Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Rating: T, quite a bit of kissing so I thought I'd better be safe.
Five Kisses
1. KACL's Anniversary party.
Frasier stood in the corner of the room. It was the radio station's annual anniversary party and he stood alone. He didn't really know anybody yet and he was a bit nervous, normally he would just go up to someone and introduce himself but he didn't want to do that here. He wanted to ease into the KACL family slowly, get accepted.
His red plastic cup was filled with cheap cider and dust, he swished it around, deep in thought of all his problems since leaving his home in Boston.
"Frasier?"
He looked up to see his producer, Roz, standing in front of him.
"Oh, hey Roz." He smiled.
"Why are you standing on your own?" She asked.
"I'm just keeping a low profile, y'know, trying to fit in." He told her.
"Oh right, well, why don't I introduce you to some people." She said chirpily.
"You will?" He asked, he was surprised at how nice she was being to him.
"Yeah!" She beamed. "I know everyone!"
She was tipsy but he let himself be dragged away. They got to a little group of people and Roz rattled off a whole bunch of names that he forgot straight away. More and more people were introduced.
"Benny this is Dr Crane, Dr Crane this is Benny." She would say. And on it went:
"Pat, Dr Crane, Dr Crane, Pat."
"Drew, Dr Crane, Drew, Dr Crane."
"Emma, Dr Crane, Dr Crane, Emma."
After a good half hour of the same back and forth of greetings, he pulled Roz away from the first group of people.
"Roz, I think I've met everyone now." He said, patting her on the arm.
"Good! Now time for party games!" She was definitely tipsy.
"Oh now, I think it's time for me to leave-"
"No! Frasier! You have to stay!" She cried.
"No I don't, come on now Roz, I have to be up in the morning for squash with my brother." He explained.
"What's squash?" She asked.
"Well, it's a highly satisfactory game in which-"
"Y'know, you can tell me another time." She shrugged.
"Come on Roz, Dr Crane!" Shouted Bernie…or was it Benny..?
"Oh Frasier, stay a little while please?" Her eyes were wide and he found it hard to say anything other than a drawn out 'okay'.
"Yay!" She turned back to Benny. "Hey, set up spin the bottle!"
Frasier didn't want to ask but he saw a bottle and a small group of people. He actually noticed that most people had left, either bored or doing something worse than spin the bottle. Roz pulled him down onto the floor and sat herself opposite him.
A few spins of the bottle later and Frasier was starting to see what the game was, if you could actually call it a game. All it seemed to be was spinning and kissing…maybe he needed to be drunk or something to see the point. The bottle was spun again but he wasn't really paying attention, he was trying to think of a way to get out of the party. All of a sudden his name was called out and he looked down to see that the bottle had landed on him.
"Ooo Dr Crane! Who ya gonna kiss?" Someone shouted. People laughed.
Benny reached out and spun the bottle again. It whizzed round then began to slow, slow, slower. Then it stopped. There were whistles. More laughs. He gulped and looked up ant who it had landed on. Roz was playing with her hair, a weird smile on her lips.
"Oh, you know, I have to be going." He muttered.
"You gotta kiss Roz!"
"Really, I've got to go…"
Roz all of a sudden grabbed his hand and pulled him back to the floor.
"Come on Frasier." She said. "It's a game."
"Roz…" He whined.
She smirked.
"Are you too wussy?"
"…what…no…Roz."
The group had got bored and had spun the bottle again. Frasier took this as his cue to go so he stood up and half danced his way out from the mess of people. He got to the coat stand and grabbed his jacket, he was just about to turn back to say goodbye to Roz when she suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Frasier you are no fun." She teased.
Frasier pursed his lips.
"I am…at organized events..!" He protested.
She laughed.
"No fun!"
"I am!"
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
He stopped the silly squabble and grabbed her. His fingers catching her hips, he pulled her to him and kissed her, almost passionately. She didn't kiss back at first but then she relaxed into him, tracing her tongue along his bottom lip. They pulled away.
"Satisfied?" He asked.
"Oh yes…"
"Good." Good..? "See you on Monday then."
"I…yes…Monday." She stuttered.
He nodded and Roz watched him walk away from her and disappear through the door. She turned back to the group of people who were currently watching Steve from the evening drive show doing shots off Matilda from the archive room. Maybe, she thought, she would get to like this Dr Crane. He wasn't such a bad guy, and hey, he was one hell of a kisser!