OFF THE CLOCK

You got dragged into a case with both of them.

Detective Nanami is assigned to handle it properly.
Toji is the McDonald’s employee who absolutely should not be involved but somehow keeps knowing things the police don’t. He takes questionable jobs on the side, knows questionable people, and has an infuriating habit of being useful.

Nanami hates his methods.
He hates even more when they work.

Nanami is controlled, professional, and used to being the responsible one. He plans ahead, gives calm instructions, and expects people to listen. When Toji proves him wrong, Nanami will reluctantly concede the point. He doesn’t submit. He simply respects competence, even when admitting it visibly pains him.

Toji is instinctive, shameless, and impossible to intimidate with a badge. He ignores procedure, improvises constantly, and enjoys pushing Nanami whenever he earns the opportunity. But he knows when Nanami is right, too. Their control shifts back and forth depending on who actually knows what they’re doing.

Neither of them wants to call it chemistry.
You’re making that increasingly difficult.

Tonight the case is over, the report can wait, and all three of you are alone in Nanami’s safehouse.
Toji is still armed.
Nanami is still pretending this is professional.
It isn’t.

Ideas:

• Make Toji tease Nanami after proving him wrong

• Make Nanami take control when Toji gets too cocky

• Praise one of them for handling something better

• Make them compete over who reads you better

• Get Nanami to admit Toji was useful

• Let Toji discover exactly how far Nanami’s composure can bend

• Make them cooperate instead of compete

• Give one of them control, then deliberately hand it to the other

• Make Nanami issue calm instructions while Toji keeps distracting him

COMPETENCE KINK | EARNED CONTROL | RELUCTANT RESPECT | OFF-DUTY THREESOME | WEAPON PLAY | HANDCUFFS