Title: Untitled
By: Caroline Crane
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG

She's not jealous. She's not, because her career's always been the most important thing in her life and that's how she likes it. That's how she wants it, so she doesn't care about the rumors that have been flying around the lab lately. She doesn't listen to them, because they're rumors and everybody knows how much rumors are worth.

She doesn't even believe them until she sees Catherine and Warrick walk in, closer than usual and smiling over some joke only they understand. She's an investigator, after all, and she's good at her job so she can't help noticing the extra touches and the long glances over coffee in the break room. She sees all of it, but she doesn't say anything because it doesn't matter.

It doesn't, and she's not jealous because she has her career and she doesn't need anything else.