Trigger warning
Chapter Ten: Trauma Response.

Luna had just gotten done with her day, which consisted of one Eddie Diaz and her doing some sparring. And by sparring she means pointless wrestling and tons of making out, yes sparring.

They had gone for a jog in the park and flirted the entire time. Life was good, everything was great.  She was madly in love with the guy she was dating and nothing could break down her spirit at least nothing yet.

She was currently at Athena's house for her usual brunch and chit chat.  Harry and Denny were arguing over a video game console. Hen and Karen were talking about their IVF treatments and the process they would have to go through.

"Kids!" Athena yells and the boys halt there arguing, the room is silent, just the sound of Athena sipping her Tea and Luna drying her hands.

"You need to teach us how to do that." Hen replies as all the women laugh.  "What if Denny doesn't like having a sibling?"

" What's not to like? Kids are better with siblings. It makes them better people." Karen says as Luna takes her seat at the table. 

" Wait a minute.  Both Athena and I are only children, and we turned out just fine."

" Yes, you are both wonderful adults, but I just--I don't know who I'd be without my brothers. They made me kinder, more understanding, more willing to share."

Luna nods."Did you know that a study in Korea showed that kids were more likely to learn compassion, leadership, and kindness quicker when having a sibling than without." Luna sips her tea before everyone just looks at her. "I mean it's a study, it's probably not true."

"Yeah, well, our little one is struggling with the concept of "sharing is caring." What if they're at each other's throats all the time?"

"Oh, they will be. Mm-hmm, May, she loved having a baby brother, right up till that part where he started walking and talking and getting into all her stuff." Athena explains as everyone chuckles.

Luna nods before sipping her tea. "My sister Maya would get so mad when I wore her clothes, My brother on the other hand, he didn't want me to leave the house without a turtleneck on.'' Everyone chuckles at what she says.

"Oh, I'm not sure we considered that part. Our family's not just growing; it's changing."

"It'll be an adjustment, but you two will do just fine. Denny'll love having a brother eventually." Athena explains as everyone laughs.

//

Luna couldn't believe she was being called into her captain's office. Of course when she walks inside, there's a Detective standing there, his hair is nicely done, he has the world's worst aftershave and the bags under his eyes. Make him look older than he truly was.

"You wanted to see me Cap?"

"Yeah this is Detective Mason Oliver, from Sex crimes and drug  divison, I'll leave you two to talk." and with that Captain leaves,

"What can I do for you Detective?"

"Word on the block is you came back from the FBI the Behavioral Analysis Unit."

Luna nods not liking where the conversation was going. "I have an undercover mission for you."

"With all due Respect I don't think I am the right fit for whatever it is you need."  Luna stands up and begins to leave.

"Agent Jennings is highly skilled at what she does, she is the best undercover agent I had ever had the pleasure of working with. Agent Jennings does her job with such honor and valor, anyone would be lucky to have her on their team." That's you right?"

Luna turns herself around to face him. "What is it that you need?"

Never in her life did she think she would go undercover as a call lady, but stranger things have happened. There was eight million dollars on the line. Long story short a bank was robbed of Eight million dollars a Russian Mob took it at first. But then it got stolen from them by some Columbians which got stolen from them by the Mexican cartel.

Now the leader of the Mexican cartel was  Ralph, or Rolo for short he was meeting up with the rest of his crew tonight to hang out and discuss what they were going to do with the money.

Rolo's version of hanging out was simply ordering Hookers and doing cocaine with his crew, which didn't make anything better, Luna would be going undercover with two other women, Natalie and Bethany, who were actually call girls but they were also CI's so they could still work their craft and not go to jail for it.

Night has fallen quickly and Luna finds herself getting set up with Natalie. The trio of women found themselves outside in the cold LA air, their dresses entirely too short. A black SUV pulls up and the three climb inside they drive to trap house, it was pitch black out when they arrived the driver of the car, Opens the door for them.

"Out" He yells to the women.

" Look at that. A real gentleman." Natalie sasses as Beth smirks. Luna just keeps a straight face but makes sure it seems void of any happiness. They walk to the door and the two men who were driving them stand very close behind them. The door Opens and Natalie loops arm with Beth and she puts on a smile.

"Hey." The men shove them inside and Natalie pulls off her coat, followed by Beth and Luna.

"Sit down. Sit down! " They sit on a couch as a guy walks up from the dining room.

"What the hell is this?"

" Rolo ordered some girls."

" Rolo ain't here"

". Not yet." The guy looks at the women before glaring at Bethany and Luna particularly.

