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“Cassian, can you hear me?” A voice sounded from the tools on Cassian’s ear.
“Yes,” Cassian said. His eyes are looking to the front, following someone who walks sneakily as if trying to steal something. Well, he is trying to steal something.
“Don’t do anything unnecessary. Just catch him and throw him into the prison, you understand?”
Heh.
Cassian scoffed. This partner of his is full of unnecessary worry.
“How many times do you think I’ve done this before? Don’t worry. I’ll just catch him and throw him into the prison.”
With that, Cassian kicked the ground. He’s moving fast in the direction where the sneaky man was standing. In no time, he reached the sneaky man. He readied his fist and punch the man in the back.
“Ugh!” The sneaky man groans. He was thrown a few meters away from his actual position.
“We meet again, huh, Driver,” Cassian said while smiling.
Driver lifts his head quickly after hearing the familiar voice. “Ah! Cassian! We meet again~!” He sounds strangely happy. On his face, a large smile appeared when his goggles caught Cassian’s figure standing not far away from him.
Cassian slowly walked to Driver. He squats down beside Driver. Then, he takes Driver’s hands into his and handcuffs him. All throughout this process, Driver was staring confusingly at him.
“Why are you—”
“You’re arrested, Driver. You’ve been stealing other people’s stuff this whole time and now, you need to stop. So, don’t resist and I’ll send you to prison peacefully.”
“....Why?” Driver tilted his head.
“Hahh,” Cassian let out a sigh. “Driver you’ve been stealing stuff this whole fucking time! And it’s not the first time you go to the fucking jail! Can’t you just stop? I’m tired. Every single time I’ve to catch you!”
“Hehe!” When Cassian was letting out his frustration, the culprit was laughing.
“Ah, I’ve promised Jeff that I won’t do anything, but it seems that you need to get beat up so you can think straight,” Cassian is serious. He dragged the idiot-looking Driver away from the electronic shop to a more wide space. “Now, come to your sense and stop stealing things.” Cassian throws a punch to Driver’s face. But, Driver rolled his body to the side.
“Aiya, don’t hit this handsome face of mine, Cass.”
“Don’t call me like we’re close. And come here, bastard! I’m really annoyed right now!”
“Will you give me a kiss if I come closer? ”
“....” Cassian paused. Then, a wide smile appeared on his face. “Right, I should have beat you up first before throwing you into the prison.”
×××
“Driver, you bastard! Put down that television!”
Cassian was running at full speed. In front of him, a purple-clothing man was running fast with a big television on his back.
“I need this, Cass!” Comes an answer from the one called Driver.
“Then, fucking pay first, you bastard! Stop stealing things!” Cassian’s shout could be heard clearly in that empty space. Unfortunately, though, Driver chose to ignore him.
“Fucking Driver! Stop!”
“Don’t wanna~”
Driver speeds up. Behind him, Cassian was gritting his teeth hard. Then, he pushes the ground and runs as fast as he can.
Once again, he needs to catch this thief of a villain bastard.
×××
“Ah! I’m tired.”
Cassian’s body walked limply. In his hand, there’s a coffee he just bought. After walking for a while, Cassian sits on the bench.
“Ah... I feel alive!”
The last few weeks feels like a disaster. He has no time to rest. Every time he has free time, there will be a case where something is stolen. And every time that happens, the culprit is the same person. A villain named Driver. A villain with his eccentric purple clothes and goggles on his eyes. A brown-haired villain who has been stealing things it makes Cassian irritated just by remembering it.
“I’ll beat him up really bad if I have to catch that bastard today.”
He really wishes to rest today.
But, it seems that the devil hears what he just said. His phone rang. There’s Jeff’s name on the screen.
“Yo, Jeff, what’s up?” Cassian pick up the call.
“...Huh? What? Where?” It seems that Jeff just said something incomprehensible. “Here?” Cassian turn his head left and right. His eyes scanned the area around.
“You must be joking. Why would he—” Cassian’s words stopped. Not only that, his whole body froze. His eyes are locked in one direction.
“Haha,” A dry laugh escaped his mouth. “There’s no way. I must’ve been imagining things. Yes. That must be it. There’s no way that guy over there is Driver.”
¬ “Uh, Cass. I’m 100% sure that the guy you see now is Driver.”
Jeff’s words made Cassian’s laugh stopped. He looked at the purple-clothed guy once again, then, shakes his head.
