A/N: Hey look another update! Proud of me? ;)
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing affiliated with either show or the networks of CBS or ABC. I do, however, own Maggie :)
"Alexis, what is up with you?"
"Hmm?" Alexis was pulled from her thoughts by the sound of Maggie's voice. she looked up to find Maggie's earnest brown eyes on hers, studying her daydreaming friend.
"What?" Alexis asked, certain that Maggie had asked her a question, but clueless as to what it had been. Maggie rolled her eyes.
"I asked what is going on with you," the dark-haired young woman said.
"What do you mean?"
"Alexis Castle, don't play this game with me!" Maggie said. "I know that look. You're floating on air and I want to know why." Alexis smiled. She may have been the redhead, but Maggie was definitely the fiery one. She was small and curvy, with olive complexion and curly dark hair. Maggie was highly intelligent, with a knack for reading people and a kind of confidence that some might call brash, but which Alexis envied. They'd met at the campus bookstore, and had immediately hit it off, nearly a year ago. Now, Maggie leveled Alexis with her signature glare, demanding to know what her redheaded friend was daydreaming about.
"I...may have had a date," Alexis admitted shyly.
"May have?" Maggie repeated. "May have. Alexis! Who did you go out with?" Alexis bit her lip.
"I can't tell you yet."
"What? Why?" Maggie asked.
"Well, he's...he's a bit of a public figure, and I just don't think it's a good idea right now," Alexis said. "Besides, it was just a date." Maggie rolled her eyes.
"Just a date?" she shook her head in instant dismissal. "No, honey, what I do with my boyfriend of three years every weekend is 'just a date'. I can assure you, I do not come home with that look on my face."
"Okay, Reagan, spill it."
Eddie Janko watched from the passenger seat as her partner pulled out his phone to check it before they headed back out on patrol. The problem was, Jamie had checked his phone at least twenty times since they had started their shift this morning, which had been only five hours ago. Eddie figured up that he had checked that damn phone four times an hour.
He looked up, appearing very confused.
"Huh?"
"Spill. It. How much clearer do I have to be?"
"Spill it?" Jamie repeated. "What are you talking about?"
"Don't play stupid, Reagan," Eddie pleaded in a tone that very clearly said she wasn't about to fall for his act. "You've been checking your phone all morning, and you're obviously only halfway with me. Who are you waiting on a call from?" Jamie frowned at her.
"Nobody," he said. Eddie snorted.
"Riiight," she said. "Which is why you've been daydreaming all day and you practically get whiplash every time a redhead walks by. Who is she, Reagan?" Jamie inwardly cursed his partner for being an excellent cop and himself for being an awful liar.
"Just...a girl I went out with yesterday," he said, trying to sound offhand as he carefully manuevered the police cruiser through Manhattan traffic.
"Oh!" Eddie exclaimed. "Just a girl, huh? I don't believe that, Reagan."
"Eddie..."
"Jamie..."
"I just met her, it's no big deal," he said.
"Oh, even better! You just met her and you're already in love with her! How adorable is that?" Jamie glared at her and Eddie just laughed.
Alexis fought the urge to text Jamie on Wednesday, forcing herself to wait. She had far too much experience with the disastrous outcome of a fast-paced relationship.
By lunchtime on Thursday, Alexis knew she wasn't going to make it through two days. She was curled up on her dad's couch with Anna Karenina when she finally gave in, pulling out her phone to type out a message to Jamie. After far more debating than was necessary for a text, she settled on a simple message.
Hey stranger. Keeping the city safe out there?
She tried to return to her book, but quickly discovered that she couldn't read Tolstoy so easily when she was distracted and anxious. She was slightly surprised when she received a reply within five minutes.
More like keeping the crazies quiet. You enjoying your free day?
Alexis smiled. He'd remembered her schedule, a fact which excited her a lot more than it really should've.
Nope. Too quiet.
His answer came quickly once again.
Wanna trade?
Alexis laughed aloud, completely forgetting that while her father and his fiancee were at work, her grandmother hadn't gone anywhere.
"Alexis? What's funny darling? I'm certain it wasn't anything in that boring book of yours, but I could use a laugh."
Alexis cursed herself inwardly.
"I've told you a million times, Gram, it's classic literature," she insisted, hoping to steer her grandmother off course.
"Of course, dear. What were you laughing at?" Martha replied.
"Crap," Alexis muttered under her breath.
"It's nothing," she called back, but Martha Rodgers was not to be dissuaded. She promptly marched into the living room, where her granddaughter was curled up on the couch with her book and her phone. She didn't even ask, simply snatched the device.
"Gram!" Alexis objected.
"Oh!" Martha exclaimed with interest. "Jamie. Who might that be?" Alexis blushed furiously.
"Gram, come on," she begged. "Please." Martha handed the phone back to Alexis and laughed when Alexis rolled her eyes.