Brave New World

Meet the New Detectives

The day had started out pretty standard. Detective Logan Abbott got up at 5.30 am, showered, got dressed, ate breakfast with some coffee on the side. Nothing out of the ordinary. He was out of the door at 7 am. At 7.15 am he was standing in front of his partner, detective Roman Moore's, entry. He was not up yet, so Logan mentally prepared himself to drag the overgrown child out of bed. They had had a stakeout the night previously, so he would definitely whine a great deal. Logan got out his keys to lock himself in. It was a lot of fuss to get him out of the door with an adequate amount of time to get to work. Like previously stated. Nothing out of the ordinary.

"Why must you hurt me so?" Roman whined. They were in Logan's car on their way to the precinct. "I didn't even get to eat breakfast, you monster!" he exclaimed.

"Lucky for you, I predicted that. We are headed for an easy breakfast for you. I already ordered to ensure you wouldn't pick any junk food," Logan quickly added when he saw the excited look that grew on Roman's face. A look that also promptly fell to an exasperated pout.

"You're no fun, Logan," he moped as he flopped back into his seat.

They soon turned into the parking lot of a small diner. One they were well equated with, ever since the beginning of their partnership. They had helped out the owner when they had been robbed at the beginning of its lifetime.

"Heya, Lo!" The chipper voice emanated from a head full of bright pastel-blue hair.

"Salutations Talyn," Logan greeted them back. "How are things fairing?" Logan grimaced slightly at how his attempt at a normal conversation sounded. Talyn, however, didn't seem to mind.

"Things are awesome, thanks to you and Roman having our backs. Speaking of, I'm guessing you're here for his breakfast?" At that Logan nodded and smiled gratefully at Talyn who went out the back to get it.

"Joan is not here," Logan observed. It was rather odd, seeing as they were figuratively joined at the hip. Logan wondered where they could be since they always insisted on staying with Talyn in the morning hours due to the robbery three years prior and didn't want to risk anything.

"No, they got a tip about..." Talyn glanced up at the security cameras, a worried expression on their face. "... you know."

"Ah, I see. Roman and I would be more than happy to lend our assistance in that matter. A child should not be alone like that."

Talyn sighed to themselves, they never told Logan the full truth, since their operation was somewhat illegal. They had just told Logan and Roman that the two of them helped mutant children kicked out of their house by their parents. It didn't matter that Logan, too, was a mutant, they couldn't risk it. "We know, but we just can't risk it. These children have grown up fearing the police, and they already have trouble trusting us as it is."

Logan sighed. He sincerely wished the world would just accept them already and move on instead of insisting on criminalising mutants.

Logan put a hand to his mouth in an attempt to stifle a yawn. A poor one at that as Talyn elected that moment to return and shot him a worried grin.

"Late night?" they asked, placing down Roman's breakfast in front of him. They gave him a sympathetic smile at Logan's slight nod. "May I ask what you two were doing? You wouldn't have ordered food for Roman if the two of you didn't have a late-night together," they added at Logan's baffled look. "Yeah that's right, I can do detective work too."

"Merely a stakeout, but one that took longer than I originally calculated," he admitted sheepishly, not used to making wrong calculations, especially when it was about his work.