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A/N:I'm not english native speaker, so you might find some typos or grammar mistakes, I do apologize for that.
The moment of just happiness didn't last long as Chris' cellphone started ringing after they left the clinic to go to visit the small apartment Evana would live and buy some furniture. Chris looked at the screen and saw it was a call from the HQ.
"Alright, thanks Greta." He said politely and disconnected
Evana was looking the furniture when Chris' cellphone rang and for his expression, it was a delicate subject. The attendant showing furniture options and Chris talking on phone divided Evana's attention.
Chris joined her after finishing the conversation. Evana didn't ask him anything and Chris didn't mention anything to her.
It was evident the slight change in Chris' behavior, but nothing that would affect their interaction during the shopping.
They headed to the cashier for payment.
"Where's the card I gave you?" he asked seeing Evana using a different credit card
"It's in my wallet."
"Why don't you use it?" he asked, "I noticed you are taking less than you wanted to buy."
"Because of Laureen… I don't want trouble with her!" Evana replied stating the obvious
"She doesn't have access to this account. It's from my inheritance; it's not comingable with my marriage to her."
"Chris, my love… You apparently underestimate your lovely wife, but I don't! Plus we still have some time until our daughter is born and slowly I'll buy things on my own until your divorce is concluded!"
Chris sighed in defeat, he knew Evana long enough to know he wouldn't be capable to change her mind.
They left the store and walked to his car at the parking lot. Chris looked at the time on his watch and made a naughty smile. He drove until a nearby hotel.
"Where are we going?" Evana asked with a puzzled expression
"Doctor gave us green code, right? We should celebrate we are having a girl!" he replied with a mischievous look
Evana smiled back, "Just be careful. You heard that too." she replied
"You seem to have forgotten how careful and caring I am."
"When you want!" she added with a jokingly way
They entered the building complex and parked at their private area. That would be the first time they would make love after 7 months from their last time while still in Bohma.
After the hotel momentum, Chris took Evana to have lunch.
"Don't you think you have spent a lot of time off work for today?" Evana commented in concern checking the hour
"I went to work earlier, but I still think I deserve some time off, don't you think? I have a lot extra hours if they put it on paper."
"Well, I just get worried. You know I don't like any type of trouble in my life even though troubles seem to chase me wherever I go."
"Life is not pink or glittered."
"I know… I'm just saying it."
"Eva, I know you have an organized way to be and don't you worry about anything from my work. They know doctors can take some time." he spoke with a warm tone caressing her grip while they waited their orders.
They finished their meals and left the restaurant heading to his car. They had barely got into the car when Chris' cellphone rang. There was an abrupt change in his face expression after that call. Chris started the engine and drove to Jill's home. A silent drive.
Chris parked his car in front of Jill's building and sighed heavily.
"Your mood is changed since the talk with your attorney, what really happened?" Evana finally asked
Chris sighed in frustration, "Just another mistake I did when I married Laureen."
"What mistake?"
"It's my word against hers. We had a verbal agreement and I took too long to realize the type of person she really was and now I have to prove my own assets prior to the marriage or she will get more than she should." He replied resting his left elbow on the driver's window
"Can't you prove it?"
"Yes I can."
"So why are you so worried?"
"Because I can't use that money with things on my name and I fear Laureen will try to get a part of it too if she alleges my adultery."
"Oh crap… But did you ever cheat on her before me?"
"No, I never cheated on her! I don't really care about the numbers I'll have to split about the things we acquired during the marriage, I can even give her everything. I don't mind living just with my salary which is something I already do. However, keeping my inheritance is all I want in this story, but knowing Laureen she will want to punish me and revenge. Her condition can be a bad thing for me and I really don't want to share my inheritance with her!"
"Your attorney can work on that, right?"
"Yeah, he will make an agreement that whatever I purchased during divorce won't be divided with her."
"I see, but if you got the inheritance prior to marriage why are you fearing so much?"
"Because our state law allows some craziness about comingable and non-comingable things, she can allege the adultery and try to convince the judge that the money should be taken into the marital assets. That's why I'm hating myself for not had done the damn prenup!"
Evana caressed him on the shoulder for support, "If you are giving up on everything you two got during marriage, she can't have the part in the inheritance. That will be too much unfair towards you. She can't have everything she wants! The judge should see that!"
"I know… I just want this to end! She has always been the trouble I failed to stop. I was weak and an idiot!" he spoke in frustration
"Don't be so harsh on yourself. She won't get everything she wants!"
The couple continued talking as Evana consoled Chris in whatever she could before they got into Jill's apartment and talked to her about the latest updates. Jill proposed to them another big help. Chris didn't know how to thank her for that.
