~ Streetwise ~

"Alright, Annie. Pop quiz time. Do you know where the poorest people are located in this district?" The superior office asked with a turn to Annie, the two now that their standing beside each other noticeably different in height; the officer standing at least a head taller then his subordinate.

Walking along with him, she put her hands in her pockets and continued to keep alongside him but a step behind, a respective distance for a superior and their subordinate as taught in training but she was obviously not caring that she looked like she didn't care.

"I dont know..dont really care, the poor can stay where they are supposed to.. " she replied to him as she shrugged, obviously not caring. She stood beside him and looked out around the people. "As long as they stay where they are supposed to, they won't get hurt"

"This girl was ranked fourth in her class...?" The officer silently questioned as she answered his question with as little interest as possible. He knew that her hand to hand combat and intelligence was impressive, but her attitude was quickly showing a disinterest in anything that wasn't centred around her own interest. Didn't that mean she would be useless in a team oriented assignment? Unless she could do it all by her lonesome. The superior kept his relaxed countenance as he came to such a conclusion and responded to her inquiry with shake of his head.

"Wrong. Minus ten-points." He began to walk with a grab of the note that'd been resting in his chest pocket. "The poor, whom are located in the centre of this district, are always getting hurt." His hand put the note back in his pocket as the two walked out of the front gate and made it onto the busy city streets that circulated the district. As the two walked through the district there wasn't much to see besides an occasional glance from some of the other military police officers going about their own business.

"Not a single superior officer is out huh? Not a big surprise." Glancing at Annie with the thought, the officer wondered if she even cared that she wasn't being treated like a makeshift slave.

'She probably doesn't care.' He thought as the two came across a market that spanned across the middle of a large open area.

"Maybe the officers are being as useless as every other member of the Military Police and are at home jerking it or looking out for themselves?" she asked as they left the gate and began to enter the Market.

It was interesting, ever since she'd made her way inside the walled nation, Annie had been taking in everything. How had these people managed to survive with the Titans outside, how and why had they even tried to survive; they should have been wiped out a long time ago and not left to root themselves into this island like an infestation.

That was the real reason she felt she was above everyone else, because she was... a human does not care what the flea feels when a boot lands on it.

Each section of the ground that could be covered had a stand that sold some type of food, the two police officers ended up in the direction of a fruit stand. A mother and a couple children stood in front of them, the older woman pointedly picking out multiple fruits in between stopping her children from wandering away. In between chastising another child she noticed the two officers and gave a panicked stare expecting some type of chastisement or punishment.

"No No. It's fine, please carry on." The head officer was quick to shut-down such thoughts and was glad to receive thanks as the mother carries on at the fruit stand until she was done, with a polite bow to the two patiently waiting officers.

Seeing the children and the woman at the Market, Annie kept her eyes on them, the mother should have left a couple of the children to die and had the strongest ones survive, they would be better off that way. Looking back at her new superior, she looked back and forth between the officer and the Market stall owner, Takeo, as they greeted and spoke to each other.

"Ah, Matias. I thought it was you." The vendor, an older man with a gruff exterior and a deep voice says with a cross of his muscular arms; his brown eyes meeting the green. A smile was given to him and an outstretching of a hand that was returned by the strong and hairy knuckled other.

"Afternoon, Takeo. Good to see business is going good. I'd like to take the usual and introduce you to my newest and probably last recruit, Annie Leonhart." Matias gestured to the other officer standing beside him with a movement of an arm. Takeo was quick to scrutinise her with a narrowing of his brown eyes and then looked back to Matias, staring at the different kinds of fruits presented to him with a hand on his chin.

"She looks disinterested."

"That's because she is. She joined to do what she wants, but unlike the rest of my squad is apparently talented."

"You have rotten luck with recruits, Matias."

"Tell me about it." The officer commented.

"She... can hear you, you know..." she commented blandly as they spoke about her and him having 'Rotten Luck' . And I think he's probably hit the best point in his career and is simply sailing through the days until he retires.." she commented about Matias so off handedly, it was almost shocking to realise that this was a court martial offence RIGHT on her first day.

