I do not own Murdoch Mysteries I am only using them for this story.

This is the first Murdoch Mysteries story I have wrote so I hope is okay. Enjoy

Darcy and Julia were in the sitting room; Darcy was just staring at Julia. "Darcy, will you please stop staring at me?"

"Sorry, I wasn't staring"

"Yes you were."

"Well I'm sorry if I was"

Julia sighed and shook her head. She made her way upstairs but Darcy stopped her. "What is wrong with you?"

"Nothing is wrong with me!"

"You've been acting strange ever since you moved back to Toronto!"

"I have not!"

"You really have..."

"Well, I have nothing else to say to you tonight if that's what you think. Good night Darcy!"

"Julia wait!"

"Forget it Darcy"

Darcy regretted what he had said almost immediately, he watched Julia walk up the stairs and sighed. He walked into the sitting room once more.

Julia sat on her bed, 'What am I doing here? I don't want to be here at all.'

She stared up at the ceiling then she heard Darcy at her door. "Come in Darcy."

"Julia, you're my fiancée, talk to me please"

"Darcy, if you care about anything we have you wouldn't go accusing me of acting strange because we moved back to my hometown. If anything you have been acting strange because we moved away from Buffalo. It was your choice to leave. I didn't force you to leave at all!"

"JULIA! How can you say I don't care about what we have!? I care about us more than anything!"

"Darcy, you won't even let me speak properly to William, that's how bad it has gotten, you cannot stop me from talking to my friend."

"Julia, I do not stop you from speaking to The Detective."

"Really that's why every time I only go to him to have a normal conservation, you stop me? You can't he's my friends. No actually he's my best friend! Let me speak to him"

"I never meant to stop you!"

Julia merely rolled her eyes. "Why, Darcy why"

"Why what"

"Why can't you see how bad this relationship is? We hardly ever get along, and when we do it's usually for show."

"How can you say that? I love you."

"When why don't you act like it when it's only me around; love isn't only for the public to see and understand. It's for the other person in the relationship too."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Look at us Darcy, we're engaged and we sleep in separate rooms, we always argue. How is that a good relationship? Answer me that Darcy." Silence "Exactly you can't, you see this relationship is bad as well, you just don't want to have to admit it. I'm not ashamed to say our relationship doesn't work."

"How, how can you be so calm"

"Because I have known this has been long time coming, I'm sorry Darcy this can't work."

"I guess I have known too"

"I'll be out by morning stay with my father."

"Julia?"

"Yes Darcy"

"You say William is your best friend, but you left him in Toronto to move to Buffalo."

"Darcy I haven't told you something. When I left for Buffalo; I had just came out of a relationship with William. That's why I wasn't certain about coming back to Toronto and working in the morgue. I left because he deserved more than me,"

"So you have been acting strange because of him?"

"Darcy it's not what you think, yes I do love you, but again yes before you ask I still love William just that little bit more, that is why this can't work. That is also why we stayed such good friends. It's still there; hiding."

"For both of you"

"What do you mean by that?"

"How he looks at you, now goodnight Julia."

"Goodnight Darcy"

Julia didn't sleep that well so she decided to start packing the sooner she got out the better.

The next morning she got out before Darcy woke. She asked the carriage driver to take her things to her father's then her to work. Even though she was so tired, and she wasn't feeling great.

She got into the morgue and she was so tired, she got a glass of water and sat down. She heard someone walking closer to her but that was the last thing she registered as she fell unconscious although she couldn't remember hitting the floor.

William saw Julia falling and he caught her limp body. He had a very worried expression on his face. He lifted her up and placed her in the in her office. He took the towel on the rail and the glass of water. He damped the towel and placed it to her forehead. He knew George was outside. "George! George get in here!"

"Sir? Oh is the Doctor okay?"

"She isn't well go tell the inspector to get a cab. Thank you George."

"Sir" he said walking out, William's attention went back to Julia. She was moving her head now; she brought her palm to her forehand then noticed the cloth. "What the... William? What happened? Oh my head"

"You kind of fainted as I walked in... What's wrong?"

"I didn't hit the floor through that is one thing I remember because it didn't hurt..."

"I caught you as you fell; I placed you in the chair before you ask."

"Thank you; how I've treated you I'm surprised you didn't leave me"

"Of course I wouldn't! You're still my best friend that won't change"

"Thank you but I have treated you badly, it was Darcy. He wasn't letting me talk to you."

"What made him change his mind?"

"Oh my head, sorry what did you say?"

"What made him let you talk to me?"

"I realised he never should have tried to stop me. Can you go over there there's something I can take to ease my head, it's in a clear jar."

"Ah I see it, here." He passed Julia the jar and she took the substance, while William went to cancel the cab as she was awake now at least. He still though she should go see someone. "You should still get checked out. What happened?"

"I haven't been sleeping or eating that well"

"Why, what's going on in your home?"

"Darcy and I haven't been exactly been seeing eye to eye, and last night I said as much. What made you come down here anyway?"

"Don't take this the wrong way but you've been..."

"Acting strange?"

"Yes and I wanted to make sure you were okay. I don't like seeing you like this. In pain I mean I wanted to make sure I hadn't done anything."

"No its not you" she said before passing out once more and landing in his arms. He lifted her and carried her outside. "Sir the carriage refused to leave just in case she wasn't okay. And I think he made a wise choice..."

"George, open the door"

"Yes sir."

William placed Julia in the carriage. "George I'm going to go with her make sure she is okay at home. Tell the inspector I'll be back as soon as possible."

He sat next to Julia and told the carriage to go to her and Darcy's house. This time she was out cold. He didn't want to take her to hospital because she asked him not to. It properly was just lack of sleep, she would have to eat something soon through.

They arrived at Darcy's house and he left her in the carriage and went to the door himself. It would look strange him carrying her.
Darcy answered the door and was shocked, "Detective, what can I do for you?"

"I need your help" He explained what was wrong with Julia.

"I'm sorry detective she doesn't live here anymore she is staying with her father, she decided our relationship wouldn't work out but I'll leave it to her to tell you."

"Thank you"

He soon realised Julia had tried to tell him, but always he never read the signs. He didn't know where her father lived so there was only one opinion left. He took her to his house; he no longer lived with Mrs Kitchen. He laid her on the bed in one of the spare rooms. He laid a quilt over her.

She visibly relaxed from the warmth. He took up a glass of water for her. So she could drink it if needed. His house rang. He was lucky he only had one because if the station house ever needed him they could. It was the inspector. "Hello sir"

"Murdoch, take the rest of the day off its Friday anyway be back in Monday, look after her"

"Sir"

He wasn't sure how the inspector knew that that Julia was her but it didn't really matter.

He just had to wait now.

Until the next time-I'mapsychopathI'mnotrude1997