20. Fearless

"Did you ever go to something like the 'Force of Mind' seminar?" Sofia asked Sara.

"Are you kidding me? My parents were hippies, we lived in this world, I forced my mind to so many things, it's a wonder it's still working. Might be because I stopped attending such events as soon as I was away. What about you?"

"Not really my cup of tea."

"There's no free spirit in you?"

"Oh, my spirit is very free, free of bullshit like this. Maybe it works for some people, maybe it works when you believe in it, to me it's hocus-pocus." She was more a reality person, an evidence woman.

"A kind of hocus-hocus guys like Quinn make millions with." It amazed Sara for what people paid money, how easy it sometimes was, to get money from other people.

"Yeah, we should have learnt this instead of what we did. I feel sorry for Mary." Sofia sighed.

"She lost her husband, the love of her life, and might will lose her life as well. They have no idea if the medication they made, will save her life. I hope so."

"Some people die of a broken heart when their one true love is gone." Did this appear to Sara too? She lost her husband, how stable was she? Although they met regularly, Sofia was not entirely sure the brunette was fine.

"Yeah." Sara bit her lips. "You don't worry about me, do you?" Did she read Sofia's mind?

"Not anymore. Or not that much, sometimes I do. But you talk to me, to your colleagues, you don't hide in your apartment, all good signs. And the guys are also busy checking on you."

"They are."

"You're their sister, they love you, they want to know you're fine. Talking about love, what's the story with Hodge's girlfriend in the mud pool with another man?"

"Apparently he's her brother."

"Yeah sure." What a lame was that? A bath in a mud hot pool with the brother. A brother, she never mentioned before, didn't bother to mention was in Las Vegas. You had to be a total idiot to believe this story, it had LIE written all over it. "How did she explain the different surname?"

"She was married once, for a week, kept the name of her husband. That's why he has a different surname."

"And Santa Claus exists. Come on, they shared a room, I'm sure if somebody had checked the room, there would have evidence of not very sibling behavior. She cheats on him, with the first best man and lies to his face."

Sara didn't believe the story neither, but she wanted people to stay out of her private life, she had to respect their private life too. "They're not married yet and if they get divorced soon after the wedding, she has to go back to Italy."

"If you ask me, I think that would be best for him. I don't trust this woman."

"I never talked to her, Morgan did, and she seems to be skeptical too."

"It will break his heart." And she felt sorry for Hodges; again. First Wendy, now this woman, who apparently had nothing better to do than lie to him, cheat on him. He didn't have a lucky hand when it came to women, no wonder he lived for such a long time with his mother.

"Yes. Gosh, I can't believe we really worry about Hodges." Sara laughed.

"We got used to him. He's one of a kind."

"Oh yes he is. Did you ever walk on fire?"

"No, I'm not into pain."

"Hodges did it in the lab, apparently nothing will happen when you wait for the right moment and walk fast enough."

"I'm prefer safe than sorry. By the way, Jessica is really FBI, I double checked."

"We have the killer, she was off the hook."

"And we had a body in interrogation."

"A suicide. There are plenty to herbal tranquilizer, why do people take drugs?"

"They work faster and she kind of got it for free. Until she paid for it with her life."

"A damn high prize." Sara shook her head. Sometimes she wondered if people were stupid or just didn't care. Not even about their own life.