III. G.N.O
Shaw kicked her shoes off and relaxed on Carters bed and waited for her to finish showering. After Carter got off of work they met up at Finch's recently privately acquired firing range. They had each brought their own guns to fire.
A devilish grin spread across her face when she saw Joss's selection of firepower. She always figured Carter for a lover of hand guns.
Carter had brought a Barrett M82 and M98.A small chuckle escaped her lips she wondered if John knew about her not so legal stash of big and long firearms.
After spending 2 hours at the range they both decided to meet at her place and then head out. Unfortunately Joss got delayed on getting ready because she had to drop her kid off at his Fathers and got stuck in traffic getting back to her place.
Shaw looked at the clock on the nightstand it was only 9:30PM they had plenty of time. Her thoughts were interrupted when she saw Joss come out of the bathroom.
"You're joking" Shaw stated with a frown as she looked at Joss's outfit.
"What?" Joss asked puzzled
"You're not wearing that."
Joss looked down at her dress top and black slacks "What's wrong with it, I thought it looked nice."
"We're going to a club Carter, not a PTA meeting" Shaw stated as she got up from the bed and made a bee line to Joss's closet and shifted through the hangers to find some club appropriate attire.
"I know you are use to dressing a certain way because of your job, but when it's time to show some skin, it's time to show some skin."
Then her eyes saw a dress crammed in the back of the closet and it looked like it had never been worn. Shaw reached in and grabbed the sleeveless sweet heart neckline little black dress with gun metal borders around the bust and waist line.
"Put this on, we're leaving for Club Inferno in 10 minutes" Shaw said as she shoved the dress in Carters arms and turned her around and pushed her toward the bathroom.
Edward seethed with anger as he watched as some hussy force his girlfriend into an inappropriately short dress. Edward hastily got dressed and grabbed his phone and located club Inferno and stormed out of his apartment.
John had been in the library cleaning and re assembling his gun for the past 3 hours. He still couldn't believe that Shaw was dragging Joss to a night club to pick up men.
The whole idea had to have been Shaw's. Joss wasn't the type of woman to put on a skin tight dress and go hit on men. She had better things to do with her time.
She didn't need drunken men hitting on her in a crowded room. John clenched his hands on his gun and the cleaning rang and began vigorously scrubbing his gun as he thought of some random drunk man putting his hand where it didn't belong.
Harold shook his head as he watched John clean his gun for the twenty third time. Harold had no misgivings as to Johns feeling for Detective Carter.
The man had practically thrown a hissy fit and broke his phone and ear piece when he listened in on Jocelyn while she was on her date with Detective Beecher.
Although he did find it amusing when they had overheard Beecher telling Joss about how he got shot in the shoulder, John had instantly scoffed saying that he'd been shot and stabbed multiple times.
Harold sighed as he looked at John as he began the process of reassembling and cleaning his gun again.
"Mr. Reese, if you are so agitated at the idea of Detective Carter going to a club to seek male company why don't you go and resolve the situation."
"I'm not agitated, what Joss does in her spare time and who she spends it with is her own business."
"Funny, you didn't seem to have a problem invading her business when Detective Beecher was involved."
"That was different"
"Oh, how so?" Harold questioned
"Beecher was a cocky prick who cost her a job with the FBI."
"Really, that's interesting considering how upset you were when you found out about the FBI's offer in the first place."
Harold watched as John pursed his lips and glared at him. Harold held his hands up in mock surrender.
"I'm simply trying to make a point John."
"And which point would that be Harold."
"That Jocelyn Carter is a woman, a beautiful woman and has every right to feel like one and since you have not expressed your feelings to her, she has no obligation to put herself on the back burner and wait for you, especially when you yourself keep occasional company with another woman."
Harold watched as John closed his eyes and let out a sigh. Having made his point Harold turned back around and faced his computer.
After a few moments Harold herd John get up and start to leave the library.
"By the way Mr. Reese I suggest you change your shirt and take out a few thousand dollars, unfortunately as a man, just looking nice isn't going to get you into Club Inferno."
