reporting for duty

[wronganswer]

who: Anderson & Eddie
what: Anderson's first day on the police force.
when: ???
where: Police HQ
warnings: None!

[ She really should be past nerves by now.

She's not, though. Anderson isn't even past them at home, to tell the truth, it's just that she shuts them off to do her job. But the fact is that she's not only a borderline pass, she's a confirmed fail, more than once, who got shuffled through the system due to need for her abilities. She's all too conscientious that she's no one's first choice, and she's not sure if that'll change here. Everything seems softer, less violent-- is it ironically true that where she's too compassionate to be a proper Judge in Mega-City One, she's too hard to be a proper detective here?

That really would take the cake. It wouldn't surprise her remotely.

Anderson is determined to do her best regardless. The locals, native and foreign, deserve someone looking after their interests, protecting them, and she wants to be that person. She's absolutely committed to learning the laws she needs to enforce and not backsliding into Mega-City One's fascist dictatoriums. First step: report for training, explain her abilities, request special assignments to catch up on the gaps in her knowledge base for this setting, whether it's legal, weapons comps, geographic or cultural. She's no less set on this course just because the setting has changed.

Feeling hideously underdressed in her distinctly-lacking-in-armor police officer's uniform, she nonetheless takes comfort in the Lawgiver strapped to her side and the other Judge's tools she's kept on her. She takes one step into Eddie's office and waits, more like a military cadet at attention than a new co-worker, and says promptly, in an even tone: ]

Sir. Reporting in for training. I'm Anderson.

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[causational]

[For some reason that Eddie isn't entirely able to justify to himself, he's been chosen to do some job shadowing and on-the-job training with one of the brand new arrivals, Officer Cassandra Anderson. When the chief had given him the assignment, she'd said something about him having been a new arrival that adapted well, something about him having a 'strong moral compass' that had made Eddie straighten his back and beam a little.

After being handed her file and dossier, learning what he can about where she came from, he's starting to feel a little daunted by the task. It seems like a brutal place, totalitarian and very hard, which is...well, frankly pretty opposite from his style in general. He's always been ambitious when it comes to his career, having done everything possible to get promoted to detective before 30 back in Keystone and Central City, and managing it in only a couple of months here. But ambitious is different than hard, and hard doesn't mean she lacks a moral compass or anything either.

Maybe it's just a case of hoping opposites will attract? Eddie tells himself that the intention is probably to have them rub off on each other for both their benefit. That settles him a little, enough that when she steps into his office and stands at attention as if she were in the army, he feels less anxious. His confidence is genuine and not of the fake-it-till-you-make-it variety that he sometimes has to work with, when he stands and smiles a broad, sunny smile at her.]

It's good to meet you Officer Anderson. I'm Detective Eddie Thawne. If you want to just call me Eddie, I'm fine with that.

[He holds a hand out, offering a shake, realizes only after the fact that maybe her world doesn't have handshakes. Too late now.]

Thanks for being on time.