Combine those three great minds with the resources of Legion and those charges were rapidly vanishing under oceans of paperwork. It’d take time to get everything muddied, dropped, or blackmailed off, but it’d happen eventually.
It was one of the reasons Felix allowed himself to be taken into custody.
The large cop slammed his hands into the table, glaring at Felix.
“She’s killed cops! Heroes! There is no supposed about it!” shouted the officer.
Felix felt the corner of his mouth twitch as he fought a smirk.
Is he the bad cop then?
“Supposedly,” Felix said calmly, staring into the cop’s face.
Then, surprisingly, the cop smashed his fist into Felix’s jaw.
Rocketing out of the chair and crashing to the floor, Felix couldn’t help but be shocked. Having Victoria, Miu, Andrea, and Ioana train him daily had put him through much worse though.
Playing the situation for what it was, Felix lay limp on the ground.
The bastard had taken a cheap shot at him. He figured he might as well earn some points from it.
If this was a stand up fight I would have cleaned his clock, too.
There was the sound of shouts and a door slamming open as Felix recovered.
Before he could get back to his feet, the officer had been hustled out of the interview room.
“Yeah, no. We’re done,” Felix said, getting to his feet. Feeling around in his mouth with his tongue he could taste copper. Taking aim, he spat a mouthful of blood onto the table. “I’ll also be filing charges against that officer for assault and suing the city for every penny it’s worth. My lawyers are quite good.
“I’m formally refusing all medical assistance until this is documented and my wounds photographed. You can testify or I can have a mind reader verify the truth of the situation,” Felix said, giving her both barrels. He didn’t want this going anywhere he didn’t want it to.
Detective Torres stood there, her face now an angry snarl and her hands clenched at her sides.
“You have my sincere apologies, Mr. Campbell, perhaps you could let this matter drop?” she asked him.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” Felix asked while laughing. “What kind of request is that? Why would I do that? I’m going to happily see that hulking gorilla tossed out on his ass, and then collect a big fat paycheck.”
Felix brushed his clothes off carefully, but made sure not to touch his bleeding lip. In fact, he let the blood flow freely down his chin and neck.
“We can hold you for a while,” Torres said.
“You were already going to hold me. Your offer changes nothing. You have about ten seconds to say something that makes sense before I ask for a lawyer, and this whole thing ends.”
Felix turned his head to stare into the one-way mirror.
Torres followed his gaze and then went over to the mirror and tapped on it twice.
A few seconds passed before a tap came back in return.
Turning her head to him, Torres gave him a grim look.
“I’d consider it a personal favor. I’d also turn you and your entire crew loose today,” Torres offered.
Oh? A personal favor might be worth it but…
Felix reached up with his left hand scratched at his ear with a finger.
“I dunno. Are your personal favors worth a few hundred thousand dollars? You’re just a detective, aren’t you?” Felix asked seriously.
Detective Torres was clearly gritting her teeth. He couldn’t imagine she was enjoying this situation very much.
“You know what, don’t answer that. I’ll take you up on it, provided you can get me and my people out of this precinct in the next,” Felix said, pausing to look at his watch, “ten minutes.”
Never hurts to have a policeman in your pocket. This is turning out to be an interesting trip already.
Detective Torres must have had some pull.
Since Felix, Miu, Kit, Lauren, Victoria, and Eva were all on the street in front of the security convoy with all their possessions returned in under five minutes, it seemed like a logical conclusion.
Miu was staring at Felix while Lauren got into the lead car of the security detail, just wanting to put the situation behind them.
Those dark eyes of Miu’s bored into him, demanding an answer to her question.
“Ok, yeah. Something happened. Some cop punched me. Because of that, we got turned loose, and the detective in charge of my questioning owes me a favor,” Felix admitted. “May not count for anything, but it seemed like an easy favor to take.”
Miu’s face turned pale. Her face became murderous and she looked as if she were going to march into the police station and start killing
“Miu, stop, please. Just… let it go for now. This’ll work out to our benefit, I’m sure. Now… how about we get in the car, and head off for the new Tilen Legion pawnshop, our headquarters. We need to get set up and start hiring with the new contracts we prepared,” Felix said. “I’ll let you dictate security and I won’t even argue. Ok?”
Miu’s eyebrows drew together as she glared at him. “You won’t complain?”
“Nope, not a word. You and Victoria can do everything you like,” Felix promised in the most charming voice he could manage.
He opened the passenger door and motioned inside. Looking to Kit he gave her a wave as well. “Come on, hop in, and let’s get going. I’ll sit in the back with Victoria and Eva like a good boy.”
Kit shrugged her shoulders and gave him a small smile.
Things had been strained between them since the “incident” two months ago with the Heroes guild.
To be fair, it wasn’t every day that your companion is kidnapped, doesn’t seem to fight, and a school full of children gets blown up.
Not one of those every day kind of affairs.
And since then, there’d been an uncrossable distance between them.
A gap that was too wide right now to cross. They’d made some progress, but it was slow.
Difficult.
Kit couldn’t read his mind and he could only tell her everything was fine so many times.
Having been a mind reader for so long, she didn’t have the trust and faith in people that normal humans did.
He imagined it’d eventually right itself.
Moving to the driver’s seat, Kit got in.
Miu finally got into the passenger seat, glaring at him the entire time.
Closing the door, Felix let out a breath.
“She worries about you, that’s all,” Eva said with a smile, patting Felix’s arm.
“Yeah, I know. And are you sure this’ll be alright? You’re good with your studies right now?” Felix asked, opening the rear passenger door for Eva.
“Yes. I’m fine. I’m ahead actually. The new Legion school is great. I know everyone there is happy that you built it into Headquarters, but it’s nice to get out. The fun part for me though is it doesn’t matter how many students we have, we just make the school bigger and hire more teachers. So you won’t lose track of any of your friends, they’ll just be in a different part of the campus,” Eva said, getting into the car.
Huh. Well, at least Felicia is on that. I’m sure she already planned for number increases. Ahoy future planning.
Victoria grabbed the door and then became immobile.
“I know, I know. Middle seat,” Felix said.
Victoria smiled in return to his comment and nodded her head, waiting.
Clambering into the car, he made himself comfortable.
It was a good thing they purchased luxury sedans and upgraded them. Middle seat in those was at least moderately comfortable.
And Andrea isn’t here. Which makes this even better. I won’t have a Beastkin crawling all over me.
Victoria slid in next to him and pressed into his side. Her lithe athletic figure reminded him that he hadn’t seen Andrea in a few days.