NOTE: This fan fiction takes place early on the show, season 1.
Sam just fled her house because she found a bucket of roses on her bed, put there by Jack.
She has a talk about the situation with Bailey.
It´s sort of SBR but I´m no completely into this ship, but I´m much more SBR than Believer. ;-)
Accepting help
Bailey stepped into Sam´s office and noticed that Sam looked lost sitting at her table and starring into space.
Bailey said carefully:
"Sam?"
Sam looked up terrified, she hadn´t heard him coming in and said confused:
"What, hello, well, I.-"
Bailey asked concerned:
"Are you alright?"
Sam answered with a forced smile:
"Yeah, sure, i´m fine."
Bailey:
"Hey, don´t tell me you´re fine. I can see that you are not. So tell me what´s the problem?"
Sam turned rapidly angry:
"What´s the problem? You know what´s the problem. Everybody in this damn office knows it..."
She stopped, suddenly realizing who she was screaming at and said calmed down and feeling guilty:
"It´s Jack, of course... He´s on my mind. It´s hard to know that... he was able to get into my bedroom."
She looked up at Bailey:
"I´m scared and I worry about Chloe."
Bailey:
"Don´t worry about Chloe. We take care of her... and we´ll get you all a save home-"
a moment it seemed like he didn´t want to continue but then:
"- after all it´s not Chloe... he´s after!"
Sam seemed to be hardly consoled by his words and Bailey said:
"You can cry, let go-"
Sam interrupted him:
"NO! I... if I start I will never be able to stop!"
Bailey: "But-"
Sam:
"I´m a psychologist, I know crying can be useful to work through things but in my case I just… can´t. See the one possibility to catch Jack is to be strong, to be on top of my game and to not break down, never break down."
Bailey:
"Sam, listen to me."
She looked him in the eyes.
"You´re not a superhero, sometimes you must let things go... that´s important to carry on!"
Sam answered with tears in her eyes:
"Yeah but this pain is a bottomless pit. If I start to cry about roses in my bedroom, how will I feel about Tom? It´s just too awful."
She gave in and went to Bailey who gave her a long hug.
Sam began to cry without making any noise.
Bailey smoothed her hair back and then suddenly Grace came in.
She was looking at her papers and didn´t recognize the whole situation, so she began:
"I found something really interest--oh sorry.
She felt obviously uncomfortable and said:
"I´ll just go."
She was about to turn around and go right away but Sam let go of Bailey and said while wiping her tears:
"No, it was my fault. I had sort of a weak moment, don´t bother, stay!"
Grace:
"It´s okay. Everybody needs to be weak sometimes and in your case it was about time. We were starting to think you´re not human! But honestly this can wait for 10 minutes, see you in a bit."
Sam smiled gratefully:
"Okay, good and thanks!"
Grace smiled at Sam very warmly, gave Bailey a blink and stepped through the door.
Sam took a deep breath and opened her mouth to say something but she couldn´t find the right words.
Instead Bailey said:
"Sam, things will improve and trust me, I´ll watch over you and Chloe as well."
Sam answered a bit hopeless:
"Things will improve? You know,just like I do that that was only the beginning but... I know you´ll watch over me. I trust you. Completely."
Bailey:
"Good... then I´ll leave you alone now."
Bailey went to go but Sam said hastily:
"Come on. Stay for a little bit."
Bailey turned around surprised.
Sam shrugging:
"Yeah, I´m too often alone. Well without people I trust. That´s what I meant."
Bailey took her hand and they both sat down on the sofa waiting for Grace.
None of them said a word but sometime silence can say more than a hundred words.
Bailey squeezed Sam´s hand and they both understood.
The end