Title: Dulles to LAX, Indirect.
Chapter 10: Getting to the Airport
Pairing:
CJ/Danny
Author: Array
Email: array_
Rating:
PG-13 (adult themes)
Disclaimer: They're all Aaron's
Author's
Notes: Takes Place between Institutional Memory and Tomorrow… We're
almost done here guys. Thanks for reading.
Getting to the Airport
She comes home to his empty apartment. There's a bottle of wine on the kitchen counter with a wine glass beside it, but no note. She misses him already and he hasn't even been gone a day. She pours herself a glass of wine and grabs the remote to turn on the T.V. The stereo clicks on. Damn it he's got this system wired in such a frustrating sequence she never gets the right machine. While she's looking at the remote to figure out which button she needs the music starts.
I
want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's
driving me mad
It's driving me mad
She
starts to laugh, and picks up the phone to call him.
"Hey, I got your messages" she says
"Yeah. Which ones?"
"There are more?"
"That depends… what'd you get?"
"The wine… and this…" she holds the phone towards the speakers.
I
want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so
bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
"That's all?"
"How many are there?"
"Figure it out babe… I'm not tellin'"
"You're crazy, and I miss you."
"Yeah, me too."
*************
At 5:44 AM the phone rings. She gropes for it.
"Good morning Ms. Cregg, this is your 5:45 wake up call."
"What time is it for you, you idiot!"
"Quarter to three. But I'm still on DC time. Are you awake?"
"You didn't think I'd be able to set the alarm by myself, did you!"
"Has it gone off yet?"
There is a pause. "No." she says sheepishly.
He laughs, and just for that moment she feels like it's worth it to be technologically challenged.
***************
There's a message written in soap on the inside of the shower door.
Well, more like an essay really, or a poem. And it's not silly. And it makes her cry. And in spite of her best efforts it gets washed away in the spray of the shower.
She wants to phone him again, but she doesn't want to wake him up.
The phone rings while she's waiting for the coffee to drip through.
"You don't sleep much do you." she says into the phone.
"I'm still on DC time."
"You going to call me every twenty minutes all day?"
"Maybe."
"Thanks for the poem."
"It's a billet doux"
"What?"
"A love letter."
"It was beautiful"
"Well I hope you were naked when you read it."
She has nothing to say.
"I was when I wrote it."
She laughs, "You are very, very bad. I have to go to work now."
"Okay…. I have to go to sleep."
"I doubt it."
"Yeah, me too."
"Do I have them all yet?"
"Nope."
"How many are there?"
"I love you… bye."
**************
Gail has a new ornament. It's two long tailed goldfish kissing, their bodies forming a heart shaped arch for the live fish to swim through. She's pretty sure where it came from.
When she sits down at her computer there's already an MSN message.
"Are you there yet?"
"just got here. Gail says thanks."
"She's a class act."
"I thought you were going back to sleep."
"Yeah….no."
"G2G I have work to do."
" Liar"
"I have senior staff."
"Not for another 15 min. Jim MacIntyre's condo is great. Right near the marina. Cat's not too spooky. We can have it again in February but he's home for the weekend at the end of January to do laundry and repack for Madagascar."
"OK It'll give us time to find something."
"I have a story meeting with him at 9:30. Talk to you later."
*********
She's meeting with Kate when a cell phone rings to the tune of "Do You Want to Know a Secret."
They both wait patiently.
"I think it's yours." Kate says.
"Oh my god!" It takes her a moment to identify the sound, and realize it's her blackberry, which has never sounded like that before. She grabs it from her desk says "Not now" and hangs up.
"You have ring tones?"
"Apparently so."
"Did you want to take that?"
"Not at all"
They look at each other.
****************
"did you mess with my blackberry?"
"absolutely"
"Kate was there"
"LOL"
"I will strangle you with my bare hands"
"Looking forward to it"
"They will not find the body"
"You have to get here first"
"Is that the last?"
"Wait & see ;-)"
******************
When she gets home she finds a Fed Ex envelope shoved under the door. It's addressed to her in a familiar scrawl. Inside is a CD by Sarah McLaughlin with a single track circled in red. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. There's a post it note that says… "just to prove it ain't all about the Beatles. Here's a good theme for you… sadly mine is probably more like Possession, and I know how you feel about that. XOXO Danny"
She puts the CD on, takes her coat off, and pours herself a glass of wine from the bottle he left for her.
All
the fear has left me now And if I shed a tear I won't cage it
I'm not frightened anymore
It's my
heart that pounds beneath my flesh
It's my mouth that pushes out
this breath
I won't
fear love
And if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear
love
She calls him.
"How can you be a jackass, and Mr. Sensitive in the same 12 hour period?"
"It's a gift."
Companion
to our demons And if
I shed a tear I won't cage it
They will dance, and we will play
With chairs,
candles, and cloth
Making darkness in the day
It will be easy
to look in or out
Upstream or down without a thought
I won't fear love
And if I
feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love
"Did it make you cry?"
"Almost…well…yes."
"My work here is done."
Peace
in the struggle And if I shed a tear I won't cage it
To find peace
Comfort on the way
To
comfort
I won't
fear love
And if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear
love
I won't fear love
I won't fear love...
"There's one more."
"When?"
"Now…… under the clock radio… programming instructions."
She laughs.
"I love you"
"Same here. I'll call you tomorrow night. "
"Okay. One more sleep"
"Two more 'til I'm there."
"'Night"
TBC
A/N
If you want to read the lyrics and hear the two songs Danny's
talking about go to
.com/sarah-mclachlan/possession/
.com/sarah-mclachlan/fumbling-towards-ecstasy/
Thanks for reading.