David was sipping his second drink when he saw Rita exit the ladies' room. Shit, he thought hoping she and Maddie hadn't crossed paths. His luck hadn't been the best lately he knew as he held his breath. A few minutes later Maddie returned to the table her face strangely blank. Maybe this was his lucky night David thought hopefully. He really couldn't deal with any more drama with Maddie.

David gulped his drink waiting for Mt. St. Maddie to erupt. Maddie silently sat down and sipped her wine. She had decided to wait to confront David about this Rita woman.

David picked up his menu. He lifted an eyebrow and smiled "Shall we order?" he asked turning the pages. Maddie controlled herself. She wanted to scream and wipe that smug smile off of David's two timing face. Maddie couldn't trust herself to answer. Her emotions were just at the surface waiting to bubble over. It was difficult for her to hide her emotions but Maddie refused to make a scene here. She refused to let that woman see how her revelations had disturbed her. Maddie willed herself to be calm as she hid her face behind the menu. The words on the menu swam in front of Maddie's eyes. All she could see was David and Rita together. The thought of David with someone else was like a knife stabbing her through the heart. How could she have ever thought she didn't want this man? How could she have been so stupid? Maddie willed herself to smile and enjoy this evening. Rita would be left to another day.

That was not to be.

Rita made sure to stop by their table as she was leaving with her date. Rita smiled at David and bent down to whisper in his ear. David just nodded as she walked away giving Maddie a dismissive wave. That was it. Maddie saw red and couldn't hold in her thoughts or emotions a minute longer.

"So, how do you know this nobody again?" Maddie seethed through clenched teeth.

David just sighed hopelessly. They could never get through an evening without a fight. He really couldn't deal with this. He was being turned inside out by this woman. Maddie was either the iciest woman he had ever met or she was nuts. David concluded she was a little bit of both. She hadn't wanted him. She had played him for a fool and mopped the floor with his guts. But God forbid if another woman wanted him! The incident at the ridiculous wedding with Terry ran through his mind. He just wanted him on a shelf to take out when she felt like playing. David refused to rise to her bait.

"Just nobody" he told her. David felt Maddie's eyes trying to vaporize him. "Nobody." He repeated.

Maddie couldn't stop the words from spilling from her mouth. "Well, David. She doesn't think she is nobody to you!"

"Well, she's mistaken." He couldn't help the smirk that appeared on his face. In a sick way this was amusing. As if Maddie could read his thoughts she asked, "You find this amusing?" David sputtered an answer squelching a giggle. "Uh no." Maddie wanted to tear his head off!

"So" David drawled 'What do you think you know about nobody?"

"I can't believe you are making a joke out of this!" Maddie cried. David just looked at her his green eyes boring into her. "How could you David?"

David leaned over the table until their faces were inches apart and practically spat out the words. "Well, I guess I failed another one of your tests?" he stated in a cold, angry voice.

Maddie was taken aback. "Test? This was no test? Don't put this on me!"

David sat back in his chair. In a quiet, controlled voice Maddie had never heard before he went on "To answer your question. How could I do it? Well, I don't know. Let's think, shall we?" David ran his hands through his hair. "You told me we were a mistake. Told me you weren't supposed to be with someone like me." David's eyes were boring a hole through her heart. "Then you up and leave without even telling me. You tell me not to call you. You never call. You never write. What am I supposed to think? Do you know how I felt? Do you know how you tore me apart? Not that it's an excuse. But really she was there. She wanted me. Made me feel like a man. You on the other hand didn't seem to want me. And honey, if you had made me feel any less of a man I would have been wearing a dress." David took a sip of his drink before continuing. "Was I being unfaithful to you? I don't know. Was it a mistake? Probably. It was one time. One night."

Maddie wasn't sure what to make of his speech "That's not what she said."

"She's lying" David stated coldly.

"Why would she lie?" Maddie insisted.

David snapped. "Sure as hell beats me." He told her his voice almost hateful. "Get off your high horse Maddie! You've treated me like crap for almost 4 years! What right do you really have to question me? What right do you have to get angry cause some other woman wants me? Well, listen carefully. Pal."

Maddie felt the word pierce her heart. David continued in that unbearable voice. "You've strung me a long for too long. You want me. You don't want me. Let's make a pact. Don't call me. It's not your baby. Mind my business. I'm married and finally let's be friends!" David spat out years' worth of hurt.

"I guess you don't have a clean slate after all David." Maddie told him "How many Rita's are there?"

David stood up. He had to leave before he did or said something he would regret when he was thinking clearly. In a voice laced with fury David hissed 'Mind your business. Pal." Then he left.

