The naturals - one shots

The files

Briggs got told to write an report about Sterling, to tell the FBI if she is good enough to be an Agent again. For that he has to learn the truth in what happened between the last time he saw her and now, which is more than just shocking.

When the FBI Commission came to Tanner to ask him if he could have look through Veronicas details to make sure it wouldn't be wrong to officially employee her again at FBI he first declined the offer. It took him nearly a year to get her trust back and he wouldn't destroy it with this offer but when the commission stressed him that if he wouldn't do that, that they would be a ridiculous high chance that she wouldn't be allowed to work again, he was forced to say yes. It was one of the warm summer days that he was forced to sit in this room with big windows, looking down at a box of files. It was a week ago, that she asked him for the first time again to stay at hers. She blamed it on her problems with insomnia but he know it was just an excuse.
They did not have sex that night because she would be too shy and he, he didn't wanted her to rush anything.
But at some pointe she has kissed him.
Kissed him like it was the most normal thing, like no tim has past.
Nothing more happened, just her sleeping peacefully in his arms.
Tanner sighed and opened the box with a heavy feeling of betrayal.
Veronica told him some things that she did while they weren't together anymore but he could tell there was more.
It was one of the first weeks that she was back that he noticed some scars on her skin, she definitely didn't have before. 
The first file was about their divorce.
He did not have to read that one to know that he was the brainwashed dick.
So he grabbed for the next one.
It was thick and had a highly confidential stamp on it.
With a bad feeling in his stomach he opened it. Undercover operation in Mexico.
That was first sentence that caught his attention. She said worked for homeland. As if he was in trance he scroll some the next pages, didn't dare to read into it until he a found a picture, a picture next to a pregnancy test and an ultrasound.
If he wasn't sitting already, he would have now. His heart completely stopped working.
The picture showed a rather interesting looking guy, who seemed to be the person in interested with Veronica sitting on his lap, not wearing much, in a really provokant pose, showing lots of skin.
This was wrong in so many ways.
Ofcourse women should wear and do what they want but this was Ronnie.
She had major insecurities about the way she looked since he known her.
Especially since the Reading case she even dare to wear a summer dress.
Tanner found himself how he had to Look away for a moment
. Why would she pose like this?
He looked at it again and really wanting to a punch a wall.
Who forced her to do this?
That was the moment, when the ultrasound came back to his mind.
This had to be fake, she wouldn't have sex with a drug guy in Mexico and get pregnant from him! He flipped to the next page and got nauseous. There were pictures of her, beaten up, with a long fresh bleeding scar down her spine and a document that said that she lost the child.
This was too much, he didn't wanted to read more into it, he had to talk to her. Without even thinking he got his phone out and texted her Hey can we meet ASAP in the document room of the Academy?
It did not took her a minute to answer.

15 Minutes later she was with him. He was thinking of hiding the files but than decided against it. „I'm here whats going" she stopped in the middle of the sentence and looked at the files. The picture with drug guy called Renzi was still on top. „What the hell" she pushed Tanner aside and took the picture between her petite hands. „Where did you get this from? Are you spying on me? Did my dad force you to do this?" She seemed hurt, mad nearly broken. Tanner wanted to stay calm to explain himself but all he got out of his mouth was. „Why did you had sex with him?" Her response was different than he thought, she started to laugh, that would him feel like a dump child. „As if you didn't have sex with other women while I wasn't here" That was not the point and she should have known that. „Well I didn't had sex with a suspect, I would never impregnated myself to solve a case" The last sentence nearly kicked her off her boots. He had know idea. She never told him and she never planned on telling him here and now but he needed to know. „The child was not Renzi's, it was yours"