Tag to Groovy Movies. It's a very far-fetched tag. You haz been warned.

Anyhow, dedicated to WyszLo. If updating this makes her day, then her lovely reviews make mine. :)


Green Eyed Monster.

//

After Joe had taunted Stella, Stella had gone chasing after him and the Joe made the stupid mistake of going down the fire pole. Of course Stella was wearing heels and if you could take two together and make them four, you would know that Joe got himself injured.

Stella strenuously maintained that it was his fault and not hers because she DID warn him, but Joe put on a sad puppy face that had its intended effect and had Stella playing guilty nursemaid. Both of them were enjoying it but they would rather kill themselves before they'd admit it. Pride and dignity all that jazz.

Personally, Nick didn't get what the whole fuss was about. In his opinion, if Joe and Stella just got together, things would be a lot simpler.

However Nick did have to admit that things were a lot more peaceful around the house now. Mainly because Joe was in bed and Stella wasn't yelling at him. So far he had stayed away. But then something happened that made him get all hot and bothered.

And they were not Joe and Stella's shenanigans as one would be led to believe. In fact they had to do with a whole different avenue.

Feelings.

To be very precise, feelings of jealousy.

Yeah, Nick was surprised too.

See it all started when Macy came over to visit Joe. You might term it a condolence visit of sorts.

She seemed to have left her fangirl self at the door and she had even brought some chicken noodle soup for him. In fact, she was very nice to Joe and played a lot of board games with him and kept him occupied because Stella wasn't there and Joe was bound to get antsy when Stella wasn't there.

That was what got Nick all riled up.

No, you silly, not because Stella wasn't there. It was because Macy was being nice.

To Joe.

Hence the jealousy.

Since Macy had come, all her attention had been focused on Joe. She paid no attention to the fact that Kevin was walking around in shorts and a Grateful Dead T-shirt and she didn't even pay attention to the fact that Nick was sitting right there, next to her!

It seemed as if she were blind to everything else except Joe.

At first Nick theorized this felt odd because Macy normally paid attention to all of them. Not exclusively to only one of them. And he was fine with this new side of Macy.

Totally fine.

Because the fact that Macy was currently making her fingers do some awkward puppet dance to cheer up Joe didn't make the green monster in him come rising to the fore.

Plus it was not like he found her breathy giggly way of talking adorable.

And it was not like he liked watching her hands move quickly in the air, making figures and expressing everything that he felt.

No way was Nick experiencing all of those above stated feelings. So he sat there a little longer and watched Macy just be Macy. And decided that maybe in order to stem some burgeoning feelings, cough*jealousy*cough, he had to make some preemptive decisions.

He got up, went down the fire pole and landed awkwardly on his ankle.

The result, Nick now had a twisted and swollen ankle.

He didn't know how though. It was totally not on purpose.

His string of curses that echoed through out the firehouse and brought everyone in the house racing out to see what happened. Macy was the first one to get there and she helped him up and led him to the couch. Then she ran and got a cold compress for his ankle and spent the next half hour massing his ankle so that the swelling would ease.

Nick was equal parts embarrassed and equal parts delighted.

Stella came back and went to Joe.

Therefore, Macy became Nick's nurse by default.

He asked for her.

Not because he wanted her to exclusively pay attention to him, nothing like that all.

It was because she knew a lot about twisted ankles and all and how to take care of them.

Still he couldn't help but smile when she played board games with him, only and made her finger puppets do awkward dances for him only.

It fully helped keep that green eyed monster at bay.

Now if he could only figure out what was the deal with it.


Yes, I am so original. Which is why you once again had Nick in denial. It's all I seem to have dudes. :(