The Widows Woman (GirlxGirl)

It doesn't rain but it ...

"Yes! Here they are the Jammy bastards!"A round of applause spread around the office when Rob and Thea walked in.

"Yes, yes, thank you but this all really unnecessary." Rob said, giving Ruth a poorly timed high five.

"Yes it is unnecessary for you, you did nothing." The tall woman laughed and sat at the desk, putting her feet up and enjoying the rewards of her hard work. Who knew something as simple as placing a bug would get them both back on their career path!

"Ok now, don't get too comfortable, I want you both to go through these, it's collated in time but it's colossal and it's going to keep coming." Ruth said begrudgingly. "It's intel flagged up from the listening device, let's find out what we don't already know. Get back to work!"

Thea didn't bother to get up and used her legs to navigate the wheelie chair over to a massive stack of paper. She took half, Rob took the other and they began wading through the information knowing every other cop in the room wanted this job.

"Are you going to answer that?" He asked, her phone had been going off constantly, she wasn't even bothering to silence it anymore.

Thea said nothing and returned back to her paperwork and highlighter.

"Aw trouble in paradise? Relationship problems with the possible criminal?"

"Shut the fuck up!" She shouted loudly, shocking Rob and making her other colleagues stare at her.

It came out harsher than she intended and she couldn't deal with the looks so got up to get some fresh air. The wind was blowing and there was a nice chill that woke her up a bit, it gave her the courage to look at her phone, she saw there were seven missed calls from Carla.

She clicked on her name, her thumb hovered over the green call sign when she saw Rob come out of the building. His tie flew haphazardly in the wind when he walked towards her.

"Are you ok?" He asked tentatively.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about before."

"Already forgotten."

"Thanks." She said and meant it. She was usually so calm and collected but she had so much on her mind and didn't know what problem to tackle first.

"Are you going to ring her back?" He asked, as she stared at her phone.

"She wants to go out again Friday. Mantaz said he'll pay us to dance. Some people are going he wants to impress."

"Anything in the intel?"

"No." She said, he couldn't help but notice the disappointment in her voice. "Well, not that we've got to yet."

"How much is he paying?"

"£500 each."

"Wow. I say do it, what's the problem? I'll be your back up Friday, Abigail's at bloody yoga anyway."

"It's done though. The bug is placed, the bust is going ahead, I don't need to go back there. Why would I voluntarily end up working for the bloke we're trying to put away?" Thea's voice broke at the end.

"Because there's still no evidence that Carla's involved or even knows anything and your desperate to find out if she's in on it."

She smirked, he always could read her like a book, she reminded herself that there was no point in lying to him but it was still hard for her to open up.

"It's just unnecessary risk. My job does not require me to be there and this thing between her and me, it will end so why not sooner rather than later?"

"So that's what your going to do then, I see. The first woman you've properly looked at in years and your just going to ghost her? Ignore all her calls? That's savage, your like freaking Robocop or something."