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thewatermelloncat · 2 years ago

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Letterman Jacket

Summary: Having been robbed of all her jackets in the middle of winter, Rosé finds help from one of the most unlikely people. Though that doesn’t mean it’s easy for her to accept it.

Author’s Note: I legitimately forgot that I wrote this. I’d abandoned it with a few more sentences to write, but now it’s done. I hope we all enjoy the new characters who are introduced.

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If only the rage within her could heat her up from the inside out. Unfortunately, temperature doesn’t regulate based on emotions so it would never work like that. So instead, she’s stuck shivering, pressed into the corner of a couch in the student lounge. Her arms tightly wrapped around her, and her hands bunched up in the long sleeves of her shirt. By now she can’t remember when she could last feel them properly.

It was probably less than five minutes after she left the house. She was never lucky enough like everyone else to have a pair of gloves to wear in the snow, but she normally has a jacket. Except for today when her parents had taken all of hers away.

“I’m sorry, Rosie” Denali apologises as she comes back from checking her car for a spare. Genuinely sounding upset as she sits close beside her. “I really thought I would have had one.”

“S’okay” Rosé’s voice stutters slightly.

“I can go home and get you one” Denali offers as she untucks Rosé’s hands from beneath her arms to blow warm air onto them.

Rosé shakes her head. “You’ve got the science test first period. You can’t miss it.”

Denali groans a little at the fair point. “And I was going to wear a sweatshirt and a different jacket but then I changed my mind.” She looks down at the thicker puffer jacket she wears instead. “If I didn’t, I could have given you one.”

“It’s fine” Rosé dismisses. “Just hug me.”

Denali doesn’t have to be told twice before she wraps herself around Rosé, holding her tightly. Rubbing her hands quickly against her arms and her breath leaving warm puffs of air on Rosé’s neck.

“Did you think it was summer today, McCorkell?”

A voice has them both looking up to see the line-backer, who somehow got the nickname of Tina, walk into the room. His and Rosé’s feud has been long standing but there’s a certain amount of respect for each other that neither of them will ever admit to.

“Yeah, I saw the snow on the ground and thought that I might go swimming later” Rosé bites back. The sass dripping from her tone has Denali giggling beside her.

“Where’s your jacket?” Tina frowns instead of continuing to spar with her.

“Fuck I know.” Rosé shrugs. “I don’t know where any of them are.”

“You can’t have lost them all.” Tina shakes his head in disbelief.

“I didn’t. My parents took them all away.”

“What – why?”

“I left one on the back of a chair in the lounge and they thought it would be justified to take away all of them because I can’t put them away properly” Rosé explains.

“You’re joking” Tina says as he moves around the couch behind them, pulling at the cuffs of his sleeves.

“Fucking wish I was. It’s the dead set of winter” Rosé says flatly. “What are you doing?” She suddenly hunches forward when she feels a weight draped across her shoulders.

“Being nice. Wear this” Tina says, wrapping his letterman jacket around her.

“I’m not going to wear your jacket” Rosé stubbornly refuses.

“Yeah, you are Rosie” Denali affirms, pulling back from her to help force her arms through the sleeves.

“So warm” the involuntary sigh replaces whatever protest Rosé was going to continue with instead. Curling in on herself as the residual body heat stored in the jacket touches her skin. Despite how her hands burrow back into the sleeves, she still turns back to Tina, “I don’t want to take it from you.”

“It’s fine. I’ve still got this” he dismisses, pulling at the collar of the hoodie he was wearing underneath. “Besides, if you shiver any harder you’re going to break your teeth.”

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“It suits you” Denali pulls at the sleeve of the jacket as she walks the hallways between second and third period beside her.

Rosé scoffs loudly. “Yeah, ‘cause wearing school branded memorabilia just screams me.”

“Okay, well maybe not” Denali takes back. “But you don’t look bad in it.”

“I don’t look bad in anything” Rosé jokes, playing up an act of brushing her hair over her shoulder.

