Cold Case
Take me back to Tennessee
by imsoproudofyou
Authors Note: I don't own anything, ya 'now.
'kay, on with the show: Like Scotty said: Jiahhaw...
One thing- i give ya guys some songs which i think are great to hear while reading the story-
hope ya enjoy!
Summery: After „Shattered" but then AU.
Christina was in Rehab and Lillys niece Nellie was with their father Paul and his wife Celeste,
the grandparents.
Lil and Scotty got a „holdiay-recovery- order" from Boss and an invitation from Big Daddy
from Nashville, Tennesse to meet him there for the Departments anniversary
where the best Detectives are decorated and he wish to give both of them
some kind of medal for bringing home the Truck Sugar Case.
(Mentions and spoilers for Season 7, Ep.22 „Shattered"
and Season 4, Ep.11 „The Red and the Blue" maybe a few more)
AN: Don't own nothing from cold case ya know!
If my imagination can become true, i will be in their backseat,
spying them out as Lillys new birkin bag (i will be a very expensive, good looking bag-
really an upgrade from my momentary existence- so don't mind- i'm a little bit crazy :-)
One last thing:
I have to warn you-
english is not my native language,
so please be nice and „overread" the hardest mistakes ;-)
And...
I really like fluff!
Fluff sweeter than honeycrust.
And...
romance and dramatics and... awe...
you'll see.
If you don't like, don't read it!
I hope you find the time and press the„review-"button, i do my best to answer each
review i get, so thank you for your intrest in my story!
Chapter One
„Road trip."
Lilly said bored and rubbed her tired eyes.
„You're the one who called it: Hey, it'll be fun! that day a few years ago, Rush."
Her partner Scotty Valens teased.
„Don't get me started, Valens- i can bring on a lot, and i mean a LOT more stupid things you've said through all these years i am stuck in PPD with you, you know."
„Yeah, my best years and they're long gone, waisted with a girl that don't love me at all."
he lightly joked and Lilly's head shot up as she thought she could hear some kind of bitterness in it.
„Hah, as if it was better for me! Partnered with the one guy in the world i can't sleep with-
that sucks i can tell!"
she didn't want to get there- dangerous territory-
so she returned that dryly and watched how the sun went down behind the great green grass of Tennessee.
„I know you love me, Lil. And ya do, too, right?!"
he laughed and kept his eyes on the long distant road.
Maybe it was better that way.
„Yeah, i do." she murmered sleepy and closed her eyes.
„See, i know it."
Scotty whispered to all but to himself and stated quitely:
„And don't think you're the only one who's tortured by the fact that we can't be together."
But she couldn't hear him anymore- she was fast asleep in her seat.
„Still going through nightmares, don't ya?"
he asked as she stirred in her sleep and moaned a little bit uneasy.
Scotty allowed himself to reach over and put a single loose strand back behind her ear.
Her skin felt so good under his palm...
and she relaxed a little bit under his touch.
„Okay, Valens, get yourself together now!"
he ordered and reminded himself to drive to their destination.
Silence fell between them as they drove through the sunset, in the middle of nowhere.
She couldn't resist to lean her head against the glass which was cooled by the apporching night.
Orange and pink glims strechted forward for the skin of her face and put it into some kind of gleaming.
Lilly Rush woke up with a start.
She looked around herself groggy and twinkeled her nose a bit in the sunshine.
Then she realised a lightly laugh coming from her side.
„What's so funny, Valens?" she choked his shoulder a bit and gave him one of those looks that were ment to shut him out but he was not aware of it or ignored it for it's cause.
„Morning, beautyful."
he said and a bright grin was spread across his handsome sunreflected face.
„Yeah- mornin'."
she tried to strech in her seat and found it really uncomfortable.
„Ah, i really need a hot coffee and a shower!"
He reached behind him and got her a little cup of coffee.
„'Thought so. And to answer your former question- it may be you- twinkling that nose of yours in a way so..."
„Yeah.. so?!" she teased.
„So..."
It reminded her of that last time they were here, the talk in the hallway of that motel.
