Your days start and end with Gavin Reed. Well, your work days at least. You're free of him most weeknights unless he gets called in, which is exactly what's happening tonight.
"Damn, sweetheart. How much does Cyberlife pay you?" Gavin asks as he looks up at your apartment building through his front windshield.
"Enough," you grunt as you hop into his car.
He rolls his eyes, "So, you're filthy rich. Good to know."
The radio plays in a low hum as Gavin navigates through the Detroit city streets. He taps impatiently on the wheel.
"So, what do we know?" Gavin grumbles, his eyes darting between the road and you.
You pull out a datapad that you received a few days into your partnership with Gavin, thanks to the DPD. You scan over the case file one, forcing your tired eyes to focus.
"It's strange. For the past few weeks, the perp has just been targeting convenience stores. It's quite a jump to target a Cyberlife warehouse," you sigh as your brows furrow.
Gavin rubs the side of his face, "They're escalating, that's for damn sure."
"Do you think it's more than one person?"
He thinks for a moment, "Has to be. There's no way just one person can pull this off."
"Maybe it's an initiation of some sort? The convenience stores were just a test and this is the real thing."
"That's a little extreme, don't you think?" Gavin raises a brow as he looks at you out of the corner of his eye.
You hum, "Maybe, but we have to consider all of our options. We're no closer to catching whoever did this than we were two weeks ago."
"Wow, Doc, I had no idea that we were making absolutely no progress in this case, thank you for this enlightening information," he quipped, rolling his eyes.
You resist the urge to smack him upside the head and choose to look out the window instead. Minutes pass by in tense silence and before you know it, Gavin is pulling up to the warehouse. The scene is lit up by the flashing lights of various other police cars, and Gavin parks in an unoccupied spot. You wordlessly exit the car, and the scene buzzes with activity. Various officers are scouring the scene for evidence or talking to the guards on duty tonight.
"Let's start inside, we can work our way out from there," Gavin suggests as he leads you inside the warehouse.
You scan the inside of the warehouse— various crates are opened with their lids thrown to the side with a trail leading to the exit on the far side of the warehouse.
Gavin leads you to another officer, a young woman with short brown hair. "Chen, what the fuck happened here?"
Officer Chen sighs, "The bastards were in and out like damn ghosts. The security footage is all scrambled. we're trying to work through it, but it's gonna take time." She holds out her hand to you, "Tina Chen, I don't believe we've met."
You take her hand and introduce yourself, giving her a grim smile. "What did they take?" you ask as you survey the scene once again.
She looks at the datapad she had in her spare hand, "Mostly just parts. They were in and out in less than 10 minutes, so they must've known what they wanted and where to look."
"Thanks, Tina. We're gonna take a look around," Gavin sighs and Tina nods her goodbye.
As you walk away you pull Gavin to the side. "This doesn't look good for me, Reed. We're in charge of finding these people, and now they've directly targeted Cyberlife," you hiss as your heart begins to pound in your chest.
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Bad Habits
FanfictionAll you wanted was a fresh start in a new city. You wanted to make a difference for androids. That is until a police officer walks into a bar and turns your world upside down. This is the prequel to Criminal Analysis that takes place before the eve...
