A/N: This one is another contribution by Jordon!


Every single muscle in her body throbbed. She wasn't sure she could ever remember being quite this sore. Maybe it was because she had never taken off so many months in a row, not even when Ros died. Her body had never been able to fall out of shape.

But now, out of shape was being kind. It didn't seem possible that less than a year ago she had been competing in London, showing off some of the hardest tricks known to gymnastics, and now a full day's worth of training was enough to bring her to the brink of tears. But finally she had the day off and she was planning on not moving anymore than absolutely necessary.

Will apparently had other plans.

"C'mon, JJ. Warm Bodies is supposed to be so good."

"I'm so tired, I just want to lay here." She turned her eyes back to the TV.

"We promised Lani and Clayton that we would go with them. They're both finally home from university and they want to see us"

"They'll understand."

"It's kinda shitty to back out now, just…" he glanced at his phone, "thirty minutes before the show."

"Will, I don't wanna go!"

"We've had this double date for weeks, Jayje."

"I'm too tired."

"C'mon, you'll feel better if we go."

She flipped the channel. "Don't tell me how I feel."

He raised an eyebrow. "Uh… I'm not. I'm just saying that I know how much you were looking forward to seeing Lani."

"I'll see her some other time."

"Why are you mad at me?"

She rolled her eyes and pushed herself to sitting with a wince. "I'm not mad at you."

"Well you could maybe do a better job of acting like it!" he said with a sarcastic laugh.

"I just want to stay home and not talk to anyone!"

"Not talk to me?"

"Not everything is about you, Will!"

"This is ridiculous! You start up trainin' again, I go back to seeing you, what? Two hours a day? If I'm lucky? And now it's your day off and you're gonna act like this?"

"You knew this is what you would get when we started dating Will!"

"I was supposed to know that you would go back to the gym and start acting like a total-" He stopped short, his eyes cutting over to her.

"Like a total what, Will? Finish your sentence."

"I'm… I didn't mean that. I'm just frustrated."

"Well, I'm frustrated! I was one of the best athletes in the world and now it hurts to move! And I just… just… Ugh!"

"And I get that JJ, but that doesn't mean you have to take it out on me. I'm your boyfriend, it should make you happy to be around me, not mad and pissed off."

"I'm not mad! I'm just-"

"Tired! You already said that! But that doesn't mean you get to treat me like shit."

She looked up at him, taken aback. "Will, I didn't-"

"It's hard, JJ. After getting to live this wonderful life, spending all day together, all of a sudden you're just gone all day. And I know you've been back at training for a while now but I miss you, I spend all day waiting to see you and talk to you, and then you get home and you're in such a bad mood that you don't wanna talk, you don't even wanna look at me. And yeah, you've been treating me like utter crap. Is this… Is this because we had sex?" His voice suddenly became much smaller, and he sat on the couch. "Because if you're… I don't know, weirded out, we can chill out for a bit. I don't, we… You're my best friend, I don't want the fact that we're having sex to change that, I don't…" He looked up at her, his eyes shining with tears. "Do you not want to be with me? Are you… Do you wish we wouldn't have done this? Do you not want to not be my girlfriend?"

His shoulders sagged forward and JJ's heart broke a little. "Oh Will… Babe…"

"You can just tell me, JJ. You don't have to… Just tell me."

She knelt in front of him, taking his hands. "Will. I want to be with you. Please, I never wanted you to feel like, like I don't want to be with you. I do. I love you so much. And you make me feel… invincible! Like I can do anything. I… I'm better with you, because of you. And I don't want that to change. And I am so sorry if I've made you feel like I don't appreciate you and want you. Because I do! I don't want to be with anyone but you. I promise, Will. I love you."

"I love you, too."

She stretched up and kissed him gently. "I really am sorry."

"I know. It's okay." He rubbed his thumb along her jaw. "We don't have to go to the movies if you don't want. I realize that it's your only day off and that you need to rest."

"No, you're right. I'll feel better if we go out."

He gave her a little grin. "What was that?"

"I'll feel better-"

"No no no, before that."

She rolled her eyes and slid her hands behind his neck. "You were right."

"That has an awful nice ring to it."

"Yeah, don't get used to it." She gave him another kiss. "Alright I'm going to go up and shower." He took her hand and helped her to her feet, chuckling as she gave a low groan of pain."

"You gonna make it?"

"We'll see!"