Kat woke up before Aiden and, in the morning light, got a better look at Aiden while he was sleeping. The first thing she noticed was that he was much more peaceful when he was asleep, she also realised how incredibly hot he was. She laid her head back onto his chest and she started drawing circles into his clothes chest with her fingers, mindlessly admiring his muscles under the shirt.
She then realised that she was practically a high school girl with an unbelievably cringy crush.
The movements of Kat's fingers woke Aiden up, and he smiled as he noticed Kat lying next to him.
"See something you like?" He asked smugly. Kat hadn't realised he had woken up and jumped at his voice. He laughed and apologised and she just shook her head, once again replacing her head onto his chest and resumed tracing circles. After a while they decided it was probably time to get up. Kat swung her legs over the bed and rubbed her eyes to get rid of the tiredness that was threatening to consume her again. She begrudgingly got up and stretched, cracking her back in the process. She saw her reflection in the body length mirror which was standard in most of the bed rooms in he bunker, and realised that she looked like hell.
"I'm gonna go get changed" she said sleepily and then left the room to find something decent to get into. She walked to her room, which was only down the corridor, and tried to sneak into her room, just in case Sarah was still asleep. When Kat went into her room she saw Sarah sitting on the bed. She had her phone up to her ear and was talking to who ever was on the other side
"Anyways, Kenney asked me to help, I accepted and then… Yup, she's here, I dunno I think she's…" Sarah then noticed Kat at the doorway, she smiled and then waved "she's right here actually" Sarah then added to the guy at the end of the phone and then she passed to phone to Kat. Kat looked at it with a questioning look, but Sarah just pushed it towards her more. Kat gave up and picked it up, bringing it to her ear.
"Hello?" She half greeted, half asked
"You know, I almost forgot you existed" Jordi said down the phone. Kat exhaled and smiled at the familiar voice "I had to make sure you where, ya know, alive from Sarah" he carried on
"Yeah, sorry Jordi I've been super busy"
"I heard. Look at you, arm in arm with the vigilante to bring down the bad corporation" Jordi chuckled
"Yeah yeah, that's my life right now" Kat said, not too sure what else to say.
"So, is that it? You become a big time hacker now and you leave little old me?" He asked. Kat laughed
"Oh I'm so sorry, I forgot that you experience abandonment issues" Kat replied sarcastically.
"You know me too well. So, drinks?" He asked simply
"Sure, how about tomorrow at 9? DotConnextion?"
"Done and done." He said. Kat ran out of things to say and said a hastily good bye, if there was anything she need to say to the fixer, she'll so it at the club. She then opened the tiny wardrobe she had and picked out a black t shirt and black skinny jeans. She was practically living in her emo stage. Kat got changed in the adjacent bathroom and when she came out she heard Sarah hang up with a 'kiss kiss, speak to you soon'. Kat made a disgusted face towards Sarah, who just poked her tongue out at her. Sarah got up from her seat on the bed and said
" is there anything in this dump for breakfast?"
"One, don't call it a dump, I helped build this bunker back in my Blume days, and two of course we have breakfast, do you think we don't eat?" She asked, Sarah rolled her eyes
"Okay miss dramatic, what food do you have?" She asked as the two made their way to the kitchen. Inside Ray was by the cheap coffee maker, presumably making a coffee. He picked up he mug and turned to ace the girls, taking a sip
"Morning girlies, how was your sleep?" He asked
"Good" they both replied, and Kat went to the cupboards, got on her tippy toes to get the box of cereals.
"Aww, is Kat too small for the kitchen?" Sarah sniggered, and Ray laughed into his coffee
"You want breakfast or not?" Kat asked and Sarah nodded, putting her hands up in mock defence
"She always has been small" Ray started, Kat knew this was going to become a story "I remember this one time when we where working for Blume, she had to reach a bit to fix the mechanics in the moving cargo bay, ya know the thing that let's you in the bunker, anyways, she gets up on her tippy toes and starts welding, but she looses balance and whoosh, the whole things collapses on a poor Blume employee" he says, starting to giggle, along with Sarah, and then another laugh came from the doorway, Kat turned to see Aiden had joined them, leaning on the doorway with his arms crossed around his chest.
