Author's Note:

I am so obsessed with Danny & Mindy it's not funny. They are all I think about when I'm awake and they even creep into my dreams haha, so I had to write another fic about them. Okay, so this first chapter is mostly a conversation between Mindy and Jeremy…it may be a little boring, but PLEASE bare with me. It's needed to set the story and the other chapters will obviously be more Mindy and Danny focussed! I hope you enjoy it.

Paris xoxo

Chapter One: The fine line between dreams and nightmares

"Come on Jeremy!" Mindy begged, "I don't understand what the big deal is! We used to do it all the time!"

"The big deal is…" he started in his poshy British accent that always made Mindy weak at the knees, "…you complicated things."

Mindy rolled her eyes and sighed heavily. "Whatever." She mumbled under her breath and folded her arms across her chest.

"Look Mindy, I love sex. I'm addicted to it. Nobody loves sex more than I do!" Jeremy said laughing a little nervously. "I'm worse than that American show of yours- Californication! I'm worse than Russel Brand!"

"I know. That's why I'm asking you." Mindy said placing her hand on Jeremy's thigh.

"Are you trying to tempt me, right here? In our break room, at our place of work?"

"Goddammit Jeremy! What happened to us? We were fuck buddies! I really need that in my life again!"

"I understand the feeling but, I'm sorry, I can't help you." Jeremy said taking her hand off his thigh.

"Why?" Mindy asked, groaning loudly. "I just need to know why. Was I…Oh God! Was I bad in bed?" she whispered softly.

"No. You are extremely good in bed." Jeremy said patting her arm. "I guess I shouldn't have been surprised…your people did invent the Karma Sutra. God Bless that amazing book."

"So what was it then?" Mindy asked impatiently.

"I told you, Mindy… you complicated things."

"How so?"

"Well you fell in love with me for one thing."

"I so did not." Mindy said hotly, feeling her cheeks burn red.

"Yes you did. You complicated things by your feelings. I was perfectly fine to be your friend with benefits fling but you became too attached. You kept giving me these love-sick-puppy-dog eyes and I had to end things. Which by the way, really sucked for me too, because I then had to do the clubbing scene again, just to be able to sleep with girls."

"Shauna is right. You are a man-slut." Mindy said rolling her eyes.

"I may be a man-slut, but look who is begging who to do the deed again." Jeremy asked, raising his eye brows at her in amusement. "I guess women can never get enough of Dr Jeremy Reed."

Mindy bit down hard on her tongue, to avoid saying something smart that would ruin her chances of resuming her friends with benefits with Jeremy. It was not in her nature to beg for sex. She never had done anything like these before. Even in the past when she was Jeremy's fuck buddy, she didn't have to beg or suggest the idea. It had just happened between them one night. She was 'forever alone' as usual and in one of her 'there is no such thing as love' moods; when Jeremy had walked into the empty on-call room at the hospital, complaining that he had just had 'the worst day and really needed sex but with all the clubs shut, so where was he to find a girl to sleep with?' The next was history. Mindy pulled down the blinds and Jeremy locked the door; and that night was the start of her love affair-as she liked to think of it-with Jeremy.

"Mindy, did you hear what I said?" Jeremy asked, waving a hand in front of her face.

"What if I promised that I wouldn't fall in love with you this time…or get too attached." She asked avoiding his question. "I've totally changed. I don't need feelings and romance any more…I just want sex. Lots of… just sex… please, come on Jeremy!"

"Mindy, you're a great girl. But, I know you have trouble separating feelings from sex. So I'm going to have to pass. Besides, as I was telling you before when you zoned out… there's this girl that I really like. We are not together, but I really don't want to blow it with her. She's not usually my type, and in the past I always thought of myself as a ladies' man, but this girl may be the one that I would settle down for."

"Wow, man-slut!" Mindy said smiling. "You're totally changing! So there is a heart under all those flawless abs."

"She's really different to other girls. I think if she learnt of our past situation, she would never speak to me again. She already thinks of me as a trouble maker. She's not into bad boys, they apparently turn her off."

"So…who's the lucky girl?"

"Someone you don't know." Jeremy said lying quickly.

"Oh come on, you are the worst lair…you are just as bad as Danny! You think because you are 'British and Charming' that I can't see through your lies?"

"Mindy, I'm not lying."

"You are just digging your grave deeper, Jeremy! So it's obviously someone in our building because you said she would be hurt if she learnt that we used to have a thing."

"I didn't say hurt. I said that she would never speak to me again." Jeremy said correcting her.

"So it's someone I know…probably someone in this building…" Mindy said trailing off, trying to figure out who the mystery woman may be.

"Look Mindy, let's just forget that we had this conversation. I'm a play boy, I can't be tamed. But you," he said poking her in the ribs, "you need to find someone to fulfil your urges."

