Title: First Encounter. Fandom: Monkey Island. Characters: Inspector Canard, Pegnose Pete. Rating: G. Word Count: 328 Summary: Pegnose Pete's first arrest and his first encounter with Lucre Island's chief law enforcer, Inspector Canard.
Inspector Canard studied the man in front of him, dirty clothes, a bit on the thin side and with a permanently dark look in his eyes. The man, who said his name was Pete, had shown up on Lucre Island just a few days ago and only yesterday Canard had received a complaint about Pete’s activities on the island.
“There has been an accusation of theft by a local storekeeper,” the inspector said simply.
“I haven’t done anything.” Pete replied, pulling at his handcuffs, “I don’t even know what he's talkin' about”.
“Luckily for you…” Canard sighed, he hated when he had to let a suspect go, “the storekeeper didn’t give much of a description and was very vague about the whole event”.
Pete smirked. “So you’ll let me go now,” he said, holding up his cuffed hands.
“However, I will be keeping an eye on you,” Canard narrowed his eyes, “I’ll know if you try anything else”.
“Why would I want to cause trouble, inspector? I came 'ere because I 'ad no choice; I’m not going to start tearin' up my only 'ome, am I?”
Inspector Canard wasn’t sure, no matter what Pete said there was a constant look in his eye as if he were mocking the inspector, but with a lack of evidence there was no choice but to let him go. He sighed to himself and unlocked Pete’s handcuffs, Pete started rubbing his wrists and chuckling lightly. “I guess I should be going now,” he said.
“Get out of here,” Canard said calmly. “And remember what I said, I’m watching you”
Pete rolled his eyes, “I’m sure you are”.
Canard seethed inside, he couldn't stand that a 'low-life', in his eyes, could speak to him this way. He made sure that no anger was shown externally, though, “go home, we don’t have anything else to discuss here.”
Pete nodded and strolled out casually, smirking the entire time.
“He’s going to be trouble.” Canard muttered to himself.