A/N This is short, but get used to it because I'm giving short chapters for a little while. I still have a little bit of time before my grandma's computer gets unplugged so I'm taking full advantage of that fact and I'm writing really short chapters so I can post on all of my stories.
"So, anything new?" Marissa Cooper asked, walking into her boss's office.
He nodded and said, "We found a possible location for our suspect. We're getting a warrant right now to go search the place. We're really hoping that this is it because people are getting tired of nothing happening."
"Well I am too but sometimes cases take a while to solve." She said with a sigh.
Her boss looked at her and then said, "Sit down."
She raised her eyebrows and said, "Okay..." She sat down in the chair in front of his desk. "What's up?"
"You tell me." he said, looking her straight in the eyes.
"What do you mean?" She asked, not getting what he was saying.
"You and that Atwood guy. What's going on there? You guys are the talk of the office right now." He said with a raise of his eyebrows.
She sighed and shrugged. "We have a long history there I guess. We're just friends...if even that, right now."
He eyed her for a little while and then said, "Don't get too involved in these cases. It's not good for you."
"I know,I've done enough to know that."
"But still. Don't do anything that you'll regret."
"How would I regret spending time with Ryan?" She questioned.
"He's grieving his wife right now Marissa, whether he shows it to you or not, he's grieving." He sighed and then said, "It's going to wind up hurting you which will hurt this case."
"What will hurt me?" She asked.
"He will. Do you really think he has feelings for you right now?"
She was shocked that he'd asked her something. Her boss was never this personal. "I...I don't have feelings for him."
He gave her this look that told her that he didn't believe her and then said, "Of course you don't. You're hanging out with him a lot and giving him updates on the case personally when we can easily just send him the police reports if he wishes is just out of sincerity."
"It is." She argued.
"Then why don't you do it for every other case?" He asked, accusing her.
"I.." She started, but didn't have an answer.
"I thought so."
Just then someone came in and said, "Sir, we've go the warrant."
Her boss looked at her and said, "Looks like you've got an arrest to make."
