Might be a little late, but I just finished 7x10. That being said I am super excited to see where the writer go from here, but this is where I went. Enjoy!

She couldn't breathe.

It had been 3 hours since he walked into her office and she had walked out. She had done the one thing that she had forbid herself from doing when he asked her to come with him. They had been avoiding that part of each other for almost 15 years and she just collided right into the one taboo subject in their lives.

It wasn't like she didn't already know the answer. She knew everything about that man and she was sure of how he felt about her. She knew the Pandora's box she was opening. The last seven years had broken every wall she had built between them. Twice she had been faced with what she feared. The love that she had tried to pretend didn't exist ever since The Other Time. Being on that stand and being accused of sleeping with her boss to get to the top wasn't even what bothered her the most about the whole thing.

Sure, it embarrassed her. It discredited all the work she had done, but more than that it forced her to think about their situation. Everything pointed to the fact that she did get where she was because of his feelings. No one else could strut around that office the way she did. No one else could talk to their boss the way that she did. No one else could ask for a promotion like she did, without any actual background and get it.

She was cut out for the job she wanted but that didn't mean she was qualified. If she had any other boss than she would not have gotten as far as she was. She knew that. So maybe in a way the accusation was not unfounded. No, they were not currently sleeping together, but they had been together in every other sense.

A sob left her throat.

The realization that she was still miserable hit her like a ton of bricks. She had asked for the promotion because she wanted to fill a gap with work. There just wasn't enough work to fill her heart. That's why she called Mark last week. She needed a filler. She needed someone to distract her from what she really wanted more of.

When that didn't work, when she almost destroyed the last bit of character she had left, she went back to ignoring her feelings. Then that damn puppy had to open his mouth and ask her if she was sure that there was nothing between them. When he did ask she lied through her teeth, but he got the wheels turning in her mind. She knew that she couldn't keep ignoring what was between her and that impossible man. She had almost convinced herself to make a completely different change when the other named partner came into her office hating his own love life. Just like he knew that he was watching the woman of his dreams marry another man, she knew she was watching her soul mate get closer and closer to another woman.

A woman that she knew was wrong for him. That fling might know his favorite restaurant, but there were so many more important things to know. How he liked his coffee in the morning. Why it was never okay to rearrange his balls. What the painting in his office meant. Therapist or not, there was only so much that they could learn about each other over the few months they had been dating. Not to mention the fact that as a therapist his current obsession should know better.

She knew that the other woman was well aware of his feelings. Knew that his heart would never be complete without a certain red head to keep him in line. What really had her baffled was how they could even have a relationship with this knowledge hanging in the back of the fling's mind. It didn't matter though because they were and it prompted her to do the most reckless thing in her entire life.

So, she slammed through the door of her heart and it had not even made the situation any better. She only felt scared and empty.

Now that she opened that box there was no way for her to close it. Her mind went to the kiss. To feeling his lips come home to hers. That was what it felt like. For those few seconds it was perfect. Her fantasy of him being hers coming to life. He leaned into the kiss when she expected him to push her away and it gave her all the answers she needed.

He loved her.

Another tear fell because she knew it wasn't that easy. There was still the problem of Paula. It was not lost on her that she had just become the one thing that he hated more than losing. She made him a cheater. She knew that going into the office on Monday would be the easiest thing that she would do in the near future. Facing him once she got there was another story entirely. There was a fight coming. All because she decided to take what she wanted.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the door pounding at her back.

She knew it was him. She might have been hoping that there was more time for her to formulate an argument. To think about what she had done and how it would change them.

For the first time in her life, Donna Paulsen was wrong.

She turned and opened the door to a very flustered Rachel. Confusion overtook her and in the same moment her heart jumped to her throat. "What happened?" The fear and sadness in her best friend's eye terrified her. "Rachel. What. Happened?" The next words spoken to her would haunt her dreams for the rest of her life.

"Donna, Harvey has been shot."

Just the beginning! Let me know what you think! Should I keep going or stop while I am ahead! R&R!