Unseen Scenes—Book One, Chapter Three (Nate Version) (Patreon)

“How long do we have to wait out here?” Morgan huffs, leaning away from the sunshine shining unimpeded through the glass walls of the station.

Farah peers around the doorway. “Not long. Agent [Surname] is just talking to them now.” She glances back over her shoulder to Morgan. “You wanna make an impressive entrance, don’t you?”

“I don’t want to go in there at all,” Morgan grunts back.

Nate swipes a hand back over his hair with a sigh. “How about we at least make a friendly impression?”

The darkened frown on Morgan’s face doesn’t give much hope of that.

“Let’s go,” Adam states, ignoring the ongoing conversation as he stands taller. “Agent [Surname] is almost ready for us.”

The group follow obediently behind the Commanding Agent as he makes his way to the Detective’s office. Nate has to duck to make it inside, and half wonders how Adam managed to fit his solid mass through the narrow doorway either.

Farah, of course, bounces inside with a spring in her step and anticipation gleaming in her bright eyes.

Nate doesn’t dare to see how Morgan slinked into the room.

"Detective, I'd like you to meet my team: Unit Bravo,” Rebecca says as soon as the group have managed to cram themselves into the room.

The Detective’s gaze flashes over the group in quick inspection, and Nate has to hold back a smile as he wonders just what assessment they’ve made about them all.

Strange that he seems particularly interested in what they would have to say about him.

He brushes away the thought and lets the smile onto his face instead in gentle encouragement.

“Welcome to Wayhaven. I’m sure you’ll settle in just fine here,” they say in surprisingly cheerful greeting.

At least that’s a good start…Nate keeps the smile in place as the optimistic thought settles in his mind.

“Thank you, Detective [Surname],” Nate offers when none of the rest of the group say anything in return. "If everyone is as welcoming as you, I'm sure we'll be most happy here."

A grunt sounds from Morgan.

Nate struggles to keep the smile in place, but it only brightens as the Detective focuses back on him. Not an unpleasant reaction, but certainly unusual, and not one Nate has experienced in a while.

Those first stirrings of instant attraction.

Well, at least on his side…

The idea is driven away as the Detective’s hand takes his in a firm grip and shakes it.

“And you are?” they ask

"My name is Nathaniel Sewell, but I prefer Nate,” he replies without hesitation.

Once again, the Detective falls quiet in silent examination, though Nate can’t tell what must have prompted the scrutiny. But he’s certainly not going to complain at having the Detective’s full attention for a while longer.

When the Detective has finished, they draw away their hand.

Nate pushes his into his pocket, enjoying the tingle of their touch for a moment before it fades.

The rest of the introductions go just about as Nate expected them too, Farah doing her best (and succeeding, as always) to be as charming as possible, Morgan being so hostile that it’s a surprise she hasn’t been kicked out, and Adam…well, Adam being Adam.

But the Detective took it all in their stride.

Nate smiles and allows his gaze to catch the Detective’s again.

This could be much different than I was expecting…

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This is obviously only if you're doing N's route, but that initial attraction was always there.

Not like A's insta-love :D But those stirrings were definitely flickering...

It's so weird going back to write these as the character's were in Book One! Everyone's really grown with have the MC around, hehe!