"Hey," Flack said walking into Aiden's apartment when she opened the door. "I just stopped by to bring you some lunch and see how you were doing."
"Thanks," Aiden smiled taking the bag out of Flack's hand. "What did you bring me?"
"Soup and sandwich."
"Thank you."
Flack hugged Aiden as she giggled in a girlish tone. "So…"
"So?"
"Stella called me on it, she noticed I was wearing the same clothes as yesterday and this got me thinking. Is this a thing or was it just a one nighter, throw me bone here Aiden because I don't know where to put this one."
"You like me?" Aiden asked looking him directly in the eye. "Right Flack?"
"Yeah."
"Well I like you too, so that's where we're going. And don't worry about office politics it's not worth it, I can handle it. I don't know about you but I'm in."
Flack paused for a moment as he stood in front of the women he held in his arms all night long but had known for so long before that. He saw beauty under the tough outer shell something that not many knew about. And for a brief moment he took a deep breath and took in the smell of the wonder standing in his arms. He dove in to a kiss leaving all his inhibitions behind. "I'm in," he whispered leading Aiden over to the couch. "I'm so in." After about five minutes Flack notice that Aiden was fading. She was still recovering and he had to keep reminding himself of that fact. "I've got to get going, me break is over in ten minutes and I've got to get downtown," he said pulling away which had proved very difficult. "And I have this suspicion that you need a nap."
"Okay, I'll see you later?" she asked curling up on the couch.
"You bet." Flack pulled a blanket off the back of the couch and draped in over her. "Get some rest."
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"Your late Flack," Mac said coming out of his office.
"Sorry, got stuck in traffic."
"Traffic Flack, you sure?" Stella asked with a huge smile on her face she was trying to contain it but doing a horrible job.
"I'm sure now can we please go interrogate this guy?" Flack said walking away in a huff. He didn't want to be the one to tell everyone that Aiden and he had hooked up, it would come out eventually but for now he wasn't going to tell.
"What was that about?" Mac asked Stella.
"We think Flack has a girl."
"Isn't that his business?"
Stella rolled her eyes and went off in the direction Flack went. "You're no fun."
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"Hey Flack," Danny said looking up from his desk. "You get what you want from the interview?"
"Guy sang like a canary." Flack sat down in the extra chair. "Sometimes it just too easy."
Danny passed Flack a cup of coffee. "So you and Aiden?" Flack grew silent he was actually speechless his eyes grew wide. "Don't have a heart attack Flack, I think it's nice."
"You do?"
"Yeah all the power to you. But Flack I hate to be a walking cliché don't hurt her okay?"
"I won't."
"Good because if you do I'll shoot you."
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"FUCK THIS!" Aiden said kicking her bedroom door as she tried to do up her jeans. "Ow." Aiden collapsed onto her bed in frustration. "This is no fun," she said to herself looking up at the ceiling. She got up when there was a knock at the door. "Coming!" she grumbled walking through her apartment.
"Hey." It was Flack holding a large paper bag. "I come bearing din… Aiden, you a flying a little low." Flack noticed that Aiden didn't look amused. "Hey what's the matter?"
"I CAN'T DO ANYTHING! I CAN'T EVEN DO UP MY FUCKING JEANS! I'M USELESS!"
"Hey, hey calm down. It's okay." Flack walked in the door and put the bag down. "You're just frustrated. Here I can help." Flack grabbed the zipper and did it up. "Okay?"
Aiden gave a weak smile. "I'm sorry I'm such a head case right now."
"You're not."
"Starting the smooth talk already?" Aiden raised an eyebrow as she curled into Flack's arms.
"You tired?" he asked kissing her on her nose. Aiden nodded. "Want to take a nap?"
"Man you can really deliver a line when you want to. You trying to get me into bed with you."
"Come on."
"Okay, Okay." Aiden followed Flack into her bedroom. Before she reached her kicking door she became overwhelmed with the heat in her arm as it began spreading through her body. She stopped and let go of Flack's hand, which made him turn around to see her face become flushed right in front of his eyes. She closed her eyes as she felt Flack's hand go straight to her forehead his skin felt so cold against her face.
"You're burning up." He quickly led her to the bed and lay her down on top of the sheets. "Have you been taking the stuff they gave you at the hospital? Aiden?" Flack went into the bathroom and ran a cloth under the cold water and brought it back and carefully placed it on Aiden's face. Then he went into the medicine cabinet and found a thermometer. He sat on the edge of the bed and put it into her ear and waited. "100.1. Aiden you going to chuck?"
"No. I'm fine."
"You want something?"
"I'm fine, but take you shoes off before you get into bed."
"Alright," Flack said sliding his shoes off and slide up beside Aiden wrapping his arms around her letting her fall asleep.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"Are you feeling better?" Flack asked twirling Aiden's hair between his fingers.
"Yeah."
"You want to get up? Maybe have some dinner?"
"Nah."
"You gotta eat."
"I'm not hungry."
"What about some soup?"
"I'm not hungry."
"Aiden, come on. Just something little." Flack sat up as he pleaded pulling Aiden along with him. "You're still warm are you sure you are okay? Maybe we should go to the hospital and get you checked out."
Aiden let out a heavy sigh and allowed herself to drop back down onto the bed. "Flack please stop acting like my mother. It's just a little infection and I'm not hungry because I haven't done anything in almost a week. So please just cut me some slack."
"Can I at least get you some juice?"
"Alright."