**FLASHBACK**
**Young Cops POV**
"Pierce." My partner looked at me. I nod to a teenage girl with a little boy tightly holding her hand and Amanda a girl I knew from a diner. The two girls are around the same age. Amanda's yelling at the girl in the front. I rolled down the window. Pierces face went grave like he knew who the other girl was.
"-your mother was just a useless sex toy and that's all she was," The girl up front flinches. "she's probably slept with everyone on the block! Hell she probably even slept with the girls!" I see the young girl with the boy tense up. Amanda must be looking or a fight. "I wouldn't be surprised if you have too though you probably prefer the girls!" The girl up front shakes her head, and keeps walking.
Amanda says something that I couldn't hear clearly. My hearings never been the best even if it should. Though I look at Pierce and he looks angry.
The girl turns around letting go of the boys hand, she's shaking with anger. "Amanda shut up before you regret it." I can barely hear the girl in the front say it, her jaw clenched.
I reach for the handle ready to break up the two before something happens. "No, wait. If something happens she deserves it." Pierce says calmly. I nod.
"Alex's mommy was a sex toy, and Alex takes after her dead mommy." Amanda taunts.
Alex takes three big steps toward Amanda and before Amanda even knew what was happening Alex threw her fist into Amanda's face.
"Now." Pierce said. Alex gets in one more punch. "Go before, the damn girl gets hit so hard she doesn't wake up!" I open the door and run to the girls. Pierce right behind me. I get to Alex who won't stop punching Amanda in the stomach. I hold her back. She pulls toward the other girl trying to punch her again, man she's strong for someone so small. "It's alright calm down." And she stopped finally realizing someone was here and she broke down crying. Somehow i just knew she wasn't the type of person to cry, especially in front of peope. They were quiet sobs. I knew then that this girl didn't need to be told what she did was wrong, because in all honesty Amanda deserved it. In a way she prevented dozens of other girls going through the same thing.
Instinctly I pull her to my chest trying to comfort her in any way I possibly can. She slowly falls to her knees, I follow her down to the ground. "It's gonna be alright shhhh..." I hug her tightly to my body and fell a tingling sensation, and a shock. I look at Pierce he must see something in my eyes and smiles knowingly. I smile inwardly but keep it to myself. This girl is amazing and I get to keep her all to myself. Little did I know so many surprises were yet to come.
Pierce checks Amanda for wounds and says them outloud. "Broken nose, 2-3 broken ribs, and oh," he cringes, " that's gonna leave a mark." He said whilst looking more closely at the girls nose. I hear a groan from Amanda and smile at what the girl in my arms had caused. Though I feel like she could do much more damage then what she did, she held back. She showed restraint against someone so cruel, that is a quality a great leader must have. I look over at Pierce and see he's smiling for the same reason.
Suddenly the girl in my arms jolts up to her feet, any sign of weakness gone, as if never even there. I jump up just as quickly. I grab her arm. "You can't leave just yet." though for some reason, the look on her face perhaps, I know this is for a greater more important purpose than escaping the police. She shakes her arm out of my grasp. I get ready to chase her knowing she'll be fast, not to catch her but to follow her, I feel the need to protect her. I don't let her know that of course, I just come off as any other cop would.
She mutters something under her breath. "Cursing ain't gonna work with me kid." She glares at me as if to say 'your ony a few years older than me' and she's right. I graduated from the police academy early because I was so far ahead of everybody already. I guess that's just one of the perks of being in the "police bloodline".
"First of ll you're probably two to three years older than me. Second 'ain't is a word for uneducated people, which is ironic cause you're obviously educated." She rolls her eyes and waves a my badge. "And third of all I said Rob. Then she starts to get a really worried look on her face. "Rob where are you?" She says more to herself than anyone.
"Who's Rob?" I asked calmly.
She gives me a curious look. Maybe I didn't ask as calmly as I thought... "My little brother." She starts pacing back and forth, then turns to Amanda. She took a step toward her anger again filling her beautiful face. "If he is hurt because of this you are going to regret it." Amanda flinched away from her.
I felt no sympathy for Amanda but it was my job to protect her, whether I wanted to or not. "Come on, let's go find him. How old is he?" I ask her.
She turns around with one last warning look at Amanda and looks at me, the worry evident in her eyes. "He's eight. Has blonde hair green eyes." Suddenly I remember the boy from before. 'Idiot!' I don't know how I didn't noticed it before. From the distance the two look nothing alike, so I raise my eyebrows at the word brother.
