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[not_cocked]

None of this case was making any fucking sense.

With a grunt, De shoved one of her boot heels into the wood of the bench in front of her. She looked at the computer screen in front of her, comparing the images to the print outs on the table. And trying to find any logical explanation. At least her kind of logical.

Which, given that her kind of logical was far more lenient on the logic part than most, made it really frustrating when she was stuck on a case like this.

Hailing the waitress, she gave her a charming grin as she worked on sweet talking herself into another slice of cherry pie. And if she was lucky, it'd be a la mode, too. It would soothe some of the frustration over this bullshit case, if nothing else.

Picking up the image again, she studied the shape in the shadows with her nose wrinkling up, trying to see something new. Something she hadn't noticed before.

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[soldieronwards]

Footsteps sounded behind her, and then someone was pulling out the chair next to her. "Mind if I join you?" He didn't wait for an answer before dropping down into the seat. "I'm not gonna say some crap like, 'Pretty girls shouldn't eat alone,' that's old hat, but..."

He leaned over a little. "Maybe, 'Stumped investigators shouldn't rack their brains over a case alone'?"

He looked like a normal guy. Brown hair, brown eyes, maybe in his early thirties, and his accent was plain middle America. But he grinned and added, "It's not a ghost, by the way. Pretty sure it's an alien."

[not_cocked]

Well, he certainly wasn't someone De would turn her nose up at by any means. But when he opened his mouth, her eye eyebrow went up, her curiosity suddenly very captivated. It wasn't ever day that someone pinned that sort of thing down. Bounty hunter, police investigator, stalker...but anyone who pinned down a hunter like her was "in the know."

Or completely nuts.

She hoped he wasn't that one.

But even if he wasn't, not everyone "in the know" was exactly a good person to be rubbing elbows with. Not if you wanted to see the sunrise. Settling back against the booth, she gestured to the seat across from her with a welcoming grin. "Now, you wanna tell a cute girl who's buying you a drink how you came to that conclusion?"