Starting Over
Prompt: #2, Starting Over
Summary: There's more going on than meets the eye when Don introduces Agent Edgerton to Charlie. . .
Notes: Minor AU set during 'Sniper Zero'.
Charlie froze when Ian walked in, sure that his shock was showing on his face.
When he recovered, though, no one seemed to have noticed anything out of the ordinary, probably because they were watching Ian, rather than him - Ian was the new 'consulting sniper', after all.
Ian allowed Don to introduce him to Charlie, and teased him about his math.
Charlie forgot his nerves defending his mathematics, and once he wound down, noting the smile hiding in Ian's eyes, he allowed himself to relax.
Obviously, Ian was not going to bring up their previous association - at least, not in front of the team, which was good enough.
Charlie was somehow not surprised when Ian appeared at one of his lectures, waiting in the back of Charlie's classroom while his students left.
"Professor." Ian greeted, eyes flicking efficiently over Charlie's cluttered desk, then scanning Charlie himself with over-familiar eyes.
Charlie stiffened. "Agent Edgerton." he replied.
Ian frowned. "Are we playing it that way, then?" he asked.
"My life-" Charlie started.
"Starting over doesn't have to mean forgetting entirely." Ian said, stepping just inside the eighteen-inch-range of intimate distance, as defined by Hall's Proxemics, and waiting patiently for Charlie to respond.
~Fin~