Title: Under My Skin
Dedication: I own nothing.
Summary: A little Mac and Dick romance. One of my favorites
Authors Note: I hope you guys like this, sorry this took so long to get out, I had it written two days after I posted the first part, but some drama happened in my life, and then midterms. But I don't think that it will take me that long to write the next part.
Mac was still reeling from what had happened to her in front of the Suite days later. She hadn't told Veronica what had happened, even when Veronica had begged for forgiveness. Mac had said it was fine, no problem, but then proceeded to avoid everyone who had claim to fame that they were a graduate of Neptune High'06. If she saw Wallace or Logan or Veronica, she would hightail it out of there.
She was safe within her self made cocoon of isolation for almost a month before it was invaded by Dick himself. She had been staring at her study notes for her upcoming final when there was a pounding on her door. She had mumbled a go away which usually worked. Parker had slowly begun to branch out and now had quite a lot of friends on campus.
So when she opened her door there stood Dick. This time there was no element of surprise for him. He barged into her room and before Mac could say anything to him he began to talk.
'You have no idea what you are doing to Ronnie. So call her up or get together with her and Waldo.'
Mac of course was dumbfounded by Dick's presence and he was doing something nice for Veronica. Did she step into some alternative universe?
'You mean Wallace?' Mac whispered and Dick rolled his eyes. 'Whatever dude, the mad baller that she hangs out with.'
'Wait, you're worried about Veronica?' Mac asked instead of the other comments that had been rolling around in her head.
'Well Dude, she is always over, and Logan loves her... She's probably good in the sack or sumpthing… but you need to call her. She's totally messing with my vibe.'
Mac just stares at Dick and that makes him shift uncomfortably. Mac noticed that the pallor is still there, but it's not so prominent anymore.
'Well I have finals to study, but I will call Veronica soon.' Mac says trying to get Dick to leave. But he just stands there. She begins to feel really uncomfortable and she shifts her weight from foot to foot. Dick looks at her suddenly and he narrows his eyes.
'You need to start taking care of yourself. You need to leave this room sometime.' Dick said and turned to leave but he stopped at the door.
'You don't realize what you did for me, and I will do the same for you.' Dick then left quietly, and Mac was just standing there feeling like the biggest ass. Dick turns around and smiles. 'Plus, your kinda hot now GW.'
He left and Mac immediately left her dorm room and went and found Veronica and she tried to explain to her why she was feeling so…unsure of everything all of a sudden.
'Dick and you, you have something major in common. I don't think it's so bad.' Of course Mac thought that Veronica perhaps had lost her mind and that she was impartial. Didn't people realize that her and Dick were so far from each other.. He was the brother of her dead ex boyfriend for god's sake.
But it didn't matter to her, like it should. She was just worried that Dick was just acting like this because Cassidy was dead and he needed someone to care for him.
So instead she tried very hard to avoid Dick. It was her turn this time, the next encounter whether it was deliberate or not, she had the ball in her court, and she had to decide whether she liked Dick, or if it was all in her head.
Loving Dick, and having a relationship with Dick, would be easy in some ways. She wouldn't have to worry about her feelings all the time. Dick was the kind of guy who took things as they were. No hidden meanings, no illusions, just face value. She liked that. Cassidy had been so complicated. He had hidden so much from her obviously, but he just didn't go out there and say how he was feeling; and she had spent so much time wondering if she had simply asked him, what he wanted, would he be straight forward with her?
So after two successful weeks of avoiding one Richard Casablanca's Junior, she stood in front of the suite he shared with Logan. She knocked on the door and Logan was there, and she smiled weakly at him. He saw her and he opened the door wider for her and smiled at her. Logan had always treated her well, and he had been there on that horrible night.
She saw Dick sitting on the couch playing on the Xbox, and she had to chuckle at that. Dick, no matter what, always stayed so simple and predictable. Dick looked up at her and he smiled. If you ever met Dick, you knew that his smile was goofy and it was anything but fake. And before this summer, she would have never guessed that Dick was capable of being anything but the horny, fun loving guy who did and said stupid things.
Dick grinned when he saw Mac standing there. He shifted and moved so Mac could come sit next to him. 'Wanna bet that I can't kick your sorry ass at this one?' Dick asked her and she smiled, a real, true smile for the first time since she walked out of that shower.
'I doubt that. I'll have you know I rule.' Mac said and Dick just smiled at her. 'Yup.' Dick said back and they played in silence. Mac would look over at Dick every once in awhile, and snap her head back so he wouldn't see that she was looking at him.
Dick moaned in distress after the last face off. 'Dude, that's unfair. You're better than I am.' Mac smiled at him sweetly. 'Do you think I could have that down in writing? I am sure Veronica will want to see that.'
Dick just huffed a little and turned off the TV. 'So did you come over to eviscerate me or what?' Mac looked shocked at his use of word. This was Dick, who thought that most grade four vocabularies were tough. 'Eviscerate?' Mac asked and Dick looked sheepish. 'Logan had word a sheet toilet paper, and I study man.'
Mac just had to laugh at that. But she suddenly sobered by how close Dick was to her. He was now sitting so close she could feel how hot he was, and she swore she could hear his heartbeat. With all the tension, she shut her eyes and swallowed hard and Dick quirked a smile.
'I came to thank you for the last week.' She says and Dick smiles. 'No prob. I'm good at this shit.' He says and gets up to go get a bottle of water.
'Yeah you are.' Mac feeling suddenly uncomfortable stands up so she can move towards the door of the suite but Dick catches her arm and pulls her towards him. Any person other than Dick doing this would elicit a scream and a sense of panic, but with him, it didn't even surprise her. Which probably freaked her out more. This was Cassidy's brother, she had never had a kind conversation with him before this summer, and now she could feel her heart pounding just being near him. What the hell was going on?
She was now almost leaning against him and Dick was looking down at her (he was really too tall for his own good) and she tried not to grin up at him. He was very pretty actually. Mac licked her lips trying to figure out what was going to happen. He began to lean down and everything in her was trying to decide what to do. Fight or flight, but instead she puckered her lips a little. They kiss was not innocent and it wasn't short and quick and when they finally separated and took in a breath of air, she suddenly felt the once dormant butterflies go haywire in her stomach.
She looked around panicked and just grabbed her bag and got out of there, with Dick looking dazed and confused.
'Man that chick can kiss.' Is what Mac heard as she ran out of the suite and hopefully out of the Neptune Grand forever?
TBC