Laureen changed her behavior since her attorney gave her some tips to keep during the divorce process. It wasn't an easy thing to do while she witnessed Chris' irregular schedule to return home, especially the amount of time he was spending at Jill's. She knew him good enough to see he felt happy.
The brunette was restless on her bed. It was another restless night. The meds didn't seem to make much effect to make her sleep anymore. The divorce was emerging in her some feelings she had buried in her a long time ago. Some of those feelings were buried alongside Noah. Feelings of an old person she used to be…
She rolled on the bed to the side where used to be Chris' and embraced his pillow. There wasn't his scent anymore. Since the last time they shared the same bed several months ago, she continued respecting his space of the bed. The king sized bed was too big for her now and colder. There was just the memories of all the times they made love there.
Laureen continued hugging the pillow imagining it was Chris, but she couldn't fool herself like that. It was too soft, nothing like the warm and strong body of Chris. She rolled to her side and sat on the bed to wear her slippers. The brunette stood up from the bed and walked in silence through the hallway until Chris' current bedroom. Carefully she opened the door that was luckily unlocked and walked in silence until his bed. She enjoyed his scent in that room, the scent there used to have in their own nest.
He was sleeping with his belly up, bare chest. She used her cellphone to illuminate her way. She knelt down by the bedside of the single bed and watched him sleep. She wanted to touch him. She missed him. That night the old Laureen was getting back and she missed her Chris. The old Laureen was willing to stop the battle. She walked to the desk, opened a notebook got a pen and started writing everything she wanted him to know and hoped he would read it later. Tears formed in her eyes, as she got emotional about her sincere words and thoughts.
"Don't you remember what you said to me the day we married? That our life would be a play on which the tabs would never close. I've not changed. I'm the same woman you married…"
She finished her long speech; put the notebook under his cellphone on the bedside table. One last time she approached him when he started mumbling something. She leaned her face closer to understand it better.
"My love…Eva."
Laureen's eyes widened and her blood boiled hearing that and in an impulsive reaction, she slapped him on the face waking him up abruptly.
"You son of a bitch!" she yelled burning in anger
"What the fuck are you doing here?!" he replied standing up from the bed to turn on the lights
"So the bitch's name is Eva huh!"
"Get the hell out of here!" Chris yelled
"I won't! You owe an explanation of who Eva is!"
"I don't owe you anything!"
"Yes you do! You had a lover while we are STILL married! You are an adulterous!"
Chris exhaled rolling his eyes. He didn't want to confirm he in fact had someone else while he and Laureen are still in divorce process; he remembered of his attorney's words on the matter. Yet technically he had asked for divorce way before losing his memory and getting to know Eva, but of course Laureen wouldn't see things like that and legally they were still connected.
"I'm done with your bullshit!" He spoke walking to the closet to get his clothes and change
"It's not bullshit! It's the truth!" the woman yelled grabbing him by the arm turning him to her
They stared each other. Laureen couldn't help her tears from mixed feelings, anger, sadness, regret. That man wasn't her Chris who looked at her with a surprising colder gaze. Her Chris would never look at her like that no matter how bad they fought; he had never looked at her like that. She had lost him and now she had the name of the one who took her Chris, someone called Eva.
Chris looked at the woman in front of him. He struggled with his softer side that hated to see a woman crying. He couldn't lie to himself that he had hurt her for real, but she had hurt him at the same proportion or even more. He wasn't happy living that nightmare, he was tired of her emotional outbreaks; he had enough shit at work. He didn't need to live hell at home as well. For the first time he wouldn't let her tears affect him.
Chris gave her his back as he turned to the closet once again to get his clothes. Laureen watched him paralyzed. Despite all her emotional waves, she had always kept faithful to him. She never thought Chris would be capable of doing such thing, he, the man who had the fame of honor and loyalty. This was the first time he didn't deny there was someone else and that was enough to seal her suspicions.
There was a long and somber silence.
Chris took a suitcase to keep his uniform and personal things and documents. Laureen sat on the bed and looked to the notebook on the bedside table. Chris finished packing his belongings and headed to the bedside table to get his cellphone, but Laureen was faster and took it before him alongside the notebook.
"Do you want my cellphone for your ambition too? It's not that expensive and you won't find anything interesting there." He spoke in sarcasm
"Swallow your damn cellphone!" she spoke throwing it at his direction as she embraced the notebook, "Now get the hell out of here!" she yelled
"Yeah, it's your house after all…" he replied leaving the bedroom. The house.
Laureen lied on the bed embracing the notebook and the pillow, smelling his scent. She convulsed in tears until her energies got drained and she fell asleep.