“Pfft” Denali huffs out a laugh as she shoves her. “What about that frilly dress you had to wear for one of the productions last year?”

“Okay, so maybe I can’t pull off frills.” Rosé rights herself and continues walking. “But that’s a costume so it doesn’t count.”

“You just admitted that you don’t look good in frills, so that’s enough for me” Denali says before she slows her pace as they come to a different hallway she has to turn down. “See you at lunch?”

“Yeah, see ya.” Rosé nods a goodbye before quickening her pace up again and continuing to her next class.

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“Rosé, jacket off.” She doesn’t get three steps into the classroom before she’s already in trouble.

She’s never liked her maths teacher, Mr Rice, but not many people do. He is always telling everyone off for the most minute of things and saying people’s names wrong. For him specifically in Rosé’s case, it probably doesn’t help that she just generally hates maths.

“Why?” she asks lowly, not sparing him a glance as she moves to her desk at the back of the room.

“If you haven’t earned a letterman jacket, you can’t wear it” his answer is utter bullshit, and also invalid.

“I have actually. I qualified for one for theatre nearly a year ago” Rosé points out. “I just can’t afford it.”

“That’s a football jacket.” Mr Rice eyes a patch of a football stuck on one of the sleeves.

“They look the same anyway” Rosé defends. And they do. If she had her jacket for theatre she could still stick a football patch on it if she wanted to.

“Unless you want a detention, take that jacket off and stop talking back to me” Mr Rice warns. “If it’s not yours, you can’t wear it.”

“Since when?” Tina asks from his desk near the front of the room. “It’s mine and I’m letting her.”

Rosé huffs a sigh as Tina gets involved. Though they rile each other up all the time, it wouldn’t sit right with her if he got himself a detention because of her. As words argue back and forth, Rosé shrugs the jacket off, loosely folding it as she heads over Tina’s desk where she sets it down.

“Rosé?” He frowns at it before he looks back to her. His hands reaching to give it back to her.

She only shakes her head, conveying that it’s not worth it before she turns to head back to her own desk.

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Her arms cross tightly over her books against her chest as she steps out of the classroom and into the much colder hallway. There’s only one more period until lunch and she’s honestly considering ditching so she can curl up in her bed and be warm again, but the thought off walking outdoors doesn’t sound all that appealing.

A sudden weight on her shoulders has her flinching forward and she spins around. “Jesus! Don’t sneak—” she curses as she finds Tina behind her with his hands up in surrender.

“I just want to give you this back” he explains, holding the letterman jacket in his hand higher.

“You keep it. I don’t want it” Rosé lies as she turns around again.

Tina huffs a sigh and drapes the jacket over her shoulders as she walks away. “Rosé” he protests, keeping his hands on her arms so she can’t throw it off. “Keep it on. If you get a detention just take the hit. It’s better than freezing your ass off and getting sick.”

“You can’t get sick from being cold” Rosé counters as she turns back to face him.

“Well, do you want to be cold?”

“No.”

“Keep it on” Tina settles, tapping his hands on her arms before moving away.

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Loose bits of gravel crunch under her boots as she walks toward a pickup truck in the school parking lot. Around her students sit in cars with the aircon on, waiting for their windscreens to un-fog before the drive home. Except for those like Tina, who stand outside their vehicle talking to friends. His conversation stopping when he sees Rosé step up to him.

“Thanks” she says, handing over his jacket.

“You can wear it home. Just give it back to me whenever.” He doesn’t reach to take it back from her.

“Now is whenever” Rosé pushes it into his arms. “If my parents see me in it I don’t know what they’ll do to it, and I’d rather you see it again. But thanks for letting me borrow it.”

Tina nods in acceptance as he throws it over his shoulder. “Do you need a lift or anything?” he offers, nodding to the truck he leans on.

“Nah, I’m good. Gonna hitch a ride with Nali” Rosé says, walking backward and crossing her arms tightly against the cold.

