Devin played with Steve's phone as they sat in a meeting a few days later. He'd left it on the table and went off to do something else, so it was fair game, really. The first thing she did was text Josh Gates and ask him to resend that spider picture to set as Steve's background. The next thing she did was pull up his Twitter account and update it with several embarrassing Tweets. Before she could do anything else, however, he came back into the room.

"What are you doing with my phone?" he asked suspiciously.

"Checking the time. Mine died earlier," she shrugged, handing him back the phone.

He nodded in satisfaction and shoved it into his jeans pocket.

"Do you know anything about this meeting?" she asked.

They were the only two there so far and were a little early as it was.

"New case, I'm assuming. Or we're going to discuss the Halloween special, as it's only a few months away," he replied.

"OH yeah, I forgot about that. Know where we're going?" Devin asked.

"No, but it'll probably be some well-known creep factory. Only way to go on Halloween," Steve replied.

"What is a 'creep factory'?" Devin laughed.

"Shut up," Steve defended.

Before Devin could make fun of him anymore, the rest of TAPS showed up and the meeting commenced. As it turned out, it was a meeting discussing the location for the Halloween special. Jason and Grant didn't have anywhere picked out, but they were open to suggestions. By the end of the meeting, they had it narrowed down to the Stanley Hotel, Eastern State Penitentiary, and some place in Ireland, which Steve was obviously against.

After the meeting, Devin drove home to see that no one was there. Feeling pleased that for once she'd have the place to herself, she decided to run a bath in her oversized tub and enjoy the quiet and solitude.


"Dude, what are we doing here?"

Josh looked over at Lucas with an exasperated look on his face.

"We are picking you up a chick," Josh replied, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I don't need your help picking up a chick," Lucas said, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning back in his chair.

Josh shook his head and looked around the food court once more. The mall was a perfect place to pick up slutty girls, which was exactly the kind of girl he needed.

"You, uh, you haven't told anyone else about me being a- well, you know?" Lucas asked suddenly, looking at Josh with a slightly panicked look on his face.

"No, man. Code of secrecy. No one will know, except the lady friend we pick up for you, cause really, you can't hide that from someone your sleeping with. Well, I mean, I guess you can if you're a natural, but something tells me you're not going to be," Josh said, surveying Lucas critically.

Lucas looked offended for a moment then turned back to his fries.

"I'm not sure about this. I thought your first time was supposed to be with someone special," Lucas mumbled, dipping one of his fries into ketchup.

"What are you, a girl? Just man up. How about that girl?" Josh asked, pointing across the food court.

"I'm pretty sure that girl is a prostitute, " Lucas said dully, spying the girl Josh was pointing at.

"Nah, she just looks like a prostitute. Which means she's easy," Josh explained.

"Can't we just go home? I'm tired and it smells like crap in here," Lucas whined.

"God, you really are such a lady. Dine, we'll go. But we're coming back tomorrow," Josh grumbled, taking the brakes off of his wheelchair and rolling away in a huff.

Lucas picked up the trash that Josh had neglected and threw it away before hurrying after Josh. He wasn't really paying attention, because the next thing he knew he was crashing to the ground, having run into someone.

"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry!" he cried, trying to disentangle himself from said person.

"Oh it's alright. I totally wasn't watching where I was going."

Lucas looked up to see a pretty girl in front of him, about his age with brown hair and stunning brown eyes. She smiled at him and stood up, grabbing his hand and pulling him to his feet as well.

"I'm Kara," she said, shaking the hand still in hers.

"Lucas," he replied in a daze.

"Hey guys, sorry to break this up, but Lucas, you gotta get me to my physical therapy appointment."

Lucas looked over in confusion at Josh, who had just rolled up and was smirking at him.

"Oh gosh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you late," Kara exclaimed.

"Uh, no, that's okay. We're not late," Lucas replied, looking at Josh in confusion still.

"Yeah, but we will be. I'm sorry, um, I didn't get your name?" Josh asked.

"Kara," she replied.

"Right, sorry, Kara, but we gotta go. To make it up, we should hang later. Why don't you give your number to Lucas here and we'll meet up later?" Josh asked.

"Um, yeah, okay," Kara smiled, pulling a pen and tiny slip of paper from her purse.

She wrote he number down and gave it to Lucas. She waved goodbye to the two boys and walked off.

"What the hell was that?" Lucas asked as they walked away to the car, "You don't have a physical therapy appointment, and even if you did, Devin always insists on taking you when she's here, and when she's not, she makes Adam do it."

"I thought to get you laid I would need to just find a slutty girl, but since you seem to be Mr. Sensitive over here, I decided I needed to be your wingman to meeting a girl you could actually go out with," Josh explained, grinning.

"So what was all that lying and crap? Why didn't you just let me ask her out?" Lucas asked.

"First off, you never would have asked her out. You are way to freaking shy around girls. Secondly, this way you guys can become friends before dating. That makes it a lot easier when you get to the intimate stuff. Thirdly, I just made you look super good. Now she thinks that you spend your spare time helping out your friend in a wheelchair," Josh stated proudly.

"Yeah, and what happens when you don't need that wheelchair anymore?" Lucas asked, raising his eyebrows slightly.

"I keep it and every time she comes around I pretend I'm still in it," Josh shrugged as if it were no big deal.

"Yeah, cause that won't end in disaster," Lucas groaned, following Josh over to the car.


Did something a little different this time. Hope you like it.