WHEN THE RAIN STOPS- Scrutinized [TANNER x LUNA] 2 IN 1

SIDE STORY PT. THIRTY TWO

TW: ABUSE

|LUNA|

My eye hurt.. along with my head. But as I woke up I felt the bed moving. "F-fuck! Oh shit!" I looked over to find Cole jerking off. "F-Fuck LuNa!" I looked down to find that he was grabbing my ass while I laid there, Naked. "Don't you dare, Move it." He spoke harshly through his teeth. "I-I'm so Close!" I turned back around and tried to go back to sleep. I had work tomorrow so I needed rest. I heard him finish and go to sleep so I eventually fell asleep.

~Time Skip~

At 7:15 I was in the bathroom and brushing my teeth. I needed to style my hair but I was running out of time. So I just let it go down to my sides and out of my way. When I finished I walked out of the bathroom and past Cole to the front door. He gave me a goodbye kiss before I left, along with a nuggy to my hair. "You should've down your hair today." My smile dropped and the guilt came back as the door shut. My breath quivered and I tried not to think about it while I walked to my car. As soon as I got to the stations parking lot I looked in the mirror on last time. Only to find a big ass bruise over my eye. "Oh my... god.." I moved my hair In front of it and tried to mask the hit. I managed and saw it was fine before I walked to my office in a hurry. I didn't want anyone to see. 'What would they think? That I'm weak? I'm not weak. I'm staying with the man I loved even-... Love? That's new..' I shook it off and went back to work. I was in the middle of filing when my stomach rumbled, I was hungry. So I got up and walked to the kitchen. There were donuts and coffee ready so all I needed to do is-. "Youngman!" Higgins yelled out while lifting his hand to hit me. I flinched and embraced for the blow. I knew it was coming. I just knew it. But when I cracked my eye open, Higgins was still waiting for a high five and confused. I looked behind him and saw August looking at me weird too. "Oh.. uh, sorry." I gave him a high five and he told me to take it easy. I nodded and August walked forward with a coffee and donut in hand. He handed them to me and told me it was mine. "So how are you Ms. Youngman?" "I'm good. You?" "Good, what's with the new hairstyle?" he reached for my hair to move it out of my eye. But I slapped his hand away. "Oh, sorry." "Oh no no, I'm sorry I'm just..." I looked for an excuse and then used the cheapest one in the book. "Tired and my eye bags are bad." He 'oh'd' and finally left me alone. I sighed in relief and walked back to my office.

~Time Skip~

I was finishing my last BOLO to go home when I got called out to a scene. Person killed at a velvet club. It's ironic because it's the same club that Vincent took me to. I didn't mind going to the scene, since August was coming along. Even though he's not a trainee anymore he still gets excited when he's called out with me. Maybe because I get the interesting scenes? I don't know. But either way when we got to the scene I did a check on my hair. It was in place and August hadn't said anything so I guess I was all good. I gave August some gloves and then we walked out to the velvet club. "Keep your eyes down August." "Why Ms. Youngma-.." we had opened the door to the main area and he saw the different scenes. I hummed a laugh; "that's why." He blushed and kept looking at the floor. He was adorable.

We went upstairs and too my surprise it was the same place Vincent had his little friends. I went into the room where the man had gotten murdered, the pole room, and started scoping around. My eyes widened when Adam and I made eye contact. I felt faint. I could've easily have gotten caught for murder. But Adam didn't speak, or say anything besides from the usual wave. I waved back and was snapped out of it by my co-worker who was the teller of the scene. She told me that there was a fight and someone had grabbed a bottle and murdered a man. Nothing too far from usual, but then she told me something I really wished she hadn't. "There's a man we're particularly looking at for this case.. does the name Tanner Grayton ring a bell?" She smirked and Travis looked over with the same glare. "Ughhh, fine. I'll go talk to him." "Good choice." They had left me in front of a door and behind it was Tanner sitting alone. I took a deep breath before going in and locking the door behind me. "Good evening Mr. Grayton. I'm here to ask you some questions." Tanner sat on a couch facing the fire place. "Hello, Luna." He bit his lip while he giggled. I sighed and sat down on a singular couch next to him. "What were you doing at 9 pm tonight?" "Sitting here and watching the fire." I slammed down the pen and paper and leaned back to rub my nose bridge. "God I forgot how stuck up you are." "What? I'm telling the truth." "You can't say that Tanner, that'll make you a suspect." "And you care why?" I sat back up. "Because that makes me more of a suspect." "No it won't.. just say you're worried." "Im not."