Tina nods again, but before Rosé can’t turn around, he calls out to her, “hope you find your jackets!”

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She couldn’t. She’d been as subtle as she could looking through all the cupboards in the house, and pretending to need something she might have left in the family car, only for her search to end empty handed. Apart from with the conclusion that her jackets are all in her parents’ room: the one place she won’t snoop.

“Still no luck?” Tina asks when he finds Rosé at her locker without her usual leather jacket the next day.

Rosé shakes her head. “But Nali let me borrow this.” She pulls at the sleeves of a thick hoodie.

“It doesn’t really suit you, does it?” Tina takes in the soft purple colour.

“It does the job” Rosé dismisses.

“You actually look nice in it… more approachable, I mean” Tina amends.

“Do I scare you, normally?” Rosé smirks a little.

“Sometimes” Tina admits before he shifts his footing. “Hey, come with me. I want to show you something.”

“Why?” Rosé challenges lowly but follows him all the same.

“Just come” Tina doesn’t answer, and Rosé’s confusion only grows as she is led through the hallways and into the sports department.

“Hey, I know you said that I look more approachable in this or whatever” Rosé begins firmly, “but that doesn’t mean I want to join you in the hookup spot behind the P.E sheds.”

“That’s not where we’re going.” Tina continues walking ahead of her.

Taking a left turn, Rosé recognises the hallway toward the changing rooms. “You’re taking me to the locker rooms? That’s fucking sick.” Her footsteps falter and she starts to hang back.

“I’m not taking you there. We’re going in here” Tina dismisses, moving along to an office door which he holds open for her.

Rosé frowns but steps through it. “Why here?”

“Because…” Tina draws out as he moves to the back of the room and over to a chest pressed against a wall. “I heard you say yesterday how you’ve qualified for a letterman jacket but can’t afford one.”

Rosé hums as she sits herself on the edge of a desk. This whole thing no clearer to her.

“And I was thinking, seeing that the sports department has so many extras because people outgrow them, that you should have one.”

“No.” Rosé shakes her head as Tina pulls one out from the chest. “They’re clearly kept for a reason.”

“Well yeah” Tina admits, “new players sometimes need to borrow them for interschool games… but the smaller sizes barely get worn anyway.”

Rosé only blinks at him sceptically.

“How many twig figures do you see on a football team?” Tina points out. “You’re taller than average, Rosé, but you’re not exactly broad-shouldered.”

Rosé stays silent.

“Are you really going to look a gift horse in the mouth?” Tina levels with her.

“I’ve never even seen a real horse” Rosé deadpans.

“… h-have you not?” Tina falters.

“Of course I have, you dumbass.” Rosé runs a hand down her face before gesturing to the jacket he had pulled out for her. “But I can’t take it. It’s basically stealing school property.”

“Oh, come on.” Tina rolls his eyes. “Like you’ve never stollen something from school before.”

“Only a couple of pencils, and maybe a ruler once” the pitch of Rosé’s voice raises in defence.

“Will you stop trying to fight with me for once?” Tina begs. “These have all been outgrown and donated. People take from here all the time, it’s basically a charity box.”

Rosé pulls in a deep breath that she huffs out. “Well maybe if you’d led with that!”

Tina scoffs a sound of dismissal. “Just try it on.”

Ros�� smirks as she hops off the desk and fits herself into it.

Then Tina steps back, seeming to admire his single attempt at guessing the correct size which would fit her. “I know you probably wouldn’t be caught dead wearing this outside of school, but I figured that you’d at least be able to keep it here if your jackets get taken away again.”

Rosé nods, her jaw shifting as she examines her arms in the sleeves and rolls her shoulders. Then as she tugs at the hem down by her hips she pulls in a breath. “Look, I know I give you shit all the time, but I do appreciate this… really.”

