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imworthfivedollars · 10 years ago

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Parrish had been working at the Central City Police Station for a few months now. He mostly kept to himself, though it had become a regular occurrence for him to walk into the station with several homemade pizzas or a tub of hand-churned ice cream. Nobody knew he made food when he was stressed- which was basically all of the time- because nobody knew that he was stressed. He hid it well behind his calm exterior, but on the inside, he grew more and more worried about his teenage cousin.

Em had gone missing the night of the accelerator explosion. Parrish had been deployed overseas at the time, but as soon as he retired from the army, he had gone to Central City to find Em. Parrish had gone to a police academy before he’d joined the army, so it didn’t take much for him to get a job at Central City Police station. Only Captain Singh knew Parrish’s reason for coming to the big city and promised to keep it a secret at Parrish’s request as long as it didn’t interfere with his work.

And it hadn’t.

If anything, it had made him work even harder so that he could have more time to look for Em. But after months of searching, Parrish was starting to lose hope. After all, Central City was a dangerous place, especially after the particle accelerator exploded. Now there were super-powered beings and people running around with freeze rays and flame throwers in addition to the regular baddies. And Em was just a skinny sixteen-year-old girl who might be scrappy in a fight but had no real technique. And with the deaths of her mother and two sisters, who knew what her mental and emotional state was?

Then one night, it happened. A breakthrough! Just... not the breakthrough he wanted.

He and the station’s CSI, Barry, were investigating the scene of what appeared to be a mugging gone wrong in an alley in the outskirts of the city. Not that one should ever assume, of course, but one could draw preliminary conclusions. The two were following some footprints down the alley- Parrish holding the flashlight and Barry analyzing the prints- when they found a girl eating out of a restaurant dumpster.

Her ratty hoodie engulfed her gaunt figure, and her threadbare jeans only stayed on her hips because of a belt cinched so tightly that she’d been forced to make a new hole to accommodate her figure. It was impossible to tell her hair color because it was so dirty, but someone had chopped her hair into what looked like an attempted at a bob haircut and bangs but what resulted in a hack job that only added to her disheveled, slightly manic appearance. But what really got to Parrish were her eyes. When she looked up, her eyes glowed green. It was dim but very noticeable in the inkiness that flooded the rest of the alleyway outside the flashlight’s reach. Despite the changes, Parrish harbored no doubts of the girl’s identity.

“Em!”

The girl’s eyes widened in recognition, and just like that, she dropped her food and shot down the alley like a bullet from a gun. The police officer completely forgot about Barry and raced after her, but despite her condition and the fact she held no light to guide her, she soon lost him in the winding alleyways. Even though everything inside Parrish screamed to keep looking for her, he knew that he had a job to do. And even if he didn’t, it’d be foolish for a police officer to wander alone in the alleys in this part of town.

He’d lost her.

Again.

And this time, it really was his fault.

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