Mary had arrived at home with Norah who was asleep still. Which was a sigh of relief to Mary. Everything was going on. Everything had been fine with her, Kenny and Norah this morning until they had seen Marshall and Abigail. What was Kenny's problem? What was Abigail's problem? And certainly, what the hell was Marshall's problem? It was less than 48 hours ago that Marshall had told her to realise him. 'I'll come running. Everytime'. This part of the his speech was running over and over and over in her head. Her thoughts were interrupted by her phone beeping twice. She had recieved 2 text messages. One from Kenny and one from Marshall. Marshall's message has read : "I apologise for what happened last night. The message was stupid. We all have to move on". Mary was speechless. Mary was empty.
She needed to clear her mind. She read the text from Kenny : "I don't know what happened in the park today. But I think we need to discuss it. I'll be around when Mark had picked Norah up. 7pm you said? See you then x". Mary was impressed, he remembered when Norah was getting picked up. But she was still angry with him. There was no point in replying. If he was going to be there. Then he was going to be there. She had no energy to argue.
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Marshall found himself sat in his car in the car park of the Sunshine Building. Re-reading the message he had sent Mary not less than ten minutes ago. What a idiot. He can't believe he had sent that to Mary. He finally got out his car and went in. He knew Mary would not be there as it was her day off today. He walked through the double doors swiping his pass and looked straight at his empty desk. Then to Mary's, who's desk was full, her photos of her and Norah were on her desk which made Marshall happy. He loved Norah with all his heart. He loved Mary with. He stopped there and turned into his new office to find Stan sitting their. Stan stood up in a instant. "Marshall, what are you doing here?". "Well chief me and..." Stan butted in straight away, "please, Marshall, I'm not your chief anymore" Stan said this in a tone that Marshall would understand but not get offended by. "Deputy Director, of course" he bowed his head and Stan just laughed as he continued with his sentence, "you see Stan, me and Abigail had a bit of a disagreement the earlier today and I walked out. We seen Mary and Kenny at the park today and Abigail thought I had arranged it."
Marshall had now paused, eager to hear Stan's reply. "Wait what..Kenny and Mary were at the park?!" Stan completely forgetting about him and Abigail had quickly turned the conversation back to Marshall and Abigail. "So she thinks that you wanted to see Mary but it was a secret from her? Abigail was fine with Mary last night". Stan continued his answer and Marshall said "I know right! She told me that she was fine with Mary before dinner, and now all this. She called me partner in the park today, it broke Mary. Mary thought I didn't see her face. But I did". Stan was stunned at what Marshall had told him. "She really called you partner that soon?! I mean, she has to understand that saying that was totally out of order right?" Stan couldn't believe that Abigail could be like that. "That's not the worst part. I sent Mary a message last night, well as you know me and Abigail continued celebrations after dinner and when we got home I sent Mary a text". He stopped himself. "What did the text message say Marshall", Stan now stood with a puzzled look on his face, and he was serious, "Marshall, what did the text message say?!" Stan needed to know. "Stan I can't tell you that. All I can tell you is that me and Mary had a very..serious conversation..and it was something in response to it".
Stan paused for a minute which seemed like a lifetime to Marshall. "But how does that effect you and Abigail? How does the message effect you both? She can't expect you to cut off all ties with Mary, you worked with her for 7 years for god sakes".
'God dammit, Inspectors.' Stan thought.
I love Stan and Marshall's relationship. I felt like I needed to write for them two before Stan goes to DC, which leads me to the next chapter..