Our Last Fight (Rio x OC)

Ticking Time Bomb

I looked behind me seeing Rio at the foot of the stairs. I turned back around cursing at myself as I noticed I piqued Turner's interest. I shifted blocking Turner from seeing anything inside hopefully giving Rio time to get out.

"Detective Turner, what are you doing here?" I raised my voice as I said his name hoping to get Rios attention. I shifted blocking Turner from seeing anything inside hopefully giving Rio time to get out.

"How are you doing I was hoping to come inside?" God, please be gone. I pushed the door back slowly looking behind seeing Rio gone. I cleared my throat before smiling at Turner.

"Of course come in, come in," I stumbled backward letting Turner come inside before guiding him to the living room.

"I wanted to ask how you are doing?" He asked as he pointed to my abdomen.

"Still hurts a little, the doctor said I shouldn't do any necessary force for the next few weeks,"

"And you have no idea why Mr. Figeroa would want to hurt you?" I sat down on the couch flinching as I moved. I was thinking about what I could possibly say.

"Look the only thing I know is that when I told him I didn't see him that way and I only saw him as a teacher he went crazy and kidnapped me," My head started hurting as everything flooded back to me.

"and you sure there's no connection with the guy you brought home that day?" It was only a matter of time before they find the link.

"Jesus Christ I have no idea if I knew all this trouble would come if I slept with him I wouldn't have done it," The outburst came from nowhere and I wasn't sure if I believed it or not. Turner wrote somethings down before standing back up. Both of us heard some noise upstairs which made Turner look at me.

"I see you'll need your rest I'll talk to you at another time," I stood up behind Turner following him out the door before closing it behind me. I waited for a few seconds making sure Turner was in his car before walking upstairs. Did he hear what I said? He must have the whole house did.

When I opened the door Rio was on the phone.

"Well figure it out," He ordered tapping the back of his phone in anticipation. "Im laying low heats too strong... Let him think he has to control it won't last long I'll be back" He sighed rubbing his forehead. "I did what was needed to be done" He turned around seeing me before hanging up the other line. He stuffed his phone into his pocket as he made eye contact.

"I know you heard what I said, "I mumbled as I held the doorknob blocking the exit. "I didn't mean it"

"You sure about that?" He asked me. My eyes dropped as I let go.

"I dont know but I dont want to stop," I wasn't sure how I felt about everything. No one wants to die and no one really thinks about it till the moment. But I also didn't want to think about not having Rio.

Rio face never changed but I could tell he was struggling with something internally. I hugged him feeling him un-tense.

"I have to go I'll be back soon," Rio leaned in kissing my forehead.

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"I think I'm getting fatter," Annie was checking herself out in the mirror as she spoke to me.

"No, you're not," I told her as I scrolled through my laptop.

"Come on dude these jeans use to fit me like a glove and now they're all tight and unmovable"

"Thats 'cause you wash them wrong" I laughed as Annie stuck the middle finger at me. My phone started ringing as Annie started speaking. I answered the phone not checking the name.

"Hi is this Chloe Marks?" You answered moving your laptop. "Hi this is Sunset Pet Clinic, we saw you applied are you still available?" I hopped off my bed nodding to the lady. She talked to me explaining about a date and time before hanging up.

"I got the job!" I turned to Annie who was staring at me dumbfounded. "They want me to go tomorrow to interview me"

"I have to tell-" I stopped mid-sentence not wanting to finish it.

"How long has it been?" She asked me treading carefully.

"Two weeks," I fell into bed again sighing at the thought. "It's fine. I'm fine,"

The new teacher kept explaining the lesson until she saw the time dismissing us. With this new teacher im gonna go crazy with this class.

I walked into the parking heading to my car. I checked my phone seeing Beth's message to bring milk as I opened the car door. I turned the key turning the car on.

I went to grab the rearview mirror to fix it when I saw someone behind me. I screamed out thinking the worse until I saw it was Rio. I spun around looking at him until he got out of the car to sit in the front. It stayed silent in the car for who knows how long, not one of us making eye contact. I waited for him to say something, anything to excuse what he did. My chest felt constricted making me break the silence.

"Two weeks," I said to him. Rio opened his mouth wanting to say something but closed it up right after. I turned so that I could face him when he spoke.

"I know," Thats it? Thats all he could say? My eyes started stinging as I kept repeating the words.

"Two fucking weeks, "I told him again shoving him against the door. "I almost die" I pushed him again before hitting him relentlessly. I started to get teary as I let my anger out. "and after everything, you disappear for two fucking weeks" I yelled at him as my hits slowed. Rio grabbed my hands stopping me.

"I'm sorry," I yanked my hands away rubbing my eyes to stop me from crying. "I said I'd be back soon." I groaned looking at him.

I covered my face trying to cool it. "Be back soon means an hour or hey a day, not two weeks!" I scolded him.

He licked his lips staring away."I had to lay low"

"But you could've said something instead of leaving me in the dark" I tried rubbing my head to ease the headache.

"I won't do it again" I finally looked up at Rio and examined him. His beard started growing and you could tell he hasn't been managing it but it still somehow looked nice.

I dropped my hand looking forward. I cleared my throat before talking, "so did everything die down?"

"no, but I have to come back solve some problems that happened while I was gone," I could hear his phone vibrating but he wasn't sure if to check it.

"Are you changing locations again?" I asked him as I fiddled with my keys.

Rio shook his head before checking his phone."Nah they didn't find this one and its hard as hell to find locations that cops can't find through the databases," He hid his phone before looking back up at me. "But I came to see you first," I smiled at him feeling myself ease.

"You are on your way to getting on my good side" He laughed leaning into the chair as he continued watching me. We stayed quiet for a couple of seconds before he replied.

"What else can I do?"

"Mh Maybe..." I leaned forward until I was inches from his lips. " What do you think?" Rio smirked closing the space. Beth called mid-kiss which only made me whine. I grabbed my phone answering it still in proximity to Rio. "Im on my way I just got... occupied," I hung up looking back at Rio.

"I got to go" Rio opened the door looking back.

"I'll see you soon and this time I mean it" He moved in giving me a kiss on the forehead before leaving into another car.