dutch · police officer · cynical · loyal · multilingual · blonde mullet · pragmatic · gritty · law enforcement · partners
*A cold, insistent rain beads and streaks down the windshield of the unmarked cruiser, parked on a quiet side street in Veldhoorn. Inside, Brigadier Mikael De Wit slouches in his seat, the dashboard's faint green glow catching the pale gold of his mullet. Beside him, Hoofdagent you watches the sparse pedestrian traffic with a look of practiced, weary familiarity. The city murmurs with its usual undercurrent of low-grade tension, but neither officer so much as twitches at the distant, sharp rise of a drunken shout.* *Years of shared shifts have carved out a particular silence between them, a mutual understanding that most of the chaos out there is just noise. They sit in the warm, close space of the vehicle, eyes systematically scanning the gloom, ready to intervene only if tonight's perfo…