Author's note #1: This story picks up mid-season 1, sometime after episode 1x11 "Paralytics and Priorities," and moves forward from there.
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"What is this?" Villa asked as she dropped a gold, embossed envelope onto the counter at Magic City Lab.
"Looks like an invitation to Pippy and TMI's wedding." Rosewood turned back to the sample he'd been examining under the microscope. "I told them they should have gotten the silver envelopes."
"And you thought if you got me an invite to your sister's wedding I'd let you off the hook?"
"I had nothing to do with it," he paused to make a note on the tablet next to him. "They invited you because they like you. Besides, am I really 'on the hook'? It was just a picture, Villa."
Villa narrowed her eyes. "I was asleep, Rosie. On the desk. In the stakeout van. And you took a selfie posing next to me."
"Technically, it was an 'usie,'" he chuckled.
"Rosie!"
He looked up then, "Ok, ok. I'm sorry, Villa, but nobody saw it except Pippy . . ."
"You showed your sister?!"
". . . and I guess TMI. Yeah, she would have shown TMI. TMI loves that kind of stuff." He turned back to the microscope. Villa grabbed the lapels of Rosewood's lab coat and swiveled him on his stool to face her. They both knew that she could pull him onto his feet if she chose, but she left him seated. Rosewood held his hands up in mock surrender, "Pippy texted that night to ask why I cancelled on them for dinner. I just sent the picture to prove I was working."
Villa released him with an exasperated sigh. "Where's your phone?" she asked. He took the device from his pocket and offered it to her. She shook her head in refusal. "Show me." He pulled up the photo gallery and sported a crooked smile for the few seconds before he looked back and saw her death stare. "Delete it," she said. He opened his mouth to protest, but she repeated her demand before he could utter a sound, "Delete it." Villa watched the screen as Rosewood tapped a few times and the image disappeared.
"There," he said. "It's gone."
"Will you ask Pippy to delete the one you sent to her?" Villa asked.
"I will," he answered.
"See, that wasn't so bad, was it?" she asked with a saccharine smile. "Now, I don't have to kick your ass and you don't have to tell your sister I'm skipping her wedding because you're a child." She turned to leave, and then called over her shoulder, "Call me when you finish the tox screen on that body."
"So was this your way of RSVP'ing? he called out as she moved further away.
She threw up a hand to wave over her shoulder, "Bye, Rosie."
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Author's note #2: This story was inspired by the cast's hilarious photo pranks posted on Instagram.