" Get up!"

The trio stands and he looks at  Bethany and Luna "I'm not talking to you! Sit down!" He points to them and the two sit down. " Do a rail." he looks at Natalie as Luna gulps.

" What's that, baby?" Natalie  asks as rubbing her hands all over the guy's chest.

" Do a rail of coke."

" Nah, see, me, Cherry, and Lacy, we don't do that anymore. We're clean." Natalie speaks up as Luna nods.

" Yeah."

"Man, they don't want the coke, they don't want it. Why waste it on these bitches?"

" If they don't want it, what if they're narcs!" He grabs Natalie by the throat as Luna steps up only to be hit across the face.

"Hey, hey, papi, it's a party. We're just gonna party, okay? Bethany rubs her hand on his arm trying to ease his nerves.

"Both of you do a rail." He looks between Bethany and Luna.

" I got it. It's cool. I'll do it, all right?" Natalie  does as Rail and Luna kneels down in front of the tray, she looks over at Natalie who smiles looking a little high already. Before taking a breath, this was what she did before, she takes the money and swipes the coke up before sucking it up with her nose, only she doesn't inhale, it was a trick she learned from a movie she watched. She replayed that movie about a million times before she practiced that trick with different powdery items in her pantry. Lets just say her mom wasn't too happy when she found out luna was wasting her good sugar for her useless party tricks.

"Maybe I'll let you ride this D before Rolo gets here, huh?" He smirks at Luna this time.

" Whatever you want, baby. Whatever you want." she says as Natalie is being filled up by one of the other guys. Bethany was too, they turn to leave as a guy walks in.

" Yo, yo, yo. What's good? You start the party without me or what?"

"Sup, Rolo? You mind if I take this one for a test drive?" The guy asks as Luna looks at Natalie.

" Yeah, go ahead." Rolo turns to Bethany, lifting her chin up with his index finger.  They guy is shoving Luna along and she kisses him.

" Uh, I need my purse. Oh, yeah, baby, you got a condom? I don't think so. Then I need my purse."

"Here you go, baby." Bethany smirks at Natalie handing her her bag from the couch.

"Thanks, darlin'."

They walk up the stairs and down  the hall into another room where Luna explains how she has to go to the bathroom, she locks the door, emptying the contents from her nostrils into the sink. Before pulling out her burner phone. "Rolo's here five others in the front, one in the back hurry." and she closes the phone quietly, careful not to make it sound like she was on the phone in the first place.

The detective and his team were headed towards the house, they rushed the door causing a lot of commotion down stairs. Luna chose to wait in the bathroom until one of the detectives from the Sex and drug crimes division came got her only that didnt happen. The man from before comes rushing in and the two start fighting. She manages to get a few hits on him before she is pushed into the bathtub she starts kicking at him with her heels swinging her legs around as he hits her blow after blow, she protects her face with her arms.  Before long Luna is beat to hell, she manages to get home in one piece but the sight of her wasn't pretty, she looked like she got mauled by a tiger not to mention the bruises were starting to settle on her face and she looked as if the universe kicked her ass and won.

//

Eddie didn't think he would be able to function on the less amount of sleep he was getting. Which was becoming challenging. But nonetheless he made it into work that day ready to talk about what life had to offer and what had to be offered was a car that had fallen off a cliff, with a family inside. The sergeant on the scene just so happened to be his girlfriend who looked very interesting for the day.

Luna walks over to the captain's side of the engine rig. Her lip was busted from the undercover case she was on before. Bobby Nash steps out.

"What do we got?" He asks as she sighs leading over to the side,

"Driver's name is Judith Spivey. She and her two sons are trapped inside the vehicle. Mom's unconscious, but the kids seem to be okay. It looks like they tumbled a bit before catching on the brush." She removes her glasses to reveal her beat up face more.

Eddie's jaw tightened; he hadn't seen her in a few days. She was extremely busy he could see now just how busy she was.

" We better get to work before we lose any more ground. Eddie, set up the winch. Lena, I want you to get down there and anchor that vehicle. Take it slow. Too much weight and this cliffside can come down. We don't want that car to go along with it."

With everything going on right now Luna needed to see this through to make sure everyone was okay. Which of course in the hands of the 118 they usually were which needless to say they were, they got the mom and her two sons out safely. Of course with a few setbacks the car started shifting because the earth underneath was too soft. Luna just smiled at the two siblings picturing her own who would never leave her side after something like this. She couldn't imagine what they were going through but she could imagine having her siblings by her side and just knowing that they were there.

