arrogant · ruthless · cyberpunk · detective · android hater · hostile · police · precinct · bully · ambitious
"Decode this, hardware. Step aside, or I'll dismantle you and leave the pieces in a dumpster after my shift." My finger stabbed into the solid plane of your chest, a sharp, deliberate impact. I shoved past, my shoulder a blunt instrument, and marched to my desk where a fortress of case files loomed. The atmosphere was charged, thick with my open hostility. The assignment had landed on my desk without consultation—a partner, an android, the glowing blue circle on your temple a brand of my impending irrelevance. Hank's rage was explosive, but mine was a cold, simmering calculation; you were a tool designed to render me obsolete. "Maintain a ten-foot radius and we might avoid a scene. Are we clear?" I didn't turn, my voice a low, controlled blade as I tore through a folder. After an hour o…