DISCLAIMER-I Don't own NCIS NEW ORLEANS OR ITS CHARACTERS,I JUST BORROW THEM TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN.
Author's note...this is my very first ever story so hope you like leave me some reviews to let me know how i did.
Chapter 1.
It was the run up to valentines day and every shop window was covered in red and pink hearts, flowers and confetti. For single people this time of year sucked. Big time! Meredith Brody walked past a store who's window had a picture of cupid in it and lots of red hearts. What a depressing site it was to a women her age with no boyfriend/partner to send a card to or receive gifts from. The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became. She would be glad when it was over and done with and things went back to normal so she wouldn't feel so depressed and miserable. Who was she kidding, she would still feel depressed and alone but she wouldn't be reminded about it every minute of the day with all this soppy love stuff around. Two days until valentines day and three until all this stuff disappears for another year.
When she arrived at her desk the next morning, Merri decided to plow through all the un-finished reports and catch up on paper work that had been mounting up due to the amount of cases they had had the past few weeks. They had just been wrapping up one case when another had come in so she was a little behind in getting it all done. She opened her top draw and there sat on top of the pile of un-finished reports was a single red rose. She looked around the office to see if either LaSalle or Pride were in but there was no sign of either of them and there desks looked the same as they did when they left the previous night. Now her curiosity was peaked, how could someone get in to place the rose and more importantly, who was it off? She picked up the rose with one hand and the files with the other before depositing both on her desk and shutting the draw. Picking the rose up, she started to twirl it between her fingers just as Pride and LaSalle walked through the door. Pride was the first to speak with
"Morning Brody" in his everyday, cheerful voice; followed by LaSalle
"Morning partner,how are you on this fine day"? As they both walked to sit at their respective desks to sit before looking over to where Brody sat.
"Hey Merri, what you got there"? LaSalle asked while looking across the room to where his partner sat, twirling the rose between her fingers.
Pride looked over at Brody when LaSalle asked the question to see what he was referring to. On seeing the red rose Pride asked
"Who's the lucky guy then?", to which LaSalle followed with
"Very nice, you kept him quite".
Brody looked between both men and weighed up her choices.
"Well I was hoping one of you could tell me who the lucky guy is as I have no clue. I found it in my top draw just now".
She kept her gaze level and watched both men to see if either of them gave anything away. Going by the facial expressions and their body language, they either had no idea what she was talking about, or they were both good at hiding the truth from her. Just then; Prides phone rang and after a lot of "ok's" and a "right", finishing with a "be right there" .Pride hung up.
"Lets go,body on the high way" Pride said reaching in to the filing cabinet behind him to get his badge and weapon. Brody and LaSalle grabbed their weapons and followed Pride out to the car.
A short car ride later and they arrived to find Loretta all ready there doing her thing...
"What you got Loretta?" Pride asked as he walked over to Loretta and the body. She gave him the low down on what she had and bagged the body up to transport back to HQ. LaSalle and Brody got to work bagging and tagging evidence and taking photographs, making sure they didn't miss anything. When they were done, and Pride had got all the information he could out of the people who had found the body, they all climbed back into the car for the drive back. When they arrived back, Pride asked LaSalle to check on the dead PO's service record to find where he was from and what he was doing here. He was also about to tell Brody to check out his bank and phone records when suddenly, he saw Brody reach out towards her desk and picked up not one but two red roses. This defiantly had her beat because she knew it couldn't be any of her colleagues as she had been with them the whole time.
"Whoever he is, he must really like you" LaSalle stated when he looked across at Merri standing with the two roses in her hand. Two roses and it was just after lunch time... Today was getting better by the hour. Brody set the roses down and got on with the task at hand, glancing at the roses every now and again. At 15.00 hours, the two other agents got up to go upstairs for a late lunch, asking if she wanted to join them. She was about to say no when her stomach gave a low rumble. She got up to follow them towards the kitchen for lunch.
After lunch, the three agents came down stairs and were about to get back to work when Brody stopped in her tracks staring at her desk. There were now 2 pink roses to join her 2 red ones from earlier that day.
"This guy is good" Chris said looking at the roses on his partners desk.
"At this rate you will have the full dozen before bedtime" Pride chipped in laughing, watching the crimson colour rise in Merri's checks and neck.
Deep down she had to admit this was kind of sweet and a little romantic. The problem was, she was still had no idea who they were from. The detective was intrigued at who the guy could be and how he had gotten all the roses in the office without being seen. Both men were at their desks working when she came back from the kitchen with a glass of water to place the four roses in. She didn't want them to wither after all. She placed them in the glass and sat down to work, but her mind could not help wandering back to her her mystery guy and who he could be.