How do I know?

Dani was woken up by knocks at the door. She got up and looked through the peep hole only to find Connor there.

She opened the door to answer him "Yes Connor" in all honestly she thought it would be Nico because he has a bad habit to wake her up at odd hours even with this new job. There might have been a small part of her that was disappointed that it wasn't Nico.

When Dani opened the door Connor looked around thinking that there would be someone else in the room with her. Good she might not be part of this… "I disturbed your sleep, sorry, and because I got a call and they need me back in New York. So I am going to have to leave. I should be back in a few days, hopefully before the championship."

Wait did he just say a few days. " umm ok, but how do I know what she looks like."

"A file for you." Connor handed her a file that told her the basics of the tennis player and had a picture. "I just need to go tell Nico then I am out of here." He was about to turn away to go tell Nico and then Dani stopped her.

She didn't quite know why she stopped him and said what she was about to. "I can go tell him." God knows it only fair to disturb his sleep.

Connor looked at her kind of strange Then again maybe not "Ok that actually means I can leave right now. Nico has a company card so if you need anything you can use that, since you turned down yours. I believe you will need it to get some cloths and food, any expense you need don't hesitate. See ya Santino." With all said he walked away before she could refuse to use the credit card.

Dani waited a few seconds before she went over to Nico's room.

Nico was walking in the halls of the Hawks training facility when he heard a voice. "You know having that much coffee in one day might just be a record for you."

Nico turned around with a smile to reply to the familiar voice. "Well if I didn't have someone keep me up all night I wouldn't be running on caffeine."

"Hey, it takes two to do what we did." She moved closer to him.

He smiled at her "Well I guess that's true." Then when she reached him he looked down at her and kissed her.

And once they separated from each other she needed to say one thing and went for the coffee cup at the same time"You think I can steal that. I need a little boost before we face our past."

He handed the cup to her with no hesitation but asked a question "Dani what do you mean our pass?"

She took a sip of the coffee and answered him. "Yeah you know Nico, our bad timing, our teasing of each other, the kiss that could have been more, which almost was and could have done some nasty things to our friendship or maybe not, who knows. And of course us avoiding each other. That one is a dozey, three separate occasions and all because our, hmmm, personal status with each other. Although that first time could have been your subconscious"

Then luckily the only time Nico became unsure of himself was in a dream. "us avoiding each other is not because of our relationship status."

"Ah Yes it is."

"nope not admitting to that."

"You realize you're only arguing with yourself. There's no point, part of yourself realize that you two are fighting something."

"Why do you have to be so stubborn in my dreams like you are outside of them?"

"You know you love it… look you know that you're stuck because at one point in those avoidances you realize you fell in love with her. It's just you don't know if she feels the same way."

"I know she doesn't feel the same way."

"How do you know that Nico."

And before he could respond to himself he woke up to knocking at his door. He got up and looked through the peep hole to find Dani waiting outside his door in her sleep attire. Okay our timing is strange. He opened the door and when he did he found Dani Shocked at first and then it changed to a smile.

"Yes Doctor."

She had zone out on her thoughts because of what Nico was wearing. "Who would have thought Nico had different cloths other than suits… oh and nice hair." He was wearing a tee-shirt and shorts and well his hair was disheveled, so to her she could tell that he was asleep before he answered.

"Doctor I pretty sure the reason you're here is not to discuss my sleep wear."

"Hey I'm not complaining" Crap I just said that out loud

Where did that come from? Nico's tone got serious "Doctor"

Now she was purposely getting side tracked and hey she could enjoy the sight at the same time, although she didn't quite know why she did. "Why do you always call me doctor? I barely hear you call me Dani and when you do it's." She stopped herself she knew the whole reason and it was not because of the annoyed look Nico had. But because she knew where her mind would lead her and it would lead her back to some stuff that she did not want to relive quite yet. "Sorry Nico I didn't mean to get side tracked. Although maybe I should call you Careles, see how you like it."

"if I call you Dani would that get you to explain why you are here."

"Maybe Careles, oh that rolls of the tongue nicely. Wait are you trying to get me to leave quickly" then she sarcastically said "Nico that's mean and just hurtful."

He sarcastically replied back to her "Yes Dani because that has always been my goal."

Dani started to squint. "Mmmm I think your actual goal is to try to wake me up at strange hours and see how easy you can get on my nerves. Well anyways I wanted to tell you that Connor went back to New York I guess he was called back."

"Do you know the reason why?"

"Nope"

"Okay, so why didn't Connor tell me."

"I told him I would; I thought it was about time I got you back for all the times you disturbed my sleep… Nico you seem out of it, what's up?"

He took a few steps back into his room "Nothing important."

Dani was afraid to cross the threshold so she went as far as the door frame and leaned against it with her arms crossed. "No that's not true Nico, I've known you long enough to know whenever something involves you it is important. Unless it's something else entirely."

"Personally or professionally?"

Dani had to admit she was curious to no end now. "Whatever is bugging you Nico. You know you can talk to me. Everybody needs to vent their steam somehow."

Nico stood a few feet away debating to himself whether or not he should let her come in so they could talk or if he should just close the door. She wouldn't expect anything less from him because as far as she knew he normally pushed people away.

So should Nico invite Dani in to talk about his secrets or the dream he just had or maybe…

Up to you. leave me a comment on how you want this to go. I might have a chance to get this updated tomorrow if not then Sunday will be the latest And I am enjoying this, thank you.

Scorpio Girl- Since you and others mention if Nico was at the door it would be predictable, I decided to go with the idea of Connor leaving. Which I think might just be a great idea so I had him at the door instead. And I thought reversing the role of who wakes whom might be fun, but I got to tell you I don't think I am going as far as the whole storm part. Thanks for the idea.

artzannie25- and another dream sequence for you. Now if I can come up with another part like falling asleep on his shoulder… I think I got it. maybe.

USNeshama- That is a great idea. I smell a future chapter right there.

Style28- completely agree with that obvious isn't always a bad thing. So I kind of pushed it in the opposite direction.

Kate and Rach- thank you very much

felisha. morales.7- The psychological part shouldn't be a problem but I think so I don't confuse myself to much (or by making it to complicated that I lose track of it somehow) I'm going to stick with a basic analysis of what the tennis player problem is. And Nico at the door would have been too easy although I was tempted to write as so. I kind of had to stop myself from hitting the delete button a few times because I thought Nico might have been a better choice but in the long run maybe not.

Thank you all for reviewing and for the Fantastic ideas. Now time to rant about last night's episode. I loved it and the scenes with Dani Nico and Sam where kind of funny because it seemed like Dani wanted to know Nico's reaction almost like she thought she was in a way cheating on him. If that makes sense. But favorite scene was Nico trying to confince Dani that her patents files were safe. Now the promo for the next episode I personally think they should have not included those two sitting down in front of a laptop at Dani's house because that just makes the promo disproven? But hey we all know the track record those two have with Death and it showed at the end of the ep so the next one should be interesting.

Thanks for putting up with my rant. Remember any idea's you want added let me know and I will try my best to put it in.