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If you're thinking, 'Where have all the reviews gone!? WTF happened?' well it was due to an error, you see when the change over happened from the old AGNPH to the new one happened, I had to add my Co-authors back on, seeing as it took them off for some unknown reason. Anyway, when that happened, 2 copies of this story were made. I tried to delete the one without co-authors but when I did, it also deleted the other one, leaving me with no copies of blood and love, so yeah, have to re-upload. This is a pain in the ass but I heard that there was a problem with the text in all the older stories that made the text all glitchy, so maybe it was for the best that I re-uploaded it. Fortunatly, 'Blood and love' over at FanFiction isn't fucked up so that should make things easier. Also I've now noticed theres a duplicate 'Blood and love' story floating around, why this has happened I have no idea but I'm gonna try get it deleted. Oh, hears the stats for the story before it got wiped out.Views: 26,000Rating: 4.5Reviews: 59Oh, disclaimer. Yeah, Pokemon, I don't own it and I don't intend to make a profit out of it. This was done just for fun.
The blizzard.
2 days later.
Richard and Tera had been paid for their work and Richard had already gotten a gift for her. They were sat in the police station again, Richard wanted to wait until they got back to Ethan's place but he just felt like he had to give her the gift now. "Happy birthday Tera!" Richard exclaimed, while taking out a long slim rectangular black box out of his pocket and opened it.
Tera gasped as she saw the silver necklace inside it, the silver chain held a tiny silver sword that had a small diamond embedded into its handle. "Richard, this is... I love it, thank you."
"I told you I would get you something nice." Richard said with a grin. He felt something warm inside, almost like it was pleasant. He had never felt this before but he had an idea of what it was.
Tera gently hugged Richard, careful not to hurt him with her chest spike. "Thank you Richard." She repeated.
Richard started to blush for the first time in his life, it embarrassed him but he didn't show it. "You're welcome, shall I help you put it on?"
"Yes please." She responded.
Richard undid the hook that held the silver chain together and gently placed the necklace around Tera's neck and hooked the chain together again, Tera turned to face Richard. "It looks even better on you." He said.
Tera had a big smile on her face. "Come on, we still have a job to do." She said, happiness filled her voice.
"Alright." Richard said as he gathered his equipment, his radio and his pistol. He still always kept his combat knife with him, old habits die hard. She skipped away, in a happy beat. Richard chuckled at her child-like skip.
Richard's and Tera's shift finished once again and they soon found themselves back on the couch. Ethan and the Zangoose were busy preparing food, Richard and Tera both joked about how Ethan and the Zangoose seem to be becoming 5 star chefs.
"Tera, how did you get me the watch?" Richard said after remembering they had only just been paid the day before.
"Ethan lent me the money when I told him I wanted to get you something." She said.
"Ethan is a good man." Richard stated. Ethan didn't know much about Richard, Tera or the Zangoose yet he was always polite and took them into his own house.
"So are you." Tera responded
Richard looked into Tera's eyes; he could see that she wasn't just saying it to make him feel good. "Do you think so?" he asked
"Yes, you help nearly everyone you meet, you're kind and caring. You're just too hard on yourself." She said with a smile.
Richard knew that everything she said was true, she wouldn't lie. There was a second delay before he gave a response, "You're right... thank you."
Tera simply smiled and said, "You're welcome."
Time passed quickly, the sun went down and the moon rose. Richard was still on the couch with Tera, watching another movie. Tera rested her head on Richard's chest, she was sleepy but didn't want to go to bed, and she wanted to stay with Richard. He liked it when Tera got this close, it made him feel safe and forget about all the questions that he usually asked himself.
7 hours later.
Richard's eyes slowly opened, Tera was slumped over next to him, her head now on his lap. Richard heard footsteps coming down the stairs; he looked over to see Ethan who was now dressed in his uniform, and the Zangoose. "Time for work?" Richard said quietly.
"Yeah, but we have time before the shift starts." Ethan said as he slowly made his way to the kitchen, the Zangoose followed closely behind.
Tera's eyes fluttered open and looked up to see Richard. He looked down and said quietly, "Oh, you're awake."
She sat upright and let out a big yawn. "Is it time for work?" She asked.
"Almost, did you sleep well?" Richard responded with a second question.
Tera smiled, she was glad that Richard had stayed with her last night. "Yes, and you?"
"Yes, very well." Richard said.
