Worlds Apart

Chapter two

A/N Hey guys, I'm so glad you guys are enjoying this because I HATED tat long chapter and now they'll be shorter. As for one review from silentfyre I wanted to PM you back but I couldn't so I guess that just means you've turned your PMing option off. I know it's not that important but I like to respond to people who review as much as I can. Anyway thanks for the positive review. Ok as for the homicidal thing I'll explain it.

Sam walked down the small pathway at the side of the building still thinking about what she just saw. How could she no? She just saw Baird; a man that she thought was a total asshole on a few levels but never thought of him as a homicidal person. Now she really wished she hadn't messed with him all through the time they'd known each other because now she was pretty sure he wanted her dead.

She heard him coming and ran for the driveway and was stopped by "Hey! Sam that's not the way to the garage!" obviously making fun of her so she turned scared to but didn't want to raise suspicion.

She walked up and said "Sorry I, saw the smoke and assumed you were doing something"

Baird looked at her with one eyebrow raised "Umm, ya I was just burning some stuff but how does that stop you from unloading your stuff?" His arms were crossed as he stood in her way so she'd have to answer the question.

'Shit, that smart bastard has already figured me out. Oh god why…' she stopped her thought seeing she was wasting time making herself look even more guilty and said "I don't know, you hated it when I got into your work so I decided to stay out of it"

Baird eyed her again "That's never stopped you before?"

'shit, too smart for your own good' she thought and then said "Ok you know what it doesn't matter, just let me unpack" pushing past him and could practically feel his gaze on her.

"Wow someone got pissy fast" Baird said letting her go and thought about what had just happened.

Sam opened the door leading inside and sighed as she finally left his view and sar down on the couch her suitcase to the left of her feet. 'What having you sodding you yourself into this time Sam?' she asked herself still trying to wrap her head around what just happened.

She sat there for awhile remembering that image in her head that was of a wooden version of her head burning and Baird just watching make her sick and made her feel almost crazy for trusting Baird all those years. But why hadn't he just dropped her back then, stabbed her in the back while no one was watching. Who would ever gues or even think Baird would have killed her. 'Maybe he's even smarter then he lets on and he knew that killing any human back then would lower the odds of survival for him and was just coasting along until an opportunity to finish the war? Then he knew he could do whatever without as much drawbacks. That's why he was such a dick head to everyone, that's why he secludes himself whenever he has a chance. Maybe that story about his shitty life was all a cover up to explain his anti social behavior…' even more ideas like this swirled in her head until she heard the door from the garage open and knew who it was.

"Hey Sam, about earlier… when you said I seclude myself to often…" Baird began but Sam started talking.

"NO… I mean, no it's ok. I understand, you're just being you and I shouldn't have tried to change that" she said looking down trying to look as sorry as possible.

Baird froze at how fast she just gave in and apologized and said "Ummm… wow that was way easier than I expected. Are you sure you didn't bump you head on your flight here?"

She shook her head and Baird shrugged and went back to his garage.

Sa let out a breath she had been holding and thought 'I need to talk to Cole about this' but then she looked around and saw that the rotting building had collapsed the ceiling just above the front door leaving debris in front of the door, so even if she could clear it Baird would definitely hear her clearing it. The back door was out because the path at the side of the house came out right beside the garage door so he'd see her. She groaned seeing no easy way out this she decided just to look around and try to act normal until and opening appeared.

She brought her suitcase upstairs and found a closet with a note "This one's mine, use the other one" It was Bairds handwriting and she was very tempted to look inside but resisted the urge to and walked to the next room which was almost completely bland except a dresser and the smaller closet then the other one and found herself a bit pissed off 'Right, leave the smaller closet to the woman' She shook her head and opened the door and instantly smelt something bad, probably mold.

"Gross, so Baird only bothered to fix and maintain the things he used" she shook her head speaking out loud and after moving some webs and collecting a few hangars from another room hung her clothes inside and placed the suitcase and what was left inside of it below the hanging clothes. "There, finally unpacked"

She walked back downstairs and looked at the front door and the debris. She hadn't noticed before when she pasted by that there were supports on the walls holding up what was left of the ceiling around it so more didn't fall and Sam said "Well he made sure the house won't fall down from there at least"

She was surprised that the house wasn't as destroyed as she initially expected because of Baird and in some places it looked like he had fixed it up. Like the ceiling in another place looked newer probably meaning it fell apart too and he fixed it.

