Prompt #40 - Confidence
Prompt #40
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

- Jessica Alba


I used to think I was looking confident. I had the clothes, the attitude. I liked people to think that I didn't care what they thought, you know? Was I confident? Nah. I thought I was a screw up, that I was no good at my job. I mean I was, I am. I made detective, I was solving cases without a partner. I might have looked confident but I didn't feel it. I didn't feel confident in what I was doing. I thought people would find me out. See the real me, the truth.

Then along comes this Mountie and he's confident, well he looks it. He can stand in front of a guy with a gun and not even flinch. He knows he can cope with situations, he can control how he's feeling. You might think he's the opposite of me but you know I know Benny gets scared when he;s talking a man down, he doesn't show it but he feels it.

He gives me confidence. Not in the way I know he can talk a criminal into giving himself up. I mean that's part of it but he gives me confidence because he has faith in my abilities. He thinks I am a good cop and his confidence means I get confident. Yeah, it might not make a lot of sense but it does to me and I think it does to him. He does some crazy stuff but he knows I'm there to back him up. I'm there to back him up because I'm not a bad cop, I'm confident I can do my job and do it well and that's because of Benny.