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A/N: Hey guys sorry for the delay! Here's a new chapter, sorry there's very little Bones, but the plot is thickening bwahaha Bones will be back and in full force soon. hopefully you're wait wont be for too long next time! I love you guys! please read and review!
On Christmas eve the doorbell rang.
"Who's that?" My mother asked turning on her stool, pulling her eyes away from the holo vid, a glass of red wine in her hand.
My mother had come down from Chicago in an attempt to "reconnect" with me. After having moved to Georgia our conversations were few and far between, and I knew she felt slightly guilty. Unfortunately, I also know that "reconnecting" really meant, "excuse to avoid the cold". She had planned to stay till New Years. I loved the woman, but New Years couldn't come soon enough.
I shrugged and put my own glass down on the coffee table walking over to my front door. I pulled the door open without looking through the window, thinking it was probably one of my nosey neighbors.
"Merry Christmas!" Mia stood on my porch with a giant grin on her face. She had a slightly red nose, and was baring gifts.
I let out a squeal of excitement at the sight of my friend. "What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Who is it?" I heard my mother call from the kitchen.
"It's a friend from work." I called back.
"You have friends?" She slurred passive aggressive, and somewhat drunkenly.
I rolled my eyes and turned back to her. "What are you up to?" I asked.
"I was on my way to the store and I thought I'd stop by!" Mia explained thrusting a wrapped box into my hands before pushing passed me and into the living room shrugging off her coat and scarf as she plopped down onto my couch.
"Nice place you've got here." Mia said looking around the room.
"Thanks." I smiled clutching the small box closer to my chest. My mother came into the room, her wineglass in hand.
"Oh, mom." I stopped her. "This is Mia." I introduced.
My mom grunted and tipped her glass slightly in acknowledgement. "I'm going to take a nap. Wine's got to me. You girls have fun." She announced before leaving.
"So how's your vacation been?" She asked once the bedroom door had shut. "I went down to Florida with my sister last weekend."
I grabbed a clean glass and poured some wine for Mia. I shrugged before sitting down next to her. "It's been alright."
"How's Leo?" She asked.
My heart stopped momentarily at the mention of his name and my stomach turned. "Uh-huum." I let out awkwardly. "H-he's fine?" I replied.
"He's fine?" Mia's eyebrows practically flew off her forehead. "Last I heard you were telling me he's about to get a divorce, that his entire way of life is falling to shreds. Now you're telling me he's fine?"
"Heh," I chuckled awkwardly and rubbed the back of my neck. "I mean, he's not fine. Just, you know, he's okay and all."
Mia pulled back giving me a shifty look.
I rolled my eyes before letting out a deep sigh and resting my elbows against my knees and letting my head fall into my hands. Damn she was good.
"I slept with him." I mumbled.
Mia almost spit her wine out. "WHAT?"
I groaned into my hands.
"Whoa. Whoa. Hold up. How?"
"It was after the holiday party." I admitted, ashamed.
"Holy shit! Does his wife know?" She asked.
"I don't know!" I raised my head out of my hands and shrugged dramatically.
"Wow." Mia shook her head at me. "This is just. Wow."
"Yeah, I know."
"What are you going to do?" She asked.
"Nothing!" I threw my hands out in front of me. "I plan on doing nothing. I'm just going to let this go, like, none of this ever happened. Just act totally normal, go back to everything being totally normal."
Mia nodded in understanding and there was a moment of silence as she sipped her wine. I sighed and rubbed my forehead.
"So how was it?" She asked breaking the silence.
"Aaarggg. Mia!"
"Common!" She pleaded. "Just tell me how big it was!"
"NO! I'm not! ACK! I hate you!" I stuttered getting up and leaving to the kitchen while Mia just laughed in amusement at my frustration.
~o0o~
The next day I sent a message to McCoy's PADD saying "Merry Christmas", but I never got a reply back. The next two weeks came and went, and my mother went back home to Chicago. Our first day back to work was inching it's way dangerously close. I didn't know what to do.
Was I still picking him up?
Did he tell his wife?
Should I comm. him?
Should I just not even do anything?
I spent days pacing the house thinking about what to do, making myself almost sick over it. But before I knew it the morning of our first day back was upon us. Against my better judgement, I picked up my communicator, my hands shaking and dialed his frequency. It chimed three times before he picked up.
"Yeah?"
"Hey." I let out a breath of air I hadn't realized I'd been holding. "Am I picking you up today?"
"No. Ah, Sorry I should have commed ya." His voice was low and hushed and sounded a bit frantic. "I'm getting a ride from Wallace."
