Chapter 4. Apologetic

I stepped out of my cell and Caitlyn closed the door and locked it behind me. We started walking out of the station but not before stopping at Caitlyn's office. "I just need to grab some things, I'll be right back" She ran off into the office block and left me just outside the doors to it. I stood there passing time by looking out into the small courtyard in the middle of the building. There was a small group of children playing with a ball they had brought. A few police officers gave me strange looks as they passed and everything was quiet for a while.

"Umm... hey... Kid" A girl voice from behind me was calling me. I turned to see a girl with pink hair sporting a strange looking plate of armour across the front of her body and the letters V and I on her face. She was looking at me with a shy/sorry look on her face. "Look... I'm sorry about knocking you in the head..." She said shyly.

At first I didn't know what she meant but then I caught on. "So that was you then, one hell of a headache" I said. She jumped to my reply, she appeared to be surprised.

"Y-You actually remembered?" She said shocked.

I raised an eyebrow wonder by 'You actually remembered' "Yes? Is there a reason why I shouldn't?" I asked confused.

"It's just that... I tend to hit really overly hard..." She said looking down and away. I looked at her arms which were crossed in front of her. She didn't seem to muscular.

"H-hey what are you looking at?" She said while turning away.

"Your arms, What else. You don't look to muscular." I said.

"Oh, Uhh thanks?" She said confused. I could feel the aura around the two of us get thicker and I had no clue why.

"It's because I use a type of gauntlet that boosts my punching power so... I usually hit to hard and people... don't... remember me doing it..."
She said both ashamed and sorry.

Caitlyn walked out of the office area and saw the two of us talking. "Oh good, I see Vi apologized to you" She said satisfied. "Shut up Cait" she said embarrassed. Cait chuckled just as I took note that she was wearing something different. It was a longer dress then she was wearing before and she had taken off the top hat. She was wearing some type of strange looking purple gloves that went to her elbows as well. "You going somewhere or something Caitlyn? Why you all dressed up?" Vi asked confused. "Nothing really, I just need to go around town with him" She said while gesturing to me. "What? Why?" Vi said once again confused. "I'll tell you later" She said while shaking her head left and right. Vi looked at Caitlyn for a moment. "Fine, it's not my problem. More people for me to catch" She said as she walked past us. Caitlyn looked at me and sighed before asking "Ready to get going?".

She was leading me into the streets of Piltover walking towards the mid-class area. I didn't always go into Piltover but whenever I did it was normally Mid-class or Low-class areas. After roughly 15 minutes of walking we arrived at a store, a clothing store to be exact. "Why are we stopping here?" I asked. "Just look at yourself" She said pointing out my clothing. I was only wearing a red shirt with a black vest over it and black jeans. Nothing too special, I wasn't to much of a fan of flare unless it was exactly what I wanted. "So, what about my clothes?" I asked. "You don't want to look like you're from noxus do you?" She asked. As far as I knew Noxus was one of the worst places you could go. Most of the time your either stealing or being stolen from, according to what I've read. I was going to argue how if this is how noxians looked I might as well go there, but I knew she would deny that and force me to get new clothes. "Fine, whatever helps you sleep at night" I said giving in.

We walked in the store and the store clerk knew who Caitlyn was as soon as she walked in. "Welcome back Caitlyn. What do you need today?" The Clerk asked.

"He needs new clothes" She said while pointing me out.

"Oh? Who might you be" She asked.

I just stared at her, I didn't feel comfortable in the shop at all. "It's fine she won't bite" Caitlyn joked. I sighed and relaxed a little "Blade" I said briefly.

"Blade? There's a name you don't hear a lot" The clerk said.

She looked over me a few times "Hmm you look a lot like someone who's not a fan of people yes?" She asked.

"Not exactly" I responded while glaring at her.

"That's fine but is there any special requests to what you want?" She asked.

I thought about it for a moment. "No bright colours, in fact in possible I'd only want to wear red and black... something with a hood would be nice..." I just started naming things off the top of my head. A few of them were pointless but the clerk was noting all of it down.

The clerk stood there thinking for a few moments. "I actually might have something exactly like that." She disappeared into a room behind the counter.

I shot Caitlyn a confused look but she was busy looking at the other clothes lined up along the store. I sighed and waited for the clerk to come back.
The clerk came back out with a pile of folded clothes in her arms. "Try these on and tell me if you like them, Change rooms are over there" She said while pointing out stalls lined near each other. I took the clothes and walked over to one of the stalls locking myself in one. I looked at myself in the mirror. My hair was a jet black colour that went down past my shoulders. I had a relatively well sculpted face and... red eyes? My eyes used to be brown but now... I rubbed my eyes and looked back at the mirror. Still red... did something happen... I decided to worry about it later and started taking off my clothes. I took off my vest and shirt and followed up with my boots and jeans. The clothes she had grabbed for me all looked fine but I had yet to put them on. I took the pair of pants she got for me. They were like my other jeans but they felt thicker and also had red details along the waist and down the pant legs. It had more pockets then I would deem needed. With two in the front like normal and two in the back but also two on each side of the pant legs. Next was the under shirt, It was a basic red and black shirt with red being the dominant colour. There was once again details only this time in black, there was also a design on the back that kind of looked like wings make of blades. The overcoat was a strange thing, It was a long coat that went down to the middle of my thighs with a hood. It was mostly black with yet again red details. It had two front pockets and roughly nine different pockets on the inside. I didn't quite know why there were so many but everything just on my just fine. Finally there was the shoes. They were full black leather shoes. The bottoms looked like they were meant for running since it looked very strongly attached to the rest of the shoe. It was also worn with a buckle to tighten/loosen the shoe. Overall this was a very nice set of clothes. I didn't have much to complain about and after looking in the mirror I pulled the hood up and walked out with my old clothes in hand.

"There we are, You look much better now" Caitlyn responded to me walking out of the stall almost as soon as I exited.

"It does look good, I don't have anything really to complain about" I said.

"Oh good they did fit they were a customly requested set of clothes I've had for a long long time... and you look lovely I must say."

"Well I suppose it will do..." I responded coldly.

Both of them just stared at me for a moment before caitlyn broke the silence "Ahem, Well I suppose were done here. Can you put the costs onto my account?" Caitlyn answered.

"Yes of course, Have a good day the" The shopkeeper answered.

Just as we walk out of the store Caitlyn turns to me for one moment. "I need to apologize Blade" She said looking truly sorry.

"Why are you apologizing" I asked.

"You see you know of the female you had knocked out?" She asked.

I nodded "Well you see she must have woken up and she was held up in your room and well..." She stopped.

"What?" I asked.

"I had orders to fire and I may or may not have destroyed your clothes when I shot pierced the wall..." Caitlyn was looking away as she explained.

I stood there taking a moment to realize what she had said, I sighed and nudged her to keep moving. "Fine, Apology accepted" I said.

With that we walked to her home and my life had restarted once again.