AN: Hey~ I know I'm back Yay! Isn't it exciting? So yeah, I know last chapter was pretty short, but that was because it was a warm up. Ok? Um... So... right did I not mention, I suck at spelling? So sorry, sometimes my "Editor(s)" ( MY mom or one of my best friends.) Are not around, so bear with me please.
But if you go back and look, I edited chapter 1, yay! It's not the best, but it's way better.
WARNINGS: Uh same as last time, Minor sash, swearing violence. The works. This is T people, and I'll do my best to keep it that way.
DISCLAIMER: I seriously don't own Lie To Me, if I did there would be more Eli Loker.
Cal Lightman stormed out of the cube to his unpaid intern in a huff.
"Tell you got something, Loker." Lightman demanded from Eli.
"Nothing, just he knows what we need to know, but he's not telling us." Eli sighed, knowing that Lightman would be pissed.
"Damn it!" Lightman yelled, he took a minute to gain control of himself than curiously looked at the FBI agent.
"I'm Rosabella, Eli's oldest friend." She stated after falling under the pressure of his look.
"I see, well we would like to keep him here, is that going to be a problem?" Lightman inferred, deciding business over personal any day.
"As long as it helps get answers." Rosabella sighed, "But I would like to stay with him here, so if he tries something. I know Reynolds is here, but you never know." Rosabella stated.
Cal nodded, took a last glance at Loker and noticed something was ... off with him. He didn't look like this in the morning, had his "Friend" changed that? Or was it something else? Keeping the thoughts in mind Cal Lightman headed to his office to analysis the evidence.
Ria knocked on Foster's open office door, peeking her head in. Gillian foster looker up from her work and smiled.
"Do you need help with something, Torres?" She asked.
"Yeah," Ria swallowed, "have you noticed any, changes in Loker recently?" She asked, struggling to word it the correct way.
"Changes? What exactly do you mean?" Foster asked.
"Well, his friend is here, she's the FBI agent, Rosella. Well she said that Eli has lost weight, and has lost sleep to an unhealthy amount." Torres took a second. "Well, we never noticed, did we? We always analysis the criminals that we didn't see that he's suffering." Torres pleaded with Foster.
Foster placed her work into a folder, and stood from her chair. She began to walk over to Torres, and think off what to say. Yes, she hadn't noticed Eli's shift in behavior just like her. Yes, she was now worried about her co-worker. "Look Torres, I'm worried about him to, but there's nothing I can do. Lightman is the only one who can sign his paycheck, and I have tried to get him to promote him. Nothing has worked out so far, Emily even asked and he didn't listen."
Torres was stunned, she had tried that much? "Well, there is one other way..." Torres lead Foster on.
"Hey are you going to talk to me?" Rose asked Eli.
"I have work, so, no." Eli honestly answered.
"Look I am sorry I brought him up." No response "Want any coffee?"
"..."
"Come on you look like a zombie, even you have coffee from time to time."
"You know how I like it."
Rose smiled to herself, "Be back in a few." She said kissing him on the cheek and leaving for coffee.
Rose was letting the coffee brew when two women came up to her. One she recognized as Ria, the other she didn't.
"Agent Roseabella?" The unfamiliar one asked.
"Huh? Sorry my last names Romanus. Roseabella Romanus." Rose told her.
"Gilian Foster." She said as she held her hand out.
"Pleasure, now is their something you need me for?" Rose asked curious.
"Yes," Ria answered. "Loker told me about how you were going to talk to Lightman about his pay?"
"Yes, I was going over there after coffee. Why?" Rose eyed them curious.
"Well, he's in his office now." Ria hinted.
"Okay." Rose said as she walked past the women.
She knew she would have to do this, get anything done or not. She couldn't sit and watch Loker suffer and do nothing. She wouldn't make the same mistake like last time he suffered.
Rose pushed open the doors to Cal Lightmans' office and took a deep breath, game time.
Lightman sat in his office going over the recent evidence he was given. which was next to nothing. Cal let an exasperated sigh out and stood up, and walked around his office. He knew this Marx man had raped kids, then sold them. He knew that he was still connected to the people he sold them to. Also he knew he wasn't going to give up the names of these people up, easily.
What to do, what to do? Cal Lightman asked himself.
As he was in the middle of his thought, he heard a knock at his door.
"Come in." The British man said.
It was the FBI agent, Loker friend. She looked like she defiantly had something to say to him, most likely something about Loker.
"Hello, do you have a minute?" She asked, but Cal saw she didn't care, she was still going to talk to him spare minute or not.
"Sure, it's not like I have to find all these kids." Lightman replied frustrated.
"Well I just need to talk to you for a minute, it's important." She pushed
"Go on then." Lightman said, sitting at his desk.
"Well I am pretty sure you have noticed a change in Loker, right? I mean it's your job to notice things. And I noticed thing to, like how my best friend can barely pay his rent, struggles to get meal, to get sleep. And there's nothing I can do about it! Why because he's too stubborn to accept my money or help. He thinks he's fine with this dead end job and his second job, but he's clearly not." The FBI agent Roseabella ranted.
"Yes I noticed, but what do you want me to do? Loker can leave this job if he wants for a better one but he choses not to." Lightman countered.
"Of course he can't leve this job! He has his reasons for being here. You think I haven't tried to get him to ditch this place? Oh and gee I wonder what you could do. Hmm?" She faked a questioning look "You could get him his payroll back!" She yelled, that's when Lightman noticed something about her.
