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Eddie had a week off before she had to go back to work on modified assignment which she was indeed, dreading. Jamie got home from work finding Eddie in the kitchen cooking.
"What smells good?" Jamie said as he dumped his bag and walked to investigate what Eddie was cooking.
Eddie smiled and then squinted up at Jamie with a smirk, "You mean besides your gorgeous temporary roommate."
Jamie smirked playing along, "Yeah, besides that."
Eddie smiled and then turned back to her cooking, "Spaghetti with homemade sauce and banana muffins."
Jamie stared at Eddie with a small smile as she was busy adding spices to the sauce before asking, "What happened to taking it easy?"
Eddie rolled her eyes briefly glancing at Jamie with a 'stop nagging me look' before replying with "By my standards, this is me taking it easy."
Jamie stepped back and around her, "Yeah, well don't come cryin to me if by ignoring the doctor's orders you're on modified assignment longer than you expected."
"Come on Reagan, with this body, I'm practically made of steel."
Jamie rolled his eyes however let out a laugh and then walked to his room to get changed. Jamie came back out after having a shower and changing.
"How was tour?" Eddie asked, still focused on what she was doing as cooking with one arm in a cast was just as hard as you could imagine.
Jamie shrugged slightly, "Same old, same old."
Eddie looked to Jamie as if trying to decipher the hidden meaning to what he just said, "Why do I get a feeling you're not tellin me everything?"
Jamie looked at her a little surprised as he shrugged his shoulders and replied with, "I am tellin you everything, nothing happened today." Jamie finished off with as he rubbed his ear lobe.
"Ok, you're lying, tell me Reagan."
Jamie let out a nervous chuckle, "What makes you think I'm lying?"
Eddie sighed and then looked at Jamie knowingly, "Because when you're nervous you scratch your ear lobe and nerves is a clear symptom for lying."
Jamie squinted, "Symptom?"
Eddie rolled her eyes, "You know I'm not going to let this go."
Jamie scoffed and looked away.
Eddie thought for a second, "Is it good or bad?"
Still looking away, Jamie replied with, "Depends."
Eddie frowned, "On what?"
"I don't know, if you think it is."
"Wow and you think I'm the frustrating one in this partnership."
Jamie sighed, "You know what, fine. Remember my old buddy from the academy?"
Eddie frowned and started to think until Jamie reminded her with, "the one who backed us up in that domestic dispute a few weeks back."
Realization hit Eddie, "Oh yeah I remember Timothy something, the cute one who had all those great academy stories to tell about you," Eddie replied with a joking smile.
Jamie rolled his eyes, "Well, he called me on tour today, asking if I could give him your digits to set you two up."
"Really?" Eddie said with a bright smile.
Jamie's face fell slightly, "So, it's a good thing then?"
"I didn't say that, it's just nice to know that I still got it," Eddie said jokingly.
Jamie waited a beat, "Right."
"What's wrong?"
Jamie looked down, then back up and shrugged, "Nothin."
Eddie walked out of the kitchen, "Come on, it's something. What?"
"It's just…well I know we haven't really talked about it and I know that when we did, we said we would just see how things panned out between us but….."Jamie sighed and looked to Eddie, unsure of how to finish what he was thinking.
Eddie however waited patiently, with a small frown of concern, "What am I saying? If you want to go out with Tim, you should go out with him. I'm not really in a position to say that you can't."
Eddie smiled once he finished.
"What? Why are you smiling?"
"You're jealous."
"No, I'm just….I'm confused."
Eddie laughed and then stepped forward towards Jamie, "You know you're cute when you're nervous."
Jamie rolled his eyes and sighed, "Eddie."
"He's not you Jamie, why would I want to go out with him?" Eddie said straight forward.
Jamie gave Eddie a small smile which she returned.
After that, Jamie and Eddie relaxed into what was beginning to be a comfortable routine of eating dinner and watching TV. Both were seated close together on the couch, Jamie had his feet up on the coffee table while Eddie had her legs tucked to the side.
"Ok, if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?" Eddie asked.
Jamie turned his head which was resting comfortably on the top of the couch and was about to respond when Eddie cut him off with a serious tone, her eyes burning into his, "And if you say salad or anything moderately healthy, I swear I'll scream."
Jamie smirked at Eddie and waited a beat, carefully thinking about it, "Your homemade spaghetti."
Eddie's facial expression softened, "Really?"
"Yeah," Jamie replied back sincerely with a small smile.
"Nice save there chief." Eddie said as she gently side hit him in the shoulder, making Jamie laugh.
Jamie then turned his head back to the tv, "Why are we watching this?" Jamie said referring to the crime procedural show they were watching.
"Because it's awesome," Eddie replied like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Ok, let me rephrase the question, why are you making me watch this?"
"Instead of asking me that Reagan, you should be thanking me."
Jamie turned to her with a confused expression, "Why?"
Eddie looked at him, like it was self-explanatory, "I'm broadening your horizons when it comes to what you watch. When I first got here, all you watched were infomercials."
"I did not."
"Did too, like with food, I'm teaching you to try new things."
Jamie rolled his eyes and then turned to continue watching, near to the end of the show Jamie felt Eddie's head slowly hit his shoulder gently, making him look down to her sleeping form. He liked the pace they were going at, keeping what they had undefined until they could both define it with confidence but he couldn't help but feel in that moment that he definitely could get used to this.
Two weeks later, Eddie had finished her week off as well as her first week on modified assignment. What comforted her was the fact that her and Jamie had gotten into a nice, comfortable routine, one where they let themselves act like a couple however without the fringe benefits or talking about their situation. She knew it couldn't last forever but for the moment it was ok for both of them.
Now at Sunday dinner.
"So, Jamie we haven't seen a lot of you these last two weeks. What's been goin on?" Henry asked Jamie with curiosity.
Jamie glanced up at his grandfather from his plate of food, "Nothin, just working a lot."
"Yeah, well if working a lot put a smile on my face like the one on yours, you've been trying so hard to hide, I'd be doing it too," Erin responded.
Jamie looked at Erin with a frown, confused when Danny spoke up with one of his teasing smiles.
"Yeah, now that you've mentioned it sis, I've noticed it too. Alright, come on kid spill, who is she? What's her name?"
Jamie looked between his brother and sister, who had their direct attention on him and then scoffed, "I don't know what your talkin about, I'm happy. Is that a crime or something now?"
"It is only if you don't tell us who she is, what she does for a living and when will we see her at Sunday dinner because that is something I would not miss for the entire world."
"Yeah, well that's not happenin ever," Jamie replied.
Danny's face lit up, "So there is someone."
"I didn't say that."
"So what are you sayin?" Henry chimed in, direct and confused at what was happening.
Jamie looked to his grandfather and then sighed slightly with frustration, "I'm sayin that there isn't anyone and even if there was which there isn't, the last place I would bring her is here to be grilled by each and every one of you."
"Come on baby brother, we're not that bad," Erin said teasingly.
"Yeah baby brother, we won't bite," Danny finished making Erin laugh.
Jamie just rolled his eyes.
