When Your Best Friend...

Disclaimer - I don't own Perception. This is a story written for fun, not for profit.

A/N: As I'm still flexing my "Perception" writing muscles I figured I'd challenge myself to write something in the seldom used second person narrative. These will be short chapters. The first chapter is sort of an overview of the series up until and through "Dirty". This first chapter contains specific spoilers for "Dirty" and "Asylum" as well as more general spoilers for everything else. Hope you enjoy and please review.

When your best friend used to be your favorite college professor, you're kinda surprised its not awkward. When your soon-to-be ex husband comes back into your life, it gets a little awkward.

When your best friend is a paranoid schizophrenic, you can't help but feel protective of him. When you find out he's been lying to you about his symptoms returning, you can't help but feel betrayed.

When your best friend goes undercover in a mental hospital at the behest of some dunderhead defense attorney, you're outraged. When he almost dies because of it you're afraid.

As you sit with him afterwards and he thanks you for saving his life, you're torn between wanting to kiss him and wanting to slap him. When you do niether, you regret it later.

When you and your ex husband get engaged again, part of you wishes your best friend would say something. When you express concern that the man who cheated on you once before will do it again, your best friend offers you comforting words and you find yourself wishing he'd offered something more.

When it looks as though your fiancé has not only cheated on you but committed murder, your best friend appears to move Heaven and Earth to prove your fiance's innocence on both counts.

When your fiancé is upset with you for not having faith in him, a part of you breaks.

When you pull your best friend from a burning house and he's barely alive, as you preform CPR and pray to God that you don't lose him, you realize something.

As he starts to cough and the ambulance arrives, you realize that somewhere in between the cases and the late nights you've fallen in love with your best friend.