The Geranji Ships

Jiasino #4: First mover advantage

"Ms Jia! MS JIA!" The voice of the directer bellowed into my ears as he stormed into the combat and field operations department room.

A sea of heads turned to my direction and I gingerly stood up. I had just finished my first major case.. and I didnt understand anything when suddenly,

"My office! NOW!" he screamed before storming off.

I sat in his office chair, not knowing what to expect as I painted a calm and collected emotion on my face. The last thing I wanted was an excuse of 'women being emotional' as a reason to get myself fired.

Director Cosmo Mantra sat at his table grimly and threw files in front of me. They opened up to show Jonathan Hueffer's face.

"Wait.. I already caught him--"

"Under what evidence?!" he cut me off. "Do you even know how high profile he is? You need solid, and I mean SOLID proof that he was guilty. And you had no right to single handed-ly bring him to custody! You know he ain't making any confessions and any lacking on our part will not only let him bail, but also sue us and bring us down!"

I was loss for words.

"B-but Sir, we know he is doing all these and the accounts show the same--"

"The accounts show jack shit!" Cosmo bellowed. "Ms Jia, I am extremely disappointed and I am withdrawing you from the field operations depart-"

"No!" I cut out. "Sir, I promise you I will find evidence against-"

"Don't bother. My ass is on the line here and you are of no use-" he replied

"Sir! I WILL get to the bottom of this. I know he is off custody now but once I find solid proof, I will report to you immediately and let you decide before making ANY decision." I assured him. I cannot cannot lose this job.

Cosmo laid back onto his seat and thought for a while before cracking, "In that case, I will put you in the intelligence department; work the case from there. But you are going to be alone. Deal with all this ASAP."

"RJ!"

"Earth to R.J!"

R.J's head snapped up to see Vanilla staring back at her with concern and annoyance. She was in her regular sleep clothes; an oversized shirt with pajama shorts which had smudges of batter on it. A dirty tea towel hung from her left shoulder and her hair was in a messy bun.

"What are you looking at? Its time for school. By the way did you see the email Mithranee sent us?"

Quickly closing the photo album in front of her,  R.J looked up and replied, "What? N-no.. I didn't"

"Well.." she continued, going back to flip pancakes at the stove top, "She said she was in Syphllis's clique for protection blah blah and that I was wrong about her. I mean does she even know Syphillis as well as me?" she bickered.

R.J replied while keeping the album back underneath her bed, "Well.. she was not the one who had issues with her regarding gym partners and shorts so.. I guess she sees a different side?"

"What do you even mean?" Vanilla exclaimed, as if R.J was betraying her.

"I mean your the one always calling her a two faced beast and stuff you know.." she trailed off softly.

Placing pancakes on the plate, Vanilla huffed and did her signature eye roll. "You know what I meant with that."

R.J didn't but she just nodded and started to eat.