Hi there my amazingly awesome readers! :D Happy 'day-before-Nataras-birthday' Day!
I know that I haven't updated Fortune in a while, which is exactly why I shouldn't be starting a new story, right? Welp, I kinda agree. However, Natara's birthday is a once in a year thingy, and I couldn't resist the temptation! This idea has been going around in my mind for quite a while now.. So I hope you'll enjoy it!
You are now Detective Mal Fallon.
You look at the clock, and smile when you see that another workday has passed. You suppress a yawn while you stand up from behind your desk and stretch. Then you look down at your messy desk, which looks like a bomb has exploded on it, and frown. Woah, I think I might need to work more neatly.. Your desk is filled with all kinds of papers concerning the arrest of yet another murderer that you still need to fill in and file. Guess that will have to wait until tomorrow! You glance over to your beautiful partner, who's still working hard. Her desk looks just as messy as yours, if possible, even worse. It's covered with stacks of several case files that have loads of yellow sticky notes inside them. You watch how Natara frowns, while trying to decipher one of the sticky notes with your handwriting on them. You casually walk over and lean against her desk with a huge smirk on your face. "Need some help with that?"
"No, not really.. I just.. What's this doing in here?" she asks confused. Then she hands you a note, which you immediately recognize. It simply reads 'I love you.' You have to admit that it's not the best love note you've ever written, but hey, you were in a hurry. At least it's something, right?
You pretend to think it through. "Hmm.. I wonder which dashing detective put that note there for his gorgeous girlfriend to find.."
Natara smirks to you. "Do you mean that Jeremy put that there for Blaise to find? But that doesn't make sense at all! They weren't even working on this case.."
You fake a scowl. "No, I did no- …Very funny, honey.."
She stands up from behind her desk and grabs her jacket. "Aww, I'm sorry. Did I make the detective with the unbelievably huge ego upset?" She says while doing so.
You watch how she comes up to you and can't help but smile when she ruffles your hair. "Nah.. It's nothing the unbelievably handsome detective can't handle!"
She playfully slaps you on the arm as she walks past you. "Seriously Mal! Your ego is way too big."
You let out a chuckle. "Like yours is so perfect." You retort.
"I don't have an ego. And If I did, it'd probably never compare to yours.." She calls over from her shoulder while opening the door to the bullpen.
"Who are you even trying to fool? Everyone has an ego. Mine is just bigger.. And better."
She stops in her tracks and turns around to look at you in astonishment. "..You know what? I give up." Without saying anything else, she abruptly walks out of the door.
You are now Special Agent Natara Williams.
After a trip to the super market you finally step into your apartment. The two of you did some serious grocery shopping, since it's going to be your birthday tomorrow. Even though Mal hates birthdays, he eventually agreed to a birthday party. It wasn't going to be anything big, just a simple get together with your loved ones. Still, you're really looking forward to it. You temporarily put the bags down and take of your coat. Then you pick them back up and immediately make your way towards the kitchen. Behind you, Mal does exactly the same. Meanwhile you place all the bags on the kitchen table and start unpacking. Mal enters the kitchen as well and puts the bags he was carrying next to yours on the kitchen table. Then he gives you a quick kiss on the cheek. "I'm just gonna go back to the car to get the rest of the stuff. I'll be right back, okay?"
You stop with what you're doing to flash him a thankful smile. "Okay babe, see you in a few."
After what feels like a few minutes, you hear the front door open again. A little while later Mal calls out to you. "Honey, could you come over to help me with these bags?"
"I'll be there in a sec!" You call back over your shoulder. You quickly finish putting away a few bottles of chardonnay. Then you walk over to the living room, which is, strangely, completely packed with the people. Your mouth practically falls open in surprise. Your eyes quickly scan the crowd, and see that all your loved ones have gathered in this room. Before you even have time to recover from this unexpected event, everyone smiles at you while yelling "SURPRIIIIIISEEEE!" at the top of their lungs.
