Hi based off the OTP prompt list-Sad #19 "Hear me out" "Why the fuck should I listen to you?" For Townsend and Abby? Like in the aftermath of finding out who Zach's father is?
Sad OTP starters #19 Abby/Townsend “hear me out.” “Why the fuck should I listen to you?”
“What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn’t he like you?” She looked at Zach again. “I think he’s just like you.”
Zach had stormed off. So had cammie. But Townsend could care less about the kid. Or kids. He stared at the woman in question—the one that had just rocked his entire world. Again.
“What is she talking about?” A voice asks.
Townsend can’t concentrate. He hears her voice but she sounds a million miles away. He feels like he’s on another planet, like he’s somewhere other than right here. He wishes he were. He couldn’t have heard her right. After all, she lies. She’s the best liar he knew. Right?
“So help me Edward Townsend if you don’t answer me—“
His voice was barely a whisper. Abby had to strain to hear him. He hadn’t moved. He just stood staring at the woman in the chair in the middle of the room. The woman they had been searching for, for years. The woman who had killed her sister’s husband. Her best friend. The woman who had kidnapped and tortured her niece with methods she didn’t even want to think about. The woman who had torn the Morgan family apart. Her family.
Abby glared at him before turning to take strong steps towards the woman. She struck her hard across the face. “Tell me you’re lying!” She demanded. It didn’t seem fair. Abby wanted her to keep talking. She wanted to know. She wanted Catherine to get up and push her, but the serum was still coursing through her veins—and the woman was too drugged to fight and argue. It was all unfair.
Abby raised her arm back when a hand grabbed her. She should have stepped and thrown the offender across the room. She should have head butted the assailant in the nose. She should have fought until they let go. But she didn’t. Instead, she stormed off.
“Abby please—“ Edward reached for her again but that wasn’t enough. It was never enough. It had never been enough.
That was when the pieces suddenly fell into place. Townsend never offered up much about his past. Neither had Abby. It was a need to know. They both knew that. But, they had shared some personal stories. It wasn’t just missions and reports between them. It wasn’t just Abby constantly saving his ass all the time. It was more and they both knew it.
So it hurt more than Abby thought possible for him to keep this from her.
Abby took a deep breath and grabbed his arm, tugging him across the floor. She had to get out of there. She couldn’t stand the sight of that woman. But there were also ears. She knew the girls were going to want to listen and this fight was something she wanted to have privately.
There was a door to their left that led to a dump of a bedroom. She closes the door. She can’t even look at him. So instead she paces, her arms crossed in front her chest. She tries to ignore the fact that this is probably where Catherine slept with Zachary once upon a time. (The tattered quilt blanket was a giveaway)
“I didn’t know.” Townsend finally says.
“Did it even cross your mind?” Abby presses. “Had it ever occurred to you? Hell, did it even cross your mind that maybe you should have disclosed this information with me?”
Townsend rolls his eyes. “Oh because that’s something we talk about, Abigail! Yes, let me just tell you about every woman I’ve slept with over the past eighteen years!”
“When it’s with the woman that’s been after my niece for the past several months then yes! I had a right to know, dammit!” Abby says harshly. “You put Cammie in danger, Townsend! You put my family in danger the moment you came into my life because you brought that creature with you!”
“She never told me!” Townsend shouts. She shakes her head. She didn’t want to listen anymore. Abby slammed the door, walking out. And she hesitates on the other side. She wants to go back to him and hear him out but she can’t. She can’t. She doesn’t want to hear whatever else he has to say.
She doesn’t want to hear about their relationship. She doesn’t want to hear about how Zach came to be. She doesn’t want to... she doesn’t... she can’t bare the possibility that Townsend could have ever felt any bit of love towards the woman that destroyed her family. She can’t.
She’s scared. Oh god, she’s so scared. She was vulnerable with him. She had let down her guard around him. What if he had used her to get to Cammie? What if he had been a double agent? What if—- Abby hears the door open.
“Hear me out.” Townsend says quickly.
“Why the fuck should I listen to you?” She snaps out of habit. She instantly regrets her words. But she realizes too late that they’re out there for good.
Strong arms pull her back inside, past the threshold. She hadn’t realized she was crying. Abby rarely cries. If ever. She has to be really hurt and really scared to cry. Yet, there were tears pooling in her eyes and threatening to spill down her cheeks. And Townsend was there, his thumbs pressed to her cheeks. He was always there.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I didn’t want you to look at me differently. Abbs, I’m sorry. Please forgive me.” His voice is a gentle whisper. And Abby hates his English accent because it’s making it hard to be mad at him. “I didn’t know.” And then Abby realizes that Edward is crying too.
And Abby hates Catherine even more because the man she loves—the man she realizes she truly loves after all this time—is so betrayed and hurt because of her lies.
So Abby does what she does best. She holds him as he cries.
Besides, it’s not the first time she’s had to comfort the heartbroken.
(Written by: @cammie-morgan-goode)
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