Freefall
Chapter 2
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Unfortunately I don't own the show. But you can't keep a girl from wishing...
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Chapter 2
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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Nicole tried to look as normal as she could when Hotch announced the presence of her husband. Inside though she was fuming with anger. She had told Kevin that he could not visit her at work, no matter what the circumstances were. They'd had too many fights about this and for a while she had really believed that he had understood her about visiting her at work. But, no such luck.
She looked up at Aaron Hotchner and noticed that he looked a little confused. He was probably wondering why she never told him about her marriage.
"I'm not married", she told him, still looking at him, like she was trying very hard not to look at Kevin.
"There's no reason for details", Kevin suddenly said, his voice sounding a little too jealous.
"What do you want Kevin?", Nicole replied, trying her best to get a grip on her anger.
"We didn't have a change to talk this morning", Kevin explained, his voice sounding sickly sweet. "You were gone when I woke up".
Meanwhile Kevin kept looking at Hotch, like he was trying to stare him away. Hotch however didn't budge and kept his eyes trained on Nicole.
"I'll give the two of you some space", he told her, before walking towards his office, stopping shortly at Morgan's desk to tell him something. Apparently, Morgan was told to keep an eye on Nicole, because he had now turned his chair in her direction and pretended to read the file his hands were occupied with.
"There's nothing to talk about", Nicole said. "I already told you everything".
"I don't care. I told you last night not to leave the house before we'd have a change to talk. And this morning I woke up and you weren't there. I figured I had made myself pretty clear", Kevin told her, his voice calm but his attutide full with arrogance.
"You didn't actually believed I was going to listen right?", Nicole huffed, surprised by the fact that he obviously still didn't know her very well.
His eyes flamed with anger as he stepped closer to her, pushing her back against her desk. Instead of feeling afraid of him, she felt the anger flow freely through her body as she got the adrenaline rush she needed. He had crossed a line coming to her office and right now he was on her turf.
With all the strength she had, she pussed him away from her, standing tall in front of him with her hands firmly on her hips.
"I will tell you one more time", she said, her voice slightly raised because of the aggrevation.
"This is my job. This is what I do. I told you the second we met that I'm always on call. That means twenty-four-seven, 365 days a year. When I get called in, I'm supposed to drop everything and everyone. Without complaining".
She was now almost yelling at him.
"And when I tell you that I'm leaving town because of a case, I mean that. Just that. So it's not an excuse to run to my superiors and screw them.".
Nicole knew that she was now being watched by the entire team, but right now she didn't care. She would apologize later.
"Let's take this …", Kevin started, but Nicole cut him off.
"I'm not done yet", she grunted out, still trying very hard to control her anger.
"I can't do this anymore. I can't have this fight every single fucking day. I am so sick and tired of explaining my every move to you".
"But I …", Kevin tried again, soundin a little astonished that Nicole had yelled at him like that. Nicole cut him off again.
"I have a briefing in thirty minutes, which means we'll probably leave Quantico this afternoon", she explained calmly.
"We'll be gone for approxiamately three or four days. A week tops. So you have 3 days to get your stuff out of my house and leave the key at the desk in the hall.
"I will not leave like that, not until we've had a reasonable conversation", Kevin answered her, sounding more angry now, almost like her comments had hit base. Like they had fulled his anger.
"There's nothing left to talk about Kevin. We've never had a real chance of hapiness. I'm surprised we even got this far", Nicole replied, her voice sounding distant, like she had already made peace with it.
"Just be gone when I'm back".
Nicole turned around to walk away, when Kevin grabbed her arm, pressing his fingers harsly in the skin of her upperarm. She hissed in pain when she was roughly turned around and pulled towards her raging boyfriend.
Her hiss had alarmed Morgan as he made a beeline towards her.
"Let her go man", he told Kevin. "There's no need to be violent".
"I need her to tell me that she doesn't love me anymore. That we're done", Kevin said, his fingers still tightly pressed into her skin.
Nicole raised her chin defiantly and looked Kevin in the eye.
"I. Do. Not. Love. You.", she spoke clearly. "We. Are. Done".
He roughly pulled her against him once more.
"This is not over", he whispered in her ear, before letting her go.
He pointed at everyone in the room. First Emily, Reid and J.J. Then at Hotch, followed by Morgan and he finished at Gideon.
"This is far from over!", he yelled.
Security had entered the room seconds before his outburst and they were now adressed by Gideon.
"Please escort this gentleman outside".
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TBC!
I'm sorry if this chapter is a little lame. But it will all make sense once the next few chapters are up. I promise.
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