"What about Eric?" She asks, concern evident in her tone.
"It could be nothing." I shrug and shake my head. "It could be me just overreacting to small details, but that's who I am, it's what I do. I'm skeptical of certain things and I'm hardly ever wrong." I explain.
"Ashley you're freaking me out, just tell me what's going on." Spencer whispers quickly.
"Eric... his story just doesn't make sense." I tell her, she gives me a confused look. "He knows things, things that he shouldn't." I whisper, moving closer to her.
"Science stuff?" She asks.
"Yes, I mean no. Other stuff too. Like stuff about Dr. Johnson and Trinity Flares, he knew who she was and that she didn't really exist. No one knew that Spence. No one on the outside anyways." I tell her.
"Wait, that's why you asked me about the news isn't it?" She questions, I nod. "Why didn't you just tell me then?"
"I don't know." I shrug. "I didn't know if I was just making a big deal out of nothing, but now..."
"Now?" She urges me on.
"Glen said he killed an entire herd of zombies...alone. You don't do that without some special kind of training or something."
"I got it." She snaps her fingers and says, "Maybe he's a ninja." A smile creeps on her lips.
"Spencer." I scold her. But I can't help the smile that spreads across my face. "I'm being serious." I push her gently.
"I know, I know." She chuckles, repositioning herself back in front of me. "So what are you gonna do about it?"
"I don't know. There's nothing I really can do besides keep an eye on him, I guess." I shrug.
"It's not like he's been trying to kill us or anything. He's been helping since he got here. A super secret agent/killer wouldn't be helpful would he?" She questions with a raised brow and a smile.
"This is all one big joke to you, isn't it?" I ask, smiling at how extra cute she's being right now.
She shrugs. "I just don't want you going around accusing innocent people of treason."
"Treason Spencer, really?" I ask with one brow raised.
"That's what that is...right?" She asks seriously. I burst into laughter and nod.
"Sure." I manage to get out between chuckles.
"Jerk." She slaps me on the arm and does a cute little pout.
"Really, you're gonna bring that out?" I question.
"Is it working?"
I shake my head and smile. "Nope." I tell her, popping the 'p'.
"Well no kiss for you then." She shrugs and turns to walk away.
"Um, no!" I half shout, grabbing her and spinning her back around to face me. "You're not getting away that easily." I pull her closer to me, connecting our lips. It's amazing how I can never get enough of her lips. She pulls back, to my disappointment.
"Go be a detective and find out more stuff about Eric before you say something to the group, okay?" She asks and I shake my head and smile at her. "What?" She questions.
"How'd you know I was gonna talk to the group?" I ask seriously.
"You had that look." She shrugs.
"You know me too well Spencer Carlin." I smile and pull her into another kiss.
She pulls back again, "Go, before I keep you."
"I wouldn't protest." I pull her back into me again.
"Of course not, you're a slacker." She smiles.
"Well, you're an amazing distraction." I retort.
"Go." She commands.
"Mmm. I love it when you tell me what to do." I moan, taking my bottom lip between my teeth.
"Ashley Davies, do not start this." She shakes her head and giggles.
Aw! She giggled.
"I have no idea what you're talking about Spencer." I feign ignorance as I move in closer to her.
"Hey! What's going on you two?" Hannah shouts and bangs on the glass.
Annnnnd the moment is gone.
"I'm gonna gonna shoot her." I decide, turning to walk towards the room they're in as I take my gun off my clip.
"No you're not." Spencer says, grabbing me and pulling me down the hall in the other direction. "You need to get back to work anyways. You have a world to save remember. I promise I'll be here when you get done." She assures me.
"As Spencer Carlin my ex or current girlfriend?" I ask, knowing she probably won't give me an answer but it was worth a shot, right?
"When this is done..." She starts, moving closer to me. "...when the cure is figured out and we can leave this place to go start saving people, I'll be your current girlfriend." She smiles and kisses me sweetly.
"Seriously?" I ask, my voice an octave higher than normal. I honestly didn't expect that reply.
"Yes." She nods. "I think you've proven that you deserve me." She tells me and kisses me again.
Score!
Ashley 4, Spencer-
"Stop doing that." She cuts off my thoughts.
"Huh?" I look at her and ask.
"You're keeping score in your head, Ashley, I'm not crazy." She smiles. I give her a bewildered look. How in the hell could she possibly have known that? "I know everything that goes on in that pretty little head of yours... remember that." She says, giving me one last kiss before walking past me, back to the room we'd just exited.
Creepy...
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"How are things going in here?" I throw out the question as I enter the lab.
"Dr. Johnson isn't playing nice." Angel whines causing Dr. Johnson to chuckle.
"This procedure requires expert hands, my dear." He turns and tells Angel.
"Aw poo." She pouts and he chuckles again. -
"Got a sec?" I ask Angel, she nods and we walk over to the corner. Far from Eric and Dr. Johnson.
"What's up?" She asks, sitting in a chair.
"Does Eric seem...different to you?" I ask, trying to word my sentence properly.
"Different?" She asks, raising a brow.
"Um... extraordinary?" I try.
"Yeah, extraordinarily annoying." She replies with a smile. "You know he asked Kyla out right? He knew that I liked her because I told him and he asked her out anyways. How could he just-"
"You're getting off track here." I stop her mid-rant.
"Oh." She shakes her head and smiles. "Sorry. What were you saying?"
"He just seems a bit off to me or something, I don't know." I shrug. "It could just be my head messing with me."
She leans in closer to me, "Oooo are your spidey senses tingling?" She asks seriously.
"And this conversation is now over." I laugh and shake my head at her.
"Okay, but you know with all the super powers you have, I'm sure you've got that one too." She shrugs and walks back over to Dr. Johnson.
"I think we should break for the day." Dr. Johnson says. "We should have everything completed in a couple of days maybe, if all goes well." He tells the three of us with a smile.
"Good!" I reply. "Cause my relationship is dependent upon us figuring out this cure and saving the world." I add with a smile.
"Then maybe you should try contributing every once in a while." Dr. Johnson jokes and I can't help but smile. I didn't know he had it in him.
"Oh you're gonna get in on the Ashley jokes too, Dr. Johnson." Is my reply.
He shrugs. "The opportunity presented itself."
"Spoken like a true genius." Angel chimes in.
"Thank you." I retort sarcastically, rolling my eyes at her. She chuckles as her and Eric leave the lab. I'm sure they're both starving. "Thanks for helping us with this, Dr. Johnson." I tell him as I take a seat next to him.
"Ah, no problem." He waves me off. "I quite enjoy it actually. It makes me feel like I'm at home." He smiles as he starts to clean up his work area. I get up to help him. "What are you going to do?" He turns to me suddenly and asks.
"About what?" I ask, a bit confused at his question.
"I'm rather close to figuring out this cure Ashley, and I may be an old man but I'm not blind nor ignorant." He smiles.
"I still don't follow." I scrunch my eyebrows and say.
"When Rebecca is cured." He says and then it dawns on me. "You're with Spencer now but I know that you love my granddaughter. I can see the way you still look at her. You loved her for almost a year, I knew back then. She wouldn't tell me, or anyone because you were the bosses daughter," And the fact that I was underage. "...but I wasn't blind to the feelings she had for you."
"Dr. Johnson I-"
"No need to explain dear. I understand that the choice is difficult. I only hope that you do what's in the best interest my granddaughter when the time comes." He smiles before turning and walking out the lab.
Great! I hadn't thought about this moment.
What exactly will I do when the time comes?