From that point on everything goes really fast. Everyone heads towards you with the intention of wishing you a happy birthday, and you get pretty much buried in birthday hugs. Meanwhile Mal starts to act like the perfect host and continuously walks in and out of the kitchen to get the guests some snacks and drinks while they're still pre-occupied with you. The hugs follow each other so fast that you barely have time to process what's happening. You hear 'happy birthday sis!' from Neha. And 'congratulations, Natara. I baked you a cake to celebrate this momentous day.' from Maria. And 'congratz Agent Hottie.' from Kai. And many, many more congratulations. Instead of coming up with a proper reply, you just kind of stand there and let everything happen, because you're still enormously overwhelmed. All you can think of at the moment is saying 'thank you so much' to everyone.
After a while the last guest has said their congratulations to you, so you finally get some time to process everything. Somehow you get into a conversation with Blaise and Jeremy, but you only listen half-heartedly, because you're still too caught up with what just happened. The guests start to mingle with each other, and soon everyone is engaged in a conversation. That's when you look around the room, trying to spot an all too familiar face in the crowd. It doesn't take long to find the beautiful tumblr dashboard blue sapphire blue eyes you were looking for.
It's like he feels that you're looking at him, because he surprisingly turns his head to look in your direction. You instantly lock eyes, and he flashes you a gorgeous smile.
You excuse yourself to Blaise and Jeremy, and make your way over to Mal. Before he has the chance to say anything, you grab his hand and drag him into the kitchen. You close the door behind you to get some privacy. Then you turn to Mal. "What's that all about? I thought that we were gonna celebrate my birthday tomorrow?" you ask confused.
"We were.. Sort of. Let me explain myself… At first I wanted to plan you a surprise party, but then you came up with the idea to have a 'normal' birthday party, which kinda ruined my plans of surprising you. So I just figured that I could simply move the party a day back. That way you're surrounded by your loved ones at midnight, which is pretty amazing, right? Plus now you're actually surprised, which was part of my original plan. So it's sort of a win-win situation for me. And.." Then he trails off. He seems to be getting a little uncomfortable. For some reason he rather looks down to his shoes instead of looking into your eyes like he normally does.
"And..?" You ask curiously, while trying your best to make eye contact. But he's simply refusing to meet your gaze.
Not knowing what to do, he runs his hand through is hair and then scratches the back of his neck. His voice drops a little when he continues talking. "..And this way I get to have you alone tomorrow. We could have our own little party together. Y'know.. Just me and you.." Since he doesn't know what to do with his hands, he awkwardly puts them in his pockets. "If that's okay with you, that is…" he finally looks up to meet your eyes again.
Instead of answering, you simply lunge forward, take his face in your hands and pull him into a passionate kiss as a huge 'thank you'. He eagerly kisses back, and you feel his lips forming a smile. Eventually you pull back a bit, and smile at him. "Do you know that you're the best boyfriend ever?" you ask softly.
He tenderly caresses your cheek with his thumb. "It's because I have to. I mean, you deserve nothing but the best after all.." Not sure what to respond to that, you give him another kiss to show your appreciation.
This time it's Mal who breaks the kiss. You look at him with a questioning look on your face. "Don't get me wrong, I love this.. But I think we need to get back to the party.. The guests are surely waiting for you."
Unfortunately you can't argue with that, because you know that he's probably right. So the two of you sneak back into the party, but it seems like no one even noticed that you were missing in the first place. The drinks seem to flow easily and it's only a matter of time before everyone is a little tipsy. This is exactly why the make-shift dance floor in the middle of the living room becomes more crowded as the time passes. There's laughter everywhere, and all in all people are having a blast. Everyone is doing their own thing, and no one really pays attention to each other anymore, which is why you and Mal have been sneaking in and out of the kitchen throughout the night to exchange some passionate kisses.
