Title: A Little Honesty
Summary: Stella and some thoughts.
At least, if nothing else, she's able to be honest with herself. She's able to admit to herself that she is in love with Mac Taylor.
The thing is she doesn't know when or how it happened.
Somewhere between Claire's funeral when she cried almost as much as he couldn't or the months that followed when she wouldn't let him push her away. Between long hours at the office, lots of cups of coffee and stolen moments in the middle of big cases to remind each other to breathe. Between Frankie and the pieces he broke that Mac helped her pick back up. Somewhere in between deaths, fires, and moving into new apartments she fell in love with her best friend.
Maybe it was little of everything or maybe it had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. Maybe she's just a masochist who falls in love with men she can't have. He's her boss and her best friend and if he felt the same way, surely he'd have let her know by now? But then again, this is Mac, so maybe not?
It feels like too much to hope for and too little all at the same time.