Chapter 2: No complications

One bite led to the other and they ended up spending the day in bed .

Actually their passionate rally started in the kitchen, continued in the bedroom with a quick break to make a phone call to check on Rita around 5pm and then it went on in the shower and then on the bedroom's rug and then back to bed and then accidentally back on the floor again and then back to bed once more.

When Michael got up to get some water and decided to call Holt Neuro he pondered for a minute on getting dressed and going over but when he was told that everything was fine and saw a very naked Kate Sykora walking right in front of him on her way to the bathroom, he ended up humoring Dr. Bentley who encouraged him to stay home, promising him that he was going to keep him posted about any change on Rita's health. Besides Michael knew that all they could do now, was wait and hope for the best. He had already done everything that was medically possible but not even him could rush her evolution. He knew it could even take months. So, he finished the call, glad to hear that Rita had no complications and then sneaked in the shower with Kate.

At 11:30 pm he was devouring the chinese left overs and Kate was yawning like a lioness for the fifth time within the last five minutes. So he offered her to spend the night and tried to entice her with a lot of wet neck kisses and nips, which for about ten seconds got the best of her and so she accepted his extremely tempting proposal. All the while he led her back to his bedroom and laid on top her in the messy bed they had been sharing all day long. But then she decided against it and counter-attacked wrapping her legs tightly around him and using her sexiest tone of voice: - "Why don't you spend the night in my place?ยท"

Only then he realized that he never once thought of her husband before. He was almost ashamed for that and so he said: -"Because you are married."

-"Not anymore I'm not."

-"What?" That woman was full of surprises and none of them was bad as far as Michael was concerned.

-"Well, technically, I still am, but that's only until Harrison comes back so we can file the papers. I could file for divorce right now but we decided to wait 'till he returns."

Between lots of kisses she told him about the conversation she and her soon to be ex husband had on the phone that morning.

She explained that they had been growing apart for years now. And that the shooting was the last straw for her. She didn't want to try to save her marriage anymore. She was done feeling lonely even when he was in the house. She wanted more, she deserved more and Harrison wasn't that reluctant when she mentioned the D word anyway. So she figured it was the best they could do. She said that Harrison told her that they were going to talk about it when he came back next month. And she assured Michael that if Harrison thought that she was going to change her mind by then, he had another thing coming. She was determined.

Kate also promised that what they had been doing had nothing to do with rebound or something like that. She confessed that she had been having feelings for him for a while now, but at first she wasn't entirely sure what they were. She said she thought that maybe it took her so long to realize she was falling in love with him because she didn't want to know. She didn't want to have to deal with the implications of it. She used words like: scared, coward and complicated.

Micheal's confession sounded a lot like Kate's but he made more emphasis on her marital status. He told her that he had been fighting his feelings because she was married.

She told him he had nothing to worry about now. Harrison and her were over.

That one had just been the best pillow talk they had ever had.