The light breeze blew through the Sunshine building's balcony, making the blonde tresses swirl about her face and the dark hair to toss up and down on the tall man.

Mary pushed her bangs out of her eyes, she needed a trim but she kept putting it off for another time, looking down at her sandwich she frowned. What's wrong with this? I think it's bad.

She took another bite and chew through the odd taste in her mouth, she really couldn't blame the sandwich; she had been feeling this sense of missing the point somewhere.

She looked up when she sensed a pair of eyes on her, her green gaze locked with those of the tall and lanky law man, Marshall Mann.

"What's wrong? You keep zoning out, everything okay with you?" he asked curiously as he looked down at her from his perch against the concrete wall facing her, he reached out and took a sip from his drink.

"I'm good, just thinking," that you're hiding something from me and I can't put my finger on it. What the hell Marshall? You know I'm oblivious to subtlety.

"Yeah," he agreed as he nodded pensively. "So, about Elliot, he requested a move, do you know something about that?"

Mary frowned and shook her head, "No, I don't. I feel like I'm missing something."

Marshall moved over to her and turned her sandwich down, "Looks like a normal tuna sandwich to me, maybe the mayo went bad?"

"No, not the sandwich," she tossed her sandwich on the table beside her and stood up, she began to pace making Marshall very nervous.

"Something about a witness? You forgot to check up on them? They asked for something and you can't remember?" he ran down a few more possible questions regarding a witness and she kept shaking her head.

She came to an abrupt stop when she finally realized what it was, she turned towards him, narrowing her eyes at him she growled, "You lied to me!"

Marshall's head snapped back in confusion, "I lied to you? About what?"

He tried to run down all the things that he could've lied about, but nothing was coming up. Every possible scenario and still nothing. He tossed the rest of his sandwich into the trash bin by the chair she had abandoned, losing his appetite at her accusation.

Mary kept running the conversation in her mind, she closed her eyes and she could see him as clearly as that day, You're my partner. You're my best friend. And I love you…she remembered how he hesitated for a second, waiting for a reply from her, then…Not like that

Her eyes sprang open and locked to his, "Not like that?"

At first Marshall frowned and looked at her as if she'd gone crazy, "Wh…oh"

"Yeah, Oh"

He stared at her, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"That's all you're going to give me now, oh? Say something you douchebag!" her hands on her hips as she glared at him, "You've never lied to me before, why start now? Huh?"

Marshall shook his head and muttered angrily, "What the hell do you want from me, Mare? Huh? If you didn't want to release me, then you should've made yourself clear on that day, why now? What, six months later?"

"Because it's now, this minute, this time when I realized that you've tried to pull a wool over my eyes that I realized something," she came closer to him, but not touching. Yet.

"What did you realize?" he closed his eyes as he whispered, scared to look into her eyes and get hurt once again.

Mary looked into the office and noticed everyone busy on their stations, looking up at Marshall again, she reached out with a trembling hand and touched his jaw, "I realized that…"

Ring! Ring!...


TBC...Who could it be? Will be answer? What did Mary realize?