"Noir Detective AU -

He walked into my office, bringing a fog of desperation thicker than the smoke from my cigarette. He was the kind of guy you’d pay no attention to on the street. Young, inconspicuous. Yet something about him drew my full attention. Maybe it was the glint of his eyes, or maybe it was the fullness of his lips. Lips which belonged on a pretty dame with legs for days, not a handsome young man with eyes as blue as the morning sky.

He called himself Ellis. I called him trouble.

His friend had gotten himself mixed up in the moonshine business, and he hadn’t heard back in a couple days. I wanted no part of it, but I couldn’t say no to those baby-blues. But I guess that’s how all these cases start. Pretty eyes that make you do things you never thought you would."