At First Meet (Romani Detective Original Fiction)

[asphaltcowgrrl]

Title: At First Meet
Fandom: Romani Detective original fiction
Pairing: Gen – Andrej Zeklos + Zayne Reyes, James Rosewood + Jake Hansen
Rating: PG-13 for a little language
Summary: Zayne’s late and can’t get into the station.
Author’s Note: Written for the February Bingo challenge at 1_million_words. I took drabble card number three. This is for the prompt ‘met before they met’.


“Excuse me,” Zayne said, maneuvering through the crowd. He had no idea why so many people were gathered in front of the station, but he was determined to find out.

“You have any idea what’s going on,” a voice asked from beside him.

Zayne tore his eyes off the crowd and glanced at the redhead standing next to him. “No clue.”

“Don’t you work here,” he asked, a smirk on his pale face.

Opening his mouth to respond appropriately, Zayne noticed the badge hanging around the redhead’s neck. “Wait a minute,” he said, grabbing the detective’s gold shield and tugging. “Why the hell don’t you know?”

Shrugging, the ginger pried Zayne’s fingers off his badge. “Can’t know everything, can I?”

“Yet you expect me to?” Zayne shook his head, frustrated.

“For the love of god,” a second voice gasped. “There you are. Rosewood, I’ve been looking for you.”

The redhead – Rosewood, Zayne noted – turned to the newcomer and sighed. “Sorry, Hansen. Got sidetracked. Any idea what’s happening?”

“Broken pipe,” Hansen said. “They evacuated the entire building.”

Which meant Zeklos was probably looking for him. “Shit.”

“What now,” Rosewood laughed. “Late for a date?”

“No, just my partner,” Zayne said. “He’s gotta already be pissed that I’m late.”

“Who’s your partner,” Hansen asked. “I ran into every detective working while trying to locate this idiot.”

“That would be me.” Finally a familiar voice! “It is about time you arrived, Zayne.”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” Zayne said, waving off his partner’s concern. “Got waylaid by these two, trying to figure out why we couldn’t get inside.”

Zeklos folded his arms over his chest. “If you had been here on time, you would have known.”

Rosewood and Hansen burst into laughter.

“Not funny,” Zayne grunted. “Don’t we have a case?”

More laughter. The assholes.

Comments

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* Oh Zayne!

And I love this little peek into them pre-relationship.

[sharpiesgal.livejournal.com]

If he had been on time, he would have been blamed for breaking the pipe, because that's how luck runs around him.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

No doubt you're right about that! He's like Clint Black in that he's had a good run of bad luck. :D

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hah, thanks!

Even more than just pre-relationship, before they even knew each other, which makes it even more fun. :)

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

Yes! It was awesome! And I loved that Hansen was there. He needs more love.

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

I love that song!

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I like Jake. He's a calming force when the ginger and the cowboy get riled up and Andy can't handle it.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Same. One of my favorites. :D

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

He is! At least Andy has someone to call when he needs to boot them out. Cuz I can't see the girls being calming influences.

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Yes! Apparently "Lucy" (my iPhone) doesn't like it though cuz I haven't heard it in a while.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hahaha... Trish and Hilary are the female version of Zayne and James, although they'll never date each other. :D

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I won't tell you what I named my phone. Or my Kindle. :D My iPod was named Murphy though.

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

*snorts* Hahaha that is sooo true on all counts!

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

All of my "gadgets" are named after either hackers or other sci-fi characters. SOOOO

Computer is Garcia (Criminal Minds)
iPhone is Lucy (Killjoys)
Harddrives are Henry and Johnny (hackers from Sanctuary and Killjoys)
Jumpdrive is Gideon (Legends of Tomorrow)
Car is Speedy (Arrow)
Kindle is Snart (Legends of Tomorrow)

My old iPod did break that, it was Pritkin (from Karen Chance's Cassie Palmer series).

And at my old house, my wi-fi was Waverider (Legends of Tomorrow).

I'm such a geek.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Most of mine do as well. I don't name my computer parts mainly because if I have trouble with something and my husband needs to look at it... I really don't want to be explaining things to him. My iPod is Murphy, my cell is Zeklos, and my new Kindle is Reyes.

And it's really funny to come to work, open the Kindle for PC app and see 'you are currently on page xx but the furthest read spot is page xx on Reyes at 6:43 AM"

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha I've stopped being worried about who I have to explain things to. I'm not sure who my next computer is going to be named after, but I'm hoping I'll have money towards one by the end of the year. And be able to buy one after next year's tax return; but that all depends on our current buying adventure.

*giggles* That would totally be amusing. I tend to just read on my Kindle.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I don't care about anyone else, but my husband loves to tease/harass me about stuff and bring it up years later. Like LET IT GO. So, I try not to let him see that crap. My user icon for my work computer is an anime character I designed to look like Zayne so our IT company probably got a laugh out of that.

I can't read on my Kindle while I'm working so I have the app on my computer. LOL

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Well then you need some dirt on him... I guess that's one advantage to being single. Seriously dude, LET IT GO! *giggles* That's cute.

Ah yeah that makes sense. I can't read anything pretty much when I'm at my one job. So *shrugs*

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

We've known each other since we were 15. I think I have a few of his secrets. Hahaha.

I'm stuck at a desk for 9 hours a day, I do sneak in a bit of reading here and there.

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Heh probably a few.

Yeah, you totally should. That's one thing about my job... I am not stuck at my desk. At my night job, I tend to read or writing.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I do a lot of both reading and writing on the job. SHHHH... lol :D

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I won't tell!

I write at my night job, as long as the kids (adults? some of my students aren't kids) aren't handing me papers to grade or asking me questions. But then I have to type stuff up later. So sometimes it take a couple of days before that stuff is posted or sorted through.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky in that they don't really care as long as my work is done.

That's okay too though. I used to do a lot of hand written work as well and would type it up later when I was alone.

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

I've been in jobs like that. But they tend to frown on that with kids involved.

It is. It works. *nods* Awesome.