"Yes, great! Let's get back on track…so since you won't do it…I need to find someone ASAP, because I'm horny all the time!"

Jeremy almost chocked on his can of soda.

"Don't look at me like that." Mindy said rolling her eyes. "When guys say it, it's cool, but the moment a girl says something like this, alarm bells go off in your heads like 'Geez, she must be a slut…she's horny all the time.' Yet, no guys would ever actually admit that they secretly love it."

Jeremy played with his tie, trying to loosen it a little. He was starting to feel really hot and bothered by what Mindy was saying.

"Why don't you go clubbing with Shauna again? You might find someone there." Jeremy suggested, trying to divert the awkward subject.

"Nah, I'm over the whole clubbing scene. I gave it another go last time, when everyone from the office went, because I hadn't been in a decade, but the guys are the same jerks as always. Plus, that time I met Josh and look how great he turned out to be."

"Which one was he again? The one that dumped you for his best-friend?"

"No, that was Jamie. Gosh, keep up Jeremy! Josh was the sports' lawyer…the guy that I hosted the Christmas party at my house with?"

"Oh, the one that had the psychotic girlfriend that destroyed Danny's gingerbread house?"

"Yes, that Josh." Mindy said sighing at the memory of her not so perfect boyfriend. "He made me a home-wrecker. He was a jerk, Jeremy! Now I know how poor Jennifer Aniston felt when Brad Pitt fell in love with Angelina Jolie."

"I think their circumstances were a little bit different to yours." Jeremy said, before Mindy shot him a dirty look. "Okay, fine, I'm sorry."

"Oh I know!" Mindy exclaimed loudly, her eyes widening at the idea that had just presented itself in her head. "You must know like tonnes of sexy single guys, right? You can hook me up."

"Actually, Mindy…" Jeremy said shaking his head. "I don't have that many guy friends."

"What? Why not?!"

"Well for starters, most of my mates are in the UK. Then there's the fact that I don't have time for guy friends; the ladies keep me busy enough, you see." He said with a quick wink.

"Gross."

"Add to that, the fact that I see other males as competition…so you can see why the only male friends I have are Morgan and Danny."

"Danny?! You are friends with Danny outside of work?! Why?!" Mindy asked in disbelief. "Morgan, I get. He's a very cool guy and super funny…but Danny?!"

"Danny is actually my best friend, you might say. Mindy, he is not that bad. Maybe if you got to know him better, you might actually like him more."

Mindy scoffed. "I don't think so."

"Sorry that I can't help you out with your friends with benefits situation…maybe you could try-"

"Don't you dare say Danny! I think I might actually gag."

"I wasn't." Jeremy said, looking at Mindy suspiciously. "You really hate him though, don't you?"

Mindy nodded without a word.

"It's a pity, you guys have such a strong sexual chemistry that exudes-"

"What the hell man?"

"Don't act so surprised. There's actually a lotto on you two. Everyone in the office thinks you are on the verge of cracking and succumbing to Danny's advances."

"An office lotto? What the hell? Are you guys on crack? Danny and I can barely tolerate each other!"

"Which makes it so obvious that you two have this strange attraction towards each other! You can cut the sexual tension with a knife!" Jeremy said gesturing to do so with his hands. "I mean have you seen the way he looks at you? Everybody notices it."

"Eww. Gross man! No, just no." She said shaking her head in disbelief.

"Hey, I wasn't the one that suggested Danny." Jeremy said throwing his hands up in the air defensively. "I was simply going to say what about Brendan?"

"Brendan? Really, Jeremy? Brendan? He is worse than Danny! Are you kidding me? I would literally, rather sleep with Danny-"

"Would you now?" Danny asked walking into the break room, carrying a sandwich and a bottle of water.

Mindy opened and closed her mouth in shock.

Great work, Mindy!

How the hell are you going to talk yourself out of this one?!

"So the truth comes out…Finally." Danny said, pulling out a chair next to Mindy to sit down at her and Jeremy's table. "I always knew that you had a thing for me, Lahiri."

"Eww. I don't." Mindy said hotly. "As if!"

Mindy wanted to mentally kick herself.

As if?!

Great comeback!

Dude you really need to STOP watching Clueless so much!

But it was the best that she could do and although she really wished that she could find another way to shut him down, her mind was totally blank. Well not exactly blank. It was filled with angry thoughts, mostly about Danny Costellano; thoughts which involved her planning and executing various painful, slow torturous deaths.

"I heard you, just now, with my own two ears, Mindy."

"Your own two ears? Wow, Danny, wow. I didn't know that you had two ears, or that you could let alone count! Thanks for sharing that useless part of information with us." Mindy said sarcastically, looking at Jeremy for some support.