You actually just returned from 'getting some snacks' and crash on the couch next to Neha who stops with her previous conversation to look at you with a smirk. "Finally done with acting like it's about to be the end of the world and everyone is depending on you to safe it by kissing Mal repeatedly?"
Your head instantly turns red when you realize that she knows what just happened. "I- I don't know what you're talking about." You try, but you know that Neha will see right through this weak excuse.
Neha looks at you with a 'are you kidding me' kind of look. "I know that you're the fancy profiler of the two of us, but that doesn't mean that I can't tell when you aren't telling the truth. You're my sister after all. And right now I'm feeling the need to tell you that denial ain't just a river in Egypt… Just saying."
You are trying your best to come up with a good way to change the direction of this conversation, but all you can think of at the moment is Mals sweet lips, so you're failing kind of hard. "I'm not denying anything, Neha. I'm just saying that Mal and I were just getting sn-
Neha softly elbows you in the side. "There's no need to come up with excuses I can't blame you, since he's really hot after all. …Speaking of the devil."
You follow Neha's gaze and see that Mal is trying to make his way over to you and Neha. He's holding two glasses of what you think is chardonnay, and hands one to you. Then he takes a seat next to you and lovingly wraps an arm around your shoulder. "So… Watchu talking about?"
To your horror Neha laughs. And right then and there you know what she's about to answer. And your suspicion gets confirmed as soon as she opens her mouth. "Oh, just the fact that Natara and y-"
You quickly silence Neha by sending a death glare into her direction.
Luckily she instantly gets the hint and fakes a cough. "Uhm.. I meant… I gotta go?" She quickly gets up and vanishes in the crowd.
Mal watches her disappear. "That was.. Strange…" he says softly.
You shrug it off like it's nothing. "Not as strange as Kai doing the running man in the middle of the dance floor and knocking other people out of the way while doing so.."
He lets out a chuckle. "Yeah that's definitely true." Then he leans towards you and gives you a soft kiss on your cheek. "Excuse me for a second.." Before you get the chance to ask him what he's going to do, Mal rises from his seat and shouts to Joe to turn down the music. He obeys, and everyone turns to Mal to complain. Mal, who's not fazed by this, smirks at everyone's reactions. Then he scrapes his throat. He patiently waits until everyone in the room becomes quiet. As soon as it's silent, he starts talking. "Thank you for your attention. I would like to propose a toast to the amazing woman who happens to be my partner, my best friend, my girlfriend and, even better, my everything. And I know that that might sound a little over exaggerated, but it really isn't. You see, to me, Natara is like a breath of fresh air; I simply need her. I can not live without her. And.." He turns to you and makes eye contact with you. At this point your heart has already melted because of his cuteness. You simply can't stop smiling, and a huge blush is decorating your face. When he looks into your eyes, you'd swear your heart just skipped a beat. "I don't want to be cliché –"
At that very moment Blaise pretends to cough, but you can clearly hear the words. "It's too late for that!"
Mal playfully rolls his eyes, but nevertheless he can't stop the grin forcing its way to his face. He takes a moment and waits until Blaise has recovered from her 'coughing fit'. Then he simply continues like it didn't happen. "But I honestly feel like you made my life complete, so I thank you for that. I love you. And I will continue to love you until the end of time."
You're pretty sure that almost all the women in the room went 'awww, that's so cute.' at the end of the speech. Blaise is wolf whistling and some people are softly clapping. And then there's Kai, who's loudly screaming "YOU GO MALIGATOR! Great speech! It's so awesome to see my OTP canon."
Mal pays no attention to it, and raises his glass at you and then to everyone else in the room. "To Natara!" he says, with a proud smile.
Everyone in the room excitedly repeats those last two words while raising their glass, and then takes a sip of whatever they're drinking. Then Mal signals to Joe that he can turn the music up, and everyone gets into their zone again.
