4:00 p.m.
It had been two hours since Ahri started her search into Jinx's subconscious. The result was catastrophic, but gave results. Ahri had passed out before giving a full explanation of what happened. All she was able to say was that Jinx is...troubled. Vi and Caitlyn continued to lay there on the ground of the hallway. Vi had managed to calm down and was just slowly breathing, cuddled into Caitlyn's arms. Caitlyn was holding Vi, staring off into the distance, lost in thought.
None of this makes sense. Vi's glowing hair, that strength, Ahri's comment, Jinx's..healing. I know I hit her dead center..she should be bleeding..dead even, but she's asleep, snoring behind me…
The Sheriff's thoughts were interrupted by a stirring Vi; she hadn't noticed she fell asleep. Vi squirmed out of Caitlyn's hold and sat up. She let out a yawn, rubbed her eyes, and stretched. It took her a moment to get her surroundings. Why is there no door on this ce-.., she quickly remembered. She jerked her head around to see Caitlyn staring at her with a sympathetic expression on her face towards her.
"Pretty..crazy day this has been already, eh?", said Vi, trying to..hopelessly play off the recent events. This caused Caitlyn to actually giggle, and Vi's face turned blood red as she quickly hide it by wiping more sleep from her eyes. Holy shit that was adorable, why isn't she yelling?
Caitlyn got up to her feet, brushing off her skirt and picking up her hat. "Vi, it's 4 in the afternoon, and it's your birthday, would you like to go to the bar to get a drink with me and the other officers? It was meant to be a surprise, but I think..*looks at cell door; turns around and looks at sleeping Jinx*..we've had enough damn surprises for the day."
Vi stared at Caitlyn, and gave a small smile and nod. "I definitely need a fucking drink after this shit. I'll give Dickbag a ring on the way and see how Ahri's doing.."
Dickbag..she's feeling well enough to make jokes at least. , thought Caitlyn.
The two officers walked down the hall to the front lobby. Much to their surprise, the lobby was fully cleaned; debris cleared out, papers filed and stacked again, the gaping hole in the doorway and window sealed off with insulation board. "Who's idea was this?" asked the Sheriff.
One officer approached her and stood at attention. "Ma'am, while you and Enforcer Vi were handling duties in the back, we took it upon ourselves to clean and fix up the front lobby. The insulation board is until the door guy comes out tomorrow, ma'am."
Caitlyn had a slightly shocked, but impressed expression. "Uh, very good. I'm happy to see you all stopped your childish calling and got down to serious work." The officer gave a smirk.
"Yes, ma'am. Ahr-, er, excuse me, The Nine Tailed Fox rarely ever visits, so we were all in a cheery mood to see her, some of us never seeing her in person before, ma'am."
Caitlyn rolled her eyes, "Very well, whatever your excuses are. Start closing up, the station is closing early tonight, we're going out to Gragas's to celebrate the Enforcer's birthday." This erupted a cheer from the station, abruptly interrupted by Vi, "But whoever is still in this station in the next five minutes has the honor of babysitting Piltover's personal demon back there in the cells."
The room went quiet, the officers were waiting to see if that was a joke. Several seconds passed before Caitlyn spoke up. "Tick...tock." The officers scrambled quickly to finish up filing and putting away gear and closing up.
After five minutes, the last two out the door were Vi and Caitlyn since they had the keys to the emergency exit since the front door was inaccessible. Another officer spoke up, "Looks like Vi's the last one out the door, shouldn't she stay and watch Jinx?" He gave a joking smirk. Caitlyn sighed.
"Ignoring that, everyone keep your radios on, and your communicators on. We're still officers of the City and are on call 24/7 to any distress, never forget that." Caitlyn was answered with a full unison "Ma'am yes ma'am!" As Piltover's finest headed out to Caitlyn's car, Jayce's came swerving around the corner, and drifted into a parking spot. "Fucking show off", Vi said.
Jayce stepped out and saw the two officers and every other one driving away. He approached the two with a confusion expression. "Hey hey, Piltover's Pride is here now, where's everyone going?" He gave a cocky laugh. Vi facepalmed, and Caitlyn gave a desperate laugh at the silly situation.
" We're going out to celebrate Vi's birthday. Gragas's. We've closed up for the day, but we're still on call, so make sure your radio is on, Jayce." Jayce gave a laugh and looked over to Vi. "So we couldn't keep it a surprise? But you're so easy to fool, Vi, how'd you find out this time?!" He gave a cocky grin, and Vi closed a fist, but quickly opened it.
"You're so lucky I don't have the energy or want to slug you, Dickbag." Jayce laughed again. As Vi and Caitlyn turned to get into the car, Jayce spoke up once again. "Excuse me, Sheriff. I actually have some important paperwork regarding a case involving Viktor of Zaun. As much as I'd love to get piss faced drunk to celebrate the Enforcer's birthday, those documents are a little more personal."
Vi shrugged "I don't care." She tossed her keys for the alley door to Jayce before Caitlyn could even respond. "Lesgo Cupcake! Need to get smashed over here!" Caitlyn stuttered to argue, but sighed and got into the car. Before Vi could sit into the car, she opened the door, and Jayce put a hand on her shoulder. She turned around confused as this gesture, "Why are you touching me?"
Jayce turned her around and gave her a hug, "I'm glad you're ok, have a nice birthday, I'll keep watch over Jinx, so don't worry about a thing, Vi" Vi stood a little shocked at this, but reluctantly hugged back. After the day she's had, Vi needed a hug, so she hugged him a little tighter. "Thanks..Jayce." They let go, and Jayce held up a fist. Vi smirked and responded with her own fist. Jayce looked in at Caitlyn, "I want you to get extra drunk for me, Caitlyn, god knows you need it!" Another cocky smile.
