Apollo Tandon

“ longer, huh ??  you missed me. ” nico shrugs and pockets the bills again.  “ you don’t seem gullible to me, not exactly. ”  apollo strikes him as very, very earnest in an almost annoying sort of way.  but it’s better than the cops who have lost all earnestness, or never had it in the first place.  they’re less moral, more dangerous. 

“ what’s to investigate ??  i’m sure you’ve seen the videos.  we have a nice little chat, and then my door gets opened.  not my fault your guys are…so easily convinced. ”  it hadn’t taken much effort, truthfully.  but he suspects it wouldn’t be that easy a second time.  “ so’re you here to take me in again ??  see if something’ll stick this time ?? ”

“oh absolutely. there’s nothing i look forward to more than chasing you around.” not true, exactly. not when he’s on duty. apollo knows his time could be better spent - but this is part of his job, too. that’s what he keeps telling himself. he raises an eyebrow at the response, a little surprised. he knows full well that gullible is the exact air he seems to give off, most of the time. “no? what’s your take then?” he asks, curious more than anything else.

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       peter lands on the roof of the idle van near-silently.  he’s gotten used to these meetings, and of all of peter’s former police contacts, apollo is among the most amicable of them.  he doesn’t seem actively hostile at least, and – well, peter’s made some bad calls when it came time to judge a person’s character, but he’s fairly confident in this assessment:  apollo’s one of the good guys.  he tosses the office a fast-food bag, the grease of the burger inside has stained the paper a little.  unhealthy as all get out but so, so worth it.  “ i figured you’d be hungry.  i dropped the drink, though, sorry.  how’ve you been, officer ?? ”

flirting with the perp is a smart move when the perp is cute.  and nico’s cute.  it’s totally, one hundred percent understandable.  nico pauses like he’s counting on his fingers.  “ two weeks ago, already ??  it feels like just yesterday. ”  he rolls his shoulders a little, stretches his neck out.  he might have to make a run for it, after all.  he’s pretty sure the cop isn’t going to shoot him, even if he does run.  

“ see, you and i are remembering that day very differently.  i remember letting you catch me, and then i remember one of your co-workers letting me out.  so forgive me, officer, but i’m not that worried. ”  mischief lights up his eyes, and he pulls the money from his pocket.  “ what ??  this ?? you wouldn’t believe me if i said he gave it to me willingly ?? ”  did he already file a police report ??  damn, nico needs to try a little harder.  

Nico might be cute. Well, cute might be an understatement. But Apollo’s on the job, the last thing he needs to do right now is not think with his head. He’s got a job to do, and this time he’s not going to leave it to someone else. “That’s funny, I was thinking it felt like longer.” Apollo throws back easily, raising an eyebrow as he watches Nico’s motions. He’s confident he can catch the guy if it comes to that, but he’d rather not do that by using any kind of... special abilities here.

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Jason registers the sound of boots on concrete just as he’s finishing off a cigarette, marveling at the fact he’s made it through the whole night without decapitating anyone and vaguely wondering whether he’s going to have to break that impressive streak now. 

He instinctively bristles at the sight of a navy uniform in his peripheral vision. It’s easy to forget he’s technically ‘trespassing’, especially considering he used to sleep in the tents on this street corner way before some overpriced, piece of trash high-rise popped up in their place. What did Gotham need, if not more luxury apartments?

Jason turns around, fully prepared to draw his M11 and pop one off in some sucker cop’s leg, but the sight that meets him makes him freeze. Slow recognition creeps onto his features and resignation settles heavy in the pit of his stomach, like a slowly sinking stone. “Oh, that’s excellent,” Jason looses a caustic laugh. As viciously as he’s tried to shake off any attachment to his past, there’s something around every corner of this goddamn city that reminds him it used to be his home. “That’s fucking great, isn’t it? Well, let’s have it, then, Officer. Or are you one of those shoot first, read Miranda Rights later types?”

The call sounded pretty standard. A basic breaking and entering call, some idiot trespassing where he doesn’t belong. Exactly the kinda call a new kid on the beat would have to deal with, despite the fact that he knows he can handle more than that. He doesn’t exactly want to bring too much attention to that, so - he takes the call, makes his way out to take care of the situation. By the book. Fancy abilities left alone for now. He’s sure he won’t need them for something so simple.

Except, of course, it would be a vigilante. This one’s new from what he’s seen - though, Gotham throws all kinds of surprises at him. Something his dad had told him repeatedly when he said he was transferring to the GCPD, but Apollo knew where he wanted to be.

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   for all the world, nico feigns some serious nonchalance, like he just happened down this street on accident.  he props his shoulder carelessly on the alley wall.  “ officer, ” he says the word with no small amount of snark.  “ you know, i love the classics, but this is beginning to feel a little stale, don’t you think ?? ” he asks.  “ i mean, we know how this goes. ”  or, at least, nico does.  it’s at least half his fault, come back to the same places again and again just to work in an extra taunt or two. 

“ besides, i haven’t even done anything wrong. ”  not strictly true.  there’s a wad of cash in his back pocket that doesn’t belong to him.  “ is this a stop and frisk situation? ”

“You know, you’re partially right there. This is feeling a little stale. Kind of like deja vu, right?” Apollo throws with an amused sort of smile. He’s not foolish enough to let his guard down with Nico of course - he’d be stupid to take that sort of risk, he knows how talented this guy actually is. How many times has he caught Nico out, how many times has he gotten close to a solid arrest only for Nico to somehow slip through his fingers? He knows catching him isn’t as easy as half the precinct think it is. But.. he’s amusing all the same.