“Oh gees, McCorkell, don’t go getting all emotional on me. You’re not supposed to have any” Tina dismisses awkwardly.

“You’re a teenage boy, you’re not supposed to recognise they exist” Rosé counters.

“I’m an emotionally intuitive guy” Tina defends.

Rosé pulls a face and makes a sound of disgust. “Right, you made it weird. I’m leaving” she says before turning on her heel and heading for the door.

“Yep” Tina agrees, shoving his hands in his pockets and following her out into the hallway where he suddenly scoffs a laugh.

“What?” Rosé asks lowly.

“Can you promise me something?”

“No.”

“Just promise me” Tina tries again.

“Fine” Rosé gives in.

“You won’t take the jacket off?”

“I won’t take the jacket off” Rosé repeats.

Tina smirks, just holding back from laughing again as he looks at the jackets they both wear. “I hate to break it to you, McCorkell, but right now we’re matching.”

#rpdr fanfiction #safe house au #rosé #denali #denali foxx #tina burner #rosénali #rosenali #omgheyrose

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orionsstory · 1 year ago

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New York Nights (3) (Rosénali)

A/N: exposition chapter who cheered !!! this one is basically just worldbuilding. ngl its crazy to see how my writing has changed in just a year originally published: Jan. 31, 2022 ----- Chapter Three: Back to Work --

The week following her nightmare, Denali didn't go out much. Jackie made sure of that. Hell, it took 3 days for her to let Denali go to the rink. Thankfully, Jan pulled through and distracted Jackie so Denali could teach her skating lessons. "Denali...I'm just worried." Jackie told her, "You were shaken up after your nightmare, are you sure you can't just cancel the lesson?" After much back and forth, Jackie obliged and Denali headed to work. Her day went well, and she felt more at ease after the nightmare. However, that didn't mean Jackie was eager to let her go patrolling again.

"Oh come on Jackie! I'm fine! See?" Denali whines, producing a snow cloud from her hand. "No snow in the house, 'Nali!" Jackie swatted the snow away, "But what happens if something happens to you? What if you feel okay at first but then you freak out? You're my best friend. I can't stand to see you get injured." Jackie placed a hand on her friend, the worry showing on her face. Denali laughed, "I'll just call Tina to save me. Well, she'd probably just drop me. I'm getting more popular than her." Jackie tried to hide her laughter, but she failed and burst out in laughter. "See? I'm okay, really Jackie! I'll even come home earlier tonight if you want me to!" Jackie sighed, "No, it's no use. If you say you're ready, then you are. But be careful!" Denali eagerly nodded, bounding off to go get her costume. "Denali! It's only 6 pm! You can't go out yet!" Jackie called after her.

After 3 more painstaking hours of waiting, 9 finally hit, and Denali couldn't be out the door faster. Jackie had to run to keep up with her! "Just remember..." Jackie huffed out, trying to catch her breath. "Yes, yes 'Be safe, Denali!' 'Don't die, Denali!' I get it, Mom!" Denali shoved her jacket into Jackie's hands and put her mask on. Eagerly, she ran towards the ledge and waved goodbye to Jackie as she leaped off the ledge, into the sky. She flew around the buildings, laughing and cheering as she glided past windows and clouds. She felt energetic and free- like she could do anything! Maybe she'd even kick Rosé's ass if she was lucky.

After several minutes of flying, Denali ran into a familiar woman dressed in red, orange, and yellow. "Hi, Tina!" She chirped. "Ice Queen," Tina smirked, "you look chipper today. It's nice to see you out again!" Tina Burner, a superhero who couldn't have hidden her identity if she wanted to. Her vibrant red hair and love of red, orange, and yellow made her well-known wherever she went. Her powers stemmed from, big shocker, fire manipulation- meaning she was Denali's worst enemy in theory. In actuality, Denali really enjoyed working with Tina. "Hey, I was going to city hall to help a newbie register- wanna help me out? I'll need someone with me so I don't go insane." Normally, Denali would have refused. She remembered what registering was like, and was not a massive fan of the process. However, this was not a normal day, and thus she and Tina Burner were headed to city hall.

