Skyla woke up several hours later with Chris lying on her chest. She smiled and wrapped her good arm around his neck. She didn't want to wake him, especially since he was sleeping so peacefully on her. She moved her hand to his hair and gently ran her finger through his hair. Chris snuggled down further into her chest and smirked.
"Mmmmm sleep well?" he asked quietly wrapping his arms around her like she was a pillow.
Skyla smiled and kept running fingers through his hair. Chris lifted his head slightly to look at her.
"How did you sleep?" Skyla asked while staring at the ceiling
Chris untangled himself from around Skyla and pulled himself to lie beside Skyla.
"Pretty good, best sleep I've gotten in a few days."
Skyla glanced at Chris; he still had some bags under his eyes but otherwise looked fine. She debated on snuggling up to him or getting up and getting dressed to make them something to eat. She felt her stomach twinge, so she decided on making them some food. She slowly got up and made her way to the closet to find something to wear. She decided on comfy clothes and pulled them on gingerly afterward making her way to the bathroom to clean up her face. Chris watched her, getting up himself once she was in the bathroom. Once Skyla came out of the bathroom, she was slightly disappointed to see Chris half dressed.
She made them an early dinner; they ate with a little talk here and there about what had been going on at work. Once they were done, Chris got up collected the dishes and then proceeded to clean the dishes.
"You know I do have a dishwasher." Skyla teased him.
"Those things never actually clean the dishes, and you have to prewash them so what the point?" Chris replied.
Skyla watched him from the table thinking about what had been going on the last few weeks. The last thing she figured would happen in this scenario was that they were living together. She had thought when taking this job they would go on a couple of missions, and she would wind up having to finish him off. She felt a hard pang in her chest at the thought.
After finishing the dishes, Chris stood at the sink feeling Skyla's eyes burning into his back. He turned and stared back wondering what was going through her head. He laid a towel on the counter that he had used to dry the dishes and his hands and walked over to her planted a kiss on top of Skyla's head. She looked up at him and smirked. They sat on the couch watching TV for a few hours.
The next few days flew by for both of them. Chris got up early one morning to discover Skyla already in the shower and getting ready for the day which shocked him. Chris quietly got his stuff together and went into the bathroom. He brushed his teeth while Skyla finished her shower. The water shut off, and the towel behind him disappeared through the shower curtain. After a minute or two, the shower curtain opened, and Skyla emerged with the towel around her. Skyla came up behind him wrapping her arm around him and planted small kisses on his shoulders. Chris watched Skyla in the mirror as she continued placing more kisses on his back. He turned around in her embrace, tilting her chin up he kissed her lips lightly.
Chris climbed in the shower as Skyla grabbed him a fresh towel. She hung it up and exited the bathroom to get dressed. She went and got ready for work. She wasn't due back for a few weeks, but she felt she needed to come back. Chris had wanted her to wait at least another week before coming back, but she had set it up with Anderson already. She was stuck on desk duty for a month, but at least she would be back, but Chris had assured her he didn't tell Anderson or anyone else the plan that had been devised by Wesker to kill him. According to him they only thought they had stumbled upon Wesker in the mansion.
Chris sighed when he came out of the bathroom seeing Skyla finishing getting ready for work.
"Are you sure about coming back today?" Chris asked concerned about her.
"Chris, I'm fine. I am confined to my desk, even if you have to go on a mission, I am still going to be sitting at my desk until I am cleared by my doctor."
Once Chris and Skyla arrived outside the BSAA building they shared one last look before entering the building. Everyone was keeping quiet, they knew the two were living together they just didn't know the extent of their relationship. She was nervous coming back into the office, there had already been rumors about them before, but Chris told her there were rumors flying around like crazy right now about the two of them. Chris was called into Anderson's office as they passed by to their respective desks.
There was yelling in the office, and everyone was staring towards the office. Chris didn't sound happy about whatever was going on. Skyla tried to keep her eyes on her computer monitor. Chris came out and slammed the door to the office. Skyla looked up towards Chris storming towards his desk. Chris booted up his computer and sat down at his desk. A few moments passed, and his messenger popped up.
'What's going on?' It was from Skyla.
'They have taken you off as my partner and assigned me a new one.' Chris typed furiously
'Maybe it's for the best Chris.' Skyla sighed as she typed her sentence.
Chris looked up and glared at Skyla. She gave a small smile and went back to her work.
Later on in the day and young man came into the building and headed towards Anderson's office. Skyla watched him cautiously. He was slightly taller than her with a small but muscular build. Chris looked up and noticed Skyla staring towards Anderson's office. He looked into seeing someone was in there. Chris sighed and went back to work.
Skyla got up and passed Chris' desk, he turned and watched her; he watched her enter the training room. A frown formed on his face. It was too early for her to be working out. He was about to get up and confront her about this when Anderson came up with the person in his office. Chris glared up at them.
"Chris this is your new partner I was telling you about, this is Piers Nivans," Anderson said with a small smile on his face.
"I have an absolutely fine partner; I don't need this kid following me around like a lost puppy." Chris snarled.
"With all due respects Chris, your partner will be out of commission for a while," Anderson responded with a tone in his voice.
Chris looked to the young kid. Why did they keep assigning him kids? Chris got up and shook his head. He headed to the training room where he had seen Skyla go a few minutes before. He wanted to talk to her about working out before she further injured herself. Anderson sighed and showed Piers his desk. He was two desks behind Chris.
