Swift Business [GCPD]

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"They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light."
The Tempest Act I Scene II
by William Shakspeare

Stormy arrived at police head quarters with Bivins.  She was in all black, including a leather jacket with a hood that came from its inner lining.  She wore sunglasses to hide her glowing eyes, as she was having a difficult time keeping them from glowing.  They were eventually in what was a reffered to as 'the bull pen' by the department.  The large and shared office space of all the major crimes unit detectives.  As they passed different desks she could smell the different scents of the people whom used them whether they were present or not. 

She looked around, taking not of everyone in the room.  It was late, so there were only a few.  She would put her hands to her ears when a particular detective across the room yelled at Bivins. 

"That's the one from the other day," she muttered to Bivins under her breath.  The mountain of a man she was referring to was Harvey Bullock.  The Lieutenant would stand from his desk and begin marching over to Bivins but stopped when he noticed the young woman.

"This her?"

Stormy eased her hands from her ears and looked up at the man.  She was at least a foot shorter than him.  She scowled at him.

"Lower your voice...?"

"Says the girl who blows herself up."

Stormy scoffed at him and cringed at his booming voice.  Even at a normal speaking volume he was somehow still loud, very loud.  She looked to Leo. 

"Are there any ear plugs around here?"

Harvey looked down at the young woman with a grimace.  He looked at Bivins,giving him that look.  The look he always gave Bivins when he was being a smart ass, but this time he was indicating he was not pleased with, what he thought was, Stormy's smart assery.

"Looks like you just met your match, Bivins.  C'mon, you two, looks like we need to have a little conversation."

Harvey couldn't help but notice something seemed familiar about the girl. He thought maybe if she'd take those damn sunglasses off he might get a better handle on it, but he figured with the super power thing she was probably trying to hide her identity.

Stormy put her hands to her ears following behind the other two, doing her best to drown out the loud detective's voice.

[For those who aren't aware, I play Stormy and Harvey Bullock, so I can NPC him in Stormy's posts and vice versa as a I please.  ]

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Bivins smiled, it seemed that the boss liked her, he only got that eye roll when he was on a roll and really came up with something clever. He gave the girl a thumbs up and then snapped his fingers remembering the headphones saying "Right! Headphones, ear plugs. . .uh, headphones!" 

He gave her the headphones again and put the phone on that white noise program, putting em back in her ears. 

"Yeah, she's got some kind of hypersensitivity superpowers, it's pretty neat, Boss. And it's like, hypersensitivity like hearing real good, not like hypersensitivity like with one a those people that really get offended by everything, which isn't really a superpower but is also kinda fun to talk to."

He shrugs as he says "You know, like social justice bloggers? Or like members of the Church of Trigonology: You want to hear about our Lord Trigon? Seriously, they always got their stick up their ass about something, "The Gem was born of evil's fire,
 The Gem shall be his portal,
Gem this, Gem that." And I'm like Gem? Obviously some sort of superhero, because we all know that Gem is excitement,  Gem is adventure, Fashion and Fame and someone truly outrageous! So maybe it's got something to do with Aquaman, because he's pretty outrageous, but he's not so big into the glamour or glitter, so I'm thinkin magic user with a music base, but then they're like 'That's the wrong Gem' And I'm like "The Music is Contagious AND Outrageous, and Gem is her name' And then they're like 'You're not taking this seriously' and I'm like "If there's anyone not taking Gem seriously, then they need to get the fuck out, because she's outrageous and her presence is contagious and NO one else is the same!"

He stops for a moment looking at the boss. He then licks his lips saying "So what I'm saying is that despite this girl's obvious glamour and outrageousness and the fashion and current fame, she's cool. Just got some intense hearing problems from hearing too much." 

He looks at the girl for a moment and then says "She can also take an explosion to the face." 

He stops and thinks for a moment "That sounded less like a harassment lawsuit in my head, boss." He looks at the girl "You know what I mean." He gets lost in her eyes again and then blinks and smiles walking with her to the interview room. 

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Harvey just rolled his eyes. Of course he wondered if Gem was truly outrageous, but those thoughts have fallen to work and time. He let Bivins work through whatever junk was up in his head, knowing the youth would get to his point. He'd translate himself to the English language at some point before midnight.  Stormy took the headphones with a grateful look across her face before she turned her gaze back to Bullock.

"Alright, fine, then lets get into the interrogation room, Bivins and ah?"

"Stormy."

"Stormy?"

"Evening."

"Heh, that's a- wait. That name. I heard that name once."