She looked up at Matias and simply said in her disinterested tone "I thought we were speaking open minded seeing as you're talking about me as if I'm not here?" She asked in what would be sarcasm if she even bothered to show the emotional tones in her voice.

Matias had began to browse the selection of fruits for something to take with him. He almost began to point them out, but out of the corner of his eyes noticed through the crowd a single child running away in the opposite direction they stood with a wallet in hand. His hand going into his pocket and much to his relief found that his wallet was still connected to string in his right pocket as it always was.

He looked at Annie next and then thought about the reputation the two share as military police, his lips forming a frown as he pointed at Annie's pockets. "Annie. Do you still have your wallet on you?"

Looking at him when he mentioned her wallet, she pulled it out and nodded. "I got mine, but that kid stole his" she motioned to a rich looking guy, who only now noticed and began to yell out. He turned to the pair and yelled "Catch those brats, thats what you're supposed to do!"

Annie simply walked up to the market stall, grabbed an apple, weighed it in her hand, put it down and picked another, nodded then in a quick turn, she threw the apple in a ballistic arc.

Colliding with the young boys head, the apple actually smashed into mush as the boy fell face first into a stall. Walking over and taking the wallet back, she threw it at the owner and dragging the boy by his collar, she dropped him at the feet of Matias.

"Disinterest does not correlate to lack of skill... " she told the pair, Takeo looking shocked at the precision she'd shown but also looked at the boy who was clearly unconscious. 'Police brutality' could easily be the word of the act right now, but she'd apprehended him with the least amount of energy and chase.

"Looks like your luck ain't so rotten, Matias." Takeo muttered to the equally impressed Matias that watched the young boy actually collapse from the impact of a simple apple. Both watched in silence as the boy was brought over and dropped in front of the officer that, with a look at his face, actually recognised him. His brow raised as the identity came to him, but he didn't get a chance to say anything as the rich shopper was quick to step up to the scene and snatch his wallet from Annie.

"So it looks like a few of you can do you're jobs after all!" The blonde man looked to the kid with an expression contorted in anger that the officer was quick to notice. "This trash. How dare he even touch what belongs to me." Spitting in his general direction, the rich man turned a pair of blue eyes to the superior officer and jabbed at his chest with a finger. "What are you going to do with him?" Takeo noticeably took a step back the moment that question was asked and the people around the stall that'd been waiting in line slowly take a step back. Matias made a gesture with his hand for Takeo to load up his bag with the usual fruit as his other hand brushed away the finger that was reaching out to his chest.

"If you're insinuating that you want me to do anything other then take this child back home, then you've got another thing coming."

"Home?! This little vagrant doesn't deserve to be taken to whatever dirty hole it considers home! It deserv-

"Did this child do anything to harm you?" The rich man paused for a moment giving the officer time to end the conversation.

"No he didn't. He stole a wallet and got nothing out of it but an apple to the face. Justice has been done and you're free to go about your business." The rich man went quiet, but the glare he gave the officer that's shut him down told of his desire to continue the argument out of pure spite.

He ended up choosing the more logical option and storming away with a venomous glare, one that Matias paid little mind to as he picked up the unconscious child from the ground and put him underneath his armpit. His other hand moved out and grabbed onto the bag of fruit that was handed to him surprisingly for free by Takeo who watched the rich man go down the street.

Standing still as the man and her superior officer almost argued, Annie waited for them to finish talking, not really caring if the boy got anything going to him or not, she'd simply shown that she wasn't as useless as everyone else around here.

"What a prick." Takeo mumbled quietly.

"Yep. Unfortunately they come with the job. I'll be seeing you around, Takeo."

"See you later, Matias. You too, Hawk-Eye!" Takeo called out with a look at Annie. At the nickname of 'Hawk-Eye' she pondered on it, she'd never been given a name like that before, well... she'd been given 'Female Titan' by the other of her shifter partners but that was not a public nickname.

Waving to Takeo as they left, she thought about her nickname even more and looked up at Matias as she alongside her superior make their way down the street towards the deeper and more poor part of the district.