Not sure what to do with yourself after this incredibly sweet speech, you awkwardly change the position you're sitting in. Mal sits back down next to you, and gently strokes your cheek. He has a sweet smile on his face. "You're blushing…" he says, pointing out the obvious. The conversations are starting to pick up all around you, so you're pretty sure that no one is paying attention to the two of you anymore.
"Yeah, well, you'd be blushing too after a speech like that… Kinda put me on the spot right there, so thanks for that." you mumble, trying to defend yourself. Then you realize how harsh that may have sounded, so you grab his face and pull him in for a tender kiss. "Seriously though, thank you so, so much.. it was really beautiful.. You are amazing."
He lovingly strokes some hair out of your face. "You're more than welcome, sweetheart. I want you to know that I truly meant every single word of it."
You flash him smile. "I know. That's what makes it so special… And I want you to know that I feel the exact same way about you."
He flashes you a huge smile back as those words leave your mouth. "I know, babe.. I know." Then he suddenly grabs your hand and pulls you up to your feet. "Now come on, let's dance!" he says, while trying to drag you towards the crowded dance floor.
But you don't give in, causing him to look back at you with a questioning look. You softly squeeze his hand. "Just wait a second." Then you quickly finish your glass of chardonnay, put the now empty glass on the coffee table, and then you drag Mal to the dance floor with a huge grin on your face.
Time really does fly when you're having fun. Before you know it, it is way passed midnight and people are starting to leave. Mal's busy cleaning enormous mess in the living room. Well, cleaning is a big word... He's actually just collecting all the used glasses and bringing them to the kitchen. Meanwhile you're saying goodbye to the last guests and close the front door behind them. Finally, I'm exhausted. It's time for bed. You lock the door and turn around, with the intention of walking to the bedroom.
To your surprise, Mal is standing right in front of you with a mischievous smirk decorating his handsome face. The look he has in his eyes already tell you that he's up to no good. You want to tell him that it's not a good idea, since both of you have to work tomorrow and you're already tired as it is. However, before you even get the chance to open your mouth, he leans in and places a teasingly tender kiss on your lips. The tenderness of his kiss almost makes your knees buckle underneath you. Your lips barely brush, and the time that they do touch is simply too short for your liking, thus leaving you craving for more. A lot more. All of a sudden the exhaustion has completely disappeared from your body. You can't help but smile a little while you softly kiss him back. The two of you keep exchanging kisses, the one even more passionate than the other. You're enjoying it so much that your smile never fades. Meanwhile you slowly slide your hands under his shirt. You feel how his abs muscles tense a little under your touch, making you smile even more. You run your hands over his abs, to his back, and pull him in even closer. He obviously gets the hint; because the train of kisses he's giving you are getting faster and even more passionate with every kiss. His hands are slowly sliding down your body, and eventually stop at your hips. He almost effortlessly lifts you up, making it easier for him to kiss you since you're finally on the same height as him. You wrap your legs around him, then break the kisses for a second and quickly pull Mals shirt over his head and toss it somewhere on the ground. As soon as he's freed of his shirt, he attacks the first piece of skin that he lays his eyes on, in this case your neck. It doesn't take long before he's skilfully caressing your sweet spots with his lips, teeth and tongue, leaving you gasping for air. In the mean time he roughly pushes you up against the door, thus minimizing the space between your bodies as much as possible. He looks up to you when he reaches the edge of your shirt, and the look in his eyes make you almost feel bad for wearing clothes. So you decide to humour him, and take off your own shirt as well. You don't regret that decision for a second, because he eagerly kisses every part of your skin that he can reach. It's all so overwhelming, that you don't know what to do with yourself anymore. So you just run your hand through his hair in an approving way and desperately pull him closer. Now that he has you right where he wants you, he pulls back and looks you straight in the eye. He smirks at you while he whispers the following in his sexiest voice. "Tell me where you want your gift…"
Stay tuned; the next chapter is going to be a whole lot cuter, I promise! I'll upload it tomorrow :) This story's only going to be two chapters, so I swear I'll be updating Fortune as soon as possible!