PETRICHOR

.05.

While the food was heating I quickly cleaned up his wounds. I held his hands which had the most injuries and gently disinfected them.  I noticed how small my hands compared to his. " Is this fine?"  I questioned hoping I  wasn't hurting him. "Yeah."  My eyes met his for s split second, I could feel the heat creeping up my cheeks. 

I cleared my throat, "Done."

He checked his hands and other places for injuries, he was pretty satisfied.

I served him dinner and sat down quietly as he ate his meal. For some reason, I couldn't help but question what had happened to him. He looked at me suddenly, "You look like you want to say something, what is it ?"

I finally spoke my thoughts out, "It wasn't scorpi0n was it ?"  He shook his head and took another bite from his plate. "I was caught up in a fight; which I didn't start -don't worry it wasn't him." I took that as a sign not to ask more personal questions.

"Um by the way ... I think I should go back home... you've done a lot."

He frowned slightly, " Absolutely not, we don't know when will this psychopath show up again. John and I spoke about it on the phone while I was coming back, and we came up with a plan." I stayed quiet to listen to what he has to say.

He continued " You'll have to stay with me until everything is figured out, and once the whole thing is over you'll go back to your normal life. For now, we will lay low and tomorrow we'll go to collect the evidence from the cafe's security cameras."

I took a few seconds to think about the whole situation. I couldn't say no since I was finally getting help. Very soon I'll return to my old life. " That means I won't be able to go to my apartment nor work right ?" He nodded replying to my question.

"Ok I got it"

"I don't know how to tell you this but.... for  now both of us will have to act as husband and wife- we are going undercover, just for safety measures." He stated so casually as if it was nothing.

My mouth fell open, "What? Why! What does it have to do with anything?  Why do we need to be undercover when all this will end soon ?" I was very puzzled, it was a bit too much.

He sighed and took a deep breath, "John thought about it many many times, there's no way around it. To keep you safe, we'll have to act as if we know you closely. Who knows how long will this all take." 

" Why can't I just be your sister or something?" I wasn't getting it.
" Listen, you'll be living with me and it'll be weird to be living with my sister. Not to mention I'll be with you all the time. In case anyone asks about us, we will say that we are husband and wife, that would be our relationship if anyone questions you."

" Don't you have a life?" I couldn't help but throw in a sarcastic remark. He laughed, he probably didn't see that coming.

"I'm in my summer break just like you. So for now, I don't. " He said proudly while raising his shoulders. We both laughed finally, we were making a joke out of a serious situation.

Raising his hand he took an oath.  "I promise I'll be on my best behaviour and fill my duties as your fake husband." I giggled at how silly he was actually.

Maybe it wasn't that bad after all, it was only for a while until we get all this solved.

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The next morning we went straight to the cafe. We entered and greeted my coworkers Henry and Angela.

"Where the hell were you ?!? " Angela my friend and coworker. Ran to me and gave me a heart-crushing hug.  "I hate you for leaving me alone and taking all your shifts but I still love you." I patted her back and smiled

" I'm sorry, it was a mess the past few days. I promise I'll tell you everything." We broke the hug as I explained to her.

" And who is he? "  She pointed at Silas who was watching the place carefully. Scorpi0n could be around us stalking us and we wouldn't know.   "He is my husband." I whispered in her ears and quickly placed my hands on her mouth to shut her up.  " wh-" she whisper screamed as her eyeballs widened like two saucepans.

"I'll tell you all about it later, I promise." I looked at her apologetically hoping she would understand.  " YOU BETTER!" Her pinky touched my shoulders every time she emphasised the words. 

She glanced behind me then looked at me again, "He is so hot tho." She whispered - squealed in my ears but Silas caught on. I looked back to see a very confused Silas with one eyebrow raised. I gave him an apologetic look and a shy smile.

" What brings you now ?" She asked.
" Well I'll take a break for a while -I swear I'll tell you everything later- but for now I need to go to the security camera room. She nodded and opened the door for us to get in.

We were left in the room alone, " You have a very interesting friend who thinks I'm hot." He smirked playfully.
" Is that all you caught from the conversation? " I shook my head and sighed.

" Ok let's get down to business. Open the photos, we need to check from which angel were they taken."  I agreed and opened the pictures.

I opened them and noticed how his expression changed to a very angry one. The pictures pissed him off. We both analyzed the pictures quietly,  they were taken from everywhere with no specific angel.

He sighed in irritation, "It's no use, we will have to check the footage and find that person ourselves." I agreed and opened the footage. 

We spent hours examining the footages with no hope, we even double-checked the specific times I received the footages. We didn't find anything useful.

Silas messaged his nose bridge in frustration, " That bastard took them in all the blind spots."

Scorpi0n was something who knew his way around the security cameras or maybe it was just his luck who knows.

My phone buzzed, I had received a notification. It was no other than scorpi0n himself and it was pictures of me and Silas together in the cafe.