Nick Fowler x Reader

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The whole room is so quiet. Only the sound of raindrops hitting and dripping against the big windows. I'm just sitting on the floor too shocked to even move. All I can do is to stare at the man's body on the floor who just saved me two seconds ago. He saved me... Dji takes her high heel in her hand and smashes the drive into pieces. "I- I- I thought he was going to attack (Y/N)..." Gracie stutter. Gently Marie takes the gun out of her hands;"It's alright.". I can see he is still breathing. My whole body start to shake. The bullet seem to hit on his left shoulder. "Police and ambulance are coming upstairs." Lin informs. Just when I'm about to crawl to Nick, Dji grabs me by the arm and lifts me up;"(Y/N). We gotta go. Now!". Tears about to come up again;"But..-", "He'll be fine. The medical will take care of him. He will be in more trouble if anyone finds you here." she reason with me. She's right... Then we start to head out. Without my knowledge, Nick raise his head in pain just to see how I'm walking away from him – once again. "(Y/N)..." he calls and reach his hand, even he knows there is no way I could hear him. The police and the medical rushes in to take care of him.

We are in a car, driving towards the airport. Lin drives the car, Marie sits in front seat. Me, Dji and Gracie are sitting in the backseat. I'm just resting side of my head against the window next to me. Thinking of everything that happened in there. Gracie apologizes to me countless times over and over again. I tried to convince her it's all right. She didn't know what the situation was, so I don't thinks it's her fault really. But I am worried about Nick. Trying to reason with myself he got taken care of by the medical people right away. Did he really mean what he said? "(Y/N)?" Dji's calm voice brings me back. I turn to look at her;"Hm?". "We're here." she opens the car door. We all stand outside and thank Lin for everything she's done for us. I give her a quick pat side of her arm, unsure how much of touch she'll be okay with;"I'm so sorry about your father...". She just nods, looking upset, but quickly pushes the sadness away;"I'll inform your agencies what you've done. So you don't need to hide anymore.". "Thank you." Dji smiles and rest of us nod along. "Go now." Lin gives us a gentle smile. "We'll keep in touch. See you later, Lin." I smile at her and we start walking away.

At the airport, all four of us gather around. Ready to go on our own ways back home. "..So this is it." Gracie sighs. "Yeah..." Marie looks little bit more sad than expected. "We'll keep in touch, right?" Dji look at all of us one by one. "Sure." Marie smirks. "..and not get shot at next time." I joke and glance at Marie. She lets out a laugh;"Right.". Gracie has tears on her eyes;"It's unbelievable, after everything... I'm still going to miss you guys.". We all let out a chuckle. "Yeah, we miss you too Gracie. Say 'hi' to the kids." I smile. She then hugs Marie, then me. Dji goes to hug Marie. "It's mutual." Gracie whispers while hugging me, referring to our conversation back then. My heart jolted, feel like tears are about to come up. I just pull out of the hug and smile at her. She gives me a nod and I nod her back. Then she hugs Dji and I give Marie a hug. "Thanks again for taking the bullet for me. Literally." I chuckle. She roll her eyes with a smile;"Sure thing, newbie.". Then the duo head to their own gates, waving at us goodbye.

Me and Dji start walking our own way to our gates. "So when your flight leaves?" I ask. Dji sighs and looks down to her ticket;"About an hour...". "Then we can stop by and eat something! Mine leaves like an hour and half." I start to dart around to see if there's any good places. "Well, you haven't offered me the big drink you promised..." she remind me. "I could really use one." her face went dark. I stop walking;"I'm so sorry about Abdel... I really am." and caress side of her arm. Her eyes got watery;"I..-", her phone start buzzing. She picked up her phone and her face drops. "Wh- who is it?" I ask. She quickly answers;"Abdel?!". He's alive?! "Oh! Baby!!!" Dji breaks down crying. She's too overwhelmed to tell me what is going on or even to talk back to her boyfriend, so I pick up the phone from her hand. "Abdel, you're alive!" I gasp. "Y-yes! Is Dji okay?" he sounds concerned. "Yes, yes she is. She's more than okay now..- How-, Thought you got killed. We saw yo-", "I'm confused myself also! They break in our house, pointing their guns at me and just start recording me..." he explain. "Who?" I frow, try to listen carefully while Dji keeps crying out of happiness right next to me. "They didn't say. They just shoot our wall and left. It was really confusing..." he remembers. So maybe the others are not dead either..?

