Something I have been playing with about Benny. Sage is an English literature teacher at NYU. She met Benny one weekend four months before this story takes place at an old movie matinee where they ended up next to each other watching The Maltese Falcon . There was a coffee date after the movie and the rest was history. She has met the others and she gets along pretty well with them all. Her full name is Sage Donovan and she is a curvy redhead and just a hair taller than Benny in heels which she doesn't wear often . She makes Benny happy and he relaxes more with her when he finishes cases. He's had other relationships that haven't been this healthy where women were all about the money he makes or the fact that he works for Bull and not really interested in knowing him and wanting to be in his life . Sometimes his job and the long hours have also interfered but Sage understands that he loves what he does and couldn't do anything else.

Kind of wanted to explain my latest idea before I started this story .

After the fairly intense case had finished , Benny Colon walked into TAC looking pale and washed out . Bull was right beside him.

"I'm going to take a few minutes on the spare couch. My head."

" Migraine?" Bull asked .

" I think so. All I know is it fricking hurts ." He said in a whisper." " Meds are in the bottom drawer of my desk unless you want to give me a shot in the ass."

" I'm not that kind of doctor so I'll get your pills and some water to try first."

" Okay." Benny laid down slowly on the couch with his face turned toward the back. He heard the lights click off in the room.

" Do you want me to call the car service and Sage?"

" Yeah that's probably a good idea. I guess I need a rain check for tonight ."

" That's probably best."

" Yeah." Then He was quiet for a little while. He managed to get his medicine down with some bottled water and then his eyes closed after a while . His breathing relaxed as he curled up in a blanket Sage had made for him when he spent nights at TAC during cases. His feet got cold sometimes so she gave him some thing warm to cover up in when they weren't together at his place or hers. He drifted off into an uneasy rest and didn't even know Sage had come to the office at first .

Sage found Bull when she got there. " How is he?"

" He's hurting. This one was pretty intense."

" I see, well both of us can help him feel better." She followed Bull into the spare conference room quietly and saw him curled up on the couch in a ball. She quietly walked over and saw how pale his face was. Then she sat down by his feet and gently touched his arm. " Honey?"

" Sage?" Benny mumbled.

" Do you want to go home?"

" Yeah." He replied with some grogginess in his voice.

" All right lets see if we can get you to the car." She looked at Bull for a moment .

" He's sensitive to light right now but I can help you get him outside."

She nodded. " Thank you ."

Somehow Benny got into the car and his head was on Sage's shoulder to try and block out the daylight from bothering his head.

" Sorry." He mumbled.

" For what , I want to help make this better."

" Think I overdid it on this case."

She ran her hand up his arm gently . " You'll be home resting soon. We're going to your place."

" Thank you ." Then he was quiet again.

Sage just sat there and held him . She had never seen him pale before. Sure he could be tired after a hard week but not this. This headache had to be brutal. He hadn't taken much medicine in front of her other than men's vitamins from his sisters company. He would feel better once he was home in bed.