A/N: I posted the first chapter last night from my mobile and I noticed on my read through that my phone took some auto-correct prilvages and I wanted to add to it. I've written drabbles longer than this and I am very unhappy with it. So here's to hoping that I can please myself a little more all though I may not be able to get it too much longer. Also I want to warn you. Slow build, lots of character interaction, lots of triggers and smutt later one as well as strong language rating will in crease. I will also post if trigger warnings apply in the author's note. So please read and review and let me know what you think.
Alexis Cobb had had a hard day at work. On Monday's she normally saw two to three clients that had been making great progress under her therapy but not today. She had to do complete emergency intake on a new patient that had just been released from the hospital that would require intense treatment. The girl was fourteen years old and had just been brought back to the states after being sold in a sex ring when she was nine. The trauma that the girl had experienced was beyond anything she had ever dealt with before. Needless to say she was exhausted.
The young woman decided that a hot bath and a nap before her loving husband came home from work was just what she needed. Alexis sighed with pleasure and relief as she sank into the bubble bath that she had ran herself. She didn't know how much longer she was going to be able to continue working in her condition. She was six months pregnant and getting bigger by the day and her work was incredibly taxing on her mentally, physically, and emotionally not to mention that while she was working with someone's mind it completely drained her of all energy. After about thirty minutes, a few chapters of her favorite book and listening to soft rock Alexis decided that it was time for that nap.
Bobby opened the front door as quietly as he could; trying not to wake his wife but Alexis had heard it anyway. She got up and slipped on her fluffy blue robe and started down the hall toward the living room to greet her husband. She could see his silhouette against the floor lamp of the living room. She smiled rubbing her belly as she started to step toward him.
Time stood still. There was so much red Bobby collapsed gasping and rasping for air. There had never been a sound of a gunshot but Alexis's husband had been shot and blood blossomed from his chest. She rushed to his side slipping in his life force before kneeling down next to him and applying pressure to the wound. He took her hand and smiled blood bubbling in his mouth. "Take care of my girls." Bobby said as his body went completely limp. All Alexis could do was nod; her tears leaving her speechless.
Adrenaline kicked in and Alexis maneuvered around to where his head was resting in her lap. She placed her fingertips on his temples calling on more strength than she ever had before and touched him everything into his mind reaching for even the smallest of tugs that he was still in there. Nothing. Not even a spark. Bobby was gone, so she did the next thing she could and began to take his memories. Their daughter would know her father even if it was through her mother.
After Alexis had finished what she had sat out to do and collected her dead partner's mind within her own; something she had only ever done once before. Alexis started to get up to go back to the bedroom to call 911 when she felt something akin to bee sting on the side of her neck and then the world went black.