Stormy looked at him, a brow coming over the edge of her sunglasses. Harvey moved to yank them off her face, but almost instantly his wrist was caught in iron grip and he could not budge his arm against her.

"What the- I didn't even see you move. And how-"

Harvey tried to jerk his arm from her. She only decided to still hold onto his wrist because if she had let go she was afraid he'd knock himself back with the bum arm. Harvey growled. Stormy smiled letting him go.

"INTERROGATION ROOM NOW!"

Once they were sitting there Stormy finally removed the sunglasses. Her eyes were no longer on the fritz. She looked across at them.

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"I like her eyes, Boss. She's got Special Eyes! And like super strength!"

He smiles as he leans back in the chair, crossing his arms like the smug little dick that he was. "She's even got a weird origin story involving kidnapping, loss of parents, some shady shit in Metropolis, I called up the Captain, got her to call in some favors. So the girl's hooked up with some sort of shady conspiracy stuff, if I had to guess she was taken in due to some sort of genetic marker, given super powers and kept under wraps, at least if I'm genre savvy enough to guess the business going on."

He shrugs as he slips a notebook to the boss saying "Here's some of my case notes about it. She's a regular superhero origin story!" He didn't say the other part of what he was thinking in that paranoid backwards troglodyte of a mind of his. . . it could be a Supervillain origin story too. And the way he's bragging about her powers, the implication's clear. . . there isn't a lot the MCU had to keep her solid as of yet, so he's playing nice and getting her to play along because there WASN'T a way to really FORCE compliance. They'd need the soft touch.

"But yeah, hypersenses, she can probably hear everything going on in the station, and all the bright lights. I mean, without those things, she'd just be a mess. In pain. So I mean, really no point to hurting her!" 

He shrugs as he says "But still, maybe she can tell us some more. And then maybe we can figure out what to do about the parents, and get her back into the system. I already got her prints down to the lab to cross reference them, but I honestly think she's legit!" 

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Bullock eyes the young woman and the young detective with suspicion as he listened to Bivins yammer on. He finally quirked a bit of a brow and leaned against a wall in the room. He lit a cigarette and looked back to Stormy.

"So you're Ira Evening's missing kid, eh? You got proof of that, girly?"

Stormy eyed the older detective. She hadn't thought about that.

"I don't."

"So why should I believe you."

"I don't really know what else to say.  I've been a little busy being an unwilling lab rat for the last ten years."

Harvey got quiet for a moment and then looked over to Bivins for a long moment and then turned his gaze back to Stormy.

"Well, what can you do.  I know Bivins just explained all of it, but I want to hear it from you, girly."

Stormy sighed.  She was not liking the name 'girly' at all.

"Well, you saw that I am indestructible.  I can be healed by the process of photosynthesis.  I can lift a car over my head, I also can resist electricity to a certain degree.  I have heightened senses and reflexes, that's why you didn't even observe me moving to stop you from removing my sunglasses."

Stormy finally removed her sunglasses, revealing her eyes glowing a bright green.

"And for some reason my eyes glow."

Harvey looked at her in amazement, bending down to look at her eyes more closely, hands upon the interrogation room table.

"Wwwwhaa?"

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"Besides, the prints match, boss. I got some of the prints off the phone earlier when she grabbed them, and they match the prints she gave to her school, 11 years ago. They were on the file because of the father's security clearance." He smiled excitedly about this, evidentiary procedures are exciting especially when he does them clever. 

"I was able to fax em in on the drive over, and I got the message back. She's who she says she is, and she didn't have ANY sort of metahuman power back then, which means, conversely, SOMETHING happened to make her like that! Something mysterious and deep and we gotta do something about it! If we're lucky the Commish will be like "Give me your badge and gun, you're off the case" as we get pressure from on high, and we can be like on the run but know we're getting closer to the truth, and then we'll find out that Lex Luthor is really behind everything, but he's too well connected and he'll get away, but it'll turn out that like, we'll have to choose to save a baby or solve the case, and we'll save the baby and the bad guy'll get away and I can shoot my gun into the air screaming in agony. . . but in the next act we find the real big bad and then in a showdown in an old facility, we'll be in a gunfight, with the conspiracy that did this to her, and I'll get shot like in the gut, and then she'll be like coming in to save the day. . . and she'll get the bad guy but then when she comes up to help me he'll get back up with a shotgun, and then you'll like shoot him in the head, boss. . . and then you'll get like, an awesome one liner like 'IT'S BEEN REVOKED' or 'THAT'S A HELLO FROM HUMANITY' and then we'll get reinstated and get a commendation and all the property damage will get forgiven. . . I've totally planned this out, boss." He's smiling now.