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Prompt: I need you
The words " I need you" kept" him awake on the plane and they were what kept him going despite the fact that he was exhausted.
They were the last words Eva told him, before she hung up on him and right before he got shot, almost dying. Those words haunted him.
The first time she said it, it was during a phone call begging for help, his help.
She had never said those words to him before.
She had always been Miss Independent but here she was asking for his help.
She didn't call Sebastian or the Colonel or Hickman, she called him, Tommy.
And that had to mean something, right?
So here he was.
A little bit late but that was better than never, right?
Tommy dialed Eva's phone again. He had been trying to get ahold of her for the past twenty-four hours and he was starting to panic.
He remembered how she had been insisting that she needed him to show up right away and have her back.
He remembers the pain in his heart when she hung up on him, the disappointment in her voice obvious. A few seconds later, he was flat on the ground, a bullet in him.
When he got shot, his last thought had been of Eva. She needed him.
When he woke up at the hospital the first thing he did was look for Eva before he remembered where she was. Then he was determined to find her.
So here he was standing on a pier, the last place where Eva's cell was found.
Dorn had said that she was gone and her room had been ransacked and it looked like there had been a scruffle. He had not been allowed in because they had already shown it to Dom and it had been cleaned but all her stuff was under lock and key and they had refused to let him see her stuff because he was not family and he didn't have a key, which was highly suspicious. But he wasn't giving up.
He had told Dorn that he was taking time off. Sebastian had hugged him tightly and told him to bring her back.
Hickman nodded and then he was off to the states to mourn the loss of the Major.
So, here he was in Spain.
Looking for Eva because he needed her as much as she needed him.
He needed her because he had fallen in love with her despite him trying not too.
He was not going to lose another woman he loved.
He was not going to lose Eva. Nearly dying had put things in perspective for him. He couldn't spend the rest of his life hiding his feelings because he was scared of losing her.
The maid tucked a strand of dark hair behind her ear, eyes downcast.
The maid didn't have much information other than the fact that Eva was heading down to the marina and that she had said something about seeing someone from her past.
The maid also said that she had seen a man hanging around the hotel and had informed them about it but nothing had turned up. Tommy noticed that she seemed scared. He also noticed the faint bruises on her wrists and her neck. He felt a wave of gratitude towards her.
Her accent also reminded him of Eva's. It was soft like hers and it made him miss her even more.
"If you hear anything."
She nodded and shook his hand, tucking a key into his hand.
He looked at her as she hurried off. He had no idea that the maid would die for her willingness to speak up.
Going through Eva's things was harder than he expected.
He kept expecting for her to appear and hit and yell at him for through her stuff univinted.
He riffled through her journal and an old photograph book, there were a few pictures of her as a child. Child Eva was adorable. There were also a few pictures of Eva and Annamarie and of Eva and the rest of the team, and a few of him and Eva.
He found nestled in between the pages of her journal, a drawing of the two of them drawn by a street artist in Paris.
Seeing her head thrown back in laughter, he vowed that he was going to find her and bring her back. He needed her.
He left his job for good, focusing solely on finding Eva. He chased after every lead and used every connection he had to find her. All he had to go on a dead maid, a desperate phone call to him, and his determination.
However, as it turned out she found him.
It had been six months since she had gone missing when he got a phone call from his mother.
"Mum?"
"You need to come home, son."
"I can't I'm looking for..."
"The pretty red-haired girl. One of the boys found her outside the gate. She's delirious and half dead. She was saying your name for a while. "
"You found Eva?"
"More like she found us, Tommy. Come home, your Eva needs you."
"I'm on my way."
His mother leads him to the where Eva was. She was laying on a spare and clean bed, eyes closed, a bandage around her head. She looked so pale that her bruises looked so dark. She looked dead.
Tommy sank to his knees and reached for her hand, as his hand clutched her warm flesh he let out a shuddering gasp. He could feel a pulse, faint but there.
"Eva."
He kissed her wrist and close his eyes, trying to keep his tears at bay.
His mother left to give him some privacy and that was when he let it all come out.
"Wake up Eva. I need you." He begged her.
He brushed some hair out of her face and kissed her head.
He walked to find his mother sitting outside.
"Thank you."
The words were not enough. He knew how much his mother hated leaving her home and for her to bring Eva to the hospital meant the world to him.
"Your girl is strong."
He chuckled softly.
"She's not my girl. At least not yet."
His mother nodded.
He called Sebastian and Arabella with the news of her being found.
They offered to drop everything but with Loius dead, Hickman gone, the new team needed them.
This suited Tommy just fine.
He needed time to sort out his feelings for Eva and what to do when she woke up.
Not if, but when.
It was a rainy day when Eva woke up. The clouds were gray and it had started raining early in the mroning, with no signs of stopping. He had been asleep, his head on the bed, hands holding hers, snores coming out of his mouth softly.
Her eyes fluttered open and then they widened taking in the situation around her. She moved her head and found herself looking at Tommy's face.
She squeezed his hand and felt it squeeze back and then the tears came down her face quietly. He was real.
He opened his eyes and gasp.
"Eva."
It was a whisper as if he was dreaming.
He moved closer and pressed his lips to her forehead and she closed her eyes.
She was safe.
Tommy was here.
Tommy pressed a button and doctors and nurses come flooding in. The next few hours were full of questions, words she didn't understand, needles, and lights in her eyes, but through it all, Tommy is there, answering questions and holding her hand.
She eventually fell asleep, exhaustion taking over, and Tommy stands guard, sitting in the chair next to her bed, the one he has been since she has here.
When she wakes up, she finds him asleep, hand holding hers tightly.
She traces his face with her mind, memorizing it. It had been a whole eight months since she had seen him. If it hadn't been for him holding her hand, she would have thought she was imagining him. But he was here, warm and real.
She's safe.
Tommy's here.
She's safe.
That's when she starts to cry.
Her cries wake Tommy up and he crawls into bed with her, holding her as she cries it all out.
"I need you, Tommy. I need you."
"I'm right here, mo gra. I'm here mi amor."
Later when Sebastian and Arabella come, she tells them everything, the words spilling out, as Tommy holds her as she shakes and cries her way through it all.
The road to recovery isn't easy. She sees a therapist and has to wait for her body to recover. Once she is out of the hospital, they stay with his family as he tries to figure out what to do. Eva and his mother get along very well and everytime he sees her laughing or one of the kids in her laps, he feels a tingle in his heart.
Eva can never go back to Italy and they can't stay with his family forever. Working with Sebastian is out of the question.
They end up moving to a small town, as they are driving Eva sees a for sale sign on a bar and she points it out. It's the first time he sees the light in her eyes so he takes the risk and buys it.
It pays off.
He runs the bar and she cooks, he keeps their guns in a safe and twice a week she sees a therapist. They go for drives on Mondays and life goes on. Sebastian visits every few months.
He proposes to her on a beach one early morning, as they watch the sunrise.
He gets down on one knee and says "Eva, I need you."
She kisses him with an "And I need you, Tommy."
They need each other.
Hey, ya'll!
There are officially two more works to go and then I will be done with this.
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Love you!
-Queen
