Title: Opposites attract...sometimes.

Summary: They say that sometimes opposites do attract-but for Amy Santiago NOTHING could ever make her want to date her immature work colleague Jake Peralta! He's annoying, obnoxious & loud...and definitely not her type! Jake knows that the only way to get Amy on a date with him is to win their office bet & he is determined to not go down without a fight! Some Diaz/Boyle [Rated M for later]

Genre: Romance/Humour/Angst

Disclaimer/Note from the author: Hey there, so this is my FIRST ever Jamy / Brooklyn Nine Nine fic! I just love this pairing so much - can they please get together now? There will be some hints to Charles and Rosa in here as well:) Please leave me a review, so I know HOW I went? Thank you xx

Date Published: 17 December 2013

© theboyfriend-and-theprettygirl, 2013

Chapter One: Disaster Date...

"So….Daniel, tell me a little about yourself?" Amy said before twirling a forkful of pasta and stuffing it into her mouth.

She couldn't believe that she had agreed to go on another useless date, just in order to get her mom off her back about still being single. So what if she was almost twenty six and not married?! She thought sighing heavily. There was more to life than being married and having children, right? She was a kick ass detective who was working her way up to becoming the youngest Captain in the 99th Precinct! Wasn't that enough to make her mom proud of her?! Apparently not! She thought downing another glass of red wine quickly.

Amy reached over for the bottle to pour herself another glass, but to her horror saw that it was almost empty. How on earth had she managed to finish the whole bottle in the half hour that she had been there? Because this guy is about as interesting as watching paint dry off a wall… a voice in the back of her head said taunting her.

"Amy, are you listening to me?" Daniel asked suddenly, interrupting her thoughts.

"Mmm hmmm." She nodded, pouring the last few remaining drops into her wine glass.

She really needed to stop taking her mom's advice so much! Hence the reason why she had reluctantly agreed to another date on another work night. Hence the reason for her current boredom... the reason for her current disaster date.

"I said… I'm thirty nine years old, before you zoned out. So the age difference doesn't bother you at all?"

"-Thirty nine?! But- but your profile said that you were thirty one!" she said cutting him off quickly and frowning a little in confusion.

"Yeah, I know…" he said shrugging effortlessly. "I lied a lot on my profile…which you would know if you were paying any attention to me before." he said sounding a little annoyed.

"I am paying attention." She snapped angrily. HA! He was not the only one that could lie! She thought smiling smugly to herself.

"Glad that's off my chest." He said sounding relieved. "So… for the record, I'm obviously not a lawyer either…"

"What?!"

"…I work in a gaming store." He said quietly.

"GAMING STORE?!" Jake repeated loudly, coming out of nowhere and laughing his head off in amusement. "Geez Santiago, you sure know how to pick 'em. Don't you?"

Amy groaned loudly. "What the hell are you doing here, Peralta?" she hissed.

"Saving you from this bogus date. DUH!" he said pulling up a chair quickly and joining them at their table. "Mind if I join you?"

"Actually we do." Amy said hotly. "Go away. Daniel, just ignore him...he will get bored and leave."

"Jake Peralta…Amy's boss." He said extending his hand to Daniel over the table and ignoring her.

"He's not my boss." She snapped quickly.

"This one is in denial." Jake said, twirling his index finger around the side of his head to make her appear crazy.

"So… Daniel….you were saying that you work in a gaming store?…that must be a fun adventure! How did you get a job like that? I'm sure Amy here is dying to know. Do continue…" Jake said winking at her, before attacking her plateful of pasta.

Amy hit him hard on the arm and pulled her plate away.

"Yeah it is. At first I hated it. I love playing video games, not so much selling them though. But my mom said she would kick me out of home if I didn't get a fulltime job so that's how I ended up there. I don't mind it now. It's actually kind of great."

"Was any of your profile true?!" Amy huffed crossing her hands over her chest disappointedly. "I thought you said that you bought your own house?"

"You live with your parents?!" Jake asked laughing loudly. "This cannot get any better!"

Amy kicked him hard under the table.

"Ouch!" he hissed at Amy loudly. " I mean… that's so cool… I wish I lived with my parents." He said rolling his eyes to Amy when Daniel was not looking.

And for the first time that night, Amy actually smiled.

-x-

"So what's up with you always crashing my dates, Peralta?" Amy asked. "You know I'm a cop, right? I could arrest you for stalking…"

They were heading towards the restaurant's exit. Daniel had left them over an hour ago. He had made up some lame excuse about having to go home and feed his fish, but they both knew that he had gotten tired of Jake's constant ridicule of him.

"You would just love any excuse to get me in handcuffs…wouldn't you?" he teased quickly and she rolled her eyes. "I dunno why I stalk your dates…I guess I find them amusing?" He said shrugging quickly, before helping her put on her coat.

"My dates don't." she said frowning. "You always scare them off."

"You love it." he said rolling his eyes, before holding the door open for her. "I save you from all these kinds of weirdos every time."

"Actually, I don't. Do you know how much effort goes into planning these dates? My mom rings up after each one and asks me 'if I've found the one yet.' She's got seven married sons, you would think she wouldn't care that her daughter is cautious and taking her time….nooo! She's more determined than ever to get me married off, hence all the mid-week dating...Ugh it's so exhausting!"

"So, I have a soulution… date someone decent!" Jake said shrugging his shoulders quickly.

"You make it seem like I'm not even trying… I am, Peralta!" she said a little annoyed. "I've dated practically every guy in New York! There's no one left!"

