When a woman moves into the sleepy town, it rouses everyone's tongues to start wagging. She is strange and distant in her manner. Tia Frost is blissfully unaware of the townsfolk's discomfort with her. With Burt at her side, she wonders about the wo...
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"You're being serious?" Maverick asked.
I nodded. "I need my defences repaired and some new things to protect us. For that, I need manpower. This was a probing attack and I'm worried about how much they knew about my defences. I think I'm going to need the builder to go further afield for his supplies this time. I hadn't had these things that long so... they found out somehow."
He smiled. "You want the traps just in case right?"
I smiled back. "Yes just in case."
He sat next to me sighing in relief. "Excuse me I'm tired now." He said closing his eyes.
He's been reluctant to leave my side since I woke up. "I'm not surprised, you have been hovering over me since I came round."
He nodded looking up at the ceiling. "You scared me."
"You've seen it happen before."
He sighed. "This time scared me."
I frowned at him. Why would this scare him this time? "Maverick... was it different from last time? I need to know if it was."
He turned to look me in the eye. "No... at least not as far as I know."
"Then why did it scare you?"
He took my hand again. "When you fell to the ground... I was the only thing stopping you from hurting yourself. I realised how much cared for you. Then you didn't wake up afterwards... I was... scared that you wouldn't wake up. I had to leave you to disarm the traps, to have someone come check on you. They said you might not wake up for a while, but then you started to...."
I stared at him. Did he just say he cared for me? What does he mean to care for? "I don't think I should have told you that." He said.
"Tell me what, that you care for me? You've already told me that. In action as well as words."
He sighed shaking his head. "No Tia... I'm compromised in my position." His words struck me as I realised what it meant. I smiled which turned into a chuckle, which turned into a laugh. "What's funny?"
"Sorry.. it's just what you said. You are not compromised Maverick. You've not acted on it." He looked into my face looking intense. "Not yet." My smile widened at my words. "As long as you don't while here officially...."
My words cut off as he leaned in and kissed me. I stiffened on instinct. He pulled back and looked sad. He opened his mouth to say something and I leaned in to kiss him back, killing what he was going to say.
He looked shocked when I sat back. "I didn't want my shock at you doing that to me to send the wrong message." He blinked at me still stunned. "Speak Maverick." His mouth moved and nothing came out. I laughed and he smiled. "I broke you."
He shook his head. "Nope. I'm still working just... shocked. I expected you to recoil like you did but..."
I laughed. "I'm not one for doing what people expect of me."
