Hey! It's been a while since I've written any fanfic, so sorry if this sucks. If it's italicized that means it's Erin's thoughts. Hope you enjoy!

Her feelings first got confusing after a day-long ghost hunt, not too long after they defeated Rowan. The team had been called to an old house that had been infested with ghosts. It definitely wasn't their hardest battle, but it was messy and left them all exhausted by the time they got back to their new headquarters.

"Girl, you were right this seriously gets in every crack," Patty grunted at Erin, trying her hardest to get the abundance of ghost slime out of her ears.

"I'm sad to say I'm becoming an expert on ghost slime," Erin chuckled as she deftly cleaned off her skin.

"I found some towels hidden under the new fish tank. I don't know why, but I can only assume Kevin had something to do with it," Abby informed the soaking wet pair as she handed them the towels.

"He probably wanted the fish to have something to wear when they decided to come out of the tank, or he put them there in case he decided to go swimming," Patty joked, accepting the towel graciously.

"With Kevin, I have no doubt that you're probably not far off," Abby laughed, "Hey, where's Holtzmann?" she asked looking around.

"She went upstairs to see if there were any towels," Erin said wringing out her hair, "I can take those up, I'm almost dry already," she informed a still soaking wet Abby.

Erin took the towel from Abby and ascended up the firehouse staircase. It was oddly quiet comparative to Holtz's usual workshop cacophony. She reached the top of the stairs and was surprised to see it was empty. As she stepped further into the lab she noticed a trail of slime and followed it. She knew she was on the right track when the gentle humming of 80's music reached her ears. She rounded the corner and was immediately paralyzed.

Standing before her was an underwear clad Jillian Holtzmann. She was bent over wiping her silky legs off with a towel, so that Erin had an eyeful of her boy-short covered, and surprisingly fantastic, butt. Erin couldn't help but gawk at the engineer's porcelain smooth back, which was gently swaying to the woman's melodic tune. Erin felt a little lightheaded and she felt the dampness of her palms against the dry towel. She didn't understand why she was standing here ogling at her friend, but she couldn't muster anything to say.

Holtzmann, with unusual elegance, stood up straight and draped the towel around her neck, gently covering her breast before turning around.

"I never knew voyeurism was your thing Gilbert," Holtzmann joked with a teasing smirk.

Erin tried to think of a comeback, but the words kept getting caught in her throat and all she could focus on was an eyeful of soft breast peaking around the thin towel.

"See something ya like?" the blonde teased, moving closer to the now sweating Erin.

"I-I-I brought a towel for you. Ab-Abby found it and told m-me to give it to you," Erin stuttered before throwing the towel at Holtzmann and bolting down the stairs without even so much as a backwards glance.

She didn't stop until she reached the bottom of the stairs and caught her breath. What the hell was that Gilbert? She chastised herself. You just stared down your friend's half naked body for an unsettling amount of time. Am I sweating? The scientist convinced herself for the next ten minutes that she was simply shocked to see Holtzmann had such a nice figure since she always is so covered up.

"See something ya like?" She just couldn't understand why she kept replaying that in her mind and flashing to the woman prowling towards her. She was used to Holtzmann's funny flirtatious remarks, because they happened all the time. She just wasn't used to being so affected.

I must've inhaled too much slime.

Loud noises coming from Holtzmann's lab weren't anything out of the ordinary. Silence is what scared the other three Ghostbusters. Silence then followed a loud noise, however, is what would send them running up the stairs as fast as possible to check on the engineer, despite most of the time it just being Holtzmann changing a song or having fell asleep mid-work. Which is why, when the lights flickered dramatically and they heard no call of "oops, my bad!" Patty, Abby, and Erin didn't even exchange a look before jogging up the stairs.

"Holtzy, everything good up here?" Patty tentatively called out.

Silence

"Holtz, are you messing with the cable again?" Abby tried joking.

Silence

As Erin opened her mouth to speak, a gasp came out instead as her eyes settled on a heap of blonde hair on the floor, "Oh my god!"

The trio ran over to see Holtzmann sprawled out on the ground, unsettlingly still. Patty was the first to act, diving on her knees next to the woman and flipping her over, as Erin stood frozen in pure fear.

"She's breathing, and I have a pulse!" Patty exclaimed, letting out the breath she didn't know she had been holding.

"Oh, look at her hands! She got electrocuted again!" Abby sighed, taking in Holtz's bright pink hands that were littered with specks of red.

Holtzmann was surprisingly cautious in the lab for someone with complete disregard to safety lights, but sometimes her machines couldn't handle her pace and would shock her. It never was too serious, and they would just end up joking about it. Which is what Erin kept reminding herself as she tried to stop the clenching in her throat and the burning around her eyes.

"Sorry about that," groaned the injured woman from her resting place on Patty's lap.

"Holtz, you scared the crap out of us!" Abby gently reprimanded as Holtzmann slowly sat up.

"Should've gone with aluminum," she laughed until she was interrupted by a choked sob coming from the woman in the corner of the room.

Erin had her back to the rest of them, trying her hardest to not be seen in such an embarrassing state, but she couldn't hold back her relief. Why am I getting so emotional? She's fine. No one else is crying. She started wiping away the tears before they rolled down her cheeks.

"Erin, look, Holtzy's fine," Patty soothed gently, framing Holtzmann with her arms for emphasis.

Erin made her way across the room to grab the first aid kit before returning to the confused women. "I know, I just got dust in my eye, and coughed, and got a spontaneous runny nose," Erin lamely tried to lie.

"Wow, sounds like you are having a hard time," Abby joked sarcastically while Patty was eyeing Erin down with a weird smirk.

"Yep, allergies like to attack when you least expect it," Erin nervously chuckled as she got the antibiotic and gauze out of the medical kit.

"Yeah. I heard the middle of January is really bad for pollen," Holtzmann added with a smile.

"Well Holtzy, looks like you're in Erin's capable hands. I'm glad you're okay," Patty smirked, leading Abby out of the room while Holtzmann positioned herself on a stool in front of Erin with her palms out. When they had fully left, Erin started working on the scorched hands, and trying her hardest to avoid the burning gaze of their owner and the pounding in her chest at their closeness. She continued diligently, only occasionally nodding her head in response to Holtzmann's ranting. All she could focus on was how soft and gentle the engineer's hands were, and how well they fit in her hand.

"Wow, good as new!" Holtmann grinned as she held up her hands that had been wrapped in gauze to the point of immobility and laughed when she noticed Erin had taped the gauze into place with Scotch tape.

"I'm glad you're okay," Erin mumbled, trying to avoid the scientists gaze and figure out what's been going on with her.

Hey! Sorry this isn't the best. I was excited and didn't proof read it as well as I should have. I figure I'll do two "reasons" at a time to drag it out a little more. I love reviews! I'm also "gaycrouton" on tumblr, so hit me up! Thanks!