Title: Under My Skin
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
Summary: A Macaddick story..
Author Note: Hey All, I got some really great feedback, but at first there was nothing, and I was panicking. Thinking I was the only one who was intrigued by this pairing… then I discovered. hates my email, so it wasn't you, it was me. (how relationshipy) So this is dedicated to those who reviewed, especially… StarCrossedSparrow and a huge shout out goes to… raedos. Because after reading your review, I went through and fixed a lot of stuff that was bothering me.
Hope you enjoy it.
Someone emailed me and requested the songs that I took my chapter titles from.. so here it is.
Under My skin… always a classic, but this version was by Micheal Buble. (he Canadian and pretty.. my fave!)
You Really Got A Hold On Me by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. One of my favorite Motown songs.
In The Water, I am Beautiful by City and Colour.. aka Dallas Green. I love him, them.. the whole album is amazing, and I am in the process of writing a Gilmore girls story with one of their songs….
Fated by Matthew Good… I love this song..
And finally… All At Once by the Fray. Blame my roommate.. Fray is played non stop in this dorm. … Well that's it.. hope whoever emailed me finds this helpful.
ALSO.. sorry about the tardiness of this update… Eugene, my big hunk of a PC needed to be recombobulated, and so I had my powerbook as my primary machine.. and Blinky doesn't like So I apologize. This has been written since like last Monday, but I finally got to pick up Eugene today from Future Shop. So.. here it is. Chapter 6 will be up hopefully by Thursday Morning.
Happy Reading!
All At Once
Dick and Mac spent much of the time they spent together talking about how to get their best friends together. 'Dude it's just sad.' Dick or Richard to his new main squeeze. 'Veronica listens to Al Green all day and mutters something about epic before locking herself in her room again.' Mac said while trying not to notice how pretty her boyfriend was.
Dick just shook his head. 'Seriously, they are being so melodramatic.' He was focused now on how the sun was shining on his girlfriend. He almost giggled. He giggled already and Mac had mocked him for it, and he didn't want to see like he had gone soft. He was Richard Casablanca's damn it, and he was tough and cool and was the best surfer in this small god forsaken town of theirs.
'Well maybe we should help them get together, like they did for us. ' Mac says and Dick just shrugs. 'Ronnie would find it fishy if I was being nice to her. She likes it when I'm the old reliable dick.'
Mac furrowed her brow at that. This thing with Dick was so new, and now he wanted to be called Richard, and now her touchstone for relationships was over.
'Did Logan say why he has been snapping at her?' Mac said, trying to draw herself out of her inner monologue of self-doubts.
Dick shrugged. 'Have you spent some time with Logan lately, he is seriously a continual downer.' Mac thought about that. 'Well he has had a hard time in the last few years. Just like Veronica.'
Dick tried to ignore the feelings of guilt that he got from how he treated Ronnie. 'But he's like a cat man, he always lands on his feet.' Mac got up and went to her computer. 'I think that no matter what, Logan and Veronica belong together.' Dick watched as she started to type up a storm and he was mildly turned on by that.
'Dude, you handle Ronniekins, and I will handle Logan. She scares me.' Dick said and got up. 'I have to go have dinner with my mother. She is trying to make up for not making..Cass.. The funeral.' Mac stood up and pulled dick in and kissed him and then walked him to the door. This time her parents saw him and he saw the double take, but Mac didn't notice.
'See you later.' Dick says and he tries to smile at her mother who looks almost frightened at his presence. 'I'll call you.' Mac replies and watches him go and then tried to escape her parent's questions.
'Cindy!' her mother screeched. 'Mom, I really need to go …' but her mother pulled her into the kitchen. Mac sat down and watched as her mother tried to control her emotions.
'How can you be around that boy. After what his brother did.' Mac just rolled her eyes at her mother. Of course Mac knew what Cassidy had done, she had been there for most of it. She felt like she had been the most fooled, because she should have seen it. She had sat on that floor in that empty barren hotel room and wondered what she could have possibly done, to warrant to be treated like that.
'Mom, he's not his brother. He's sweet.' Mac smiled just thinking about how he had been with her the day before. 'Evil runs in the family Cindy.' Her mother said and she just stared and how she itched to say that she had no right to say anything, since she wasn't her real mother. 'Well that's not true, and Cassidy.. No one saw what was wrong, but Richard is different. He's sweet Mom. He cares about me, and he and I had something in common. We were fooled by Cassidy.'
Mac watched her mother stew in front of her, but her mother could not stop her from seeing Dick. Just thinking about him, she couldn't help but grin. 'Mom, He's really a good guy. I promise you that he is.' Mac's mother didn't say anything but just got up and left the room.
Mac sighed and decided to escape to Veronica's. She didn't even tell anyone where she was going, because she was tempted to do something drastic towards her family, and that wouldn't solve anything.
Veronica answered the door and glared at her. Mac had knocked loudly for a while and then started ringing the doorbell until she heard Veronica shout.
'What!' Veronica said and Mac grinned at her friend. 'Hi, wanna hang out?' Veronica just grunted and went to sit on the couch. Backup jumped up and leaned on his mistress.
