FIREBALL

What if the one thing you hate most is the only thing that keeps you safe? What if the people you hate most, are the ones that keep you sane? When it all comes down, sanity matters most...FIREBALL Just look at him. Looking like some god, he's just so perfect. Perfect haircut, perfect jaw line, the body, well dude works out and when he smiles, my whole world stands still. He has his smile on and he is concentrating on what is being presented on the board. He flexes his arm and rolls his shirt up and I swallow hard. I swear he will be the reason I get fired one of these days. Because all I do is stare at him every time we are in a meeting. "So, basically, Jackson and I can just go there and catch them unawares." I'm watching as her lips filled with red lipstick move. She is in our normal work attire, the uniform, hers is a skirt though, I don't understand why she normally wears a skirt, which is extremely short given she doesn't have an ass for it. She scribbles something on the board and I notice it's his name. And she wrote it wrongly. "Wait for it." Melody who's seated next to me whispers and I grin. It's not going to end well. He hates it when his name is misspelled. "It's Jaxon with an x." Uh oh. And his voice is so sexy. "It doesn't matter, it's the same thing." She says rolling her eyes. She really wants to get it. "Well, if you can't spell it right then don't write it on the board Phiona!" Jax says and Melody and I both chuckle. I would have laughed hard but my boss is just someone else. "It's Phoina." "It doesn't matter, it's the same thing." "Boom, mic drop." Melody says and we high five under the table. He just served her with her own cup of tea. "Enough you two, Miss Phoina, that was good, you can sit now." Our boss who was surprisingly quiet watching from the front corner, gets up, I'm surprised that's all he's going to tell them, it would have been me in the same position, he would have told me to stay home for a week and get my s**t together. He is just that mean and he's done that before, I enjoyed the holiday, but hated the workload when I came back. Plus my dad almost murdered me, not literally. "Please note guys, if you have some unresolved issues with some of your colleagues do not bring them in my meeting, Now Jaxon with an X, how far are you with your investigations?" He tries to sound funny but no one laughs, dude scares the s**t out of us, if we dared to laugh we might just lose our jobs. "I...ahem.. I'm still working on it." I never expected he would be scared of the boss, but anyway, that old man scares everyone. I lean in to Mel's ear and whisper. "I love his voice." "Me too." I bite my lower lip. "He's so handsome." I whisper again staring at him as he tries to act composed. "You're drooling, again." I shake my head to clear the nasty thoughts out of my head. "Officer Cassidy and officer Melody, anything you want to share with the group?" Oh damn it! He must have seen us murmuring. "Nothing Sir." Mel quickly answers. "Cassandra should say something, she's been talking the whole meeting." Phoina says and I throw daggers at her. This b***h. And that's not even my name. "Who the heck is Cassandra?" Melody asks her acting surprised. Everyone else is just staring as the drama is about to unfold. "Phiona you have a tendency of using incorrect names." Did Jax just come to my defense? Aauw such a cutie, I'm literally blushing now. "It's Phoina." "Don't care." "Okay, the four of you will have to leave this meeting now." The boss says and I face palm myself. I should have just kept my mouth shut. I know the punishment that will follow after this will be unbearable. "But sir..." Mel tries to speak but she's cut off. "Now!" We scramble with out notebooks as we push out our seats. I swear I feel like biting off someone's head right now. Phoina's head that is. "Oh, and Officer Cassidy, we'll have a small talk with your father about your behavior." Seriously? Does he have to involve my father in this? it's so petty, and I'm not a kid who has to be reported to her father anytime something goes wrong. I can't let him do that. I didn't want to give out this information now, but if I don't, the four of us will be given a forced break or worse a transfer, yea I wouldn't want that. "Actually sir, I have some information on the The Five." There's a certain silence in the room as everyone turns to look at me. "What did you just say?" "If you let us all back in the meeting without punishing us then I can tell you all I found out in the last one month." I have to trade the infor with our safety, it's called playing safe, dad taught me that. "Cass you can't." Mel says and I scoff. "It's fine." "First of all it's your job to tell us everything you know about your investigations, so you will tell us all you know and I will still punish the four of