AN: Every episode where there's rain, so basically every episode.
Summer
Sometimes the rain is unbearable.
It soaks through everything right down to the underwear and you always feel cold and gross. You'd carry an umbrella but it can get cumbersome when you're chasing down a bad guy or sneaking into places you shouldn't be sneaking into. It's also easy to forget them in odd places and they're not always cheap.
But these are conditions Linden has grown used to over the years with Seattle PD. They make jokes about it, saying how for every day of sunshine they're slammed with four days of downpour (and this would be the summer they're talking about).
Sonoma was going to be her paradise. No more tight deadlines, running on no sleep and vending machine food, regular hours (for whatever job she was going to get when she got there) and time for her new family. Not to mention the California sun. That was what she looked forward to the most: bright, beautiful weather for a new start.
But here she is, digging in the dirt-turned-mud for evidence in Seattle a week after she thought she was going to leave. Apparently her partner is perfectly content with this. She's still not sure if he really meant it or if he was just psyching her out. Either way, he still runs for the car when they transition from indoors to outdoors.
When they talk, with their hoods pulled over their heads and partially covering their faces, they practically have to yell. Rainwater speckles their faces and gets inside their mouths and eyes and communication is just made a pain altogether.
They walk a little hunched and always squinting, attempting to evade the rain and knowing nothing they do would help. They drink from damp coffee cups and fish their fast food from soaked, ripping paper bags.
It's miserable.
But, admittedly, it's a little less miserable when other people are miserable with her. There is a funny but pathetic irony to doing this with someone else because it sucks like hell but kind of fun at the same time.
He's also the type of person who cracks jokes that are so bad, they're good. She laughs, not because of what he says, but because he's said it at all. She could be in sunny Sonoma with her fiancé but she's not. She's here, with this random person who's now her partner, and trying to get into the mind of a dead girl.
And it's actually not so bad.
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