A/N: This is something that I have had written out in the bottom of my sock drawer for weeks now, but have yet to publish!

New updates every three days. Probably.

Disclaimer: If I owned Body of Proof, I would be out shopping with Jeri Ryan right now…which I'm not. Darn.

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Chapter Seven: Derek Ames

Megan Hunt started dating again about three years after she got divorced.

She had experienced changes in everything – her relationship with Lacey, her career, her relationships with coworkers, so she decided that she wanted some sort of foundation, so she made it a personal rule:

No Men.

The last thing Megan Hunt wanted was another relationship with another human. Her troubles with Lacey, Kate and Peter were bad enough.

But then she met a certain FBI agent. He was working on a missing persons case with her, so they had a little time to get to know each other.

The first thing Derek Ames learned about Megan was that she was a pain in the ass. He liked it. He thought it was sexy.

The second was that she had a kid, which was fine by him as long as that kid's father wasn't still married to Megan. He had learned that the hard way.

The third was that she was just about the most social-phobic know-it-all-iest ex-neurosurgeon that ever existed.

And he loved it.

So after he and Megan finished the case, he asked her out.

And she rejected him.

But then, just a few weeks later, he asked her out again. And she said yes.

Then he cancelled, and she asked him out.

It was like high school all over again.

But when Megan found out that her ex was taking her daughter to California, she flipped out.

Derek wondered if he would ever get to have a date with Megan. They liked each other, and that was great, but if they had to work or yell at their exes every time they saw each other, it was going to drive everyone crazy. He was going to say this after she dropped her daughter off at her father's, but she beat him to it.

"Derek…" She said, giggling a bit too much.

"Yes?"

"I like you." He could tell from her expression what was coming next.

"But?"

"But," She put her wine glass down on her coffee table and looked at him. "I just got my daughter back, and I really need to focus on her right now."

He nodded in understanding. Then Megan's doorbell rang, distracting both of them. When Megan opened it, Todd pushed himself in. "Where's Lacey?"

"I thought she was with you!"

"She's gone, and we have a flight to get to – "

"Your child is missing and you're worried about catching a plane?"

This started a full-blown yelling match between them as Derek sat awkwardly on the couch. "Hey guys. Guys!"

"What?" The two parents yelled simultaneously at him.

"She's right there." He pointed behind them.

Sure enough, there was Lacey, just standing behind them, observing the argument. "Oh, thank god." Todd said.

"I've been here a while."

"Oh, no…" Megan groaned at the ceiling. Here came the lecture…

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Lacey decided that she didn't want to move. That news definitely made her mother happy. So Derek and Megan broke up, which honestly was inevitable, anyway, and Megan convinced Todd to give her joint custody of Lacey, so everybody won, in the end.

Except for Derek. But a few months later he decided that being an FBI agent was boring, and he got pulled into the CIA.

And he preferred it that way.

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