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Kate laughed, “Oh dear. But I do,” she said still grinning, “Hey? Don’t worry about it though. He’s totally non-committal about these things. Just don’t get too invested,” Kate advised her.
Blair swallowed roughly, “Right.”
But before Kate had the chance to dish out anymore advice, the door of the clinic swung open and Daniel walked in. He eyed the two of them sitting in such close proximity once over and then cleared his throat to speak.
“Hello Blair,” he said, sounding warm and friendly, “I did not expect to see you here today? I was under the impression you were occupied for the afternoon,” he remarked.
Blair stumbled up to her feet at once, “I, um well I only came for a bit. I brought doughnuts,” she said, holding out the box in front of her.
“Great, doughnuts!” Daniel said with exaggerated enthusiasm, “why don’t you bring those in and I will speak to you inside my office?” he said, pointing his arm in the direction of the room in question.
“Yeah, okay,” Blair replied slowly and began walking towards it. Normally, she would have been enthused at the first opportunity to be alone with him but as she followed him now, she felt a growing feeling of something she could not yet put her finger on – it made her uncomfortable.
“Blair,” Daniel turned to her as he finally shut the door behind him, the wooden door shielding them way from all prying eyes, “I didn’t expect to see you here today but I’m so glad you showed up.”
He had begun to walk over to her and snaked over a sneaky arm along the length of her waist but as he brought his mouth over to hers to peck her on the lips, he realized just now distant and withdrawn she was being by not returning any of this sentiments.
“Hey,” he said, suddenly flipping her over so she could face him, “is there something wrong?” he asked sweetly.
Blair shook her head but it was a halfhearted shake. Try as she may, she could not deny that she had taken some of Kate’s words seriously. The sensation that she felt before at the pit of her stomach only seemed to be growing even bigger and she had a ridiculous urge to be removed from his company and spend some time in solitude.
“Blair,” Daniel said in that slow warning voice of his, “What are you not telling me?” he pressed, his fingers lacing hers as he brought her face to force her to look at him.
Blair shrugged it off, “It’s nothing – just. I know you won’t like talking about it and frankly, I don’t even know what to say,” she sighed, her mind felt like an impossible crossword she could not even try to begin to solve.
“You can try,” he said, trying to coax it out of her slowly.
“I brought you doughnuts,” Blair said in a feeble attempt to change the topic of conversation.
“Is it something Kate said?” Daniel asked, his eyebrows now furrowed and raised at Blair.
“She might have mentioned something.”
“Come on, Blair!” he said and this was exactly the reaction Blair had expected him to have. Each time Blair tried to bring up one of his trysts with woman other than Blair, he was always quick to deflect and never give out too much information. It was always a series of ‘I’m not the type’ or ‘We’ve gone over this already’.
Blair already knew better than to press for details so instead, she chewed the inside of her lip and decided to take a slightly different approach. If she was going to get any information out of him, it would not be in words. Indeed, he had other specialties.
“I think she’s really pretty, you know. Kate,” Blair said slowly, trying to gauge Daniel’s reaction to it.
And indeed, Daniel had a reaction to it. “Well, I can’t deny but I have eyes for you,” he said but Blair knew he was trying to downplay it.
“You two have probably hooked up a few times, right?” Blair asked him, “I mean, it’s only natural to assume.” She was trying her hardest to seem neutral and unaffected; any sign of emotion now and he should shrivel up, closing himself off from her. Blair knew she had to tread carefully.
Daniel tried to read her expression, “I wouldn’t deny,” he said finally chuckling a little, “but what has that have to do with anything?” he said, walking forward to her.
Blair bit down her lip, “Nothing. She’s really pretty though,” she said again, “maybe it’d be fun if she joined along today,” Blair’s word were vague and open to interpretation but she knew Daniel realized exactly what she meant as his eyes darkened and he looked over to her with an expression as if to say this is too good to be true right now.
“You think so?” he said and Blair nodded – she really wanted to see how far he was willing to go with this.
“Wow,” Daniel breathed out, “usually I’m the person who on the suggesting end of this spectrum.”
Blair held back her urge to reply with something unpleasant and her eyes simply trailed him as he reached over to the intercom and pushed the little red button.
“Miss Kate,” he said through the speaker, “can you step in my office for a moment please?”
Blair was watching him intently through the entire thing and she could see his lack of reluctance, almost as though he had done this before. And perhaps he had. She gulped loudly and then the door of the clinic opened up and Kate sauntered in.
“Yes, doctor?” she replied, her accent coming out thick. “What do you want?”
