quicksand (Dazai X Reader)

crashing waves

//TW: violence, child abuse//

"So, tell us what happened?" The officer asked the woman sitting in front of him.

"I aint saying shit until the President and Ranpo gets here" she answered, throwing her weight back against the metal chair. The pale light made her eyes look cold, in her face a slight smirk.

"Did you want to kill her?" Another officer asked her, he was leaning against the wall looking down at her.

"If I wanted to kill her she would be dead" She responded with entitlement, raising an eyebrow at the policemen.

There was a silence between the three people in the room, a staring contest was in place, both the authorities were looking at her to see if she could break but she just kept smiling sweetly at them. There was a knock on the door, as it opened a man with gray hair and formal traditional japanese clothes entered the room. He was furrowing his eyebrows and looking disapprovingly at the young woman cuffed to the table.

"Gentlemen, what seems to be the problem?" The President of the Detective Agency asked as he walked towards the newest member's side.

"The problem is she physically assaulted an older woman" one officer said.

"She aint that old..." the girl whispered and the president looked at her almost menacingly, she felt a shiver run down her spine.

"She broke both her arms, wrist, and every single of the poor woman's fingers" another policeman added, showing pictures of the result.

"What were you thinking..." The President asked, looking at the file of evidence.

"Don't blame me, love made me crazy and if it doesn't you aint doing it right" she sang, while moving her hands as if conducting an orchestra, a weird smirk on her face.

"Why are you singing? Can you just tell me why you did this, I am sure you had a reason..." Fukuzawa asked her, confusion expressed on his face as he tried to make some sense of why one of his workers had not only assaulted someone, but when requested she wouldn't give an explanation.

"For you, I would cross the line
I would waste my time
I would lose my mind
They say, 'she's gone too far this time'"

She kept singing but looking from time to time to the President, as if trying to tell him something but she didn't want to give it away. Fukuzawa looked at her, then the pictures again, then at the officers.

"Did you do this... for him?" he finally asked and she just kept on humming a melody but nodding her head slightly.

"Just get Ranpo, he will figure it out, but don't tell anyone else, if you want to help me after understanding why I did it, any help is welcome, if not, I'll do my time to be honest... I don't regret it one bit cause she had it coming" She whispered the last while throwing her head back and looking at the ceiling.

The President walked out of the room and called Ranpo and explained to him the situation, described to him what the policemen had said and what he had seen in the pictures.

"Yeah...let's help her, she went a little far but it's understandable because of her personal relationship with Dazai, it's surprising she didn't kill the person, honestly." Ranpo answered over the phone in an nonchalant voice. Fukuzawa hanged up and took a deep breath, he still didn't understand the situation but if Ranpo said she had reason then it was all the President needed to hear.

And so, he called two more people.

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"You have powerful friends, you should be punished by what you did" an officer told me while opening the cell, I just lifted my head so I could look down on him and scoffed.