(NOTE): hello dear readers,

Happy new year everyone. 2016 was a good year for me. I have accomplished a lot of things, like I now live with my best friend and leaned how to be independent. College is… still fucking college. I bought I scooter hahaha. I hope that you people have had some accomplishments as well.

There is one thing I want your opinion about. I have two more cases, but before I start with one of them I have some chapters to build up some developments in relationships. One of the cases is the first case the team ever received, about how they all met and worked together. (so basically it is going back to the past to 4 years ago when Caitlyn was still a sheriff) it will take place directly after she had uncovered Deadeye's target (Jhin)
The second case is a follow-up to what they are up against right now(Noxus) and that leads to I think the end of the story, that is if I ever wanted to make a sequel which will take place in the summer.
I have wrote the first three chapters to each case and I am working on each separately. Tell me what you want to read about and of course if you don't prefers any I will start with the past.

Now that I have explained my plans to the story enjoy some comfort :)

Chapter 21: Fragment IV

Alison enters her apartment and she turns on the lights "Come in" she tells her with a grin on her face. Caitlyn enters and….it is levels different than hers.
To her right is a wall and to her left is the living room. A dining table is in front of her with four chairs to each side. Alison had walked inside and took off her boots. She immediately did the same. After Soraka had checked her she wanted to leave the hospital, but now that Ashe had warned her not to show her face at the agency, she had no choose but to cooperate. Making Alison her bodyguard for the entire day. It is still morning and she has no idea what is going on with Ashe, Lucian and Vayne. Vi is not answering any question about work and it worries her. She can't just sit here and do nothing, while her agents are working on her case.

There is a small corridor. The kitchen to the right and the bathroom right next to it. In front of the water cycle is a shower -as Alison explains what is behind each door. She then points at the two doors in the end, first at the one on the right side "That is my room and this will be yours." She points at the room to the left. "I kept it clean just in case I have visitors." She explains going inside and turning on the lights.
A two person's bed and wall closet. "Want to shower?"
"Sure " she walks inside and sits on the edge of the bed.
"Let me get you a change of clothes" Caitlyn nods not looking at the woman that leaves closing the door behind her. Caitlyn runs a palm on her face trying to feel it and relaxes to her own gentle massage. She lays on her back and covers her eyes with her arm. 'Darling I will make you famous' it rings in her ears making her shiver. Now she is alone all the thought come flooding her mind, invade her loneliness and she feels as if a heavy object is placed on the centre of her chest, blocking all the incoming air.
She opens her eyes and sits up looking at each corner of the room.
A knock startles her. "Yeah?" she weakly asks.
The door opens and Vi has some clothes in her hands. She leaves them on the bed next to her and looks at her "Are you alright?" Her house is a crime scene and they wouldn't allow her to take any of her clothes from her closet. A t-shirt and some loose pants. She takes them "I am, thank you." Caitlyn still looking down not wanting for her to see her like this, she hears the woman leave and closes the door behind her.
For how long can she stay here? Will she ever go back there? And remember her invaded house by that physio? She hugs the materials to her chest and sobs weakly.

#

Katarina leaves her room after she had found her gun. She was supposed to be in San Diego yesterday and help her father with some stuff he had wanted for her to do, but when she explained to him that she is now working with the FBI's Night Hunter, he had only told her to be careful and stay in contact with her supervisor, Zed.
she finds her younger sister sitting on a chair behind the small dining table drinking tea, signing some papers and reviewing the others. "Good morning" Cassiopeia greets without looking from the papers at hand. She had prepared breakfast, for herself and Katarina.
"Good morning" Katarina had never thought that this creature would do anything but work, but when this creature dresses in the most ravishing and expensive clothes, it fantasies her on how the hell can she even have the time to do that. "Have you been in contact with the FBI agent?" multi-tasking and Cassiopeia are the same thing, she always manages to piss her off even though she is fully focused on the documents she is reading. But now, Cassiopeia looks up from them and stare her in her eyes. same colour, but her younger sister's are a little bit darker. Much closer to those of her father's.
"What do you mean?" she asks, testing the waters.
"You have her number" Katarina nods at the phone on the table that belongs to Cassiopeia.
"So?"
"Have you been in contact with her?"
"No" Cassiopeia goes back to the documents in her hand
"She is dangerous and father just wants you out of harm's way."
"That is none of your business."
Katarina's new phone rings -the one she got from the Hunter- and she picks it up after she had seen the caller's name "What?" she greets.
'Where are you?' Vayne asks. Voice frim per usual.
"I just woke up, did something happen?"
'Come to my house, we have a lead.'
"Sure, see you in two hours"
The trip to the damned mansion is going to suck. She looks at her sister one more time, but she is busy with her work. She is going to do her best to keep her out of trouble

