Accident Prone - Becoming Human

Flood

The week long vacation at the cabin far away from the city had proven beneficial to both Connor and Hank on a physical and emotional level after enduring so much hardship in such a small frame of time. Fully recovered and in great shape after being infected by the hacker's virus, both Connor and Jack had returned to the precinct with no sign of any lingering ill effects and neither showed any further signs of the virus itself. Out of a precautionary measure both deviant officers had undergone an additional check-up with Joel up in the dispensary and the precinct technician readily cleared them for both active duty without any fear of their health.

Five long weeks of boredom and monotony followed after the full week at the cabin that both Connor and Hank so desperately needed, and now it seemed like the weather was proving itself to be more dangerous than any other criminal in the city. Fussing with his coin over his right knuckles Connor sat upright with perfect posture in his chair at his desk and cybernetically monitored the massive summer rainstorm threatening to drown the city.

The six week lull of inactivity was officially over thanks to Mother Nature.

Gavin and Tina walked through the front doors of the precinct and made their way to the bullpen completely drenched in rain water and looking miserable. While Gavin shrugged off his soaked leather jacket and draped it over the back of his chair to dry off, Tina made her way to the locker room to change into a dry uniform as her own had become entirely soused courtesy of the poor weather.

"Fuck. I haven't seen it rain this fuckin' hard in a long time..." Gavin griped as he ran his hands through his wet hair to try to adjust the mess of locks back into some kind of manageable style. "I'm not going on patrol again until the city dries out."

Connor turned to look at Gavin and noted that his dark green shirt and blue jeans were also soaked from the rain. "A large number of traffic accidents have been reported downtown from the rain water making intersections very slick. There have also been four distinct reports of roads collapsing from flash flooding and erosion."

"That's why I'm glad I'm a cop and not a firefighter or work in construction. I'm not a fan of repair work."

"Did you and Tina encounter any difficulties while on patrol?"

"Nah, everyone seems to be hiding inside, not that I can blame 'em. But if weird-ass origami figures start appearing in the city I'm packing up my family and moving to higher ground."

Arching his brow Connor inquired about the bizarre reference that the Sergeant had just mentioned. "...Origami figures?"

"Right, you weren't around the precinct when that Jayden guy from the F.B.I. was lurking around here and at City Hall. That weirdo told us all the fucked up cases he worked on while he was still a field agent and that included taking down an infamous serial killer in Philadelphia called 'The Origami Killer' back in 2011. The freak used to drown kids in rain water and leave origami animals in their hands as a demented calling card."

"That's absolutely sadistic."

"Yeah, well, all serial killers are. That serial fuck-up got gunned down and his last victim was saved before it was too late."

"That's good to know." Turning back to his terminal Connor swiftly checked through the small caseload that had been presented to him over the past few weeks. Not only had the cases against deviants diminished considerably but the poor weather had deterred many people from even attempting to break into homes, apartments or stores. "...And the lack of cases is good as well."

From above the lights began to flicker as the heavy rain began affecting the powerlines throughout the entire city. While there were emergency back-up generators that would take over in the event of power failure the emergency procedures were still going to be implemented. Unnecessary computer terminals were turned off and supplies were made available to all of the officers inside the precinct.