Author's note: written for the Prompt Table activity on the Paint It Red Forum - prompt: "Unfinished conversations"
(episode tag to 4x12 and 4x24 - respectively "My Bloody Valentine" and "The Crimson Hat")
Unfinished conversations
"I'm sorry if that was uncomfortable. It didn't mean anything. Really. Nothing at all."
"No, it's okay. Wayne, I understand."
They had never talked properly about his former girlfriend. She hadn't been very keen on it as a matter of fact.
So she had just taken his words at face value and let the matter drop. Her unexpected pregnancy had been a far more pressing subject at the time.
Now that Wayne had turned out to be such a doting father to their little Benjamin she felt she could almost content herself with those few words.
She was still angry at him for scaring the living daylights out of her with his fake death. He really owed her something more than an apology this time.
Yet she had learned a most unexpected thing from this unpleasant experience.
Even if she wasn't the most important woman in Wayne's life, Grace wasn't either.
Agent Lisbon was the one that actually mattered most to him. He'd gone along with that absurd plan for the single purpose of helping her.
Teresa Lisbon was so much more than a boss to him. She was a friend and a model – even a surrogate elder sister maybe.
And she was quite sure she could live with that.