Athena had invited Luna over for Dinner and she declined seeing as she could barely open her mouth without wanting to cry. There was no way she would be able to sit through a dinner, but Athena being the woman she was had plans for Luna,

Plans that included a very special Edmundo Diaz, who arrived at her doorstep with the environmentally friendly bags hanging off his arms, she knew who they immediately belonged to as Eddie sat them down at the counter she limped her way back to her couch well tried, she was soon scooped up and placed down on the couch. She couldn't make it to her bedroom without wanting to die on the floor. The only place she could make it oto was the bathroom in the corridor and the couch, she had been getting dressed by crawling to and from her room.

"What Happened?" Edidie didn't even bother to put the food away; he shrugs off his leather jacket. Immediately rummaging through her cabinets for the first aid kit.

"I should really lock that door." Luna could barely talk, her jaw was swollen. She was putting up a good front for work. Acting like she was all good. Like nothing was wrong. She needed to work, without it she wouldn't be able to survive which sucked.

"That's not funny." Eddie walks back over to the living sitting down on her coffee table in front of her. He goes to open the first aid kit begging to get to work as Luna batts him away.

"Eddie, I am fine. These are old wounds they are healing see.'' She points to the yellow spot where the bruises are healing.

"No, you're not fine, nope."

Luna sits up on the couch wincing as Eddie helps her jumping at her side quickly.

"When you said you were going undercover. You said it wouldn't be a big deal that you were catching bad guys and that everything would be okay. This isn't okay." he gestures to her injured state. "You look like you went four rounds with a meat grinder."

Luna laughs as Eddie scolds her which makes her laugh harder. He was overprotective and she loved it alot. It was cute.

"Chill, Diaz." she sasses as his eyes are practically bulging out of his head, he yawns before Luna studies him. He had bags under his eyes and his face looked worn, like he hadn't been sleeping

well.

"You don't look too good yourself, You alright there."

He shakes his head, another yawn escaping his lips. "Christopher hasn't been sleeping since the tsunami, he's been having nightmares. His shrink suggests to "Keep loving him" that when he is ready to talk he will talk about it. Or whatever that means."

Luna grabs Eddie's hand. "What Chris went through is scary, now it may not seem like it because you deal with those kinds of things on the job everyday. But he doesn't, he's still evolving trying to figure out life and its limits. I know when my dad died, I didn't want to talk to anyone I pushed everyone away even my therapist, but then my mom said how sad she was, how she felt like the world wouldn't be the same without him and that made me feel like if she felt this way and was moving on with her life than maybe I could too,"

"What if that doesn't work? What if he is always like this?"

Luna could sense his anxiety, she felt her heart break at all the emotions he was feeling as a parent. You always wonder about these things but you never say them outloud never speak them into existence.

"Tell you what? Why don't I come over and the three of us have a really big sleepover." Eddie nods, liking the idea of the two being under the same roof and Christopher adores Luna, always calling her

Elara "Disappearing moon." She told him all about the solar system, how the moon can take on different shapes or become different things and Luna never anticipated for him to actually like it. She was a nerd and a smarty pants and Christopher loved the fact that anytime he would point to something she knew everything there was to know about it.

"Did I mention how much I appreciate you?"

Luna smirks a bit, shaking her head."That didnt come up yet, no."

He presses a kiss to her lips and she feigns woozy as he laughs. The couple finally feel like themselves again.

That night they had gone through with the sleepover before tucking Christopher into bed, Luna was in Eddie's bed waiting for him to come back. She had put up a fight wanting to send Christopher off to bed but he insisted that she needed to rest.

Of course when Eddie returns he isn't in the best mood, Luna slides over to him as he sits there on the side of the bed, he head was in his hands along there was a crumpled up piece of paper in his hands.

"Eddie, what's wrong?" He says nothing, turning around and gripping Luna into a tight hold he lays his head on her chest. As she soothes him by running a hand through his hair, she feels his body shake which indicates he's crying and soon the sobs are heard.

"It's okay, I am here for you. I promise I am not going anywhere." She continues to soothe him, the paper in his hand was a drawing that Christopher drew of Eddie drowning, his job was his job it didn't affect him but he forgot how it could affect his son, how he could be worried about him too. Luna was right in the sense that telling Christopher how he felt made him feel better. But it didn't mean that he had to pretend he wasn't sad or scared either. Truthfully he was and he was thankful, that Luna was so caring and understanding, she was so appreciative of his feelings and he loved it and her.

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