„You plan about to visit Charlene when we're there?"
she couldn't resist but ask him about his long gone one night stand in Nashville.
„Na, ya rememba- what was in Nashville, stays in Nashville, right?!
By now i heard Big Daddy said she married a guy named Hank and had three very very nice kids."
he scratched his left ear uncomfortably and throwed her a long sideglance.
„Maybe to be just a secretarian in a Police Department is the better job to have a family."
Lilly looked at him and noticed some kind of sadness in the black pools that are his coffeecream eyes.
„Don't be free from your lone wolf theory yet, Scotty?"
He sighed and returned his eyes to the road.
A smirk showed on his face.
„What about you? Do you have seen that Fed guy, what's his name anyway?
Or was it still Saccardo, Lil? I don't see ya wearing that bracelet he gave ya."
Lilly felt her cheeks pinkening.
How did he knew about it?
She had not much intrest in discussing that topic with him-
'specially not with Scotty, damn hell!
„What was in Philly or New York stays there, Scotty."
she grumbeled under her breath and avoided to look at him when she said it.
„We had an agreement 'bout that, don't ya remember?"
He was silent for a few moments.
„How about a new one, Rush?"
he asked slowly and throw her a serious glance.
His eyes were sparkling with... was that...
No.
It can't be. Lilly decided and took a sip from her coffee.
God, that's good stuff.
„'kay."
she noded and took in her sourroundings.
„Where are we now?"
„Oh, it'll be only a few moments to reach the hotel Big Daddy got us."
Scotty told her and Lilly frowned.
„It doesn't look the way the last one looked."
she declared the obvious because they were out of town with golden fields around and as Scotty turned the car around a marker on the road where „Welcome to Hotel Golden Alley!was written on
in nice looking letters, they're passing a monument alley from very old trees with nearly golden leaves.
„Name's program."
Scotty said and searched for a parking lot near the great, old Farmhouse.
„Seem's nice."
Lilly answered and breathed in as she could open the door and stand on the ground of mother earth again.
„You said something about a new deal, Valens."
She remembered him of their former conversation and took out her baggage.
He came to help her and their hands joined above the handle.
She let go immediatly and he had problems to keep the suitecase from falling to the ground.
„Lil!"
„Sorry, Scotty, i don't mind to-" she blushed and streched out a hand in his direction.
„I was just... startled, that's all."
He frowned and gave her the suitecase in an elegant swift.
„Here you are, funk."
„And what now 'bout that thought of yours?"
Lilly started to walk to the entrance.
It started to heat up and she could feel her blouse was already glued to her back.
She sighed deeply.
She really needed a good long shower and something to eat, she realized as her stomach started to grumble.
„Fuck, i'm starved."
„Okay, this can wait until we're both have a chance to change and meet for dinner in the restaurant of this one, Lil."
Scotty laughed and throw his own bag over his shoulder.
„Come on, let's see our rooms."
He walked by her side and before they entered, he turned around to the nature and coked his head.
„Maybe this can be at least some kind of holiday that we don't get for years."
Lilly followed his gaze and nodded.
„Yeah, maybe it is possible to get some break from real work here."
He grinned and put an arm around her shoulders.
„I don't know what's 'bout you, but i definatly need a real long hot shower!"
She punched his arm lightly and giggled.
„Only in your dreams, Valens!"
She looked up from under his arm in his suddenly so nearby brown eyes and felt a
wave of butterflys flying up in her stomach and the hunger was forgotten-
God, for one moment, she already saw him leaning in and...
No.
„Or in yours, Miss Rush. Com'on, i can eat a whole cow if someone bring me one!"
The tension passed by and she smiled.
„Yeah, me too. Maybe they should bring their cows back into saftey before we both get a chance to break through to their meadows like a pack of hungry wolves!"
Scotty hold up his head and started to howl quitely.
„Oh, Valens- you're unbelieveable!"
Lilly shook her head and opened the door to check in area.
She couldn't hear him said:
„Yeah, Lil, that's what i thought, too."
Then he followed her inside the hotel „Golden Alley".
