CLOSURE

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the O N E crime in which society has a direct interest.

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carterxjacobs:

“Given the circumstances, I’m going to go with not a lot” he pointed out. Cold perhaps, but he had been forced to become that way a long time ago. Besides, if he felt devastated over every single case then he was going to break down, and never actually be able to do his job. It was coping, nothing more. “If drinking a lot counts as wild, then sure. I just call it a normal evening”. 

Nikolai shrugged, mildly amused by the comment though it was particularly cold. However, both of them were constantly around rather devastating and tragic events. It came to a point where a dark sense of humor came to the rescue from drowning in each case. “Probably not,” Nikolai responded and leaned back with a heavy sigh. “Not anymore, right?” He offered a humorless laugh, “Do other people actually do other things when they’re not working?” He asked, raising a brow with a chuckle, “I mean... I think I may need something else to fill my free time with other than drinking.”

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diamondxcarey:

“Right, so…I got on the subway this morning, and it was full to the max, so I had to just stand,” Diamond began as she absentmindedly stirred the spoon in her hot tea around, “Halfway through the ride, this pervy old man sitting behind me suddenly grabs me and pulls me down to sit in his lap…I honestly should have punched him square in the jaw, but my ankle was still throbbing from yesterday, and I really didn’t want to stand the whole way, so I took the freebie seat.” She grimaced, remembering how the man had gotten hard, just from her being in his lap for fifteen minutes. “I feel so dirty now.”

Nikolai blinked for a moment, unsure of what even to say at this point. Public transportation had both pros and cons... but generally Nikolai didn’t have to face as many of the cons as a lot of women did. Anymore, he opted to suffer in traffic by sticking himself in his car and hiding. “Good God,” he said then, sucking in a sharp breath and raising his brows. “Really should’ve hit him,” Nikolai continued and shook his head. “Either way, that’s horrifying. Sorry that, uh, that happened to you.” 

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carterxjacobs:

Carter groaned as he realised that the other person wasn’t about to stop talking anytime soon. Perhaps if he felt more human then he would have listened… probably not. “Ok please stop, my head feels like someone just hit it with a hammer and this isn’t helping” admittedly the hangover was his own fault, but all he wanted was coffee. Granted this was about the 10th one he’d had, but still.

“How do you think this guy felt?” Nikolai responded coldly before sighing. Work had been rather strenuous the past few... forever but it just felt worse now. The amount of sleep deprivation between both Nikolai and Carter could have killed any regular person. That was the job though, right? To suffer for the citizens. “Alright, alright,” Nikolai began slowly and leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes momentarily. “Enough work shit, yeah? You have a wild evening?”

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kristhorns-son:

Another day, another night at the bar. So far, Isaac had no friends, no job and no life. Unless you counted the friends, the job and the life he had just left behind in hopes of a brighter future. Which mean he mostly used the evening to check out new bars and maybe find some adventures, in the types of distressed women. However, this night he only wanted to chill at the bar and have a glass of whiskey when this guys comes over to pick up another girl by the bar. He clearly wasn’t doing a good job, and clearly he wasn’t really noticing it. “Seriously man.. just give up.. she’s not into you.” 

Nikolai had been laying low recently. Work had been consuming his life. Once summer had begun it was like everyone decided now was the time to get even crazier. Maybe it was something in the air or the water. However, the moment he got some time to himself he leaped at it, taking his overworked self down to the bar where he got to witness some sad sap trying to pick up a girl near the bar. The guy beside him had made a comment, only causing the other one to make a face and mumble to himself as the girl slipped away. “That was pretty rough,” Nikolai commented, “I haven’t seen an attempt go that poorly in a while.”

