A/N: Don't own anything recognizable. Enjoy the chapter.
Sometimes Sally just wants to grab her roommates and slam their heads together, something that she could very easily now do if she possessed a body(not that she would, not after getting stuck inside Janette. Joss still won't let her hear the end of that one; she's like a broken record already). But what she really wants to do is lock them in a room together and not let them out until they talk out or better yet act out all the pent up lust or whatever it is that is going on with them. Of course, Aidan would probably break down the door and Joss would act all sulky and mopey for the next week, so that plan has been out of contention pretty much from the moment it first entered her mind. She wants to scream at them, tell them, look guys your alive, you like each other, and you want to jump each other's bones? Then do it, more power to you! Again, though, this plan never seems to come to fruition, mostly because Aidan is never home to yell at and she knows that its him that will have to make the first move, initiate the bone jumpingness of it all. I just want them to be happy, she tells herself; they are good people, monsters, whatever they want to call themselves. They are alive (or relatively alive in Aidan's case) and should be happy. She would give anything to have the chances they do, to be able to just revel in the touch of someone else. Its as she is considering this that Joss comes home.
"Hey," Joss says, seeing her sitting in the window. She smiles and moves to go up the stairs, an almost faraway look in her brown eyes. Sally watches her, surprised she hasn't yet commented on the mess the house is in or the dirt Aidan tacked across the floor earlier that day. Joss is pretty she decides as the werewolf turns back to face her seeming to want to say something other than her quick greeting, but hesitating all the same. If she just wore less flannel and maybe some makeup…
"So, I uh kind of asked someone out today." She says it quickly and then nods as if relived she had said it.
"You what?" Sally jumped up, a delighted smile gracing her lips. "Joss! That is…well what's his name? What does he do? Do I know him? Does Aidan?" The questions spilled from her mouth in quick succession, her happiness for her friend palpable.
Joss blinked at her, processing her rapid-fire inquisition. "Um, his name is Nate, he's a nurse, no and yes." And then she turned and ran up the stairs to her room. Of course this didn't stop Sally from following her, as if the imposition of a mere door had ever been an obstacle to her in life or death.
"So, is he hot?" She asked as she materialized in the room and sat on Joss' bed. Joss scowled at her, in the process of changing her shirt.
"Do you mind?"
"No. So give me the down low; you know I have to live vicariously through you and Aidan and I mean, I don't want to know what goes on with him and creepy vampire princess."
"Me neither," she thought she heard Joss mutter as she finished pulling her shirt off. There was a scar on her side, paler than her normally pale skin, the mate of one on her arm, remnants of the night she was attacked and her last night as fully human. Joss caught her looking and quickly pulled on a long sleeved shirt at random.
"So?" Sally looked at her expectantly, shaking off the impulse to ask about the scars in detail. Joss never wanted to talk about that night, although she suspected that she had told Aidan everything.
Joss sat beside her and sighed. "Yeah, he's hot. I mean I'm pretty sure this guy is way out of my league and I'm pretty sure I just about scared him away with all my awkward stammering and really we haven't made concrete plans yet…"
Sally grinned, "Yet. Oh, I'm so proud of you!" she gushed. "Look at you, asking random hot nurses out. Don't sell yourself short, if he said yes when you asked him out then he is into you enough to at least want to get to know you better. At worse, he could be just looking for a good time, which really wouldn't be that bad. One of us should be having sex and I don't mean Aidan."
Joss snorted trying not to laugh. "I don't know, I think he has enough for all us."
"I know he's such a man whore."
Sally was glad she had decided to stay in and wait and see if Joss or Aidan was going to show up. She hadn't had a normal conversation with Joss in some weeks and she missed the other woman's awkward cuteness.
"I'm really glad for you, you know?" she said sincerely, "You should bring him here, have dinner or whatever. That way if it goes bad its not you who has to make up excuses why you have to leave. And if it goes good, no walk of shame."
Joss rolled her eyes. "I am not sleeping with him on the first date."
"Oh, you say that now, but trust me if your both feeling it, it will happen," she teased. "So, you going to tell Aidan?"
Joss shrugged and stood, "Do I need to? I mean he's never around. The most interaction I've had with him lately was the other day when we had an oh so awkward encounter in the kitchen. It was lovely, full of mixed signals. He started to say something I started to say something. We said nothing at all and he gave me that brooding look."
It was Sally's turn to roll her eyes. She should have just locked them in that room. "So it was a magical moment."
"It was something. I don't want to think about it. If Aidan asks, I will tell him about Nate. But he won't ask, so I guess he'll just have to find out on his own. I'm hungry, I'm uh going to make dinner."
She left the room then and Sally shook her head; that room idea is looking better and better, she thought. Of course, if Joss had a boyfriend, or at least another guy interested in her, that had all the potential of making Aidan Jealous and if he was jealous and realized that Joss had other options maybe he would finally do something about all the pent up lust and get on with the jumpingness of it all. And if he didn't, she rationalized then at least Joss will have the Nate option open to her. I think I need to do some snooping, check this guy out, she mused. It'll be good to worry about something normal for once, instead of my own drama. And with that thought she popped off to the hospital to scope out Joss' new paramour.