"Same mom, different dad." She states seeing the slight movement on my face. At that she turns around to Amanda, "Don't even say a word." She warns, talking about how her and her brother have two different dads.
"Let's go find him." I said, "Come on." I start walking the opposite way the ambulance is coming, the way Alex was heading, before Amanda opened her mouth.
Apparently my fast paced walking isn't fast enough for her as she starts running down the sidewalk. That's when I realized how fast this girl is. Only someone with dedicated training can run fast, unless a hybrid. But I don't smell anything except the floral scent coming off of her. I catch up to her.
She doesn't acknowledge my presence. "Rob!" she yells.
Suddenly a tired looking boy came out of the alleyway running to Alex. She sighs relieved that she found her little brother and everything was alright. "Alex!" He pauses hugging his sister. "There was this scary guy in there," he points to the alleyway, the one he came out of. "He had a big dog it looked like a wolf but bigger!" I stiffen and sniff the air. Someone's deffinetly been here, but is now long gone. He paused and dramaticly ran his hand through his hair. I smile thinking how Pierce always seemed to do that. Pierce always said it was a bad habit he learned from his brother. The kid went on, "It growled at me at first, but then te man told it to hush and said I was a friend and it stoppped!"
Alex looks into the alleyway, then back at her brother and bends down. I watch the alleyway looking for any movement, but know that whoever it was is gone there scent slowly fading away but still there. "Did he offer you anything?" Alex asks searching her brother, like she knew who it was and was worried for his life.
"Yeah it was like a necklace. It had an eye in the middle of it." Rob explains, and I see Alex slightly stiffen. "But I refused because I know ow you are about taking stuff from strangers." She relaxes a little at that but not all of the way.
"Good, thank you. Did he say anything else?" She asked holding her breath.
"Yeah when I refused and said that you wouldn't like it he said that you didn't have to know, but i refused again and said no thanks and he said it was ok, and then you caled and I said bye."
"Is that it?" She asked.
"No... Alex?" Rob fidgeted on his feet.
"What? What's wrong?" She asked
"He said he would see me again someday, someday soon. And that we would get to know each other real well and that then he wouldn't be a stranger." Her face went grve. "Alex I don't want to get to know him he scares me. He reminds me of Uncle."
"That's not gonna hapen if I can help it." She hugs him. "No one. No one is going to take you away from me."
He nods and hugs his big sister.
She stands up and takes his hand, making sure he's as far away from the alleyway as possible. We head back to the car, at about halfway Alex skids to a halt. "Did you say something?" I shake my head no.
"Why whats wrong?" I ask her.
"Nothing I guess I'm just a little on edge." She sighs. I see Pierce wave me over.
"Come on." She looks down at her wrists, and puts her hands behind her back but quickly glances at the alleyway worred. She turns her back toward me, head downn. "You've been coorperative so far lets keep it that way." She nods and I take that as a sign she won't try anything. I put my arms around her protectively, she faulters a little but quickly covers it up with a straight face and keeps walking.
I noticed that while we walked away Alex kept a watchful eye on the alleyway, as if worried something would jump out and attack at any moment.
As soon as we reached Pierce the kids stomach growled really loud and both the kid and Alex looked embarassed, though i could see a smile tug at Alex's lips as Pierce laughed deeply. Alex blushed.
"Well Officer Payne I'm a little hungry what about you would you mind taking a little detour?: He winked and I knew he was only doing it for the kids benefit Niether of them looked like they had a decent meal recently, the girl more then the boy.
I nodded, "Yeah it's been a long shift. I could use a nice big meal myself." He nodded agreeing with me ever though our shift just started about a half hour ago.
"I think we should keep these two tor a little bit so we don't get sued by that young ladies family. He nodded toward the black car that's driving away with Amanda in it. "What do you two think? Could you go for a bite?"
"I wouldn't want to impose-" Alex started but saw her brother nodding eagerly and gave in. She sighed. "That would be nice thank you." She gave in.
"Alright it's settled let's go." Pierce said an I head to open he door for Alex. She slides in the back. Her brothers about to slide in when Pierce talks. "Hey kid, you ever ride in the front of a cop car before?" Rob shakes his head no, eyes wide excited. I smile, remembering the first time I sat in the front of a cop car. "Well get on up her then!" Rob looked at Alex asking for mermission, she saw the sparkle in his eyes and couldn't say no. She nodded smiling. This is gonna be a ride that this kid will never forget. Little did I know it was gonna be for me too.