The two soon arrived, exchanging small greetings with the secretary as she opened the door behind her desk for them. "She's in there," she addressed Tina, "She's filled out everything we need from her, now it's just your turn." Tina gave the woman thanks as they headed through the door and into one of the side rooms. "Hi there," Tina greeted, "I'm Tina Burner, and this is Ice Queen! We're here to help you out with your hero stuff." The girl turned around. Denali looked her over, she had a curly, light orange afro and doe-like blue eyes. She was dressed in a pastel blue leotard, with matching gloves that nearly went up to her shoulders and thigh-high boots of the same color. She wore a simple mask that covered her eyes. She looked like she was younger than Denali, maybe even a college freshman.

"Oh, hi!" she chirped. "Okay, so you've already filled out all the information the government needs, right? Do you have any questions about that?" Tina asked the girl. "Oh, well uh...about all that, how does that really work? I mean, I wanna keep my identity a secret, but I also want to be officially recognized as a hero...uhm," she stuttered. "Ah, you're asking whether or not they're gonna out your information, right?" the shorter girl nodded, "Well, it works in two different ways. For me, my hero identity is public- my hero name is my real name, and it's not a secret that I'm a hero. So, they just have my information on record in the system." She nodded along, hanging onto Tina's every word. "For someone like you or Ice Queen," she gestured to Denali, "your personal information goes under lockdown, which means only certain trusted individuals can even access the information, and most of the time they don't need it. Unless you need your costume made or changed...do you?" She shook her head no. "Perfect!" Tina smiled at her.

"So, the next order of business is filling out this." Tina pointed to the piece of paper the girl was holding. "First and easiest, what name have you chosen to go by? This will be how people recognize and identify you, so think carefully. You don't want to regret it later on!" Denali rolled her eyes as Tina glanced back at her, "My name is fine, Tina. I think it sounds regal!" The two laughed as the young hero pondered momentarily, "Lux." She finally said, "That'll be my name!" Lux smiled, and Tina nodded approvingly. "Alright then Lux, next you just need to fill out what your powers do, and then you should be registered in a day or so!" Lux grinned, excitement was practically oozing out of her. "Say, what are your powers?" Denali asked her, pushing herself to sit on the nearby desk."Oh, I can control light! Watch!" Holding up her hand, in a swift motion, all the light was pulled from the room. Lux had morphed it into a ball in the palm of her hand, throwing it up and down, and then with a flourish of her wrist, the ball broke apart and the light returned to the room. Denali exhaled a wow, as Tina nodded, "Impressive!" Lux beamed again, and Denali noticed how bright her smile was. "With how much light is in New York, you're gonna be a force to be reckoned with, kid." Denali complimented her.

And so, with all of the paperwork wrapped up, Denali bid Tina and Lux goodbye as she kicked off into the air. The ordeal had only taken about an hour and a half, which meant she still had time to do other things. Resuming her patrol, her mind wandered back to Rosé- the pink-haired woman had been on her mind a lot these days. Denali hates how charismatic the other woman is, it makes it impossible for her to hate her. She scolds herself, she shouldn't think of a villain this way! Rosé has probably committed countless crimes, Denali can't go easy on her just because she's charismatic! She massaged her temples as she tried to shake the other woman out of her head, determined to not let Rosé interrupt her work. Thankfully (or not), a scream from below interrupted her thoughts.

Denali touched down on the ground in seconds and whipped her eyes around before settling on the commotion. A woman was trying to separate herself from a man clinging to her. Denali marched over and pulled the two off each other, stepping in between them. "What's the problem here?" She asked the woman, who looked like she had been crying. "My ex-husband ambushed me on my way home!" she choked out, "He said he was going to hurt me!" Denali looked at the man, who was clearly intoxicated. "Give me one second, ma'am." She told her, turning to the man she froze his feet in ice, preventing him from moving. Quickly searching him, she found a knife, which she confiscated from him. Denali turned back to the scared woman, "I'm going to call the police to come to get him, and after that, I can personally escort you home." she tried her best to comfort the woman, who nodded and sniffled.