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katarina-mora:

“No, of course not. It is however mildly concerning behavior that I want you to be aware of though. I also want you aware of the fact that next time she won’t leave without a scratch. I hate being fucked with. You know all about that don’t you though? You are, after all, the expect at fucking with me.” She scoffed as he spoke, shaking her head at him, “You knew I couldn’t go with you.” Kat shook her head, tucking her hair behind her ear, “We could have made it work, it was hard but life is hard Nik. So what? You gave up on your dreams so I should have given up on mine? Is that what you’re saying? Nikolai, I never would have been happy settling down. I don’t even know if I’m happy settling down now. Stop though, stop with the excuses, it’s always excuses.” She pressed her hands to her head, squeezing her eyes shut, “Why are we doing this? It didn’t accomplish anything in the past and it won’t now. We need to be, what is the word? Cortés?” She looked at him, almost expecting him to translate for her, “educado? Necesitamos ser civiles. We need to be civil, um, polite, courteous” 

“When the hell did I give up on my dreams?” He asked, offended. “I am doing exactly what I wanted to do.” He shook his head, rolling his eyes and leaning back away from her as she told him to stop, saying that it was only and always excuses between the two of them. As she searched for the words he watched her, eyes showing a mild disinterest in being or acting any kind of way with her regardless of what it would be. “Civil?” He asked with an unamused laugh, “Well,” he began sarcastically, “We are clearly doing very well with that right now.” Nikolai closed his eyes for a moment, inhaling deeply before opening his eyes and looking at Katarina. “Let’s just never talk about our past relationship again,” he suggested blandly, “Maybe then we can be civil.” 

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katarina-mora:

She snatched her hand back when he took it off her chest, fixing him with a displeased look. “So that gives her to the right to harass me? Your little friend is lucky that I was feeling generous let her leave without a scratch.” When he told her to stop again she reached out, shoving him gently, “Deja de decirme que pare! I tell you when to stop.” She muttered a few explosives under her breath as she crossed her arms over her chest in a huff. “So what if we broke up, that means we can’t be friends? We only broke up because you picked your work over me. We could have traveled, seen the world. You didn’t pick me Nikolai. That’s the reason.” She knew that he could just as easily argue the other side, but that didn’t matter, not unless he brought it up at least.

Nikolai scoffed at her, shaking his head. “Please,” he said, “What do you want me to do?  Tell her to make sure she leaves my ex alone?” Nikolai shrugged, “I didn’t even know you were in town until today.” He inhaled sharply, a look of increasing annoyance enveloping his face as Katarina went on her miniature rant about why they were broken up. “Did I not ask you to move with me?” He asked, raising a brow at her, “See the world? We could’ve never done that when I first started. Now? Yeah, now things are different. We could’ve seen Brooklyn with the amount of money I had back then. Playing piano only took me so far.” 

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katarina-mora:

Kat slowly moved her hand down his chest, scooting her body closer to his as she listened to him, “If she told me her name I didn’t catch it. I found her to be quite obnoxious. “I haven’t felt the need to be possessive over you in a while so that was new.” He went to an event with her? With her? That girl? So say that she was surprised was an understatement. Sure, Nikolai was allowed to be with whoever he wanted, but her? Oh how the mighty had fallen. As he explained himself she just nodded slowly, “So you’re being stalked? Or she’s just really into you and you haven’t shot her down. She’s clearly interested enough to ask me if I’m acquainted with your dick so…” Kat finished her drink, pushing a hand through her curls. “te extrañe.” 

Nikolai rolled his eyes as Kat let her hand move down his chest, he reached a hand up to carefully pluck her hand off his chest. “Stop,” he said then, shaking his head at her as she explained further on her encounter with Margot. “I think she’s going through something,” he said then although the words came out in an unsure manner. The texts had been slightly alarming, he had silently questioned if day-drinking was involved. “Again,” he said with a snort, “Stop.” There was a heavy pause before he continued, “We broke up for a reason.”

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katarina-mora:

“I’ve been in the city about a month. I’m just trying something new. I’ve been traveling a long time now.” She shrugged a little, her hand sliding up his arm as she brought it towards his chest, “Little brunette girl, very concerned about what’s going on below your belt if you get the gist.” A small smirk came over her as she took a sip from her glass. “She was very concerned about our relationship status. Tell me something Nikolai, when did you start dating girls that much younger than you?” 

