<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #80FF80">Carlos Delgado</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/75418b36-82bd-4b2f-bdff-d44eb7e2deaf_zpsb78abdde.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Carlos noticed the first signs of her getting down from her drug high. It would be no fun to go through that, especially as it looked that Lea had been a heavy user already. But he was willing to do it for the girl who had once been his everything in this life and whom he still loved, even so he had believed that he was over her. But he wasn't, there was no denial in that. <br/><br/>They ate silently, him noticing her small bites and how she fought even to get those bites down. He couldn't know that Lea feared him forcing her to eat, but it was exactly what he planned to do. He would feed her like a baby it need be. Finally Carlos broke the silence, but what he said may have surprised Lea.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Lea, I know that likely most of the answers to the questions troubling me right now lay in that box in your closet. But I will not look into it as helpful it may be for me. I understand that your problems started long before you joined the force, maybe you even joined because of your problems and you definitely quit because of your problems, but it is your life. You will tell me when you are ready to tell me and I will wait for it to happen. I love you, I want to save you and I want some of my old Lea back, but I want to show you too, that I try to respect you. I am no shrink, I am no pseudo advisor like those guys from internal. I am your friend and I'll try hard to live up to your expectations. But I will not leave you alone or run away."</span><br/><br/>He took a big bite out of a taco and wiped the sauce dripping from his chin away with a napkin. There wasn't any better food than Pedro's in town, he had to admit that once more.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I guess I should leave the force. Make something different. Maybe PI or bounty hunter. Something were nobody will treat me like the last shit."</span></div>