Lastly (L.T.)

Chapter 51

Neither of us were tired after moving the body, our nerves much too on edge while we were stuck wondering whether or not our plan would work.

It was roughly five in the morning by the time we had snuck back to Louis's dorm. I felt disgusting after dealing with the body so I finally decided to bite the bullet and have a shower.

It was early enough that there were no students around so I had the community bathroom to myself. Although it still felt gross, it was better than many of the bathrooms I had dealt with while on missions for Jay.

I felt like a new woman afterwards, and headed back to Louis's dorm where I found him sitting with two plates of breakfast. He had taken out the contacts since we were alone, and he was shirtless, his tattoos on full display.

"Where did you manage to get food so early?" I asked him, accepting the plate of food that he offered me.

"There's a diner on campus that opens at six, I went there."

I nodded, taking a bite of the eggs and potatoes. It was surprisingly good for college campus food.

I thought for a moment, it seemed like our only job now would be to stay out of the way while the police conducted the investigation. It seemed pretty cut and dry to me, hopefully it wouldn't take them more than another twenty four hours since we had lost one day since our conversation with Harry. We only had one more day after today.

We had the powder, and if the police did their jobs, the student union would be disbanded and unable to make any more once they were kicked off campus. All we had to do was wait.

"Do we just stay on campus and wait, or do we get out of they way so we can't be seen as suspects." I asked Louis as soon as my mouth was free.

He shook his head through a mouth full of eggs, chewing quickly so he could speak.

"I think we should get get away from the uni. We were safe enough that we haven't made much of an appearance on the campus security cameras, so if we leave, I don't think they'll have any cause to suspect us or want to chase us down."

"So are we staying in Florida for the next two days then, or do we just go ahead and go back to London? I think it might be best if we at least stay in Florida."

I agreed that getting out of the way of the investigation would be a good idea, but I thought it would be best if we at least stayed in Florida, so that we could at least make our way back to the campus if things didn't go how we planned with the investigation and we needed to step in.

"I agree, I think we should stay in Florida, just not on the campus." He nodded, pulling his phone out of the pocket and scrolling through it, "how do you feel like taking a break with me..."

He trailed off, sounding nervous all of a sudden, and he never sounded nervous. He was always so confident and assured, watching him with his eyes trained towards the floor was more surprising than having the professor walk in on us stealing the powder.

Watching his nervousness made my chest ache in a strange way. I didn't know what to call the emotion I felt. Compassion, maybe?

I didn't know what compassion felt like. I killed a man and hid his body and felt nothing. I had tortured and killed drug dealer after drug dealer on Jay's missions and felt nothing. Did I feel compassion for Louis just because I loved him? Or did I feel compassion for him because he was just that special.

Emotions were strange.

Unsure of what to do to ease his anxiety, I laid my hand on his thigh lightly, doing my best to non verbally communicate that it was okay. Whatever he wanted to say, it was all okay.