A/N: My apologies for the delay. Red and Lizzie have an emotional confrontation in this one. Lots of angst. Despite the angst I hope you enjoy. Thank you for all who keep hanging in there and keep following and reviewing. I love those reviews!

Chapter thirty-nine

Red approached her in slow but menacing steps. "Isn't this exactly what you wanted?" He asked.

"No." She watched his cold eyes. She missed the warmth he usually had in them for her.

"You could have fooled me." He said. Though a part of him wanted to shake Lizzie and let her know how much she'd hurt him, he chose not too. He'd opened himself up to her. His heart belonged to her and she'd chosen to crush it. He blamed himself. He should have known better than to trust her with his heart. He was a fool. She'd never told him she loved him. He should have realised then that it was never meant to be. "But isn't that what you exactly did? Fooling me into loving you but knowing you would never return that love." He was towering over her now wanting her to feel small and weak. This was the ugly part of him that he'd never been able to suppress.

His harsh words hurt her deeply. However hard she'd tried, it was impossible for her now to hold back the tears. She let them run freely, not caring that he saw how hurt she was. "No." She whispered. She hadn't fooled him. "No." She said again, this time her voice was stronger. "That's not true."

"Really?" He didn't believe her. He tilted his head and squinted his eyes. "I don't believe you." He paused. "I don't trust you." He practically snarled the last words. He gave her one last look and walked passed her into the bedroom to grab his bag.

She followed him back into her bedroom but decided to stand in the doorway to the living room. She wasn't just going to let him walk away from her. "And instead of talking about it you take the easy way out?" She knew she had him when his head whipped around.

"Don't talk to me about taking the easy way out. You left, Elizabeth. You left without having the courtesy to talk to me. Don't tell me I took the easy way out!" He raised his voice. It was the first time he'd ever raised his voice in front of her. It was something he never wanted to do and immediately felt remorse. It proved how much she got under his skin. "I'm sorry." He apologised. No matter how angry he was at her nothing justified his yelling.

She didn't mind his yelling. She preferred it to his cold demeanour. She wanted him to show emotion. She even needed it, needed to know that this hurt him as much as it did her. Though she knew his distant behaviour was an indication of his hurt, she preferred it when he showed his emotion. However what she missed most as he was standing in front of her, was the love in his eyes, the tender look he used to have when he looked at her. Was he over her already? Didn't she mean anything to him anymore? She wiped away the tears that were running down her cheeks. She saw him walk towards her again. He wanted to leave, but she wasn't going to let him. By the looks of it he wasn't going to let her stop him. Red would never be violent with her, never over power her and so she let him come close and when almost wanted to walk through her, she stopped him with a trembling hand on his chest.

"What, Lizzie?" He said as he looked at the hand she had on his chest. When she kept silent he continued. "What could you possibly say that would make anything of what you did right?"

"Nothing." She admitted. He'd called her Lizzie. That meant something. That meant she was getting to him. She kept her hand on his chest though because she knew it would keep him there with her. But she didn't know what else to say.

"If you have nothing to say then let me go." Her small hand on his chest felt like it was burning through him.

"No."

"Then what do you want?" Red waved his arms and took a step back. "You have nothing to say and now what? We're going to stand here in your bedroom? And do what?" He asked her. It frustrated him that she wasn't talking. He saw how upset she was. It was exactly how he felt too. Yet again she wanted him to take the first step but he refused to do so.

"I just want to talk." She sighed. She did want to talk but found it difficult to start or where to start.

"You're not doing a lot of talking, are you?"

She knew this side of him. Knew how mean he could be, but had never had it pointed at her. She got frustrated and angry and stepped towards him. "Damn it Red. Give me a chance."

"What? I have to give you a chance? That's cheap coming from you. No, Lizzie. You chose not to hear me out, chose not to trust me and you chose to ran away. Don't blame me for the faults you made." Red said eerily calm before he grabbed his bag,

She quickly followed him. "And now you're running away. Well you know what, Red. Your loss! If I have so many flaws why pursue me in the first place? Because of the challenge? Another conquest? Another notch on your bedpost? And when you discovered I wasn't as easy as you thought you went and got the first woman that was available?" She paused to catch her breath. There was no holding back now, her anger was full force.

"Go ahead Red. Walk away. There are plenty of men out there who find me attractive. I even went on a date with one last week."

Red had stopped dead in his tracks. Her words hurt him deeply. How could she think he thought of her as just another conquest? It meant she hadn't really known him at all. It meant that she'd never trusted him, never believed in his love for her. He turned around and let her see what she did to him. He fought hard to keep the tears from falling. He did not want to fall apart in front of her. With a thick voice he spoke. "How can put the word of a woman like Angela above mine? Angela was lying. I thought you trusted me. All I've ever wanted was you and you threw it all away on the words of a woman you just met? You're a trained profiler and the only thing you've managed to profile so far is not recognizing the truth. Clearly you're learned nothing since Tom. Bravo, Elizabeth. Outstanding piece of profiling." He added his tone full of sarcasm. "Goodbye."

"Damn it, Red." Lizzie called out to him as he walked away. She was falling apart. The tears were running down her cheeks, her breath was coming in bursts. "Damn it Raymond, I love you." She cried out before she crumbled to her knees onto her bedroom floor. "I love you." She cried softly.

TBC...