Author: Angie
Title: All That Glitters
Characters: CJ, Toby
Rating: G
Summary: I'll try anything once.
Disclaimer: Not mine at all.
Spoilers: None
Feedback: Always appreciated.
A/N: For Grace and her request for a 'ficlet' with the line, " I'll try anything once".

All That Glitters

"You have to savor it, don't down it in one. " He snorts in disgust. "You're a girly drinks girl."

She raises an eyebrow and strides across her room towards him.

He won't say she has a girly walk; it isn't true and he might laugh. Some nights the poker face just won't work. Besides, she might kill him.

"I'll try anything once." She takes the glass, swipes it from his hand, careless of the molten gold as it swirls up and round and meets her mouth. Drains it.

There is a moment, as there always is, when her eyes meet his. "That is the most disgusting thing I've tasted since... the last time."

Now he laughs, can't help but laugh, at the twist of her lips and the smile in her eyes. Glorious, always glorious, but complicated, contradictory. It's been the same for... years.

Years. The same.

Then, before he can stop her, she's on him. The same gleam in her eyes, but somehow, he discerns (just before she closes them), sadder. Not as hopeful.

The taste of her lips through the Islay Malt is the same, though. As is the leap of his heart.

The End