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#i want to start another frey file before romancing the girls just so i can play it and romance at the same time like i originally did on 3ds
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Chat Room Romance: CHAPTER THREE
 Full story on Ao3: (X)
Chapter Summary: Chapter 2 and 3 will be combinations of the Jonerys Week Prompts: Day 4 and 5 (Sci-Fi and Angst). In this chapter the irony of fate seems X-Files worthy.
Chapter 3: Life Goes On
+++o+ Fast Forward Almost Three months +o+++
Early May 2018
“I know I shouldn’t say this…but I kinda love when your husband goes out of town on business,” Dany says with a huge smile while taking a sip of wine and then taking a bite out of one of the chocolate covered strawberries that Missis made for them to share.
Dany lost her roommate when Missie and Grey married the month before, and she has not been in any hurry to find someone else to rent out the second room in her apartment. Grey has traveled for work twice since they tied the knot, which the best friends took advantage of by having a sleepover at Dany’s place. Sadly Grey’s work trip are always on “school nights” so it was always a tame evening as each of the young women had an early day at the office the following morning. But it was still nice to enjoy a dinner and a quick movie.
“Don’t let him hear you say that!” Dany’s best friend chuckles before finishing off her last glass of wine.
“You know I love Grey, you did good with him. He is a great guy,” Dany smiles sadly. “But I do miss having you as a roommate.”
Missie studies her for a moment before frowning and getting up to wash out her glass. She wasn’t planning on broaching the subject again, but Dany had witnessed the look on her face.
Following her best friend into the kitchen with the plate of strawberries, she sits at the counter and watches Missie clean up.
“Now I feel bad, Missie…please just tell me if I upset you. I was completely kidding about being happy that your husband travels for work, I mean…you are my best friend, like a sister. I am so happy that you have Grey - -“
Missie sighs loudly before turning to face her best friend. “Of course I know you were kidding about Grey, I wasn’t frowning because of that. Look, let’s just drop it.”
Frowning, Dany shrugs, “You know, it will be ten times worse if you just don’t tell me what you are thinking about…my imagination will run wild.”
“I don’t want to have another debate…but I just can’t help but feel like you are still so sad about Jon,” Missis starts, frowning at the way Dany flinches at the mention of his name. “Ok, never mind. I am sorry I mentioned him. Let’s drop it.”
“What do you want me to say? I told you already what happened. The guy was kissing his EX in the middle of our date, just after he had his tongue in my mouth!” Dany snaps, her stomach instantly in knots.
Damn it, I hate how the mere mention of his name still upsets me so much. It’s ridiculous that he still had this effect on me.
Pathetic even.
“I know! I know what happened…but I also know that you didn’t even let him speak in order to hear what he had to say to try to explain. And then you immediately cut all ties with him. They guy literally has no possible way to find you.” Missie points out. She saw how crushed Dany was after her date with FoxyMulder…  But as the days went on and the girls discussed and analyzed in painful detail what had happened… Missie couldn’t ignore her gut, she felt it was at least possible that Dany was making a mistake.
Missie continues, “All I can say, is that your connection with him online was so strong. What if he is the right guy for you? Why not just hear what he has to say?”
“Why? Because I don’t care what he has to say! He is just some jerk I spent months talking to online…and he was probably with that redhead the whole time…while feeding me a bunch of bullshit lines about his sad life, and how I am the only person he’s ever wanted to talk to,” Dany yells, her emotions spinning out of control before she catches herself and shuts up. “Missie, I am sorry…I have no reason to yell at you. I just want to forget about him. It was nothing, nothing at all.”
Missie agrees to drop it, both ladies continuing to clean up since they have work early tomorrow. The subject changed, the girls enjoy the rest of their evening.
It is not until much later that night, when Dany lies alone in her bed that her façade falters. She buries her face in the pillow to drown out her feelings, she is angry at herself for being weak and feeling sad over him. But the truth is…she misses him. She misses their friendship. And she doesn’t understand how she could have felt such intense feelings for the man during the date…just for him to go and - -
She doesn’t even want to remember, him and that smug redhead. The look of victory Ygritte gave her after Dany had caught them kissing.
No, Dany doesn’t care what Missie says about Jon, he is out of her life for good.
Dany makes a personal vow to never let some guy hurt her that badly again. She invested too much of herself into some guy she barely knew.