#

Vi turns on the shower and steps under it. let's it wash her tensed self away. Her eyes are shut and the water gradually warms up. How she found her -she grits her teeth- hopeless on the chair, not able to move or to say anything. That weak smile she keeps on seeing when she looked her in her eyes. Horrifying and she wishes she never sees that again. One second…. One fucking second and she would have been killed, because she hesitated.

She shoot her eyes wide open and the air is steamy in the shower. To the sound of glass shattering her sharp ears pick, Vi quickly turns off the shower and puts on her clothes not bothering wiping her body dry. Black shorts and black t-shirt. Her gun on the sink and she opens the door carefully without making a noise. It came from the kitchen and she thought it may be her cat. Slowly she walks and peeks her head to find Caitlyn picking pieces of the shattered dish on the ground. Hands trembling and she had bit hard on her lower lip.

Vi steps beside her and lowers herself, hands around the Caitlyn's wrists stopping her. The shards fell from her hands and she looked up, eyes locked on hers. Arctic blue, the summer clear skies that formed her eyes, the rumbling sensation in her stomach she has been having this entire time just faded. "What are you doing?" she softly asks.
The Arctic-eyed is looking at her like a child that was just caught red-handed doing something bad. She stands up and her hands are still around the woman's wrist bringing her up with her. "The pasta looked good." Vi turns around to the pasta in the pan she made before she had left for work the other day.
"Oh, want some?" she asks and Caitlyn nods, a small blush kissed her cheeks as she looked to the side. Simply beautiful. Caitlyn looked at their hands and Vi dumbly followed her gaze. Wait…

"OH sorry, just didn't want to trouble you. I can clean it." Vi explains jerking her hands away and the back of her neck feels kind of sweaty. Great, you are so fucking awkward you should shoot yourself right now.

#

Katarina arrives at the damned mansion and the two men that had brought her bike that she had hid in the fields greet her. The one named Mark, the guy that refiled her gas tank and attended to the tires speaks "Good morning miss Du Couteau" he bows slightly. The guy with him Ravi, is patting the blue-eyed husky.
"Hello Mark" she smiles at him and he dumbly does the same adjusting his gun in its holder. She throws the keys at him and he catches them walking to her motorcycle. The doors to the mansion are open and a woman is standing in the door way. Her blonde-platinum hair is moving by the cold, but still gentle air. Katarina hurries up the stairs to meet her…..grumpy looking girlfriend. "What's wrong princess?" Ashe frowns as if the name irritates her.
"Don't smile like that"-she turns around and walks inside "I am mad at you" Katarina smirks and brings her from behind in a hug.
"Can I at least know what I did to make you mad at me?" she whispers the words in her ear taking in her wonderful scent, like she had never smelled it before.
"Why didn't you say anything about the Black Rose?" so this is our lead, interesting. She hugs her even closer and noticing her body slump in her arms, relaxes to the touch and she knows that the frost-eyed is tired.
"Your bosses orders, she wanted you focused on your job" Ashe turns around and places her head on Katarina's chest. Katarina starts rubbing her forearms with her hands and Ashe circles her arms around her waist. "You seem tired"
"I am" she only whispers the words.
Katarina doesn't turn when she hears the almost not notable sound of a person approaching them from behind her, there is one person capable of that in this place. Agent Vayne steps in front of them and Ashe doesn't even pull back. So she is comfortable doing this around Vayne, good to know.
"Thank you for coming" the agent places a hand on Ashe's shoulder and the woman pulls back. "We have some leads" of course you do. Katarina smiles and Vayne looks at Ashe. "Go get some sleep, you look like shit."
Ashe yawns and leaves and Katarina walks with the agent that starts informing her about all that took place with them.