"I can't, that's his punishment for what he did, I'm sure he's told you." Cal said, observing the in the agent.
"Punishment? He's served it out already! He has suffered for over a year! He need suffer no more! After what happened," Suddenly a very real shocked expression came on Roseabella, as if she also let something very personal slip.
"What happened?" Cal questioned.
"It was nothing, it doesn't matter." Roseabella said.
"Now I ask, how do you lie perfectly? Well Almost perfectly?" Cal asked, causing a shocked look on Roseabella face.
"How did you notice that I am a good liar?" She asked, still shock, but defiantly intrigued.
"I am a very good lie detector." Cal responded.
"Huh... interesting. But this isn't about me, it's about Eli." Roseabella said, taking a step closer.
"Like I said, there is nothing I can do. Now can you please leave my office? I have things to do." Cal stated calmly, sensing Roseabella very upset mood.
Suddenly she took a chair by his desk and threw it by the door, "This isn't over! Lightman!" She yelled and stormed out off Lightmans office. Leaving him stunned at the outburst.
Loker jumped out of his seat when he heard the loud noise. At first he was confused, but when he saw Rose coming from the direction of Lightmans office, he understood. She marched over to the coffee, which was also which was also where Ria and Foster were. That couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
Finally he decided tha it was best to got over there and calm her down.
"Rose, what happened?" He asked her, as he approached Foster and Ria were looking at him, confused.
"That, ugh!" She yelled, takeing a drink of much-needed coffee.
Loker sighed, "You talked to Lightman didn't you? I told you not to, didn't I?" Loker said, he was getting upset with her for even trying to talk to him...
"So? Had to give it a try didn't I? Stop my best friend from living like that?!" Rose yelled.
"Rose, calm down!" Loker said getting uneasy with her yelling.
"I won't calm te hell down!" She yelled walking closer to Eli.
He took another gulp from the bottle, and started to walk closer. Each step he would get angrier at Eli.
Eli started to visibly pale at the memory of him. Foster and Ria took notice and saw how he was changing quickly.
"Eli?" Ria asked him.
He raised his hand and punch him, over and over. After a while he started to kick him. Finally he would pass out on the bed, leaving Eli in his pain because Eli knew he deserved it.
"Agent Romanus, stop it!" Foster yelled, breaking Roseabella out of e=her anger to notice Eli.
"Oh, shit..." Roseabella began. "El, Eli look at me." silently he obeyed. "I wasn't going to hurt, you know I never would." He nodded.
"I know."
Smiling Roseabella kissed him on the cheek, "Sorry, do you want coffee?"
"Why not?"
"I'm sorry but, what the hell just happend?"Ria asked.
Roseabella Looked at Eli, she sensed he didn't want his co-workers to know the truth so she lied. "Nothing it doesn't matter."
Ria had to believe that, because she didn't show ay signs of lying, but the truth was she knew something had set Eli off. Gilian looked between the two friends, and could see Eli scratch his eyebrow. Was Loker feeling ashamed off something, had he, no, had his friend lied to them? Gilian pondered this information, and walked over to her office.
Eli and Roseabella walked back into the analysis room, their mood was glum and quiet.
"Eli," Rose began eyeing her friend. "look I know I shouldn't have taken my temper out on you. I am really truly sorry. Can you ever forgive me?" Rose asked, tears stinging her eyes.
"Rose I'm not mad at you. how could I ever be mad at you? Your my best friend,you know me better than I know myself." Eli confessed.
"Ah, you and your Radical Honestly." Rose smiled, kissing his cheek.
"Why do you keep doing that? I thought you had a finance? Or is your perfect love over?" Eli teased.
"Oi, you now Alexander and I are the best couple ever. Besides I know I am not your type." Rose countered.
"Not here." Eli responded quickly looking around the room, double checking no one was around to figure out the meaning behind Roses words.
"Eli," Rose eyed him. "you haven't told them have you?"
"No..." eli looked to the floor.
"Isn't that part of your honesty thing though? Being open about yourself, no shame in your words?" Rose asked, slightly worried about her best friend.
"Yeah, I guess. But it's different I, what if they're like my father?" Eli asked tears stinging his eyes.
"Eli, look at me. That man is not your father. Even by blood its debateable becasue of how horrible he is and how wonderful you are." Rose smiled at her friend.
"Yeah, but what if he was right? I am kind of disgus-" Eli couldn't even finish a word because a pain to the side of his face stopped him.
"Eli Loker, now you listen to me. You are not disgusting, your father is. He is a horrible man! How many times do I have to remind you? What he did is unforgivable, you know that." Rose said, a tear slipping from her face. How could Eli forget that? after all his father had done to him?
"I know, I'm sorry for upsetting you, Rose. But, what am I to do? Can I just walk up to them and say, 'Oh did I forget to mention after all this time, I'm gay?' or do I make it subtle just causally point it out in conversation?" Eli asked, obviously stressed by the matter.
"It doesn't matter, just make sure they're calm at the time, so they can process it? It's just apart of you, it is who you are. You know you shouldn't hide it."
Then, the most unexpected thing happened. Someone walked into the room and asked, "Loker, you're gay?"
AN: YO~ what did you think? Like? Dislike? So anyway now you see the slash. But don't worry relationships aren't a main thing. Unless of course you, my readers, want it to be. :)
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