Aarmau: Uh... Oops. (Under RE-WRITE)

Chapter 10: Shadow of a Man

Aaron's POV

"Uhhmmmm... Katelyn I can explain!" I carefully got out of the bed, and inched toward the open window.

Aphmau jumped off the bed, now apparently infused with The Flash.

"Katelyn we-"

She burst into laughter, making both me and Aph jump.

"I always knew you two had a thing going!" She said between laughs.

My head was still all jumbled, did Katelyn not want to kill me?

"Your not mad?" I asked, stealing a glance at Aphmau, who also looked very confused.

"Mad?, I'm always mad Aaron. But no I'm not gonna hit you."

What the heck is happening?

"Your not?" I asked again, stepping forward slightly.

"No, I can think of no one else who I'd want with her." She said, giving a rare sweet smile.

"Thank Irene, for a second there I thought-."

"BUT, IF YOU HURT HER I WILL PUMMEL YOU TO THE GROUND!"

Here we go.

"I don't plan on it. Not ever."

Two weeks later...

Work was increasingly hard, the cases given to me were harder and harder to research.

Today was my worst case yet, no leads, and because it also was a child abuse case, it wasn't in our database.

The only thing left to do was go out there myself and see what I could do.

I drove up into what seemed to be a small junkyard until I saw the tiny dilapidated house in the middle of all the garbage.

This is no place to raise a family.

I climbed over what horrifyingly looked like a dead horse, and knocked on the shabby door.

A small, bruised woman opened the door, and despite her living conditions she beamed up at me.

"Hello, my name is Aaron, I was called in for domestic abuse."

A booming voice sounded from further inside the shack.

"Who's at the door?!"

The woman nodded and ushered me inside.

"That him in there?" I asked, ready to arrest if need be.

"No that's my brother. Doug will be here in a few minutes."

A man 7 feet tall and head brushing the ceiling waltzed into the room.If I was tall, he was a giant.

"You must be the investigator, I'm Zachary, Mimi's sister."

He pointed to his sister and put out a hand roughly the size of a bin lid.

"Aaron." I said formally shaking the giants hand.

A rumble outside told me to hide and get out my video camera.

"Don't tell him I'm here, I have to get evidence." I said and hid in an empty closet.

To my surprise a short stubby man thrust opened the door and slammed it shut . handling a small dirty bundle, which was now crying.

"Oi, shut up!" The man said in a snort, his voice gravelly.

Zachary appeared simply out of nowhere, startling both me and the man.

"What are you doing here you ******, didn't I tell you to mind your own ******* business.

"Mimi called me here Douglas, says you haven't been treating her right." He said his fists clenching.

"That ****, she needs to keep her mouth shut, all she's good for is *******."

All at once a huge fist came pelting into the man's face, Knocking him cold.

"Did you get all that Aaron?" The angry man asked, looking into the closet I was in.

"Yeah, he's busted, don't worry I'll cut out the part of you clocking him." I replied looking down at the small(and unconscious) man.

The bundle he had in his hands had split open, revealing a tiny baby girl, bruised and starving, by the looks on her skin.

"Hey little one." I said as I gently picked her up, she was oddly quiet, and stared right at me with big blue eyes.

"Mimi, come in here lass." Zachary shouted, handling a small baby bottle.

This kid looks to old for that.

"Zachary, this kid should be on solid food, and definitely should crawling around." I said taking of my investigators jacket and wrapping it around the little child.

"She's only a few months old, she was born a big baby." Mimi replied, taking her child from my arms.

"How did you know she was cold?" Zachary asked, eyeing me suspiciously.

"My girlfriend loves babies , and I usually have to help take care of her many cousins." I replied, my heart doing a little leap at the word girlfriend.

"You have a girlfriend?!" Zachary exclaimed, staring incredulously at me.

"Why is that a surprise?, lots of guys have girlfriends." I responded, shuffling the child's dirt colored hair.

Mimi looked up at me then around the house. She excused herself and asked Zachary to go with her.

Buzz-Buzz

My phone went off and a huge smile was plastered on my face when I saw who it was.

Aphmau.

Mimi's POV

His phone went off and he seemed to be talking to his girlfriend.

I can't raise a kid here. I just can't, it's not fair for Lilith.

A laugh shook me out of my thoughts.

The detective was laughing whole-heartedly at the phone, and by the way he dressed, he wasn't in bad shape.

"Aph, I'm sorry, I gotta go, I know, bye."

I know what I need to do.