Deviant Hunter of New Detroit- A Detroit: Become Human Fanfiction

Chapter 12: Changes

Police Department

Connor. Josh. Simon. North.

They were all gathered around a speaker. Markus had fled, North confessing he probably knew what would happen, and that she couldn't let it happen. Simon took part of the blame, saying he shouldn't have told Markus so openly he was a deviant. Josh came back, fully aware of the situation, as was Connor.

Kara, Alice, and Ollie had all been outside. Alice and Ollie were playing tag around the office.

"Who goes first?" Simon asked the other three.

"I let Markus go. I shouldn't even be here," North said. "I just."

"We are the ones Markus wanted to handle this with when he was getting taken away," Josh reminded her. "We've got to handle it."

"Right," Connor agreed. All four of them knew Rounds had apparently talked to Markus. Markus and President Warren had stayed in close contact to get through it all, so she had his personal number. So Rounds did too. Connor didn't even know what Rounds talked about with Markus last time, only that Markus said he was supposed to be a bigger part of New Detroit.

But talking to a deviant. There was no telling what happened in that phone call.

"We shouldn't hide what happened," Simon said to everyone. "He probably already knows Markus wasn't himself."

"Yeah," Josh agreed. "Lying isn't what Markus would have wanted."

"We should come clean about deviants, imbalances, and how it's created," Connor recommended. "We need to take charge of this correctly, giving the good with the bad."

North stood up and dialed Warren's phone number. "Okay." She set it to the speaker so everyone could hear. When she picked up, North started. "President Warren?"

"In my personal opinion," Warren started, "I think it is best if you leave the explaining to what happened to Markus. It would be better for him to talk personally to me."

"Markus can't," North revealed. "Markus went deviant."

"That explains what he said to Rounds."

"Anything he said is misconstrued," Josh added to the conversation. "We are working with him. I mean, we were working with him. He's gone right now, but we'll find him."

"Deviantry is punishable in New Detroit by decommissioning." Even Warren knew it. "I'm sure, if any part of Markus was functioning normally, he would remember that. I highly doubt he will be speaking to me again. Upon learning this, who can tell me accurately, the current situation?"

"It's not so good," Simon said, "but that's not all bad. No city is perfect," he tried to reason with her. "We would like to talk to Rounds too, if we could?"

"He isn't here right now. He is getting things ready for a speech he will give tomorrow."

" . . . about the presidency?" Simon asked.

"I am not at liberty to say right now."

That did not bode well.

"We need to talk to him," Connor finally interrupted.

"And who am I speaking to now?"

"I am the prototype, RK 800, known as 'Connor'," Connor said. "I was a special unit in charge of tracking deviants before the group of Jericho attained it's freedom and the dirtybomb went off. I have a clear and accurate data analysis of deviancy since the time New Detroit was founded. I am willing to share any and all information to the President and Vice President of the United States."