Way Back Into Love
She was really enjoying her time in the small upstate New York burg.
After being in the town a week however a part of her was beginning to regret her decision to tell Patrick that she would stay on.
She had been sitting in the small Scorpio-Drake living room playing with little Emma when the door opened up.
Robin and Patrick were house hunting so she assumed that the visitor was Maxie making her smile as the blonde was quickly becoming her best girl friend which was great since it seemed both girls were desperately lacking one of those.
Looking over to the door she rolled her eyes as she spotted Matt standing their with a brown paper bag in his hand and a smarmy grin on his face.
"Maggie, what are you doing here...?"
Looking at the man Maggie simply smiled.
"I'm the nanny, gee Hunter I thought you were the smart one, I've been here for a whole week and..."
"Chill, I KNOW you're the nanny, what I mean is well...did my brother get called in for an emergency surgery cause last time I checked he was off the clock."
"He's house hunting."
"House hunting," Matt repeated as Maggie placed Emma down and looked at him directly in the eyes.
"Well you can't expect them to live here forever I mean no matter how many times your sister in law calls it a dressing area Emma's room is still a closet and when Robin and Patrick are on the nightshift I'm stuck on a pullout and..."
"..And you don't quit."
"Well I mean it's alright now but in a couple years when Emma is older well..."
Matt nodded.
"Well I brought some take out..."
Maggie smiled at him.
"I see."
"Let them know I brought it."
Maggie simply shrugged wondering if she should invite him to stay with her till his brother and sister in law got their however instead she smiled back as she took the bag from him.
"I will."
With that Matt left the apartment.
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That might have been one of the first awkward moments between them but it would be far from the last as they continued to clash which was what was happening on one afternoon in early spring. Robin and Patrick had after much deliberation had finally decided on a home in the same neighborhood as their colleague Elizabeth Webber lived with her boys and were moving in that very afternoon.
Since it was a nice day Maggie had decided to head to the park so that she and Emma wouldn't be in the movers way.
Sitting on a bench Maggie began to stir at her yogurt cup with a plastic spoon as she heard footsteps.
Out of instinct she stood up and made her way toward the carriage as a voice rang out from behind.
"Don't worry I'm not a baby snatcher though I do hear they tend to frequent this part of the park."
"Ha ha, very funny...so your not helping with the big move."
"I was, and well still am."
Maggie glared.
"I just wanted to see Emma alright."
"Well you've seen her."
Matt let out a laugh.
"Fine, since you're not a baby snatcher as you so eloquently put it, I'll give you ONE HOUR with your niece deal."
"Deal..."
"Wait let me finish, you better be in the same spot when I get back."
"I said deal."
"I know I just don't want you to cause me my job."
"If I wanted to I would have already done it."
Maggie nodded knowing that this was defiantly a fact.
"Alright, well Emma's bottle is in the diaper bag and if she wakes up well...."
"I know, give her the stuffed dog she likes I know."
Maggie smiled and left uncle with niece as she made her way toward Maxie's loft.
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Arriving at the loft moments later she was surprised to see Damian Spinelli greet her.
"Greetings Mary Poppins," he said causing her to smile at one of the many things her friend would call her.
"You know you have better nicknames for me then that Spin, and besides I always favored Maria Von Trapp when it came to Cinematic Au Pairs played by Julie Andrews."
"So you mean you'll have romantic entanglements with your boss...what will Dr. Robin think."
Maggie laughed.
"No, it just means I'm there to stay, no leaving when the wind changes..."
Spinelli gave her thumbs up and smiled.
"Gotcha, so anyways what brings you here?"
"I just wanted to see Maxie, is she helping Robin and Patrick."
Spinelli shook his head.
"Negative, Maximista is busy toiling away at Crimson...anyway I would have thought that you'd be helping with the big M, or at the very least helping out in watching the wee one."
"I am watching Emma...or was rather...I let Matt look after her for an hour though I don't know why."
"Well he is the wee one's uncle."
