"So..." Mindy finally found her voice again. "Do you want to come up?"

Danny raised his eyebrows, again caught by surprise. "I..." He hesitated.

Idiot, moron, weirdo, of course he didn't want to come up. Wait why didn't he want to come up?

The disappointment must have been very clear on her face because Danny immediately moved to take Mindy's hand in his own.

"Look Mindy, don't take this the wrong way." He said, slowly, carefully. "I don't want to rush things. I want this to be different. For both of us. If we fall into old patterns, I mean I..." He looked down for a moment before summoning up his courage. Laying all his cards on the table. "I really want this to work."

Mindy's heart melted just a little bit more. Danny Castellano was always full of surprises. "Me too, Danny." She squeezed his hand. "I haven't had sex in months, what's a little bit longer?" Mindy shrugged.


Danny tried his best to act casual as he walked into work that morning. Sure, he and Mindy had had their moment and things were fantastic, but the last thing he wanted was other people getting nosy and into their business.

Dating someone you work with was not something he was used to. Not just the physical aspect, everything had to be carried out with a great deal of consideration. They had to tread lightly, take the whole thing slow.

He was so lucky that Mindy was on board with that.

Casual, nothing out of the ordinary, status quo. He had to maintain the normal working relationship so no one would catch on.

Problem was that he hadn't been with Mindy since the weekend and he was - he hated to admit it - kind of excited to see her again.

Oh man, he was such a doofus.

"Dr. C!" Morgan greeted, giving Danny a too-strong pat on the back.

"Hey Morgan, how's it going?"

"Dr. L was looking for you."

"Uh, yeah? She was?" Normal, he had to act normal. No biggie.

"Yeah, she's in her office I think." Morgan wandered off, calling out to Tamra as soon as he saw her.

Danny walked into Mindy's office and carefully shut the door behind him.

"Hey."

Mindy smiled brightly at him as he entered the room. "Hey!"

Did she always look this beautiful? Oh crap. He was so screwed, wasn't he?

"What's wrong, Danny, you're all flustered?" Mindy walked over, concerned. She placed her hand on his cheek.

"Mindy we, um, I, we shouldn't." He babbled, sweating profusely.

"Shouldn't what?" She purred, moving closer. "I've been thinking about you all weekend."

"We're at work." He squeaked out.

"Mm-hmm. Doesn't that make it even sexier?" Mindy pushed forward.

Before he could respond, her lips were on his. And oh man, if he had thought kissing her the first time had been good, this was something else entirely. She was as enthusiastic as she always was about everything, except this time the focus of that energy was him. And it was driving him out of his mind.

Screw being professional!

Danny moved his hands to her hips and pulled her closer.

As soon as he did so she broke off from their kiss.

"Min?"

"Oh wait, you said that we're taking it slow, right?" She pretended to recall suddenly.

With a playful flounce she was out the door leaving Danny to stand in her office very confused and horribly aroused.

She was going to be the end of him.