April
Nothing out of the norm came up for a while after Harry's rather eventful birthday; but Cassidy and Harry's relationship had changed slightly.
They regularly went out for a coffee together after work instead of simply going home, and sometimes even went to the pizza parlour that they had spent Harry's birthday together after the nylock attack. They often used this time to wind down after work, sometimes talking about the cases they were working on, usually though they tended to avoid the subject of work together, and tried their best to change the subject when it came up.
They talked about a lot of things; Harry's young education, Cassidy's martial arts training, even about things in the news, and gradually, they began to know each other better.
STRANGE TRANSITION
"Morning Harry" Cassidy said, swivelling round in the office chair
"That's my chair" Harry replied, setting down his bag and giving her an indifferent glare
"No. It's the chair" Cassidy replied "It's not just your chair; it belongs to everyone in the office"
"But everyone knows that I sit in that chair" Harry argued "And only two people are in this office, you and me. So stop being difficult and get off please!"
After their regular bonding time had been established, Harry had discovered that Cassidy could be as stubborn as a mule, and as irritating as a fly, all in one.
In short, she was a horse-fly.
"I'm bored!" Cassidy exclaimed, finally giving up the fight and moving to her own chair in the corner.
"Well that's certainly not my fault!" Harry replied, sitting in his chair and beginning his paperwork on the desk "Its not like we can make a guy proclaim himself a power ranger out of thin a-"
Harry was immediately interrupted by a knock on the office doorframe.
Linda, the police department's resident matchmaker was standing in the doorframe, looking at the pair with interest. Though it seemed like she had more pressing matters to address the pair with than matchmaking this time.
"There's two guys who want to see you both in the front hall" She said "The guy claims he knows about the Power Rangers"
"What!" Cassidy and Harry both exclaimed, immediately getting out of their seats and running down the corridor towards the front hall
COOL TRANSITION
The two men before Harry and Cassidy didn't look very useful to them.
One man, who had been identified as 'Bulk', a rather large man, wearing a plain white t-shirt, black shorts and trainers. He was talking to the other man, who had been identified as 'Spike', as if he knew all the workings of the police department.
'Spike' was much younger than the other man, looking to be a teenager, with spiked up hair, wearing a sleeveless jacket and converse shoes. Every now and then, the teenager would give off an ear-splitting snort of a laugh.
Cassidy doubted that they would gain any information from these two, but, it was worth a shot.
"So" Harry said, sitting down at the table and cautiously shaking Bulk and Spike's hands "You are Mr Bulk and Spike, correct?"
"Yep" The older man Bulk replied shaking Harry's hand and then crossing his arms "We've got information about those Samurai Rangers for you"
Cassidy joined Harry to sit down and looked across at Spike. It looked like he was daydreaming about something, and had a faraway look in his eye that maidens in romance novels always had when they were 'doting' on some poor soul.
"Alright, let's just cur to the chase then" Cassidy said, laying her hands on the table "You've got information, and you want to give that out. What do you guys want in return?"
Bulk immediately responded, having already planned out how this meeting was going to end "We want a larger base of operations, military information and weapons"
"We're Samurai ourselves!" Spike interrupted "And…oh that lady in pink…"
He was gone again, resting his head on his hand and staring into space.
"We don't have the authority to give you information in return" Harry said "But I think we can sort out that new base if you give us the information"
"Deal." Bulk said, firmly shaking Harry's hand and leaving the room, dragging his dazed partner with him.
"That was easy" Cassidy remarked "So do you think they know the identities?"
"I doubt it" Harry replied, getting up from the table and straightening his jacket "But, there's always a chance"
COOL TRANSITION
Cassidy had been thinking. It had been about 2 days since the deal with Bulk and Spike had been made, and those 2 days had been used frantically trying to find an apartment or storage space which the informants could use as a new 'Samurai training' (so they called it) base.
Most of the time, the estate agents showing Harry and Cassidy round thought they were a young couple moving in together, and it took quite a bit of explaining to say they were simply on business and representing the real buyers, who they were scouting a new place for.
Most of them didn't believe one word of it.
Even so, Cassidy had been thinking.
Not about the base of operations hunt, but afterwards, when they've got the information from those two.
Would they know the identities?
If they did, Cassidy would have no reason for staying in town, and would probably be transferred again.
Normally she would be ecstatic.
But she wasn't, because for some reason she felt like for the first time; this was home. Home was being attacked by nylocks and following goose trails and being picked on by co-workers and being attacked by the same co-workers so that they could force you into a pair of heels for your partner's birthday and talking to a bunch of idiots who didn't know anything about the people you were looking for yet still seemed to know a hell of a lot more than you do. Home was being paired up with the posh-kid with an Irish accent who took you to pizza parlours to cheer you up after a bad night when you let the very spandex-wearing lunatics you were meant to find slip through your fingertips.
Cassidy had always been on the move. She had been re-assigned to different cases all over the country, and she had always been fine with that. After all, her aim was the top, and if she had to shuffle around a bit to get there, that was fine with her.
