FIC: "Not thinking about you," Part 2/5 (David/OMC, David/Amita, PG-13)

May 26, 2008 07:29

For those who would like to keep reading this little story, enjoy. :)
The Connections Series will be back with new chapters this week.

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Title: "Not thinking about you" - Part 2/5
Characters/pairings: David/OMC, David/Amita, mention of Charlie/Colby, Don
Genre: Het/Slash
Rating: PG-13
Summary: David tries to help Amita but she seems not to want to talk to him.
A/N: This happens during chapter 16, 17 and 18 of The Connections Series (some of them are not posted yet, but they will be soon). There's references to my fic " I'll show you what's smooth".
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Numb3rs except my OMCs.
Beta: Thank you so much, toomuchfandom!:D

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Go to "Not thinking about you", Part 1/5 (PG-13)

Go to "Not thinking about you," Part 3/5 (PG-13)

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“NOT THINKING ABOUT YOU” - Part 2/5

When Amita was left alone with David, she covered her face with her palms. “Please, don’t ask me if I’m ok, I’m tired of it.”

David had to admit that it could be annoying to have people always asking the same thing, but he also thought that it was important for everyone to know Amita was fine as she was a beloved person. “Ok, I won’t ask you that. Can I stay with you for a while?”

She nodded and David sat down at the entrance of the ambulance. He leaned forward and watched people talking and agents working around the house. And then he said, “I know about Charlie and Colby.”

Amita stared at David, but then she seemed to realize that there was a chance that Colby had told him about Charlie and him. “I see,” she muttered, and her voice broke at the end of those two words. “Oh my god, this is so embarrassing…”

“Why? It was not your fault, Amita. It just happened.”

“Really? I didn’t have anything to do with it? Ok, David, whatever you say.”

It was odd to see Amita being wrong about someone, even if it was only a little wrong. David didn’t feel offended by her tone of voice because he understood what she was going through. He spent the next moments in silence, and then he continued, “Look, you’re right. I don’t know if something happened between you and Charlie that made him change his mind. But I know what Charlie and Colby feel.” David thought about what he had just said and then he corrected himself, “Ok, maybe I don’t know so much about Charlie.”

“What do you mean?” Amita wanted to know, and her eyes were wide open, like she kept the hope that Charlie had just been confused and that he would realize that she was the person he wanted to be with.

“I don’t know… It seems to me that Charlie is not sure about whether he wants to be with Colby or not.”

“Oh…” She smiled a little, but then, suddenly, her eyes went dark. “But they slept together, didn’t they?” Amita remember very well what her kidnapper, Patrick Garner, had said before he died.

David didn’t want to talk about that. “I’m not the one to tell you that.” He wasn’t going to start telling Amita about the passionate night Charlie and Colby had had.

She covered her face with her hands again, and David heard her take a deep breath. “So they did sleep together,” she assumed.

Again, David didn’t say a word for a few seconds. He waited for Amita to recover from the images she had to be seeing inside her head. When she finally let him see her face, she was definitely holding back her tears.

“Amita, you have to understand that these things happen all the time…”

“Yeah. It’s totally normal that your boyfriend falls for another man, who works with you and seems perfectly straight,” she muttered. “How did you do it?”

“Do what?” David hadn’t understood her question.

“How did you just accept that your best friend is gay?”

It was a good question. David swallowed and he decided to tell her the truth. “I fell for someone a long time ago.”

She stared at him with her mouth hanging open, her eyes full of tears now. “What?”

David shrugged and said, “I wasn’t expecting it, but my feelings for that person grew even if there was no reason for it. I think that’s what happened to Charlie and Colby when you weren’t around.”

Amita seemed to be completely annoyed, and she ran her trembling hands through her hair. “David, why are you here?”

“Look, I wanted to let you know that this, falling for someone when you least expect it, is normal. Colby and Charlie are not going to give you any explanations if they decide to try and have a relationship, but I thought I could tell you about my experience so you could understand them a little bit and not feel so frustrated.”

“Sure, like I’m going to feel all better now after you told me you prefer men over women too.” Amita deadpanned.

“I’m not gay.”

“Ok, bisexual, whatever.” Amita her head and smiled sadly. “You know? I don’t want to talk anymore.”

She was about to leave when Don approached them to tell them that they had to go to the FBI to make some statements about what had happened in the house. Amita nodded; she got up and left Don and David alone.

“She must be feeling so terrible right now,” Don said, while he watched her go.

“And my presence here is not helping her,” David muttered with an ironic tone in his voice. He had tried to help Amita by using his experience, and it all had come down the wrong way, just like he had expected.

“Why do you say that?” Don asked him, because obviously he hadn’t understood David. He looked worried and puzzled.

It was funny that Don didn’t know anything about Charlie and Colby yet. Suddenly, David smiled and ironically he muttered, “There’s no reason, Don. No reason at all.”

Luckily, David saw Colby get into a car, and he joined him. It was heart-breaking to see the tears in his eyes, so David tried to give him some advice and help him to relax. He managed to make Colby tell him about his fears, and when they got to the FBI, he felt like he wanted to yell to Charlie for messing around with his friend. When Charlie made his usual speech about something related to math, David wasn’t really thinking about the equations. He was thinking about how much he wanted to be able to reach for the mathematician and shake the confusion out of him.

He actually talked to Charlie when they got to be alone at the office. He defended Colby with all his heart, and when the conversation was over, he still thought that Charlie needed to make up his mind and stop hurting the one who loved him.

It was ten o’clock in the morning when he got out of the FBI. He needed some fresh air, and he spent some minutes just watching the sky. So many things were wrong at the moment. Charlie and Colby. Don and Alan not knowing about them. Amita suffering for her maniacal ex-boyfriend and the love of her life loving another man.

He decided that he would go home and rest for a while. David walked towards his car, and when he was about to get into it, someone appeared beside the door.

“David, could you take me home?”

It was Amita who had said that. She was right there in front of him, offering a truce.

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Like I said before, this story is related to some chapters of The Connections Series which have not been posted yet (but they will be in the next few days, trust me). As a result, there's some things, like the conversation David and Colby have when they are on their way to the FBI, that are included in those chapters. 
Oh! If you want to know why Amita changed her mind about hearing about David's experience, stay tunned for Part 3/3 of "Not thinking about you". :)

pairing: david/amita, numb3rs fic, pairing: david/omc, pairing: charlie/colby, series: short series, series: the connections series, genre: het/slash

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