When Morgan finally parked the van, they all run up to the Departures area. The place was humongous and one of the side walls was made entirely out of glass, letting all the sunlight of that glorious Saturday morning shine through. Spreading around the place, Betsy and Morgan were the first to see Mindy through the crowded room.
"Dr L.!" Betsy shouted.
Hearing her, the gang followed Betsy's voice and gathered around, including a very surprised Mindy and Casey by her side.
"You guys, what are you doing here?!" Mindy said.
"We couldn't let you go!" said Morgan walking towards her.
Morgan held Mindy tightly. So tightly, in fact, she couldn't breathe. Suddenly there was a whimper but it didn't come from either of them. Morgan pulled away quickly and removed little Bones from the inner pocket of his jacket.
"Sorry buddy, I keep on doing that to you! Oh my god, look at you two…" he said as he put Bones next to Mindy, both facing him with wide eyes. "I can't even decide who is cuter. Oh god, you know what? Take him with you, that way you'll remember us."
"That's so nice of you Morgan but I can't fly with the – Morgan I said no!"
Morgan was now trying to push Bones down her full tote. Jeremy and Beth held Morgan back and pushed him to the side as he started to bawl quite loudly.
"Let me goooo, let me go! It's okay… I couldn't leave Bon-Bon even if tried. He's the only memory I'll have from her!" he said between sobs
"That's disturbing" whispered Casey to Mindy.
Mindy nudged him softly. She was actually a little bit touched by the scene.
"He'll be alright. He just needs me too much."
She couldn't help but looking at Danny when she said these last few words and the glances they crossed were full of manic tension. But she couldn't process the moment, as it was quickly interrupted by the rest of the group (Beth, Betsy, Maggie, Shauna and Gwen) who stepped up then and swarmed Mindy, all a bunch of girls giggling and hugging her. Casey and Danny stepped away slowly next to Morgan and Jeremy.
"It's like their powers combine when they are together" whispered Jeremy.
"We are never gonna catch that plane." Sighed Casey.
"When does it take off?" asked Danny?
"Half an hour, but Mindy is bound to ravage the duty free area once we are past customs…"
"Don't worry; you leave it up to me. I'll get his bitches going!" said a recomposed Morgan.
"Morgan!" the three guys yelled.
"I'm sorry doctor, doctor, minister of the higher power… but you know, prison lingo takes over me every now and then. Anyway, look at this…"
Morgan walked over to the girls and started to elbow his way quite fiercely until he reached Mindy and locked his arms around her from behind. It sort of looked like he was taking her hostage.
"OKAY LADIES! BACK UP, BAAAAACK UP! Dr. Lahiri has to leave any minute now and can't keep track of your gibber gabber. So if you want to say goodbye, now's the time! Form a straight line here and she will greet you one by one. Don't get handsy, or teary, and most certainly do NOT mess with the order of the line! You mess with the line, you mess with ME!"
A police officer walked by and at his sight Morgan put Mindy down, smiling at the cop and petting her roughly in the head.
"Is everyone okay here? What's going on?"
"We're fine, thank you sir. There's just a lot of love going around here." Casey intervened.
"Well keep the love down, people. This ain't a circus."
As things cooled down, Mindy proceeded to hug everyone one by one until she reached Danny. They looked awkwardly at each other; there was no way they were going to hug.
"So… take care, Castellano." She mused while patting him on the shoulder.
"Hey, why so impersonal?" said Danny trying to look relaxed.
If this was his idea of showing he was sorry, it's not workingMindy thought.
"Well, you once said it yourself: You didn't ask to be friends. So we are not." Mindy stated coldly.
Danny looked at her with a mixture of anger and disappointment.
"Is that right? What are we then?"
Mindy looked at Danny, hesitantly. For a moment her face softened, and she had the same expression as the night before when she was asking him for advice. That really threw him off.
"What?"
"Well, if you don't know what I mean then –" But then Morgan interrupted them, pushing Mindy towards the door.
"Okay Dr. C, you are now officially MOLESTING the passenger. You used up your minutes. Show's over".
Morgan was going to lift Mindy again but Casey intervened.
"Great Morgan, thank you for that" he said rescuing and hugging Mindy at the waist.
"Uh, well… I guess this is goodbye guys. I'll email you, I promise!" said Mindy.
"And we will write you back with daily celebrity gossip, as agreed Dr.L" said Betsy.
Mindy mouthed a "shut up" to her. Gwen walked up to Mindy one last time and gave her a big hug, and then they all walked away.
Casey and Mindy started to pull out their documents and present them to the custom agent.