The Reunion: Still Falling For You (EN)

chapter 2.24

They came back down the stairs. They couldn't take the elevator. Maya, Wiggins and the officer accompanying them were the last to leave the building, as they had been outnumbered to finish banging on the doors.

They had almost reached the door when an explosion took place on the second floor, collapsing part of the building.

One man hadn't opened the door to the firefighters ; he was the kind of man who thought he was invincible and above the rules. He hadn't wanted to leave his apartment because, in his opinion, it was a waste of time. This was his third evacuation since moving in. The gas pipes weren't up to standard, the fire department would intervene when the detectors went berserk and after three hours outside they could return to their accommodation, so this time he hadn't wanted to leave.

Worse still, he had lit himself a joint.

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- "You've got to be kidding me, Maya!" Said Carina

- "love, you're overreacting!" She'd regretted the phrase the very moment it left her lips, regretted it all the more when her wife had looked at her with one of the blackest stares she'd ever given her.

-"Am I being overreacting? overreacting?! Puttana Maya I hope you're really taking the piss!"

-"I'm sorry, maybe I didn't choose my words well..." she was really trying to lighten things up. But she knew she'd really scared herself on this one. She'd probably had the fright of her life.

- "maybe?!!" The Italian asked, squinting slightly to back up her words.

-"Carina" said the blonde, taking on a soft voice and approaching the brunette, her arm outstretched towards her.

The Italian stepped back.

-"Don't touch me!"

- "my love..."

- "no Maya! There's no such thing as «my love» right now!" The only thing the captain liked during their argument, which were few and far between, was her wife's Italian accent coming out, more pronounced and even in anger, even if the brunette yelled at her, she fell in love with her voice relentlessly.

-"I'm fine..." Replied the blonde with a tender look and a slight smile.

-"It's not a question of being fine, Maya! There are rules and they're meant to be obeyed!!!"

- "in this very case, it wouldn't have made any difference..."

- "Don't get all hotheaded on me!

Two, it always takes two and you entered this building alone!!!"

- "I joined Wiggins and Kline."

- "isn't that a reason, if anything had happened to you on those stairs?!"

- "I'm going to kill Ryan!" Said the blonde, now annoyed by this never-ending conversation, now heading off in the direction of their room.

-"What do you think you're doing?" Carina replied, following her.

Maya had returned to their room.

-"I'm invoking the bedroom rule. We don't butt heads in our bedroom."

-"It won't work with me! Not this time, and in case you haven't noticed, I'm not in the bedroom!" Said the brunette, who was then standing in the corridor.

-"Carina, I, am, fine" she said, emphasizing each word.

-"Yes, maybe, maybe you're fine now. But I must remind you that you have a tendency to be sticky at the end of the year or the beginning of the year?! And have been for as long as I've known you... And you walk into a building with a gas leak without a buddy!"