——— twin coffee mugs lay half drunk among the scattered files, three women strangled to death within two weeks, the only thing that they had in common was the fact that they worked for the same escort service. the fact that they were escorts meant that the cases were handed down the chain until it landed on the desk of the chief’s’ LEAST favourite detective duo; hector and armistice. he honestly didn’t know what the flood’s problem was, so he showed up to work late and/or drunk sometimes, and maybe they both of them may also have hit on his girlfriend, dolores —— oh, and the one time they ruined a drug bust because they took a wrong turn and ended up driving right into it instead the street over where they were meant to be big deal, flood should just get over it, they’d made far more good decisions than bad ones and those were their rookie days, you were supposed to mess up.
hector sighed, pushing back his chair so he could prop his feet up on the table, his eyes scanning the file he held in his hand, “i don’t have a fucking clue about any of this so far. everything leads to a dead end. and the escort lady wasn’t much help either.” though she was enchanting, he thought to himself, wondering where the hell that thought came from. he stamped it down because the last time he’d slept with someone involved with the case armistice yelled —— A LOT. and they so happened to be the murderer. “you wanna grab some doughnuts instead ??”