Here we go with another chapter. I am not perfectly happy with it to be honest but anyway I wanted to post it. This s also kind of short but I promise the next one will be longer (:

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(S01x06 – Part2/3)

The day was total and complete craziness. Everything went downhill. After Barbie parted with Julia he and Linda found themselves in an emergency situation almost immediately. After the accident with that track and Alice – which was still a mystery in itself for Barbie - the town was losing water rapidly and the question of drinkable water became the highest priority. He and Linda made their way to the river which was supposed to give them the water supply. They barely took a few steps; Barbie couldn't help but roll his eyes. Knowing their luck, there would be some kind of trouble around the river. Maybe it was outside the dome, or the bomb hit it somehow or it magically disappeared – honestly he wouldn't be surprised by anything by now. In this crazy town nothing was impossible anymore and definitely nothing was easy or simple.

"It is none of my business, but you are lucky to have her." Linda said suddenly jolting him from his musings.

Barbie's eyebrows twitched. "Her?" He asked back even though he was pretty sure who she was referring to. Was the tension between them so obvious for others as well? That was somewhat surprising.

"I have eyes you know." Linda said with a half-smile. Okay keeping pretending he didn't know what she was talking about would have been stupid and childish – he decided.

"Oh, Julia and I aren't exactly an item." He said in the end because it was true. They weren't exactly. He couldn't even define himself what they were. But he knew what he wanted it to be. He wanted her not just in his bed and definitely not just for a night. No, she centered something in him, she tamed the wild beast in him, she could smoothen his edges a way none else could and even without trying. Everybody though he was a hero, Joe, Linda, Julia, Norrie, everyone. And maybe, just maybe, with her he could have a second chance and truly be the hero. He was already on the path, working together with the sheriff for goddamn sake, to protect a town he knew nothing about. But was he good for her? Sure he wanted to protect her, he wanted to cherish her, to love her. But was he really the guy she needed? Or wanted…

"Well, from the sparks that I saw flying, you should be." Linda added making him suppress a smile.

Yeah sparks they had all right, and sexual tension and desire. These were charging the air between them all the time they found themselves alone. But if they were ready to do something about it, if she was ready or wanted to do something about it, that was another question.

In the end they didn't have time to have a heart to heart about it and he was grateful for that. He was one closed man and he had honestly no clue where they stood with Julia and anyway she was just a too precious topic to discuss with anyone. And they had bigger issues anyway, just as he had thought so sarcastically, there was something wrong with the water.

And that is how he founded himself one hour later yet again in the middle of the mess and chaos. People were going crazy, attacking each other, stealing food and water and basically everything they could found. They were really losing it.

In the small shop it was just a real nightmare no matter what they did. People were fighting over everything, there was no way they could keep them under control. And there was this one point when he also slipped. He snapped back to the guy he used to be before the dome. He was chasing after another man who stole from to shop. He was solely focusing on this hunt, as if it would have been one of those guys not happy to pay up and tried to escape. He was chasing him like a predator would its prey, and when he got him he started to beat the shit out of him. He was staring into the fearful eyes of his opponent. Yeah buddy you better be afraid you have no idea who you were fucking with!

"Barbie! Barbie get a hold of yourself!" Linda's voice broke slowly through the fog in his mind. It took him several minutes before he realized what was going on and what he was doing. Slowly he let the guy go and watched as he took a much needed air.

Fuck, that was him. That was the guy he really was. And honestly he didn't like him one bit. He liked much more the guy he slowly started to become. For Julia. But he was just not there yet. He was still too wild, too dangerous full with edges. Before he could even start to hope to build anything with Julia, he needed to sort his shit out. But the question was how…

So yeah I am not completely happy with this one but I think this was also an important scene. Especially when we saw Barbie hunting down that guy. It just made it clear he might seem to be all sweet and caring with Julia but he was still pretty dangerous. It is interesting to see again how much he actually changed after he and Julia got together. (: Anyway let me know what you think and the last scene is coming soon! (: