Her Protector

Foreseeable Events

New York City. April 8th, 2030. 9:30 P.M.

"Lucas, where are we going?" Riley asked as Lucas covered her eyes with his bare hands while they walk down the street to their location.

"I can't tell you, Riley. Like I told you back at the penthouse, it's a surprise." Lucas said.

"Ooh, are we going to go see Rent the Musical? I remember the time while we were dating, you took me to go see West Side Story on my seventeenth birthday." Riley said with a smile on her face as she talks about the time her and Lucas went to go see West Side Story.

After walking down a few more blocks, Lucas and Riley finally arrived at their destination as they stood in front of the building. Nervous about Riley's reaction, Lucas took a deep breath and uncovered Riley's eyes, he began to notice her bright smile fading away as she looked at the building that has a picture of a gun painted on the wall and a sign that said "Gun Club". They were now at the Ammu-nation Gun Club.

"Lucas, what is this?" Riley asked.

"It's a gun club, Riley. I'm taking you to a gun club." Lucas said.

"I was expecting a date at a pizzeria or a diner or a hot dog stand where we could have chili dogs because all cops eat chili dogs. But not at a gun club. Why are we at a gun club?" Riley asked, looking at Lucas.

"Okay, first off don't listen to Maya and stop watching cop shows, not all cops eat chili dogs all the time. You know that me and my friends always hang out at Dory's. Okay, sometimes I do eat chili dogs. Just because I eat chili dogs doesn't make me Rick Hunter or Sonic the Hedgehog." Lucas said as he noticed a confused look on Riley's face.

"Why would a hedgehog eat chili dogs?" Riley asked.

"Riley, I told you before when we played Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Generations. I also told you this while we were watching The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic SatAM, Sonic Underground and Sonic X. It's his favorite food to eat. And second, why brought you here is because after what happened on my birthday and your attempted...." Lucas said as Riley looked down at her feet right before he was about to mention her attempted rape. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up. Look, the point is that you need to protect yourself."

Lucas held Riley's hand as he entered the gun shop. Riley felt uncomfortable being at a gun club as she looked around the store, noticing the body armor hanging on one side of the wall, a clerk wearing a red bandana and a black muscle shirt and sunglasses standing by the glass counter and some automatic weapons, shotguns, sniper rifles and rocket and grenade launchers sitting on the wall behind him. The two walked up to the counter as the clerk greeted him.

"Hey, detective!" The clerk in the red bandana greeted Lucas.

"Hey, Melvin. How's it going?" Lucas asked as Riley gave him a look.

"What? You know him?" Riley asked.

"Well, yeah. Lucas knows me. He's always coming here to practice his shooting at the gun range." Melvin said. "So, who's this lovely lady?"

"Lovely? You think I'm lovely?" Riley asked, blushing.

"This is Riley. Riley, this is Melvin. He's the owner of this shop. He's always giving me the police discount on weapons for me and my friends when we made our assault on the New Sons of Liberty yesterday." Lucas said as Riley shook Melvin's hand.