A/n: A little holiday story to kick start December, Scotty spends the week leading up to Christmas with his family, the only problem is they think he has a girlfriend...Lilly. Will Scotty be able to convince Lilly to play along, find out?

Fakin' it

Chapter one: It will take a bit of convincing

It was two weeks before Christmas, and Scotty entered the department for the last week of work before he and the rest of the squad had a much deserved week off. He walked towards his locker and slipped his gun in, casting a nervous look in the direction of his desk, he saw Lilly, already hard at work. This wasn't going to get any easier, he'd have to ask her at some point and he just prayed she wouldn't make fun of him or get pissed off although he knew either was more likely than not.

He was running the conversation he had had with his mother, over and over again in his head.

FLASHBACK:

Scotty was just sitting on his couch, watching TV, drinking a beer and glad for the first time that week that his mother hadn't called, asking him for the umpteenth time, If he really was going to be comming alone next week, because he must have a girl that would love to spend the holidays with him and his parents. The sharp trilling of his cell phone made him groan, he knew who it was without needing to look at the caller ID.

"Holá Mama" Scotty said, trying to keep the irritation out of his voice.

"Hola Mijo" She replied cheerfully "I was just ringing to double check if you were bringing anyone with you next week?"

"Ma, for the last time, No, it's just me" He said, standing up to go to the kitchen. If he was going to talk to him mother he was gonna need something stronger than beer. "But Mijo, surely you are seeing someone, it's been such a long time since you brought a girl home to meet us. You are almost Thirty-five aren't you gonna give your mother grandchildren soon, your father and I would love more grandchildren, we aren't gonna be alive for ever"

His mother was the queen of all guilt trips, he'd never been able to say no to her, especially when she played the grandchildren card. The trouble was he wasn't seeing anyone at the moment, the last girlfriend he brought home to meet them was Frankie, and it hadn't gone over to well when they'd found out she was still married. He was just about to tell he that he wasn't seeing anyone, when so how, he found himself saying..."I am seeing someone, but it's new, we've only been dating a few weeks" What the hell Valens? Are you lying to your mother? The woman was basically a human lie detector, she'd see right through this.

"Really, tell me about her?" His mother began excitedly; he could picture her jumping up and down with excitement "What's her name? Where did you meet her?"

A name, any girls name, Scotty desperately tried to think of any girls name he'd could give his fictional girlfriend but only one name came to his mind "Lilly" he said. Rush? Are you serious Valens? His brain screamed at him of all the women in the world he had to tell his mother he was dating his partner. Well that's just fuckin fantastic, maybe she won't remember the name of his partner, maybe...

"Don't you work with a woman named Lilly?" his mother asked, no such luck, his mother had the memory of an elephant.

"Yeah" Scotty said "That's her"

FLASHBACK END:

The rest of the conversation had gone downhill from there, before he knew it, he was agreeing to bring her along next week, so his family could meet his new Novia. Crap...Well he goes nothin' he thought as he started to walk towards her.

"Mornin' Lil" he said as casually as he could.

Lilly looked up from the report on the desk in front of her and smiled at him "Hey Scotty".

"Lil, I kinda got somethin I want to talk to you about" He began, he could feel his heart pounding so hard against his ribs, he could of sworn she would of heard it on the other side of the desk. "Sure, go ahead" Lilly replied.

"It's kind of a favour" he asked nervously.

Lilly looked across at her normally, cool, calm and collected partner who seemed to be afraid to ask her something. "Scotty, are you alright?" Lilly asked curiously, her brow furrowed in concern

"Yeah, can we talk in private" and without waiting for a reply, Scotty walked out onto the balcony and lent against the railing. Sighing, Lilly followed and as she shut the door behind her, wished she'd brought her coat with her. Hugging her arms around herself, she shivered slightly and faced him. "What did you want to ask me?" Lilly asked, noticing that he was still dressed in his warm overcoat. Scotty noticed as well and he offered his jacket to her but she declined, with a shake of her head.

"I...um...I was speaking...to my Ma' last night and she asked me if...If"

"Scotty can you hurry this up, it's freezing out here" she requested

"Right, she asked me if I was seeing someone and I said that you and I were dating" he blurted out so quickly that it took a few seconds before Lilly had registered what he had said. She opened her mouth to say something, but was lost for words. Eventually her brain reconnected with her mouth and she spoke "What did you say?" she asked

"I told her that you were my girlfriend" he said sheepishly

"Why exactly?"

"It was an accident really, it just slipped out" he said running his hand through his hair and looking at her sheepishly. Lilly sighed and turned to face the street "I guess no harm done, I suppose I don't care if she thinks we are dating" Lilly said "I mean it's not like I am ever gonna meet them"

Scotty shifted uncomfortably "That's where the favour part comes in" Scotty began and Lilly turned to face him "She wants me to bring you with me when I come over for the holidays" Lilly was speechless; she was literally at a loss for words. It was one thing for her partner to tell his parents that they were dating but now they wanted him to bring his new 'girlfriend' to the Valens's week long Christmas celebrations. "So on a scale of one to ten, how badly did I screw up?" he asked

"I...I'd say about forty-seven" Lilly said finally finding her voice, she wanted to be pissed at him, but as she looked over at her partner, at his sheepish smile and the look in his eyes that was practically begging for her not to hurl him over the side of the building, she felt her anger thaw. "So what did you want me to do?" Lilly asked

"I was kinda hoping that maybe you'd...play along...just for the week, then we can say we broke up or something" He replied cautiously

"And what do I get out of this?" Lilly asked, folding her arms across her chest

"What do you mean?" Scotty asked, his heart rate increasing, and despite the cold he felt beads of sweat meandering down the back of his neck.

"Well, you get to save face with your family, what do I get out of this deal?" Lilly asked

"What do you want?" he asked and Lilly could sense how nervous her partner was and she almost laughed, here was a guy that would face up to any doer without fear and he looked utterly petrified at what she could possible ask for in exchange for this huge favour he was asking of her.

"You buy lunch, everyday for the next six months" Lilly said and Scotty sighed in relief, if that was all she wanted it would be a piece of cake "Okay that's easy..."

"I am not done yet" she cut across him "And I get to drive the car to every interview for the next ten cases" The next ten cases? That could be long time, but Scotty was desperate to appease her so he'd do just about anything. "Okay" he said "Anything else?"

"Yeah, when you tell your family we broke up" Lilly said heading towards the door, and the warmth of the bullpen "I dumped you" she said and she flung open the door and walked back inside shutting the door behind her. Scotty was dumfounded, had she just agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend? Had Lilly Rush, ice queen of homicide, agreed to go to his families ridiculous, weeklong Christmas celebrations with him? Suddenly remembering just how cold it was outside he headed for the door, praying that he wasn't just dreaming the last ten minutes.

A/n: what do you guys think? Like it? Hate it? Think it's completely out of character of both of them? Review and let me know.