Chapter 1
AN: I love the dynamic between these two. Characters owned by CBS Im just borrowing them for a hot minute. Enjoy!
It had been a rough few weeks for everyone. After everything that had happened on the sub, Bravo team had been taking some much needed downtime as Sonny recovered from his brush with death. Jason was enjoying spending time with his kids, Naima was putting Ray to work on the house and Clay was trying to busy himself to keep his mind off of Stella. Lisa wasn't really sure what to do with herself. Usually, when the team had downtime, she would be drinking beer and spending time with Sonny, but things had been so strained between them since he found out about OCS and stormed out on her and then he went and almost died on her.
She remember when Bravo team returned from their last mission. Sonny was rushed to the base hospital to ensure that he was okay after his brush with death. Usually when the team returned if she was not with them, she would meet them on the tarmac, but she couldn't bring herself to do it this time. She was mad at herself for not coming clean with him about OCS. Even before they got involved, he was first and foremost her best friend. She didn't know what she would have done if she had lost him before they were able to make things right between them.
Jason had come and found her when the team got back, having noticed that she didn't meet the plane when they arrived back state side. He knew how close she was to Sonny, and even though things had been strained between the pair for a few weeks, he knew that she would want to know what was happening. He had told her that Sonny was going to be fine, that they had taken him to the base hospital and that he was in pretty good shape considering everything that had transpired on the mission. He told her that she should come with them to the hospital later, that Sonny would probably like to see her. She joined the boys when they went to visit later, but she didn't say much and made sure she wasn't alone with him at any point because she didn't know what she would say. It was strange seeing Sonny, the happy go lucky Texan in a bed hooked up to machines. Of course he'd been injured on missions before, all of Bravo had, but this was the first time that she had thought that she was going to lose him.
She sat on her couch, half finished beer growing warm on the coffee table in front of her. She didn't know what to do. Sonny had been released from the hospital earlier that day and she really wanted to talk to him, but she still wasn't sure where they stood. He had been so mad at her, never once in the course of their friendship had he ever stormed off on her. She wasn't sure that he would want to see her. She sighed and rubbed her neck. She caught a glimpse of his cowboy hat hanging off one of her lamps and smiled. He never did take that hat home, it had become somewhat of a permanent fixture in her apartment since they had become involved. She always bugged him to take it home, but she secretly had liked that he never did. She picked up the hat, smiling as she remembered the first time she had worn it. He had seemed so domestic that morning in her kitchen before everything fell apart.
There was a knock at her door pulling her out of her thoughts. She made her way over, checking the peephole. She reseted her head against the door for a moment taking a deep breath. A second knock. She opened the door slowly.
"Sonny?"