you." Really? Here I thought I would trade our pardon. He is such a hard headed man. But I know better. "Last I checked I'm just a regular officer, not a detective, so I can still keep the information and let the detectives do their jobs." He gives me a death glare but I don't care, the worst he can do is have me transferred, he can't have me fired because my dad will literally have his ass fired if he dared do that. I'm giving him the 'try me' look and he sighs before he speaks. "Okay, the three of you, get back to your seats, Officer Cassidy, walk to the front and tell us all you know." Yaay we won! Those two owe me a f*****g apology, Mel is my bff but Phoina will have to thank me for saving her ass. I walk to the front and pick the marker pen. I wanted some more time to get insight on this investigation but I guess now I don't have a choice. This was like my ticket to being a detective. I have done all the study I need to do but because my dad is some the  DCI, he keeps barring me from getting that rank because he believes I'm too young to start pissing off some people. Isn't that what detectives do? They piss off bad people. That's what dad says, though. "For the past one month, I have been looking up to The Five, I got a mole who has been giving me information about them, he works with them, and he's told me almost everything I need to know about them." Everyone is just quiet waiting for me to continue. I scribble some sort of family tree, with the title The Five. "From what I gathered, they aren't just a group of gang as we so think, they are a family that comprises of the father, mother, two sons and a daughter, the reason why we haven't been getting any Intel on them is because, they are basically anonymous. No one knows who they are or how they look like, they could be the people we know but we can't tell." "So how is that supposed to help in the investigations? Phoina asks and I roll my eyes. "Just the mere fact that we know it's a family of five, I believe that's already a step to identifying them." "Excuse me Cass?" Jax calls my name and I swear I take a moment to stare at just how perfect my name sounds on his lips. The boss clears his throat and I come back to my senses. "Yes Jax." "The Five have been terrorizing the country for years, don't you think they could be bigger than just a family?" "In fact they are, what happens is that it's like a generation, but currently the ones on the seat are the family." He nods in agreement. I love his smile. Okay I'm going crazy. "That's good officer Cassidy, but we need more, if we need to take a step in ending them, then we need more than knowing that they are just a family." He is right. "I know their meeting place." Mel is literally giving me a warning look. We had agreed to keep the information to ourselves until when we were certain about it all, so she's pissed when I say everything. "Good, now that's a big step." For the first time I can see the boss smile. I never expected to ever see him smile, this guy is always serious. Seeing him happy is such a huge step for me, that means he will approve of my work and he can help convince my dad that I can make a good detective, right? I think that's such a good plan. "They have meetings every Friday at this place, I can't mention it here, but if we can ambush them then I think we will manage to arrest all the five, it will be a win for our department." "Good, then this Friday, we get officers from around and we ambush them." "Excuse me Sir?" Mel who has been quiet speaks. "Melody." "I don't think it would be a good idea to carry a whole police unit, that will cause a war, the best thing is to have two or three officers ambush them." Some of the officers nod in agreement but the boss shakes his head. "If I send two officers, they will be slaughtered like animals. "Not if we catch them unawares." He stays quiet as if thinking and I know he is battling with it but I hope he sends me and Melody to go, that will be our time to execute our plan, it will go so well. "Fine, but I will have to send my best." Mel and I both smile at each other. "Officer Cassidy you're not my best officer." I roll my eyes. "But since you're the one with the information then you'll have to go accompanied by Detective Jaxon, Officer Phoina and Officer Dominic." "What?" Mel startles the whole room by standing up. "I helped her in the investigation and you're just going to exclude me?" "Melody, you don't even know how to perfectly use a gun, I'd be damned if I sent you to such a mission." Everyone in the room is laughing and I'm just pissed. It's not fair. "That's all for the meeting folks, the officers I just mentioned follow me to my office, it's high time we end The Five." He says and walks out. The look that Melody gives me is clear to tell me that, this was probably a bad idea. ##########