++o++
The next morning Dany is running around her office preparing for a big meeting she is taking part in. Her direct supervisor is project managing the data-warehousing migration project, while she is on point to be his lead. It is a huge responsibility and the project is crucial to the company. She will be the direct liaison with the IT firm that is consulting on the project. Dany knows the next few months at work are going to be brutal, their team was warned that there would be many late nights in the office.
“Daenerys, the Black Water consultant team is already waiting for us in conference room C, they arrived early to set up. Please make sure that you have the project specs ready to share with them,” Tyrion asks while popping his head in her office on the way to meet with them. “I’ll see you in there.”
Dany gathers her things before stopping by her teammate Brienne’s cubicle to invite her to walk with her. As the women rush through the halls they agree that Dany will take lead on the presentation and Brienne would jump in as needed to further explain the project details.
“I hope the consultants from Black Water are good people to work with. There is nothing worse than not getting along with a team of people that we are going to be stuck working insane hours with over the next few weeks…months even!” Brienne complains. Dany already knows she had a bad experience with the Frey consulting group on a previous project.
“I’m sure it will be just fine. Come on, let’s have a good attitude…happy thoughts!” Dany whispers while holding the door open so that Brienne can enter before her. The people in the room are standing to the side of the large conference table and making introductions.
“Everyone, this is Daenerys Targaryen. She will be taking lead and more importantly she is the direct liaison between Lannister Marketing Company and Black Water for this project. So make sure you get familiar…and stay on her good side!” Tyrion jokes while motioning for Dany to stand next to him.
“This will be a good test for me to make sure that I have learned everyone’s names,” Tyrion announces. As Tyrion introduces each of the consultants to Dany, she smiles and shakes each of their hands. She is also trying to remember name and role as introductions are made. “First we have Sam Tarly, he is lead coder for the group. This is Tormund Wildling who is the team’s quality assurance guy. And probably the most important for you, Daenerys, is Jon Snow. He is the project lead and you both will be working together to run the relationship between Lannister and Black Water as we tackle the project.”
The moment Dany locks eyes with none other than Jon Snow (aka: FoxyMulder), she feels as though the room is spinning. He looks equally shocked to see her. Both hesitate before showing any kind of reaction, then Dany decides quickly how she must handle this.
Oh, hey! It’s the guy that stomped on my heart at our first and last date – by slobbering on his ex’s face while leaving me to sit alone at our table.
Well that is definitely not going to be professional Dany decided.
“Hello Jon, nice to meet you,” Dany stressed coolly while quickly shaking his hand and then letting it go.
“Hello, Daenerys. Nice to meet you as well,” Jon says politely, his eyes burning into her. Dany is truly unable to decipher his expressions, so she looks away at the earliest possible moment.
“Everyone, Daenerys can be a mouthful. Most people just call my Dany for short,” she shares with the small group. Tormund looks relieved at the nickname offered, before turning his attention back to Brienne. He seems to have an immediate interest in her. Both are the tallest people in the room by far.
Everyone takes their seats in order for the meeting to start. Both Dany and Jon having significant roles in their respective presentations. Both Jon and Dany are very professional, often having to interact during the open discussion as they will be point person for the two teams.
Jon soon realizes that his teammates are very impressed with Dany. She knows her stuff and has a charming and warm personality. She also appears to have a great working relationship with her peers as well. Her smile and laugh are able to light the room up, not that she even once directed them at Jon.
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The meeting goes for the remainder of the day, lunch had been catered in as well. There had been no real break for anyone to have alone time.
Towards the end of the day they do break a little early from the project. As most of Jon’s team members are using the free time to check their work emails he stands and asks Dany if she can show him which cubicles his team will be using while working on-site.  
“Of course, follow me,” she says while walking ahead of him. Instead of the cubicles she leads him to her office, looking around and relieved that no one is paying attention to either of them.
Once in her office Jon shifts uncomfortably while looking around. The office is very tidy and he immediately notices a great photo of a small group of girls are at a wedding, Dany is wearing a deep purple bridesmaid’s dress and laughing while the bride is squeezing her tightly.
She sees he is staring at the photo from Missie’s wedding last month. They wedding she had dreamed he would be her date to, ‘what a joke’ she thinks bitterly. Dany’s back stiffens while she prepares herself to say what she needs to say to this man.
“Let me start by saying that I appreciate your ability to just keep it professional here, obviously this is a huge project and we need to work together,” Dany says stoically, keeping her true emotions well hidden.
Jon is quiet, just nodding as she speaks. He is letting her take the lead on how they are going to manage this.
