Probably better not

You leave the hospital and go straight to the office. There’s a slight spring in your step, on some level you are now definitely a superhero, albeit one with quite a niche power. That said if you can deploy it correctly you can find out who’s leaking the information to the gang, and lets be honest have a bit of fun along the way.

The ARO office is pretty quiet.

Clara is in her cubicle, she’s on the phone but gives you an enthusiastic wave.

Carmen, the chief’s secretary sees you, one finger twiddling her dyed blonde hair. She beckons you over, with a finger. Barely in her twenties, hasn’t been to the academy, in fact no qualifications to speak of but she thinks she can order everyone around because she’s banging the boss. Sadly she’s probably right.

“My aren’t you looking well, hospital food seems to agree with you” because you usually look like shit is what she means and she gives you a patronising grin as if you’re too dumb to catch the subtext. “Chief said to send you in as soon as you get back” and she waves you through.

The Chief’s office is a glass walled room behind Carmen’s desk. He keeps the blinds permanently down, as if he wants to hide what he’s doing. To be fair he’s usually doing Carmen.

You knock and put your head around the door.

Chief Vincente is a tall man, with silver hair, a bushy moustache and a slight gut. Otherwise he's irritatingly in excellent shape. He is talking to his wife, beautiful, thin, with an angular nose, dark hair and a long heavy Beige wool coat that yells expensive.

“Yeah I know honey, I can’t help it, gotta do another raid tonight so I’m going to be back late.” You’re fairly sure the only raid he’s doing is Carmen’s womb. “We got to show the bad guys that what happened to Gonzalez and John Doe is not ok, so we’re going to be going at it hammer and tong”

Fuck me, you think, the man’s got a cheek, to use their injuries as an excuse to bang his secretary. Then you remember, maybe, maybe, he’s actually using it as cover for his own gang land operations. Maybe him and Carmen aren’t what everyone is thinking. Maybe its all a ruse. Are they in it together you wonder? Best to play it safe.

“Well I guess criminals aren’t going to catch themselves” his wife says wearing a slight smile but there’s a sadness behind those hazel eyes.

He gives a weak laugh “Look I gotta go honey, yeah I’m sorry too, great power etc, you know how it goes” showing her the door.

“Women, am I right?” He says after she’s left and you smile and nod as if its his wife’s fault. Maybe it is, maybe she shouldn’t have married such a shit head.

“Look, just want to say we’re all very impressed by how you handled yourself out there. Things got pretty crazy but at the end of it, a bunch of bad guys bit the dust and you guys came out alive, not entirely in one piece I know but the docs seem optimistic about Gonzalez’s chances” He takes a big swig of coffee and uses one hand to clean the froth off his moustache.

“I just want you know, that we’ve identified their leader, he’s in ICU but when he gets better we’ll interview him and have the whole gang banged to rights. We’re going to send Clara to interview his wife today. You just need to sit tight. You’ve been the hero, now just rest up for a bit, we’ll catch these bastards”

You have as much faith in his policing skills as you do in his devotion to his wife. Walking back into the main office you consider your next move.