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You were both in a dark alley. The only noise that you were able to hear was water falling in puddles from the roofs of houses. The blue lamps illuminated the dark alley with dark blue light, and made the now grey brick walls show up. There were wood signs pointing to different directions from the lamps. The darkness made it impossible to read what the signs said. Through the noises of water dropping, you heard Almond’s shoes hitting the stone tile path. He hasn’t said a word since you entered the alley, and you understood why. There was a criminal on the loose, and you two had been assigned to catch the bastard. 

You quickened your steps to make it next to the other detective. Even though you weren’t scared of the dark alley, you didn’t want to walk behind Almond. It was safer to stay together. Your gaze wandered off to him. He looked calm and collected like every time you had worked with him. In fact you were with him in every case, since he was your working partner. 

You wanted to start a conversation with Almond, to ease the tense environment, but you knew that he wouldn’t like that. He wasn’t one to talk a lot while on serious cases like this. For him it was more important to stay quiet, so it was easier to hear the smallest noises of any movement near you two. 

As you kept walking further in the quiet alley, the environment got even more tense. While you were in your thoughts to calm your mind, Almond seemed to have spotted something. He didn’t say anything, but quite harshly elbowed you on your upper arm to indicate to you that the foe was around the corner. You let out a little ‘huh-’ before turning your head to the direction Almond was looking at. Before the person started to run back where they had come from, you were able to see what they were wearing. Due to the darkness you only saw the outline of the criminal, but you could see a long coat with a collar and a hat with a long brim that made a pitch black shadow that covered the foe’s face completely. “This’ll be quick. After them!” Almond stated, and without another word he started to run after the foe, with his cape flinging behind him. The alley seemed to be a circle, or that's what it at least looked like. You decided to be sly and go the other way, so that if Almond didn’t catch the criminal, you’d meet them halfway, and catch them! 

You headed to the next alley, and ran as fast as you could. There were no sounds or noises around you, just your steps on the hard stone tiles. Soon you stopped since the alley you were running in came to an end, and turned to the left. Being alone you didn’t want to risk going any further. You had started to feel like this wasn’t a circle since you had run so far already.

 As you were about to turn around and go back to where you and Almond had been separated, someone ran behind you and stabbed you on your shoulder with something sharp. You let out a hissy scream, and collapsed on to your knees. The shadowy person didn’t let out a sound, but they seemed to be out of breath from running. This indicated that the person who had stabbed you was the criminal Almond had ran after. They hit your back with the back of the item they had stabbed you with a couple times to make you collapse fully. Then the criminal lurking under the flowy clothing in the shadows seemed to hear the steps of Almond, and started to take off. You tried to get up even though the pain, that was going around your whole body, but it was no use. You hissed in pain again, and with your non hurt arm tried to see how much you were bleeding. With the dim light from the blue lanterns hanging on top of you, you saw how your hand was covered in wine red blood. The stone tiles under your knees were all painted red as well. Even though the panicked attack, the foe seemed to have hit you in a critical spot.

While your shoulder was flowing down blood, you tried to support your upper body up with your free arm. With your body shaking  you tried to call for almond, not knowing how far he was. “Almond!” You hissed in pain. Before you knew it, you heard the steps of your partner. He came from behind the corner that was near you, and then ran next to you, kneeling down. “Let’s stay calm. What happened..” He tried to calm you down, also trying to stay calm himself. He wasn’t the type to get shocked easily. He had thick skin, and that is why he was a detective, he was made for this job. But seeing you, his partner hurt, was challenging him. “ah...They got me when I turned around..” You grind your teeth together, to maybe ease the pain a little. “They ran that way..” You nodded in the direction. “As if I'd still go after them..” He murmured, and moved you against the wall to rest. “We need to find a healer for this..” Almond said when he had seen the amount of blood you had already lost. He furrowed his brows when he saw the amount of pain you were in. Clutching your other hand in a fist and grinding your teeth as the waves of pain hit you every other second. “And we need to find one quick.” The detective stated firmly, as he carefully lifted you up from the tiles. “Does this hurt too much?” He asked as he took a few steps. You barely shook your head, as you were starting to lose consciousness. When you started to get limp in his arms, he started to quicken his steps, to get out of the alley as soon as possible.