A smile spread across Harold's face as he herd John grunt.
Joss looked down at the Appletini that was placed in front of her and Shaw. The bartender nodded to the middle aged men at the corner of the bar. Her and Shaw smiled and picked up their drinks. A grin made its way to her face this was her and Shaw's, 5th free drink.
Inferno was a nice club for 21 and up. Though due to the prices most of the people here were in their 30's or older.
The club was true to its name. The lay out was centered around an open atrium, that served as the dance floor, lining the walls were booths. But what she liked most about the club was that it had a dim fiery red-orange lighting and the song selections by the DJ were good too it ranged from rap to techno.
She was brought out of her thoughts when Shaw whispered in her ear.
"Told you the dress would pay off, we got two good looking bogies heading our way."
Just as Shaw pulled away from her ear two male voices grabbed her attention and they both turned around. As soon as she turned around she realized Shaw wasn't kidding about good looking.
Standing in front of them were two real good looking men. One was slightly taller than the other, they both had on dress pants and un-tucked dress shirts. The tall one had semi long dirty blonde hair and was a little scrawny and other was a brunette with a short buzz cut and was pretty buff.
"Evening ladies, my name is Mike" Joss watched as the dirty blonde introduced himself as he looked her dead in the eye and gave her a mega watt smile.
Then he gestured to his friend "and this is my friend James."
Her and Shaw glanced at each other and smiled.
"We were wondering if we could by you beautiful ladies a drink" Mike asked
After some small polite talk and a drink, James asked Shaw to dance and Mike did the same with her.
John made his way into the club after having to give the bouncer 1000 dollars to get in immediately. As he made his way to the bar to he was relieved to find men his own age and older in the club, but judging from the looks he was getting from the women his age defiantly didn't matter.
He moved to the end corner of the bar and ordered a glass of Whiskey and sipped it as he scanned the club looking for Joss. He observed as people sat and stood around the club mingling. He watched as some of the bartenders walked around carrying trays filled with shots or bottles of alcohol.
He was distracted when heard a female voice in front of him. He looked down and stared at a short red head who couldn't have been older than 23.
"Hello handsome. How are you?" She asked
"Umm…I'm fine?" John replied feeling uncomfortable. He watched as she looked him up and down and bit her lip before she looked back into his eyes.
"You most certainly are. My name's Carmen"
John tied to suppress a laugh. He needed to let the girl down easy.
"Look, you seem like a really nice girl…" His sentence was cut off when she stumbled closer to him and moved her hand up his chest. On reflex he grabbed her hand and pulled it away.
"Like I was saying, you seem like a really nice girl but I think I'm a little too old for you. I'm pretty sure I'm old enough to be your father."
"Oh, really. So if I call you daddy, will you spank me?"
John just stood there floored; he honestly didn't know what to say to that, he never had a woman ever say something that disturbing to him.
Thankfully they were disrupted by two other girls.
"Oh my God, Carmen, what the hell are you doing?"
John looked up and saw two girls both blonde looking at their clearly drunk and disturbed friend. Both girls grabbed the red head and apologized on her behalf and dragged their drunken girlfriend to the exit of the club.
John shook his head and tossed back the rest of his drink. His reprieve was short lived when he looked up and saw three older women smiling and staring at him like his a piece of meat.
After seeing Shaws' miserable face as James talked her ear off Joss had excused them to the restroom as a way to ditch them. Once they decided it was safe, they made their way back towards the bar and they both stopped and watched as they saw John getting hit on by a very drunk girl.
The both smiled at how awkward John looked, it looked like he was contemplating jumping over the bar to get away from the girl.
Her and Shaw moved closer and watched the fiasco untangled. They both smiled as John tried to politely turn the girl down. Then they both sported a mirrored look of disgust as the girl asked if she could call John daddy and if he would spank her.
Thankfully the girls friends came and got her, unfortunately the girls actions brought unwanted attention, as soon as the girl was gone three older women looked like they were about to pounce on John and tear him limb from limb.