It didn't take long for the police to arrive and take the man away. Denali explained the situation to the officers before handing them the knife she had found on him. "She'll need to drop by the police station tomorrow to make a statement, will you tell her that?" The officer asked her, "Of course." she nodded. Soon, the officers left with the man in tow. "You said you live 10 minutes away, correct?" the woman, now much calmer, nodded. "Okay, here, I'll just fly you back, it'll be quicker." Denali lifted the woman into a bridal carry and took off into the sky. The woman gasped, enthralled by what was happening around her, and Denali smiled a little, it reminded her of how she felt the first time she flew. Soon enough, they landed at the woman's apartment complex. She led Denali up to her apartment, where Denali repeated what the officer told her and left her with other helpful information, such as where to get a restraining order. She nodded, profusely thanking her for saving her. "What's your name?" she had asked her. "Oh, I'm Ice Queen." The woman nodded, "Well, thank you Ice Queen. I'm truly grateful." Denali smiled, "It's really no problem ma'am!"

Denali left soon after, kicking off once more into the sky, looking for some action. Still as energized as ever, she eagerly looked around for something to do. It took about 20 minutes, but eventually, she (literally) ran into another hero she recognized, a black woman with a signature white and teal swirled jumpsuit- Peppermint. "Watch out! Oh, Ice Queen!" Peppermint warmly greeted, "How are you? It's been a while!" Denali steadied herself in the air, holding onto Peppermint for support. "Yeah, sorry about that...I took off for a bit because of an injury. It's nice to see you again, Pep! How've you been?" The other woman sighed and ran a hand through her poofy brown hair, "Well, could be better. I've been kicking ass all night, and now I've got another one." Denali laughed, "Are you kidding? That sounds awesome. I wish I knew how you found so much work, I'm lucky if I find 2-3 things to do per night!" Peppermint stared at her, confused. "Do you not have the earpiece?"

"What? What earpiece?"

"The one connected to police scanners. It sends out reports of where crime is happening based on your locations, you can radio in that you're going to check it out, or if you need backup."

Denali went silent, "I'll take that as a no. I can get you one after this. Here, come help me with this, it shouldn't take long!" Peppermint tugged her along, and the two were flying through the city as Peppermint gave her a rundown of the situation. "Apparently someone's causing a ruckus over by the harbor, we don't know if it's a villain or not, but they want us to check it out just in case." Denali nodded, "Sounds fun. Maybe it'll just be a cat." Denali laughed. "I wish. That'd be easy! Here, it's down on the left, follow my lead!"

Peppermint touched down on the ground first, Denali following behind shortly. "Fan out and scan the area and yell if you see anything. This place is pretty big." Peppermint whispered to her. Denali nodded in response before heading left. She looked around- rows and rows of boxes stacked taller than she thought safe. 'Someone's probably after something in one of these...several boxes.' she thought, quietly walking the rows. It felt almost like a maze, the dark sky, and the nearby lampposts just barely allowing her to see what was in front of her. She crept quietly through the dark, hand brushing against the boxes to help guide her. She felt goosebumps creep up her skin, the silence and the darkness made her feel uneasy. She didn't know how long she had been walking the area, she couldn't see anything disturbed or moved. "I hope Peppermint is having more luck..." she whispered under her breath.

After 35 minutes with nothing amiss insight, Denali concluded her area was clear. She started trying to find Peppermint, wandering the rows and rows of boxes traveling farther right. The entire place was silent, the only noise she heard was her heartbeat. Suddenly, the silence was broken by Peppermint's whistle piercing the air. Denali sprang into the air, searching for a glimpse of Peppermint or someone else. Luckily, it didn't take long. She heard the sounds of fighting off to the right and flew over toward the commotion. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a glimpse of Peppermint's ice breath and dived towards it.

