[Roommates]

She's so embarrassed the first time she meets him, she's nearly in tears. She's a good student! She stays out of trouble! She doesn't go to wild drunken parties like the one her roommate, Blair, is currently hosting!

It's three in the morning, she has a Saturday morning class in six hours, and she's pretty sure her bed is being used for premarital sex right now. It would almost be a relief to see the cops, except her father is the police captain and if there's anyone under 21 currently drinking in her flat, she could be in a lot of trouble. So there are a lot of mixed emotions flying around when she opens the door and sees a man with white hair in a blue cop uniform standing there frowning.

He's got dark circles under his eyes and it has to be a trick of the strobe light that one of the many..many…many unwelcome guests brought, but she thinks his eyes are red. He must be new, fresh out of the academy or a transfer; she's never met him before.

Which somehow makes everything better and worse.

"We got a call about the noise. Your neighbors would appreciate if you could shut it down?"

Maka protests, agrees, apologizes, and then sighs. "I've been trying. They won't listen."

"Hard to hear anything over the awful music." He eyes her and Maka can feel her cheeks heating up; she isn't exactly dressed for a party, and really she'd just like to go to bed, but that's currently occupied. Plus, she likes this kind of music.

Blair squeals and drapes herself over Maka, biting her lip and purring out, "Oh Maka! You didn't tell me the stripper was here! Or that he was so handsome in uniform! Come on in, big boy! Unless you were planning on keeping him to yourself, kitten?"

Now it's the cop's turn to blush.

"Ma'am, going to have to shut the party down."

"Oooh, cuff me, officer!" Maka actually slaps her hand over her eyes when Blair puts her wrists together and pushes her breasts together and leans towards the policeman.

"Blair! Please? He's serious. Tell them to turn it off?" She's mortified. Maybe the floor will swallow her up. Or collapse…that's slightly more likely, the creaky old boards were definitely not meant to have so many people on them. "Officer," it takes her a minute to squint at the name tag embroidered on his uniform, "Evans, I'm so sorry, she isn't usually like this. I don't party, I barely drink! This is so inconsiderate, I'm so sorry-"

He cuts her off with a bored and tired look, like he's heard it all before, and manages to slide through the door without Blair smothering him in her boobs. Officer Evans marches over to the DJ station that used to be Maka's desk, yanks on the mess of wires and everything goes very quiet.

"POLICE. EVERYBODY OUT."

Oh. That was effective. Maka quickly moves to hide next to the fridge while people quickly file out; it sounds a little bit like a herd of elephants, but then it's quiet. Blair is nowhere to be seen and Maka has a feeling that she won't be back until much later. Possibly even Sunday.

"Thank you. I'm sorry…please don't tell my dad?"

The cop sighs and looks her over. "And who's your dad?"

"Captain Spirit Albarn."

Officer Evans chokes on air and quickly averts his eyes. "I am so not telling the Captain that I busted a party at his daughter's place. He can read the report if he cares that much."

"There's going to be a report?!" Oh no. Oh no! There can't be a report! Because then her name will be in the system! There will be a mug shot! She'll go to jail! Her life will be over! She'll fail her classes!

"Hey, breathe! Chill. I doubt your neighbors will file a formal complaint. Just, keep it down, yeah? You'll be fine and your dad won't kill me. Uh. If that's all, I'm gonna go."

"Ah, wait, um. I think, could you? There are…in my bed?"

He sighs, but sticks his head in the door she's pointing at, barks something and two…three more people scurry out of her apartment. With her sheets. Well, she never liked that set anyway and had plans to burn them after tonight as it was.

"Thank you, Officer."

"Have a nice night, Miss Albarn." He nods his head and clicks the apartment door shut behind him.

Huh, his eyes really are red.