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LilMisfit – Ditto. The scene was just deliciously teasing and frustrating, simultaneously. Thank you.
Lipamo – thanks. Got a couple of ideas for the later episodes starting to form.
Indigo – thanks for all the reviews. The psychology of it all is the reason Brody is my favourite. I don't think they have ever actually confirmed who it was that gave him the razor blade.
Terzima – thank you…it didn't make much sense to me either… though I did just come to the conclusion she thought she may be able to catch him in a lie if he were drunk.
A/N The weekend was just a fantastic and basically perfect episode. Missing scene - Carrie and Brody's trip to the waterfall.
She is relaxed, but on edge.
"Carrie, come in. The water's nice", Brody shouts to her, before doing another lap.
He'd jumped in almost as soon as they'd gotten to the waterfall. She's been watching him and it soothes her to see him so apparently relaxed. It worries her that it soothes her. It worries her that she's been sharing feelings with him, a man she suspects might be a terrorist and, yet, somehow it is comforting. Because he just gets it.
Looking up, Carrie is suddenly fearful. Her breath catches in her throat and fear takes hold for a second.
"BRODY!", she yells as loudly as she can, but there's no sign of him.
"BRO…"
Suddenly, he appears to the surface right in front of her, pulling her into the water with a laugh.
"Brody! That's not funny. I thought you had drowned", Carrie gives him into trouble, as soon as she is able.
"Well, you were off in your own little world and weren't answering me. So, I thought I'd come give you a hand."
"A hand…give me a hand", Carrie says indignantly. "You almost gave me a heart attack."
"Sorry", Brody replies, with the good grace to look upset.
"It's ok…just, don't do that again, ok."
He nods his head at her and Carrie marvels at the fact this man she suspects, can look so vulnerable, but at the same time she knows that should not be a surprise. He was vulnerable for such a long time and will be for the rest of his life. He is a conundrum.
"So, what were you thinking about?", Brody asks.
"Nothing", she replies too quickly, as Brody raises his eyebrow at her.
Carrie sighs, unsettled by how easy he can knock her off her game. She can't even tell if he's trying. That's how bad it is. What if he's genuine and her suspicious mind is going to mess it all up?
"Just things. Mainly work. It's a mess."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"Can't", Carrie answers with a smile.
"Right of course", he answers, all the while surveying her.
Carrie feels as though he is x-raying her. She refuses to look away. Those blue eyes are so expressive and hauntingly beautiful. A waterfall all of their own, mapping out 8 years of hell through all the tears that must have fallen, trickled and cascaded down his face.
She shouldn't feel for him, but the tightening in her chest when she thought he had drowned says she already does. How could she not? When he is damaged as she is and, he understands the horrors she has seen, when she understands why he doesn't want to and can't be intimate with his wife.
He's moving closer to her and she reaches out to touch his face. She doesn't know whose lips touch whose first and she doesn't care. It may be wrong, but in this moment, it feels right and she loses herself in the kiss, right along with him.