Later in the week, Megan was able to pull together enough evidence to confront her victim's husband. Bud was hesitant to let her lead the interrogation, but she was able to talk her way into it, as usual.

"Abby was leaving you, wasn't she?"

"No way. We had the perfect life together. She would never walk away." Joe curled his hands into fists.

"No one's life is perfect. Maybe to you things were going just fine, but she wasn't happy."

"You didn't know my wife, of course she was happy!" He slammed the table in front of him. Bud moved to apprehend him, but Megan shrugged him off.

"She wasn't, and I'll tell you how I know. She had tear ducts that were so swollen they had become infected, an ulcer that was making it very difficult for her to keep up with caring for your daughter and keeping your home spotless, and she had recently had an abortion. Doesn't sound like the happiest of circumstances to me."

"She what?"

"You didn't know, did you? She was hiding it from you, because you would have forced her to keep the baby, and she didn't want to be with you anymore."

"You're lying. That's not true."

"The body doesn't lie, Joe. You may have killed your wife because she was trying to leave you, but she was already dying on the inside from the hell you'd put her through. The markings on her clothes and the inside of her purse? Bleach. You threw bleach on her to try to get her to stop. We found the empty container in your garage. And when that didn't stop her, you shot her. You tried to make it look like a robbery, dumping the purse, taking the wallet out, but we found that too, in your daughter's toy chest. You're a disgrace of human being, Joe."

"She was leaving me for a fucking bag boy at the grocery store! And she was taking Alyssa with her."

"Well, now you've lost them both for good."

Megan pushed her chair back and left the room as Joe continued to scream and Detective Morris made the arrest. She wiped a tear from her eye as she made her way out to her car. Solving cases like this was always extremely bittersweet.

Back at the lab, she took one last look at her victim before putting the sheet over her head. "Goodbye, Abby" she whispered.

There was nobody else left in the office and she was in dire need of something, someone, to take her mind off things. She knew just the person. She dialed Kate's number as she walked to her car.

"How'd it go?" Kate answered.

"It's done. We arrested him. Daughter's in protective services."

"Excellent."

"Well, it's never excellent when a child loses both of her parents in a week."

"Right…you know what I mean."

"I do. Where are you? I thought you'd still be at work when I got back."

"I had a dentist appointment at five, so I just came home after that."

"You had an appointment? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Megan, it's the dentist. Not exactly a life or death situation. I didn't even think about it, honestly."

Megan took a deep breath. She was trying really hard not to live up to her reputation for being a control freak. "Sorry, I just figured you would have mentioned it at some point. But you're right, it's not a big deal."

"Where are you headed now?"

"I was going home, but I could easily be persuaded to…"

"Come over."

Megan smiled. "Yes."

"Please do. But stop and pick up some Ben & Jerry's first."

"Oh, that's great for right after the dentist." She could practically hear Kate roll her eyes through the phone. "Any particular flavor?"

"Surprise me."

"I'll do my best."

Megan had chosen very wisely. The two sat cross-legged on the couch, taking turns feeding each other spoonfuls of New York Triple Fudge Chunk. Megan unbuttoned her Ralph Lauren pants as she leaned back against the pillows and sighed.

"This was a great idea."

Kate smirked as she scooped another bite into her mouth. Then she scooped again, but this time, she smudged it against the bit of Megan's stomach that was peeking out from beneath her tangerine colored sweater.

"Ah! What are you…" she shrieked against the cold but was quickly silenced as Kate licked the chocolate off of her skin and continued to suck on her flesh. She looked up into Megan's eyes as she undid her sweater, popping the buttons open one by one, finally revealing a champagne colored bra that pushed Megan's breast's together, giving her unbelievable cleavage.

"I like this," Kate whispered as she dabbed more chocolate on the lightly tanned curves.

"You're going to do my laundry," Megan warned even as she shuddered.

Kate licked the ice cream off one breast while palming the other. "You want me to stop?"

Megan smiled and slid down further on the couch, positioning herself beneath Kate. Kate put the Ben & Jerry's on the table and leaned down to kiss Megan. She brushed her full, swollen lips over Megan's before tasting them with her tongue, licking off the excess chocolate. Megan pulled off Kate's tank top, revealing her completely naked chest, and Kate removed Megan's bra and sent it to the floor. Megan gasped as Kate pressed their breasts together, all the while kissing her, again and again on her lips, cheeks, eyes. Megan traced the shape of Kate's ear with her tongue, causing Kate's nipples to go even harder against her.

"Dr. Murphy, what are you doing to me?" Megan whispered.

Kate pulled back and looked into her eyes. She suddenly felt very scared. She wasn't afraid of getting hurt herself. She trusted Megan now, maybe more than she had ever trusted anyone. But she was absolutely terrified of hurting her. She had made so many mistakes in the past. She had always known this was who she was, but it took Megan to finally get her to own up to it. She couldn't bear the thought of losing her over…

"Kate?" Megan interrupted her thoughts. She looked up into blue eyes that seemed to hold a lot of history, though she couldn't begin to put it all together, and she didn't want to without Kate giving her the pieces. She watched as a teardrop fell onto her chest.

"I'm sorry," Kate sat up quickly and wiped her eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm just…I told you, I'm not used to opening up to people."

"But we were just having ice cream and...how does that…?"

"I know. Please, I'm not great at this, I know."

"You haven't done or said anything to make me think you're anything but amazing."

Kate fell back onto her chest and wrapped her arms around her, and Megan breathed a deep sigh of relief. She ran her fingers through Kate's hair, playing with it, as she felt more tears fall onto her skin. After a few minutes they stopped, and Kate slowly lifted herself to be face to face with Megan again.

"You ready to talk?" Megan asked gently.

"Soon," Kate offered before kissing her briefly on the lips, then on her tiny nose, then on her temple.

"Kate…"

"I've never felt like this before."

"Me either."

Kate buried her hands in Megan's hair as she teased their noses together. Megan chuckled a little at the tickling sensation, and the smile on her face made Kate smile too.