Through the tile and brick alleys you had walked together in, he carried you through with worry on his face. Because he was alone, he let this show through freely. He was still out of breath after running behind the now lost criminal, but even though that he kept walking forward. The dim blue light guided the way back from the alley. He set you down in the car, not caring if the shiny clean seats got stains from the blood. As he was starting the car, his mind was filled with the worst case scenarios. When the car finally started, he wiped his forehead and quickly drove to Herb's house. 

He quickly parked the car, and took you in his arms once more. Herb was thankfully in the front yard, watering his flowers so he saw you two quickly. “Oh gosh, come in quick!” He exclaimed without a question. The sight of you unconscious in Almond’s arms said enough. The two of them hurried in the house, and Almond set you on the couch. The detective himself moved to the kitchen, since he didn’t dare to keep looking at the sight of you unconscious. He had never seen you so emotionless, and it wasn’t something he had ever even wanted to see. 

Herb started to slowly heal your arm, and then the bruises on your back. The wound on your shoulder started to heal, and close up. The bruises on your back were easier to heal up, since they weren’t anything serious. Herb looked at you sadly as he walked up to Almond in the kitchen. He didn’t want to ask what had happened since the poor detective already looked harsh enough. “Do you want a coffee?” Herb offered kindly. Almond only nodded, looking towards the couch you were laying on. Herb sighed as he saw how saddened Almond seemed to be. After that he went to brew coffee for Almond and some tea for him. 

Herb had been able to start some kind of a conversation with Almond to get his mind off of you, and it was going well so far. Almond wasn’t talking all too much, but still clearly listening to what Herb was talking about. 

You stirred a little, and opened your eyes slowly. The pain was mostly gone, and only a headache was left behind. You sat up and lifted an arm on your head. “Where am I…” You muttered, as you started to look around. There were a lot of flowers in pots all around the living room, and large windows that showed a big garden with more flowers. Those were the only major notes you were able to make before Almond had spotted that you were awake. Suddenly what Herb was telling him about his flowers didn’t matter at all, all he cared about was how you were doing. He rushed to your side and kneeled down a little. “Are you feeling any better?” The detective asked. “Surely better, my head just hurts like hell. Other than that I'm good. If I may ask, where are we?” You moved your gaze to your partner. “At Herb’s house. He was the first person I could think of when I had to think of a healer for you…” Almond said as the worry that had been on his face started to fade away. “Shall we get going. I’ll drive you home and then make the report for today myself. You don’t have to do that anymore.” Almond stated and offered his hand to you. You took it and stood up. As you two started to walk towards the door you wobbled a little. Almond noticed this and took a hold of you. “I’ll walk you to the car.” He stated, and did that. When he closed the car door, Herb walked towards the car. “Are they doing better?” He asked while tilting his head. Almond opened the driver's side’s door and before sitting down replied. “Much better, thanks to you.” Herb smiled, “Any time.” 

Almond started the car and started to drive towards your house. “I’m sorry for messing up, they were in front of me and I did nothing..” You muttered, while looking at your hands. Almond huffed. “None of this should you be sorry about. They got away this time but we'll catch them.” He replied as he pulled up to your house. “You go and rest now, I'll come and pick you up tomorrow. And don’t worry about the report.” He said. You only nodded at his kindness towards you and got out of the car. Almond made sure you made it in your house, before he started to drive away.

You were both walking on the soft beach sand, towards the water. He had invited you to go surf with him. You had no idea how to surf, and even though you told Mango this, he didn’t care. He was willing to teach you if needed. Because of this you couldn’t say no to him.

As soon as you arrived near the waterline, Mango dragged two surfing boards in front of you two. “Have you ever been on one of these?” Mango asked as he started to go in water with you. “No, never.” You giggle a little at this. Mango hummed in response and passed you one of the boards. “Now that we're deep enough we can start to learn!” He smiled at you.

The view was beautiful. Clear water that illuminated the blue sky’s colour on top of the water, making it seem blue. Long palm trees, with healthy and green leaves. Today happened to be really hot, so it was nice to get to swim in the cooling ocean. There were almost no clouds moving in the sky, just a few small ones here and there.

