"A break out from the prison, can you believe it?!" the voice of a man filled Kye's ears.
"I'm starting to think calling for a new Chief of Police was a bad idea," another man's voice grumbled in reply.
"How are we supposed to feel safe in the city when there are convicted criminals running around our streets at night? Chief Bei Fong would have never let this happen." A woman added to the conversation, which was followed by the happy coo of a baby at the sound of its mother's voice.
Kai took the information she just gained and stored it away for later, knowing it'd come in handy, before walking into the film shop.
X
When night came around after she had expressed her plan to Bolin, Kai went to the apartment of the lady who had asked her to find out if her husband was cheating on her or not. She had followed him from his house, to the police station where he changed into the metalbending uniform, and from the police station, she followed him to a bar called the The Shōjo on 76th street, which so happened, to be on Triple Threat Triad territory.
That's where she was now, (and where we began the story) and where she was being surrounded by a horde of Triple Threats…who were on motor bikes. "A pretty thing like you shouldn't be out so late," a cocky voiced called out, "Especially alone, on streets like these."
"All I'm doing is working, boys." She told them.
"Oh ho ho," the man chuckled. Kai's face fell into a sneer.
"Not like that asshole." She snapped angrily, turning back to her camera and snapping a picture of the man she had been trailing with a bimbo waitress from the bar on either arm. "I swear," she snapped a few more photos, "Why does everyone think I'm some spirits damned whore?"
"Why you getting pictures of that, sweetheart?" the only man who had spoken since the Triple Threats arrived asked her, genuinely curious.
"I was hired by a woman to find out whether her husband was cheating on her or not." She told the man with ease, "That metalbending officer that just walked out of that bar is the woman's husband."
One of the other men that were surrounding her snorted, "A police officer having an affair with a Shōjo waitress, ain't exactly news."
"So this happens a lot?" Kai raised an eyebrow.
"You wait a few more minutes and five other officers 'ill come out looking the same as that one." He made a gesture to the man she had just gotten photos of.
"Interesting…" Kai spoke out loud. "You know why they do it?"
"For the sex," another one of the guys scoffed.
"I've been in this business a long time," Kai remarked, "It's never just sex."
"They have a very lax age requirement policy," the leader of the group, the guy that had first spoke to her when they all drove up, spoke again, "And they've got a pretty interesting way of keeping their liquor license, don't ya think?" the man grinned mischievously.
"That they do," Kai replied, getting pictures of more officers as they walked out of the bar.
"We're in need of a private investigator of sorts, girlie, and …ugh…you seem pretty qualified," the leader spoke again, "You interested?" Kai raised an eyebrow at him, only looking over at him from the corner of her eye. "We'll make it worth your while." His eyebrows waggled suggestively.
"I ain't interested," Kai snapped. "I will, though, make you a deal."
"That ain't the way it wor–" Kai cut the second guy to speak to her off,
"You have three guys on their way to the slammer for double what they were originally in for," she stated easily, turning to face the group's leader dead on.
"So, what's it to you?" he snapped, now getting very angry with her.
"I've got this friend," she told him, "His name's Bolin." The man sneered deeply, "I need you to back off of him."
"No way in he–" The second guy who had spoken to her was cut off by his leader this time.
"You're payment?" He raised an eyebrow at her.
"I'll get your guys off their path to the slammer-gallows," she told him.
"Deal." The man replied. "You got until their trial date, or your friend's ours," A week, Kai thought to herself, perfect.
"Understood," Kai told the man.
"Now get outta here!" the leader snapped at her. Kai rolled her eyes as she turned around and headed for the docks.
X
"Did they agree?" Skoochy asked her as she arrived at the docks.
"Yep!" Kye replied casually, her smile spreading a little wider when Bolin beamed at her.
"Now, the next part 'ill be a little tricky," she informed them as they continued down the street.