Here's some more 2+2=3 Continuing from where this left off. Tagged by @drdone - ty! <3
“Get up, you're coming with me.”
Tommy wasn’t cuffed - yet - so he pushed up from the bit of sidewalk his ass had been parked on, waiting for the cops to get around to him. He winced as he banged bloody fingers on the rough cement.
He hadn’t seen Athena arrive. But then he hadn’t been looking, either.
Evan and Tory’s linked hands, their fingers threaded together.
Tommy had spent the last few hours trying not to look at anything too closely.
Athena led him to a cruiser and opened the back door for him, looking at him like he was an errant toddler who couldn’t keep his fingers out of the cookie jar.
“Give me your truck key. I’ll have it driven over to your place.” Her expression turned even more scathing, making the words blister as she informed him, "You’re not to set foot on this property for so long as Mikey’s is in operation. In fact? Even if they close and a Starbucks takes over? Just consider yourself persona non grata.”
“Persona non grata should be my middle name,” Tommy muttered as he fished out his keys.
“Add that to the things you’re going to explain later, Kinard.” Athena took the key and slid it into her own pocket. “In,” she demanded, slamming the door behind him the moment he’s clear.
There was only the occasional crackle of her radio as they drove. It didn’t require her so she remained silent. Eventually she pulled into his driveway. “Talk,” she demanded as she turned to face him.
“What would you like me to tell you?” He kept his tone passably respectful. He appreciated that he was in his yard and not in cuffs.
He did not appreciate that she wasn’t likely to accept ‘argument got out of hand’ as an explanation.
“I fucked up,” he said bluntly, hoping that would satisfy her.
“Agreed. I’m interested in why.”
“Got some… news today. Didn’t handle it well.”
“So you got drunk and ended up in a fight?”
“I’m not drunk. I didn’t drink tonight.”
Athena’s eyes widened. “Pull the other one, Kinard. I saw you weaving.”
Another ill-timed laugh broke out of Tommy. He sank back against the seat and pressed his hand to his side. “I think I need your services a little more tonight, Sergeant Grant.”