Kat rolled her eyes and turned to her bowl of cereal.
"You're a dick, Ray" she breathed and he chuckled. She heard the constant giggle of Sarah and said: "Sarah, you can make your own god damn cereal" she then sat at the table and started eating her breakfast.
"I can do that" Sarah said, rolling up her sleeves and then filled up the bowl. When Kat looked up from her bowl to see Aiden had left and Ray was on his way out. Sarah sat down with her breakfast, she then gasped and said:
"Where did you sleep last night?" Kat thought about whether telling Sarah about sleeping in Aiden's room, but she knew she'd get ridiculed to hell for it.
"just in the main bit of the bunker" she bullshited "it was ducking cold by the way" Kat added to make her lie seem plausible.
They had almost finished their breakfast and Ray came rushing in
"Girls, you need to come see this!" He said, and they both looked at each other, and got up to quickly leave
"What's up?" Kat said hurriedly as they looked up at the screen on the wall. It showed the WkzTV channel on it.
"We have some bad fucking news" Ray said, now standing to take in the pictures. The lady on the TV said
"In the passing minutes, the Chicago PD have identified the vigilantes helped as Kat Smalling, an ex Blume employee who has even reported to have helped suspected murderer, Raymond Kenney. The police can also reveal that information suggest she is working with her old friend, Sarah Clarke, although the police can't disclose where this intel came from. So the question on everyone's mind is: is she, along with those she is working with inside the system? And if so, what could she do?"
This was all a shock for Kat as she stared at the screen in disbelief. How the fuck had the IDed her? She hadn't stepped outside of the bunker since… Since the date with Aiden. Had that diner owner actually called the cops after thy had left. Well, that teaches Kat to ever be romantic. She turned to look to Sarah who was as transfixed on the screen.
Oh god damn it, they'd IDed her too
"Sarah, I'm sorry I have no idea where they got that from" Kat started, but Sarah stopped her
"You know what, I've always known you'd get me in trouble" she shouted at Kat, which too her a back. Sarah had never been this angry
"You've got to believe me, this isn't what I want!" Kat argued pitifully, fully aware this was her fault
"I've been happy these past months, with a man who loves me and a clear mind and as per usual, you've gone and fucked it up" she retaliated. Ray got up from his chair to try and defuse the fight, as Tobias sat by his computer, unaware of whether he should say something.
"now now girls-" Ray started, but he was met with 'not now' from both girls.
"Well, you're the one who agreed to help bring Blume down! You're the one decided to date a fucking fixer! And untrustworthy one at that" Kat said, whispering the Kat part. This boiled Sarah's blood to no end
"You're one to talk, dating the goddamn vigilante, if you wanted to stay off the map, that probably wasn't your best move and, you know what? I only agreed to Kenney's offer so I could stay closer to you and relive the old days, but I suppose some things should just stay in the past. So, as per, all this is on you"she finished and finally took a breath. Kat was taking everything in, an didn't say anything for a while, but she didn't let her face show the hurt going on, so she stared Sarah down while she thought of an argument, but Sarah wasn't having any of it.
"Look, I'm going to go and try and fix this, Jordi may have contacts in the news network, but that's the last thing I'll do for you!" Sarah said, and made her way to the bunkers exit, where Aiden had been standing for the majority of the fight they'd have.
"Good luck taking Blume down. Just, think of the consequences okay?" She said more softly as she closed the door to the bunker. Then, there was complete silence. Kat wasn't sure what had happened. Actually, that was a lie, she knew exactly what happened: she had fucked up Sarah's life… Again.
"Kat?" She heard Aiden voice getting closer to her, but she turned away, walking out of the bunker now
"Not now Aiden" and with that she left to drive god knows where.