Ethan and the Zangoose hurried out of the kitchen. "Alright, we better go now." Ethan said as moved to the front door. The day went normally, get to work, patrol the streets, back to the station, talk, rematch with Cleaves, back to the house, talk, and then go to sleep.
It sounded boring and it was, but Richard liked it, he liked knowing that he doesn't have to go fight a fight that isn't his own, he liked knowing that he that he doesn't have to see dozens of young people throw their lives away on some pointless mission, but most of all, he liked knowing that Tera was always there for him.
2 weeks later.
Richard, Tera, Cleaves, Stripes, Ethan and the Zangoose were now standing in Mac's workshop. His workshop was well lit by both 2 windows and 4 big long florescent lights on the ceiling; there was a workbench with lots of tools scattered around on one side of the room and a big table with some big white sheet covering it.
Mac was now standing in front of the group with a huge grin on his face. "Well... I've finally finished them." He said as he quickly threw the white sheet covering the table behind him to one side. On the table lay 6 black bullet proof vests of different shapes and sizes. Mac began handing them out and they quickly put them on. Richard had put his vest on; it looked like Ethan's and Cleaves' vest except with some minor alterations. Tera's vest had a hole in the middle of it which was for her chest spike. Stripes' body armor looked like the same kind that the police use on some of their canine units. The Zangoose's body armor was similar to Richard's apart from some height alterations.
"Why did you make body armor for the Zangoose?" Ethan asked.
"I wasn't sure if the Zangoose was becoming a deputy so I made her vest too." Mac admitted. "Anyway, I hope you like them." Mac moved over to his workbench, they didn't know if he was working on something but he looked busy.
They were all once again back in station; Richard was sitting on the edge of a desk whilst talking to Tera. "So, what do you think of these then?"
"The vests? Well I don't feel much safer but it keeps me a little warmer." Tera responded.
Richard noticed that she gets cold fairly easily, something he didn't expect from somebody that lived in the mountains. "Maybe we should just ask him to make sweaters next time."
Tera giggled a little. "That would be nice actually; I heard its going to snow soon."
"Yeah, I heard that too. Apparently it's going to be like a blizzard or something."
Tera shivered just thinking about it. "I'm not going to be looking forward to patrolling the streets when it comes."
"Me neither, but we still got to do it. Come on, those streets aren't going to keep themselves safe." Richard said as he pushed himself off the desk.
"Right behind you." Tera said as she walked through the front door with Richard.
2 weeks later.
It had been snowing hard for nearly 9 days, temperatures plummeted to record lows, luckily this was one of the few days that it wasn't snowing but there was still 8 inches of snow on the ground.
Richard and Tera were outside on the streets again, Tera was wearing her bullet proof vest as well as Richard's new brown leather jacket and his woodland camouflage scarf to keep her warm. Richard could see that she was still shivering. "You should head back to the station; I'll patrol the rest of the streets." Richard said out of concern for Tera.
"N-no, I'll be fine." She said, shivering and hugging herself.
Richard knew that he wouldn't be able to change her mind but he tried anyway. "Are you sure?"
"Y-y-yes." She stuttered.
"Okay then, but as soon as we get back to Ethan's, we're going to get a nice warm fire going and your going to sit next to it."
To Tera, that sounded like paradise compared to the frozen hell they were walking about now. "Thank y-you."
Tera and Richard both stopped in their tracks when they heard somebody calling them.
"Hey you! Cops! Over here!" Someone said. Richard looked over his shoulder.
They both looked down the street to see three men, two of them were standing near the end of the road in plain sight,1 man was standing behind them, next to a tree, watching. This brought back bad memories for Richard, being in a gang, other gangs sometimes set up ambushes for a member of another gang and approached them much like how the three men were set up at the end of the street.
Richard could tell they were up to no good by their clothes, stance, the way they muttered to each other and how they looked at them. The man standing to the right was about average in terms of height and weight; he was wearing a black sweat shirt as was the man standing next to him. The other man was skinnier and about the same height as the other man.
He looked over to the man behind the two other men, he was wearing a long brown coat, he looked a little older than the two other men and had black combed back hair, he was most likely their leader.
"Tera, these men might try to attack us, stay sharp." Richard said quietly. Tera didn't need to be told this; she could see that these men were planning to do something bad. She feared not only for her life, but for some reason she feared for Richard's life.
Richard stepped forward. "Yeah, what's wrong?" Richard said, trying his best to sound unsuspecting.
