Flip the Colleague [Flip Zimmerman]

Ch 19: Criminal Minds

Mandy had ordered the hitman after you, and she'd pulled it off with Nick's help, traded in exchange for a few sexual favors and stolen drugs from the evidence room at the station. She was done playing "nice" after waking up in the ER following the brawl you'd had with her. Mandy had been pregnant, or at least she had been before the fight.

When the doctor told her she'd miscarried, something inside her snapped completely. Her next move would be the final one. You had ruined everything for her, and she was determined to make you pay, no matter how irrational, no matter how insane.

Nick and Mandy had made it a habit of jumping each other's bones whenever they carried out a crime together. Danger was their aphrodisiac. Although Mandy truly wanted Flip, she settled for Nick in the meantime. In reality, she had been pregnant with Nick's baby, but Mandy didn't live in reality. She convinced herself the child was Flip's, imagining the pregnancy would bind them together for life.

She had stolen Flip's phone during her second break-in at his house. Her original plan had been to extract your personal information for future use and have Nick tap the phone, forcing Flip to break up with you under the pretense that your life was in danger if he didn't. But when she lost the baby, it no longer mattered whether Flip followed through. She was determined to take you down, no matter what. That Flip had broken your heart beforehand was just icing on the cake.

Mandy had always harbored evil in her soul and a deranged view of relationships. Over time, each rejected attempt at love fed that darkness, spreading and growing until it consumed her. She told herself she would one day find a match, someone who wanted her as much as she wanted them. It wasn't that she struggled to attract partners; she simply chose the unattainable ones. The thrill of breaking down their walls and getting them into bed became her obsession, never realizing that sex didn't equal love. Each rejection only made her more aggressive, her darkness expanding.

Then she met Flip.

Flip was different. He hadn't been completely unattainable when they first met a few years ago. She noticed how he would flirt with her, how he seemed to want her as much as she wanted him. She wondered if this was it, the one she had been searching for. When things finally turned physical that drunken night in his truck, she felt certain that Flip was the man she was meant to be with. She never forgot the way he touched her, how he made her come with just the work of his hand. The fact that it was taboo, with her father as his boss, made it even more thrilling.