A/N – Well this is my first Standoff fanfic, it's purely Matt/Emily and very fluffy, so I hope you all like it!
GIRLFRIEND, PARTNER, LOVE OF MY LIFE
"Matt, Matt, wake up," Emily whispered as she tried in vain, once again, to awake the deeply sleeping man beside her. She knew that trying to wake her partner was rather unreasonable at 5 in the morning, but she had a few things on her mind lately, and as silly as those thought may be, she found that sleep was impossible. The nagging voice in her head repeating the questions over and over again just wouldn't allow it. "Matt!" she tried, slightly louder. She wasn't going to resort to physical abuse, but at the rate this was going, it was getting more and more appealing. "Maaaa-aattttt," she sang, gently poking his forearm, then his chest, then his stomach, receiving nothing in return except a quiet moan as he rolled onto his side, his back now facing her. Smiling mischievously she moved her body closer to his, her smile becoming a full-blown grin as she pinched her partner's ass, eliciting a rather unmanly squeak from Matt as he turned around to face Emily, clearly shocked.
"What the hell was that for?!" He asked her, the expression on his face remaining the same as he tried to figure out what he had done to deserve that. He had been asleep, hadn't he?
"I was just… I couldn't…." Emily trailed off, suddenly feeling guilty for waking Matt up solely to reassure herself and put her mind at ease. "I'm sorry," she offered, looking down at her hand, playing with the bed sheet.
Matt's face immediately softened as he looked at the face of the woman he loved, not that he had told her that yet. She looked so upset, and he knew she most likely felt guilty for waking him up. However, she had never done that before, so he knew it must have been for an important reason, at least to her. He turned to lie on his back, reaching over to pull Emily into his arms.
"What's the matter baby?" He asked her sweetly, holding her close to him as she buried her face into the crook of his neck. He felt her sigh against him, and he placed a gentle kiss on the crown of her head.
"You know when we ran into that friend of yours today? The one you went to high school with?"
Matts eyebrows creased in confusion as the conversation took a very unexpected turn. "Uh yeah, why do you ask?"
"I… ummm… she was pretty," Emily replied, rather lamely in her own opinion. My God Lehman, are you trying to look like a complete idiot? Might as well start pushing him into another girl's arms, one who can form a coherent, non-embarrassing sentence.
Matt looked at her in concern, wondering if he had done anything to imply that he so much as thought the girl was attractive. Hell, he could barely remember her name at the time. "I dunno, I wasn't really paying that much attention. That summer dress you wore today kinda distracted me from everything else," he told her with a grin.
She grinned also, into the safety of his chest where her blush couldn't be seen. Even now, after months of 'dating', he was still able to make her blush like a teenage school girl receiving a compliment from her long-time crush.
"Baby, if I somehow made you feel as though I was interested in her as anything more than an old school friend, I'm sorry. You know you're the only woman I wanna be with, don't you?"
Emily sighed, this wasn't the conversation she'd been intending to have. When they met the girl Matt attended school with he had been polite, and only polite. He had also held Emily's hand tightly and appeared proud when he introduced her. She just didn't understand why he introduced her as that, not that she wasn't happy to be that too. "I know that, I do. I just… I know that you want to be with me. That's what makes this so stupid," she replied, rolling onto her back as she covered her face with her hands.
Matt gently pried Emily's hands away from her face and cradled them in his own. "Whatever it is, I'm sure it isn't stupid. Please tell me?" he asked, moving his face closer to Emily's.
"You won't laugh at me?" Emily asked, glaring playfully when Matt's lips turned into a smile.
"I promise that I won't laugh at whatever it is, please just tell me Em, I'm starting to worry," Matt replied, wondering what it could possible be that his partner was so embarrassed to tell him.
Emily inhaled deeply, mentally preparing herself for the reaction she'd get from Matt. "When you introduced me to that girl, do you remember what you introduced me as?"
Matt's expression turned to one of confusion, as the conversation took a turn he wasn't expecting. "Uh… Emily?" He replied, honestly unsure of what he had introduced her as and figuring that her name was a safe option.
Emily smiled softly, he's so cute when he's confused, before providing him with the correct answer to her question. "No, you said, and I quote, 'this is my partner Emily, we work for the FBI together'."
"And?" Matt prompted, clearly not seeing the issue.
"Well, it's just every time you introduce me it's as your 'partner'… and I just wanted to know why…why…"
"Why I don't introduce you as my girlfriend?" Matt finished for her, as he finally joined the pieces together.
Emily turned a light shade of red at hearing those words somewhere other than in her mind, "Well… yeah."
"Babe," he started, shifting so that he was covering the side of Emily closest to him with his body, his face only an inch or so from hers, "I'm sorry I've made you so worried about this, I didn't even think about it at the time. Awhile ago I thought about that, how I would introduce you to someone if the time came. I just didn't know what to do. To be honest Em, I want to introduce you to people as the love of my life, but I thought that was too corny and made me sound lame," he told her with a lopsided grin, happy to see that she was smiling again. "Of course, I thought of introducing you as my girlfriend, but at the time, and even now I guess, we haven't really talked about it. We were supposed to be taking the whole emotional part of the relationship slow, but I think I started to fall in love with you the same day I met you, and I just didn't want to scare you off, so in the end I decided 'partner' was the safest bet, and I guess it just kinda stuck with me till now."
He smiled at the shade of red Emily had turned, and at the huge grin set on her face as her eyes shone with tears. "Okay… I don't know whether to be asking you what's wrong or not… because u look happy but you also look like you're about to cry," he told Emily in confusion.
She laughed lightly, before saying in a voice so adorable that it made Matt melt, "You said you loved me," and grinning widely.
He smiled back at her as he replayed the conversation in his head, realising that he had in fact admitted his love for her. Judging by the smile on her face she didn't have a problem with that, so he didn't see a reason to deny the truth. "Of course I love you, how could I not?"
Emily grinned once again before launching herself into Matt's arms and kissing him deeply. "I love you too," she told him, before kissing him again. "So you're gonna introduce me as your girlfriend from now on?" She asked him.
Matt smiled at how cute Emily looked asking him that. "Yes baby, I'll introduce you as my girlfriend, if that's what you want," he quickly added.
"Of course that's what I want! Besides, I wanna be able to tell everyone you're my boyfriend and show you off," she said cheekily, running a finger down his chest.
He laughed slightly and caught her finger in his hand before bending down and kissing her deeply.
Best girlfriend ever.
Best boyfriend ever.
A/N well I hope you all liked it! Please review, I'm thinking of writing many more Standoff fics in the near future… I'm rather obsessed with the show, mainly Matt and Emily :P lol
