Everybody has a past – chapter 06 B

[] thoughts / “” speeches

Carmen bends down, touching the tiny gems:

"They are amazing"

"Yes, they are… I am fascinated by them." Says the English woman with a dazzled look.

"Yeah… diamonds are a girl’s best friend!" Tina smiles brightly

She bends down beside Helena and touches the sparkling rocks. Carmen already knows what Tina is planning just by seeing her body language.

"´kay. I’ll be right back ladies." Carmen says, leaving the room

"They are really something else…" says the blonde

"I always get so impressed by the way they glimmer…"

Tina, from behind responds inside the Brit’s ears:

“Yeah?”

She then, brings Helena’s face to look at her with a delicate touch on the Brit’s cheek. The blonde feels the soft skin under her fingers and looks deeply into the cerulean eyes, the light colored eyes, then, look away. 

“You have these amazing blues eyes… every time I look at them I get more assured that I made a huge mistake doing that to you…”

Tina’s lingering fingers make Helena stare at her again. She inhales sharply. For another moment, she looks away before turning to the blonde:

"Tina, tell me…"

"Humm?"

"What are you trying to do?"

"I think we have some unfinished business to attend to."

"No, we don’t"

"Hel, you know… I…"

"Tina, no! I don’t know and I don’t want to."

Tina gazes into the blue eyes before her intently. Suddenly it seems that the light eyes get ambushed by those flirtatious hazel ones. Helena takes a deep breath and looks away again, stepping aside.

"Tina, would you please stop this?" The Brit says turning back and heading to the door. Tina grabs Helena’s arm and pulls the brunette to herself. The English woman loses her balance and is caught by the blonde’s strong arms.

"I said we have some unfinished business…" The hazel eyes never left the blue ones after that, staring into them deeply, trapping the light colored eyes. Tina bends slightly and touches Helena’s lips with her own. At the mere brush of their lips, the brunette recomposes herself and stands up straight. 

"Don’t! Don’t you dare start playing with my feelings for you again!" The Brit, at once showing a fierce fury, opens the door, and gets out, almost bumping into Carmen who was entering the room at that same time.

"What happened here, TK?" asks Carmen as she’s closing the door.

"You know her…" 

"Yes… and I also know you!”

"Oh Sands…"

"Yeah TK, yeah…"

Tina and Carmen share ideas about the ground plan for some minutes, before the English woman returns.  Almost at the exact moment that she closes the door behind her, they can hear a bumping sound coming from the other room. The three women look at each other as they hear someone approach. The Brit backs away from the door joining the other two women.

“What’s that?” Whispers an apprehensive Carmen

“I don’t know! Get your guns! I’m gonna collect these diamonds” Replies the blonde also whispering.

Carmen and Helena get their guns while Tina tries to quickly gather all the tiny rocks and put them back inside the bag.

[Come on Tina, somebody’s here… these diamonds are small but sparkle a lot, anyone who enters here would see them on the table.] She tries to be fast and collect all the rocks.

The three women are very attentive when the door finally bursts open. A pale slim guy with dark straight short hair walks into the room. He has a slaughter look and a rifle in his hands. He halts under the door frame, glancing at the girls. Helena and Carmen exchange looks and are clearly tense. Tina pays close attention to the young man as he puts his finger on the rifle’s trigger saying in a calm and barely audible voice:

"Teekay… I am here to claim what is mine." He utters hoarsely, giving her a cynical grin.