my right laying on the floor with an assortment of candy wrapper surrounding him.
Emmett already had his notepad and pen out. After he opened a package of original Twizzlers and was chewing three, I began reading out our 'to do' lists.
"Find out why the hell that camera was off, interrogate the old guy working in the booth, visit the morgue, and talk to the owner of the stolen vehicle. Not necessarily in that order." I said.
"Ok. And this case is solved." He said throwing the list up to me.
"Damn. This chair is so comfortable I don't want to leave." I said leaning back and closing my eyes.
"Probably not as comfortable as this floor, it's like I'm on a cloud." He stated while moving his arms and legs up and down, like he was trying to make a snow angel.
"Emmett we need to go." I said yawning.
"Mmmm five minutes."
"Okay."
After I persuaded myself and Emmett to get up and a quick visit to Aro's office, we found ourselves wander through the halls at the station. There were phones ringing constantly, people talking, and strong coffee odors always around every corner. Officers were walking down the halls in groups talking, laughing and occasionally arguing with each other.
I felt like Harry Potter trying to ask a girl out to the Yule Ball.
"How are supposed to ask one? They all travel in packs!" I said.
"How the hell am I supposed to know? I just work here." I then gave Emmett my full blown glare.
"Hey go ask that guy!" I turned and saw an officer by himself making copies at the copy machine.
When I didn't move Emmett pushed me forward and being my clumsy self I started falling. But as I was preparing myself for impact it didn't come.
I was instead engulfed into strong arms. As I was set straight, I was met with familiar set of emerald green eyes. I was deer caught in the headlights; paralyzed.
His voice snapped me out of that daydream,
"Watch where you're going." And there was his jackass-y-ness.
"Well aren't you a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day?" I said rolling my eyes and walking away. I then turned around,
"Thank you." I said.
He didn't reply and walked away towards a large group of officers joining in on their conversation.
I continued on my way toward the officer at the copy machine. When he didn't notice me standing there I lightly tapped him on the shoulder,
"Um... Excuse me." I said.
He then turned around, "Yes?"
He was tall probably about six-two he was very muscular, but not scary muscular. He was dark with black hair and he had the most adorable smile. Like one of the one I would see on my little brother. Well, if I had one.
"I'm Bella Swan and that guy over there is my partner Emmett McCarthy. We are the new homicide detectives." Emmett then walked up to us and shook the officer's hand.
"Nice to meet you, Detective Swan and Detective McCarthy, I am Officer Jacob Black. Now when you say new do you mean the finally fired Detective Cullen and Hale?" He said with a huge smile on his face.
"What? No, new as in two new additional," I said smiling at his humor.
"Why do you ask that?" Emmett asked placing his hand under his chin in thought.
"Well because between you and me many officers don't like those two."
I was curious, "Why not?"
"For one, for the past few years they've believed they were the best and they feel that they are entitled to whatever and whenever they please. A few officers have been wanting to knock them down a few notches." Officer Black said.
"Yea I got that feeling when we met with them earlier in Aro's office." I said crossing my arms in a huff.
"They have that effect on people." He said looking over at Cullen and Hale.
It was then that I noticed that they were actually the only ones talking while the other officers surrounding them were sending them death glares. How they didn't notice that was beyond me.
"Well what did you need help with?" he said directing his attention back to Emmett and I.
"Well we don't want to be bothersome-" Emmett stared.
"No, no problem. You two have been more polite in that last three minutes than those two over there in the last few years." He said.
"Well we were wondering if you could bring in some people for us to interrogate." I asked.
Emmett chuckled, "Well for Bella to interrogate. I'd end up laughing in their face."
"Well, I'm going to need a warrant. To do that." He said apologetically.
"Oh we have one. We just needed an officer to do this." Emmett said handing him the papers.
"Two warrants? What case is this?" he asked surprised.
"It's the suicidal Jane Doe. Well were trying to prove that she didn't commit suicide, but she was murdered."
"Wow. That's some break through. Let me go and get other officers to assist me." Officer Black said
"Ok thank you Officer Black" I said. But it came out more like a question.
"Or Jake is fine." He said grabbing his papers from the copy machine.
"Bye Jake-y," Emmett said with his best high school girl impression.
"Really Jake is fine." He said laughing while walking towards the group of officers that were angrily listening to Edward and Rosalie. Cullen and Hale. Whatever.
Jake just cut in and relief was on the face of every officer in the group. Edward in a rage than grabbed the warrant out of Jacob's hand and read it. His eyes than landed on Emmett and I.
Because we just wanted to get a rise out of them I blew a kiss towards Edward or Cullen while Emmett winked and waved at Rosalie or Hale. They then stormed off towards what looked like Aro's office.
Jacob then led the other officers towards us. "Guys this is Bella Swan and Emmett McCarthy. The new homicide detectives Volturi hired."
He then began to introduce everyone to us, "This is Paul, Embry, and Jasper."
"Nice to meet you all." Me and Emmett both answered and we began to shake everyone's hand.
"Well we're going to go and full-fill these warrants. Just hang tight," said as the four of them left towards the back parking lot while held all of the police cruisers.
After they were all gone I turned towards Emmett." I think I need a change of clothes."
"Whatever. I'm not changing."
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