Mal Fallon
Mal watched as the door crept open, a large dark eye peering through the crack at him. Natara opened the door, stepping out quietly as if she went slow enough she would be invisible.
Mal approached her, and he could see from her expression she didn't want to talk. Mal did, and he wanted answers. "Nat, what the heck is going on?" he asked, keeping his voice calm.
She saw her bite her lip, which had a mark on it where she'd done so before. It drew blood, and she finally met his eyes. Mal now saw her eyes were wet, but no tears escaped. They remained in her eyes. "I-I'm" she started, but stopped, letting out a deep breath. "I'm fine" she said "It's nothing". She let her gaze drop again, and left him to grab some paperwork she'd neglected to finish from the other day. Mal knew it wasn't nothing, that whatever was upsetting her wasn't okay.
Natara Williams
'Why did you have to be so obvious?' she thought 'he knows somethings up. Now because he's so stupid and caring, he won't stop until he finds out what's bothering me'. She turned around and saw him approaching. 'Act normal' she told herself. He wordlessly sat next to her, and she averted her gaze. 'Thats right' she encourage herself 'Don't look up. If you do, your just going to look into his stupid blue eyes and tell him everything'. She knew she wouldn't tell him. She had know for a long time that he had feeling for her, and had shown much appreciated restraint. She wasn't ready for more than a mutual friendship. She didn't want to hear anything from him that he normally wouldn't say if he knew he would never see her again. It wasn't that she didn't care for Mal, but she had learned long ago dating a co-worker is way to complicated. That you have to put your job before your relationship. Even though Mal wouldn't be her partner for long, she traveled too much with the FBI. Too much could happen to either of them, and they wouldn't even see each other every day. Too many 'what if's made anything between them impossible, and as if right now it was better to push Mal away.