Jeremy however, had a smug look on his face, almost as if he was enjoy the scene in front of him. He kept looking back and forth from her to Danny, like he was at a game of Tennis, almost as if it was something out of a sudden death match at the English open. Mindy kicked him hard under the table.

"Ouch. What was that for Mindy?" he asked cluelessly.

"What?" she asked narrowing her eyes at him.

She was going to kill him.

"You kicked me." Jeremy whined. "Why did you do that for?"

"Sorry, I have bad reflexes." She said innocently, rolling her eyes at Jeremy when Danny was not looking.

"She kicked you because you are not taking her side, Jeremy." Danny said with a mouthful of food.

"Gross man, don't talk with your mouth full! You're ancient. Aren't you meant to know these kind of rules already?" Mindy said attacking Danny.

Jeremy smirked again and for once Mindy could see that he was savouring this moment in front of him. She was almost a hundred percent sure that when he left them, he would be giving Shauna, Betsy and Morgan the 411 on the latest goss of Danny and Mindy. The thought of the four of them placing wagers on her and Danny's fight, made her reach out and kick Jeremy hard in the shin again.

"What the hell, Mindy? You kicked me again." Jeremy said a little angrier this time. "I think it's going to bruise."

Mindy secretly wished that it would. That would teach him for not sticking up for her and for storing up information to give to the others.

"Sorry Jeremy, I told you I have the worst reflexes."

"It comes with old age, Jeremy." Danny said before taking about bit out of his sandwich. "She can't help it."

"Something that you would know all about, right Danny?" Mindy asked fighting back.

"I know that you are so desperately wanting to make fun of my age again; but you seem to forget that we were born in the same decade. I'm not that much older than you, Mindy. Just keep that in mind."

Jeremy smirked, snorted a little loudly and quickly jumped up from the table. Mindy had shot him another dirty look and he was not in the mood to get kicked again. That girl had unbelievably strong strength in her legs and two bruises on his shins were more than enough for one day.

"Well I must be off." He said stretching a little, before throwing his rubbish away in the bin. "I have a tonne of emails to answer. Enjoy your lunch guys."

Mindy stood up a second later.

"Aww are you going too?" Danny asked sarcastically. "Such a pity."

"Yes, Danny. I, like Jeremy have a tonne of emails to address, so that's what I'm going to be doing." She said hotly as she started to walk towards the door.

"But Min," Danny asked reaching out for her hand. "We haven't finished our conversation."

"What conversation?"

Mindy knew exactly what he was talking about, but still for the fun of it, pretended like she had no idea. She knew it would be enough to drive Danny crazy. She loved teasing him more than anything.

"So all these years of denying it and denying it; but the truth finally comes out. You want to sleep with me." Danny said standing up until he was directly in front of Mindy, inches away from her face.

Mindy blushed quickly, a deep beetroot red colour filling her hot cheeks. Danny was standing a little too close for comfort and she was almost certain that he could hear her accelerated heart beat thump loudly against her chest.

"You're disgusting." She said trying to push him away, but he caught her hand before she was able to touch him.

"Just admit it Lahiri and I'll leave you alone."

"There's nothing to admit. You didn't even hear the whole conversation! I said I would rather sleep with you… instead of Brendan. But you didn't catch that, did you? What's wrong Danny? Are you grandpa ears not working as well as you would have hoped?"

Danny rolled his eyes a little and didn't let go of Mindy's hand.

"You do know that there's office lotto on us, right?" he asked smirking a little.

Mindy was on the verge of saying 'DUH!' when she thought the better of it. She always hated being the last to learn something. Sometimes it felt like she was always in the dark when it came to workplace rumours and gossip.

"The lotto is all your fault." Danny said, bringing her back to reality. "You make stupid comments like that and people think that something is going on between us."

"Maybe the lotto started because of the way you look at me!" Mindy growled angrily, fighting with all her strength to get her hand back.

"Why can't you admit it, Lahiri?" Danny said tightening his grip on her hand. "You can't get enough of me at work…you can't get enough of me when work's over… I bet you dream about me when you're at home too."

"Dream? BAHAHA." She said roaring loudly with laughter. "I don't dream about you! I have nightmares about you all the time, Danny and then I wake myself up in shock."

"Nightmares, dreams…same thing." He said shrugging his shoulders at her and raising his eyebrows at her up and down.

"Gross. Seriously man, they are not even the same thing! Dreams are something you wake up from wanting more of; nightmares are like horror films- the images burn your brain forever and they stay there like scars. I can never wake myself up fast enough whenever you creep into my sleep!"

"I read somewhere that we dream about things that are on our mind…so even when we sleep, our brain is still sorting the things were important to us in the day. Which means, that you spend all day long thinking about me; and then all night long dreaming about me." He said before releasing her hand and walking away before she could say another word.

She literally hated him.

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