There was a fair amount of irritation that had built up but the emotions kept on coming, at this point he almost felt offended. Almost. “Margot,” he said flatly, closing his eyes a moment as Katarina divulged some rather concerning commentary. It was even more concerning that Nikolai knew it was Margot. After the latest series of texts he had received from her... He had started to wonder what had caused her to... behave as such. “I haven’t,” he said, opening his eyes, letting them focus momentarily on Katarina. “I presented something to her graduating class a few years back,” he explained, feeling as if he had to defend himself. “I went to one event with her a few months back. I hardly consider that dating.”

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katarina-mora:

“I didn’t think it would take long to run into you, Nikolai.” She spoke slowly, almost as though she were tasting the words in her mouth. Without thinking twice she reached out, touching her hand to the side of his arm, “You say that like you’re not happy to see me. Did your little dormouse of a friend tell you I’m here or did I just get the immense pleasure of seeing you both today?” 

He narrowed his eyes at her then, a mixture of confusion and the remaining annoyance settling on his face. “What the hell are you talking about?” He asked, sitting up slightly, “Dormouse? No one told me that you were here. Quite frankly, I’m a bit stunned.”

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katarina-mora:

To say that her move to Chicago wasn’t going well was a bit of an understatement. She was still living out of boxes and finding a space to rent for her studio was proving to be more difficult than she’d imagined. At a somewhat dramatic loss for what to do she’d decided that taking up day drinking wouldn’t be the worst. “That seat is taken. Sorry.” Kat looked over at the person who’d approached her, giving an apologetic look before turning back to her drink. 

“Doesn’t look like it’s taken,” Nikolai responded, looking at the seat for a second longer and sitting down next to the woman. He turned his head towards her, a mild irritation flaring up in his chest. “When did you decide to roll into Chicago, Katarina?”

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misselizabeth-bennett:

Any decent person would have used his long pause and the closing of his laptop to assume that she shouldn’t ask more questions, Ellie wasn’t all that good at social cues though. “What were you doing then? If it wasn’t important.” She smiled innocently, blinking slowly to show off her long eyelashes, she didn’t put them on just for fun after all. “See, now you’re speaking my language. Not puddle related. Spontaneous battery death.” Ellie looked around for a moment before reaching under the table to plug in the charger. “Are you going to tell me your name at some point?” 

Nikolai’s brows rose momentarily as the woman inquired about what he had been doing. With being an adult came the tedious task of having to spend at least 50% of your spare time answering or writing up emails. “You got a lot of questions, huh?” He mused with a quiet laugh. “It was, uh, just emails. The usual. Tedious. Boring.” He shrugged then, watching as she plugged the cord into the table. “Nikolai, - I guess most people just call me Nik, though,” he said then and sat back from the table, looking a bit more casual now. “What should I call you?” Nikolai asked, “Girl with non-water related phone issues?”

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Text: Nik

Margot: I guess, as long as people don't stop killing each other you'll always be busy huh?

Nikolai: That's the point, right? To always have work?

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Text: Nik

Margot: Have you ever thought of taking a break?

Nikolai: Not really. I'm not tired of it. There's just a lot of work to do.

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Text: Nik

Margot:

Margot: You've been awfully quiet so obviously I haven't been well since I've missed you. Other than that, it's been the usual I guess. What about you?

Nikolai: The usual. People in this city enjoy shooting one another so I've been busy.

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Text: Nik

Margot: Stop.

Margot: Don't point out that I was wrong

Margot: I just like talking to you

Nikolai: Okay.

Nikolai: How have you been?

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Text: Nik

Margot: What?

Margot: No because you keep on ignoring me and I miss your attention and company

Nikolai: I have answered every text you have sent to me, as far as I know.