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A/N.: So this story was inspired by the scene of episode 6 'Fallen Angel' where Adam, Megan and Tommy go to Tatjanas club to talk to her about the victim and Tatjana ignored Tommy and eyed Megan appreciatively and then told Megan that she should come back without her friends next time. I found his reaction hilarious and decided to write a little about his feelings. Hope you'll enjoy! :)

Change Your Mind

When Tommy finally arrived at his small apartment, the first thing he did was pouring himself a drink and sat down at his couch. Their finished case was still running constantly through his mind, he couldn't understand how that woman could cruelly shoot a sixteen year old girl and then leave her to die, it was insane. This person was a mother herself, but apparently that didn't matter to her.

His thoughts also wandered to a certain M.E., who had indirectly been invited back to Tatjanas club without her friends. Megan had looked gorgeous today in her red dress, but he still found Tatjanas 'offer' kind of concerning, he didn't want Megan over there all by herself, especially not with all those men who had been staring at her, while they were talking to Tatjana. Sure, he knew that Megan wouldn't go there to hook up with some guy, but still he couldn't help feeling jealous- after all she had once been his... and then I screwed it up, he added silently, not feeling better at all. He put his glass down and started to pace the room- he had to get his feelings in check or he would make a fool out of himself, not only in front of Megan, but also in front of his colleagues.

Still he meant what he had told Megan, when they were at that restaurant- he truly wanted to see how things could work out between them, but she wasn't giving him a chance to prove that he'd changed or to prove anything, she was just shutting him out.

He didn't know what to do- he'd tried asking her out, she'd denied- then he'd tricked her into going, but when she had found out, she had left him standing in the middle of the restaurant, looking like a fool, which had earned him a few sympathetic looks. What was he supposed to do? Asking her didn't work, dinner hadn't worked- well that was his own fault, but he just wanted to spend some time with her. Megan was tough and to gain her forgiveness would be close to impossible, but worth a try, he concluded.

With an angry sigh he sat back down. He had to think- there had to be a way to make her change her mind. He looked at his almost dead room plant- flowers? No, it wasn't as if they were dating and he would not act like a love-possessed admirer. Presents of any kind wouldn't bring him her attention- he had to get her to trust him again. But how?

Meanwhile Megan had also arrived at her apartment, glad to finally have closed the case. She slipped out of her high heels and put her bag down. Next she settled down on her couch, happy to close her eyes for a few moments. Soon her thoughts wandered to the man, who had once held her heart and then tore it apart by cheating on her. She remembered how used she had felt after finding out, that he was sleeping with another woman- how she had vowed to never let herself get hurt again and how she had been hurt again, by another man- Todd.

She felt as if her whole love life had been a failure, feelings did almost always make her feel uncomfortable, she didn't know how to express them properly sometimes- especially affectionate emotions and gestures were what made her feel awkward, maybe that came from what she had experienced concerning her feelings: when she had finally started to trust and to open up and show her true vulnerable personality, there had always been someone or something that hurt her.

Sometimes she felt as if she was hiding a part of herself, lashing out on others in order to keep them at distance; to keep them from seeing her softer side. To her it was her way of protecting herself from getting hurt, at least verbally, but beneath her seemingly cold i-don't-give-a-damn-attitude was also a vulnerable woman- she had always been strong, but to create the image of an invulnerable person, she had had to learn how to let things bounce off her and act as if she didn't care. Actually she had really come to a point, where it didn't matter to her anymore what anyone thought or said about her. Only sometimes, when a remark was extremely personal, it was harder and sometimes made her doubt her actions.

Tommy had said, that she'd gotten buttoned up and wasn't spontaneous anymore. That wasn't true at all- just because she had grown up and had her routine, didn't mean that she couldn't be spontaneous anymore and tricking her to go to dinner with him was neither grown up nor spontaneous of Tommy either. After all she had been the one to stop the suspect in their mobster case by opening the door of her car while driving...

Why did Tommy have to come to Philadelphia? Her life had been in some sort of order and all of it had been destroyed the second he had been appeared out of nowhere to work with her. She had thought that she had put their past behind her, but something told her that she hadn't. It was crazy that everything with him still felt so familiar, as if they had been working together for ages. She could see that he was trying really hard, but she couldn't allow him to see that she liked it, yet. Megan knew she could trust him in some way and that was the reason why she had asked him to order an analysis of her father's suicide note. Maybe he had changed, but she would need time to decide whether she would allow herself to open up to him again.

Both Megan and Tommy didn't get much sleep that night, because their minds wouldn't stop to think about each other and how to handle the situation.

Should I continue? Please review and let me know what you think. ;)