The Listener Missing Scenes and Episode Tags
S01E04 - "Some Kinda Love"
author: saralikeme

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to The Listener.

A/N: This little conversation was floating around in my head, but I'm not quite satisfied. I may or may not write another scene/tag for this episode.

Spoilers: all through 1x04

Shortly after finding Mina's body [fuzzy timeframe]

"Hey, what do you want for lunch?" Oz asked as he drove.

"What?" Toby asked, pulled from his thoughts. "Oh, I don't care. I'm not hungry."

Oz sighed. "You gotta eat, man."

"I know, Oz. I just..."

"You're feeling guilty for something that wasn't your fault and you couldn't prevent. I know."

"I should have stayed."

"You said she asked you to leave, right?"

Toby nodded, "Yeah, but she'd be alive if I stayed."

"You don't know that, Toby. And you're not that kind of guy."

"What kind of guy? You don't think I would have helped her?"

"Don't be an idiot." Oz pulled over in front of one of their usual restaurants. "Of course you would have helped her if you knew what was wrong or if she asked. But you didn't, and she didn't. What I meant was that you're not the kind of guy to ignore what someone says. You're a good listener."

Toby shot him an annoyed look.

"Not just because you read minds. I mean you really listen to people, especially when they need space. I've seen you do it with other girls and patients sometimes. You did it with Olivia."

"I see Olivia every day, Oz. I haven't exactly left her alone."

"You talk and flirt. She doesn't seem to mind. But you haven't gone to her place or called her nonstop or demanded anything from her. You're a good guy. Which is why you left when Mina asked you to. You couldn't stop what happened, and you have to stop feeling guilty."

"It's not - yeah, I'm feeling guilty. And I know I couldn't stop it... but it's just."

Oz looked at him. "Just what?"

"She was amazing, you know? Smart, beautiful, and it might be cheesy, but she was so full of life."

"You really liked her," Oz said sympathetically.

"I barely knew her."

"You liked her," Oz repeated.

"Yeah," Toby said with a small smile. "Is it selfish of me to be thinking about stuff like that? Us, together, when there wasn't even anything between us, yet? Does that make me a creep or something?"

"No, man," Oz shook his head with his crooked smile. "It makes you a guy who liked a girl."