Drum roll please! Today's numbers are... #83 – "Yes, a date." and... #12 – "I think we need to talk." This is a... somewhat sequel to 'Always'... ABC, just give us our show back!
The team had just finished a case and were having their usual wrap-up party. Ever since Cameron had returned from prison, they had fallen back into their usual routines... except for one thing. Kay and Cameron weren't where they used to be. They still got along quite well but they didn't seem to be as close as they once were just a few weeks ago and Cam noticed. He really enjoyed having Kay around but she seemed to be distancing herself from him. The last time he even got close to her was when they hugged the day he came home from prison. They no longer had their little side conversations at the wrap-ups and he just felt... distant. He wanted to be close with her again but he didn't know if she wanted the same.
So one day, as the group conversations was breaking off into its usual sections during the wrap-up, Kay put her drink down, "I uh, think I'll head home now."
Just as Kay was about to walk away, Cameron stopped her, "Kay!" Kay looked at him with a difficult to read expression on her face. He sighed, "I think we need to talk." Kay looked unsure; he gently took her hand, "Please?"
"Alright." Kay replied, nervous about what he wanted to say. She let go of his hand.
They headed out to the balcony, where they had their first side conversation after their first wrap-up party. Cameron looked at Kay intensely, "What happened?"
"What do you mean?" Kay asked, not sure what he was getting at.
"Something happened. You won't talk to me anymore; you will barely even look at me anymore." Cameron said, "It hurts when you won't acknowledge me Kay, I feel like I'm losing you. You said you weren't going anywhere... I miss my best friend."
Kay didn't look at him, her eyes were down as she gripped the railing of the balcony, "Everytime I look at you... it still hurts."
Cameron furrowed his eyebrows, "Still hurts? Kay, what did I do?"
Kay let out a frustrated chuckle, "You didn't do anything... but I thought you did..."
"You thought I..." Cameron's eyes widened, "Wait! Kay, did you talk to Jonathan?"
"I...yes but I didn't know it at the time" Kay still wasn't looking at him.
"Kay, what did he say to you?"Kay was silent. Cameron went up next to her and carefully placed his hand on hers. That got her to look up. "What happened?"
Kay looked into his pleading eyes and took a deep breath, she couldn't keep this from him forever, "I went back to the Archive because I wanted to talk to you and you-Jonathan was packing up and getting ready to leave." Cameron stayed silent, "But I thought it was you and I knew you were upset but..."
"But?"
"I thought you hated me."
Cam's eyes widened again, "What!?"
"I told Jonathan, think I was telling you that if you needed to go help Jonathan in some way that I couldn't, I understood. Even if it was something I couldn't know about. I promised to help you and I failed you." Kay looked back down at the railing, "I said how I understood because if I could go back in time to save my sister, I would do anything... anything." It was getting harder for Kay to continue, "I said I wasn't going to try to stop you... I didn't want to be that person in your life..." Kay gave a dark chuckle, "I didn't want to be... just another FBI agent to you." She removed her hand from underneath Cam's, "Then, I asked for the promise that I would see you again."
Cameron raised his eyebrows, "And? What did Jonathan say to you?" Kay didn't respond. Cam was tired of this. He took Kay by the arm and pulled her towards him, hugging her with all his might, "Kay, what did he say?"
"He told me... no more promises... and then he just walked away."
They were silent for a few moments, then Cameron let out a light chuckle, "I'm gonna kill him."
Kay pulled back from his hug, "What?"
He smirked, "When I find him, I'm going to kill him."
"Cameron-"
"No, no, you don't understand Kay. He knew!"
Kay was confused, "Knew what?"
"That's why he switched places with me..."
"Cameron, I'm not following what's going on in your mind."
Cameron took hold of Kay's hands, "Kay, if that had been me, I never would have left you. Johnny knew that."
"Cameron, I'm very confused right now. You have to explain."
"Those strictly professional declarations of love?" Kay nodded at his words, "They may not have been that professional? Jonathan actually made me realize that."
"Made you realize that..."
Cameron took a step closer to her, "Kay... I have feelings for you."
"You... do?"
"Yeah. So when you told me that you would always be here for me, it gave me hope but then when you started to push me away, it hurt me." He gripped her hands as he brought them up to his heart, "You've never another FBI agent to me. Never."
Kay smiled at him, Cam could see her walls coming back down, "Cameron, I-"
Jordan sudden poked his head through the entrance, "Hey guys, we're about to order a pizza-"
"Not now, Jordan!" Cameron exclaimed.
Kay laughed as he saw Jordan slink back into the Archive, "Cameron."
"Yeah?" His eyes hopeful.
"I have feeling for you too" Kay then looked slightly down at their hands, "But that scares me... and I don't do too well with being scared."
Cam then leans his forehead against hers, "But you're scary all the time."
"I just... I don't want to screw up our friendship either."
Cameron shrugged, "Then we won't."
"You can't promise that" Kay shook her head smiling.
"I know but I am promising that I am going to do everything in my power to do this right."
Kay raised an eyebrow, "Are you now?"
"Yes, of course. Starting with a date."
"A date?"
"Yes, a date." Cameron took one of her hands and knelt to the ground, "Kay Daniels. Will you go on a date with me?"
Kay laughed at his goofy gesture, "If I say yes then will you get off the ground?"
"Yes."
"Then yes." Kay smiled.
As Cameron got up from the ground, he wrapped his arms around Kay's waist had spun her around in a circle before putting her back down on the ground, "Sorry, I just-"
Kay cut him off by hugging him, "Don't be. I'm just glad to have my best friend again. For real this time."
The two of them walked back into the Archive hand in hand and noticed that their friends had all been standing close by the balcony door. Cam laughed, "Were you guys listening in the whole time?"
Dina nodded, "Oh yes, this was way more interesting than anything we could have watched on television."
Writing this story forced me to rewatch the 'No More Promises' scene... again! I hope you guys are happy!