"You haven't tried me." He said sounding dead serious, instead of his normal joking usual self.

Amy stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn't believe that they were doing this again. It always seemed like after every date Jake crashed, he now hinted that she should give him a go. Was Rosa right when she said that Jake liked her more than a work colleague slash friend?

"Ugh." She groaned quickly. "Not this again."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm tired, Peralta! I just want to go home to bed and sleep."

Jake sighed disappointedly. "Come on…let's get you home sleepy pants." He said wrapping his arm around her petite body.

"Where did you park, this time?" she asked, yawning a little.

She had gotten so used to not bringing her car on dates because Jake insisted on driving her home every time. At first she hated the idea, because she found any moment outside of work with him to be torturously annoying. Then as the weeks passed she had come to realise that Jake taking her home not only saved her a tonne on gas, but also ensured that she did not lose her evening parking spot. So now the idea was kind of half bearable. Most nights anyways, when he wasn't being his usual annoying, loud self.

"Around the corner. This way...come on." He said guiding her tired body into the right direction.

"Why so far?" she whined.

"There was no parking! I had to circle this block like six times before I found a spot. I'm surprised you didn't notice exactly how late I was tonight. I bet you were freaking out…thinking that I abandoned you with that loser!"

"And here I thought you had grown up and decided to stop crashing my dumb dates!"

"HA! Blamo! You said dumb dates…I knew you love it when I save you from those losers!" he said smirking a little.

Amy was too tired to protest, so she allowed him to have this small victory.

"Thank goodness!" she exclaimed when they reached his parked car.

Jake walked over the passenger's side and held the door open for her to get inside. Amy frowned a little, he knew how to be a perfect gentleman sometimes, which honestly confused the hell out of her because most of the time she wanted to strangle him.

-x-

"So what are you going to tell your mom tonight?" Jake asked stealing a quick look in her direction as they waited for the lights to change.

"Ugh. Don't remind me." She said massaging her temples. "Hopefully she will be in bed and I'll call her tomorrow on my break at work."

"Say 'hi' from me." He said focusing his attention back to the unchanged road.

"Okay…but it's not like she's going to know who you are, anyways." She said yawning a little.

"No, she will….we speak daily behind your back." Jake said taking off at the green light.

"You what?!" she snapped angrily.

"I called her tonight to confirm what restaurant you were going to, because I kinda had a feeling you were trying to throw me off tonight...you know, when I asked you about it at work."

"I was." She said sneering a little. "I thought I was going to be on a date with a successful, young lawyer and I didn't want you frightening him off with your freaky obsession of me."

"And instead he turned out to be a games store employee who lived with his mom and feeds goldfish! Aren't you lucky that I was there? Come on, how much would have your date sucked if I had not shown up and saved you from the boring, lying manchild that you were stuck with?"

"I can't believe you talk to my mom!" she said changing the subject quickly. She would never openly admit to him that saving her from her lousy dates was always the highlight of her night. "How did you even get her number?"

"Rosa gave it to me."

"I'm going to kill Rosa!"

"Sure you are. Have fun with that." he said sarcastically.

"What? You don't think I can do it. I can so take her on." She said, her competitive side kicking in quickly.

"Others have tried before you and failed. You stand no chance, Santiago. Rosa is tough…freakishly manly tough! She puts half of New York's finest to shame."

"So then what am I? The office assistant?!" she scoffed rolling her eyes.

"No, you are more… hot."

"Ugh that's so sexist and degrading!"

"No, it's the truth… You're the kind of hot that guys want to be arrested by. Rosa is too intimidating to be honest, but you…" He said looking at her quickly. "are smoking hot! Every guy in New York probably wacks off to you the minute they are released."

"Eww. Thanks Peralta!" she said rolling her eyes.

"Hey, it was meant to be a compliment. Don't get mad, sweetheart."

"Please tell me that you don't speak to my mom like that. She is super religious."

"Don't worry, she likes me." Jake said placing his hand on the inside of her bare knee before she slapped it away quickly. "In fact, she has asked me numerous times to ask you out."

"She hasn't mentioned anything about it to me." she said shrugging hotly.

"That's because I made her swear not to tell her that we speak…BOOM!" he said, pulling into her street. "Jokes on you because you didn't know until I told you!"

"Don't worry, pineapples…after tonight…" she said seductively, unlocking her seatbelt to lean in closer towards him. Their face just barely inches apart now. "You will never speak to my mom again. Comprende?" she said pulling away quickly and opening the car door. "Goodnight Peralta."

"UGH!" he groaned loudly hitting the steering wheel. He couldn't believe that he had almost fallen for her trick, he was a hundred percent sure that they were about to kiss.

"Have a good sleep, Santiago." He called out after her, once he had recovered from his embarrassment. "I'll make sure to tell your mom how much your date sucked and how I saved you again!"

But she was already gone.

He drove home that night in a mixture of embarrassment and heartache.

-xxx-

Author's note:

I absolutely love this pairing so much that I couldn't go past writing this. If you liked it, please leave me a review…it would encourage me to update faster;)
I have so more Jake/Amy (and even Diaz/Boyle) stories that I might upload depending on the response that this one gets.

PS WOO HOO to me for being the first Brooklyn Nine-Nine / Jamy fic on here:)
I came on here to read Jamy ff and when I didn't find any, I knew I had to write some for others to enjoy...

I really hope you liked it. Thanks for reading!

All my love,

Paris xx