Maggie nodded as she headed to the fridge to pull out a bottle of water making a mental note to pay Maxie back for it at a later date before sitting on the couch next to Spinelli.
"I know he is its just well...he's so infuriating. I mean he'll constantly just show up at Robin and Patrick's with take out or some excuse to bond with his brother or see his niece and will act like It's a shock that I'm their when I've been the nanny for how long now. And well...
Listening to her rant about the younger son of Doctor Noah Drake Spinelli couldn't help but wonder. So looking over at the young woman he let out a small smile to see if he couldn't crack her, he was Jackal PI after all.
"What are you thinking Spinelli?"
He was caught.
Relieving a deep breath he clasped his hands together and his smile brightened a bit.
Looking into the young mans hazel eyes she was ready for anything...well almost anything.
"Do you think maybe these feelings that you and Dr. Hunter have are...well I don't know what it was Cosmo called it..."
Holding up a hand to stop him Maggie cut him off.
"Wait, Spinelli, you read Cosmo."
He shrugged.
"Maximista had a copy lying around, that's not the point, and the point is that perhaps what lies between you and the doc is a form of repressed sexual tension."
"Sexual tension."
Maggie couldn't help but laugh.
"Say what you will Maggie but trust in the Jackal, I mean look at Maximista and I, when we first met we despised each other."
"Could have fooled me," she said as her cell phone rang.
Looking at the caller ID she spotted Matt's number.
"Speak of the Devil and he shall call."
Spinelli just nodded and watched her pick up her phone.
"The hours not up yet....paged...alright I'll be their in a few minutes..."
Hanging up she looked at Spinelli.
"I have to go."
Spinelli nodded keeping the conversation the two of them had to heart.
--
Arriving now back to the part Maggie spotted Matt sitting on the bench with the baby in his lap softly humming a song that sent a soft chill down her spine.
It was their song.
Closing her eyes her mind momentarily began to flash back to a time back in New Mexico when they were a they instead of the two people they were now:
They were at his place spending a quiet night in watching movies and eating pizza and drinking beer. She was on the couch her head resting on his chest as he tangled his hands through her messy hair.
"Mag Pie are you awake."
Maggie stirred by his side as he looked up into his eyes.
"Why wouldn't I be awake Mattie?"
He grinned.
"I don't know, I just thought."
"Thought what, that I wouldn't enjoy that action flick..."
He had looked at her in his special way as he sat her up.
"What are you up to?"
Matt grinned making his way to the stereo.
"I'm going to flip on the radio and the first song that comes on will be our song."
"The first song..."
"That's right."
Matt flicked on the radio to the sounds of the Black Eyed Peas filled the room, however he flipped over to CD hoping that Maggie didn't see.
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
Aerosmith's I Don't Want To Miss A Thing filled the air as Maggie stood up.
"I saw you do that."
"Mag Pie you'd seriously want My Humps as our song."
She shook her head giggling as he placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
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Flashing back to the now she looked over to Matt.
"I'm back, you can go."
Matt looked at her and nodded as he placed Emma in her hand.
"I just gave her a bottle; I think she needs to be changed though."
Maggie nodded as she looked at him.
"You know you can take a picture, and besides isn't their some medical emergency I was keeping you from."
Matt just stood their frozen thinking how beautiful she was with her hair pulled back into a loose ponytail, dressed in a simple pair of faded jeans and a light green blouse.
"Right, the hospital...I better go."
He gave her one last look before he headed toward the hospital.
--
Unbeknownst to them however Maxie Jones stood watching the whole scene with a devilish look upon her face. During these past few weeks it seemed she had a front row seat in witnessing the hot and cold relationship between the Uncle and the Au Pair and was thinking that it was about time to take some action so she picked up her phone.
"Spinelli," she spoke into the receiver.
"Yes Maximista," the young man spoke from the other end.
"Matt and Maggie."
"You see it too."
"It's so obvious Spinelli..."
"Something's brewing in that blonde brain of yours isn't there."
"You know it...I'll talk to you tonight."
And thus was the beginning to either a brilliant plan or a total disaster.
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TBC