A/N: So, I got the idea for this while listening to the song 'One' by Ed Sheeran and wrote it as soon as I got home... the lyrics don't really play a part in the story, but they did inspire it, so I thought I would include them.

Tell me that you turned down the man

Who asked for your hand

'Cause you're waiting for me

He knows who it is before he opens the door- well, he doesn't know, but who else would be knocking on his door at 12 am on a Monday night. He opens it to see the woman he expected to see, smiling up at him. Not her usual smile though, this smile isn't the one that he has grown to love over the past couple of years, this one's sad, almost broken.

"Kate," he opens the door, slightly perplexed as to why she would be here at this hour, but gestures for her to come inside nonetheless. "What are you doing here?"

She doesn't answer him, instead just walks into him and wraps her arms around his torso, resting her head on his chest. He welcomes her almost immediately, wrapping his arms around her, still mildly confused as to why his partner, and the woman whom he loves, showed up at his door at midnight.

"Josh proposed." She answers belatedly, still holding onto him, no emotion in her response.

Rick stiffens then.

Shit.

"Congratulations." He somehow manages to get out. He hopes that his voice didn't betray him, that the word sounded at least a little bit genuine, although he doubts it.

"I said no." Kate states flatly.

"Why?" He asks, honestly confused. It comes out as a breath, which was definitely not the way that he had hoped for it to come out, but he guesses that it's too late for it to matter now.

"I-" She lets out a breath and separates her body from his, moving into his living room and sitting down on the armrest of his couch. He joins her, sitting on the chair that faces her. "I don't love him." She answers with a shrug, eyes focused on the intricate details of his area rug instead of him. "I never have, and honestly I don't know if I would have ever been able to. I thought what we had was working, both of us not caring that we were too busy to really see each other. I was just looking for a distraction, and I guess he was looking for something more."

"I'm sorry Kate."

"He broke up with me when I said no, not that I'm surprised." Kate let's out a sigh. "He told me that I was never really in the relationship; he thought that I was just using it as a place to hide from-" she stopped abruptly, presumably noticing that she was revealing too much.

"What did he think you were hiding from what, Kate?"

There's a pause before she answers.

"My feelings for you." She looks up then, finally making eye contact with him, and he's taken aback. No, she hasn't technically admitted to those feelings, but if Josh suspected that they were there, so much so that it lead to the demise of their relationship, maybe she did have feelings for him.

"Were you?" He asks, purposely keeping his tone even. He knew that if she said she didn't have feelings for him that it would break him, but he didn't want her to know that. He didn't want her decision to be affected by how he felt; he wanted for her to be fully honest with him.

She doesn't break eye contact with him, but she doesn't answer him immediately either. She sits there, staring at him, an emotion written across her face that he can't quite place. She stays that way for what to him feels like forever, but in reality is probably only a few moments, before she stands.

"Yes." Kate answer's, eyes still connected to his, as she walks towards him.

"Yes?" He asked, slightly awed by her confession.

"Yes." She replies confidently. She's standing in front of him now, a hopeful smile on her face.

He remains still for a few moments, trying to process what she just admitted, before he asks her what this means for them.

"Well," she says as she sits down, her voice cautious, different than what he's heard from her before. "I love you, and if you feel the same way, or think that you could, I'd really like to-"

He doesn't let her finish; as soon as his mind processes that the words 'I love you' came out of her mouth, his lips are on hers.

"I love you too, Kate," He murmurs against her mouth after they pull apart. "So much."

A/N: I've been working on a few seperate stories recently and decided instead of posting them individually, I would just post them here. Leave any prompts you would like you see filled!

PS. I have not abandoned Begin Again, it's just a pretty heavy topic and recently I've been dealing with some things making it hard to write that kind of subject matter. I have about 700 words of the next chapter, so I should finish and update that soon, but I don't want to make promises as of when. You guys are awesome, thank you x