"Are you going to save him or should I?"Shaw asked as she leaned over and whispered in her ear.
"Yeah I'll go save him and as payment I think he will owe me a dance."
Shaw smiled and cracked her knuckles "I'll flank the two on the left"
John honestly felt like he was in a life or death situation .
His eyes scanned the club looking for the fastest way to advert the situation as the three women starting making their way towards him. If he was going to escape he was going to have to act fast. Just as he was going to make a move toward the dance floor he saw Shaw cross in front of him and block of the two women coming from his left.
When he turned back to his right he watched as Joss cut the other woman off and exchanged some words with her .She watched as the other woman held her hands up and walked away.
John was at a loss for words as Joss turned around and made her way over to him. Her hair was up in a clip and her dress was tight and short. Her legs were exposed. It didn't make any sense, Joss was short, but her legs looked like they went on forever.
Maybe this was one of his dreams. He closed his eyes then opened them again and when he did he was staring down at her as she smiled at him.
"So John I think you owe me a dance for saving your ass."
Joss almost started laughing as she watched him try to collect himself. She watched as his eyes keep traveling to her cleavage she rolled her eyes and grabbed his hand and pulled him to the dance floor.
Once she found a spot on the dance floor she rested her forearms on John's shoulders and he hesitantly grabbed her hips.
"So John do you come here often?
"No, I was just in the neighborhood and thought I would stop and get a drink."
John couldn't control the grin on his face as she smiled and shook her head. He leaned down and whispered in her ear
"But on a serious note Joss thank you. I thought they were going to eat me alive."
Joss let out a full laugh
"That's kind of sad John, out matched by some cougars and a college co-ed"
"Go ahead Joss laugh it up."
After she finished laughing she enjoyed their slow sway to the music.
As she looked into his eyes she saw that look again. It was the same look he had in his eyes when they where in his car talking about moving on. It felt like he wanted to tell her something. She wanted to believe that there was something more underneath all their flirting and banter.
She felt him encircle her waist and pull her closer.
"Joss…I…"
Before he could finish the music stopped and the lights went out.
Joss yelped and gripped John's forearms as she felt someone grab hard at the back of her neck and hair and yanked her backwards.
John herd Joss yelp as he felt her being pulled backward. Although his eyes hadn't adjusted to the dark, on reflex John tightened his hold on her and kicked his leg out in front of him, although he couldn't fully see he felt his foot connect with someone. As soon as it happened he pulled Joss closer and cradled her head to his chest.
After a few minutes the emergency lights came on. As soon as he could see he grabbed Joss's face and examined her. She was holding the back of her neck and her hair was down and disheveled.
"Joss are you okay?"
"Yeah I think someone accidentally grabbed my hair."
John looked up and watched as people stood still wondering what was going looked down behind Joss and saw her hair clip crushed on the floor. He looked around to see if anyone was clutching their leg. It may have been dark but he defiantly kicked someone.
They both listened as the club expressed that they were closing due to electrical issues. He moved behind Joss and moved her toward the exit.
Once they were outside he started to feel less paranoid. He looked down at Joss she seemed okay. Maybe it was just an accident.
"Hey John do you mind giving me a ride home?" Joss asked
A smile spread across his face.
"What happened to girl's night out?"
She smiled and held her phone up
"Shaw was my ride and according to her text she's going to be preoccupied for the rest of the night"
He smiled and put his hand on her lower back and they walked across the street to the parking lot and got in his car.
John pulled up to her house and got out and opened her door.
"Such a gentleman" She smiled
"Always" John replied proudly
He walked her to her front door and held the door open as she went inside. He watched as she leaned against the door frame
"Thank you for the ride John."
"You don't ever have to thank me for anything Joss"
"Goodnight, John"
"Goodnight, Joss"
Joss watched as John walked down her front steps and was about to get in his car.
"Oh and by the way"
Joss watched as he turned around.
"I like the shirt John, purple looks good on you"
She smiled as he blushed and smiled back and then she shut her front door.
