#blackabal

Kuai: What happened, my angel?

daughter: has a boy-

Hanzo: Who?

daughter: He asked me in dating and-

Hanzo: * chokes * What ?? -

Kuai: This is great! What's the problem?

Kabal: oh did we miss a spot?

Kano: what?

Kabal: what?

I’ve been watching a lot of House, and I had a bit of free time before I get swamped again. Yes, there will be a Pt. 2 coming in the future. I know its angsty, but the next one will include Post-burn Kabal so thats another angst fest. But I will make sure that there are more happier moments in that one. In the meantime, enjoy!

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- Kabal joins the Black Dragon Detective Agency, the mention of lucrative pay and flexible hours was the tipping point of why Kabal had accepted Kano’s shady offer

- He is immediately paired with the lone-wolf, the reputable hat-man Erron Black himself.

-  Erron’s the jaded, snarky, hardass of a detective that everyone either hates or admires because he’s too darn good at being a detective (It doesn’t help that he has the face and body of Adonis). But the man has his vices: Booze and women.

- Kabal’s the more relaxed, funnier detective with lightning quick wit to counter Erron’s sarcastic quips on the fly. He calls it his Kaballian Superpowers.

- Kabal and Erron HATE each other’s guts at first

- Erron thinks Kabal is annoying because he doesn’t know when to shut up  too much of a goody-two-shoes. It disrupts his flow, especially when he’s trying to get information and he’s not in the mood to go about it civilly, or legally. Usually he’s ready to beat up a guy and leave him in the alley, but Kabal’s yapping about ethics and going by the law, so he beats up the guy lightly

- Kabal hates that Erron is the bad cop in the equation, because he used to be the bad cop and Stryker used to be the good cop. No one steals the bad cop role from Kabal.

-  Kabal thinks Erron is an alcoholic with a hilariously short fuse  doesn’t know how to cooperate. Not at all. So he has to keep pestering Erron, reminding him to include him in decision making when it comes to taking up cases, especially ones with high notoriety. He’s not about to die just because one guy gets insane high off the adrenaline from chasing criminals and being in shootouts.

-  Except Kabal almost does.

-  Kabal doesn’t hesitate to take 2 bullets to the chest—Bullets meant for Erron. He coughs and splutters, but he smiles through the pain. “Get that son of a bitch.”

- Erron has a newfound respect for his partner, no one has ever given their life so recklessly to save his. So, he endures Kabal’s jabs of ‘I knew you were a softie!’ whenever he visits.

- Their friendship progresses from razor-like hostility, to sarcastic Sherlock-Watson like banter. It shocks everyone in the office how casually Kabal says ‘fuck you’ to Erron and the cowboy just shrugs unbothered.

- However, just because their friendship is good doesn’t mean they don’t have friendly competitions. Kabal challenges Erron to a drink-off, and fails miserably because Erron drinks liquor like he’s drinking water, while he’s at one corner struggling to keep up.

- It comes to a point when he starts getting on tables and sings I Need a Hero, and starts complimenting Erron on how handsome he is and how some woman would be lucky to shag him. The latter is what prompted Erron to knock Kabal out to sleep.

- On the rare occasion that Erron does get drunk, his lips gets a little loose. He starts telling Kabal about his humble beginnings in the business, how he started as a bouncer and transitioned into the business of murdering people until Kano showed up.

-  Kabal enjoys these moments, because it’s the only time Erron opens up and shows some form of genuine happiness, no matter how minute it is.

-  Until Erron gets into the nitty gritty, the dark past that he’s kept concealed under iron-clad sobriety; The rough childhood, the lack of love from his parents, and the eventual murder of his father by his hands.

-  While Kabal’s the man known to spill all the tea with, he also knows boundaries. He talks to Erron about his confession the next morning, and promises to take Erron’s secret with him to the grave. Kabal earns not only Erron’s trust, but Erron’s ride-or-die loyalty as well.

- In turn, Kabal made Erron his emergency contact. Did it surprise Erron? Yes. Did Erron call him a wuss after hearing that? Yes. Did Erron secretly feel honored? Also, yes.

-   But such privilege comes with a price.

-  It’s annoying being Kabal’s emergency contact because there are times when Erron’s just trying to get a good night’s sleep but the idiot had to get drunk somewhere, which of course meant that Erron would also have to haul Kabal’s ass out of the club and onto his couch.

- It comes to a point where Kabal keeps crashing at Erron’s place so often that he joked about moving in with Erron one time.