Note:
I've only ever read other people's stories, never written any of my own. However, perhaps because there are so few others, I find myself having written a story about Chase. I'm a little shy about having written a story at all, let alone the impulse to share it with the whole Internet.
It is complete already, having been written, at first, entirely for my own entertainment. I'll post the prologue and first chapter today and then the rest every few days: with so few stories about, we may as well make the ones we have last a while. I hope you enjoy it.
This story was read in advance by a friend whom I will let remain anonymous in case she prefers it that way, and is much improved in consequence of her efforts. So: Thank you very much, Friend.
I am required, I think, to make some kind of intellectual property disclaimer: All the characters herein, save one, are creations of people more imaginative than I, and the property of NBC.
Chapter 1: Prologue
He'd warned her and she hadn't listened. He'd warned her and she hadn't listened. She felt sick; blood roaring in her ears and stomach churning. He'd warned her and she hadn't listened.
He'd shouted a warning when she ran for Duggan while the fugitive reloaded, but he'd still backed her up. He had tried to make her understand that if he were hurt, Marco would come for them, and then Daisy, and then Luke, and that her own risk-taking put everyone at risk. She'd dismissed him. They had all volunteered for the team, she had said, they could leave if they weren't prepared to do what needed to be done to catch the bad guys.
When he'd stopped her jumping from the balcony, when he'd confronted her about her father, well, she'd dismissed him then too. Even after the explosion at the farmer's market, she'd discounted his concern. He was looking out for her, she thought, in his old-fashioned cowboy-chivalrous way, and she didn't need it.
He'd warned her and she hadn't listened. And just as he'd warned, she'd jumped into trouble without thinking of the consequences, and he'd followed.