A/N- Everybody loves a jealous Mike. This is somewhere when Fi was dating Campbell and don't worry we know everything ends up the way we like it so not a problem. Plz review and enjoy! :D

Michael was staring at all the different cards that 'EverythingUnderTheSun Gift Store' had to offer. "Apparently my card is sitting in the shade." Michael mumbled staring at the two racks each wholly dedicated to 'girlfriend' and 'friend'. This was one of the toughest times of the year. 'Fi's birthday' was the next day and Michael was having trouble trying to categorize their relationship to the standards of the narrow-minds of the card manufacturers of the world. Michael alternately picked up a friend card and then a girlfriend, "I'm seriously considering adding an 'ex' in front of this" he muttered looking at the first card that had an appropriate enough text to sum up their liaison. None of the friend racks contained an apt enough translation of their 'friendship' and the girlfriend racks, what was already a touchy topic, now with Campbell in the scenario was practically Sub Rosa. Michael had just moved to the edge of the girlfriend rack planning to attack another miniscule gift store when out of nowhere…..

"Hey Michael, it's good to see you man!" said the last man expected.

"Campbell, good to see you too….. so what are you doing here?" asked Michael out of lack of subject, but the exact next moment he regretted it with all his abilities of regret.

"It's Fiona's birthday tomorrow, I came for a card. What are you here for?"

"The same, the same."

"Michael you do know you're standing in front of the girlfriend rack don't you."

"Huh? Oh, oh yeah. Actually….um…you know I was just browsing and I lost count and…um…and I don't know why I came here…..I should probably…um…excuse me…thank you." Said Michael moving back to the safety of the friend rack. Michael started digging his head in the hoard of cards.

"Mike I know you'll find this a little weird but…uh…Fi is still little bit of a mystery for me and to tell you truthfully I wasn't fully prepared for something as serious as Fi's birthday when I'm still getting to know her all that well. But from what Fi talks of you, you both seem to know each other for pretty long. Look I need a little help finding a gift for her and I know this much she's not really the chocolates-bracelets-roses sort of girl and I really want to impress her." Campbell flushed.

"Other girls take that? Wait…she talks about me to you?" Michael asked and try as he would he couldn't take the surprise out of his tone.

"Yeah man, that's usually the case…and well she talks about all her friends."

Michael could practically hear the warning in his voice or was it just him? But even if it wasn't him Michael could understand. When it comes to your girlfriend you just don't take chances especially if the girlfriend in question happened to be Fi. He had to commend Campbell's being fine with their iffy relationship. If he had been in Campbell's place he would have probably at least inquired a few times about what the hell was happening. Back when they were…well formally dating he had bloody made sure that every non-family male presence around her kept a distance of 15 feet but that was back in the old days…. Fiona Glenanne was a topic that he had an entire 1/6th of his brain dedicated to it and now that she was no longer….well…. romantically involved with him, that 1/6th was pretty much of no use.

"Well that's easy. She's got this hints game that she plays." Michael said dismissively.

"Hints game?"

"Like every year one week around her birthday she'll start pestering you about her present. You see she's one of those types of people who love their birthdays."

"Doesn't everyone?"

"Dunno. Anyway she hints about what she'd like to have. You've gotta decipher it and deliver it. Like last year, Fi didn't give me much of a hint but there's always the safe alternative of buying her a gun….Although Campbell I suggest you don't try that. Even though she has a million guns she's very picky about each one of them."

"So she has a license for those guns?"

"Oh…oh yeah. Me too…we are all law-abiding, gun-owning, lovable, trustable citizens of Florida."

"Oh okay. So no guns….then what?"

"Yeah no guns…think Campbell. Fi usually hints by mentioning that object four or five times a day… see she's used to me and you know me just being me."

"Okay I'll think about it. Thanks for the help Mike."

Michael thought about it and then decided that there would be no better time than to demonstrate the use of that excellent adage 'make hay while the sun shines' by getting the hell out while Campbell was standing there deep in brown study. He quickly sneaked out to the gift racks then spotting a snow globe he started cursing himself, "I am the smartest man alive on this earth! Last year I gave her 2 gifts! She would have been happy with the Makarov but no, I had to give her the snow globe for no goddamned reason! It wasn't even her birthday! Could have given her a snow globe now and gotten it done with but me being the geni-ass that I am now stuck with the awkward job of gifting her something which is also pretty appropriate!"

"Mike?"

"Geez Campbell! You've got lamb-feet! You almost gave me a heart-attack!"

"Michael…sorry…its just that I remembered that yesterday Fi and I were in bed-

"too much information…" muttered Michael as he put his hands or rather his clenched fists into his pockets to hide them "too much information"

"Huh?"

"Nothing…Just…Continue…"

"Okay…so as I was saying Fi and I were talking when I got a call from the hospital so I had to go in a hurry…but since I had promised Fi that I'd have breakfast with her that day I asked her if I could make it up to her later and she was like 'it's okay I'm going shopping later and I'd like it if you would come and give me your much valued opinion on what to buy….' And then later she reminded me again that we had to go shopping. So…"

Michael tried not to look genuinely hurt as he explained to Campbell that that was Fi talk for 'aren't you my ATM! Haul off your ass and be of some use to me!' this line had been said to Michael so many times that he could almost see Fi saying it. Somehow he could not swallow the fact that he would no longer have to bear Fi's bills and bags…

"Oh okay yeah fine so I buy her a dress."

"yeah given the circumstances that's the best you get."

"Know her favorite color? Olive Green?"

"um…no….too vague….try blacks and whites and blues…..greens….reds….oranges….yellows…..purples….pinks…..anything floral….denims….cotton-

"okay Mike…buddy…..I'm sorry I don't have that much cash."

"Oh yeah no you just take some party apparel sort of thing…."

"Oh thanks a lot Mike…..you're my savior you don't know what problems I would have had otherwise."

"Glad to help….believe me I know what you're going through." Michael said plastering his for-Campbell-purposes-only smile and hoped that's all he'd have to bear. Thankfully for him someone upstairs had time to solve one of his problems and Campbell thanked him profusely and went away. For a moment Michael had to take a few moments to actually understand what had happened. He had just helped The Campbell to get Fi to love him more….. Michael was a little frustrated with his brain, he was supposed to be okay with the fact that Fi was dating again but somehow this new development had evaded his brain and that was not good…at all.

A/N- I know Mike spoke out such a long list of colors without actually answering the fav color question….but who knows her fav color and she looks good in all so I thought that would illustrate how much Mike knows about Fi. And Mike helping The Campbell is a little too giving but I did extensive research (saw all the eps 5 times…pleasures all mine) and Mikey was extensively giving and loving when it came to Fi.