1937

Indiana Jones took out his key and unlocked the front door to his house. He stepped in and looked around, everything was just the way it was before he left. He'd been gone for over a month and he hoped Marion would be home.. in the back of his mind he wondered whether she would still even be living at is house after the way he hadn't called or even written...

He felt almost desperate to see her right now and moved toward the stairs and optimistically called out her name. "Marion? Are you home?"

Indy… "Indy?"

He heard foot steps moving quickly and then Marion's figure appeared at the top of the steps. "So- you did come back… And it didn't even take you ten years this time."

Indy chuckled a little, that's my girl.. "Did you miss me babe?"

"A little bit.." she said.

"Well.. are you gonna run to my arms or do I have to come up there and get you?"

Her face lit up with one of her trademark smiles, there was no denying she was happy to see him. She paused only for a moment before she headed down the steps to him. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and squeezed him tightly. Indy returned the embrace, holding her just as tight. She leaned in closer to his ear and whispered. "Did you miss me Indy?"… With that, he pulled back just enough to bring his hands to her face and pull her mouth to his, his kiss was anxious, long and deep and she kissed him back with the same urgency. When the kiss finally broke, she turned her head to the side and rested against his chest, wrapping her arms around his waist.

Indy laid his cheek on the top of her head and smoothed his fingers against her hair. "Tonight I'm gonna take you out to dinner and dancing and-"

"I can't." She interrupted.

He pulled back a little to look at her. "What?.. What do you mean you can't, why not?" He looked down at her with a puzzled frown.

She looked away. "Because.. I just can't, not tonight."

He took a step back. "You're going out with someone else tonight aren't you.."

Marion looked back toward him. "Indy it's not a big deal ok, there's a guy at the museum that kept asking me to dinner, and one day I finally accepted his offer, I didn't know you were coming back today, you didn't even write me."

With a distinct look of irritation on his face he turned and moved toward the living room, pitching his hat at the nearby arm chair. "And to think I helped you get that job at the museum.. So how long has this been going on?" He said sarcastically.

She couldn't help but be a little amused by his obvious jealousy and his ridiculous accusations. She tried unsuccessfully not to laugh a little as she followed him into the living room. "There's nothing going on, it's just an innocent dinner!"

"Ha! Innocent my ass! Damit Marion the minute my back is turned!" He was beginning to yell and Marion wasn't appreciating any of it.

Marion grabbed his arm and forced him to face her. "The minute?" She took a breath before she continued. "I wake up one morning to hear you tell me that you're leaving for South America with Oxley, you don't write, you don't call, now you finally come back over a month later and you've got the nerve to give me a hard time for accepting dinner with someone! I suppose I should be grateful that you at least told me which continent you were going to be on before you left! I suppose you think you can just up and leave me when ever you feel like it and I'm supposed to be alone until whenever you feel like coming back!"

Indy was so frustrated he was almost stuttering, he knew she was right and he hated it. "I may have been gone for over month but the only woman on my mind was you!"

Marion shook her head and laughed. "Oh please Indy…I know you.. I know you."

"And just what the hell is that supposed to mean?"

She rolled her eyes and headed back for the stairs. "I think you know exactly what that was supposed to mean." She said as she started up the stairs.

Indy followed quickly after her but stayed at the bottom of the stairs, watching her lightly stomp up each step. "Well I hope you have fun on your date!... And I hope you know that I have every intention of enjoying myself tonight with or without you!"

"I'm sure you will!" Those where her last words before she slammed the bedroom door..