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Hayden's POV

I unlock the apartment door and see Lance sitting on the couch a bottle of beer in his hand. This is going to be an interesting conversion.

"Lance?"

"Yea Hayden?" he says looking away from the news

"Do you have time to talk?" I ask taking in the button down shirt and dress pants

"Yea I'm going out with the team and Daisy tonight but she won't be here for about 10 minutes. What's up?

"If I decided I didn't want to be a FBI agent or forensic anthropologist what would you say?" I ask not looking him in the face.

"I'd ask why first before judging it"

"Oh." I say.

"Why did you want to know that?" Lance asks sitting forward and putting the beer down

"Lance I- I auditioned as a joke for a show in the theatre district and well I g-got it. I'm a l-lead." I stutter

"You what!"

"Melissa wouldn't audition if someone didn't go with her so I went and I got in and I took the job." I say.

"Since when are you into theatre Hayden?" he says

"I don't know, but I step on the stage and I feel different. It is a difference I like for the time being. I need to try new things right now." I insist

"I thought the lab was your home I thought you knew what you wanted to be and who you were." Lance says "I didn't know you were having an identity crisis."

"I'm not saying I'm giving up on the FBI. I need to take a break though. Lance the lab is YOUR home." I say.

"Sometimes…" he mumbles

"Always, it will always be your home. Everyone there loves you. You guys are family. They're my family too and I still want to be an FBI agent but not right now. Less than a year ago one of the best relationships I have ever had, was ended by a sniper. I went to his funeral in England, then I took a trip. I came back, took up my studies again but I still feel restless and this show makes me feel better." I say,

"Hayden I just think you're being rash."

There is a knock on the door Daisy walks in.

'Great just what I need'I think.

"Lancelot you ready to go? Oh sorry am I interrupting?" she says.

"No, Hayden and I are just discussing whether or not she can take a job at a theatre." Lance says.

"We're not discussing it. I took the job already." I say. "I can finish my degree online I only need a few more credits to graduate and I can defer my acceptance to Quantico. I have to do this. Listen Vincent died, and I know they caught the killer but I don't feel any better. I need to do this so I can go settle back at the FBI."

"Hayden I think you should listen to Lance." Daisy says.

"No! I'll be 20 in a few months I took the job that's that! I thought you'd be happy for me but I guess not!" I storm out.

"Hayden!"

I slam the door.