There are four types of love agape, phileo, storge, and eros. (There might be 7 depending on who you ask, but these are the ones I learned in my day.) Agape is unconditional love, phileo is love between friends, storge is love between family, and eros is romantic love… to paraphrase. The love between Wade and Beasly are phileo. They are still just friends. That's it. I don't believe every close relationship needs to be eros.
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Beasly sat on the bench reading the letter for the twentieth time.
"Whatcha got there?" Beasly immediately put the letter away. Wade frowned when she saw that. Beasly sighed and brought the letter out.
"Can't keep anything from you." He grumbled handing her the letter.
Wade skimmed through it. Her face grew serious when she finished.
"Hey, I'm sorry." She said quietly sitting down next to him. "What are you going to do now?"
"I don't know. I guess I have to quit Providence." Beasly said flatly.
"No! You can't" Wade said alarmed.
"There's no one else to take care of my mama." Beasly shook his head.
"How about a live in care-giver?" Wade suggested.
"You know how expensive they are? I don't make that kinda money." Beasly said.
"But you don't know how to take care of a someone with a stroke, do you? And what are you going to do about earning money?" Wade bombarded him with questions.
"I don't know!" Beasly snapped. Then he winced. He hadn't mean to be short with his friend. "Sorry." He leaned over.
Wade put a comforting hand on his back. "Hey, you'll figure it out." She said reassuringly.
"Yeah, I hope so." He said softly.
0o0
"What's this for?" Jackson asked looking at Wade.
"Beasly's mother had a stroke. Beasly can't afford the cost of taking care of her." Wade explained.
"Not to sound callous… but what does that have to do with me?" Jackson said uninterestedly.
Wade picked him up by the collar. "Beasly doesn't have that kind of money. We're taking a collection to help him out." Wade said through gritted teeth.
Jackson gulped. "Sure thing, Wade." He pulled out his wallet and handed her a bill.
"Thank you for your generosity." She dropped him in his chair.
Nyquist walked up to Wade with money as well. "Tell Beasly, I hope his ma gets better soon.
Wade smiled. "Thanks."
Soon the other agents lined up to offer their contributions. Wade left with a sizable sum. She went to find Beasly. After a quick search, she found him sitting in the cafeteria.
"Hey, how's it going?" She slid in the chair next to him.
He shrugged listlessly. "I talked to Captain Calan. He said to do whatever I had to do."
"Look, the fellas and I took up a collection to help." She pushed an envelope towards him.
He looked at her in surprise. "You guys didn't have to." He touched the envelope.
Wade snorted. "Of course, we didn't have to. We wanted to."
"Thanks." He said simply.
"You're welcome." She answered.
"Well, I gotta go call the hospital to see how she's doing. You know, it's funny, but today's Valentine's Day." He said with a catch in this throat.
"Yeah?" Wade waited for him to say more.
"My parents got married today. When pop died, I sent her flowers every Valentine's Day. Maybe I still have time to order some." He said.
"Sure, you can have them expressed there." Wade agreed.
"But I don't think she'd even notice them." He said sadly.
"Hey, it's the thought that counts." Wade said softly.
"Yeah. I guess." Beasly said unenthusiastically. Wade watched him shuffle out the door.
She wished she could do more.
0o0
Wade was working on finishing her paperwork when Beasly burst into the room. He was panting and out of breath. He had a wild look about him.
"What's wrong?" Wade asked alarmed.
"Nothing…nothing's wrong. I talked to the doctors. They said an anonymous benefactor just offered to pay for 24 hour care for my mama at a nursing home… indefinitely." Beasly stammered.
"What?" Wade's mouth dropped. "But who?"
"That's why they're called anonymous." Beasly grinned, getting back some of his mischievousness.
Wade lightly smacked him. "I know that, you bum. But I mean this seems too good to be true."
"I know. I didn't believe it myself at first but they emailed me everything and it's all legit." Beasly almost whooped.
"Well, that's great!" Wade said happy for her friend.
"Yeah, I'm going to fly out right now to finalize the paperwork and to see my mama. I can deliver those flowers myself." He said excitedly.
"Well, quit yaking with me and go." She pushed him towards the door.
"I know but I had to tell someone the good news." He beamed. Wade gave him a light hug.
"Now go, before you miss your flight." She ordered.
Beasly gave her one last grin before running out the door.
Wade sat down in wonderment. Who on Earth could be so generous?
0o0
"Everything arranged yet, Captain?" White Knight asked from the screen in the conference room.
"Yes, all taken care of. That was very generous of you sir." Captain Calan said to his boss.
White snorted. "Well, we can't afford to lose one of our best agents, can we?" He said casually as he wrote something down on his notepad.
"No, sir. We can not." Calan was grinning now.
White looked up over his nose. "You still here? Don't you have some job to tend to?" He growled.
"Yes, sir, I do." Calan saluted. He turned around and walked toward the door.
"And Captain?" White added before Calan could leave the room.
Calan turned around questioningly.
"I trust this will not get out." He shuffled the papers on his desk.
"Yes, sir… I mean no sir. No one will ever know." Calan replied. Then he added, "Thank you." Then he was gone.
White snorted again before the screen went blank.
So White is not a total jerk, especially after my season 6. But did you ever wonder why Calan is so loyal to White? There must be a reason.