I stand in the lab infront of the table going through all the documents and files from last week when the team were captured by Borden. "Oh my god." I say as I stare at a text message conversation that I just ciphered from a clue. I get out my phone and text to the group "Hey, I've got something, meet in the lab."
Almost straight after I send the text, Jane, Weller, Tasha and Reade walk through the door. "Where's Rich?" I ask. "He's held up apparently." Answers Reade. "Oh." I reply. "Well, I found this conversation from a clue which is between two anonymous users Dragonfly164 and Atlantic17, I haven't figured out who they are yet but they're setting a meet, an-." I get interrupted "You can stop looking, I know who Dragonfly164 is, it's Borden, he's alive." Tasha says. "How could you possibly know that? I move my hair out of the way and stare at her. "Because Atlantic17 is me." She answers. My mouth hangs open and I just cant speak. "Borden's Alive!? Why didn't you tell us?" Weller asks, clearly annoyed by this. "I couldn't, he is a CIA asset and that is why I have been communicating with him. I was his handler." Tasha says. Reade walks over to Tasha "Start from the beginning." He says in quite an intimidating voice. "That night at the barn he fully expected the explosion to kill him, but it didn't. Between the burns and the gunshot wound, he was in pretty bad shape. He performed field medicine on himself. And fled the country. The CIA didn't know he was alive until a year later. Borden went undercover after that, he hadn't got any eyes on Gorovich but he's given the CIA valuable intel. Then we saw him last week, I know we said he was dead, but he's deep undercover, so we couldn't tell you he was alive." She replies. "Why's he here?" Kurt asks. "I don't know, he was given a new handler when I came to work for this task force Keaton is tryna figure out what's going on." She says, "If Borden is on US soil then we gotta arrest him." He argues. "You can't do that. If he is still undercover, you will blow a year long op." Tasha argues back, looking up at me like a dog that's just done something wrong. "I guess there's nothing left to talk about then." I say as I walk out the door, expecting not to be followed when Tasha follows, "Patterson, I am so so sorry, you have no idea how hard that was for me to keep from you." I was getting so angry at her, there was a raging fire inside of me. "How hard it was for you!? I can still feel his hands on me when I try to fall asleep at night, because before he beat me, shot me and put a tracking device in me, he used to sleep in my bed." I say as we both have tears streaming. "I know." She whispers "All this time you knew he was still out there and you said nothing!" I shout. "I was trying to protect you! I thought it would be better if you never knew he was alive." I felt like hitting her but I'm better than that. "It tormented me that he died on his own terms, all I wanted was to put him in prison to take back a fraction of the control that he took away from me! You got a second chance and you should've given me that, but instead you chose to work with him." I scold her by saying that. " I had to, it's my job." She said with a tear rolling down her cheek. "Your my best friend, whatever it would have cost you to say no, you should've cared about me more." I whisper and turn to walk out the door, without letting her finish.
I run to the locker room stand infront of the mirror and cry. "What did I do to deserve this? What did I do??" I ask myself.
Hours pass and I sit on the floor. When I hear the door creak open. I cover my hair with my face and think to myself how soft I look. It's Rich. "Hey, are you okay?" He asks with a really concerned look on his face. "Rich do I look okay? what did I do to deserve this?" I ask "Nothing, nothing, what's her name is so in the wrong." I look at him, sob once more, stand up and just bury myself in his arms. "Thank you, I love you." I whisper. "I love you too." He says
(Authors note) hey guys sorry it's been so long since I last wrote, I have been doing stuff and if I'm completely honest, I totally forgot. Thankyou for all the love though and I made this chapter extra long for you guys to make up for it ❤️❤️
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Romance2 beautiful, funny FBI agents who have fallen for each other. But is it the wrong time?
