Falling for Finch

The Talk

Brian's POV---

"So the FBI approached me and we worked out this deal and I help them out. I take one pill every morning, just until we can find a way for me to stop without dying," I told Sammi. I told her the whole story, beginning with how I first found NZT, all the way through to that day. She looked like she was going to cry when she asked, "how many times have you been on it while we were together?" The question lingered for a while in the stale office until I breathed in and told her exactly when I was on NZT. When I was finished she gave a weak smile and said "I knew something was different those days." She said it more to herself than to me and I reached across the table to lay my hand on hers. I thought we were done then, but she looked up and me and said "I think it's time I come clean too." I looked at her confused, and then she began talking.

"When I was younger, I had troubles at home so, I moved here to live with my Uncle Nate. He runs this...team, I gues you could say and he trained me to work with them. Yknow sometimes how bad people hurt good people?" I nodded my head, taking in every word. "Well, my Uncle Nate and his team, they help the good people and put the bad people where they should be. I guess you could say they provide, leverage." I couldn't tell if Sammi was saying this as a bad thing or not so I simply continued to listen.

"Anyways, I used to do jobs with them, but then there was a case that really woke me up, yknow?" She asked herself. "It was bad, Brian. I thought I would lose my Uncle and he just couldn't see it so I told him if he was gonna keep doing this, then I wasn't doing it with him. I left." It was silent for some time and Sammi collected herself. "I left and stopped seeing him because I thought I was more important to him, but he kept doing jobs and I missed it. That's why I started drowning myself in music."

The story went on, but I still couldn't connect what any of this had to do with me, or NZT. That is, until she brought up this morning. "Brian," she said after relaying the recent events, "your dad hired them to get you off of NZT and frame the FBI director in charge of the CJC."

I looked around and shifted my weight uncomfortably. "Well," I said, "at least there are no more secrets between us." Sammi smirked a little, but we were both tired and just wanted all of our problems to go away. "I'm gonna fix this, Brian, I promise" she told me, but it wasn't her problem to fix and I knew that. "No, you're not," I said to her. "This isn't your mess and you shouldn't be involved." The silence was overpowering and I could tell Sammi didn't like what I was saying. Her face became red as she said "maybe it isn't my mess, but I am involved and it's too late to say otherwise. I became involved the moment I fell in love with you and I can't take that back so you're just gonna have to suck it up and deal with the fact that we're gonna have to clean this up together."

Sammi's POV---

"I'm sorry, but I don't care if you think you're involved or not, you aren't going to try fixing this for me. I'm the one on NZT right now and I think I know best" Brian said calmly. I couldn't seem to keep my head on though as I continued to tell him that he was the one with no choice in the situation.

"Brian," I said after a long rant. "You need me. You need me to get this done no matter how much you don't want that to be true. I can go in and fix this."

Brian hesitated and asked what my plan was. It was pretty simple really, I figured I could just call up my Uncle Nate and tell him I wanted in. From there we would have inside control of what was going on and I could make sure no one was hurt in the process. I thought it was a great plan and it looked like Brian did too, but then he said something that I knew would be a problem.

"Fine, but I want to meet him."

"What? You can't meet him Brian," I said exhausted. "He would know it was you!"

"He's your Uncle and he's gonna know you're seeing someone and ask questions so, I wanna meet him," Brian said as if it were the simplest thing in the world. "It's that simple. Either I meet him or you go in there without being able to call me ever again because we can't be tied together if you're on the inside."

As much as I hated his idea, I knew he was right and suddenly I saw a lot of flaws in my plan. "You're a jerk when you're on NZT," I said with a smirk and Brian smiled thinly. He assured me that he had a plan and that all I needed to do was set up a meeting with them, but I knew it would be much more complicated than that.

Parker's POV---

Sammi walked in the door of our apartment 2 hours after I'd gotten back and, before we could even begin to discuss the incident from that morning she demanded she see Nate.  

"I thought you said you didn't want anything to do with him," I asked. "And are we even gonna talk about this morning? Or this guy you've been seeing? Or where you've been all day?" I was angry and she could tell, but it had been so long since we saw each other and I desperately wanted to hug her and let her cry on my shoulder because I knew whatever was happening wasn't good.

"He's my uncle and I miss him Parker," she said softly as she stared at the ground. "You know I've always missed him and the job. And we can talk about this morning if you really want, but I don't see what it'll change yknow? Brian and I are in a relationship and I went to see him today after I left his apartment and we opened up about everything. I intend to stay with him and to be honest with my uncle Nate."

I looked at her dumbfounded as each word left her mouth, but didn't say anything to stop her. Instead, I put down the dishes I was washing and walked over to my best friend to hold her.