Summer of Scribbles WIP
This is a snippet from my first entry for the Summer of Scribbles challenge.
Special Agent Ava Wilson spotted him long before he spotted her. She would recognize his side profile anywhere. She had often observed it, sitting at his kitchen table as he busied himself preparing a hearty breakfast for the two of them after one of their long nights together. To the rest of the organization, Dr. Cameron Brown was known to be the reclusive yet exemplary head of the Archives department. To Ava, he had been a lot more than that.
He must have been hyper-focused on his task as he did not look up. He was hunched over what must have been half a dozen boxes each packed to the brim with various folders and individual documents. Her disquiet dissolved into quiet admiration, as she observed him.
The distant sound of the door clicking shut along with the implication that someone had just either entered or left the facility was enough to snap Ava out of her reverie. The flush that had crept up her face, as it always did whenever she’d caught herself staring at him was slowly dissipating. She shook her head and glanced down at the folder she had been clutching for dear life. Her mission remained and she had to see it through.
She slowly started to make her way down the row, scanning the filing numbers as she made her way through, knowing all too well that her target folder was more than likely in one of the filing cabinets at the end of the shelf. She kept her gaze to the side as she made her approach and kept it there for as long as possible, to delay the inevitable interaction as much as possible, even as she detected Cameron’s stance shift away from his task to turn to the agent reluctantly approaching him.
By the time she finally reached the section she needed, only a few meters separated them. She stopped and finally turned to acknowledge him. Their eyes locked immediately, hers clouded by uneasiness, his softened with a tinge of amusement.
She found it funny how this path, like so many others before, had led her back to him.