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beauty may be dangerous, but intelligence is lethal. micah cole. thirty. assistant district attorney. eureka, ca.

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AT EUREKA POLICE DEPARTMENT with @samuelbyrne​

There were two things Micah Cole knew — 1) that there weren’t enough hours in the day, and 2) that she needed a win. More importantly, she wanted that win to come in the form of taking Callum Fitzgerald off Eureka’s streets for at least the next fifteen years. Longer if she could make it happen. And to do that, she needed a flawless prosecution. Every moving piece had to snap together, from eyewitness statements to police reports and everything in between. It was the reason her black pumps clicked against the tile floor of the police precinct during the only thirty minutes she had for lunch — not that she would have spent them actually eating anyway. 

Armed with a briefcase in one hand and her phone in front of her face, the woman navigated the area without even really bothering to look where she was going. She was already familiar with the building and easily made her way into the officer’s bullpen. Some were standing and chatting while others typed away on their keyboards. Micah didn’t even stop to look up as she approached one of the desks, chocolate hues scanning the document that had just popped into her email — Mr. Fitzgerald’s latest arrest report. “Can you point me in the direction of Officer Samuel Byrne?” she asked, finally bringing her gaze to rest on the man behind the desk, before allowing it to fall to the nameplate. “Ah— Well,” she said, extending her hand. “Micah Cole, Assistant District Attorney.” 

[micahcxle]

DOTTIEALIMJAN.

dottie & micah | @micahcxle·

“Whaddya mean I’ve been dropped from Tongyi Iced Tea?” she’d asked. Dottie’s agent insisted the matter was out of his expertise and that she needed to arm herself with an attorney fast. The mass exodus of sponsors had begun. Apparently, they insisted the paparazzi shots of her reading erotica had broken the morals clause of her contracts. Some parted amiably, others demanded she owed early termination fees effective immediately.  

Dottie couldn’t call Josie for help; her eldest sister was neck-deep in paperwork trying to sort out Lottie’s life. Though it pained her to miss out on her family discount (read: free), she ran to the next, most powerful woman she knew: Micah. “They want me to pay money,” she blubbered. Dropping a stack of pink folders over the woman’s desk. “Half the time I get paid in free products, so it’s not like I have mountains of cash lying around! And I had all these nice relatives, so I had to buy them houses and cars and things. What am I going to do?”

* / —

Micah would have been highly annoyed at Dottie’s sudden appearance had it been any other day. Not because she didn’t like the woman, but because she couldn’t be bothered to be interrupted in the middle of the workday. But, not today. While her workload was still spilling over, demanding hours that the woman quite simply didn’t have for sake of fulfilling basic needs, like eating and sleeping— she certainly didn’t have a strong personal life to tend to, letting that fall away the minute she set her sights on that district attorney position — today made it all worth it. Winning a case, even if it wasn’t a big case, had significantly boosted the woman’s mood. “First of all— I know it’s not going to make a difference, but I’m going to say it anyway,” she told the other, thumb pressing into the lock screen button as she dropped her phone on the desk and provided her undivided attention. “Relax.”

She pulled the pink file folders to her and opened the one on top, briefly skimming through the documents. “Morals clauses are pretty standard,” she noted. “But, depending on the wording, you might have a little wiggle room. How are they claiming you violated?” she asked, raising her eyes to meet Dottie’s before waving to the chair across from her desk, an invitation to sit. “It might take me a day or two to look through these, but depending on the exact violation— they would need to prove that your actions actually damaged their brand and that’s not always easy to do,” she assured the woman. “I’ll give you whatever advice I can, but I have a friend that specializes in endorsement contracts if you want her contact information.” 

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KAT GRAHAM on embracing her natural beauty ELLE 2021 (a little gif sized present for @icesparks)

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