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4. Lover Boy

Luke enters the plane feeling tired, the night before had been a hard one. His dreams had been of Phil. It'd been almost a year but the death of his best friend continued to plague him at night. People told him that time would help heal up the wound but apparently that wasn't true. You just get better at pretending. Especially to your teammates when they ask about how you slept the night before.

He opens the case file, hoping it would block out his thoughts. But as the team discusses the case, his eyes land on Felicity. She looks just as tired as he felt. She had claimed she'd slept well but he doesn't buy it. He watches as she runs a hand through her hair before biting her lip in concentration.

He forces himself to pull his eyes from her and look down at the digital file in his lap.

The station...

Emily sends Spencer and Rossi to the coroner, Tara and Matt to the crime scene and herself, Luke and Felicity to the station.

They enter the small Colorado police station and are immediately greeted by the chief of police, who looks like he has to much caffeine in his system.

"Hello, Chief Harrison, I'm Unit chief Emily Prentiss, we spoke on the phone." She holds out her hand to greet him.

"Of course! I'm so glad you came!" He says enthusiastically. Luke notes his shaky hands as he grabs Emily's in greeting.

"This is agent Luke Alvez and agent Felicity Chase." She introduces the pair with a quick motion of her hand.

Felicity shakes the chiefs hand while Luke just nods in acknowledgment. The chief leads them to a separate room to set up. He thanks them profusely before leaving on a call.

They begin immediately, pouring through their files for anything at all. An officer wheels in a white board for them. After an hour of brainstorming, Luke's phone rang in his pocket and he steps out of the room to take it.

"Hello?" He asks, not bothering to check the caller ID.

"Hey, it's Penelope, how is it working with Felicity?"

Luke leans his head back with a chuckle." You call me just to ask that?"

" I'm a curious person and I know your with her so zip it and answer the question!"

He looks through the window at Felicity hunched over a file. Deep in concentration.
"It's going well." He says quietly.

"Oh..." Penelope answers her voice low. "OH..."

"What?" He asks confused, unsure of what she was getting at.

Penelope laughs on the other end." You think she's pretty!"

"What? No I don't." He lies.

"Yes you do! I can hear it in your voice."

"I'm hanging up now." He answers, hovering his finger over the red button.

"Okay okay." She laughs loudly." PG out, lover boy!" She hangs up before he can do it first and he returns to Felicity and Emily.

They both look up when he enters." Who was that?" Emily asks, her eyebrows sketched in worry.

"Nothing important, just a personal call." He answers a little too quickly but Emily just nods before pouring back over her file clearly caring more about the case at the moment than his personal life which he was glad for.