Tumblr Drabble Meme – RebeccaAkainu – Number 102: Double Life; For anjelleshadow
Modern!AU
Word Count: ~573

His Own Idea of Justice

"W-What do you mean by that?" She was stuttering and her mouth had gone dry as she looked up to the officer in front of her.

"I don't understand…" She muttered again, looking down for a moment, eyes opened wide in disbelief.

"I am very sorry, Rebecca." The man coughed slightly, he was evidently uncomfortable in the situation he was in. "We were shocked, as well." He looked at her apologetically.

He could not believe, that she, being so young and beautiful, was married to that old man. How she could even love him, was beyond him. She looked so innocent, so sweet. If anything, she of all people did really not deserve this.

"Can I talk to him?" She asked, her voice trembling at the words. "Surely, there must be a mistake. Sakazuki would never do something like that. He is always talking about how justice is the most important thing in the world. And he's very gently and loving towards me. I can't believe he would kill someone." She swallowed. Her eyes filled with tears. "He's not like that." She stressed once more, her voice stern.

"The evidence is crushing." The police officer said. "I believe you are right, he has always loved his justice. But maybe…" He stopped for a second, but then continued. "Maybe he has loved it too much. At some point he must have stopped believing that the system delivered the kind of justice he believed in. And he started to act on his own sense of justice. I'm very sorry, Rebecca." Akainu had been his superior. He had looked up to him ever since he had joined the police. He had talked to his wife, Rebecca, before and that is why it had fallen onto him to tell her about what had happened.

At least Rebecca was still young, she would get over this, the police officer thought. She would find someone else to love and marry. Someone like Akainu had never been a good match for her anyway, everyone had agreed on that.

She covered her eyes with her hands, tears rolling over her cheeks. "H-how many?" She asked between sobs. She could not believe this was true. Her Sakazuki killing people? Murdering them? He had always been so brave. He had always told her that he would cleans the world of all of its criminals and make it a better place for her to live in. But not like this. Not by becoming a criminal himself.

"He has already admitted to six." The officer said, withholding that there were probably more cases. He could not believe that the man he had looked up to so much was nothing more than a mass murderer in the end.

"Can I please go talk to him?" Rebecca requested again. She would not believe this, not until she heard it from Sakazuki himself. She wanted to know his reasons for all of this. She wanted to understand why he did what he had done, although he had promised to stay by her side forever.

"In due time, we might be able to arrange something." The officer offered, although he thought that it would probably be better if Rebecca never talked to her husband again. She was too pure and sweet to be confronted with a monster like him any longer.