Prompt: Walls
Pen name: CourtneyHale
Pairing: Bella/Edward
Rating: T
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The silence was unnerving. It felt unnatural, man-made. Yet, she knew she had to move. The guard's hourly patrol would lead him right past her hiding spot soon.
Noiselessly, she stood up from her crouch and skimmed the immediate area with her eyes. She patted her hip, where her gun was holstered, automatically. With the halls to her right and left clear, she dashed across to the keypad that accessed the seemingly impenetrable bank's mainframe room.
She smiled to herself as she keyed in the 10 digit access code that she had skilfully persuaded from the new, impressionable security agent. It has been easier than taking candy from a baby, she thought happily to herself. She liked it when a mission went smoothly.
As the doors hissed open and she slipped inside, her stomach twisted and a strange feeling overcame her. Slowly, her hand crept towards her gun and she pressed herself against the walls of the room.
After a long pause, she brushed it off as a nervous reaction. Although she usually trusted any gut feelings, this mission was so undercover that she was only one of three people in the world who knew of it.
Walking slowly, allowing her eyes to sweep over the intricacies of the room. Lights flashed and computers buzzed softly with the power of electricity. She reached the centre of the room and slid in behind the desk. Hastily accessing the bank's main account information and setting up the transfer, she smiled to herself again.
The generic computer error sound wiped any traces of that smile off her face.
Retyping the password that would finalize the transfer, she prayed. But as the error sound echoed around the empty room again, her stomach plummeted. She swiftly comprehended the meaning of this. The mission was compromised. Someone on the inside had betrayed them. There may or may not be an immediate threat to her safety. She needed to get out of there, and quickly.
"It's too late," came a male voice from the shadows.
She stiffened and hooked her hand around the handle of her gun.
"Oh now, don't do that," he cooed as he came into the light.
"Edward," she hissed. The new, impressionable security agent she had stolen the access codes from was walking towards her. As he walked towards her, she tried to deduce where he had come from. Somewhere in the shadows of the walls; her gut feeling was right.
And now he was walking towards her, a revolver dangling from his strong hands.
She remembered they way they felt on her body; sweeping along her sides and caressing her gently.
She shoved those thoughts from her mind. The cost of the access codes had come at a price she was more than willing to pay after laying eyes on the handsome, green-eyed agent.
"Bella," he said to her as he paced around the edge of the desk until he was standing right in front of her.
In an instant, Bella realized she had well and truly been played. She was not the skilled operative she had thought herself to be. Nor had she been given the smooth and simple mission where everything went according to plan, as she had thought it to be.
She saw her world crashing around her.
Edward's finger under her chin pulled her face upwards to his own. His penetrating gaze stared into her with a smirk.
"You had me fooled, Miss Swan," he whispered. "But even now that I know who you really are, I can't bring myself to give you up." His stare intensified.
She held his gaze and bit her lip, playing coy. It worked. His eyes flicked down to her lips and then back to her eyes; the want burning through his emerald green irises.
She raised herself on her toes and gently pressed her lips to his, slowly increasing the pressure as she got closer to him. His soft exhale tickled her skin and a light ripple of goosebumps erupted across her shoulders.
Pausing together for a long second, they let their breath intermingle raggedly.
"Then don't," she breathed before running out of the room.
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I just really wanted to write some Spyella but you got a bit of Agentward thrown in too ;) So I'll be writing like crazy for the next 19 hours... See you soon!