'Didn't my not answering answer your question?' Veronica barked and Mac looked at her close friend and saw that she was still in the mourning period. 'Well, I figured I should tell you something you may not like. No one else certainly likes this news.'
Veronica just waved her hand while petting her dog intently. 'Dick and I are dating… I think?' Veronica started to cough. 'What? Veronica sat up straighter. 'Your willingly spending time with dick, and now dating him?' Veronica started to laugh.
Mac with her arms crossed stared as her friend continued to laugh. Finally Mac had to say something. 'Look I know that Dick was horrible to you.. But..' But Veronica shook her head at her. She wiped the tears from her laughter from her eyes.
'No Mac, I'm not laughing at that. Dick who was incredibly screwed up by this last year, and you.. manage to get your shit together, where Logan and I just continue to hurt each other. Love sucks.'
Mac sighed and sat down beside her friend and looked at Veronica. Her hair was messy and she could tell Veronica hadn't showered lately and she looked miserable. 'You know you could call him?' Veronica snorted at that.
'He would probably accuse me of trying to get information out of him. He told me that I was selfish and one minded.' Veronica huffed and then her eyes filled with tears. 'he's a bastard.'
Mac just opened her arms and hugged Veronica. She had never been in this position before. Veronica was standoffish with being comforted by people. The only people that Veronica let near her when she was at that point where she couldn't stay calm with a stiff upper lip was Wallace and her dad, and sometimes Logan.
But now, she was one of those people, who could claim to be in Veronica's circle. Her friend was sobbing and Mac said nothing but kept a continuous motion of rubbing her back. Dick had told her that he felt guilty for letting Cassidy in there. Dick had told her that it was his fault, and it was something he could never make right. That it bothered him.
'You sure you don't want to call him?' Mac asked and Veronica just shrugged. 'I'm not sure he wants to talk to me.' Veronica said and Mac sighed and just sat with her friend, and hoped that Dick was having a better go at it.
Meanwhile at Neptune Grand..
Dick just stared at his best friend as Logan was going through all the alcohol he had. 'she is just so aggravating!' Logan shouted after taking a big sip of his bottle of Jack Daniels.
Dick said nothing. He knew better than to actually speak when Logan was on one of his tirades. 'She actually thinks I am being dangerous.' Logan shouted and this time, Dick saw that it was the pain speaking, not the whiskey.
'I would never hurt her.' Logan shouted, and Dick knew that was the last of the tirade. Logan drank the rest of the whiskey in the bottle and then threw the bottle across the room and staggered to his bedroom.
Dick just shook his head. His friend was seriously messed up. He decided to call Mac to see how everything was going. Hopefully things were going better for her, than an angry, drunk, embittered Logan.
Dick was stood up by his own mother, and he actually wasn't surprised, so instead he chose to eat with someone he knew cared about him. Mac and Dick met up later and ate dinner together and talking about their great big plan to get the lovebirds back together. Of course Mac thought that Logan was an ass, and Dick worried that Ronnie may have broken his best friend for the last time. They weren't in the position to really talk about it with each other. Too afraid that there new relationship would suffer from their screaming match.
Mac was passionate about few things, some music, computers, some games and her friends. Veronica had gone beyond the call of duty for her more than once, and she discovered, that once you have someone like Veronica in your life, you couldn't just treat it casually.
Of course, for Dick, he felt the same way. Logan had been the king of the 09ers all throughout high school. Dick was a follower, and whatever Logan said, went. But when everything started to suck for Dick, Logan was still there. Especially after he discovered the realities of his brothers' actions. Logan was the only one who called him to see how he was, and he was the only one, who looked at him like he wasn't a monster, but the same old dick.
So instead, these two lovers decided to avoid the subject of their differing loyalties and tried to talk to each other about what was really going on. Mac wanted to know why he didn't want to be called Dick anymore. Any other person wouldn't love to be called 'dick' but for so long, he seemed to enjoy that nickname. So why now?
'Dude, dick is high school, I'm not that guy anymore. I don't want to be that guy anymore..' Dick said and Mac had to accept that. 'I got the nickname dick around the same time, that Cassidy got the nickname Beaver. I don't want to be like him.' Dick said quietly, and Mac decided to just smile at him, and not press it any further.
At times, she felt that dick tried to deny what happened with his brother, but now, in the light of day, she saw the truth. That Dick was well aware that his brother was gone, and that before he left, had done horrible, horrendous things to people, and there was nothing he could do to change that.
'Dude, wanna sleep over?' Dick said after a few minutes of silence and Mac was just stunned. She knew that if she went back to her house, her mother would just hassle her about things she really didn't want to discuss with her mother.
'Dick, I told you that I'm..' But Dick leaned down and kissed her. 'I know, your not ready. I can be gallant you know.' He then paid for their meal and pulled Mac behind him.
'Mac, you know that you find me hot?' Dick made Mac laugh with his rendition of 'if you think I'm sexy.' And nothing pleased him more than seeing his girlfriend smile.
Mac then called her house to let her answering machine and by extension her family, that she was sleeping over at a friends house from college. No one needed to know who that friend was.
TBC