"Our cars broke down and we were hoping that you could take a look at it." The skinnier man asked.
There was a car nearby, but he knew it didn't belong to them. He noticed a few things about them. One of which, they had dirty faces and looked like he could barely afford food, let alone a car.
"Hang on, I'll take a look." Richard turned to Tera and quietly whispered "Stay sharp." Richard and Tera slowly walked up to the two men; she kept a keen eye on every person.
Richard could see one of them was very slowly reaching behind him as the came closer. "They've got weapons." Richard quietly whispered. Tera's heart was racing, she knew something bad was going to happen, and she was going to have to be ready for it.
Richard was calm, but he still hid a little bit of fear within him, not fear for his life, but fear that Tera may get hurt, or worse. They were close to the men, that's when it happened. The man closest to Richard quickly took out a switch blade and swung for Richard with it. He, fortunately, foresaw this.
The man was too wide with his swing; Richard quickly grabbed the man's fore arm to stop the blade in mid swing. Richard quickly threw a hard punch to the side of the man's head and brought his arm back to bash him in the face with his elbow followed by an open handed slam to the nose. The man didn't know what hit him, he was in a daze, and Richard could see this and decided to take advantage of it. Richard violently brought his leg up and struck the man in the genitals with his boot. The man lurched forward in pain, one hand holding his testicles and the other still holding on to the knife but unable to use it due to Richard's powerful grip on his fore arm. Richard used both hands to twist the knife wielding man's arm into an awkward position, he heard the shoulder dislocating with a crunchy pop and the man shouted in pain as he dropped the knife.
Richard gave the man one final punch to the side of his head and he flopped down to the snow covered ground. Richard span around, just in time to see Tera take a swipe at the other man's leg with the spike on the back of her wrist, he dropped to the ground and held the big bleeding wound caused by the Lucario's spike.
Richard picked the knife up, just in case the man attempted to try anything else stupid, like his last stunt, even trying to hurt him.
Richard looked to right of him, he saw one other man looking at Tera and reaching into his coat for something, he wasn't sure of it but he had a good idea of what he was searching for.
Tera knew that the man on the floor was no longer a threat, not with that gaping wound on his thigh anyway. Tera looked up and gasped, she saw the man in the coat raising a handgun and aiming it directly at her head, she thought she was going to die.
Suddenly, Richard jumped straight in front of Tera. She closed her eyes, mostly in fear of death, or worse, Richard's death.
Richard had already drawn his gun and quickly pointed the gun towards the man. It felt too familiar to Richard, it felt just like that nightmare he had the night after they found the Zangoose, but, only this time, he could fight back.
They both pulled their triggers. Tera's heart skipped a beat when she heard the gunshots. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the result.
Richard and Tera had been paid for their work and Richard had already gotten a gift for her. They were sat in the police station again, Richard wanted to wait until they got back to Ethan's place but he just felt like he had to give her the gift now. "Happy birthday Tera!" Richard exclaimed, while taking out a long slim rectangular black box out of his pocket and opened it.
Tera gasped as she saw the silver necklace inside it, the silver chain held a tiny silver sword that had a small diamond embedded into its handle. "Richard, this is... I love it, thank you."
"I told you I would get you something nice." Richard said with a grin. He felt something warm inside, almost like it was pleasant. He had never felt this before but he had an idea of what it was.
Tera gently hugged Richard, careful not to hurt him with her chest spike. "Thank you Richard." She repeated.
Richard started to blush for the first time in his life, it embarrassed him but he didn't show it. "You're welcome, shall I help you put it on?"
"Yes please." She responded.
Richard undid the hook that held the silver chain together and gently placed the necklace around Tera's neck and hooked the chain together again, Tera turned to face Richard. "It looks even better on you." He said.
Tera had a big smile on her face. "Come on, we still have a job to do." She said, happiness filled her voice.
"Alright." Richard said as he gathered his equipment, his radio and his pistol. He still always kept his combat knife with him, old habits die hard. She skipped away, in a happy beat. Richard chuckled at her child-like skip.
Richard's and Tera's shift finished once again and they soon found themselves back on the couch. Ethan and the Zangoose were busy preparing food, Richard and Tera both joked about how Ethan and the Zangoose seem to be becoming 5 star chefs.
"Tera, how did you get me the watch?" Richard said after remembering they had only just been paid the day before.
