Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or this world. I just like to be a part of it sometimes.

Author's Notes: So, this is Drabble One in the challenge my beta and I created. I'll be publishing 2-3 drabbles a week until the end of Season 5 hiatus. My beta and I are always looking for new prompts, so feel free to put some in the comments! I'll do as many as I can.

This is all A/U, but I'd say we can assume that anything we've seen so far in the show applies.

Summary: Jealousy is not a color Audrey Parker is used to wearing.

Audrey Parker. Jealous.

She was jealous. Plain and simple, jealous. She, Audrey Parker, was jealous.

Audrey picked up her bottle of beer and took another swallow as she watched her partner sit at a corner table in the Grey Gull. The plan had been for the two of them to have dinner together, but when she ended up being a few minutes late because her hair would not sit right, and she had finally given up and tied it back in a ponytail, she walked into the Gull only to see Nathan sitting at a table with three women she had never seen before.

When Audrey had finally convinced herself to just go over and interrupt, he laughed (laughed!) at something one of the women had said, she quickly changed her direction to go towards the bar instead. Thank god Duke wasn't in tonight. She didn't even care where he was. She was just happy he wasn't here, because if he was, all she would hear was his constant needling that she was jealous and just needed to get over there. But she already knew that. She didn't need him there to confirm it. Although, had he been here, maybe he would have distracted the women so they wouldn't have been with Nathan. Or, at the very least, would have given her someone to talk to. The bartender on duty tonight just wasn't interesting to her.

But he wasn't here, so instead, she sat, slightly hidden by the other patrons in the place, fully observing every movement her partner made. When she finished her second beer, she glanced down at her watch and realized that over an hour had passed, and it hurt her heart a little to realize that technically she was now over an hour late for meeting Nathan, and he was so involved in talking to the three women that he hadn't even realized that Audrey hadn't shown yet, and he had made no move to see where she was. Yup, it hurt. And she was jealous that these three women had so captured his attention that even she didn't matter anymore.

It wasn't like he was hers or anything. They had only known each other a few months, and even though she was pretty sure they both knew something was between them, neither had made a move to do anything about it. But still, on some level he was hers, and that made her infinitely jealous of the three women that made him smile that smile she always thought had been reserved for her.

And it didn't help that all three women had bigger boobs than she did, and all of them had hair that she would kill for. None of them seemed to have had problems with their hair that evening as they all hung in soft curls that would take Audrey hours to accomplish. Their makeup was impeccable, and their sense of style was definitely a few levels higher than her own. What on earth did they do for a living to afford clothes like that?

Audrey scratched her thigh, and when her nail dragged across something crusty, she looked down and realized she had some dried mud on her pants from the case she had worked earlier in the day. Dammit. She should have paid more attention to her clothes apparently, as well. Maybe that's why Nathan was spending so much time with the other women. They didn't have remnants of their day job stuck to them.

She was tempted to have a third beer, but stopped herself, realizing she could just slink out of the Gull and go upstairs to continue drinking, and it would be a hell of a lot cheaper, and much less degrading. Audrey signaled the bartender, and pulled out some money to cover her drinks. She stood up, and looked over to Nathan, planning on feeding her jealousy one last time before going up to drink herself silly, but of course, her evening couldn't just end on a bad note. Nope, as she looked over, Nathan looked up and locked eyes with her. He smiled and beckoned her over.

She shook her head as the women looked around to see who their conquest was signaling, but he beckoned again, so she sighed deeply, and started walking over. She could feel a blush creeping up her neck, and she was already feeling about two feet tall in comparison to the women she was walking towards as she made her way across the Gull.

She was about five feet away from the table when her toe caught a loose board in the floor. As the ground rushed up towards her, all she could think was that this would definitely be ranked as one of the worst days of her life.

Audrey sat up in bed with a start.

"Parker, what's wrong?" His voice was groggy from being dragged from sleep.

Audrey looked over at Nathan lying in her bed beside her and immediately her heart began to slow. She settled down next to him, wrapping her arms around his bare torso.

"Nothing. Just a bad dream. Everything is ok now."

She could feel Nathan pull her close, and she silently thanked god that it was only a dream. Audrey Parker never got jealous.