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"So did you talk to Samantha?"
As he always did when someone asked him about Samantha he didn't answer.
"Oh come on Martin! It's not like I'm Danny, I think I deserve an answer you know!" Vivian laughed and he had to smile at that.
"No Viv I haven't, at least not about anything that isn't to do with work in nearly a month" he said tiredly
"Well if you want to get back with her then you going to have to change that aren't you" she replied knowingly and Martin looked at her incredulously.
"Who even said I want to get back with her!" he demands
"You do! Every time you look at her!" Vivian said matter of fact, and Martin smacked his head against the car window as Viv drove them along, keeping her eyes fixed to the road but chuckling at his action.
"Do you think she knows?" he asked desperately.
"Oh so you are talking o me now! Well that's a start! In answer to your question, of course she does, she's a very intelligent girl you know!"
"Oh, well that is just fantastic!"
"Don't worry Martin, god, the two of you are as stupid as each other!" Martin wasn't stupid either, he knew what that meant. Vivian had already had discussed this topic with Samantha. Surely she wouldn't have been very receptive to the idea of talking about their relationship though. Samantha hated people knowing about their relationship when it was still in the present let alone give it a post mortem now that it was over.
"I'm still hurt though Vivian"
"She won't hurt you again, she loves you…don't look like that, she's never said it but you have to have noticed. And she's changed Martin. I think if you went to talk to her you might not get your head bitten off!"
"She could talk to me as well you know"
"Martin don't be so stubborn"
"Yes Mom!"
They pulled up outside the house and all talk of Samantha stopped but her face swam through Martin's mind and thoughts of her haunted him. He pushed them to the back of his mind and did his best to concentrate on the case in hand.
The intrepid duo, know as Martin and Danny walked in together later that day, missing person safety in the bag and both with a cocky swagger in their step about a job well done.
"Great job guys, paperwork on my desk by tomorrow!" Jack's gruff voice called to them before disappearing back into his office, not seeing Danny's salute to the closed door, which caused Viv to giggle and Martin to laugh at him. Samantha merely looked up to see what all the fuss was about then looked back down at her report.
"Right guys, my young amigos, I have a family to get back to, I'll see you in the morning!" Vivian said chuckling at Danny's childish antics.
"Oh Viv are you not coming out to celebrate with us?"
"Not tonight guys. Bye" and with that she was gone, leaving Danny to turn to Samantha and Martin.
"Then you two are definitely coming out!" He said putting an arm around both of them and steering them to the door.
"Aw Danny come on, I'm tired!" Samantha protested but he wasn't having it.
"I don't care, you are not leaving me alone with Fitzy!" Martin elbowed him in the arm and issued a string of expletives in Danny's direction. She sighed and tried not to think about how much she would like to be left alone with 'Fitzy'
"Fine, fine I'll come!"
"That's my girl!" Danny cheered throwing his arm back around her shoulders.
Martin couldn't help but notice that if he reached out his arm around Danny, he could touch that blond hair that he still found on the pillows in his house and whenever he found one of his many combs. Tonight was going to be hard.