This is a random thing I cam up with late at night. Based around the first time we see Nick and Jen meet, but of course it's not the first time. Hope you like and let me know what you think :)
I sadly don't own City Homicide.
She felt as if she was in a movie, one of those really cheesy ones; where the two main characters meet for the first time and the whole scene seemed to play out in slow motion. That was what it felt like. Just substitute the fact that the two leading characters knew each other and then you have a blockbuster on your hands. They had all the awkwardness and tension between them, but surprisingly no one else around them picked up on it.
Four years. It had been nearly four long years since she had last seen him, luckily this time was under slightly better circumstances.
He looked different, obviously older, but there was the familiar warmth and glint in his eyes that made her feel at ease almost instantly. She felt memories rushing forward, ones she had not successfully forgotten completely. She resisted the urge to smile when she thought of some of their last encounters and tried hard not to wince when she realised the barrier that would be between them this time around. However, despite her latest negative thoughts, her lips upturned slightly at the thoughts of once again seeing him every day.
Seeing him as Nick Buchanan and him seeing her as purely Jennifer Mapplethorpe.
That was one thing that was worth the distance put between them.
...
He had had more time to adjust. He had known for a few days about their impending 'introduction', and had time to prepare himself. He knew he should have given her some form of warning. Alerted her to the fact they would have to act in front of their co-workers.
But the raw emotion on her face at seeing him again made him feel less guilty.
They had of course been required to have an awkward introduction, with the aim of giving nothing away. In his opinion they had failed miserably. He politely exchanged a few words with her and during their brief conversation managed to detect a hint of excitement and happiness in her eyes. He only hoped he was the reason behind it.
He had never rid of the feelings he had for her.
He was well aware that close to four years apart would probably have had effect, on most people, in softening those feelings. But in his case the torch he held for her had never completely gone out. After working in such close proximity and under dangerous conditions, it was inevitable that feelings of the romantic nature would develop eventually.
He only wished that they had been given more of an opportunity to act on them, Once they had acknowledged feelings between then, their time together was up and they were forced apart. He felt a sense of hope, and a twinge of fate, at the prospect of them working together again. Although he was well aware of the rules and knew they were generally meant to be followed.
But, he also knew that rules were often only made to be broken and the first time around they hadn't completely stuck to the rules.
He was hoping for second time lucky.