She touched down, two men were fighting Peppermint, with a third frozen in the background. "Ice Queen!" Peppermint jumped back, "There's a fourth who took off with some item, go find him! I can take these two! He went to the left, go!" Peppermint dodged as one of the men threw a punch. "Got it!" Denali yelled, once more flying into the air and heading towards the left. It didn't take her long to spot a man running towards the edge of the docks. Denali dropped down in front of him, sending a blast of ice toward him. He sped out of the way, hitting Denali as he sped past.

"Superspeed..." she groaned, quickly jumping to her feet and sliding after the man. She coated the ground with ice, skating along as she caught up with the man. She saw him preparing to run, so she stomped her foot in an attempt to stop him. As soon as her boot hit, ice sprung up all around her, vastly climbing and encasing the man in a cold tomb. "Oh thank god, that took less time than I thought it would." She sighed, "Sorry. That may have been a bit overkill." She apologized to the man, whose ice prison reached higher than the boxes around him.

After she had chipped away some of the ice around him, she carefully took the item from his hand. Examining it, it was a small beat-up-looking hard drive, it had no labels on it, nothing to indicate what was inside. 'Weird' she thought to herself, tucking it into her pocket for safekeeping. In the distance, she heard the sounds of police sirens approaching, Peppermint or someone nearby must have called them. After making sure the man was secure, she made her way back to where she had seen the other woman earlier. Rounding a corner, she spotted her tying the other three men up.

"I see you don't need any help!" Denali laughed, Peppermint turning her head towards her. "Did you find anything on him? Denali held up the hard drive in response, and Peppermint smiled. "Nice!" she walked over and examined the device. "There doesn't seem to be any identifying features as to what it could be," Denali explained, "what do you think?" Peppermint turned the drive over in her hand once more, "Hmm...I'm not sure. Best to leave it to the police, if they find anything important we need to know about, they'll contact us." Denali nodded.

The two handed over the hard drive to the police and helped the officers load the men into the police car. "Thank you, ladies," the officer shook their hands, "we really appreciate your help. If we find anything, we'll let you know. Have a safe night!" and with that, she waved to the two as she and the rest of the police left. "So...let's go get you that earpiece!" Peppermint chirped as she took Denali's hand, and once again led her to somewhere in the city.

Denali returned home around 1 am with a new earpiece. She opened the door, only to be scared by Jackie immediately as she entered. "Oh my god, Jackie!" she breathed out as Jackie shoved her inside, "You scared me!" Jackie took her mask and examined her face, before breathing a sigh of relief. "See! I told you I'd be okay! You don't have anything to worry about!" Denali laughed, a small smile creeping onto Jackie's face. "Okay, maybe I was a little overdramatic. I'm happy you're okay. You should get some rest, don't forget you still have a degree to earn!" Jackie turned towards her bedroom before stopping, "Oh! That reminds me, actually, Jan and her sisters have a show this weekend- do you wanna go with me?"

Denali didn't even hesitate, "Sure!" she chirped. Jackie gave her a big smile before disappearing to her room. Turning off the living room lights, Denali headed towards the bathroom and began getting ready for bed. She thought about the show as she brushed her teeth, she was excited to see Jan and meet Lagoona, even if it meant she had to deal with Rosé for longer than she'd like. Going to bed, she felt a lot better and safer than she had earlier in the week. It felt nice to be back out and helping people, and as she fell asleep, she felt confident in her powers again.

#denali foxx #drag race #rpdr #jackie cox #jan sport #new york nights #rpdr fanfiction #rupauls drag race #rosé #rosenali #rosénali #rpdr s13 #no beta we die like men #i cant believe this was a year ago oh my god #im so tempted to rewrite this story #olivia lux #peppermint #tina burner

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