#loved this moodboard with my whole heart - especially the middle pic vv representative of what natia is feeling

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Excerpt from Landslide || For My Sin-Stained Bones

>> featuring Natia Filipska and Ronald Speirs

" Fidel."

" Hey, Fidel."

" Fidel." Natia shot up like a bullet out of a gun and pulled the weapon at her side straight from it's holster and pointed it straight in the direction of the voice who spoke to her. On the other side was the last person she'd expect to see standing in her presence.

The hooded Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Speirs. He didn't flinch at the weapon pointed towards his face - if anything he invited it like he were about to bring it to a dance. His cold eyes remained on her, as a sudden bit of realization hit her like a brick - it was no wonder why his face was shadowed by something and not equally mixing with the darkness around them. It was day, morning - a fresh day.

" Why were you outside?" he asked her.

" Why did you wake me?" Lieutenant Speirs smirked the slightest bit at her comment, as they lay on equal ends by this point in time.

" Well, it seems your CO's looking for you and I just so happened to be moving through HQ at the exact same time and overheard, so I suggest you head up there now." Lieutenant Speirs said, his voice much calmer than she had suspected it to be.

" What exactly did he mean by looking for me?" she said. Lieutenant Speirs walked forward and within a second, pushed the pistol down from her hands, and had then shoved it into his own away from her grasp, taking a step closer to her as he did so, eyes watching her own.

" Maybe it has something to do with pointing something like this in the face of your ally." he said, as he securely placed the pistol into her holster as she stood frozen, eyes narrowed on him.

" It seems the least of Captain Winters' worries." she said back, her eyes settling in his as he slowly stepped back. She let a chilled smirk past her lips.

" Your turn - why were you outside? It rained all night." Lieutenant Speirs' voice said rather coldly himself as he stepped back arms crossed.

" How is it that you always cross my path when I'm least interested in conversation?"

" Why are you avoiding my question, Agent?" Natia bit back her lip and shook her head. Crossing her arms, she felt the sun grow warmer it seemed, as her flushed cheeks from the heat caused the hair from her bun to fall and stick to her cheeks, her heart racing faster - he didn't know did he?

" I had bigger issues than sleep, Lieutenant." she answered him - she refused to tell him that she no longer slept well, that sleeping kept awake the demons that the consciousness pushed out, that the night was the only comfort she had anymore and even then the level of comfort was dismal. Lieutenant Speirs nodded briefly to her as he watched something in her eyes shift, a deeper darkness than what other eyes he watched had possessed.

" Agent-" Natia glanced over her shoulder to see Lieutenant Welsh in the doorway of the barn door and his eyes were on Lieutenant Speirs.

" Lieutenant." Lieutenant Welsh said nodding to him. Lieutenant Speirs gave a rather curt nod to Lieutenant Welsh before glancing back at her and without so much as meeting her eyes, he turned to walk away. Thompson slapping his shoulder, helmet hooded over his head, and a steady gate leading him away, she watched him retreat back towards where HQ was.

Natia watched him with narrowed eyes, like blinders were up and all she could focus on was the retreating Lieutenant who showed up at the most random of times with a bite on his tongue.

" What'd he want?" Lieutenant Welsh asked her, for the first time in weeks, speaking directly to her in a conversation not binded by war.

" He told me Captain Winters was looking for me." she said stiffly, " Moving through HQ...overheard him or something."

" He's just trying to get under your skin because he knows with you, you'll put up a fight." Lieutenant Welsh told her, " All the other guys are too scared to even, oh I don't know, look at him."

Author’s Note: hey everyone! shannon here! it’s been a minute since i’ve revisited landslide, but with recent times and my urge to revisit landslide again, here we are! one of my favorite moodboards i made and favorite scenes between natia and speirs! i’ve been thinking of doing prompts or other writings or deleted scenes for landslide so ~ if anyone has any requests, feel free! i’m going to roll things out in the coming days! :) enjoy this fav snippet, there is more of this to come! :D