Maddie stared after him wordlessly feeling her world collapse around her. "Oh David" she cried.

David found himself being over served in his favorite bar. He got into a cab with no destination in mind. He didn't want to go home or to Blue Moon the two places he knew Maddie would look for him. He knew that she would probably want to hash over and over what they had said and he couldn't face it or her right now. She really was some piece of work! Jealous? Really? Maybe he shouldn't have been so mean to her. She was furious he had slept with Rita. Well, at least he hadn't married her! Maybe he shouldn't have walked out on her. Maddie's eyes hurt and bruised haunted him. Even after drinking until he almost passed out those eyes were still on his mind. Why should he care? Why did he still love her after everything? So much hurt. So much anger between them. David wasn't sure they could work things out. He knew one thing for sure. He wasn't up to it that night. He decided to crash at Terry's place. He would be safe there.

"David!" Terry was surprised to find David at her door at 3am. She could tell he was very drunk. "What happened?"

David stumbled to the couch and sat down with his head in his hands. "Can I stay here tonight?" he asked.

Terry sat next to him "Of course David. But why can't you go home"

"Running from the big blonde." He told her running his hands through his hair. "Yeah safe here." He laughed. The laugh turned into a hiccup then another.

Terry noticed his suit was all wrinkled, "Let me get you something to change into then we can talk." She told him "You need to get out of that suit." David threw her a wicked smile. Damn, she thought. Even in his alcoholic haze he was still drop dead gorgeous. Terry had hoped there could be something more than Lamaze partners between her and David. But when she saw how he and Maddie reacted toward each other she knew it would never be. Now, she accepted him as a good friend. "What would Walter say?" he teased. Terry brought David an old pair of sweats and t-shirt Walter had left at her apartment. She had been seeing Walter and they were slowly becoming a couple. He was safe. David wasn't.

Terry burst out laughing when David came out of the bathroom wearing Walter's clothes. They were tight in all the wrong places.

" I feel like a male hooker.' David laughed. The pants were molded to his body and the t-shirt barely covered his torso. He looked sexy, Terry admitted turning her eyes away. David noticed the couch was made up with a pillow and blanket and made his way over. He was bone tired and wanted to sleep and forget. It was not to be.

"Ok Addison spill it" Terry prodded. David sat down on the couch as Terry fell in beside him. David put the pillow over his head and groaned. Terry pulled the pillow away from David's face. "Out with it David!" Terry urged. " What happened now between you two. You guys are worse than a soap opera!"

"Who'd a thunk that of all the damn restaurants in LA Rita would have to show up in the one where me and Maddie were having dinner."

Terry knew all about Rita. David had lamented in detail his dalliance with Rita. Terry knew that David had regretted it. He had bemoaned to Terry about what had driven him into Rita's arms.

"Ok David. What happened?" she asked.

David let out a derisive laugh that sounding more like a sob. "Seems that Rita made our one night into some big affair to Maddie in their conversation in the ladies' room."

Terry listened. She knew how much Maddie had hurt David and at first had loathed the woman for putting David through hell. But slowly, over the last months Terry had come to know Maddie. She knew how much Maddie actually loved David. She knew how much Maddie regretted her past treatment of David. The two women had spent quite a bit of time discussing Maddie's mistakes. She knew that Maddie was finally ready to commit to David. Unfortunately, Terry also knew that David was ambivalent about the relationship. She knew he loved Maddie but was unsure if they could get passed the past. His bruised heart was ready to try again but his head wasn't so sure.

Terry "And Maddie got angry?"

David snorted 'Something like that."

"And you ran out of the restaurant and straight to your favorite watering hole?"

David "Something like that."

Terry shook her head. Would these two ever be able to work out their problems? She just didn't know.

"OK Addison. Time for you to get some sleep. We can talk more tomorrow."

David grasped Terry's hand and squeezed it. "Thanks Terry."

Terry just smiled and left him on the sofa; drunk and more confused than he had ever been in his entire life.

When David woke up the next morning he found himself in an empty apartment. Looking around he noticed a note taped to the fridge. Walter had taken Terry and the baby to the pediatrician for a check-up and they should be back around one. David looked at the clock and noticed it was almost 11. Shit, he thought he was late for work then he remembered it was Saturday. Thank God he thought. No Blue Moon. No Maddie.

David was washing down 2 pain tablets with water when he heard the insistent knocking at the door. 'Oh crap." He spat out. He would know that knock anywhere. Maddie had become quite a detective David thought crossly.

David stomped to the door and threw it open before the knocking could cause his head to explode.