What Goes Bump In the Night

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Disclaimer - Relic Hunter and its characters are not mine, I'm not sure who owns them but it's not me so don't sue! Lol

Dedications - Well I always thought that dedications were sorta cheesy but here I am contradicting myself. I guess I dedicate this story to Areya, you write the best stories you are my idol when it comes to fanfic.

Authors Notes - this will be a SydneyNigel story but things might not go great all the time.

PS: sorry if my spelling and stuff is bad I'm using my new laptop and haven't set up Word yet so I'm using WordPad or note pad :S I don't know its the crappy one in accessories.

Chapter 4 - no sleep a tiring day... or does it?

Karen looked up from her computer screen as she greeted her boss as she came in.

"Morning Sydney" Karen said brightfully "Ohh Syd what happened, did you not get any sleep?" Her boss looked terrible her hair wasn't brushed as neatly as usual and she was sort of slumped over as if she had already had a hard day.

"Hi Karen" was all Sydney said before she slunked into her office.

Karen hardly ever saw her boss like this she could see Sydney in her office slumped over her desk with her head in her hands. She did not look good at all.

Karen decided to go grab her some coffee before her first lesson she would need it.

Sydney had not gone back to sleep since she had gotten the last call, she had sat in the shadows on her couch waiting for that creep to dare cross her path. But he had succeeded in his task He had scared the invincible Sydney Fox and she was not happy about it at all. She was surprised that she actually made it to her office. She was so tired and the small hangover she had wasn't helping. Karen had been cheery as usual when she came in but had left Sydney alone in her office. She slumped herself over her desk and cradled her head in her hands. She was not looking forward to the day ahead of her. She closed her eyes.

"I see you"... "what's it like being alone, in the dark"..."I know you're not alone, I'm here"

"HHUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH" Sydney jolted awake as she heard some one come in her office

She tried to calm herself down and compose herself as she looked up at Nigel and Karen.

"Syd are you alright?" Nigel asked he was really concerned he had never seen Sydney like this before.

"Yeah are you alright syd?" Karen asked as she handed her boss the cup of coffee she had just made.

"Yeah yeah I'm fine I just dosed off, I didn't get much sleep last night that's all" she said as she gratefully accepted the coffee from Karen.

" Good well you got a class in five minutes and I've got to finish the budget so if you excuse me" Karen said as she went back to her desk closing Sydney's office door behind her as she left.

"Did you have nightmares? Syd" Nigel asked sitting on the chair in front of the desk. "I no sometimes after I have a drink I get nightmares." he said looking out the window so he didn't sound accusing

"Yeah just nightmares" she said after taking a big gulp of coffee as if she were pondering something.

She watched Nigel for a second and then glanced at what he was looking at out the window she suddenly remembered how she felt last night and the pit in her stomach grew. She stared at him... when did he get so attractive, his eyes were so... so mesmerizings

"Syd, Syd?" he said tiring to get her attention she was staring at him with a dreamy look on her face, god you must be tired he said to himself.

"Huhh" she said snapping out of her own little dream world she had never noticed how beautiful his eyes were.

"Will be able to teach your class let alone the ones later on? I mean your so tired syd, I can teach if you want me to" Nigel said still concerned with the state of his friend.

"Yeah, I'm sure I'll snap out of it" Sydney replied rubbing her eyes

"if your sure, I'll go get your lesson" Nigel said as he turned to the door, "oh syd, I don't know about you, but I needed one of these this morning" he said turning back to her and putting a small bottle of Advil on her desk, then he quickly left.

As soon as the door shut Sydney rushed for the Advil, at least she could get rid of her headache. Nigel always thought of everything and was never rude about it. He always took such good care of her she thought smiling as she swallowed the pills with the last sip of her coffee. She could tell this was going to be a trying day, but with the thought of spending it with Nigel made it sound like a good thing.

Her classes had all gone well as usual, the students were attentive and always answered questions. She seemed to always have a good set of kids to teach, although some needed some guidance from time to time she knew deep down they were all really good kids.

