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These characters don't belong to me. I just borrowed them for a while.

Authors notes: This story is story three of the series "Miracles are sometimes overdue." Stories 1 (Miracles do happen) and 2 (Miracles need a little help) are posted already. You might want to read them first. Hope you enjoy this one. Kind of long sorry.

For a long time they just watched each other, their gazes locked, unwavered, an unfettered desire burning a path between them. CC blinked she could actually see something in his eyes, sadness maybe. She shook her head.

"Really I have to go." She commented, not really wanting to leave him like this but she needed space.

"Wait." She turned away and walked off. "Come back." Niles breathed deeply, just watching her walk away. His body and mind still in shock couldn't move.

"Let her go, she'll be back." Came that welcoming voice he knew all to well.

In his mind Niles knew David was right but how long, how long would she be gone this time?

"Come," he pushed Niles some. "Go home. Go to the store and get some things like you said you were."

"Yeah maybe getting my mind on work would help me." he sighed. "Why can't she just admit to herself that she loves me? I know that she does. Am I going about this the wrong way with her? I mean I don't want to push her farther away. But I want to get close to her."

"She just needs a little time that's all. This is all new to her. This," David smiled, remembering the kiss that they shared "love thing."

"Oh yeah, the loving someone part. Cause the fighting with me is not."

"What? What do you mean?" David questioned looking, right at Niles.

"We have been doing this so called 'fighting' for years." He looked at David. "I thought she mentioned it to you."

"No!" David's mind: So she's been in love with him for years. Then why hasn't she told him? Oh right, about her past. Why is it taken her so long? She just needed, some guidance, he smiled, like me.

CC could feel something wet gathering in her throat, rising through her sinuses, and flooding her eyes. Then seeping through her lashes and making the return trip down her cheeks to her mouth. She could taste salt on her upper lip.

CC didn't even want to be thinking what she was thinking. What she wanted to be thinking was that Niles was a troublemaker who ought to be ignored when he got this way. But that thought simply didn't seem as important as the churning inside her bubbling up and bursting with little pops.

CC mind: How could I just walk off like that? What was going through my mind? She sighed. I have to find out who I am before I involve someone, especially someone like him, someone who cares. I mean what if I don't like myself enough? Would he see that? Would he still love me knowing that? Oh…this is hard but I have to. I have to walk away for now, anyway. Will he still be there? If he loves me like I suspect he does, then he will wait.

More tears slid down her face as she turned the corner to 9th and 10th street. How long have I been walking? How did I end up down here? Oh well. I think that's far enough from him so that I can think. She saw a bar. She hesitated for a minute, opened the door and went in. She just stood there staring at the bar, and at all the people. The bar was loaded more then usual at this time, most of them, CC thought, drowning themselves in their pity. She walked right back out. I will not allow myself to go do that again. I have to be strong for you Niles.