“I also want to apologize for the last thing I ever said to you, the whole F-word. I don’t normally talk that way…”
“I deserved it, so consider it forgiven and forgotten. Dany...there is so much I want to say to you about that night,” Jon first assures her, before wanting to explain himself.
Dany quickly nods in thanks for his forgiveness before cutting off his last sentence. She refuses to go there with him.
“Jon, I would like to just move forward...professionally. I want to pretend that we never knew each other as FoxyMulder and ScientistScully,” Dany says firmly, trying to ignore the sadness that washes over Jon’s face. “I want to be able to function as professional peers as though we never had that disastrous date. There is nothing I care to discuss about the past. I don’t want to hear it. It’s over.”
Jon stares at the beautiful young woman standing before him, part of him still trying to process that it is actually her. How he had wished for a chance meeting so that he somehow could find her again. He wasn’t expecting to be in a position to work by her side for many weeks. She’s made it clear she doesn’t want to try to fix things between them personally, as much as he desperately wants to.
++o+ Flashback +o++
Jon scowls, looking at his watch as he waits for Ygritte in the back hallway of the restaurant. He hates leaving Dany alone to sit at the table and wait, but for his own conscious he wants to talk to his ex as he had promised. The manager had overheard the exchange at their table and was livid with her behavior and demanded to speak to her privately first. Now regretting that decision, Jon had told her he would wait until they were done.
Yes, they broke up many months ago and even the time they were together was not a healthy time in his life. Jon was in a bad place when he dated Ygritte, he tolerated so much crap from her because he just didn’t think he deserved anyone better and he was also being lazy. It was easier to let her walk all over him then to stand up for himself.  It isn’t a time in his life that he is proud of.
Not that it matters now. Jon has learned one thing - he would rather be alone than to be in such a toxic relationship. And he has been alone, he’s not dated anyone since things ended with Ygritte.
As Jon waits in the hallway his mind wanders to his beautiful date. He’s completely enamored with Dany, she is hands down the most gorgeous woman he’s ever seen. Her eyes and that amazing smile has literally left him speechless many times already this evening. And the best part is that her outside beauty is not even what has him crazy about her!  The many hours they spent talking and sharing their lives with each other have been priceless - then to find out they already live in the same state! All Jon can say is that he has really high hopes for them. He hopes she does too.
The manager walks past Jon without saying a word, as the waiter Scott is animatedly talking to him about a table that is threatening to call the health board over some bogus issue. Ygritte then comes out slowly, her cheeks wet with tears.
“I was just fucking fired! Just because I didn’t act like a statue when I saw the man I love making out with some fancy girl at my place of work!” Ygritte cries, stepping closer to him. “You have no idea how tight I’ve been on money, I needed this damn job!”
Clearing his throat, “I’m sorry to hear about your job, but you’ll get another one. I don’t have a lot of time, but we need to talk about what happened out there,” Jon begins cautiously, knowing that Ygritte can fly off the handle at any moment.
“Ohhhhhhh, you don’t have a lot of time? Is your prissy stuck-up lady waiting for you? Afraid she will give up on you and just leave?” Ygritte begins, only to be met by Jon’s scowl. “Excuse me, here my life is literally falling apart and you are worried because some rich princess has to sit at a table in a fine restaurant and ‘wait’ - - oh the horror.”
Releasing his breath slowly in order to calm himself, Jon takes a moment before responding.
“If we can’t have a normal conversation then I am just going to say goodbye now,” Jon says calmly, his eyes searching to see what kind of mood she is in.
Jon’s goal is to reiterate to her that not only have they broken up, but that he will never be with her again.
At that moment the hostess that Jon remembers from earlier walks by, saying excuse me as she walks towards the restroom. Ygritte smiles at her brightly before turning back to Jon..
“Oh Jon, you are right. I am so sorry...things have just been so stressful for me!” Ygritte cries while stepping closer to him. Her voice breaking painfully.
“I’m sorry to hear that, but I am sure things will turn around,” he offers with sincerity.
“I was thinking the same thing, in fact I think things are turning around at this very moment,” she says before throwing her arms around him and pressing her lips against him.
Jon is absolutely flabbergasted and was caught off guard. He is busy clamping his lips shut as Ygritte begins moves her head and making small panting sounds - as though she is making out with a pillow.
Finally able to move Ygritte away from him, Jon’s face is bright red as he looks at her in horror. She has never been this aggressive.
