Detevtive Jo Green watched as the black figure swung from side to side for a few seconds and then fell to the ground.
"Finally, `Shadow-freak`, you're mine" He smiled to himself, and start walking slowly towards the black-covered person, still holding the gum up in case it moves.
He kneeled down next to "The Shadow" and turned his face around, pulling the little tranquillizer dart out of his arm. With a quick dash he removed the black mask to finally reveal the true identity of the theif he was trying to capture for over a year.
"Detevtive Green, come in, detective Green", he heard commander Martin's voice coming out of his radio.
"This is Green."
"Did you capture `The shadow`?"
He didn't answer. "Detective Green? Did you catch him?" The voice asked again.
"No, commander Martin," He said quietly into his radio, "`The shadow` has escaped again."
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He was sitting next to the bed where she was lying unconscious, and thought nervously about the situation he was in. James, a.k.a detective Jo Green for the last 10 years, had a clear mission to capture and arrest Jessie, a.k.a "The Shadow", and probably the only woman he ever loved. He had no doubt that he still loved her while he was sitting next to her, brusing his fingures through her very short red hair. He remembered what a long red hair she used to have, and how much effort she put into taking care of him everyday. He thought of the times when they were together in Team Rocket, following the twerps. But a lot has changed since then. Everything changed.
Suddenly, he heard a knock on the door. He jumped up from the bed and all of a sudden realized that bringing a wanted criminal to his apartment was probably not a very good idea. But all his cop instincts disappeared the moment he saw Jessie's face. Policemen might find her here, he thought, maybe Rocket members have followed them. She probably had a partner waiting for her outside, he paniced, what a fool I am- how could I not consider that!
The person outside knocked again, and this time yelled from behind the door: "Jo? Are you there?" That was Teddy, calling him by his fake name, the fake identity the he gave him 10 years ago. For 10 years, James *was* Jo Green.
James didn't know if he should open or not. Teddy was a detective too, and he might get them both in troubles, but he did help James once, he might help him again. So he opened the door.
"Jo, what's going on? I heard that `The shadow` escaped again, how..." Teddy entered the apartment and suddenly spotted Jessie on the bed, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you have company."
"Teddy, this... this is `The shadow` ."
"What?! What do you mean she's the... `The shadow` is a women?! What is she doing here?" Teddy was completely confused.
"This isn't just a women. This is Jessie, do you remember Jessie? From the Poke-tech?"
"You mean the girl you had a crush on? The one who joined Team Rocket with you?"
"This isn't just a crush, Teddy", James looked over at Jessie, "I love her. I always have, even after many years apart from her. I couldn't bring her to the station, to commander Martin, so I brought her here."
Suddenly, Jessie started moving.
"She's waking up", Teddy said.
They expected her to be dizzy and confused since she was still under the effect of the tranquillizer and was unconscious for a long time, but instead she jumped up and before they could understand what happened, she was standing on the bed, fully awake and lifting up a knife that she pulled out of her black boot.
"Where am I?" She screamed, fear in her eyes, "Who are you?"
"Jessie, put down the knife", James tried to take a step closer to her, but she waved the knife infront of him and screamed like an animal: "No! Stand back! Don't come any closer! How the hell do you know my name?"
"Please, Jessie", he spoke quietly, trying to calm her down, "It's me, James. Do you remember me? I'm your old friend, James."
"No, that's a lie", she still held the knife up but her eyes started filling with tears, "James is dead- he died years ago."
"I'm not dead, It's me, Jess", He came closer to her, and she started lowering her arm, her grasp of the knife wasn't as steady.
"James?" A tear rolled down her cheek and she fell on her knees, on the bed.
"Yes, Jess, I'm alive", He bent over to her, pulled the knife out of her shaking hand and quickly threw it aside.
"James, I can't believe it's you... they told me you were dead", she cried and touched his face, still shocked to find out the her friend was alive all that time.
"I missed you so much, Jessie", he said with a trembling voice, pulled her into a hug and she wept on his shoulder. They held eachother like that for a few moments, then broke the hug and instictively kissed, as if they were lovers since forever. Teddy, who was watching them, smiled to himself and silently left the room to make a few phone calls.
"Where have you been all those years?" Jessie asked, wiping her cheeks.
"I left Team Rocket after we were separated. I'm a detective now, Jessie", he said sadly, not sure how she's going to react.
"A detective?" She looked at him surprised.
"Yes, and my name is Jo Green now. I'm a detective and my mission is to arrest you. I didn't know that the thief I was trying to capture is actually you until today."
"So what are we going to do, James? You're a cop, I'm a wanted criminal. They don't mix."
"Don't worry, I'm not going to let anyone hurt you", he smiled and hugged her again.
And as he said that, Teddy came into the room. Screaching his head, he said: "Well, guys, there's only one thing you can do..."
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"Welcome, Mr. and Ms. Graham, to our flight to London." the young stewardess said, smiling to the tall man with the dark moustache and the blonde woman who was glancing nervously around, "I hope you have a good flight."
"Thank you, miss", the man said politely, but the blonde woman just looked away and started walking to their seats. As he put their bags up above their seats, she sat down next to the window and looked out to the outside. Just as they were about to take off she reached out to a pocket inside her long coat, took a small leather bag in her hand, and carefully touched the "Jungle eye" diamond.
The End
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Author's note: I hope you enjoyed it. Yes, the end kinda leaves you hanging in the air. I think it's the beauty of the story, but I might write a sequel to it someday. Maybe.
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