It was morning. Chris was alone at a hotel room. For the first time he wanted to deal things about Laureen alone, on his own. He didn't want anyone's console, not even Evana's. He spent the whole night awake, thinking about everything that had happened between him and Laureen. He reflected about all those years of path and he remembered details that had been forgotten way before the amnesia. He remembered some genuine feelings he had for her. He was saying goodbye to them. He was saying goodbye to a story of 8 years. The longest relationship he ever had so far. Now it was surprising they had lasted for all that long. It was sad it was ending that way.
"You were perfect for 6 months… I truly loved you for 6 months. I so loved you, but I never told you that… That time I believed we would work forever, but I learned that the forever always ends."
Some tears formed in his eyes and cored down his face as he deleted the last picture he had of Laureen in his cellphone gallery, "It was never just because of duty…" he spoke and confirmed the delete
He took a deep sigh and looked at the sunrise at the window. It was a new day, a new life. His cellphone cut his chain of thought, his attorney called him to inform about the date of the divorce audience.
"Okay, understood and one more thing, add in the proposal all the material acquisitions from the last 8 years to be hers. Yes I know it's prior to our legal marriage, but if that was what she always wanted from me, she can have it. I don't want to fight over material things anymore, that's my final deal. I already left my own car at the house last night. Now I'm living in a hotel. Alright, thanks."
(**)
Laureen woke up still holding the notebook and the pillow with Chris' scent. She checked her cellphone and read a message from her attorney informing about the upcoming audience. Her heart accelerated. She looked at the empty closet and a boiling anger fevered within her.
"He's with her…" she screamed throwing the bedside lamp on the floor, breaking it, "That bitch won win everything so easily! He's mine!" she yelled loud
She rushed to the master bedroom to get her laptop. She googled detectives' names and hired one's services.
"I need you to be quick; I need to prove his adultery during our marriage! That bitch will not take everything from me just like that. Find everything about her, past records, past life, everything! I know he calls her Eva. No, I myself will keep an eye on him and his banks accounts!" she spoke on the phone decided to use her hacking skills
BSAA
Piers got his rehabilitation program and it was the day he would leave the lab. Claire was at the reception waiting for him. He greeted her with a long and gentle kiss on the lips. They left the BSAA building and the redhead drove him until his old apartment.
"Home sweet home." She spoke opening the door for him
He entered the place mesmerized by the cleanness.
"This wasn't supposed to be like that. Did you do it?" he asked looking at her
"Yes I did! I didn't want your place to get full of dust so I hired a diarist to keep it clean once a week and never move things from its original place."
"You are unbelievable! I don't even know what to say or how to thank you for taking care of everything and of me like that." he spoke affected by her caring trait
"You don't need to thank me. It's my pleasure taking care of you." She replied stepping closer to him for a long embrace and then she accompanied him on the tour around his own apartment
"You don't seem so happy." She commented looking at him as they got into his bedroom
He turned to her, "It's not that. I'm really happy… it's just that I don't feel I deserve everything you have done for me. You take too much good care of me. You are too good for me…"
"That's what we do when we love someone for real… we take care of them."
Piers smiled softly
"I'm not ignorant of the change in your personality. I know you miss your arm. I know you don't regret doing a greater good, but you still miss a part of you. I've seen cases like yours and how affected those people got."
"Yeah I know..." he said looking down
"You now have the same silence as them. The same gaze as them. The same speeches. I take care of them because I want and I like it, and about you, I do it because I love you and I chose to do that. You're not a burden for me… we already lost a good time when we could be enjoying each other better, remember?" she spoke referring to their break after their first nightstand and all the insecurities it brought into her
Piers looked down biting his lips in distress, which was an unconscious act he did.
He felt ashamed. She felt guilty.
She felt guilty for not giving them a chance earlier, for listening to her fear of giving too much of herself and to lose the one or to be in vain and somehow she did lose him, so her choice to give a time was a stupid choice she regretted, but she couldn't change.
He felt ashamed for using the break space for his own egoistic desires and he was unsure if he should tell her that part of his life or remain in silence and continue living their second chance to stay together and try to be happy and feel better about his own condition.
"We should not waste any more time then. We are somewhat together for some time now and I want to do my part from now on and take care of you. I promise to try harder and become a little bit more the old Piers you fell in love and be the one who just had eyes for you."
Piers held her by the waist and smiled larger. He was really being sincere with her. They shared a long and passionate kiss.
Thank you Xaori, HerpDerp and silver scropion for the reviews. :D
Well guys, better late than never xD This fucking block is really fucking me :-( But it's better taking longer than writing shit. These final moments really deserve a better work and I'm working hard on that. This time also is been good for me to redirect the characters and get into them deeper.
I thought I would end the fic before Vendetta, but I really doubt that lately xD
I hope you liked the chapter and I head FF is sucking again U.U which is great huh! u.u
I wish you a great weekend and have a great week. I hope to leave more and more this stupid block. Byebye and take care :D
