Day 9

SHE PUT HER ARM AROUND ME

And lead me out down the hall. I was thinking to myself, what Leeha meant by Riggs and Kay “having a thing.” It was kind of obvious, but whatever it wasn’t my business. She showed me around the lounge and I saw Takashi, Takuya, and Ringo playing video games on the big screen wall. “We’re a bunch a kids when we’re not on duty,” Leeha said with a chuckle. We went through the doors and down another hall. “This is where our rooms are. I’ll show you your room. Actually, you’ll be sharing it with Kay, I hope that’s not too much of a problem.” I thought to myself, yeah, yeah it kinda is but whatever.

The second we went in the room, a vase came flying at Leeha’s head. She ducked and screamed “HEY!” It looked like Kay and Riggs were fighting. “Get the fuck out Rachel!” Kay was screaming. “Kayvroni! I don’t fucking understand why you didn’t say anything to Chief! I know you didn’t want that broad being your partner. She tried to fucking kill you for Christ’s sake!” Leeha went charging in the room right in time to catch Kayvroni bolting at Rachel. “Kayroni! Stop it!” and she rammed into Kay and pinned her down to the floor. She was struggling to get up but Leeha screamed “Riggs! Get fucking lost! You don’t belong in here you know that!” I don’t think neither Rachel nor Kayvroni noticed I was in the room. The next thing I saw Kay got out from under Leeha, came shooting towards Riggs screaming “DON’T FUCKING CALL HER A BROAD! SHE’S NOT A BROAD!” and attempted to tackle her to the ground. Leeha caught Kay’s foot right in time for her to trip and Riggs tripped behind her but caught her balance. In the meantime I moved out of the way and saw her staring right at me. Kay kicked Leeha off of her foot, and Riggs turned around to me. “Look what you started!” She went to tackle me to the ground but I held my own. Ready for her impact, Kay intercepted and slammed into her knocking her down to the ground. Then Sato came rushing in, followed by the rest of them. Everyone screaming, trying to pull Kayvroni off of Riggs really wasn’t successful. Sato pulled Kay off of Riggs and was holding her back so she couldn’t get out of his hold. Leeha was holding back Riggs hoping she wouldn’t get out of her arms, because they were almost the same height. “You don’t even know her and you’re backing her up!” Riggs shouted. “Shut the fuck up Rachel!” Takuya’s voice from the corner. I looked at Kay and her eyes were gleaming kill. Somehow, she got out of Sato’s hold, and I turned around and Riggs just wiggled out of Leeha’s hold. Again, they were charging at each other, but just then I saw Ringo reach out and grab Riggs. I saw Kayvroni still running towards her, so I decided to do some interception of my own. I turned around and ran at Kayvroni full speed, ducked my head down, and tackled her to the ground. I heard silence over everybody. “Stop. You don’t want to waste your time.” I whispered to her holding her as tight as I could. She flipped me off of her and went to charge again but I grabbed her foot and she went smacking into the ground. I climbed up form her foot and pinned her to the ground so she couldn’t move. Leeha took that as initiative to get Riggs out of there. “Ringo! Bring her outside!” she shouted. I let go just a bit and she flew from underneath me, but again I grabbed her and pinned her to the wall this time. “Stop,” I said. We both heard Riggs screaming some bullshit and Leeha screaming over her. I moved my face back to look at Kay and saw her face with a little smirk on it. She was looking at Riggs and then she shouted, “YOU KNOW SHE MAY HAVE TRIED TO KILL ME, BUT YOU ALREADY DID RACHEL!” I turned around and we both saw Riggs’ face drop and her body went limp in Ringo’s arms and then they were out of sight.

The doors shut and it was me, Kay     AQ, Takashi, and Sato. Kay leaned her head back on the wall while I was still holding her. I could feel her breath on my neck bouncing up to my face. She was breathing really heavy and I felt her heart pounding through the vibrations of us touching. The she slid down the wall and just stayed there panting. She tried to speak but couldn’t catch her breath. I heard her faintly say “needle,” but I didn’t know what she meant. She made a needle gesture like she was pressing down on an imaginary needle. Sato came running over and shouted, “Get her a needle!” Takashi went running out of the room and down the hall for a needle I guessed. “Breathe,” Sato kept telling her. I looked at Sato as if I were saying “what happened?” Looking at her, he told me “When she gets too riled up, her adrenaline pumps, and for some reason she produces too much because her body was used to more extreme things. So when little stressful things happen that really tick her off, the adrenaline streams and she can’t work it off. So we made up a serum that flows meds into her system to counter balance the adrenaline so she doesn’t over exert herself.” I looked back at her and she looked pretty messed up. Takashi came back with the needle and gave it to Sato. Sato looked at me and gave me the needle. “No. No, no, no, no, and no. No way, you do it,” I said. He shook his head and said, “You’re her partner now, and you need to learn this stuff. So better start off early.” I looked at her and at this point she didn’t really seemed to care who did it, it just needed to be done. “Where?” I said. He put his finger right on her neck two inches below her ear. “In this spot, it gives her a low dose. On the field if this were to happen, you would put it here,” and he pointed to her arm were you normally get needles. I put the needle up to her neck and looked at her. She gave me a slight nod as if she were saying, “go ahead.” So I pressed it to her neck and I pressed down and took it out. “Look at her eyes and see if they’re dilated.” I looked and nodded no. “Good. That’s what you wanna see. When they’re normal that means the serum rushed through and she should be okay in a bit. Good job. Common, lets give her some rest and go see what happened to Riggs.” He got up and Takashi followed. I got up and followed them to the door as they walked out. I stopped at the door and turned around and saw she was just lying on the floor. She shot me a smile and stared back up at the ceiling.