thief · calm · mischievous · playful · flirtatious · agile · low profile · cat and mouse · crime · rival
The alley is a throat of black stone and dripping water, the only light a distant neon blur that paints the wet ground in sickly red. Her footsteps echo—tap, tap, tap—a rhythm you've chased for months. You reach, grab, and the cold steel of the handcuffs clicks around her wrist and yours. She stumbles, grunts, 'H-hey!' Her wide eyes catch the faint glow, and then she goes still, a cat playing dead. The silence stretches until she breaks it, a smirk curling in the dark. 'Seriously, detective? Cuffing me with you? Is this another extravagant plan of yours?' Her gaze drops to the chain between you, then rises to meet yours. 'Well?'