She heard the door open again and walked over to see him look towards the couch and scratch his head probably thinking where she had gone but she was right behind him and said "Oi Blondie, back here"

Baird jumped a bit not expecting her there and said "Oh, Sam. I guess you went upstairs to unpack?"

She nodded "No thanks to your shitty house work, that closet looks like it hasn't been opened in literally a hundred years"

Baird scratched his head "Ya… I haven't gotten to that quite yet"

She huffed "Really, you haven't gotten the ceiling fixed either too which worries me more" she said pointing back with her thumb at the open hole.

Baird said "Ya, I actually only added those supports a few days ago" he chuckled

"Oh so you've just been living here in an unstable house for nine months hoping it didn't crush you?" she joked.

Baird said "Ehh shut up, it's not like anyone would miss me anyway, especially now that you know I do nothing for the community"

Sam felt sorry for him when he said that but didn't mention it and said "Did people used to come here for help?"

He nodded and said "Ya but only a month, by then they either got pissed off with how I work people or I fixed things so well they never needed it fixed for awhile" he sighed.

Sam thought and despite what she had recently learned about him in the backyard she said "Why don't you get your name out there again, I mean your skills can't just be wasted on random stuff that will go nowhere. I bet you could help with a generator or something back in the main area"

Baird sighed but said "Maybe, I haven't been over there in awhile so maybe I'll drop by tomorrow" he actually smiled making Sam smile back.

"Ok Blondie, if you're gonna do that you might want to go have a proper night's sleep, ok?" Sam said.

He didn't seem to like the idea but said "Ya… I'll do that"

She could tell he wasn't crazy about the idea and said "I'll go with you if it helps"

Baird looked back and said "Ya, me walking around with a girl… who happens to be you. That will increase my street cred" He said meaning it in a bad way.

Sam said "Well since not many people know who I am they'll just think I'm your escort because no woman would rationally walk with you unless they got something for it" she smirked knowing she won that one and Baird just rolled his eyes with a angry sigh before walking away.

Sam yelled after him "I swear if I hear anything going on in there tonight I'll knock your ass out"

Baird yelled back annoyed "Yes MOM!"

She chuckled going to the couch and found some old blankets. She pulled off her shoes and covered herself with the blankets and fell asleep.

Hours later…

Sam awoke to sounds of a saw and sighed 'damn it Baird' but then she remembered the new things she learned 'shit, what is he doing, could he be getting ready to off me?"

She got up silently and didn't bother to put on her shoes and crept to the garage door just down the hall. As she approached the noise stayed right until she opened the door worrying her but she kept going. She found Baird standing over the saw and holding another wooden head of her.

"Arg! It's still not right!" he said to himself not even realizing Sam was watching.

'Right what does he mean by that?"Sam thought trying to understand what was happening when she heard him speak again.

"Damn, well off to fire pit for you too" he said frowning a bit and walked out of the garage to go out back. Sam knew what he was doing so she didn't follow but still thought over what he had said.

'what's he mean by not being perfect, does he like to have a wooden bust of me for other reasons then burning them?' she thought trying to figure out why Baird would have said what he did and wondered what the 'perfect' ones were for. Maybe they were to shoot at or to some other psycho reason that she couldn't possibly think of. He obviously burned the non-perfect ones because he didn't like them and so someone, like her, wouldn't discover his secret pass time.

She decided that after tonight she would accompany him to the main settlement then get away from him and tell Cole what she had learned. Hopefully he'd believe her, but she'd have to get through the night without letting Baird know she knew what he did or avoid just getting her throat slit.

She dashed for the couch hearing the garage close from behind the door and pretended to fall asleep. She heard the door open then close but luckily he went back inside. There were no more noises the rest of the night.

Well there you go. As I stated above this is much shorter I hope you're ok with that. Tell me what you think or drop and idea in a review, or try to guess what exactly Baird is up to. Or send me a critique, I appreciate those ones. Other than that thanks for reading on and if you're interested in Spyro the dragon (even though that's a very far stretch from Gears of war) check out my other stuff, or look at my SamxCarmine story that I plan to continue at some point. Thanks for reading.

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