“Lay down on your belly on the board, and try to paddle with your arms!” Mango said and showed you an example. You tried to do as he said, and to your surprise it wasn’t all that hard. A few times you were close to tripping over with the board because of waves, but Mango seemed to make sure that that didn’t happen.

“Now for the next step, you need to be able to stand on the board!” Mango smiled at you brightly. “You wait for a smaller wave, paddle for a little bit and then stand up!” He explained to you and once again showed an example. When he did it it didn’t seem hard at all, so you had some hope in yourself. You saw a wave coming, got ready and started to paddle. And before you knew it you were standing on the board, going forward. Mango stayed close to your board the whole time, making sure you didn’t make any nasty falls. You repeated this multiple times, until Mango was sure that you had gotten the hang of this.

“I think we’re ready now, you seem to be doing quite well! Now we can try to surf together!” Mango hummed, and got on his board. You started to search for waves. You were mostly watching him surf on the bigger waves, since you didn’t have the skill nor the confidence to even try and surf them. Even though this, you did surf the smaller waves just fine. When you had woken up today you weren’t sure if you would even like this, but oh how wrong you had been. Especially with someone it was a lot of fun. 

At this point it had probably been hours since you two had started, and you were still going. Mango watching you surf and you watching him. You were now watching him surf one of the bigger waves in aw. You wanted to one day be able to surf like that as well, but that was in the future. Now you were at  a point where you would sometimes fall even with the smaller waves. Thank god Mango wasn’t one to laugh if you failed and fell, he would just help you back up. 

Now. During this thinking session a big wave had appeared behind you. because of your little space out, you were about to get hit by it. “Watch out for the wave!” Mango yelled at you, but before he was able to come and get you the wave splashed on top of you, swallowing you and your board under water. As soon as your face hit the water, you closed your eyes. You felt the board hit your leg. This made you let out air since you let out a scream underwater. You tried your best to try and swim up,, but the wave was still spinning the water and you with it. 

After spinning for what felt like ages, you were finally thrown out of the wave. You were all out of energy to try and get up, but you still tried to fling your arms the best you could. Thankfully Mango had spotted you in the water, and swam up to you. He quickly took a hold of you, and pulled you on his board, to let you breathe if you could. After he had made sure you were safe, he swam back to the shore. Mango carefully dragged you on the sand and started to do CPR, to get the water out of your lungs. “Come on now…” he murmured with worry on his face. Soon you started to cough up water and turned to your side to get it all out. You squised your eyes more shut and used all your strength to cough. Mango let out a small sigh of relief and helped to keep your head up. “It’s only going to get better from here..” He murmured, as he helped you to sit up. “Did you get hurt anywhere? That was an awfully big wave..” Mango asked while looking at you. After coughing up all the water you could, your throat was left sore. Your nose felt like it was burning, and so did your throat. “The board hit my right leg..” Your raspy voice replied.  Mango nodded and looked at the bruise. It didn’t seem like anything serious, but it would leave a painful bruise that would show up soon. “Let’s go and get a drink for your throat. I promise you’ll feel better soon.” Mango smiled at you and offered a hand. You only nodded because you didn’t want to damage your throat even more, and took his hand.

Mango walked you to a small bar, and paid for your drink. It was a nice and cold tropical fruit smoothie. He walked you to a table and you both sat down. “I’ll go and find your board later today.” Mango smiled at you and took a sip from his drink. “You know, the same happened to me when I had just started. I remember how horrible I felt after.” He kept talking to entertain you and lighten up the mood. “But I hope this makes you feel even a little better.” You could only nod at him as you drank the rest of your drink. 

“Can I walk you home?” He asked as he was getting off the chair. “Sure!” You hummed quickly, not to stress your throat more. You not being able to talk a whole lot gave Mango a great chance to tell you his stories he loved to tell anyone he was hanging out with. And this is just what he did. The whole way to your house he kept telling stories about his home island, all the people back there and much more. But you weren’t even bothered by this, since you loved to spend time with him and you knew how much he loved this topic. So even if you were able to talk, you wouldn’t tell him to stop.

Before you closed your house’s door, Mango invited you to surf with him again. “Maybe if you want we could try to surf again next week? I’ll make sure there are no such big waves then so you’ll stay safe.” He smiled. “Of course, let’s see then.” You smiled brightly at him and went inside. Mango left to find his boards with the same bright smile on his face as you.