Skyla pulled back and stared at Piers in confusion.
"Piers," She started after staring at him and analyzing him.
"Don't, I know what you're going to say," Piers said looking away.
"I'm so confused by this, but you understand that can't happen again," Skyla said looking at him sadly.
He took a step back from her but didn't drop his arm. She gave a soft smile.
"We better get back to HQ, I'm going to run back inside and get some to go coffees, want one?" Skyla said to him.
Piers shrugged and leaned against the window. Skyla walked inside and ordered; while she waited, she turned and stared at Piers through the window. She put her fingers to her lips, thinking about what just happened.
"Miss, your coffees are ready," the barista said to her trying to get her attention.
"Sorry, thank you," she replied putting the cups in a drink holder and carrying them out.
She gave Piers a small smile and pulled out the coffee she got him. Skyla drove back to HQ; Piers stared out the window lost in thought. As soon as she pulled into a parking spot he got out of the car.
"Damn it," Skyla said watching him walk away.
She put the car in park and got out; grabbing the coffee she got for Chris and walked inside. She made her way to his office and stuck her head in.
"Hey," she said getting his attention.
Chris looked and gave her a small smile. She placed the coffee in front of him, turning and walking out before he had a chance to question her. He frowned but didn't press it. Skyla walked towards her desk with her phone in hand, when she got to her desk she slammed it down, flinching when she heard the familiar cracking sound.
"Shiiiiiit," she said as she picked it up and looked at her screen.
She sat down and started working trying to take her mind off of the morning's events. Her phone pinged, and she sighed in frustration. She put it in her purse since she couldn't do anything with it.
'Hope it's not too important,' she thought.
Couple hours went by, she was pretty engrossed in her work; so much so that she didn't hear someone come up behind her.
"Are you mad at me?" A voice sounded behind her a few minutes.
She turned to face Chris and stared at him before it dawned on her, and she glanced at her bag.
"You tried texting me?" She asked him with a smile.
"Yeah," he replied looking at her confused.
She reached into her bag and handed him her phone. Chris looked down at her phone and groaned.
"Really Skyla?" He asked handing her the phone back.
She smirked innocently and shrugged causing him to shake his head.
"Did you need something?" She asked changing the subject.
Chris looked at the floor and rubbed the back of his neck causing Skyla to roll her eyes.
"You got to stay late, which is why you thought I was mad," she said looking up at him.
"Apparently there are some meetings I have to attend that I can't get out of, not sure when I am getting home either," he replied.
She stood up and pouted.
"I guess I'll have to deal with Piers on my own then," she sighed.
Chris rolled his eyes at her dramatics before he turned towards his office, before his walked office he turned his head over his shoulder.
"Go get your phone taken care of," he told her sternly walking back towards his office.
Skyla sighed and shut down her computer; she got up and made her way over to Piers' desk.
"Hey," he said glancing up at her briefly.
"I think we should talk about earlier," she replied.
He turned back to his computer but nodded.
"Yeah, but not here, we don't need rumors running around," Piers replied.
"How about at home then, since you don't have a reason to avoid me anymore," Skyla replied with a smile.
"Okay," he replied not looking up from his monitor.
"See you at home then," she said heading out of HQ to go deal with the phone situation.
She was glad Piers agreed to sit down and talk to her because she knew this needed to be dealt with. The tension between her and Piers was static, and it needed to before the mission that was coming up.
When Piers got to the apartment, Skyla was in the kitchen cooking dinner. He stood there for a minute watching her. Skyla turned to see Piers and smirked; he nodded and headed to his room to put his bag down. Skyla was setting two places when he came out.
"Only two places? What about Chris?" Piers asked.
"Just us tonight," she replied.
They ate in awkward silence when they were done Piers cleared the table and washed the dishes. When he turned around Skyla was sitting on the counter staring at him biting her lip. He closed the distance he ran his thumb across her bottom lip releasing from her teeth causing him to suck in his breath from the want; she sighed and laid her forehead onto his chest.
"I'm sorry about earlier, and about avoiding you," he said placing his chin on her head.
"It's time to talk, let's head into the living room," she said quietly.
Piers sighed and pulled back walked towards the living room and sat on the couch. Skyla followed him; she hopped over the back of the sofa and sat beside Piers. He stared at her and smirked.
"You act so immaturely sometimes," he said to her.
"You still love me, and you're only a few months older than me I would like to add," she replied laying her head on his shoulder.
Piers face went straight and sat, so he was facing her.
"Piers, when you did you, start feeling this way?" she finally asked turning towards him.
Piers watched her for a moment as she brought her knees to her chest and laid her head on top of her knees staring at him waiting for his answer.
"Honestly, I think it was that mission when it was Chris, me, you, and Leon fighting Wesker. But it took me a while to realize it. I think I started realizing it at the ball, especially when Leon called me telling me about the wreck; my heart sank. I thought it was because of how close we were, but now I realize that is not why," he said looking at the floor.
"God, I'm so sorry Piers. I've been a horrible friend since you been back," Skyla replied scooting closer to him.
Piers shook his head looking back up at her.
"No, I had no idea. How could you have known? You also had a lot going on. Don't blame yourself," Piers frowned at her.
She leaned over and wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head on his shoulder. Piers stiffened at first but relaxed and wrapped one of his arms around her.
"I wish things were different Piers, I really do. Like this was a different universe, and I had met you first," Skyla said quietly.
"Stop," Piers replied laying his head on hers.
Skyla was the first to move; she pulled back slowly from the embrace and grabbed the remote.
"So what movie?" She asked.
"Put whatever on," he replied relaxing back into the couch.
She found a movie on Netflix and relaxed again on the couch. Halfway through the film, she started to get tired and laid against Piers. Skyla felt her eyes growing heavy and couldn't fight the sleep anymore. Piers laughed out loud to something in the movie. He looked down at her and ran his hand over her cheek. He adjusted, so they were both comfortable, but within a couple of minutes, they had both fallen asleep. Around 1 in the morning Chris came home long after the movie was over. He found Skyla's face buried into Piers' ribs with his arm around her.
"Looks like they made up," Chris sighed quietly to himself.
Chris gently moved Piers' arm and started to lift Skyla up off of him; causing Piers eyes to shoot open in a panic.
"Sorry just trying to get her off of you, didn't look like you were comfortable," Chris whispered.
Piers nodded, Chris adjusted, and Piers grabbed the remote and turned the TV off. He looked back towards Chris and nodded and headed towards his room quietly shutting his door. Chris laid Skyla down in their bed and stripped down before climbing in beside her. Skyla buried her face into his chest before mumbling something incoherently and breathing heavily to indicate that she was asleep. Chris wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep.
Flashback
'Mr. Wesker when can I see my daddy?'
Wesker smiled at the little girl
'Your father wants you to keep up this training. As soon as you're done with training and are perfect, your daddy said you can come back home.'
'Okay, Mr. Wesker.'