Chapter 7
Sorry about the delay inbetween chapters guys, just been a little busy
As Amanda relaxes back into Rafael's arms; she felt so comfortable in his arms, as she let her body melt into his. As she leaned back into him she exposed her neck and Rafael took full advantage, kissing her neck as his hands wandered her body. "You know that I need to get home at some point tonight" she says and she starts to stand up. "Maybe you don't" he replies with a smile and twinkle in his eye. "I really do I have that early start tomorrow" she says slightly disappointed. She removes his hands from her waist with disappointment, all she wishes right now was to continue to have his hands wrapped around her and she heads up towards the door, he follows up behind her, as she feels his hands take their place back on her body, she turns around and says "I really have to go Rafael, but I'm glad I came here tonight, I'm glad we are on the page about everything". She kisses him and if felt like forever. They walk down and he hails her a cab, kisses her and makes her promise to call him when she gets home. Amaro continues watching them from in the park as he watches him kiss her. "His lips on her", it should be me kissing Amanda, it should be me that gets to touch her, it should be me that comforts her" he thought. He watches Rafael head upstairs after he puts Amanda in the cab. Amaro heads out of the park, hops a cab, flashes his badge and tells him to follow the cab in front, the cab that Amanda was in. After a 15-20 minute drive, Amanda's cab pulls up in front of her building. Amaro tells the driver to stop, which ends up being around 25 metres behind Amanda's cab. He watches her exit the cab and head up to her apartment. He gives the driver his address and he heads home, lying in bed he continues going over and over what he saw tonight between Amanda and Rafael.
"I'm home" she texted Rafael. She strips off heads into the shower as she hears her phone ringing. "It's probably Rafael" she thought, she pokes her head around the shower curtain and sees Nick's name on the call ID. "He's probably ringing to see how everything went with Rafael" she thought. Amanda ignores the call and heads back the hot steamy shower, wishing Rafael was there with his hand exploring her body and kissing her skin. She steps out of the shower and heads into bed, early day tomorrow and drifts off to sleep smiling happily knowing that she and Rafael are on the same page.
Amanda's alarm goes off at 5.15am, she wanted to get in a run with Frannie before work, but getting up was rough, she just wanted those extra 10 minutes, but she forced herself out of bed into her running clothes, grabs Frannie and heads out the door to the park. About 2 miles into her run, she spots Rafael in the park in running gear, a big to change to what she normally sees him in, in his high fashion dapper suits. She stops, smiles and walks over to him. "What are you doing here? She asks. "I'm here to see run of course" he replies "and of course I'm here to see you" he smiles. "So you're here to run, lets run" she says, she winks at him and takes off. "Hold up Amanda, I don't run that often." Amanda backs off the pace and waits for Rafael to catch up to her. They slowly jog through the park, taking regular breaks for Rafael to gather his breath. As they head of the park deep in conversation Amanda spots Nick, and waves. Nick heads over towards. "Hi Rollins, just finished your run?" he asks. "Yeah, thought I'd get an early start you know" she replies. "Who's this" Nick asks motioning to Rafael. "This is Rafael Barba" she replies. "As an in ADA Barba from the Brooklyn DA's office?" Nick queries. Rafael replies "Ah yes, have we meet before Detective…." "Amaro" Nick says as he extends his hand. "Yes Amanda, was saying that you were recently transferred into SVU, but she didn't say where from" "Right, I transferred in from Narcotics and Warrants" replies Nick. "Anyway was good to meet you Nick". Rafael looks over to Amanda "Thanks for the run Amanda" she nods and he starts to exit the park. Looking back at Nick and Amanda who are still talking. "There is nothing going on Rafael" cálmese" he thought to himself."Sorry I missed your call last night Nick, I was tired and wasn't really up for talking" "Did you sought everything out with your guy?" he asks. "Yeah we're on the same page and we're going to make this work". "That's real good Amanda, I'm happy for you" Anyway I better get going, shower, breakfast, I'll see you in the squad Nick, enjoy your run". Amanda runs out of the park and back to her apartment, has a quick shower, breakfast, coffee and heads into the squad.
Barba heads back to his apartment to ready himself for the day, as he approaches the door, he sees a yellow envelope addressed to him. He picks up the envelope and heads inside, a little nervous about what is inside, he wants to know what's inside but at the same time he doesn't. He decides to head into the shower, leaving the envelope on the kitchen table and heads into the shower. 15 minutes later he heads out dressed ready to head into the office and heads out in the kitchen and there is the yellow envelope. "No point avoiding it" he thought. He opened the envelopes and it contained at least a dozen photos of himself and Amanda in his apartment. Compromising photos with Amanda laying in his arms, kissing. He checked in the envelope, there was no note, nothing to indicate who took these photos and what the person wanted who took these photos. He tried to call Amanda, her phone went to voicemail, he was probably getting coffee or something, he thought. He left a message for him to call him urgently. He tried calling another 4 times, no answer. He picks up the photos, puts them into his briefcase, grabs his coat and heads to the office. He'll try her again when he gets to the office.
Meanwhile Amanda arrives into the squad, and nods morning to Fin and Liv, pulls her phone out of her pockets and sees she has 5 missed calls from Rafael. She tells Fin she needs to step outside for a minute. "Everything okay?" he asks, she nods yes and continues outside, dialing Rafael's number. "Where's the fire" she asks. "We have a problem Amanda" he responds. "What happened?" she asks " Not on the phone, can we meet?" "Not right now, you have me worried Rafael, are you okay?" "I'm fine, can we meet for lunch?" "I'll see you then." Rafael didn't seem like the kind of guy that gets shaken easily, but something definitely wasn't right. As much and she wanted to go and find out what was wrong, she had cases to deal with here. She heads back into the squad. Little did she know Nick was listening into the conversation, even though it was only 1 sided, he knew Barba had set the wheels in motion. They were going to met, another perfect photography moment for me to capture them together again, he thought. He waits for 2 minutes and then heads into the squad.
Lunch time rolled around and Rafael and Amanda met in a diner no-where near each other's work place. Rafael was already in the diner when Amanda arrived."Nick was parked across the street in a sedan. Amanda heads over to the table and sits down. "Hi" she says, "Hi" he replies. "What's the emergency?" she asks. "When I got home from the park this morning, this was waiting for me at my door" she says as he slides the yellow envelope across the table. Amanda opens the envelope and looks at the photos, completely shocked at what she saw. "This is from last night. How? Who took these? Was there any note with the photos? "she asks. "No nothing" he responds. "But we need to be careful, atleast until we disclose to your boss and the DA, the sooner we do the better". She nods in agreement. "I won't let this break us up Amanda, we just have to be smart about us". "We will find out who sent these I promise". Nick continues to snap photos as Amanda and Rafael exit the diner together. He finishes snapping the photos winds up his windows and seals envelope marked "Amanda Rollins" and heads back to the squad.
Chapter 8 to come
