It was at that exact moment Willow realized how far she had come. Six years ago, the sight in front of her would have paralyzed her to the spot. It would have had her stammering an apology, blushing like crazy, and wanting the world to swallow her up.
Instead, here she was standing in the middle of the room, hands on hips, staring at her best friend with a blank expression.
“Jesus, Rosenberg!” Grogan yelled, frantically searching for the sheet in a bid to regain some dignity. “Don’t you knock!”
Much to her dismay, the side of her mouth twitched. “I knocked, Grogan,” she told him calmly, silently willing herself not to laugh. Cool. She had to keep her cool. “I pounded on the door. I also yelled, called your home phone, your cell, your pager and, if I didn’t have a key to your apartment, I would have kicked the door in.”
The redhead lying sat up in the bed at her words, clutching the sheet to her chest. “She has a key to your apartment?”
Willow nodded, smiling brightly.
“Who is she, Josh?”
Grogan groaned and leaned back against the headboard. “You’re a bitch, you know that Rosenberg?”
The smile turned to a grin and she found herself wondering at which point in her training, and subsequent time at the SGC, she stopped being the sex-shy Willow and became blasé Willow. Maybe it was all the stories she heard when she used to hang out with the ‘boys’ during her training. Maybe it was her friendship with Grogan. Or maybe it was Kawalsky…
He had ordered her to get Grogan’s ass to the SGC.
“Work has been trying to get in touch with you for over half-an-hour.”
This time he swore.
She knew she shouldn’t be taking so much joy out of this, Grogan would make her pay but… When she tried to wipe the smile from her face, every teasing word her best friend had ever said came back to her.
God, Kawalsky and Hayes were going to love this.
“I hate to do this to you, Grogan, but fun time over. Get your ass out of bed, we’re due at the base yesterday.”
He shot her a deadly look and she held her hands up in a peaceful gesture.
“Hey, I’m just following orders!”