ART COVER INSPIRED BY: nmuurder ON INSTAGRAM
Extra details (smoke, ash, words, etc.) by: me
Y/N is a detective, who is currently attempting to solve a case. Someone has burnt down a building and killed multiple people and their loved ones. That pe...
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What? Did I hear her right? Did Minx just use Y/N's real name?
Clay had a sour look on his face, as if he'd met Y/N before. Soon, he shook his face off and asked, "What does she want?"
Minx rolls her eyes. "What do you think? My partner and I found very suspicious men under a restaurant, doing who knows what - now, Y/N came here to take you and your buddy in for a bit of questioning."
A high pitched noise started to sound in my left ear. This irritated only me and Clay, Minx just stood there with a content expression.
She turned around, Y/N appearing behind her, pressing a button on a slim black cylinder. "Glad you came up with this idea, Nance. It works like a charm!" Y/N was wearing a long black coat with long collars that acted like walls to prevent her face from showing. Minx only smiles as a response.
Meanwhile, Clay and I are still being taunted by the high pitched ringing. Y/N finally let's go of the button, the annoying sound fading away and walks around the car to Clay's side. As she opened the door she said, "Alright, you're coming with me." Almost immediately, she drags Clay out of the car and shoves him against the rear end, while cuffing his hands together. Afterwards, the duo made their way back to their separate vehicle.
Minx jumped back into the passenger seat and sighed. "God, that whole fight from earlier really got to me."
I look back at the unconscious man in the back seat. "Uh-huh.. you knocked out a fully grown man," I gently bit my lip. "To be honest.. I'm starting to worry, what if you killed him?"
She rolls her eyes. "Nah, I'm pretty confident that I didn't kill him. I didn't use all of my strength to knock him out since he was already weak and bleeding."
I shrug and start up the car. "Are we gonna follow Y/N's lead or are we gonna head home?"
The lady yawns before responding. "She wants us to follow her back to headquarters," I nod and start to swerve out of the parking lot, following Y/N's vehicle. "She has something to tell you when we get there."
"About what?" I step onto the brake. "Did I do something again?"
Minx bends over and pulls a tissue box onto her lap. "I'm not entirely sure, she just said she needed to talk to you." She took a piece of tissue out and plugged her nose while looking up. "All I can tell you is, good luck!" She flashed me a thumbs up.
The car beeped as I shut the door. I tend to Minx to help her with the unconscious man. "Here, I can carry him, as long as you clear my way." She nods and presses the elevator button.
As the doors open I ask the lady about the high pitch noise that apparently only Clay and I heard. "Oh, that? That was nothing," She answers, flabbergasted. "It's not like I invented it."
"What?" My mouth drops open. "You? You're the inventor of that thing? Are you an engineer?"
Minx shrugs. "Somewhat - but it depends, what do you think an engineer is?"
I blow a raspberry, making a farting sound. "That's a tough one.. in simpler terms, but mostly in my opinion, an engineer is someone who can both innovate and destroy."
Minx fiddles with the dried up bloody tissues in her hands. "The way you're describing engineers is like describing a villain," She laughs before mimicking my sentence with a dramatic tone. "They can both innovate and destroy."
"What else am I supposed to say?" I frown. "That's all they do, don't they?"
"They don't only innovate and destroy, they can also improve on past builds." She pauses. "Besides, engineers don't necessarily destroy either."
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I step out of the elevator and wait for the lady to come out. "Whatever."
She squirts some hand sanitizer onto her hand before gesturing for me to follow her to wherever we have to go. I fix my face mask back on my face before continuing onward.
"Finish up those dandy bracelets will ya? I already chained his feet," Minx hands me the keys to the hand cuffs. "I need to get Y/N in here."
I moved the man's arm into place and covered it with the cold metal. "..Hey, Minx?" She turns around and hums, silently telling me to continue. "How come Y/N came to us all covered up like that?"
She shrugs. "I'm not entirely sure, but my best guess would be because she needs to. Why do you ask?"
"W- Well," I lock the handcuffs around the man's wrists. "When I was.. y'know, running away from the crime scene, she came with nothing on- nothing to hide her identity anyway."
The lady doesn't find any interest in my question, but answers truthfully despite that. "This may sound mean but, she probably didn't consider you to be a complete threat, and I think I would've thought the same. Just don't question her abilities, she's more capable than you think."
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SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAPTER
I have a feeling that some people might be having trouble with the code names, so I made a list of names that were mentioned and who they belong to. Possibly in the order of when they were introduced.
