What's a little texting between friends? (A Series) 6 of ?
See previous snippets for premise, rating and legal crap. A line of ~~~~~~~~~ seperate each "scene".
The one additional note I would add is this one is more angst driven than the others.
Nighty, night!
~Alesia
AN: “Double Fault” and “All the King’s Horses” (2.10 & 2.11) were trying times for Dani and Nico both individually and as friends. However from their interactions (even before the last 5 minutes) we can see they are still looking to each other for support and still trust each other. Their partnership isn’t broken, just strained. Texting provides the illusion of anonymity. What might they have wanted to say to each other while hiding under the cloak of a text but thought better of it?
“Texts Not Sent, Things Not Said ”
~~Takes place during “Double Fault” and “All the King’s Horses” 2.10 & 2.11
Just because Dani basically threw Nico out of her house didn’t mean he was simply going to leave. He got in his car, started it, but he just couldn’t manage to make himself put the car in gear. Sitting across the street, watching and waiting for some sign of Dani leaving her off, he ached to reach out to her. Reassure her. Comfort her. Hell, he would even settle for fighting with her, as long as it wasn’t her pushing him away while disbelieving in the lengths he would go to in order to protect her. Would she even look at a text from him now? He for sure knew better then to call.
Nico: Dani, I promise, it will get the tape. You know I don’t lie; I won’t let the tapes go public. I won’t.
No, no, not right. He said all of those words inside. Nico tried it again.
Nico: You can’t imagine how much it hurt to tell you about the bug in your office. Dani, it killed me to walk out when you asked me to.
Nico stared down at the text he had just poured part of himself into and pondered hitting the send button. After a moment more, he hit delete, put the car in gear, and drove toward home. He needed a drink.
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Dani hadn’t seen Nico since she asked him to leave last night. She was both dreading and hoping to see him today at the facility. She needed and wanted to apologize to him. They were partners in many ways. Their goals were the same - save people from themselves.
Dani: Nico, I haven’t seen you today and I wanted to tell I am sorry. It’s just…my practice…it’s the only thing that supports my children.
Just as she finished typing, Matt found her. Saving the text to drafts, Dani followed Matt up the practice field stadium steps. She wasn’t going to discuss this topic where it could be overheard. A random seat in the stands at the practice field seemed safe or at least as safe as anything felt right now.
Walking away from Matt in a huff wasn’t her most mature move, but Dani didn’t need his sympathy or his comfort. She needed his help make things right. She needed him to believe her so they could all help TK. Why couldn’t he see that? As Dani headed to her car, her phone buzzed with a text from Lindsey. Immediately after replying to Lindsey, her draft text to Nico popped up. She read it again. No, she couldn’t send that but she didn’t want to not talk to him completely. She tried it again.
Dani: Nico, I am sorry but my patients mean too much to me for me to be anything other than freaking out over this. My practice is my life.
Shit, that wasn’t right either. Urrgh, she couldn’t do this right now. With two taps of her finger the draft was deleted.
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Vera excused herself to go to the Ladies room and Nico impulsively checked his phone. He’d saved Tony’s voicemail and typed the text to Dani before he even realized what he was doing.
Nico: Dani, I hope you know I would have done just about anything to have not let you down this way. I will make this right.
Nico stared at the screen and knew he was in deep, probably too deep. He had it bad for Dani and she was still wrestling with giving up Donnelly. Nico knew he had the option of sleeping with Vera again and while it would be another satisfying anomaly, it wasn’t going to solve his problem or provide him clarity. Deleting the text, he called over the bartender to close out their tab. Vera was going to be pissed at him but Nico had plans to put in motion if he was going to deal with Tony in the next 24 hours.
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How could Marshall do this to her? Marshall knew how valuable she was to the team. Knew how many times she’d help the Hawks or other Pitman assets.
Nico: Dani, I had no idea he was capable of something like this. You have to know I would have never let him get this close to you if I had realized...
Damn that was a lie. Marshall was capable of something like this and Nico knew it all too well. Compared to the things he and Marshall had done together in the name of their country wire taping a therapist’s office was child’s play. But what had Marshall hoped to gain? That's the moment the lay of the chessboard Marshall had created become clear to Nico. The ramifications stuck Nico harder than any physical blow,
Marshall had said they were even...almost. Marshall knew how highly Nico regarded Dani. Marshall knew Nico well enough to know Nico's feelings ran deep for this woman. Marshall had certainly been able to discern Nico's feelings for Gabrielle all those years ago. The tapes weren’t about what Marshall could learn from Dani’s patients. No, that was simply a side benefit. The real end game had been to hurt Dani and by doing so hurt Nico. Son of a bitch!!! He would pay for this, best friend or not. Nico deleted the text to Dani and left Marshall another voicemail. He would fix this. Nico would keep his promise.
