Title: Echoes
Author: hardboiledbaby
Fandom: Riptide
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody UST
Rating: PG-13
Length: 200
Content notes: none
Author notes: For the "Double" challenge. A double drabble, a missing scene from the ep Double Your Pleasure.
Summary: "For the first time in the history of the western world, there's a terrific woman interested in me and she doesn't even know that you're in the room." (Cody to Nick, in Double Your Pleasure)

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Cody's words echoed in my head long after he'd left with Sheila. They were, as a matter of fact, still echoing, and it was nearly dawn. I wondered when they would stop... if they ever would.

Murray, bless his little geeky heart, tried to cheer me up, but he wasn't doing so hot himself. Frankly, it had been a relief when he'd given up and left me alone. I know he felt responsible, him being the one to have found out all the information about Sheila in the first place. I probably should've been the one trying to cheer him up.

Then again, Cody's words hadn't been directed at Murray.

I don't know which hurt worse: that Cody could even believe such a thing, much less say it out loud; or the ugly realization that there might be a grain of truth in the accusation. Not that I was jealous of Cody, not in that way. No, it was the fact that there was a woman interested in Cody, and he didn't know that I was in the room.

Oh, fuck. I needed to sleep, needed to stop the echoes.

I'd just gotten to my bunk when the phone rang.