AFTER WHAT HAPPENED....

by: Panther

Pairing: Ryan & Natalia

Summary: After Natalia had the automatic gun in her face, she went home after work and was fixing to go into the shower, when her doorbell rings, ( she's still in the same house from when the drug lord was killed ) and goes to answer and sees Ryan. She let's him in, tells him that she'll be a moment and leaves for her bathroom. When she comes out, she smells food being cooked.

a/n: don't own, and I might make this a lemon, i'm not sure yet. And by the way,

' bold/italics ' are Nat's thoughts and ' Italics/underline ' are Ryan's thoughts.

Last time,

' Oh..Ryan. You didn't have to do that. ' She said to herself as she quickly walked to her room and closed the door, this time locking it. ( It may have been sweet of him, but there was no way she was going to let him see her with just a towel on, no sir! )

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As he turned to place the food, ( it can be any type of food ya'll want it to be, because there is just too much food that I like and want to put here, so I'll let ya'll put your own type of food you want them to have in this sorta depressing/romantic/shoulder-to-cry-on fic. ok enough talking from me! back to the story! ), on the table, he heard her run further down the hall that he had come out of and shut another door, hearing a slight click, he knew that she had locked the door this time.

Setting the table, he tried to make it look good to brighten up the mood of the room, which seemed rather depressing and awkward. So he tried to make the mood go away by putting on a grin and sat down, waiting for Natalia to come back out. ' Hopefully ', he thought to himself as he looked down the hall with a hopefull gaze.

In Nataila's room,

Natalia really didn't think much of what to wear, other than her pajamas, she was just going to eat some diner, with Ryan, talk a little bit more with him and hopefully not break down again in front of him, then see him to the door and lock said door back and go strait to bed. And go back to work tomorrow and get what happened today out of her mind and forget it ever happened.

So, with that plan set in her head, Natalia put on her blue pajama pants and army green tank top, walked over to her dresser/mirror and began to brush out her long dark brown hair and then walked out of her door and into her kitchen, were she was met by Ryan sitting at her table, but he quickly got up and pulled the chair across from him out and waited for her to sit down and helped pull the chair back up the table.

When Ryan was sitting back down again, they began to eat, neither one saying anything, just sitting and relaxing in the now less depressing, but still rather awkward mood of the room, Ryan was mentally patting himself on the back for lifting up the mood.

When they were done eating, they placed the dishes in the sink, Natalia telling Ryan that she would get them later, but he was already putting water in the sink and started to clean the dishes and telling Natalia to just go relax and he'll take care of it.

She finally gave up and went into her living-room and sat down on her leather couch, decideing weather or not to turn on the t.v. or her stero.

' I wonder why she's so upse... Of course you idiot, she had a damn automatic gun in her face and was terrified to death. But keeping what she's feeling on the inside not's going to help her forget what happened so fast. ' Ryan thought to himself as he finished the dishes and walked into her living-room and sat down beside her, not close enough to interupt her personal space, but close enough for her to be comfortable with him and not get scared and tell him to leave.

And so the talking begins.

Here's ch. 2 hope ya'll like it:)

Thank you TivafanGirl1, Mom, and NickTonyK for your reviews last ch. :)