My heart dropped into my stomach. "Oh, uh, yeah. Okay." I said trying not to let my disappointment sound in my voice.
"Yeah. Sorry." He said again.
"No, no. It's okay." Despite the aching pain in my stomach and the burn of rejection, I totally understood.
If there was any chance for him and Joyce to save their marriage, I needed to make myself scarce. And even if there wasn't any hope for them, the same would be true. If his wife found out we'd slept together, she could use it against him in the divorce.
"Um, I'll see you at work?" I said uneasily.
"Yeah. Bye." My communicator clicked, indicating that Leo had hung up. He didn't even wait for me to say goodbye back.
I sighed and looked to the communicator in my hands sadly. Trying desperately to ignore the hurt in my chest.
~o0o~
The ride to work was long and boring without McCoy's snide remarks and stupid jokes to keep me company. I sighed looking over to the passenger seat sadly. God I was so stupid! How could I have let this happen? He was my best friend and I'd ruined it. Just like I ruin everything.
I was never going to drink again. Alcohol only led to trouble.
Unfortunately, being at work was no better. Leo avoided me at all costs, only stopping at the nurses station long enough to grab his files with fumbling hands and leave.
"You alright, little bit?" Mia came up behind me while I was looking over a report. I looked up to her wearily.
"Huh?" I asked.
"Girlfriend, you've been off all day." She looked behind her to see McCoy bustling off to his next appointment. His eyes flashed in my direction for a moment before they turned to the ground and he scowled. "How are things with you and the kid?" She threw a thumb in his direction.
"It's fine." I lied. "Everything is totally normal."
Mia raised and eyebrow and crossed her arms across her chest. "Hmm-hmm." She groaned disbelievingly. "That boy's been walking around angrier than a damn fire ant in a rain storm."
I rolled my eyes at her idiom and tucked my PADD under my arm and tried to push passed her and off to the analysis room. I should have known she'd follow me.
"I- arg. Listen. Everything's fine. Okay?." I said trying to lose her trail. "If he's angry it's got nothing to do with what happened. It has nothing to do with me!"
"Sure." Was all Mia said with crossed arms.
I grimaced at her as I walked up to Wally's station. He turned away from the culture he was looking at to look up at me and Mia.
"Hey!" He said happily and smiled up at the two of us.
"Here's the culture report from Mr. Cole." I said handing him a disk file.
"Oh, thank you!" He said enthusiastically taking it from me. Wally was so kind, he could be happy even if you handed him shit on a plate. And as analysis tech, someone probably had.
I smiled and was about to leave, Mia in tow, when Wally called after me.
"Hey wait!"
"Yeah?" I turned back to him.
"What are you doing tonight?"
"Uhh," It felt like my brain had stopped working for a moment and my face turned hot. Was he asking me out? After all the weird flirting, the weird arm touches in the hall, the awkward prolonged eye contact. Had he finally gotten up the nerve? Goddamnit if he didn't have the worst damn timing in the entire friggen universe. "I'm… um, uh, nothing I guess?" I rubbed the back of my neck nervously not failing to notice the wide eyes and huge smile on Mia's face out of the corner of my eye.
"I've got these coupons for that new Holo-vid, they're are gonna expire soon, and it's for two people, soooo…" he rolled his hands around in front of his chest waiting for me to finish for him.
I felt bad accepting his offer, as if I was some how cheating on Leonard. Which was stupid. He had made it clear that what happened at the Holiday Party was a mistake. That he'd had no interest in me, and that I didn't belong to him in anyway. But did I really have feelings for Wally? I guess I'd never know unless I cared to find out. "Um, yeah, I'll go with you, I guess." I shrugged nervously.
Wally's face broke out into a huge toothy grin. "It starts at 7:25, I'll meet up with you after work." He said waving to me as I left.
Mia and I made our way back to our station rather slowly. My face felt more flushed than I ever remember it being in my entire life. And I could see that shit eating grin still plastered on Mia's face. I let out a sigh, waiting for her teasing, nagging or what ever else she had to throw at me to come.
"Hallelujah." She finally said.
"What?" I asked glaring over to my friend.
"Oh nothing," She shrugged. "That's just what I've heard you're supposed to say when it starts raining men."
"Oi vey." I groaned rolling my eyes at her dumb joke.
"So, what are you bottling Orion pheromones now?" She continued to tease. "Because if you are, please give me some."
"I'm not. I- God, Mia. I can't even with you." I stuttered embarrassed.
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