From time to time she let Nigel teach segments of the class when she was tired, but more or less it was to watch him. She had never noticed how his muscles had grown since he had first come to her. He was now a far cry from the meeker teaching assistant she had thrown a spear at, all be it a cute one now that she actually thought about it. She could see the outline of his muscles in his cashmere pull over. Oh how she loved to watch him. Hopefully none of the students had noticed she had been staring at him for the whole class, and did not even look over when a student fell out of their chair to try and get her attention.

"Hey syd whatcha doing for spring break?.. I mean if were not on a hunt?" Nigel asked pausing to admire some flowers. They had gone out for a walk between classes.

"Actually I don't know... maybe I'll go to Hawaii for a break and go visit my father and jenny, you know hang out on the beach relax, that is if we finish preparing the exams" she said wrapping her arm through his and gently pulled him into walking again. She smiled and batted her eyelashes at him in an attempt to flirt with him but not getting a response. Man its hard to flirty with him Sydney thought to herself looking away from him to hide her disappointment. He wouldn't know if her signals hit him in the head. She knew it was probably her fault for sending him mixed signals for three years, but she was not going to give up now. She would just have to be a little less subtle that's all.

"Oh that sounds nice" he replied not sure what to say. there she was again sending him mixed signals, at times she made it very clear they were just friends but yet again here she was batting eyelashes and touching arm and walking closer than normal to him. She was such a flirt sometimes, she probably didn't notice she was doing it half the time, or did she do it intentionally? All he knew is that sometimes she made him doubt his sanity.

"Nigel!" he suddenly heard "Huhh... what" he said looking at her

"Did you just here what I even said? You were off in your own lala land" she said looking concerned

"Oh sorry syd I just was thinking for a second what did you say?"

"I said what are you doing for the break" Sydney repeated rolling her eyes. Nigel always listened to her; he must have something on his mind.

"Oh I don't know, I'll probably stay here and catch up on my reading. we've been on so many hunts lately I feel like I haven't read in ages." he said truthfully, although he really wished he could read some books he really wanted to spend the time with Sydney.

"Why don't you come with me then?" Sydney said "I mean spring break is a time meant for relaxing and hanging out with your friend's right?" damn she wish she hadn't just said friends. There she was sending him more mixed signals.

"Oh no I wouldn't want to impose on your time with your dad syd" Nigel said, secretly jumping for joy at her invitation, even if she said just as friends yet again. He knew he could never compare to the Adonis's she always fell for. Spending time with his best friend was way better then sitting in his apartment alone reading for a week.

"nonsense, we'll go visit him for a day or two and maybe have dinner but we don't have to stay at his house" she said she really wanted him to come but it seemed like it was going to be impossible to get him to go.

"I'll think about it" he said he knew he wanted to say yes but it was her time with her dad and he didn't want to intrude.

"Ok" she said looking back to the Ancient Studies building "we better get back" unwrapping her arm from his and started walking back not waiting for him. She tried her best to hide the hurt in her voice.

"Syd" Nigel said staring at his friend, it was hard to hear but he could sense he small flicker of hurt in her voice. " I didn't say no, lets just see how things go, and how busy we are before you get your hopes up on Hawaii" He said catching up with her.

"Really?" she said trying to contain her happiness; her heart had just jumped out of her chest and back in again. she looked back at him forcing herself to not let the stupid grin that was threatening to show itself appear on her face. Instead she allowed a small smile.

"Of course syd, who wouldn't want too spend their spring break with their best friend" he said this time linking his arm through hers as they walked back to their office.

"Great" she said. She cringed inside when she heard the words best friend but was too focused on the fact that he said he would possibly go. As for the best friend thing, she would fix that soon enough.

Sorry guys if some of my info is wrong I just started watching the show seriously about a month ago… and if I don't get the courtship flirting stuff right give me a break I only turned fifteen a few days ago lol please read and review and please try not to be vicious lol

-Roxy