#

Caitlyn is laying on her back on the bed, she had eaten the pasta and it was surprisingly good. it has been quite long since she eat something homemade, only when she goes to her parent's house or when Ashe invites her. She turns her head to the side and stares at the wall mounted clock. Caitlyn never thought that this day wold end so fast even though she spent it in this room. Everything that she does reminds her of what happened, this room is making thing worse and she can't even get it out of her mind.
It is surrounding her. The sound, his voice is still in her ears. She feels the walls cave in on her. His breathing, his words all of them are carved in her brain 'This is my love.' She hears and she mouths the words. Caitlyn stands up runs to the door and shuts it firmly after she had left the room. She rests her back on the door panting and she bits hard on her lower lips forcing it to stop from trembling . She looks to the right. The door is not shut, Alison's room. She walks to it, help me… please. She reaches with her hand and she feels a tear fall on her cheek.

Please

She mouths it, but no sound. The woman is sitting on the edge of the bed and looking at her phone.

Help.

She mouths again.

She is not looking at her, busy with her phone. She fully opens the door and it makes cracking sounds. Vi lifts up her head and now staring at her. She jumped from her bed and makes her way to her.

Vi feels anger roaming inside of her. The kind that is only making her even more angrier. She doesn't even know why and even that is making her angry. She sees the single tear on her cheek and her heart falls in a bottomless pit dragging her lungs with it, enabling her from breathing normally. "It's okay, it fine." She reassures her hugging her tightly and the woman is trembling in her arms and she hugs her tighter trying to steady her. Her lips make a thin line and she doesn't want to make her uncomfortable.
"Want to talk about it?" Vi only speaks and maybe she is not even hearing her. The hands on her shoulders and the face buried in chest sobbing and eyes are watering. She knows that the woman didn't want her to stare at her. At her venerability. At her weakness. She rubs with her hands on her back as gentle as she can be. It seemed that is had worked. Caitlyn tensed muscles relax to her touch. The sounds of muffled sobs eases and she pulls her back.
Caitlyn uses her palms to removes the tears away and Vi watches her do just that. "I hear his voice." She speaks. Vi swallows. Fuck. "I keep hearing his voice in my ears" she covers her mouth with a hand and Vi hugs her again.
"What does he tell you?" she says the words against her ear. Just what if…. What if I erase it! she thinks gritting her teeth. What if I erase it and replace it with mine? "Caitlyn" this is the first time she calls her that. She cups her face, and their eyes are blues showing each other's the different shades of the colour. They flicker in the room's light. "How can I make you forget about it?"

The woman opens her mouth. "I.." she looks down then back up "I…don't know" she whispers and Vi hugs her slowly "Can I sleep in your room?"

She hears her hum in approval. Caitlyn can hear the faint heartbeats. The heat of her body wraps her in a dream and the cold is running away from her. Her numb back due to the cold it felt, lost some of its freeze to the pleasant hands running on it. So warm. Like fire, not the kind that would burn the flesh leaving its ugly marks on. It is the fire that would leave a mark of soothing sensation on her. Alison backs, and their hands are in one another as she walks to the bed, removes the blankets and tells her to go under them. "I'm going to make sure everything is locked and I will join you." With a smile she leaves the room and her gun is in her hand.
Ten minutes passes and she feels the bed shift under the new weight. She doesn't feel any warmth nearing her. She turns her head and finds her laying on the edge of the bed and her back is facing her. "Help me forget" she reaches helplessly with her hand resting it on her back. Vi shifts and turns to her other side to face her.
She nears her and Caitlyn turns around. She bits her lower lip and closes her eyes. Oh, so warm. The ice shards that grew in her back are being melted away, she wants to turn around, turn around and let the fire warm her up. But her back will miss it dearly.

Long arms wrap around her and she can't do anything about it. They save her from her too fast beating heart. "What is he saying?" a voice that blocks the ringing in her ears whispers and her breath hitches multiple times.
"Everything I hear…. Everything reminds me…I hear him…he is talking nonstop."
"Have you ever heard about The Wandering Caretaker?" she wipes her tears away then shakes her head negatively. Alison shifts comfortably and leans closer to her ear as she tells her the story "On the highest tips of the mountains an enigmatic spirit looks over Valoran. Throughout the history the spirt was called many names, but most know him as Bard. Bard travels through realms beyond the imagination of mortal beings…." Her voice is sweet and she can't help but listen to it. acknowledge it. "When the unknowable structure of the universe is threatened…" it is helping her breathe through her nose.

