This is a RyanxNatalia fic. With some mentionings of EricxCalleigh and CaRWash.
Plot: What if you got told your soul mate was the one person you can't stand?
Disclaimer: I only own the storyline.
No, I don't hate you
don't want to fight you
know I'll always love you
but right now I just don't like you
Which of us to Bury the Hatchet – Relient K
It was a day like any other. Or at least it was supposed to be.
Ryan didn't have to tell her not to screw up anything today. It went unspoken. And Natalia knew that giving him any opportunity for him to be all over her like a rash was not usually a good thing.
"What's this card doing here?" She said idly, glancing over the crime scene for the fifteenth time.
"Well just bag it so we can look at it later." His patience was on a short string.
"I know this might be hard to believe, but I know what to do Ryan" she replied smarmily, bagging it like he'd said.
"Then do it."
The thing that bugged him was that since Delko and Calleigh decided to make it official, they'd been working more cases together – leaving him with Natalia when he wasn't working cases himself.
Not only that, but Natalia was responsible for the whole thing. She'd unofficially set them up, leaving Ryan feeling like the day-shift loser, compared to Eric, the day-shift stud.
He had a hundred reasons why he hated working with her so much. But despite the numerous superficial reasons, one was deep; too deep to ever mention to anyone.
Ryan was insecure. He saw her as a snake; someone that led him on once for her own ends, someone that reinforced his own insecurities that he tried almost daily to ignore.
Calleigh brought him up; he could be honest with her. Natalia brought him down, as if she was better than him, but he told himself that she wasn't.
That's why he made snide comments to her, whether he could use her personal circumstances or her working credibility – he was always looking for something to have on her; something to reassure himself that he was a better person than her, something to boost his own ego.
He stood up and picked up his kit, now closed. "We ready to go?"
"Yeah, sure. I just want to make sure we didn't miss anything."
"Go ahead."
He didn't help. He just watched her. His eyes narrowed. Trying to stop himself from glancing at her ass. Her looking good, was enough to make him dislike her even more.
He hated himself for it, but the fact that she was a little more disheveled under the stress when her sister was kidnapped, less glamorous, made him almost want to gloat in the situation. Although he knew how wrong that would be… and he knew how ashamed he'd be around Horatio or Calleigh if they ever found out.
"All done?" He asked when she came back to him at the front door, ready to go.
"Yeah…" she took one last glance at where the woman used to be on the floor, stab wound straight to the heart. Now she was with Alexx. The puddle of blood left behind, which could quite obviously remind her of the death of her ex. Natalia covered her expression of hurt quite well though. Ryan didn't feel sorry for her. She deserves everything she's got, he told himself.
"Let's get back to the lab then, process this..."
She nodded and the two of them walked to the car wordlessly. Small talk was rare for them and neither of them thought it worth their time to pretend they were anything more than colleagues.
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