In the morning Eve sat in the kitchen when Becca, Eve turned towards her and smiled and she smiled back.
"What happened last night what was all the noise?" Becca asked yawning, making Eve yawn too.
"It was him having a nightmare I walking in on him; he caught me and started shouting at me"
"A nightmare really at his age what about?" Becca asked interested.
"His childhood I think" Suddenly toast popped out of the toaster making them both jump.
"Are you going to be safe handling him on your own?" Becca asked worried, Eve nodded her head.
"I'll be fine I mean you tied him up didn't you" Becca nodded in agreement. Eve went to get the toast and prepared it to take upstairs.
"As long as you're sure" Eve nodded and smiled.
"I'll be fine I'll just take this up then I can help you with whatever" She said putting the toast on a tray and leaving the room with it.
Quietly she knocked on the door after standing in the hallway for a while gaining her confidence she knew this was going to be awkward but she opened the bedroom door. Mick gave her a daggered look as he watched her cross the room towards him with the breakfast tray and placed it beside him. She noticed the furious look that he gave her and raised both her hands in the air.
"I come in peace" She said "Just thought you might like some breakfast" Mick said nothing just scowled at her, Eve sighed "Look I'm sorry about last night, I just wanted to do the right thing you sounded so scared and I..."
"I wasn't scared" Mick growled.
"Alright alright fine you wanna keep pretending you do that, I know different"
"You know fuck all!" Mick yelled causing Eve to jump and step back. "You don't fucking know anything about my life, what I've been through you're just some stupid teenager who things she's all grown up" He said mockingly.
"Then tell me make me understand" Eve said irritably, Mick chuckled noticing how her cheeks flushed red when she got irritated, God she looked beautiful when she was mad he would love to make her cheeks flush red like it another way, he quickly pushed the thoughts to her mind.
"You're not old enough to understand" Eve sighed and sat on the bed next to him.
"I'm old enough to do a lot of things" Mick raised an eyebrow at her.
"Yeah like what?" Mick asked getting frustrated by her stubbornness and eagerness to ask questions and persistence to get them answered.
"Like this" Eve said putting a hand on each of his cheeks and leaning in to kiss him.
It was a long soft delicate kiss her plump lips lightly touching his, she could feel his bristles as her thumb lightly moved on his cheek, Mick's breath stopped and time seemed to stop. It seemed so right but at the same time it was too insane even for him, he couldn't believe he was kissing this woman no more than a few months ago he had wiped out her entire family and damn nearly killed her, the thrill he had felt as the bullet lodged in her back and no longer than a few days ago she had been hell bent on killing him. He still remembered that smirk she had given him as she had impaled him against the wall, even for Mick this was crazy way out of his comfort zone and yet here he was enjoying it he raised a hand and held the back of her had, tangling his fingers into her hair and forcing her lips closer, Eve moaned in approval before they finally parted.
Mick's facial expression when they parted could only be described as shocked; he noticed Eve's death heaving slightly from the kiss as she ran a hand through her hair.
"Well, see I'm old enough to do that so I'm old enough to understand you, that's all I want to do is find out about the man who tried to save my life" Eve explained, Mick rolled his eyes and sighed Fine he said grabbing the toast off of the breakfast tray even though by now it would probably be cold.
"So what's with the nightmares" Eve said grinning getting comfy and ready to listen. Mick scowled he had never told anyone these things why did it have to be her? Why had she got so deep into his head? He just sighed and prayed that she would never remember who he was so she counted taunt him with his deep secrets later.
"When I was younger a tourist killed my sister" Mick said bluntly Eve gasped " I was knocked out but when I came too she was dead, my father blamed me for it said I should have saved her, knocked seven bells of shit out of me for it, broken nose, ribs, black eyes you fucking name it"
"That's awful" Eve said sympathetically.
"Dad tracked down the killer, took me along with him and he, he killed him right in front of me" Eve screwed her eyes shut at the confession.
"That's horrible I'm sorry you had to go through that" Mick shrugged his shoulders.
"Shit happened and so yeah that's why I have nightmares"
"You're very brave you know to have gone through that"
Mick frowned he had never thought of it that way, if anything he thought he was a fucked up cowardly cunt for still having nightmares about it after all those years but in a way he understood what she meant lots of people would have never have survived the injuries he had sustained and witnessing the murder would have been enough to send a kid to a mental institution but here he was standing tall, strong a survivor.
"You know what maybe you are more mature for your age" Eve grinned and Mick grinned back, wow she thought he smiled at her, she had actually seen him smile. It made him look handsome less stressed and angry it made him look like a husband or a father maybe both.
"You know it" Eve said grinning taking away the tray before leaving.
Becca was hanging up washing when Eve got downstairs she offered to help and Becca accepted. As Eve was hanging up the washing thoughts filled her head, she couldn't believe she had kissed the man she didn't even know his name and she had kissed him and yet she didn't think it was regret she was feeling she thought it was butterflies. She felt so sorry for this man he had suffered so much in his life she wished there was some happiness in it. Maybe she was the one to give him it?