"Miranda, were you in love with me in college?" Miranda looks at Erin.
"I haven't fallen out of love with you." Miranda softly said, stunning the attorney.
"Wow. Um..." Erin said and Miranda sighs.
"Forget I said anything." Miranda said then walks back to the couch and sits down.
"How long?" Erin asked.
"Roughly? Since move in day at Columbia our freshman year. I didn't say anything because I wanted you to be happy. Plus, with your Catholic family, I figured Frank and Mary would have moved you out of the dorm."
"So, all this time you didn't tell me that you're gay?" Miranda nods.
"But you went out with Henry."
"He's also gay. We were each others beards. All we did was sit at his place and watch musicals."
"Wait, you have a daughter."
"Who is a result of me being raped. I tried calling you after that, but Jack got in the way like he always did."
"He never told me."
"Yeah, well. Jack is a dumb ass and barely graduated from law school and passed the bar by one point while you passed with flying colors." Erin looks at her.
"Don't ask how I know." Miranda said.
"Miranda, I don't know what to say because you know that I'm not gay."
"I know. Anyway, you're welcome to stay here tonight."
"I think I'm going to head home and process everything." Heather nods and Erin gets up and walks out of the apartment.
"You're an idiot, Hill." Miranda softly said to herself then gets ready for bed.
The next day, Miranda walks into her office after talking to the patrol officers and looks through the messages on her desk. Across town, Erin is doing the same thing at her office. She looks at the picture of her and Miranda and quietly sighs. She spent all night thinking about what Miranda said to her and she knew she wasn't really happy.
Unless she was with Miranda.
"Oh my god." Erin whispered when she realizes that she was in love with Miranda in college.
That night, after talking to the night patrol officers at roll call, Miranda looks out the window of her office and quietly sighs then grabs her jacket and heads out. She makes it to a familiar house and rings the doorbell. The front door opens and Miranda slowly smiles.
"Whoa! A blast from the past."
"Hey Jamie." The two of them hug.
"God, it's been forever. Hey, I heard you're the new commanding officer over at the 2-7." He said as he lets her into the house.
"I am. Transferred in from Boston two weeks ago."
"I, for one, am glad that you're back in the city. Does Erin know that you're back?"
"She does. I was hoping to talk to her. And your father."
"She's in the kitchen."
"Just remember, Jamie. I won't be too light on you and your perimeter officers."
"I wouldn't expect the less from you." They walk into the room and Erin is talking to Sydney, Jamie's fiancee.
"Miranda." Erin said then Sydney walks out of the room with Jamie.
"Look, I'm not here to hassle you about last night. It's about a case I'm working on." Miranda said
"File." Miranda hands it over as Frank walks into the room.
"Commissioner." Miranda said.
"Lieutenant. What do we got?" He asked.
"Two rape victims at the same college campus. The suspect's plates is a partial match to an Argentine diplomat. I wanted to tell you in person, sir."
"Oh boy. Just what we need in the city."
"I pulled Danny from his unit to help work the case."
"Good. What are your plans for Sunday?" Erin looks at her father then at Miranda.
"Picking up my daughter in Boston, sir. I'm coming back Sunday night and leaving tomorrow afternoon. I have a copy of the file and that one is yours, Erin." Miranda said.
"Thanks Lieutenant." Miranda nods then looks at Erin then walks out of the room. She makes it outside and starts walking down the steps when the front door opens and closes.
"Miranda." The lieutenant stops, quietly sighs then looks at Erin.
"I do have to pack, Erin."
"How did you know I was here?"
"Besides your car?" Erin chuckles.
"Right. So, Heather is coming."
"She has soccer try-outs next Tuesday for her school since she starts the same day."
"I don't have a problem with you being gay."
"Good to know. I need to sleep and pack before tomorrow." Miranda walks down the rest of the front steps and walks to her car.
"So, all I need to do is unpack my room?" Heather asked as they walk down the sidewalk after arriving from Boston.
"You do. The rest of the apartment is unpacked and you start school tomorrow."
"With the school that Momma picked out." Miranda looks at Heather then walks over to the apartment building.
"Do you want to go back to Boston? Because I didn't want to keep you from friends and family honey." Miranda said as she unlocks the building door and they head inside.
"No. It's fine. Just wished that you and Momma would get along better."
"Easier said than done." They make it to the apartment and walk into the place.
"I know it's smaller than Momma's house."
"But it's ours. Right?"
"It is. No monthly rents." Miranda's phone starts ringing and she answers it when she saw that it was Erin calling her, possibly about the case.
"Tell me you got something." Miranda said on the phone.
"How about a waiver to the vehicle?" Erin asked.
"Thank god. I can be there in an hour at your office."
"You got it." Miranda hangs up the phone and looks at Heather.
"Go." Miranda hands her daughter two keys.
"The blue goes to the apartment door and the red to the building. Don't go anywhere and lock up behind me." Miranda kisses her forehead then leaves.
Once Miranda made the arrest, she walks down the sidewalk to her home and stops in her tracks.
"Hey." Miranda said.
"Hey. Nice building." Erin said as she stands up.
"Thanks. Heather is inside if you want to meet her."
"Yeah."
"So wait, my middle name is after this Erin?" Heather asked as they eat dinner from a Mexican restaurant that Miranda and Erin used to eat at in college.
"It is. I didn't see Erin until she got married after we graduated from college, but I still wanted to honor my best friend someway." Miranda said then takes a bite of her nachos.
"So, let me get this straight. You two met in college at Columbia, were roommates for four years, lost contact for over ten years and now reunited again. What happened to have the friendship lost?"
"I didn't like her ex-husband and he didn't like me."
"And he didn't tell me that she called multiple times. But now that he's out of the picture, she called me up again." Erin said.
"So, why didn't you go to law school?" Heather asked Miranda.
"I knew that I needed to serve a different purpose in life and when I told Erin that I needed to be a cop, she said -"
"You're going to be the best damn cop and I hugged her." Erin finished.
"Ok, this sounds like a weird rom-com. I'm going to go to my room and finish unpacking." Heather said then throws away her trash and walks to her room.
"You have a great kid." Erin said to Miranda.
"Reminds me of me, which is scary." Miranda said then takes a sip of wine.
"I think she and Nicky would get along great. We did." Miranda nods and Erin looks at her.
"What?" Erin asked.
"Don't you think this is...a little weird?"
"Weird, how?"
"I mean, I tell you that I am into girls and you're not throwing Bible verses at me." Miranda softly said. Erin sighs and gets up and throws away her trash then looks at Miranda.
"There was a time in college where we...hooked up, remember?"
"You mean the drunken make out session during spin the bottle? I wouldn't exactly call it hooking up, but yes."
"I um...I had feelings for you and I didn't act on them. Like you."
"Wait, wait, wait. Time out. Are you trying to tell me that you were in love with me before you met Jack the dumb ass?"
"More like having you reappear in my life made feelings that I buried way down deep inside of me resurface. And I need to finalize my divorce before we do anything, but I'm saying is don't hook up with anyone because I want to be that anyone."
"Ok. Can I ask for one thing?" Erin walks over and softly kisses her lips and Miranda kisses her back, remembering how amazing Erin's lips felt against hers then they slowly pull out and look at each other.
"Call me tomorrow?" Erin softly asked and Miranda nods. They kiss again then the attorney leaves. The lieutenant releases a deep breath then cleans up the mess and writes down a grocery list.