”So… what are your plans for today then?” Dominique asked, smiling just a little at herself for asking that right at this moment.

”Oh, um… I’ll have to go in to the station later, give a statement about what happened, file a report… Any time an officer discharges their weapon in the line of duty, the paper work is hellacious. I think they make it that way partly so we’ll make sure to think before we resort to it. If for no other reason than the headache it’ll probably give us later… other than that though, I should have the rest of today and tomorrow off.” She told her.

”And, this report of yours…?” Dominique asked, annoyed that she felt she had to hedge about the subject like this, but wanting Elisa to set her mind at ease.

Elisa smiled softly a little. ”Don’t worry, I won’t mention your name even once, either of them, I promise.” She assured her.

Dominique smiled, actually a little shyly, at Elisa. ”That would be appreciated.” She said, thinking that this attraction she felt might have its benefits, if it assured Elisa’s silence. It wasn’t pleasant thinking in those terms, but she had responsibilities – Had others, not merely herself, that she had to keep safe.

Elisa smiled back more, charmed even more by the way Dominique had just looked at her somehow. ”Well, there’s not really another good option for it I can see. If I told anyone about you being there, it would be hard to explain it without telling them you were a gargoyle. And you were the victim in all of this – it just… it wouldn’t be anything like fair to put you through something like that. You know, unless that’s what you wanted…”

”No, I think not.” Dominique smiled a little.

”The mercs though, the ones that were left anyway… I guess they could be a problem, but I kind of doubt it.” Elisa explained. The reasons they’d stay silent were fairly obvious. Loyalty to their rich (and apparently dangerous) employer for one, that her fellow cops would think they were nuts if they told anything like the truth about Dominique Destine and their reasons for going after her like they had for another. If they kept quiet on the other hand, the most they’d face would be armed breaking and entering, maybe resisting arrest, destruction of private property, and a few other things. If their lawyers didn’t pull something shady to get them off, they’d probably only get a year or two. Their gear had been mostly non-lethal ordinance, and she’d done a lot more damage to them than they had to her, so assault or attempted murder of a police officer wouldn’t be in the offering unless maybe Elisa pressed the issue, and the whole thing was so much a hornets’ nest that she figured it would probably be best for her and Dominique both if she played the whole thing low key and kept out of it as much as possible. ”They’ll probably keep quiet about the whole thing and let their lawyers do the talking.”