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Nico: Good morning Dani. I know you had a rough night last night and it was my doing but just because I left and I am not there at this moment doesn’t mean you are alone. You are not. I will come to you day or night, I hope you know that. You just have to ask.
Could he put more of what he felt for this woman in a few short sentences? What the Hell was he doing? She still wasn’t completely done with Donnelly. What would Dani even say to something like this from him? His feelings had developed so organically and felt so comfortable that he hadn’t even realized they were there until yesterday. The moment Nico had said you aren’t alone to this wonderfully strong woman it struck him how much he wanted to be the one who was with her always. Fuck, he could not send this now, maybe later when he had the tapes and had proven himself worthy of her. The text faded into the oblivion of deleted texts just as Devon said Marshall was coming in tomorrow. Finally Nico had something good to tell her!
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Even as she dialed intellectually Dani knew she shouldn’t call Matt. If one of her patients were to do this she would call them out on it. She and Matt weren’t together anymore, calling your ex at…2 AM just wasn’t done but Dani had thought she and Matt were real friends before they were lovers. Matt had to know, or at least he should know how much she cared about TK just as if he was one of her own. Despite Dani’s best efforts to remain simply TK’s therapist, she knew if TK hurt himself or someone else tonight she wouldn’t ever get over it. The moment it dawned on Dani that Matt was brushing her off, her stomach rolled and she had to suppress the taste of bile in her throat. Oh my God, he has someone there with him! Dani could feel her cheeks heat up. Now she was hurt and embarrassed.
Why couldn’t there just be one person she could talk to? The void of Jeanette in her daily life was like a physical pain. She needed to put on some music, drink some wine and talk to a friend without having to be Dr. Dani.
Dani: Tonight is one of those nights I could really use a friend to back me up. Will you come over?
She stared at the words on the screen of her phone. Could she send this? Should she? Dani knew he would come, there was no question there. But should she ask him after all but physically pushing him away twice in a week?
No, no, no it wasn’t fair to Nico. He was doing everything he could for her already; she should at least let him sleep.
The one additional note I would add is this one is more angst driven than the others.
Nighty, night!
~Alesia
AN: “Double Fault” and “All the King’s Horses” (2.10 & 2.11) were trying times for Dani and Nico both individually and as friends. However from their interactions (even before the last 5 minutes) we can see they are still looking to each other for support and still trust each other. Their partnership isn’t broken, just strained. Texting provides the illusion of anonymity. What might they have wanted to say to each other while hiding under the cloak of a text but thought better of it?
“Texts Not Sent, Things Not Said ”
~~Takes place during “Double Fault” and “All the King’s Horses” 2.10 & 2.11
Just because Dani basically threw Nico out of her house didn’t mean he was simply going to leave. He got in his car, started it, but he just couldn’t manage to make himself put the car in gear. Sitting across the street, watching and waiting for some sign of Dani leaving her off, he ached to reach out to her. Reassure her. Comfort her. Hell, he would even settle for fighting with her, as long as it wasn’t her pushing him away while disbelieving in the lengths he would go to in order to protect her. Would she even look at a text from him now? He for sure knew better then to call.
Nico: Dani, I promise, it will get the tape. You know I don’t lie; I won’t let the tapes go public. I won’t.
No, no, not right. He said all of those words inside. Nico tried it again.
Nico: You can’t imagine how much it hurt to tell you about the bug in your office. Dani, it killed me to walk out when you asked me to.
Nico stared down at the text he had just poured part of himself into and pondered hitting the send button. After a moment more, he hit delete, put the car in gear, and drove toward home. He needed a drink.
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Dani hadn’t seen Nico since she asked him to leave last night. She was both dreading and hoping to see him today at the facility. She needed and wanted to apologize to him. They were partners in many ways. Their goals were the same - save people from themselves.
Dani: Nico, I haven’t seen you today and I wanted to tell I am sorry. It’s just…my practice…it’s the only thing that supports my children.
Just as she finished typing, Matt found her. Saving the text to drafts, Dani followed Matt up the practice field stadium steps. She wasn’t going to discuss this topic where it could be overheard. A random seat in the stands at the practice field seemed safe or at least as safe as anything felt right now.
