present

"and that's basically it"

"wow you've been through almost as much as me this past century"

"pretty much yeah, and the only reason why you have to go back to the police academy is because procedures have changed since you last walked the streets"

"I understand, thanks...captain"

"Marissa, you are allowed to still call me Marissa, even at the station if you occasionally forget, but you're the only one because of the fact that we've known each other for so long"

the doctor butts in by neccessity

"one more thing Marissa, I know it states in your records you have dyslexia right?"

"yes"

"not anymore, the treatment to bring you back has also taken care of your dyslexia as far as we know"

"let's not say for sure until we can actually test it"

"understood"

turns out it didn't take care of her injury induced dyslexia because they couldn't fix the core problem of the dyslexia in the first place, the bleeding concussion caused so much hidden damage that it slowly started mixing up signals in the brain and that in turn showed itself as dyslexia, and unfortunately even in the future they couldn't fix that even if they wanted too. Three months later she was back at the academy where her career training had started all those years ago, and the school quickly learned that she was someone to contend with, even with her disability she was still doing better than most of her classmates

early in the training

"now then I know it doesn't seem to make sense to you now, but trust me when I say that even the tiniest detail could mean the difference between letting someone go free and breaking a case wide open"

and so the instructor left and suddenly the light turned off just briefly and when they came back on there were people there with guns and shooting in the air making almost everyone panic and duck, only one student kept their whits about them and that was all due to training they'd had before. Once things calmed down they had to right down everything that had happened and also had to try and identify the attackers from a line up of instructors and only one student got it correct

present

"is there any way we can challenge Kerenai?"

"so far we haven't found one and we've tried pretty hard, all the shooting lessons-passed, hand to hand-passed, driving-passed, observation-passed, arrest scenarios-passed, she's excelling in everything we test her on, except for some phrasing when it comes to the laws she's got that down pretty much too, counting for the fact that she has mild to severe dyslexia depending on different situations and if she's having a bad day or not"

"well part of that is because we've never let her get sleep deprived"

"yeah, but we're going to have to test that sometime soon and that she probably won't pass"

"who knows, but what do you mean by phrasing when it comes to the laws?"

"I mean the fact that she sometimes uses words or phrases that I know have been out of circulation for quite a while now"

"that's strange"

"yes it is, but I haven't worried about it because really, what's there to worry about?"

"good point"

well a few days later the teachers finally had to admit it was time to test the students on how they handled sleep deprivation, what they didn't know was that though Marissa had what was called sleep deprivation dyslexia she could handle the rest of the problems associated with sleep deprivation pretty easily, depending on how long she had been up anyways

"ok class today you're going to be tested on how well you handle being on a twenty-four hour shift with absolutely no sleep, we will be checking up on you guys every so often to make sure you're not asleep plus you'll be having tasks you need to complete throughout the night, caffeine is allowed if needed but other than that it's not allowed, this is so you can be prepared for this to happen in the real world, because it does happen sometimes"

and so they had their regular lessons and then it was time to test the students on sleep deprivation. The next day most of the class is just about ready to fall over but Marissa was still going strong

"ok how are you not about to fall asleep?, oh and I need a report on all your tasks within fifteen minutes"

"yes sir, as for not about to fall asleep well...that's classified"

and so fifteen minutes later the instructor had his report and while there were more mistakes then she would normally have except for a bad day, Marissa's report was good, so they had to call her in for a meeting since she was apparently still wide awake and making coffee for everyone else