"Ethan lent me the money when I told him I wanted to get you something." She said.
"Ethan is a good man." Richard stated. Ethan didn't know much about Richard, Tera or the Zangoose yet he was always polite and took them into his own house.
"So are you." Tera responded
Richard looked into Tera's eyes; he could see that she wasn't just saying it to make him feel good. "Do you think so?" he asked
"Yes, you help nearly everyone you meet, you're kind and caring. You're just too hard on yourself." She said with a smile.
Richard knew that everything she said was true, she wouldn't lie. There was a second delay before he gave a response, "You're right... thank you."
Tera simply smiled and said, "You're welcome."
Time passed quickly, the sun went down and the moon rose. Richard was still on the couch with Tera, watching another movie. Tera rested her head on Richard's chest, she was sleepy but didn't want to go to bed, and she wanted to stay with Richard. He liked it when Tera got this close, it made him feel safe and forget about all the questions that he usually asked himself.
7 hours later.
Richard's eyes slowly opened, Tera was slumped over next to him, her head now on his lap. Richard heard footsteps coming down the stairs; he looked over to see Ethan who was now dressed in his uniform, and the Zangoose. "Time for work?" Richard said quietly.
"Yeah, but we have time before the shift starts." Ethan said as he slowly made his way to the kitchen, the Zangoose followed closely behind.
Tera's eyes fluttered open and looked up to see Richard. He looked down and said quietly, "Oh, you're awake."
She sat upright and let out a big yawn. "Is it time for work?" She asked.
"Almost, did you sleep well?" Richard responded with a second question.
Tera smiled, she was glad that Richard had stayed with her last night. "Yes, and you?"
"Yes, very well." Richard said.
Ethan and the Zangoose hurried out of the kitchen. "Alright, we better go now." Ethan said as moved to the front door. The day went normally, get to work, patrol the streets, back to the station, talk, rematch with Cleaves, back to the house, talk, and then go to sleep.
It sounded boring and it was, but Richard liked it, he liked knowing that he doesn't have to go fight a fight that isn't his own, he liked knowing that he that he doesn't have to see dozens of young people throw their lives away on some pointless mission, but most of all, he liked knowing that Tera was always there for him.
2 weeks later.
Richard, Tera, Cleaves, Stripes, Ethan and the Zangoose were now standing in Mac's workshop. His workshop was well lit by both 2 windows and 4 big long florescent lights on the ceiling; there was a workbench with lots of tools scattered around on one side of the room and a big table with some big white sheet covering it.
Mac was now standing in front of the group with a huge grin on his face. "Well... I've finally finished them." He said as he quickly threw the white sheet covering the table behind him to one side. On the table lay 6 black bullet proof vests of different shapes and sizes. Mac began handing them out and they quickly put them on. Richard had put his vest on; it looked like Ethan's and Cleaves' vest except with some minor alterations. Tera's vest had a hole in the middle of it which was for her chest spike. Stripes' body armor looked like the same kind that the police use on some of their canine units. The Zangoose's body armor was similar to Richard's apart from some height alterations.
"Why did you make body armor for the Zangoose?" Ethan asked.
"I wasn't sure if the Zangoose was becoming a deputy so I made her vest too." Mac admitted. "Anyway, I hope you like them." Mac moved over to his workbench, they didn't know if he was working on something but he looked busy.
They were all once again back in station; Richard was sitting on the edge of a desk whilst talking to Tera. "So, what do you think of these then?"
"The vests? Well I don't feel much safer but it keeps me a little warmer." Tera responded.
Richard noticed that she gets cold fairly easily, something he didn't expect from somebody that lived in the mountains. "Maybe we should just ask him to make sweaters next time."
Tera giggled a little. "That would be nice actually; I heard its going to snow soon."
"Yeah, I heard that too. Apparently it's going to be like a blizzard or something."
Tera shivered just thinking about it. "I'm not going to be looking forward to patrolling the streets when it comes."
"Me neither, but we still got to do it. Come on, those streets aren't going to keep themselves safe." Richard said as he pushed himself off the desk.
"Right behind you." Tera said as she walked through the front door with Richard.
2 weeks later.
It had been snowing hard for nearly 9 days, temperatures plummeted to record lows, luckily this was one of the few days that it wasn't snowing but there was still 8 inches of snow on the ground.