Two months goes by. Everything seems to go back to normal. Lin's word spread pretty quickly. She had explained everything to our agencies. We were no longer accused for being the bad guys, so I got back to work pretty quickly. Me and the girls keep in touch, we video chat once a week. Marie got promoted, Dji and Abdel got engaged pretty much after she got back home and Gracie is waiting her third child. Everybody in the CIA were shocked when they heard Mr. Marks being the bad guy. After all, he was always so nice and seem like the man with very high morals. But as we've seen, not everything is as it seems... It's regular Wednesday at the CIA office. I'm walking in the hallway while carring some filereports. Isac walks behind a corner and frozes as soon as he sees me. We make eye contact. Then he quickly walks past me without a word. Maybe after what happened in Rabat he's too embarrassed to say anything to me. Perhaps it's better that way. Besides, I can now easily scare him off if he ever tries to harass any of the other female agents around here. Just the thought of that makes me smirking to myself.

"(Y/N)!" familiar ginger haired friend calls. I turn around to see her;"Mace, what's up?". Mace didn't doubt me even one second when she was told 'I'm on the bad side'. She got my back the whole time. She had even confront some of the agents here about it. She's the best. "Done for today?" she ask. "Um, no... I still have some paperwork to do. It'll take me couple of hours to finish or so." I look down at the files. "Aw, thought we could have gone for drinks." she sighs. "Rough day, huh?" I raise her an eyebrow. "Very." she chuckle. Give her an evil smirk;"Maybe you should ask Isac to go with you.". Mace frows at me confused;"Isac? Where did you get that idea?". Start to roll my eyes to look innocent;"Oh, nothing. Thought you two could catch up and perhaps reminisce the time at the christmas party couple years back...". Her face goes lightly red;"Wh- How- Where did you heard that?!" she whisper hisses. "Hmm... I am not quite sure actually.~" I giggle with very heavy Brittish accent. Mace rolls her eyes;"Dji... Should have known she will bring that up.".

I just keep smirking at her. "I was drunk! Okay? I might as well made out with her at that point. You should have seen how drunk she was that night..." Mace cross her arms over her chest. "Yeah. I remember how she called me that night, asking for my address." I shook my head. "Right, so Nick could bring you that gift..-" quickly she stops herself. It's like she's tiny bit terrified what she just said. So it was him?! Before I could say anything she asks quickly;"How is he by the way?". Feels like my heart is sinking, but I keep my face neutral;"I- um... I don't know.". I've told her pretty much everything – but not about the kiss back in that hotelroom in Tokyo. None of us have heard from him till this day. Mace shakes her head and sighs;"That guy... Always keeping a mystery, huh?". I give her a weak smile;"...Right.". Then she looks down to her phone;"Well, I better get going. See you tomorrow (Y/N)." and starts walking away. "Say 'hi' to Isac for me!" I chuckle. Without looking back she gives me the middle finger. It made me smile a bit more.

After I finished the paperwork I start heading to the locker room. My thoughts being in all of the things I should buy at the grocery store. On my way to the locker room I come across Mr. Marks beformer office. The door is slightly open. That's new... Last time someone was in there was when people emptied it after he died. And the door haven't been opened ever sense – well, except the cleaning lady every now and then. Knowing their time schedule, no one is cleaning that room right now. Slowly I walk up to the door, listening if I hear any sound. At first it's very quiet, but then I hear how someone is walking there. Instinctively my hand goes to my gun that I have on my belt, but I won't take it out of the case. Then I take a step forward and open the door. My heart drops and whole body stops at the entrance, like I've been freeze right here and there. Nick is standing there, behind the desk. We lock eyes right away. He seems little bit surprised to see me too. Immediately all of these mixed feelings attacks me. It feels like a dream. Can't turn around and run away, or just open my mouth and say something. Anything. Nick keeps staring at me and his face softens. "(Y/N)..." his voice sound like a whisper.