Warning this story contains Season 2 spoilers and SWEARING similar to the programme.
This is my second fan fiction about Carrie and Quinn. This new story follows on after Homeland, S2 E12 (The Choice).
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THE DATE
CHAPTER 1
Peter Quinn strode purposefully down the corridor. He was going to ask Carrie Mathison out for dinner. It was a long shot and he had no idea what her response might be, but he was feeling optimistic.
He hoped it might cheer her up, since a few months ago, the love of her life, Nicholas Brody, had seemingly blown himself up with a car bomb at Vice President William Walden's Memorial Service at Langley. Although Brody's remains had never been found, it was obvious to Quinn that Brody had been in the car and detonated the bomb, killing himself along with two hundred others.
Peter Quinn still hadn't forgiven himself for disobeying the order from David Estes to eliminate Brody. He often thought about how so many of his colleagues, including Estes, would still be alive if he had simply completed his Black Ops, off-the-books mission to kill Brody, instead of putting Carrie's heart first.
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Peter Quinn was still a soldier and not officially a CIA Analyst. However, CIA headquarters at Langley was so short-staffed after the car bomb, that it had been the obvious decision for him to stay on a bit longer, as he had proven to be skilled in his role. With David Estes dead, Quinn was now working alongside Carrie under the leadership of Saul Berenson, the new Director of the Counter-terrorism Centre at the CIA. Saul was aware though, that Quinn's real boss, Dar Adal, might call him back to Special Operations at a moment's notice if necessary. There were a lot of other temporary staff like Quinn, from various agencies and countries, who had been drafted in to help out at short notice. Saul was doing his best to cope, with the limited resources and ragamuffin personnel that he had.
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Peter Quinn stopped in his tracks as he approached Carrie's office. She was stood outside her closed office door with her back pressing against it. A good-looking muscular man with brown hair that he didn't recognise was leaning towards her and running his fingers teasingly through her long blonde hair. He was a few inches taller than Carrie and she was looking up at him and giggling flirtatiously. She started rubbing his outer thigh, running her fingers up and down the seam of his stone coloured chinos. She raised her other hand and tickled the man's stubbly chin before straightening the collar of his blue linen shirt.
"Fuck!" spat Quinn as he spun round and hurried back to his own office.
"Who the fuck is he?" Quinn grumbled to himself as he sat back down at his desk and tried to resume writing his report.
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As the morning wore on, Quinn couldn't stop thinking about seeing Carrie with the mystery man. He tapped his fingers on the desk and wondered who he could ask to find out more about him. He jumped up and ran to the stationary cupboard and grabbed a plastic ruler.
Quinn headed towards Saul's office. He thought that Saul might appreciate a new ruler to replace his old peanut-butter encrusted, wooden one.
Saul's office door was closed. Through the glass, Quinn could see Saul smiling at a man with brown hair. The man's hair glinted with copper and chestnut tones, when he threw his head back in laughter.
Quinn got a glimpse of the man's stubbly profile. "Fuck, it's him again!" He backed away in disbelief and annoyance at the sight of the same man in the blue shirt and chinos, who had been flirting with Carrie outside her office earlier.
"Hey look out!" Carrie sniped as Quinn's reversing rear bumped into her.
Quinn turned to face her. "Sorry," he grunted.
"Hey, what's with the ruler?" Carrie laughed crudely. "Been measuring your dick again?"
She snatched the ruler off him and shoved it down his waistband. "Hmmm, sorry Quinn. Still too small!"
Quinn hastily pulled the ruler out of his trousers and playfully smacked Carrie on the shoulder with it.
"Who's the muscle man in Saul's office?" He growled.
Carrie laughed. "You mean you haven't met Rudy McCoy? He's our resident Super Hero!"
"Met him? No. I've never even heard of him!" Quinn scowled.
Carrie's eyes misted as she sighed nostalgically. "He's Rudy McCoy. He's the CIA Agent that saved my life in Beirut. Rudy McCoy is a legend, Quinn, a legend."
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Quinn had declined Carrie's invitation to introduce them to each other in Saul's office. He scurried back to his computer and looked up Agent Rudy McCoy's files. He saw that Agent McCoy had been temporarily redeployed to CIA headquarters due to the severe staff shortages after Brody's bomb had decimated so many personnel from Langley.
The files showed that Rudy McCoy was normally based in Lebanon. He had worked with Saul and Carrie in Beirut a few months earlier and McCoy had played a key role in running a mission there.
A local asset, Fatima Ali, had provided Carrie with intelligence that her husband, Ali Abbas, a Hezbollah Commander, was due to meet with Abu Nazir on Hamra Street.
Special Ops had managed to kill Ali Abbas and also Al-Razi, who was Abu Nazir's lieutenant, However, the mission on Hamra Street had failed to either capture or assassinate Abu Nazir, when he arrived to meet those men.
Quinn smirked to himself, rather proud that it had mainly been down to the teamwork of himself and Carrie, more recently, that had lead to Abu Nazir being killed at the abandoned Mill.
He browsed further records and found that Rudy McCoy was due to be getting a bravery award soon for repeatedly going above and beyond his duties. One of the testimonials from Saul indicated that McCoy had heroically saved Carrie, when she had been under gunfire from Hezbollah operatives whilst escaping from the house of Fatima and Abbas Ali in Beirut. It was the house where she had recovered the white cloth satchel that miraculously contained the hidden SD card that showed Nicholas Brody's suicide bomber confession video.
Carrie's words ran through Quinn's mind over and over again, taunting him.
He's our resident Super Hero!
Rudy McCoy is a legend.
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Thanks so much for reading! Chapter 2 will follow soon.