“Jeff, there’s no way that every time I have free time, I have to always catch a villain that’s been stealing something. Even if I’m an S-rank psyker, I need to rest too, didn’t I?”
¬ “Uh. You’re right. But, you’re the closest to his location. So, just for this one, can you catch him again? The shop’s owner looks so pitiful. He’s a grandpa who only lives with his grandson.”
Cassian close his eyes.
Shit.
He just wants to rest for a day.
But, Jeff’s words are hard to ignore. He can’t let the pitiful civilian suffer just because a villain. Not to mention, it’s thievery.
“Haaaa. Alright.” In the end, Cassian agreed.
He got up from his seat, abandoned his coffee, and walked silently to Driver’s crouching figure.
“What did you steal this time?” Cassian said when he arrives right behind Driver.
Driver flinched. Then, he turns his head to look at Cassian. “Hehe, hello, Cass!” Driver smiles widely. He gives Cassian a little wave with his hand.
“Hahhh...” Cassian let out a sigh. Just the sight of Driver in front of him with his stolen goods is enough to make his head ache. “Give that back to the owner. I’m tired and need a rest. So, let’s go to jail peacefully.”
“...” Driver didn’t say anything and just looked at him with an unreadable expression. “Will you kiss me if I go to jail willingly?”
Ah. This question again.
If it’s another time, Cassian will surely kick him in the back. But, right now, he wants it to end quickly. The sooner this is done, the sooner he can lie down on his comfortable bed.
So, Cassian nods his head. “Yes, yes. I’ll give it to you. Now, let’s bring your stolen goods back to their owner first.”
“Yes~”
Driver follows Cassian’s lead happily.
×××
After they give the thing Driver stole to the owner, they head straight to the jail designed especially for the villain. Cassian walked to the front while Driver follow him from behind. The psyker who works in this place respectfully greets Cassian, but when they look at Driver, each of them rolled their eyes. It’s as if they’re saying ‘you again, huh’.
“Even the psyker here has had enough of seeing you every day. Why don’t you stop being a thief and go back to your vilzone?” Cassian said. They stopped walking when they arrive in front of an empty bar.
Krieek
The sound of the bars open resounded filling the silence between the two of them.
“Go in.”
“...”
Driver didn’t move, he just continue looking at Cassian’s face.
“??” Cassian gives him a questioning look. “Go in, Driver.”
“Did you forget your promise?” Driver suddenly said.
“???” What promise?
Seeing Cassian’s confused expression, Driver chuckled. He took a step forward and suddenly pulled Cassian’s head in his direction. Cassian’s eyes are blown wide when suddenly Driver landed a kiss on his lips.
“Hehe.”
The kiss only lasted for a few seconds. Driver pulled away and smiled happily. Then, with light steps, he walked into the prison.
“See you tomorrow, Cass~”
Even when Driver waves his hand, Cassian only looks at him with shocked eyes. He’s too dumbfounded and his brain has stopped working since Driver’s sudden kiss. Only when his foot step out of the prison that the reality downed on him.
“?!!!”
Cassian leaned on the wall with hands covering his face.
‘Driver... That bastard just—’
The memory of Driver kissing him resurrected in his mind.
“What the hell.”
Why is he so embarrassed?
Cassian’s face was full of red like a tomato. Not only that, even his ears and neck are the same color.
Suddenly, he feels so hot.
Cassian unconsciously touches his lips. Then, when he realised it, he slap his cheek hard.
“What the fuck!”
Why did he do that?
Why...
“But, his lips were so soft.”
...
Huh?
“What did I just say?”
‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!’ Cassian screams internally. ‘I must have gone crazy. Why the hell did I think like that? Akh!’
Cassian’s body slumped. His hands were still on his reddened face. With his back leaning on the wall, Cassian screamed silently behind his hands.
×××
The day after that, Cassian got a call that Driver steal something once again and he need to catch him. Cassian wants to reject it, but, when he knows that Driver had stole something from Lampas office, he has no choice but to chase him. Again.
Burying the memory of Driver kissing him in the back of his mind, Cassian chose to think about where might Driver be. He found him behind a rundown building. In his hand, a radio could be seen.
‘Ah. Hans will be very angry if he knows his favourite radio has turned into scrap metal.’
Cassian didn’t quickly catch Driver like he usually does, he observe him from the top of a building, giving him a nice few of what Driver might be doing and keeping a nice distance to not let Cassian’s mind wander around.