Richard and Tera were outside on the streets again, Tera was wearing her bullet proof vest as well as Richard's new brown leather jacket and his woodland camouflage scarf to keep her warm. Richard could see that she was still shivering. "You should head back to the station; I'll patrol the rest of the streets." Richard said out of concern for Tera.
"N-no, I'll be fine." She said, shivering and hugging herself.
Richard knew that he wouldn't be able to change her mind but he tried anyway. "Are you sure?"
"Y-y-yes." She stuttered.
"Okay then, but as soon as we get back to Ethan's, we're going to get a nice warm fire going and your going to sit next to it."
To Tera, that sounded like paradise compared to the frozen hell they were walking about now. "Thank y-you."
Tera and Richard both stopped in their tracks when they heard somebody calling them.
"Hey you! Cops! Over here!" Someone said. Richard looked over his shoulder.
They both looked down the street to see three men, two of them were standing near the end of the road in plain sight,1 man was standing behind them, next to a tree, watching. This brought back bad memories for Richard, being in a gang, other gangs sometimes set up ambushes for a member of another gang and approached them much like how the three men were set up at the end of the street.
Richard could tell they were up to no good by their clothes, stance, the way they muttered to each other and how they looked at them. The man standing to the right was about average in terms of height and weight; he was wearing a black sweat shirt as was the man standing next to him. The other man was skinnier and about the same height as the other man.
He looked over to the man behind the two other men, he was wearing a long brown coat, he looked a little older than the two other men and had black combed back hair, he was most likely their leader.
"Tera, these men might try to attack us, stay sharp." Richard said quietly. Tera didn't need to be told this; she could see that these men were planning to do something bad. She feared not only for her life, but for some reason she feared for Richard's life.
Richard stepped forward. "Yeah, what's wrong?" Richard said, trying his best to sound unsuspecting.
"Our cars broke down and we were hoping that you could take a look at it." The skinnier man asked.
There was a car nearby, but he knew it didn't belong to them. He noticed a few things about them. One of which, they had dirty faces and looked like he could barely afford food, let alone a car.
"Hang on, I'll take a look." Richard turned to Tera and quietly whispered "Stay sharp." Richard and Tera slowly walked up to the two men; she kept a keen eye on every person.
Richard could see one of them was very slowly reaching behind him as the came closer. "They've got weapons." Richard quietly whispered. Tera's heart was racing, she knew something bad was going to happen, and she was going to have to be ready for it.
Richard was calm, but he still hid a little bit of fear within him, not fear for his life, but fear that Tera may get hurt, or worse. They were close to the men, that's when it happened. The man closest to Richard quickly took out a switch blade and swung for Richard with it. He, fortunately, foresaw this.
The man was too wide with his swing; Richard quickly grabbed the man's fore arm to stop the blade in mid swing. Richard quickly threw a hard punch to the side of the man's head and brought his arm back to bash him in the face with his elbow followed by an open handed slam to the nose. The man didn't know what hit him, he was in a daze, and Richard could see this and decided to take advantage of it. Richard violently brought his leg up and struck the man in the genitals with his boot. The man lurched forward in pain, one hand holding his testicles and the other still holding on to the knife but unable to use it due to Richard's powerful grip on his fore arm. Richard used both hands to twist the knife wielding man's arm into an awkward position, he heard the shoulder dislocating with a crunchy pop and the man shouted in pain as he dropped the knife.
Richard gave the man one final punch to the side of his head and he flopped down to the snow covered ground. Richard span around, just in time to see Tera take a swipe at the other man's leg with the spike on the back of her wrist, he dropped to the ground and held the big bleeding wound caused by the Lucario's spike.
Richard picked the knife up, just in case the man attempted to try anything else stupid, like his last stunt, even trying to hurt him.
Richard looked to right of him, he saw one other man looking at Tera and reaching into his coat for something, he wasn't sure of it but he had a good idea of what he was searching for.
Tera knew that the man on the floor was no longer a threat, not with that gaping wound on his thigh anyway. Tera looked up and gasped, she saw the man in the coat raising a handgun and aiming it directly at her head, she thought she was going to die.
Suddenly, Richard jumped straight in front of Tera. She closed her eyes, mostly in fear of death, or worse, Richard's death.
Richard had already drawn his gun and quickly pointed the gun towards the man. It felt too familiar to Richard, it felt just like that nightmare he had the night after they found the Zangoose, but, only this time, he could fight back.
They both pulled their triggers. Tera's heart skipped a beat when she heard the gunshots. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the result.