Caitlyn gave a laugh, and her and Vi drove away. Jayce waved them off, then turned and headed for the alley way door. He got inside, locked it back up, and enabled the security alarms, "One of these days we're going to get robbed because Vi is too lazy to turn this damn thing on." He headed upstairs to his office, sat down at this desk, and pulled out a case file. For the next few hours, he sat there and studied it, writing down notes and researching through the database..
8:00 p.m.
"Viktor..I'm close to getting you shut down.." The case was about Viktor's imports of certain devices and illegal substances from Noxus. Even Zaun has their own laws. "Shimmer..hextech power cores..prototy-." Jayce's self read was interrupted by a loud *clank*. He abruptly stood up and placed his hand on his Mercury Hammer leaning on the wall behind him.
*clank* "The hell is that?" Jayce made his way out of the office and down the staircase. *clank….clank* It's coming from the cells, Jinx?
He turned the corner to the cells, and approached the one Jinx was in..or supposed to be in. He noticed the door had been ripped off the handles. His face turned to shock , HOLY SHIT SHE GOT OUT! He turned to quickly run down the hall, when he heard it again. *clank*
He realized it wasn't coming from that cell, but the one across. He backed up and tried looking inside, but it was pitch black since Caitlyn and Vi turned off the power for the night and the security was enabled. "Loose Cannon, what are you doing, what is that sound?" No response. *clank* "Fine then." Jayce turned on his Mercury Hammer, light flooding the cell hallway with blue light. He stared in shock at the sight he was witnessing.
Jinx was sitting upright in her bed...with all of her weapons in front of her. She had a hextech multitool, the Heimer series, high quality, very expensive, made by the yordle himself. Only person in the station that had one was Vi in her office. Jayce was about to speak up, but couldn't stop watching. Jinx was dismantling her weapons, piece by piece. Every piece dropping to the floor with a *clank*.
"H-hey, where'd you get that tool, and your weapons! Answer me!" He pointed the Mercury hammer at Jinx and switched to gunner. Jinx stood up and walked over to the cell bars. She reached out with one hand, and held out the multitool, keeping her head down. She had finished taking apart her entire arsenal, a scrap of parts and power cores on the floor of the cell. Jayce slowly held out his hand, and took the tool out of hers. Jinx spoke up.
"I'd like to be let out. I don't want to be here. I want to be far away from here." Jayce was startled by the sudden reply, but maintained his demeanor; he was still the Defender, after all. "You know I can't do that. Last time you threw me off guard, I almost got a leg blown off. No way in hell I'd trust you now, Loose Cannon. Nice try."
Jinx gave a slight scowl, and walked back into the cell, picked something off the floor, and walked over and handed it to Jayce. Jayce took it , and took a look. In an instant, his grip on his hammer was gone, and it fell to the ground. Jayce stared at it, then at Jinx, then back to it. "Please..let me out of here." Jinx gripped her head, and rubbed her temples, as if to fight off a headache. "How can I trust you, trust this?" He held up the item.
Jinx put up one hand and reached for her necklace, the bullet she wore. She ripped it off, and handed it to Jayce. He stared at it in confusion. Jinx reached out hand out and grabbed his. She held his finger and had it trace along the side of the bullet until he felt a mark. An engraving? She pulled her arm back inside while Jayce read it. "No..fucking way.." He looked up at the bluette, who finally raised her own head to meet his stare.
He looked into her eyes, soft pink. I thought they were...blood red., thought Jayce. A blank expression on Jinx's face; she asked again. "Am i trusted enough?" Jayce was still lost in thought, but heard her. He walked into Vi's office and grabbed her keys. When he came out of the office, trying to find the right key, he was startled by something and fell back to the ground. Jinx was already outside the cell, in the hallway, staring at him. The cell door had already been opened.
"Wha? How did you- why did I have to-.." stuttered Jayce. Jinx gave a laugh, for once in Jayce's life, it sounded as innocent as a child's. "I got a hold of Violet's multitool and my weapons from locked storage, you think I could've done that locked in a cell?" Jayce thought for a moment...then slammed his hand into his face. "I'm a fucking moron.." This made Jinx burst out laughing, more of one he was used to hearing. "Why did you have me go get the keys then? You could've left at any moment, why try to gain my trust, was it fake?" The word "fake" made Jinx suddenly stop laughing, and look into Jayce's eyes.
"The gesture that you were going too let me out, was enough for me. At least this way, you can't technically get reprimanded or destroyed by Violet and Caitlyn for letting me out." Jayce noticed it twice now, She called her Violet again..
Jayce got to his feet, and tucked the keys in his coat pocket. He picked his gun off the ground, and look at the bluette. "I have a strong feeling that I'll regret this decision, that it'll come back to bite me, that you'll come back to harm us, like you have many times before with your possum attempts.." Jinx heard this, and put her head down. A very sorrowful look on her face. She turned to go back into the cell, much to Jayce's surprise. He quickly stopped her. "But..for once in my life, you've given me doubt. And THAT'S enough for me. You have one chance, don't spoil it, now get out of here before I change my mind." Jinx propped her head up and smiled. She walked past Jayce as he stood there, questioning his decision every step Jinx took.
She turned and gave him a peck on the cheek, "To be honest, at some point, I'm going to harm again. At the moment, I can't help it, but I'm fighting it. Sooner or later, I'll win. Thank you.. for being the first person in almost a decade to trust me" Jayce quickly put his hand on his cheek and looked at Jinx. Jayce was actually blushing. Almost a decade, what?
"Ha, I can actually make the Defender blush. See you later, Jayce." She opened a window and was gone.