It was a silente ride. Like most of theirs... But this time something seemed to be between them

"You seem quiet..." Rust broke the silence while shutting off the engine.

"Wow! I must be really quiet for you to bring that up!" Sally said while letting a smile show. Rust also chuckled very softly.

"Can we talk inside?" Sal nodded, but that words gave her a tingling feeling in her stomach.

Once inside, Sal went straight to the kitchen. Her mouth was a bit dry, she was anxious and wasn't exactly sure why. She drank straight from a bottle from the fridge. Rust wasn't after her. She looked at fridge and remembered the first time she was here. How They didn't even left the kitchen before something possessed them and now They are here. But Where was here? What was she doing here today?

Rust was sitting in the chair he used to think about cases. Just a chair in front of the wall all the documents and pictures were set. She approached him with a hand in his shoulder. Without looking at her, he took her hand and guided her to his front.

He looked at her admirely. Lifted a little of her shirt untill he could just see a bit of her belly and snuck two fingers between her skin and the waistband of her jeans to pull her closer to him. She snorted finding this amusing. She spread her legs and sat on his lap.

"You know..." he started playing with her hair "behind you there's a wall of the worst a human can be"

"I hope you know exctly Where you going with this, because you're not off to a good start!" she smiled. He didn't

"Much of that" he motioned his eyes to the wall behind her "I can feel moving inside of me"

"That's not true..." "It is" he interrupted her

"Andy ou know it..." She didn't fought back. Deep down, she knew it was true. No one can go imune living everything he lived. Sophia, Crash... All of that had a toll in his mind, in his soul...

"But sometimes... Something happens... And I'm not saying it can erase all of that. But it can muffle all that noise"

He finally focused his eyes back on hers.

"And that's you" her eyes widened a bit. That was a conclusions she was not expecting. "All the screams, the crying. You drown all that noise."

Sally felt her eyes hurt, and a sting at the back of her throat. A tear rolled down her cheek. Rust wipped whith his thumb and craddled her head in his hand.

"I..." she cleared her throat, her voice was crackling "I had no idea you felt like that"

"You didn't?"

"I hoped..." she lift her hand to his face and move toward his hair "That I brought you some peace, some happiness" She moved her body closer to him "this you just described... this is..."

Rust pulled her face closer and and kissed her. With the same urgency of earlier that afternoon. It wasn't laced with sadness, but relief. He wasn't desperate to take her over all at once. He was enjoying her sip by sip. Rust moved his hand to her legs and in one movement he lift off the chair carrying Sally that held to his neck with her arms.

He carried her to the mattress on the floor. Sarah pulled his shirt over his head and he did the same to her. He kissed her neck, moved to her chest and belly.

"Rust, I..." Rust reached a hand to her lips and caressed with his thumb. Pressing a little further he felt her tongue in his finger.

"No..." he said softly

Rust lift his body so he could kiss her lips. The same hands that were in her lips, were now undoing her pants. He laid by her side with his hand tracing her belly, feeling the goosebumps. He laid his palm flat on her skin and move his hand under her jeans. Sarah arched her back and held his neck. Her moaning filled the empty room. Her breathing getting heavier with the movement of his fingers.

"Rust..." He glued his lips in hers.

"Not now..." He stood on his knees and and pulled out her pants.

"What... Why?" She looked flustered and confuse. Sarah thought that everything he said was leading to this, but now... whats was going on in?

Rust stood up and removed his pants. Sarah was laying down, backed up on her elbows. He laid his body on top, passing one of his arms under her.

"Sarah..." He looked deep in her eyes "Stop fighting me..." She smiled and they kissed.

Sarah moved her hips under his weight and wrapped her legs around his body. She draws a deep breath as he slid insider her. His hips move, catching up the same rythm as hers

"Sarah..." He holds her face in his hand.

This is it...

"Cohle..." she drags her nails across his back

This is the moment he have been waiting. She tried to steal it from him but he wanted to do it first.

"Sarah... I love you..."

Sarah smiled and closed her eyes... "I..." her hands went up to his hair as she pulled

"I...I..." Her long and dragged moaning as she climaxed filled his head.

He kept going, harder, with his face buried in the base of her neck. He felt her legs squeezing his torso and her hand pulling his hair. He came moments after her, letting out a moan of relief and satisfaction.

He lift his head, looking at her. One of her hands was tracing the contour of his face. The Other caressed his back ever so softly... She was finally allowed to say.

"I love you, Cohle..."