MacRiley stories

Sad + Comfort + Pizza

Summary: Riley comforts Mac after his dad died. ( This is a prompt from mutli-fandomshipper101 on tumblr. )

It had been only a few hours since his dad had died. He had sacrificed himself in order to save Mac and their plan to save the world and it was the third time that they were calling him. He had left the Phoenix foundation a while ago and had told them that he was wanted to be alone but they keep calling him... First Bozer, then Matty and now Desi, all of them. Except for Riley. She was always the only one that knew when he was serious about "been alone".

He threw his phone back to the passenger's seat and looked outside. His home was there, familiar and friendly with the lights on. Riley must have returned home after he left. He took a breath because he wasn't ready to talk to anyone but he needed to return to the calm and security of his house. He locked his car and took a step closer to the door.

When he walked in almost forgot to breathe. He knew that his new roommate would be there but he never had thought that he would be able to see something like that. Riley was on the couch, pjs on and her hair on a messy ban on the top of her head. She was typing something on her laptop with a pen into her mouth bitting it.

"You're late." She said without taking her eyes from her laptop. "I almost ate all the pizza."
"You bought a pizza?" He asked her walking in.
"I bought two pizzas."
"And you ate almost two pizzas?" He almost smiled.
"I was hungry." She answered and closed her laptop. "And worried." She looked at him for the first time since he had left Matty's office.
"I'm fine."
"Are you?" She asked him while Mac was seating next to her.

Mac looked at his floor. "No, actually I'm not Riles."
"You know that you can talk to me right?" She was sounded worried. "Or not... I can shut up and live you all eating your pizza."
"I don't wanna talk." He saw her with the corner of his eye nodding. "But I don't wanna be alone either." She nodded once more and she just stayed there, next to him looking somewhere between his bookcase and a table that she had brought from her ex's place last week.

He wasn't sure how much time they had stayed that way but at some point he heard her mutters something.
"Excuse me, what?"
"Are you gonna eat that pizza?" Riley asked and Mac started laughing. Like really laughing. "Mac are you ok?" She was worried again and he now wanted to let her know that yes, he was.
"I just... everyone else wanted to talk to me and you bought pizza."
"Well, first of all, I know that if you wanted to talk you'd talk. And secondly, you love pizza. It always makes you feel better."
"Yes. She does."

Riley smiled at him and he was sure that she thought that he was talking about pizza, but wasn't pizza that always making him feel better. It was her, Riley. She was always going at him when he was needing her bringing pizza with her and at some point, she started to believe that was the pizza that makes him better.

// Note: I don't own the show or the characters. //