Chapter 6: Problems Comming Home
Scotty's POV
I came back to my room, frustrated. There was something wrong with Lil and she wasn't letting me in. God I just wanted to help her was it so hard for her to talk to me.
I jump as I hear a knock on the door; I walk over and open it. What I see surprises me, Lilly Rush my normally strong professional partner, tears streaming down her face.
"Lil" I say and she takes one look at me and breaks down. I pull her into my arms and walk her over to the bed. "Are you okay?" I ask. That's a really stupid question she crying you moron, of course she ain't okay.
She wipes a shaky hand over her eyes and clears her throat.
"I need to tell you something" she says "But you gotta promise you are not gonna do anything stupid when I do"
My mind is racing at the possibilities of what she was going to tell me. I take step back and let her in to my hotel room.
"Okay, I promise" I say and she takes a seat on my bed. Lilly pats the spot next to her indicating she wanted me to sit down so I take a seat. Her eyes fixed on the floor, a tear tracking its way down her cheek.
"When I was with Peter earlier he...he..."
"Lil what happened?"
She wiped the tear off her face and turned her head to look me in the eyes. "He tried to..." She trailed off but I knew exactly what that piece of shit tried to do to my partner and rage started thundering through my veins. "Nothing happened I managed to push him off but...I thought I should tell you. I needed to tell someone" she finished
"You should report him Lil" I say but she shakes her head
"I can't" she says
"Why the hell not, you can't just let him get away with it" I say
"There is no point Scotty, nothing happened and besides it will be my word against his" she said
"I'll back you up" I said
Again she shakes her head "You weren't there Scotty, I just wanted to tell you 'cause you're my partner"
"Well if you ain't gonna do anything I am" I say
"Scotty, you said you weren't going do anything stupid" She says
"I am not gonna do anything stupid, I am going to have a little conversation with the son of a bitch"
"I know how your 'conversations' end up, no" she says and I sigh
"So you're not gonna do anything?" I ask
"What's the point, it won't go anywhere and besides we'll be leaving soon. Heading back to Philly so I just want to let go" she said.
She stood up and walked to the door.
"Goodnight Scotty" she said
"Night Lil" she shut the door and I lay back on the bed thinking about what she told me, I knew I should have stopped her from leaving with Peter tonight.
I longed to be able to teach the arsehole a lesson, but Lilly made him promise he wouldn't do anything.
I didn't get much sleep that night and as I sipped my second cup of coffee that morning in a vain attempt to wake myself up, I decided promise or no promise I was gonna at least talk to the arsehole. I grabbed my jacket and walked out the door to wait for Lil, we were gonna check Gina one more time, go back to the LA precinct and if there was nothing more Boss wanted us to come back home.
Lil and I arrived at the hospital and I could tell by the bags under her eyes she hadn't had much sleep either. As we stepped into the elevator and I pressed the button Lilly smiled at me and I smiled back. It felt like we were slowly getting back to what we were like before I started dating Chris. Gina said she couldn't remember anything else and we told her we'd be heading back to Philly. She thanked us and we told her we'd let her know what happens.
Arriving back at the precinct we started saying our goodbyes to the others we I spotted Peter. Rage surged through me as I saw him talking to Lilly. I looked around the others had left the breakroom so I made my move. I walked over to him and pushed him up against the wall.
"Scotty don't" Lilly said
"What the fuck man?" Peter exclaimed
"You're lucky that Lil asked me not to do anything stupid or you'd be picking up the rest of your teeth of the floor." I say
"What, I didn't do anything she didn't want me to do" He said wrenching my arm off him.
"You're just pathetic" I say
"Me...I am pathetic, I ain't the one screwing her sister as a substitute for her" I was about to slam my fist into his face but Lilly grabbed hold of my arm.
"Scotty, don't" Lilly said and I shake my head "Let's just get back to Philly"
I relent and turn on my heel. "Come on Lil" I say and we exit the department.
Arriving at the airport we encounter a problem. It seemed that all the baggage handlers across the airlines got together and had decided to choose today of all days to start their nationwide strike which meant effectively we were grounded.
"Goddammit" I swore and I walked over to the enquires desk, to ask them if there was any possibility we be getting on a flight today. She just laughed at me and told me I'd be lucky to get on a flight this week.
Lilly called Boss to explain the situation and he told us the department wanted us back and that we were going to have to drive back to Philly.
It was going to be two days of driving and we both weren't looking forward to it but we had no choice. Heading back to the car yard and renting another car we started to long drive back to Philly.
A/n: I wasn't sure about this chapter, didn't really like it but the next one will be better. Oh dear, airline strikes suck, but being trapped in a car together is going to either bring them closer or further apart.