So this is my first attempt at writing fanfiction guys. Go easy on me?
Disclaimer: I do not own Covert Affairs. Unfortunately.
Her red soled kitten heels echoed in the empty DPD. Annie Walker had just returned from a fiasco of an op in Moscow. It was only due to Auggie's thorough training of his tech team that Annie Made it back without being made. She looked and felt like crap but she still had to check in.
There was no one in the DPD but that was to be expected, it was after all 3 am. Annie's always went back to the DPD when she finished an op. She told herself that it was protocol to check in but she knew the truth. The truth was that she went in to see him, August Anderson.
But for the past month Auggie hadn't been there when she returned.
For the past month Auggie had been in Eritrea. Or at least that was where he said he had gone. No one in the office had heard from him since he asked for all of his unused vacation time. Not even Annie, who was his best friend, had gotten an explanation.
That was what hurt the most. It wasn't that he had picked someone else, though of course that hurt. If anyone deserved to be to be happy it was Auggie. She wouldn't get in his way. What hurt was that he wouldn't let her in. She knew that something was wrong but she didn't want to push him, thinking that he just needed time. But now he'd had a month of time and she hadn't heard a word from him.
Annie sighed heavily and went on her way. Thinking about all that wasn't going to help her get over the fact that Auggie probably wasn't coming back.
Auggie sighed. Nothing was going the way he had expected it to. He had come to Eritrea to figure out exactly what he had with Parker and the chances he had with making a future with her. Add to it the disappointment of not being a suitable candidate for the trial that could've restored his sight and his growing confusion regarding his feelings towards a coworker back at the Agency, he had jumped at the chance to get away to sort everything out.
When he had showed up at the Peace Corps camp Parker was located at, she had been happy to see him but she had been confused. She didn't understand how a blind man who, to her knowledge, had never been there before and didn't know the language could find his way to an extremely rural camp in Africa. This was one of his few frustrations with Parker. She didn't understand that he could take care of himself. Yes, she knew he had been Special Ops with her brother but she thought that all changed when he lost his sight. She treated him like a man who lost something with his disability. Annie didn't. Annie treated him like an equal and had since day one.
He had come to Eritrea with a set plan in mind but Parker beat him to it. Before he even had a chance to explain why he had followed her she cut straight to the point. She explained that she enjoyed his company but she realized before she left that she had dated Auggie mostly because he had known her brother and it was a way for her to hold onto him. During their talk Auggie realized the same. Even after they had worked that out he stayed in Eritrea. It was an easy place to be to figure out his feelings for one Miss Annie Walker, his coworker back at the Agency.
He just didn't understand how she got into his head the way she did. Every time she went on a mission he was restless until she came home. He stayed in the office with minimal sleep until she came home. If the op went bad he was positively frantic. And he just couldn't figure out why. He knew she was attractive but he obviously couldn't see her so that wouldn't affect him, and she didn't flirt with him 24/7 like every other girl in the office. He assumed that was because she wasn't into him. Rumor had it that Jai was going to make his move soon. Surely Annie would have squashed those rumors already if she'd been into someone else?
Then there was the fact that a girl with beauty like she was rumored to have would never waste it on a man who couldn't appreciate it. That was why he was avoiding returning to the states. He wanted to avoid facing the fact that when he returned, he wouldn't have a chance with Annie Walker.