Carrie's Pov- set during day 2 during the Tony/Michelle kiss moment. Please R&R with ideas on how to improve this chapter because I struggled a lot with Carrie as a character.
I hate her. What more can I say. I hate how perfect she always is, and how everyone she meets wants to fawn over her. She's not a little kid, she can take care of herself, that I know. I've seen her drunk, she really doesn't need anyone to take care of her.
I mean, take now. I've been attacked because she was incompetent enough to bring her brother into a compromised location during an active protocol. Her brother, a known psychopath. But am I the one receiving the treatment? Of course not. Poor Michelle might be upset because her insane brother attacked me, so it's Michelle who needs to be taken care of.
Tony is so obviously obsessed with her, that was clear as soon as I got here. He could barely take his eyes of her, even when she was working against us. If she was anyone else, she would have lost her job by now. But no, Michelle couldn't possibly get fired, what would Tony do then? He might actually have to work.
So, here I am, getting checked out by CTU medical, the most incompetent medical staff available, and my boss runs off to check on his girlfriend. For all he knows, I could have internal bleeding. It would serve him right if I did, especially if I died whilst he was seeing to her, they'd both lose their jobs that way.
Unfortunately, I've been given a clean bill of health, if I was at Division, I'm sure I could have milked a couple of days off out of this, but Tony already has his obsession, and there's no room for sympathy for anyone else.
Figuring that I ought to get back to work, if only to access the CPB software on Michelle's network and start it up, just to prove how truly stupid she is, I moved across to her desk. It's pretty much the same as it was at Division, boring. No personal items, no photos. Hardly surprising, the only person in her life is her brother, and I certainly wouldn't want a photo of him on my desk.
That was when the call from Chappelle came in, he wanted to talk to Tony, and this was by far too good a moment to pass up.
I'd seen him as he tried to sneak down the corridor she'd disappeared into after her mini breakdown. I'm not sure which was more amusing, Michelle on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the middle of the office or Tony trying to sneak whilst on crutches.
I found her wrapped up in his arms, hardly surprising. Why is it that everyone sees her as this vulnerable girl that has to be protected from the world. She gives as good as she gets, I had a black eye for two weeks after her idiot brother tried to kill himself.
He tried to pull back from her, but being the whore that she is, she kept herself entangled with him. Then, more interestingly, and pretty unusual for Michelle, she leaned in and kissed him.
This I definitely find amusing. Michelle is so bad at relationships its untrue. She's the only person I know who got dumped five minutes into the date, and it was a movie, so it wasn't even as if he had to talk to her. She never, ever makes the first move, always afraid that she's going to get shot down. Which is so what is going to happen here. I mean, not even Tony could be stupid enough to start something with one of his employees on the day that WW3 is going to start, especially not one as deranged as Michelle.
But I have to admit, she is fairly cute, murmuring "I'm sorry," between kisses as she struggles to control herself. Oh, this is going to be priceless. He's going to tear her into little pieces, I only wish I'd brought a camera.
She finally pulls back from him with another "I'm sorry," and I wait for him to push her away. But instead, he pulls her back into him, kissing her just as fiercely as she'd been kissing him.
I can't quite believe it as I watch them kiss, surely he can't be that stupid. Did he not see her, pathetic, useless, tears pouring down her face? What the hell is he doing?
As much as I'm tempted to leave them there so that someone else can walk in on them, most of this staff is loyal to Tony, although God knows why. So instead I interrupt them, knowing how much she'd appreciate the fact that I'd been watching them.
Tony acknowledges me as Michelle slinks into the wall, breathing heavily. I almost have to laugh, but manage to hold a straight face. They are both going to pay for this. Ryan Chappelle is going to know about this, and the rest of the idiotic mistakes they've been making all day. Ryan, at least, is a man I can work with.
So as he abandons her in her little corner, the way he should have done originally, I lead him back into the main office, knowing full well that this is the last day either of them will be working here. Maybe I can have his job, I'd do a hell of a better job than he has. Anyway, it serves her right.