The doors to the training room swung open, and Chris entered the room. To his relief, he saw that Skyla was only on the treadmill. Chris walked up to her.
"Why are you in here? You're pushing yourself a little too hard." Chris said standing beside the treadmill.
"I need to keep myself in some kind of shape while this damn thing heals." Skyla pointed to her shoulder.
Chris sighed. He got up on the next treadmill beside her and started the machine. Skyla looked over and shook her head. She had come to her to clear her mind. Skyla hit a few buttons on the treadmill and slowed it down. She was going into cooling down mode. The doors opened, and in walked Brads with Piers behind him. Brads pointed around showing him different things.
"That's Chris' old partner Skyla. Right now she is the only female stationed in the building. She doesn't talk much except to Chris. She kind of keeps to herself," Brads ended with a smirk on his face.
Piers stared at her for a moment then looked over to notice that Chris was on the treadmill beside her.
"Don't even think about it; from what I hear they are together and have been for a while. Chris is already not too happy that you're here and that his partner has been reassigned, don't go getting ideas." Brads whispered to Piers.
Piers gave Brads a look but shook his head. Brads and Piers turned around and left the training room. Skyla's cool down mode ended. She looked over to Chris going to say something to him but decided better on it. Instead, she climbed down and headed to the women's locker room and took and shower and changed. She walked out and headed back to her desk passing Piers along the way. Piers glanced up at her as she passed him and watched her walk and sit at her desk. Chris emerged two hours later cleaned and showered. Chris passed Piers desk without even glancing at him and headed to Skyla's desk.
"Hey ready to head home for the day?" Chris asked with a smirk on his face. Skyla nodded and shut down her computer and got up. Chris turned headed for the exit with Skyla following right behind him. Piers watched them and turned to see Chris holding the door open for Skyla.
A few weeks passed, and Chris had barely talked to Piers. He may have said a total of 10 words to him in that time. Skyla kind of felt sorry for Piers. She pulled up her messenger one day and sent Piers a message.
'Hey want to go have lunch today?'
Piers studied the message and finally replied back
'Sure.'
'12:30 sound good?' Skyla asked him
'Yeah,' Piers responded.
At around 12:25 Skyla got up and passed Piers got up, and he followed her. They went to what looked like a small hole in a wall restaurant. Skyla ordered a tofu ginger salad, which surprised Piers and he ordered a grilled rib eye steak, which in turn surprised Skyla.
"So Piers how long have you been with BSAA?"
"Not long, I just got out of the Army." Piers looked at Skyla.
"Wow didn't realize you were that old."
"I could say the same about you," Piers responded
Skyla watched Piers eat. She was slightly curious about the male in front of her.
"How long have you known Chris?" Piers asked Skyla.
Skyla slightly was taken aback from the question.
"About 6 months, we were partnered together when I was stationed here. Why?" Skyla responded.
Piers shrugged.
"Just curious is all."
Skyla nodded to him. Skyla and Piers finished up with Skyla paying for lunch.
As they headed back to the BSAA, they exchanged small talk. By the time they entered the building, Skyla was laughing, and Skyla had her arm around Piers' shoulder like they had been best friends for years.
'Maybe this is the way to get Chris to like me,' Piers smiled thinking to himself.
Chris and Anderson were in the lobby talking when he saw Skyla and Piers together. Something about this bothered him. Chris excused himself from the conversation he was having with Anderson and approached the two.
"There you are I wondered where you wandered off to." Chris smiled down at Skyla.
"Piers and I had lunch." Skyla looked over to Piers and dropped her arm.
"Oh really, and you didn't invite me? I'm hurt," Chris put on a fake hurt look.
Skyla smiled at his antics, he really knew how to surprise her.
"See you later Piers; Lunch was excellent we will have to do it again sometime."
Piers nodded at her; Skyla turned and headed to her desk. Chris walked with her, putting his hand on her lower back guiding her.
Around 5 o'clock Chris came to Skyla's desk only to find her not there. Funny he didn't see her get up. He went to the training room to find her there working out. He should have known he would find her in there she had been coming here working out hard to get her strength back to what it was before she got shot. She was bench pressing when he got there. He hoped she hadn't pushed herself too hard he didn't want her overdoing it, she still wasn't 100%. Chris came up behind her and grabbed the bar with one hand and bent down smiling at her.
"How long have you been here?" He asked leaning further down.
"What time is it?" She asked looking around for a clock.
" Around 5," He responded his lips hovering over hers.
She leaned up to kiss him before getting up.
"I've been here two hours apparently." She replied.
"Skyla you can't push yourself like this, you're going to slow down the healing time of that arm," Chris replied.
"Don't worry I am going easy." She replied with a smile.
"Are you ready to head home?" He asked her.
"Yeah, can I take a quick shower before we go?" Skyla asked.
"Of course, come get me when you're ready to leave," Chris replied.
Skyla nodded and left the training room and headed towards the women's locker room. She pulls some clean clothes out of her locker. Skyla heard the locker room door open; she turned to see Chris slipping into the locker room. He locked the door behind her and walked towards her.
"Want some company?" He smirked down at her.
Skyla looked him up and down and smirked at him.
"This kind of company is always welcome. " Skyla replied seductively.
