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Date Posted: Sunday, November 28, 11:08:16pm
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Nikita507
's message, "Priority Mail 63+" on Thursday, November 25, 03:17:47pm
“How is your roommate?” Nat asked as he sipped at the coffee as he sat across from Rhoda. They had decided not to start with dinner and a movie. Instead, they had met once before for coffee and this was their second time having coffee together. It wasn’t really a date at all, but Nat hoped that this was finally going to lead in that direction.
Rhoda smiled slightly as she placed her coffee cup down. Ze-Ze was a dear friend, but it was an adjustment from the convent. Ze-Ze was loud and boisterous. She was a barrel of laughs and she had endless energy. She was taunting Rhoda relentlessly about the man that made her leave the convent. Ze-Ze didn’t work today so she would be back at the apartment to ask for all the details of the meeting. Rhoda was going to have to watch the next time that she met Nat to be sure that she would be able to get back into the apartment without the third degree.
“She is an acquired taste and I know that it is just me getting use to the life on the outside,” Rhoda explained as nicely as she could. She loved Ze-Ze and she would never complain about her. Rhoda knew that this was all onto her to get used too.
“You make it sound like you got out of prison,” Nat chuckled as he shook his head. He paused and withheld his next comment. “And the new job? Did you start yet?”
“At the clinic? No, I didn’t start there yet. Next week. I only have 20 hours there so I am picking up some shifts back at the ER,” Rhoda explained as she looked at Nat and wondered if this was the right thing. She should probably have given herself some time.
“Back in the ER. I guess it won’t be likely I’ll be there because of a case. I’m not running after the perps any longer,” Nat commented gently. Rhoda chuckled in response. “That’s good… but it is good to get back to nursing. I didn’t realize how much I had missed it.”
It was back to the topic that neither of them had wanted to talk about because Rhoda, at last time they did talk about it, was against Nat in his assessment of Michael Pomeroy and the woman known as simply Nikita. But it was there again. The topic was right there and neither was sure what to do.
Rhoda wasn’t going to let this drag on too long. It was one of the reasons why she wasn’t sure if she should even be meeting with Nat. “About Nikita…”
Nat picked up his coffee and took a big gulp. “I don’t know, Rhoda… I’m conflicted about all of what happened.”
“I saw her,” Rhoda whispered as she shook her head from side to side. “I don’t know how she could be involved. She still wasn’t talking to me when I visited. She looked like she had gotten some more sleep… but I don’t know how she could be involved.”
Nat nodded his head up and down. “I’ve heard that from this Tom guy. I don’t know his connection because other than the fact that he has been able to close all of the connections and somehow make all the evidence about whatever had transpired that caused this Nikita to be beaten up as she had, he seems to be a legit man working in some pseudo grandparent-child program.”
“That’s a different statement, Nat,” Rhoda half smiled. “Before you were ready to take this Tom down. Have you talked to Michael?”
“No,” Nat shook his head from side to side. “But I’m getting steady reports back from him on open cases that I have with him… and I have a few things that I might be willing to send to him again.”
“He has been busy with Nikita,” Rhoda commented as she tilted her head to the side. “I think they are lost lovers or something like that, Nat.”
“You and your hopeless romantic tendencies,” Nat sighed as he shook his head from side to side. “I’m thinking it must be something like a big brother, little sister relationship… I can’t find anything about their childhoods anywhere.”
“Maybe because those childhoods don’t matter,” Rhoda shrugged her shoulders slightly. “You haven’t been around to see them. Michael loves her and I think she hasn’t left him because she loves him.”
Nat leaned forward and looked at Rhoda. “I’m scared to see them again. I said some pretty awful things.”
“You tried to arrest her when she was hurt!” Rhoda pointed out and Nat turned bright red. “I was frustrated.”
“But you were probably right. There has been no more angel business, has there?” Rhoda added with a sigh. She didn’t know how Nikita could have been involved, but she did not want to think about the angel stopping at the same time that all of this happened. Nat rubbed his hands against the table and shook his head. “There is no angel, Rhoda.”
“Ok,” she replied back slowly as she leaned back. She looked at Nat and reached out for his hand. “Let’s take a walk… I’m tired of just coming to this coffee shop. We’ve always come here.”
“I thought you would want to take it slow.”
“If I wanted slow, I don’t know if I would have left the convent,” Rhoda shrugged her shoulders as she stood up. She looked Nat and was nervous as she stood up. Ze-Ze had told her to make the first move.
She hoped that this was the first move that Ze-Ze was talking about.
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