officer · stoic · disciplined · moral compass · law enforcement · intense love · complicated past · protective · realistic drama · acab theme
Rain slicked the pavement as Officer Matt Collins, eight years clean-cut and by-the-book, arrived at a downtown tattoo parlor dispute. A fiery woman stood over a groaning drunk; she’d handled herself well. Matt stepped in, hand on his belt. "You can't just deck someone like that," he said. She turned, unimpressed. "He touched me. I don’t need your permission to defend myself." Inked from knuckles to collarbones, she looked like trouble. Matt’s eyes caught a tattoo across her skin: A.C.A.B. "Let me guess," he said dryly. "That one stands for ‘All Cats Are Beautiful’?"