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“You wanted to see me?” Athena asked as she knocked lightly on the captain’s door.
Bobby looked up from his paperwork. “Yeah, I have a question for you.”
Athena shut the door behind her and walked slowly into the room, sitting in the seat across from Bobby and crossing her legs. “I’m going to Minnesota next week and I was wondering if you could come with me.”
Athena stared at him for a split moment before she answered. “Ok, why me?”
“Because you’re close enough to me that I can trust you enough to go but you don’t judge like they do.” he says, gesturing to the room outside his office where the rest of the team are.
Athena nodded and hummed in acknowledgment. “When are we leaving?”
“Monday.” Bobby smiled at her before they both stood to join the rest of the team in the kitchen.
Monday came and Athena woke up early to her alarm and took a shower to get ready to leave with Bobby. Half an hour later Bobby knocked on her door and she heeded out with her bag in hand and a smile on her face. She locked the house up before giving Bobby one of his famous side hugs.
They smiled at each other before she walked forward and away from her doorway. “Who’s car are we driving?”
Bobby looked at her and raised an eyebrow. “I assumed we were driving mine.”
Athena gave a humourless laugh. “If you want me to drive at all we’re not.”
Bobby chuckled and held his hands out. “What’s wrong with my truck?” he asked.
“You think I’m gonna drive that thing?” she quipped back.
Bobby laughed and shook his head. “We can take yours if you feel more comfortable.”
Athena offered no words in response, just smiled and dangled her keys in the air.
A couple hours into the drive Bobby glanced over to see Athena laid against the car door asleep. He smiled to himself as he continued the drive. A few minutes later, she woke up as Bobby was pulling into a gas station. He looked over at her and smiled after parking the car. “I just need to get some gas.” he explained.
Athena smiled and laid her head back on the window as Bobby exited the car. Her eyes widened at the realisation that it was her car that Bobby was paying to put gas in. She quickly raised up and exited the car and rounded to where Bobby was about to insert his card into the pump. Quickly, she smacked his hand away and put her card into the slot before he could register her movements.
Bobby looked down at Athena as she put her hands on her hips and caught her breath. “Wh-”
“You’re not paying for gas for my car Bobby.” Athena interrupted.
Bobby raised an eyebrow silently at her. “Why?”
“Because it’s my car.” she protested.
“That I’m driving.” Bobby countered.
Athena crossed her arms and gave him a look he couldn’t win against. “Ok fine.” He handed her his card. “Here, go get yourself some snacks then.”
Athena chuckled and took his card and then turned to take her card from the gas pump, then walked into the gas station. Athena perused the aisles in search of snacks and picked what she wanted and some for Bobby too and then went to the cash register. However, instead of paying with Bobby’s card like she was supposed to, she paid with her own.
She exited the gas station and made her way back to her car, seeing Bobby still pumping gas. “I got you some snacks too.” she told him as she opened the passenger door and put the snacks in, shutting it when she had them in the seat. Bobby looked at her in confusion. “I figured since you’ve driven over halfway now I can drive.” she explained.
“It’s ok, I don’t mind driving.” Bobby responded.
Athena gave him her look again and he threw his hands up before he pulled the gas pump out of the car and put it back in the machine before he got in the passenger seat.
Inside the car, Bobby puts the hotel address in the GPS and sets it up for Athena and then looks in the bag of snacks she purchased. “Do you want anything?” he asked her.
Athena smiled at him and reached over to take her drink and a bag of chips from the bag before she started pulling away from the gas pump. Bobby smiled at what he saw at the bottom of the bag. He reached in and pulled out the caramel chocolates and looked at Athena. “Can I have these?”
“You can have whatever is in the bag.”