This time was different though. Through all of the weird and dangerous stuff she had to get through in her life, the past 3 months had been the weirdest and most wonderful parts of life that she had ever experienced, and what was more, there was somebody else beside her to experience that too.
Even the quiet moments, when you did nothing but sit in the office and file infinite amounts of paperwork seemed to pass by like a dream, as she got to know everybody better and came to understand why they worked the way they did.
For example; at first sight Harry was nothing but a posh, naïve child prodigy who was way over his head and needed a good tug by the ear to push him down to size. But she had come to learn that Harry wasn't that. He had been named a child prodigy because all his father ever did when they were under the same roof was to pressure him for better grades and to come top at everything, and so all he ever knew was inside of textbooks; he had no experience in life, and needed a good tug by the ear to show him just what he was missing out on.
It was weird, they were polar opposites growing up; Cassidy had nothing to go by but experience yet somehow they were both in the same boat. All it took to let that ship set sail was a few colourful spandex superheroes and a local police department in need of some assistance.
She didn't ever want to leave, but she feared if they found out these Rangers identities, she would have no choice but to move on again.
"This garage has recently been renovated" Harry remarked, snapping Cassidy out of her thoughts
She leaned closer to the computer he was looking at, and looked at the very cheap, very modest shed-looking garage.
"Doesn't look all that special to me" She said
"But Bulk and Spike don't know that" He replied "After all, the sooner we find them a place to stay, the sooner we get our information, right?"
"R-right…" Cassidy said half-heartedly.
"Are you ok?" Harry asked, noticing that Cassidy was unusually quiet today
"Yeah!" She snapped "Yeah, I'm fine"
"As long as you say so…"
Just then, Linda slammed the cramped office door open, completely shattering the building tension in the room
"Sherlock! Watson!" She exclaimed, gaining a groan in response from the couple "We've got that Bulk and Spike fellows back!"
"You're kidding me!" Cassidy said, getting up from her seat and clambering over the piles of paperwork to get out of the office
"Nope" Linda continued "They said something about 'Wanting their demands met right now'…So I thought I may as well get you two to talk to them"
"We're on it" Harry said, getting up and joining Cassidy at the doorway
"You know…" Linda remarked, tilting her head innocently "You two do make an adorable couple, honestly you should get together and-"
"Hell no!" They both exclaimed in unison
"Fine!" Linda retorted, holding up her hands in defeat "Fine I was only joking anyway."
The three walked down the narrow corridor back to the waiting room, where Bulk and Spike were sitting impatiently
"Took you too long enough" Bulk remarked, crossing his arms
Spike snorted "Good one uncle!"
"Alright, we don't have the building provided at the moment but-" Harry began, only to be interrupted by Bulk raising his hand, demanding nothing more to be said
"No! I take no excuses!" He said, in a way that kind of reminded Cassidy of a child playing posh-adults… "It's either we get the building now, or you don't get the information!"
Cassidy noticed Harry's body tensed in something that reminded her of frustration, before replying "Look, just give us a few more day and then we can-"
"You heard what he said" Spike interrupted, adding an irritating high pitched laugh for effect "It's now or never, pretty boy!"
I felt Harry's anger bubbling and I guessed he was about to snap at the two, when I decided to butt-in
"I am sorry for this delay; however we haven't been able to find a place for you yet"
I felt something like a twinge of relief leak out, and before I even knew what I was saying, I continued "If you believe that we are taking too long, the pleas feel free to leave. We will find the information we need, one way or another. With or without your help."
"Fine!" Bulk rose from his seat, summoning all the dignity he could muster "Then we will take our leave. Spike!"
His slimmer counterpart jumped up from his seat "Yes?" he said
"Let's get out of here" Bulk said, walking out of the waiting room with his nephew and leaving behind two very confused detectives.
COOL TRANSITION
"Do you think they actually knew the Ranger's identities?" Harry asked, biting into another slice of pizza.
It had become a certain routine with Cassidy and Harry now, during the end of a long day they would come to the 'Jungle Karma Pizza' parlour, and have dinner there, happily chatting to the owner RJ and taking their minds off work for the evening
"Probably not" Cassidy replied, slurping her soda
"Yeah, probably just an April fools joke" Harry commented
"Is it April fools today?" Cassidy exclaimed, almost jumping out her seat
"Well yeah, didn't you know?" Harry replied, stuffing the rest of the pizza into him mouth
"I had no idea!" Cassidy said
"You've got soda down your shirt!" Harry exclaimed, looking deliberately at her chest, like she had spilled her drink on it
"Seroiusly!" Cassidy exclaimed, quickly looking down at her blouse, and suddenly realising that there was in fact nothing spilled at all.
"Ha!" Harry exclaimed "You fell for the oldest trick in the book!"
"You would've too!" Cassidy replied defensively, crossing her arms
"Happy April Fools Cassidy" Harry said, grinning and taking another slice of pizza from the plate
"Happy April Fools" Cassidy grumbled in reply.
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