Walking away from Matt in a huff wasn’t her most mature move, but Dani didn’t need his sympathy or his comfort. She needed his help make things right. She needed him to believe her so they could all help TK. Why couldn’t he see that? As Dani headed to her car, her phone buzzed with a text from Lindsey. Immediately after replying to Lindsey, her draft text to Nico popped up. She read it again. No, she couldn’t send that but she didn’t want to not talk to him completely. She tried it again.
Dani: Nico, I am sorry but my patients mean too much to me for me to be anything other than freaking out over this. My practice is my life.
Shit, that wasn’t right either. Urrgh, she couldn’t do this right now. With two taps of her finger the draft was deleted.
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Vera excused herself to go to the Ladies room and Nico impulsively checked his phone. He’d saved Tony’s voicemail and typed the text to Dani before he even realized what he was doing.
Nico: Dani, I hope you know I would have done just about anything to have not let you down this way. I will make this right.
Nico stared at the screen and knew he was in deep, probably too deep. He had it bad for Dani and she was still wrestling with giving up Donnelly. Nico knew he had the option of sleeping with Vera again and while it would be another satisfying anomaly, it wasn’t going to solve his problem or provide him clarity. Deleting the text, he called over the bartender to close out their tab. Vera was going to be pissed at him but Nico had plans to put in motion if he was going to deal with Tony in the next 24 hours.
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How could Marshall do this to her? Marshall knew how valuable she was to the team. Knew how many times she’d help the Hawks or other Pitman assets.
Nico: Dani, I had no idea he was capable of something like this. You have to know I would have never let him get this close to you if I had realized...
Damn that was a lie. Marshall was capable of something like this and Nico knew it all too well. Compared to the things he and Marshall had done together in the name of their country wire taping a therapist’s office was child’s play. But what had Marshall hoped to gain? That's the moment the lay of the chessboard Marshall had created become clear to Nico. The ramifications stuck Nico harder than any physical blow,
Marshall had said they were even...almost. Marshall knew how highly Nico regarded Dani. Marshall knew Nico well enough to know Nico's feelings ran deep for this woman. Marshall had certainly been able to discern Nico's feelings for Gabrielle all those years ago. The tapes weren’t about what Marshall could learn from Dani’s patients. No, that was simply a side benefit. The real end game had been to hurt Dani and by doing so hurt Nico. Son of a bitch!!! He would pay for this, best friend or not. Nico deleted the text to Dani and left Marshall another voicemail. He would fix this. Nico would keep his promise.
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Nico: Good morning Dani. I know you had a rough night last night and it was my doing but just because I left and I am not there at this moment doesn’t mean you are alone. You are not. I will come to you day or night, I hope you know that. You just have to ask.
Could he put more of what he felt for this woman in a few short sentences? What the Hell was he doing? She still wasn’t completely done with Donnelly. What would Dani even say to something like this from him? His feelings had developed so organically and felt so comfortable that he hadn’t even realized they were there until yesterday. The moment Nico had said you aren’t alone to this wonderfully strong woman it struck him how much he wanted to be the one who was with her always. Fuck, he could not send this now, maybe later when he had the tapes and had proven himself worthy of her. The text faded into the oblivion of deleted texts just as Devon said Marshall was coming in tomorrow. Finally Nico had something good to tell her!
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Even as she dialed intellectually Dani knew she shouldn’t call Matt. If one of her patients were to do this she would call them out on it. She and Matt weren’t together anymore, calling your ex at…2 AM just wasn’t done but Dani had thought she and Matt were real friends before they were lovers. Matt had to know, or at least he should know how much she cared about TK just as if he was one of her own. Despite Dani’s best efforts to remain simply TK’s therapist, she knew if TK hurt himself or someone else tonight she wouldn’t ever get over it. The moment it dawned on Dani that Matt was brushing her off, her stomach rolled and she had to suppress the taste of bile in her throat. Oh my God, he has someone there with him! Dani could feel her cheeks heat up. Now she was hurt and embarrassed.
Why couldn’t there just be one person she could talk to? The void of Jeanette in her daily life was like a physical pain. She needed to put on some music, drink some wine and talk to a friend without having to be Dr. Dani.
Dani: Tonight is one of those nights I could really use a friend to back me up. Will you come over?
She stared at the words on the screen of her phone. Could she send this? Should she? Dani knew he would come, there was no question there. But should she ask him after all but physically pushing him away twice in a week?
No, no, no it wasn’t fair to Nico. He was doing everything he could for her already; she should at least let him sleep.