Chapter 2: Inside Your Heaven
Gideon climbed in his car and started the engine. Pulling away from the curb in front of Elle's townhouse, he couldn't keep the smile off of his face. Many of the things they said had meant so much more than either of them realized. But they would talk about that when he got back from Texas. This was one of the rear occasions when he actually hated the fact that he had been called into work. Elle made him want to just turn off his phone and ignore everything but what they had found in her bed tonight.
As he pulled up to the air strip and climbed out of the car Hotch came over to where he was parked.
"Hey," he said and grabbed Gideon's bag from the back of his vehicle.
"Hey," Gideon replied shortly to Hotch as they boarded the plane and he sat down. Looking around everyone was staring at him and he just stared back at them. There was no way they could knew that he had just made love to Elle but with the way they looked at him he would have thought they could read his mind.
"Okay, here's what we have." Hotch said diverting attention from Gideon to himself, a small miracle that he was thankful for. He tried to listen to Hotch, he really did but his mind kept going back to bed with Elle and how she'd cried on his shoulder. Their relationship was going to be difficult but they would figure out a way, they had to. He couldn't lose her again.
FOUR DAYS LATER…
Gideon pulled up just as a furniture truck was pulling away from Elle's house. The new dining room table and chairs were taken as a sign she wasn't moving. He should have called ahead but he'd wanted to surprise her, wouldn't you knew it but she was surprising him. He'd brought her back a gift from Texas, just a little something to say I love you without really saying it. He wasn't ready for that step yet.
Sure he loved her but he wanted to be absolutely sure that Elle was having somewhat of the same emotions for him.
Let's face it, he told himself as he skirted around the contents of the porch and peered into the open front door, which wasn't a very good idea in any neighborhood. At your age you only get one chance at love so don't waste it on something that won't get you the results you want. Not that he was expecting anything from her, he was sure this was probably a temporary thing but he couldn't help having a small flicker of hope that maybe she possessed some of the same feelings for him that he had for her. He stepped inside closed the door and began to pick his way through the house.
There were boxes everywhere most of them labeled with a magic marker telling which room they went it. He found Elle amongst a pile of boxes in the kitchen. She was wearing a pair of blue jean shorts that had been cut out of regular blue jeans and now road dangerously high on her thighs and low on her hips. She bent over and the material stretched over her ass making Gideon smile and lean back against the doorframe. She came up with a large stack of plates and carried them over to the cabinet above the sink. She reached up and the tank top she was wearing rose up to reveal her flat stomach and dangling belly button ring.
She placed the plates inside beside a bunch of saucers and then turned around. She started a little when she seen him standing in the doorway. The shock was quickly replaced by a smile as she walked back over to him. God she looked better than ever after four days. When she got in arms length he reached out and pulled her to him. She snuggled into his warmth and smiled up at him. He pressed a kiss to her forehead and worked his way down to her lips.
The kiss was full of passion and she felt her heart shift in her chest and had to remind herself to keep her emotions in check. This was no time to go all mushy on him. They both knew that this was temporary on his side but the fact that she felt something when he kissed her, something that she'd felt with no one else made her hope that this would morphine into something more.
"I missed you." He said when he pulled back from her. He cradled her face between his big aging hands, the feeling was so great. She leaned into him and pressed him back against the wall a little more. She kissed him again her hands moving over him finding and feeling the muscles that no one would know were there. Her hands wondered under his shirt and up his chest just feeling his warm skin. She wanted him; there was never any doubt of that. After four days all she could think about was getting him into bed and undressed. Attempting this feat she pulled him away from the wall and began to push him gently toward the stairs.
Gideon stopped her in the living room. Pulling back he put his hands on her shoulders and shook his head.
"I want to talk to you about a few things?" He said pulling her toward the new couch that still had the plastic on it. She sat down in one of the corners and pulled her feet up in under her. She looked at him smiling and he sat down beside her reaching in his coat pocket for the gift he'd brought her. Holding out the long black box she looked over at him and the smile on her face grew wider. She took it and carefully undid the ribbon and bow on top. Pulling the box open she gasped and put her hand over her mouth.
"Gideon, it's so beautiful." She pulled the bracelet from the box and held it up. It was a gold circle with diamonds placed around it and charms that hung from the chain. "I love it." She said and unclipped it wrapped it around her wrist and secured it in one easy motion. She bent over and kissed him softly pulling back she smiled at him and sat back against the back of the couch.
"Call me Jason and I hoped you would." He turned toward her and dropped his arm across the back of the couch where she sat. His hand rubbed up and down her arm from her shoulder to her elbow. He watched as she gave a small shiver from the contact but ignored the hot arrow of need that shot through him.
"So, what did you want to talk about?" She asked moving just slightly closer to him. He pulled his hand away from her arm and reached down to take her hand in his. God, how did you tell a woman that you loved her without really telling her?
"I just wanted to let you know that I don't regret what happened between us four days ago. I know that it was kind of sudden and that we don't really know all that much about each other but I do know that I felt something with you that night. Something that I've never felt with anyone before." Elle felt her airway contract and it became hard for her to draw a breath.
"I don't regret it either." She whispered and looked away from him at the coffee table. The mixed emotions inside of her swirled and making her stomach feel up with butterflies the size of a 7-40-7. Had Gideon, excuse her…Jason really just danced his way around saying I love you.
"Good, now that that's out of the way I wanted to ask you something else." Elle brought her gaze back to his and found him smiling at her. She hadn't seen him smile many times before but it was the same every time. The smile always reached his eyes and lighted them with the happiness that he felt. It was like nothing that she'd ever seen before. His beautiful blue eyes danced now with the light and she felt her heart contract in her chest. How could she love him so much? After everything that had happened throughout her life. How had she still found love in one of the most unexpected places?
Jason continued when he realized he had her attention.
"I want us to go out and have a real date. We skipped that very important steep and I want to go back and cover all the basics. If this relationship has any chance of working out we have to make sure we do it right." Elle's breath came out in a whoosh as she listened to Jason. He thought of them as having a relationship.
"What do you mean this relationship?" He smiled at her and brought her hand up to kiss her knuckles.
"I don't sleep with someone I don't plan on having a relationship with." He whispered as he bent forward and pressed a kiss to her exposed neck. She let her head fall back as he kissed his way down her sweat sticky neck. Stopping at the low dip of her tank. He pulled back and looked around at all the boxes that littered the floor.
"Did you decide to do some remolding while I was gone?" Smiling she reached over and ran her hand down his cheek. God, his skin was so smooth. He was clean shaven and smelled like Ax cologne.
"I just got to looking at the place the day after you left and decided that I didn't want it to look so empty anymore." He caught the underlying message in her sentence. She really meant: I didn't want it to look so empty now that you're in my life. It made him smile because she had thought of him.
"Well, whatta you say we get up and get this stuff where it's supposed to be then we order a pizza and have dinner in bed while we watch something good on TV." She hopped up and extended her hand.
"I think I really like that plan." She pressed a quick kiss to his lips and then turned and looked out over the sea of boxes. "Just pick a room and start putting things up. If you're not sure about something just yell. I'll be in the kitchen." She stepped over a box and then made her way back into the kitchen. Jason reached down and picked up a box that was labeled bedroom and started up the stairs. This could be the start of a beautiful relationship.
TBC
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