Seeing Tom walk away was like a knife to the heart, yet it was also very reliving for her. She enjoyed the weight off her shoulders but she hated not getting the answers. That's all Lizzie needed from Tom, she leans back and lets out a slow sigh of relief and pain. A heavy set of eyes are watching her, Donald Ressler. Her head slowly turns over to the man she's seen every day and has been the only and the first to know her deepest secrets, Liz's eyes look straight into Ressler's. She looks away from him suddenly only because she knows that Ressler's going to report her and put her in cuffs, he made that clear less than a couple minutes ago. She takes the keys to the silver Mercedes with her shaky hands and tries to start the car. Donald grabs her wrist gently and looks up at her face which is now filled with tears, "Ill drive" Donald says with his usual concerned voice. A slight nod comes from Agent Keen as Donald gets out of the right side of the car and walks over to the left where he opens the door for her. She steps out and thoughts rush into her mind, what was so special about her? Tom married her just to get what? Reddington? Did he really think she would tell him classified information? All of the thoughts combined caused her to fall into Donald's arms. How Liz was in his arms reminded him of the Stewmaker, the man who was sent to make her suffer and kill her, the same thing happened when we found them, Liz was in Ressler's arms. Lizzie had always thought out all the what if's with her and Ressler in her brain after she had been caught by the horrible man that dissolved bodies, she said to herself that he's her partner and its his job to be there for her and its her job to be there for him. But it was hard to listen to that faint voice in her head at the time. She takes a few quick steps away from Ressler. "I'm sorry" She looks up at him without making eye contact as even more tears come streaming down her face. Liz storms to the other side of the car as if she was upset, not at him but at herself. Almost as if she had done something wrong.
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The silent car ride was uneventful, except for Ressler almost hitting a squirrel.
They were about to turn into the garage they called the post office when Donald's phone starts ringing violently inside the cup holder. He ignores the phone and turns into the abandoned parking lot guarded by two men. Liz started to get annoyed by the buzzing and by Ressler being such a boy scout. She picked up the phone with temper. "Agent Keen speaking." She said in a formal and confident voice. "You're not just fed up with me, you're fed up with my phone too." Donald says with a chuckle under his voice. It was Cooper "Why are you on Ressler's phone?" he says on the other end of the fuzzy phone line. She doesn't respond, waiting for Cooper to get to the point. "What did you're source say?" Her source, Tom, she hated talking about him let alone thinking about him. She paused for a moment to regroup herself. "Three nine five two Spalding Street, apartment twenty four" She looked back onto the road to see Donald parked in his usual parking spot, the one closest to the elevator that was clearly marked with the number two template in white spray paint. "Great, ill see you there" Cooper said in a strict voice. "But sir, we're here already." She turned to Donald as he let out a large sigh of annoyance and put the keys in the ignition. "Change of plans, I already got a team heading over there." The fuzzy sound turned into nothing as she took the phone away from her ear.
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After bringing Allan Fitch to the large box where they kept Red for a short amount of time, Liz, Ressler and a couple of Bomb Squad members, stand in the elevator as they wait for the metal box to reach the blacksite. As the loud doors open Liz steps out and jogs to their office with a large pile of files in her hand, Ressler follows her then closes the door to the office behind them. She puts the heavy stack of files on her desk then hears Ressler trying to convince her again that capturing Tom was a mistake, well that's at least what she thought he was trying to do until he started to apologize of what he had said in the car. When he first said it in the car he had meant it, but now he was having second thoughts. Not just about Tom and what Liz had done, but about Liz. Donald loved that feeling of Liz in his arms, although it had only happened twice it made him want to have the world stop at that exact moment and stay there forever. After the long apology out of the corner of Liz's eye she sees Cooper call her and Ressler over, she walks out of the room and Donald follows. Liz was never nervous around Cooper's boss but she was now, the question sank in, who was my source. She puts her head up and as she's was about to respond to the dreaded question. She hears Ressler's voice come up behind her. "You must be kidding" I turn back to see what he was doing. "Does it sound like I'm kidding?" I turn back and try to stay calm and wait for him to tell them about Tom, then hear the words that she had never want from Cooper's mouth. She loved the job the minute she got it, even though her first day was pretty rough. "It's Reddington, her source is Reddington." Donald Ressler was protecting her?! As he walked away she turns back and gives Donald a look that screamed 'Thank you!' and 'Why?' at the exact same time. She turned back gave both Cooper and his boss a small smile and walked back to her office where she saw Ressler sitting in his chair while he held a phone up to his ear. She didn't know what to feel, but in the moment, she felt anger. He sat like he was listening to a boring lecture in high school. Liz yanked the phone away from his ear and hung it up. "What the hell was that out there?" she hissed. Donald just looked up at her in shock "That call was important to me you know!" he said almost yelling. "You're job might be important too!" they were now screaming at each other. Donald looked out the window that was in the wall of their office, they had caught the attention the only person who wouldn't tell, but would be slightly amused by them fighting, Aram, who sat in his seat and giggled. Donald looked back at Liz, stood from his seat and walked out, because he knew if he stayed in there longer it would have turned into a blood bath.