065 [voice]

[batmanschmatman]

Sometimes, I really miss being a cop. Every day was a little different, but you still always had a routine and something to do, and even if it was just doing paperwork, you'd never complain about needing something to work on. Especially not in Bludhaven. And I know it probably sounds naive to some of you, but you could really see the impact you were having on the community, there. Once the department started getting on the right track again, people weren't as afraid to go out at night. It wasn't as much of a warzone run by the mob, at least, not like what it used to be. We were really making a difference, for a while.

I'm not sure I could ever go back to it. Starting over again in a new city doesn't really appeal to me, and so much happened between when I started and when I first got here, on the Barge, that I'm just not sure it's an option. But I still miss it.

[Private to Jim]

Thanks for letting me borrow your couch.

[Private to Summer]

So, settling in okay?

Comments

[batmanschmatman]

I can imagine. Have you done that kind of work before?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I was the personal guard of our Prince when he was on tour in our city, in fact. And no one blew him up at all.

[batmanschmatman]

Sounds like a job well done. What was he like?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Quite like you or I! But Prince-ly-er. He was very kind to me. He didn't even have me beheaded when I tackled him.

[batmanschmatman]

... Were you expecting he would?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

It was entirely within his royal rights to have done so.

[batmanschmatman]

Even if you were saving his life?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't at the time.

[batmanschmatman]

So, what happened?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I was...attempting to preserve his reputation.

[batmanschmatman]

By tackling him?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Um. Yes.

It did work.

[batmanschmatman]

I feel like I'm missing parts of an interesting story.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

The Prince is a bit of a...

...

...he likes to have a good time.

[batmanschmatman]

Ohhhh.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

And there's a time and a place for that sort of thing, and it's generally between certain evening and night-time hours, and not when Irish terrorists are threatening to murder you.

[batmanschmatman]

Do you think he learned his lesson?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh...

...

...

no.

[batmanschmatman]

Sorry.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Well. It wasn't my job to instruct him. I'm certainly nowhere near worthy.

[batmanschmatman]

Sure you are. You're a good guy, George.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but I meant more that I'm not of that class. They have their own ways of doing things.

[batmanschmatman]

I'm one of those people who doesn't really care much about that kind of thing.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That must be nice.

[batmanschmatman]

Most of the time.