The Calm before the Storm

"Beep!…Beep!…Beep!"

"Argh." Elisa groan loudly as her blissful sleep was distributed by the annoying sound of her alarm clock. She reached over to her nightstand trying to turn off the irritating sound. After a few miss attempts she was able to hit the snooze button. She sighs happily at the quiet sound in her room. Silence the perfect sound to start her day off. After working for two weeks straight trying to close a major case she and Matt finally got the perp. The captain generously gave them a much needed day off. Usually Elisa would catch up on her sleep, watch t.v and eat junk until her stomach hurt but not tonight. Her presence was required tonight at the clock tower. Goliath asked her to join him on patrol on her night off, just the two of them. Of course she said yes. She couldn't help but smile at how nervous Goliath was when asking her. It was a side to him that she hardly ever got sees. Looking at the clock there was still a little bit of time before Matt arrives at her home. They were going to the clock tower together since Matt needed to talk to Broadway about something. What that is Elisa had no idea. Knowing that time is of the essence Elisa got out of bed and stretched trying to wake her up. As she was stretching a sharp pain emulated from her right side.

"Ouch!" Elisa quickly grabs her right side and began to rub it to ease the pain. But as quickly as it came the pain disappears.

"That was weird. Maybe I overstretch myself, oh well." Elisa decided to ignore it since the pain went away. She needed to get ready before Matt arrives. After a quick shower and change Elisa walks to the living room. As she pass the living room window she couldn't help but notices how dark and ominous the sky was.

"Hmm…looks like a storm is coming." She then heard the door knock.

"That must be Matt." Another knock was heard. She walks up and opened the door. Sure enough Matt was standing there holding a Ziploc bag with something inside.

"Come on in Matt. Make yourself at home. I'll put in a pot of coffee."

Matt gladly walked inside, "Thanks Elisa." Matt sat at the table while Elisa made the coffee.

"So Matt what's with the Ziploc bag." She asks while pouring the coffee.

"Well…ummm you see…ummm." Matt was getting nervous so he decided to change the subject.

"Hey look at the clouds outside. It looks like it's going to rain haha." He laughed nervously.

"Yeah... it really does." This was a surprise. Elisa never heard Matt so nervous before. 'I wonder why he is so nervous.' She though. She poured the coffee and walk to the table.

Elisa handed Matt his cup, "Here you go."

"Thanks." Elisa sat down next to him and looked at the bag trying to figure out what's inside. Matt notices how intensely Elisa was looking at the bag. He sighs as he open the bag and took out to what look like a weird shape thing.

"Umm…what is that?" She asks

"It's supposed to be cookies." He said.

"Really? I didn't know you baked." She was surprise to hear Matt baked sweets.

Matt blushed red, "Well not really. You see you know Jenny the girl I told you about. The one I've been seeing." She nodded. "She's sick and I wanted to make her some get well cookies."

"That is so sweet Matt." Elisa couldn't help but be admired at what he was doing. She knew how much Matt cared about Jenny and doing this just proves how strong his love is or her.

He blushed even more, "Yeah well they didn't turn out the why I wanted it. I know that there not good enough to eat. I've never baked before and well this is the end result."

Elisa took the cookie from his hand and looked at it. 'Man this cookie feels hard as a rock.'

She continued to look at the cookie, "It doesn't look that bad. I mean you did a great job on making it look like the shape of a duck. Even I can't do that."

"There suppose to be a heart."

"Oh, well that doesn't matter she wouldn't care. All that matter is how it tastes." Elisa took a bite out of the cookie, key word being trying. 'Man this cookie is really hard to chew on and it taste so weird.' Finally after chewing for about a minute she was able to swallow the piece with a lot help from the coffee.

"That bad right." Matt said not surprise by the look on her face while eating the sweet.

"It has a unique taste to it and it's very chewy." She was being honest but also trying to hurt his feelings.

"And that's why I'm coming with you to clock tower. Since Broadway is the expert when it comes to baking I figure he can help with my cookies."

"Oh thank Christ. These cookies are nasty. I don't want you to poison the poor girl." They both couldn't help but laughed.

"Come on let's get going. You don't want to miss your date with Goliath, now do we?" Matt smirked when he said that knowing why she was going to the tower.

Elisa blushes a bit, "It's not a date."

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that."

She gave him a playful glare, "Let's go lover boy before we get rained on." Matt got up and walk to the door. Elisa followed suit. Just as they were about to leave the apartment the sharp pain on her right side came back a little more painful than the first time. Elisa winced at the pain but thankfully Matt didn't notice since he was in front of her. She shook the pain off and composes herself.

"Elisa you coming?"

"Yeah, coming?" She took a deep breath and walk up to the door. Making sure the doors was lock Elisa and Matt headed to the clock tower.