The naturals - one shots

TN 2 sterling + Dean kitchen conversation

This is the end of the conversation Cassie overheard in the night in killer instinct and how I imagine it to end:

Deans POV: I couldn't stop starring at the women opposite of me. She changed so much. She was hiding. Hiding in all ways and forms. Trying to suppress her deep grief with putting layers above it that allowed her to lock her feelings far, far away from the reality and still we were having this conversation. „Her name is Emerson Cole" My heart was beating a tiny bit too fast. The fact that she told me the name of the girl, told me, deep down she still cared. I didn't reply anything. Didn't know what to say or to do. Within 48 hours my whole life was turned upside down. I thought I let my past behind and only looked forward but now I felt like I got dragged back. „I'm sorry that I left" For somebody listening to this conversation those words would have meant nothing but I could see how much it took her to actually say it out loud. I wouldn't be surprised if she rehearsed it earlier. She never was as strong as she liked to be viewed. She is a fighter and somebody who wants to win but she feels things way more deeply than most in her field do. „I'm glad you are replacing Lacey" thats the only nice words I had for her right now. She was gone for five years. She swore my support to me and still, she just left. Nobody knew how to contact her. She just ran away and now she was back. Back acting a version that was not the true Veronica Sterling. She looked around in the kitchen as if she only realised where she was now. „Its funny you know. I wrote about the possibility of a programme like this in my Bachelor thesis and nobody ever read this one and one of the people is dead and the other one is Tanner" One of the people was dead. Scarlett. It was her idea. The naturals programme was her idea. Somehow against all odds, it didn't surprise me. I always wondered how bad her relationship with her father was but this and the way she secretly looks at Michael starts to make a hell lot of sense. She never was just a profiler. Her childhood past made her to a natural, just like us. „I'm going to bed now" I said and was ready to turn my back to her but I turned around one more time. „I miss Scarlett as well and so does Tanner"