A/N: This one is the wonderfully awkward scene where Kate is talking to Daniel about Hathaway.
8. Kilimanjaro
He really didn't want to hear how Professor Wonderful is so great. How he is such a nice guy and how he's smart and cooks. But then he actually starts listening to her and he realises it's not like that all. He can feel the faintest flickering of hope that she might actually be interested in him. And then his younger self had to turn up and bring him back to reality (he finds it mildly ironic that it is his delusion that keeps him grounded when his emotions get away from him).
His delusion keeps talking over Kate and he knows that he should be paying attention to Kate but he can't quite seem to tune the hallucination out.
"Stop!" He yells and he immediately wants to take it back.
The hurt look in her eyes makes him feel like the lowest scum on earth and then she starts apologising, as if it's her fault that his brain is so messed up. He ignores the judgemental look from his younger self (seriously, when did his hallucinations get so judgemental?) makes some bumbling excuse and makes a run for it.
He sits in the silent class room, pinching the bridge of his nose, trying to sort out the mess in his head. All he was succeeding in doing was giving himself a killer headache. Never had he been more grateful for Lewicki's interruption as he had been in that moment. Give him drugs scandals, faked papers and murders over possible romantic feelings any day of the week.