The Park: Tuesday

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The Trooper station was still getting complaints about the weekend. ("Are you female again? Get over it." "No sir, I don't really give a shit that you didn't get to be female") So Vic left Ralph to deal with the phone calls because someone really needed to go on patrol.

Not that there was a lot of people on the island at the moment.

Hey. C'mon. Those flamingos could act up and riot at any minute.

Which is why Vic was having a cup of coffee and keeping an eye on them.

As you do.

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[14andseven]

Roland was having a lovely morning, cheerfully strolling through the park looking for a good spot to set up busking -- right up until the moment he spotted Vic.

He froze in a manner really extraordinarily similar to that of an animal suddenly discovering it'd been cornered by a predator. If he'd been able to lift all the hair on his body in order to appear larger, he would've. Instead, he started backing slowly away.

He understood that she'd arrested him during one of those weekends, and that that didn't really count. He also appreciated the fact that she'd apologized for it afterwards.

He just really, really didn't like cops.

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"I don't bite," Vic said looking over her sunglasses. "Relax. Unless you're going to breaking any laws there's nothing to worry about.@

[14andseven]

Roland snorted. "I've heard that before." Well, not really. "You'll just decide to make something up like busking without a license or something." Or, you know, that was an actual rule he'd broken in the past.

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Vic just gave Roland a weird look. "What the hell is busking?"

[14andseven]

That got her a weird look in return. "You're a cop in a town with a busking population" -- of one -- "and you don't know what it is?"

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Do you really want to annoy the cop, Roland?

"Enlighten me," Vic said crossing her arms. You

[14andseven]

What could he say? Terror brought out the smart ass in him. If she were a dark elf princess from the Shadow Realm, she'd find it impressive.

"You could also call a busker a 'street musician'," he explained, lifting his ever-present guitar case. Which he had attached a strap to, just in case someone tried to steal it again.

What use were cops if they arrested you for playing music but didn't stop people from stealing your guitar?

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Hey that arrest was during a weird weekend and did Roland even call the police regarding the theft? Hmm?

"Uh-huh. And how many buskers are in this town?" Vic asked in a tired voice.

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"Currently?" Roland asked, because while the answer hadn't changed during a weird weekend as far as he knew, it didn't mean it wouldn't. ". . . One."

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"That's quite a big community. Do you guys rent out the community center to discuss major busking issues? Don't you guys have a powerful lobby in congress?" Vic said sounding... okay, not sounding. BEING sarcastic. "I mean nobody wants to mess with a busker. Nope. Not at all."

[14andseven]

This was doing absolutely zero to help with Roland's dislike of cops.

"We provide a valuable service," he said, more than a little petulantly. "I've saved the world, you know."

Why on earth would she know that, Roland?

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"I'm impressed," Vic said flatly. "And I'm sure it involved singing, right?"

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"And a dragon," Roland said quickly. "And a goddess. Or maybe three goddesses." The trifold goddess was confusing.

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"What about a fairy?" Vic questioned. "Maybe a pig?"

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"You're really not helping the whole 'all cops are assholes' thing, you know."

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"Yeah, I'm okay with that," Vic said with a smirk. "I'm only nice if there's a cat stuck in a tree."

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"Cats," Roland said, and wow, that was a fair amount of venom in that word. "Are perfectly capable of getting themselves out of trees."

And also getting Roland out of the Shadow Realm (and out of being eaten by a dragon), but that didn't mean he had to like them.

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You know for someone afraid of cops, Roland was getting quite the 'tude here.

Vic gave Roland a forced smile. "Oooookay, Mr. Busker. Didn't know you were also a cat expert."

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She started it.

"Chapman." It took Roland exactly half a second after he said to realize that giving a cop his name was maybe not the best plan. "Ma'am."

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Vic didn't quite make the connection there Roland.

"Chapman?"

...

"Is that the name of your cat?"

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"I don't have a cat." Dammit, Roland. "You know what, I'll just go find somewhere else to set up."

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Oooookay.

"Byyyyyye!" Vic said with a false cheery wave.

Only to turn around and see a flamingo staring at her.

"What are you looking at? Go back to... flamingoing."