"Bard steers-"

Her eyes feel heavy.

"…. understand the mysteries he embodies-"

She closes them and to the sweat rhythm of her voice she relaxes.

#

The Hunter had told her where Ashe was sleeping. She opens the door to the Hunter's bedroom. Katarina was here before, she had slept on that bed and now she finds the Avarosan princess sleeping on it. her own heart thumps in accordance with slow, shallow breaths. Her eyes flutter open, revealing icy blues that were framed with thick long lashes. It pierced right through her. She was dead nervous and before her legs could fail her and freeze her in her place, Katarina walks to the bed. She climbs on it, climbs until she has her trapped between her arms. "Hey there" Katarina softly says leaning in for lips she wants to put her hands around their softness, but she stops. She wanted to apologize first for not being there when she knew was wanted.
Katarina doesn't even have the words to describe her feeling right now, she needed me and she didn't ask for help.
"You look angry" Ashe brings her palms on her cheeks and brings her lower to her lips. When she kisses her she lets out and audible sharp exhale. The frost-eyed notices and pulls back raising her eyebrows "Kat, what is it? What did Vayne tell you?"
"About the shooter, why do I only know about it now?"
"I am not weak. I can take care of myself, besides I wasn't alone"
"My job is to protect you" she sits up and pulls her hair out of the way. She feels her shift on the bed knowing that their backs are facing each other.
The Night Hunter had told her about everything that happened, that the SAC spilled everything about her agents to the shooter, she herself had never witnessed the effects the drugs had on the user. What if the SAC was shot and the information were used to find Ashe. They could assassinate them one by one. Take them by surprise and bring an end to the entire FBI team.
"Katarina" the frost-eyed calls and she hum in question. "Come here" She shrugs of her jacket and takes of her boots, turns to find her slim body curled up, wanting nothing but to hug her and keep her safe. "Will you stay?"
"Of course" she kisses her on the back of her head and nuzzles her face in the back of her neck placing kisses on it nonstop, feeling her body in her hands in the best way possible. Ashe pushes her lower body on hers and feels a hand trying to unbuckle her belt. The zipper goes down and she sucks hard on her the back of her neck electing a weak moan out of her. Ashe turns around and lays on to top of her, uses her hand to keep a space between them.

Slim fingers go under her hair below her ear, Katarina's thumb caressing her cheek. Suddenly she finds herself standing in breath-taking forest, her eyes reveal more than her words can express. They keep staring at one another for what feels like ages for her, Ashe's lips part and their breaths mingle. Her heart flutters as Katarina draws her to her lips. Hungry for their touch, wanting nothing but to kiss her and tells her she loves her. She tastes of mint, probably chewed a gum before she got here. When they broke apart for air, Ashe rested her forehead against Katarina's and gathered some oxygen. Her smirk made her bit her lip, it told her everything and she smiled back, she sits until she was able to remove her shirt than sink into her body "Shauna will kill us if she knew"
"Then keep your voice down princess"

#

When she walks in the hallway Vayne rolls her eyes when she hears the moans coming from her room. For the love of Demacia. She hurries with her steps away to where she had Jason stationed. She gets inside the room and per usual he is looking at never found artefacts. He had always admired the history they upheld and she doesn't even understand why a hacker has this kind of hobby.
"Sup, babe"
"Don't call me that" he chuckles and takes of his headphones.
"What can I do for you?" she connects her phone to one of the lightning cables and the computer identifies it.
"Someone has been calling me privately and they don't say anything, can you find the number?"
"Can I find the number?" he rubs his palms and searches the phone for late calls.
"I have to go to their provider...and wuala" he points at the name and she jerks her head back when she sees the owner "Well holy shit, if it's now freaking Cassiopeia Du Couteau" he smirks and she only needs to glare at him to whip it away.
"Any word of it to Ashe or Lux and I make sure Virus knows about the twins."
"It is Varus, please don't. My lips are sealed."

She walks out of the room and her thoughts are a-mess. Why on earth is she calling her? And why doesn't she say anything? Either way, Katarina must not know of this.

(NOTE):

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed the peaceful chapter. Leave a review to share your thoughts and tell me what I should write about next.