Scarlett

1.8

Forest walked in and the sight in front of him made him want to chuck his phone across the room and shoot at anything that dared to move,"What the fuck is going on here!" He shouted as he saw Robin with his feet on Forests five thousand dollar coffee table watching t.v. and Scarlett on her hands and knees. He was so enraged that the sexual part of his brain didn't dare make a comment.

"Bones!" Robin greeted with a sick smirk and Scarlett looked up from the ground and her eye showed relief at the sight of Forest. Robin noticed her move and he quickly stuck her with a rolled up magazine across the cheek," Did I tell you to move!" He shouted and she quickly looked back down at the ground. 

Forest didn't skip a beat because in three steps he was in front of Robin and had his fist in the man's expensive looking shirt. Robin didn't seem phased when he was lifted off the ground he only smirked at Forest,"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Forest growled and Robin snickered.

"I'm just following orders and so was she, this is what Maverick trained her for and I didn't want to disrupt the flow of things in this house. I wouldn't dare undermine your authority with her," Robin explained casually but with a hint of sarcasm. Forest was confused and he looked down at Scarlett and she was looking up at him with pleading eyes and she slowly shook her head. Something in her eyes told him to play along and for some reason, he listened.

"That's my business, not yours, so get the fuck out of my house before I cut off those hands!" Forest threated and he threw Robin towards the door and he stumbled a little as he regained his footing and when he did he adjusted his shirt. As his eyes looked at the two people in front of him he smoothed back his hair and walked out of the room. Neither of them moved till the front door shut and in a matter of seconds Scarlett was off the ground and she had her arms wrapped around the man she'd been terrified of since day one.

His comforting smell enveloped her and she immediately recognized it. The minty and musky smell was hard to forget because it was the smell that comforted her in the bed the first week she'd been kidnapped. It was his bed she slept in and it was his smell that comforted her. She pressed her face deeper into his chest and Forest was shocked at the sudden contact because he couldn't remember the last time he was embraced. He wrapped his long arms around her and comforted her the best he knew how. "Don't ever leave me again," He heard her small voice whisper and it made that unfamiliar feeling emerge in his stomach and he nodded and pulled her closer.

After a while and when she calmed down they both sat on the couch,"Why did you want me to go along with what he said?" He asked her. She sat with her legs pressed into her chest and she shrugged.

"He asked me if you followed through with what Maverick taught me and I said yes because the way he asked made it seem like he was finding a weakness in you, I don't know I just thought you wouldn't want him having any ounce of power over you," Forest found himself smiling softly. The woman in front of him who had every right to hate him protected his pride, by putting herself in harm's way. He had no clue why she did that and quite frankly Scarlett didn't know why either.

"I'm sorry, Scarlett," He said and the phrase was getting easier to say and it slipped out from his lips so easily that he didn't feel like his pride was tarnished from it. He only felt like it was the right thing to say to her. He almost put his hand on her knee to comfort her, but that would be pushing his luck and he kept his hands to himself. "Did he hurt you?" He asked and she shrugged again.

"I think my wrist is a little sprained from when he pushed me to the ground," Forest clenched his fist at, but he stayed calm knowing she didn't like his temper," And my hands and knees are a little brused from being on them for so long, and my thighs hurt because he made me sit so close to the fire and the heat became too much," She explained and he frowned and let his hand brush her dark as midnight hair behind her ear and she let him.

"How does a bath sound?" He asked and she thought back to the small one in her room and she was going to decline but he continued talking," There's a massive one in my bathroom and it has your name on it," He said trying to lighten the mood and she let her gaze drift from the floor and lock with his. It was rare she looked him in the eyes so when she gave him a glimpse of her blue eyes with a mixture of green he craved more. "I have this much too expensive bubble soap shit too," He tried to persuade her again and she bit her lip and thought. The offer did sound very tempting,"It also has powerful jets," He said beginning to sound like a salesperson on an infomercial and Scarlett fought a smile as she imagined flipping through the tv channels late at night and seeing him on the t.v. selling random items for housewives. 

"Okay," She mumbled and Forest grinned as she gave in.

"Okay?" He asked making sure he heard her right and she nodded.

"Okay, only if there's hot chocolate," She said testing her luck at how generous he was being and he grinned. The sight was heart stopping because his smile was the best thing God created and it made Scarlett suck in a breath.

"I thought that was implied," He said and she finally let her smile slip upon her lips and to Forest it was the smile that put all the others to shame and he made it his personal mission to see it again,"I'll go start your bath and make the hot chocolate," He said and he hopped up from the couch and she saw him disappear into a room that she assumed was his. She heard the water pipes come to life in the house that wasn't quite anymore. She liked the sound of his whistling coming from his room, filling the void.

True to his word she was being ushered into his room with a warm cup of hot coco in her hands. She noticed how dark his room was in color he quickly showed her to her awaiting bath and her sore muscles screamed out in excitement at the chance of finding relief. "That's ridiculously big," She said and he chuckled.

"I know right," He said as he opened up a cabinet,"And to make it much more ridiculous, here's some of that soup shit from Paris," He said and he set it on the edge of the bath.

"Thank you," She said and he smiled softly and showed himself the way out and he shut the door behind him. Scarlett found herself smiling at the new side of Forest and she wanted to thank him a thousand times more when she seeped into the warm water because it was exactly what she needed.