Arriving at Lawson's house two hours after their shift had ended, Shannon locked up her car and knocked on the door. While waiting for him to open the door, Shannon looked up and down the street and wrapped her arms around herself as the cold night's breeze hit her.
As soon as Lawson opened the door, she walked in without a word and rubbed her hands together.
"What took you so long to answer?" Shannon asked trying to get her hands warm.
Walking up to her and grabbing her hands in his, he slowly rubbed his hands up and down them while saying "I had just had a shower and was putting some clothes on, sorry you had to wait so long." He said before placing his lips onto hers and she allowed him to kiss her passionately.
Pulling away after a minute, she said "So worth the wait if that is what I get for an apology."
"That was my greeting, you will get a proper apology soon enough." He says taking her coat off her along with her scarf and beanie before leading her to the couch and pulling her down to sit sideways on his lap.
"Well I look forward to that apology soon, what did Kerry want?" Shannon asked while running her hand through his hair.
"She just wanted to grill me about how we need to be able to communicate at all times which means no taking out our earpieces or turning off our cameras, she had a field day with that, so from now on we have to be on our best behaviour while at work." He says with a cheeky grin.
"Yeah well we have to behave anyway, I want us to stay under wraps for now, it's just too complicated, your my superior and I already slept with Josh, so it would be best if we kept this to ourselves, which means not letting our jealousy show if one of us has someone flirt with us." She says linking her hand through his.
"That sounds fair, I don't want you to be made to feel uncomfortable around our team mates, so it is agreed we will start a relationship but at work it is strictly professional, no one can find out about us." He said.
"Strictly professional, now what did your proper apology involve exactly?" she asks raising an eyebrow.
"Well it involved a little bit of this." He says while placing a kiss on the right side of her neck.
"Hmmmmmm" she says while tilting her head slightly.
"A little bit of this." He says placing another kiss on the left side of her neck.
"I like this apology." Shannon whispers as she straddles him before dipping her head down to start kissing him.
"I'm liking this apology too, I should apologise to you more often." He says as they begin to slowly take off each others clothes.
….
Waking up early the next morning, Shannon slowly got out of Lawson's bed trying her best not to stir him as she needed to get ready for work. Heading out to her car she grabbed her change of clothes, thankful now that she always leaves a spare change in there as well as her other little things like toiletries.
Walking back in relieved Lawson is still asleep, Shannon walks into the bathroom and starts the shower.
Waking up to the sound of water running, Lawson is happy that she feels at home enough to use his shower without feeling like she had to wait for his permission. Getting up out of bed, he gets dressed and heads into the kitchen to start on breakfast.
….
After getting ready in the bathroom, Shannon packs up her stuff and walks out of the bathroom to see Lawson awake in the kitchen eating some cereal while he was waiting for the kettle to boil.
"Good morning." She said walking into the kitchen with a smile.
"Good morning, what do you want for breakfast?" he asks while making two cups of coffee.
"I can't stay for breakfast, I need to get to base before you do otherwise it will look suss." She says walking up to him and giving him a kiss.
"At least have some coffee and take a piece of fruit." He says.
"Alright, I will have a quick sip of coffee and I will take a banana, then I really gotta go." She says grabbing the cup from him and having a quick drink of it before taking the banana out of his hand and walking towards the door.
"See you at base." Lawson says holding onto her free hand that only contains her car keys.
"Yeah, and then we can do the same thing tonight, I can come over tonight, or you can stay at mine." She says.
"Staying here sounds good." He says giving her one last kiss and he tries to savour it as he knows he has to refrain all form of physical contact at work.
"See you later." She says walking to her car.
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Sitting in TR 1 with Lawson and Michael, Shannon stares outside her window to ensure she didn't stare at Lawson in a way that would give them away.
"So are you really going to leave us Shannon?" Michael asks.
"What do you mean am I going to leave you guys?" Shannon asks.
"To work with that bozo Schmuck, oh I'm sorry was it a dodgy name along the lines of Schmitt." Michael says while Lawson laughs at Michaels comment and his obvious disgust for the guy.
"What gave you the idea that I would leave TR to work with them?" Shannon asks staring at Michael giving him her full attention.
"Well apart from the obvious amount of flirting that was going on between you two, which by the way was totally uncool, it seemed like you were really interested." Michael said.
"I was intrigued that's all, I'm not leaving TR." Shannon says surprise at Michael's reaction.
"Intrigued by a schmuck, well that is fine, but all I am saying is why would you waste your skills for, I mean if you want to leave TR, I can't stop you, but I guess after yesterday afternoon you have more reason to, so you can have more freedom, you won't have to live in secret." Michael prattles on.
"I AM NOT LEAVING TR." Shannon says sternly.
"Ok." Michael says.
"And what did you mean by that last part?" She asked.
"If you can't work it out then that isn't my problem, I'm just saying I wouldn't blame you exactly if you did want to leave, I could understand your reasoning behind it, but I guess that is just the way the cookie crumbles." Michael says.
"Ugh, if you're going to just say a bunch of riddles then don't bother voicing your opinion until you can tell me exactly what you're hinting at." She says crossing her arms and staring back out the window.
"Michael, I think it would be best if you just drop this right now." Lawson says.
"Of course you would defend her, don't blame you either." Michael mutters.
"What was that Michael?" Lawson asks.
"Nothing." Michael says focusing on the car ahead of him.
"Pull over Michael." Lawson said pointing his finger to the car park spots on the side of the road.
"Why Lawson?" Michael asks.
"Just do it now." Lawson says.
After the car has been parked, Lawson says "Get out, you and I need to have a talk."
Getting out of the car, Michael shuts his door and walks a couple of steps down the footpath away from the car.
"Alright Michael, tell me what the hell is going on with you today." Lawson says.