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Mia Langley doesn't do feelings, or rather, she compartmentalises them and lets things pile on and stay tough in the face of pain or danger with emotional walls. That's how she was raised as the oldest daughter of a former Navy SEAL veteran-turned-federal-military contractor father and a cardiologist mother in the midst of a messy divorce, who'd rather trained her than parented her, which resulted in the rift that was never repaired within her family, among other unsolved issues.
She can't fall apart because she needs to be a pillar for everyone else, as her family kept moving from place to place all the time, so she never really had a place to call home.
But as a CSI and criminalist in the Las Vegas Crime Lab, specialising in bloodstain pattern analysis and having certified combat experience, she's dangerous in her own right, and she feels that the lab is her family that she trusts. Especially her close friend and work partner, Nick Stokes, whom she would trust with her life more than anyone.
However, as Mia starts to realise that she and Nick are venturing into "more than partners" territory with their bond, especially in their line of work and all the complications involved, Mia's unsure if she should use her walls to lock Nick out or let him in and see all of her: the good, the bad and the ugly, or she thinks he'll leave her like everyone else she's ever trusted in her life to survive on her own.
[Season 1 - Season 15]
[ female oc x Nick Stokes]