"Frank, will you be good talking to him? I want to run his tag."
Frank looked at me oddly for a second which made me nervous that I said something wrong.
"Huh, really, normally you like to do the talking, you feeling tired or something?"
I brainstormed a few thoughts in my head before I replied, "No, I just don't feel like talking much today." Frank narrowed his eyes at me for a second making me grow more anxious, "Macy, you know if you're having any problems or if you need to talk you can always ask me, I'm your friend and I don't want you to be upset."
Despite my recent conviction of not doing anything romantic, I felt my face redden at his sudden display of friendship. "I'm fine Frank, but thanks for sharing that with me."
"Of course Macy, if I didn't help you what friend would I be?" Before I could respond he continued, "Anyways, our guy is probably going to get pissed for us taking too long so I'm gonna go take care of the guy." He smiled at me and I nodded back as he stepped out of the car onto the busy freeway. Now that those emotional feelings are out of the way I can finally focus on the car. Although the car looked the same I still wanted to confirm with the scanning system.
I reached over to the main panel and activated the system, I pushed the button that used the direct scanner that locked onto the sim-code that wasn't obscured this time. Otherwise, you'd have to do it manually, which is a pain in the ass.
After about 10 seconds the data screen appeared listing the information.
>Subject ***silence has no active warrants
>Priors for speeding, and parking infringement
>Sex: Male
>Eyes: BLU
>Height: **/**
I sighed. This guy is indeed the same dude from yesterday. I also frowned once again at the censorship law the empire placed. It's been in place for the past couple of decades after getting rid of corrupted Enforcers. Corruption always existed in any empire or government, but at one point it got so bad there was a massive surge in people demanding privacy rights. Many corrupt Enforcers in other provinces in the empire used this information to harass, sell personal information, and other personal privacy information that gave the empire a bad image.
Eventually, with enough support, the emperor was forced to implement the privacy act which restricted personal information from Enforcer's unless someone was deemed a criminal. This obviously led to criminals being able to use loopholes, so the crime rate in the empire increased. It's pretty unfortunate, but there's nothing we can do other than accepting the bitter bullet.
I debated how I wanted to approach this guy, he shouldn't be able to recognize me since my gender changed, but I'm not sure. I know nothing about him and his knowledge, there's a chance he knows exactly everything that happened to me when I went through the portal. After debating for a couple seconds I chose to feign ignorance at first, and if he displayed a reaction towards me that was out of ordinary I will try to reconcile with him. I need to get his contact or just somehow talk with the guy in private since he is the only person who can answer my questions after all. I stepped out of the car and approached the traffic stop.
Frank acknowledged my arrival by briefly telling the man, "this is my colleague, Macy, who has come back with your results so I hope you're all good in the system." Frank turned to me expectedly, I coughed, "uh yeah he seems all good we can proceed with direct authority over the stop." I stared at the guy with the mask, he was wearing the exact same clothing as yesterday along with the mask. The man returned my stare with a glance before looking back towards Frank. While we both exchanged glares I had looked for any reaction in his body like a flinch or something if he did recognize me though I sadly couldn't tell. He acted as if he never met me before which was unfortunate.
"So for going over 30 miles above the speed limit that will earn you a ticket of 3000 credits. You were close to being going down for criminal speeding if you went any faster dude, you in a rush or something?" Frank asked.
The man replied back in a skewed voice being affected by his voice modulator, "You know I got an appointment to attend and I don't want to anger my doctor being late. She has a pretty bad temper, so I wanted to get there as quickly as possible. I, unfortunately, landed myself yet another ticket though in doing so."
Frank chuckled at the man's story, which made me a bit irritated that this man's light-hearted attitude was influencing my friend if only I could tell Frank how he truly is!
"Alright, then it seems you're a pretty rich guy getting all these speeding tickets, maybe try and slow down once in a while so that way you won't be even later," Frank said to the man.
"Hah, yeah I'll try, but no guarantees, anyways am I good to go once I sign the ticket?"
"Yep, just put your hand on the sim-tablet to confirm your ticket." Frank pulled out a small tablet that was shaped like a hand. The man glanced at me again then he put his on the device, it beeped and flashed green a couple seconds later confirming his signature.
"Alright, sir you have a good one try and drive safe," Frank said while heading back to our car. I stood there for a couple seconds trying to decide whether I should say something because this would likely be my only chance I could speak with the man, but thankfully I heard the guy call out to me. "Actually could I speak with Officer Macy for just a second?" Frank scrunched up eyebrows suspiciously glancing between the both of us before nodding and he walked back to the car.
I Breathed in a sigh of relief and stepped closer to the man at the car window. "I know you're probably confused with what's going on, here keep this card and you can reach out to me when you feel like it." He didn't even allow me to open my mouth as he tossed me the card and drove back into the busy freeway and accelerated away.
"Jackass," I said out loud. It's proper to wait for the Enforcer to step back in their car before driving off, but this guy didn't seem to care at all. It wasn't against the law or anything; didn't change that it was still a dick move. I looked back towards Frank in the car who was watching slack-jawed. I didn't say a word when I stepped back in, Frank chose not to remain silent and instantly peppered me with questions.
"Who is that guy, is he your boyfriend?"
"Are you secretly working with a mob boss or something and you're his secret agent or something?... wait is he-"
I stared at Frank with my mouth hanging open, I noticed immediately that he was teasing. "Jerk!" I said and punched him on the arm.
"Ow, no need to get feisty, I was just teasing." He said while rubbing his arm where I hit him
"That's what you get for teasing me like that." I pouted.
"Eh, it was worth it," Frank said a couple seconds later.
I stared him down more time as if I was daring him to say anything else, he stayed silent though and returned his focus back to the road.
We kept patrolling around the sector and the entire time I was in turmoil. I never would act like that before, I just reacted on impulse like this was a normal thing… Which it was.
Oh god, what the hell is wrong with me? I kept having these thoughts that are not normal and I assume they are coming from this body or something that has to do with the previous host's thoughts. I also had to think about whether I wanted to become that 'will' for the goddess, which still had me in confusion. I don't know whether it was a dream or an actual thing that happened, however, I instinctively knew that it did happen. It was an odd feeling, I just somehow knew that it was real and I needed to reach a decision quickly. I wasn't allowed to ponder much longer as I heard Frank yell,
"Shit! Macy get down!"