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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "I'm pretty sure we're not part of a bad cop show."

[morethanimaginary]

"I dunno. Our dads could make a great cop show duo."

[steppingup]

"I'm the edgy one," drawls Vernon dryly.

[shesepankh]

"Step out of line one more time and Dad'll have your badge."

[steppingup]

"I'm the cop you need, but not the one you want," he says, in the same deadpan. "I know the streets."

[sundayfish]

Charlie snorts. "Reason they don't set even terrible cop shows in Forks, you know."

[shesepankh]

"I know."

[steppingup]

Vernon laughs. "Yeah. Each episode would be uneventful. None of the constant serial killers that bad cop shows get."

[sundayfish]

"Traffic stops, vandalism, shoplifting, domestics, occasional missing person who just went on too much of a hike, that's about it."

[shesepankh]

"And the people who don't know what 911 is for, don't forget those."

[steppingup]

"Heh. 'Tonight, on Bad Cop Show - some neighborhood kids need a stern talking to.'"

[sundayfish]

"I'd watch that one."

[shesepankh]

"Previously on Bad Cop Show: the turn signal neglecter! Shot of dramatic ticket-writing."

[castmyown]

Darren laughs helplessly.

[steppingup]

"At the end of every episode we would go to a diner and get coffee and make jokes about not eating donuts at all and how neighborhood kids never learn."

[shesepankh]

"Pitch it, get it funded, get a pilot shot," giggles Bella. "Anyway, how do we get in?"

[steppingup]

"I'll be a movie star."

[castmyown]

Darren is still laughing helplessly.

[steppingup]

"Entrance is over there," explains Vernon, who points at a little building that looks like the warehouses' central office building. "We walk over, you kids show your medallions and do a demonstration, and then we all walk in."

[shesepankh]

"Showing the medallion itself isn't necessary, right?"

[steppingup]

"No, it's just a way to avoid having to go midform or do what I did and spend an hour explaining everything I knew about 'critters.'"

[shesepankh]

"Right then."

Off they go!

[steppingup]

Off they go! There is a bored looking person sitting in a normal looking office. He looks up at them and says, "Ben's Warehouses, what can I do for you?"

"Oh, hey. You're the same one as last time. Hey. We'd like to be let in," says Vernon. Then he motions to the assorted perytons and sphinx for a volunteer to show that they know what's up.

[shesepankh]

Bella waves a hand. It's a paw after the first wave.

[steppingup]

"Huh. Yeah, go on in," shrugs the person at the door. "Gotta go through the motions of normalcy."

Vernon knows where the door is - it's the one that says 'Authorized Personnel Only.' The doorwatcher gets up, unlocks it, and opens it for them.

It's a perfectly normal looking hallway.