Title: Like You Do
Fandom: Devil Wears Prada
Rating: T
A/N: Apologies for the delay! Thank you all for reading and commenting on previous chapters. :) I'd also like to credit the rose meanings to .


Andy lay in bed contemplating the great mystery called Miranda. Her hair stayed the same, her clothes, her manner, even her eyes still sparkled but not for Andy. There was no doubt that Andy was still in love with the Editor, her emotions were unrequited, she'd become used to it. Not once had Andy pondered the possibility of her and Miranda as an item and taken it seriously. The idea seemed to belong in an alternate universe, too good for reality, too good to wish it true. She fell asleep lost in her thoughts and dreams of the white haired demon returned for the night.

Roy no longer picked Andy up for work, it was all part of the 'avoiding Andy' game Miranda was intent on playing, so she had to get up earlier so she wouldn't miss her train. Just as Andy was leaving her apartment, something blue caught her eye. She turned around and placed in the handle of the knocker was a rose, a blue rose. Not natural by any means but still as beautiful as nature itself. She paused in thought and reached out to take it from the metal knocker. Andy held it carefully. She re-entered her flat, filled a jug and placed the rose in it before disappearing back through the door at lightening speed making a mental note to look up rose meanings at work.


Miranda stared at her laptop screen, not really seeing anything. She was alone in her office with nothing but her thoughts for company. Just last night she was in the same position at home, a single blue rose sat before her in some sugar-water. You seem like an unattainable dream. She knew she had nearly lost Andrea, and she was still slipping away, but she allowed herself a glimmer of hope. She clung to the talk she had with Nigel and Emily yesterday, or was it the day before? Taking the rose and her coat she drove herself to Andy's apartment and sat outside in the Mercedes until she'd worked up the courage to go in. What this girl did to her, Miranda Priestly was fearless, but it was Miranda the human that was scared. The Miranda only her girls and her first husband saw, the Miranda she wanted Andrea to see and possibly to love. Let's not get ahead of ourselves shall we.

She slowly walked up the stairs until she was faced with the green door, she held the rose in her hand looking for a suitable place for it. Her gaze settled upon the door knocker, it was late and there was little chance Andrea would still be awake, she saw no light coming from the apartment while she was outside the building. Replacing the knocker as quietly as she could, the head of the rose peeking out of the top, she turned her back and exited.


Andy's smile had not faltered all day, Emily was becoming quite suspicious. The red head knew Andy had been down about Miranda's subtle but constant rejection and didn't know the cause of this rediscovered happiness. While she waited for Emily to return so she could go home, she Googled the meaning of a blue rose. The website it took her to had strips of pink down the side and pictures of flowers with a meaning at the side.

"Blue rose, blue rose." she murmured until she found it.

"Blue Roses: A perfectly blue rose is still elusive like the perfectly black rose. Blue roses cannot be achieved naturally so they represent the unattainable or the mysterious. Blue roses therefore embody the desire for the unattainable. They say "I can't have you but I can't stop thinking about you" however single roses of different colours may have their own meaning. A single blue rose means: "You seem like an unattainable dream."

Andy saved the page to her favourites, closed the window and sat back in her chair awaiting Emily's return.