“Wow,” Jon hears from behind Ygritte, looking past her he immediately spots Dany who is looking right at Ygritte. It is after, when Dany looks at him that he feels sick, realizing how bad the situation looks. Dany looks at him like he is garbage, something she stepped on that is now stuck to the bottom of her shoe.
Jon rushes past Ygritte, desperate to talk to Dany and explain. “Dany! Please wait…please!”
But she turns and stalks off quickly. Ygritte is holding his arm and begging him to just let the princess go. Jon is furious, he forcefully steps back and tells Ygritte not to touch him.
“Congratulations, Ygritte. Even now you are still making my life a living hell! Stay away from me!” Jon sneers at her as he chases after Dany.
++o+ Flashback End +o++
“Jon?” Dany asks again, he can hear the frustration in her voice. He had zoned out while thinking.
“Sorry. Yes, of course. I’ll do whatever you think is best,” Jon says softly, noticing that she won’t even look him in the eyes.
“Okay, that’s settled. Let’s get back to work, I’ll show you the cubicle area on the way back to the conference room,” Dany says stiffly while walking past him, she is careful not to get close to him as she squeezes by.
Jon’s face falls, her dislike for him is obvious. He trusts that she will treat him professionally for the sake of the project, but he has no hope for anything else.
These last couple of months have been hell. He was completely heartbroken after that night. The look on her face, she was devastated. When she started crying, all he had wanted to do was grab her and hold her, swear his to his feelings for her…but she was also so angry.
In addition to the terrible guilt he felt for hurting her, the loss he felt over her presence in his life was devastating. She had blocked him so quickly, he had no way to get in touch with her. Jon had even gone so far as to make a new user name for the X-files chat room, only to learn that she had deactivated her account. She was gone, and wanted nothing to do with him.  
He had really fallen for her, even before they had met. She had become the most important person in his life. And maybe that was a stupid move on his part. To give someone he had never met so much power over him.
But there was something about the way ScientistScully carried herself in their conversations that had hooked him. Even their hours of debate and speculation about the X-file series, it taught him so much about her personality. She was intelligent, well spoken, compassionate and most of all...tenacious.
Jon fights to push away the memory of her lips moving against his. God, how he had loved kissing her, the way their mouths moved together, the way she smiled against his lips, everything about their connection had been perfect. That night he had known that she was the girl of his dreams.
And he fucking blew it, like an asshole.
Having stopped in the restroom before returning to the conference room, Jon enters at the tail end of a conversation. Some of his teammates are interacting with the Lannister team. Then Jon remembers, as the hired consultants – his team always offers to pay for a happy hour after work on the first day. It helps with building teamwork and getting to know personalities of the client.
“Jon, come here buddy! You have to tell them we are dead serious that happy hour is on us after work…and when we say us, we mean our company,” Tormund smiles at the Lannister employees.
It is Tyrion, the main manager that finally concedes and agrees that a happy hour after work would be a nice way to get to know each other.
Jon’s heart pounding in his chest, he can’t help but get excited at the prospect of going to a social event with Dany. Maybe if he can just spend some time with her, talk…he never stopped caring about her. Jon searches out Dany’s eyes but she is typing in her laptop, ignoring everyone around her
Tyrion walks over to her, “Tell me again why you aren’t coming to happy hour, Targaryen?”
Dany smiles at her boss and begins packing up her things, “I just can’t, not tonight.”
“I will need a better excuse than, ‘I just can’t’ young lady,” Tyrion laughs while smiling at her teasingly. It is obvious to Jon that they have a good working relationship. Jon is also relieved to see that her boss is wearing a wedding ring.
With her laptop bag hanging from her shoulder Dany looks at her boss and smiles, “I have a date after work, so no – I am not going to happy hour.”
A date. She has a date with someone else tonight.
Of course she does…just look at her. She is fucking gorgeous, smart, kind…the whole package.
Fuck, this is bullshit. And I didn’t think things could get worse.
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Brooding, Jon looks out the window to try to control himself. Jon feels as though the wind has been knocked out of him. Dany quietly exits with a general goodbye to the group, being careful to not even look in Jon’s direction.
He doesn’t know how he is going to make it through this project. He is in his own personal hell, with no way out.
++o+ Chapter End +o++
Author’s Note: As I was writing chapter 3, I decided that instead of rushing through my outline for the end of the story – that I would break it into two chapters (3 & 4). So now we know what really happened between Jon and Ygritte that night, the question is – how and will Jon and Dany be able to work together…with all of the hard feelings between them?
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