They sat in silence for the most part and simply drank their coffee. (AU ending).

This was unprecedented for them and it was hard to mask the worry and uneasiness over their fleeting excitement. She could see it etched in the faces of the people working around her; they were so desperate for this to work, so desperate for validation for everything that had lead up to this moment.

His partners were going to be bleeding out and defenseless against anything that might find them- and he was stuck here where nothing could get him. He was safe and... they were as good as dead.

As of right now, they were trying to get to a crime scene that had just been called in... but, of course, the rain came with it and had, unfortunately, slowed traffic down. Pre-Game!AU.

It wasn't easy to escape the chaos from that nightmare village and he hadn't exactly been thrilled to get past the gate only to see another house; the last thing he needed was something else that could prove to be yet another death trap for him. But with Kidman bleeding out in his arms, he didn't exactly have a lot of choices.

She wasn't ignoring the situation; she wasn't pretending that it wasn't as bad as it was... She knew well enough that his chances of surviving from this point on were low, but she was going to do whatever she had to to keep him going.

She should've already been gone by now, but she couldn't leave with a good conscious without knowing if they had made it; she needed to know that they were being taken care of. She at least owed them that…

He sounded really cynical and part of him hated that, but it was just this feeling that kept creeping up into his chest. He was all too familiar with it and he was already tired of fighting it. But he knew the moment he let it go... there was no coming back from it.

She didn't say anything, but he took in the quiet comfort she had to offer; she was always good at that.