From Cassian’s eyes, it seems that Driver was breaking the radio into a few pieces. But, then, he picked some of the radio’s parts and leave the rest untouched. Then, his eyes turn to the laptop and a toaster. Driver opened the laptop first. He just look at it, examining its condition, then put it down, together with the part of the radio he took a few minutes ago. Then, it’s time for the toaster to come into Driver’s hand. And just like what he did to the radio, Driver break the toaster into a few pieces. The difference is that Driver packed all pieces of the toaster into his bag. Finish with what he’s doing, Driver got up.
Then, suddenly, he turned his head to look at Cassian.
“Cass~ Hello~” he greets him so warmly and happily.
Cassian’s eyes widen for a second. Then, hesitantly, he waves his hand in Driver’s direction.
Driver take out his mini screwdriver and in an instant, it turned big. Then, he hopped onto it and fly towards Cassian. “What are you doing here?” Driver asks innocently.
Cassian didn’t answer. Unconsciously, his eyes move to look at Driver’s lips. That’s the lips that kissed him yesterday.
Swip
Cassian turns his head quickly.
‘What the hell!’
He can’t believe what he just thought.
“Cass?” But, Driver follows Cassian’s face. He closes the distance between them without any hesitation.
Cassian closed his eyes. He needs to erase that memory from his head. He’s at work now.
“Huuu,” Cassian let out a sigh. “Driver, didn’t I always say that you should stop stealing things?” When he turned to look at Driver, Cassian’s face was contorted in annoyance. Even so, his heart was thumping so loudly when he saw his own reflection on Driver’s goggles.
“Huh,” Driver’s mouth turns downwards. “But, I need them.”
Cassian gulped. Unable to control himself, his eyes once again darted to Driver’s mouth.
“Huu.” Cassian sighed. Not because of Driver’s words, but, because he needs to calm his own heart.
“But, you can’t keep doing that. You’ve been stealing things every day since a week ago. Everyone has had enough with your antic, even the psyker on the prison has had enough of seeing your innocent-looking smile.”
Driver tilted his head. “Huh? Why is that?”
“That’s because we. Every. Single. Day. Have to see your annoying face and catch you every time someone reported their electricity got stolen! We have enough, Driver!”
“.... But, I still need this.”
“Oh my, fucking Driver! Just what the hell are you gonna do with that scrap metal?” Cassian’s nervousness has gone. His patience is running out.
“I want to make something big.”
Cassian frowned. “Something big? What is it?”
Driver smiled widely. “You know, a rocket!” he said energetically.
“A... What?” Cassian can’t believe what he just heard. “You want to make what?”
“A rocket!”
“...” Cassian was too dumbfounded to speak. “So, you need all those scrap metals for your... rocket?”
“Yeah,” At this, Driver smile handsomely. If only they’re not on the top of a building and a villain talking about making a rocket, Cassian will surely fall for his handsome smile. But, in this situation, Cassian didn’t hold himself back from punching Driver’s stomach hard.
“You sure have gone crazy.”
“Hehe. I’ve gone crazy of you too~”
Cassian froze.
His mouth was agape when he looked at Driver. Slowly, he took steps back with his eyes warily looking at Driver’s goggles.
“Just do whatever you want. I won’t bother you again.”
“Huh? Why?” Driver took a step forward.
“Stop right there,” Suddenly, cold running down Cassian’s spine. “You’re crazy. I can’t handle crazy people. Now I’m out! I won’t chase you even if you continue to be a thief. Now, goodbye!”
Cassian run. But....
“Catch you~”
“Fuck, Driver, let go!”
“Don’t wanna~” Driver smiled widely. “You have to help me build the rocket. Then, we can use it to fly to the moon together~”
Cassian can’t believe what he just heard. “No, fucker! I love this earth! I don’t want to go to moon!”
“Eh, why? I want to go with you.”
“Shit. Let me g—”
Suddenly, dozens of black bird stormed Driver’s face.
“Huh?”
Then, comes a voice from the back. “What are you doing, honey~ Are you cheating on me?” A woman in a sexy outfit said. Her voice giving Cassian an intimidating aura. After saying that, the woman jumped towards Driver.
“Let’s go home, honey. Everyone is worried.” The woman says. Her hand was caressing Driver’s cheek gently. Then, she pinched it hard.
“Augh! Augh!”
The woman commands her crows to bring Driver back to vilzone. And before she follow them, she gives Cassian a murderous glare before turning around to leave.
From the back, Cassian could only stare, confused.