The Hot Canary (A Brian Quinn Fanfic)

Part 25: I'll Be Fine, You'll Be Fine

(Wrote this for a couple of sweet fans that gave me the gusto to want to write again! You know who you are!)

When Nova arrived back at the apartment that her and Robin shared, she immediately stripped off her clothes, placing the shirt that Q gave her neatly on a chair in her room, and jumped into a shower. After getting clean and literally washing the day off of her, she changed into a comfy pair of PJ's and began to think about the conversation that happened between her and Q. 

She still didn't 100% know how she felt (or how she was suppose to feel) but with all objectives aside, it did feel good to talk to him again. She didn't really like to think of the night that the two of them broke up because there were so many triggers that she was still not completely over but she found herself sitting on the couch, dwelling over it with a cup of tea. 

Robin was out at a big opening of a concert for an upcoming band she was promoting so Nova had the silence she needed to sort through her thoughts. 

She remembered Jimmy coming on to her strongly in her apartment and then her throwing him out. Even though she knew what the scene must have looked like to Q, she didn't picture him being the kind of person to not stick around and see if she was okay at the hospital after she was struck by a car. That is where it all really hurt Nova because she really felt like they had something good going between the two of them, and it made her question her own judgement on how she perceived things. 

There was no way that he could be that spiteful of a person, even if she did wrong him the way he assumed she did, he was not so unforgiving that he wouldn't have cared if she lived or died...Or was he? 

"No...That just wouldn't make sense with how he was with me today" Nova thought to herself. She felt like she was missing a big piece of the puzzle and there was something she was just not seeing. She set her glass of tea on the end table next to her to rub the tension out of her temples that all of this was causing when she heard her phone vibrate on the couch. 

She looked over and sure enough, it was Brian Quinn.

She took a deep breath to ground herself and then answered the phone. "Hello" she said as if she were expecting his call. 

"Hey! I'm just leaving your old apartment, you don't live here anymore?" Brian asked. Judging by the background noise, it sounded like he was walking to his car. 

"You went to my apartment?" Nova asked, shocked and surprised that he would do that. 

"Yeah, I figured it would have been better to talk to you face to face, I didn't know you moved?"

"Ohh, yeah...After...Well everything I wasn't exactly able to afford my own place or be on my own. I ended up moving in with Robin. A lot has changed"

"Ohh shit...Wow I'm sorry. That's really awful, I know you liked that place" Brian said, sounding sincere. 

"Yeah, I know it wasn't much but it was home" Nova said short and gloomy. 

"Well that's cool that Robin let you stay with her, if you keep working at the network I'm sure you will have a place of your own in no time."

"Yeah I guess so" Nova said, wondering when they were going to get to the heart of their issues. 

Brian was quiet for a moment and so was she. 

"So, uh...Other than that, how have you been doing with everything?" Brian asked awkwardly.

"I'm good I guess. Still taking one day at a time. I know that is not why you called..." Nova went straight for the punchline. 

"No...It's not"

Q paused and Nova heard him let out a deep breath on the other line. 

"The truth is Nova...Well, I know I am extremely late on this and lost my window...Feel free to hang up on me anytime...But the truth is...I cannot stop thinking about that night...The night when we...You know...I know I didn't listen to you before and I was a huge jerk for walking out on you the way I did without hearing your side. I seriously regret it and I wish there was anything in the world I could do to make it up to you, but I know I can't. I just want to let you know that even though I am late, I am listening now and I am so sorry for the way I left things...I am so sorry for everything."