A/N: I am really sorry that it has taken ages for this chapter to come up. I was meant to do it before I went on holiday but my packing ended up taking much longer than it should have and I still hadn't finished typing this up. And then when I came back, I had only 5 days to unpack, wash my clothes and go camping for ten days. But when I got back from that, I willed myself to finish it which has taken me ages because I have a crappy attention span. But here it is and I will type up the next bit soon and post it soon. (I say this now, but it doesn't mean it will happen). We'll have to see. I hope you enjoy it. Also, as sad as this is for me, I don't own flashpoint or any of the channels it's shown on or the characters. I wish I could own Sam. That would be nice .
Enjoy.
"Right I think when we walk in, just act normal and see how long it takes them to realize" Jules said getting out Sam's car.
"That's a good plan other than the fact that Ed, Spike and possibly Sarge knew I was going to propose"
"What? It's meant to be a surprise, you can't just tell people. What if they had accidentally told me? Jules smacked him in the arm.
"Well I wanted advice. I won't mention anything myself. Just make them think I don't want to talk about it so it looks like you said no, and tell them to talk to you. That way you can tell everyone!"
"You are devious ". Jules planted a kiss and walked first into HQ.
While unlocking her changing room door Jules spoke "I'll see you later" and gave Sam a quick peck on his cheek and entered the room. She stood in front of the mirror putting her hair into a French braid, watching the diamond in her ring refract the light creating spectrums around the room. It was amazing. Sam must have had help choosing it; he never could have done it himself. The task would have just confused and then aggravated him. It was most likely his mum. It couldn't have been Nat; she was genuinely surprised when she found out. The quietness of the room pulled her from her thoughts. She was used to having it to herself but had adapted when Leah joined team 1 and started singing country music every time she got changed. But today she wasn't there. It was completely silent.
Sam took a deep breath, bracing himself to be bombarded by the guys, and opened the door. He walked round to his locker and suddenly noticed that he was alone. He must have been too wrapped up in his thoughts to notice the silence when he entered. It was odd, but not unheard of for the locker room to be empty. They were all probably in the gun cage tidying or on the range practising. Sam walked out and found Jules leaning against the wall in her usual position waiting.
"How were the guys?"
"They weren't there."
Jules looked puzzled. "That's odd. Leah wasn't in my room either."
"They're all probably in the gun cage waiting to scorpio us for being late." Sam guessed taking Jules' hand and heading towards the cage. He poked only his head round the door just in case someone was going to jump them.
"Guys? Hello? Anyone? They're not here" Sam took a cautious step in and walked to the wall of guns. "The guns are all here" he said returning to his fiancée.
"This is really weird. I don't think they've been kidnapped but this is just really… odd"
They walked back into the lobby. Winnie wasn't at her desk. How could they have missed that? She always greeted them when they arrived, on time or late. The gym was a ghost town and the doors to the briefing room were shut which made the entire floor appear gloomy and more depressing. There was a piece of paper taped to the main door. Jules examined it at all angles before deciding it was safe to pick up- a habit she had unwillingly adopted from Spike. She opened it and read the scrawl that looked like Ed's handwriting.
'Open the door or be scorpioed'
Jules handed the piece of paper to Sam and inspected it similarly to Jules. She looked at him, hoping he would take the lead and decide what to do because she didn't have a clue.
"I guess we better open the room" Sam said. Frankly, there wasn't anything else they could really do except be shot at and they both weren't really keen on that. Jules walked slowly to the switch and flipped it not knowing what to expect.
"CONGRATULATIONS!"
"What?" Sam and Jules said simultaneously. Their mouths hung open as their eyes moved rapidly around the room taking in all the familiar faces. Greg was between Marina and Ed who was holding Izzy next to Sophie. Then Raf and Wordy with Shelly and Spike. On the end stood Nat. NAT!
"I don't understand. How did you guys find out and organise this in the hour that we told Nat? I think I need to sit." Jules was pissed. She wanted to be the person to tell everyone. She was happy that they were all there to say congrats but she wanted to say it. Not have it told like it was the latest gossip.
"Well, we all knew Sam would pop the question soon. Honestly, he asked me how to do it two days ago." Ed started
"And I've had a plan forming for a while" Greg continued. "But we just needed definitive confirmation that he actually did it". He pointed to Nat. "I mean it would have been a bit awkward if you hadn't and then shown up to work to find this. But I guess it might have forced you to ask her here".
Sam was slightly offended by his friend's lack of faith in him. "So you guys trust me to shoot a subject holding a gun to a hostage but not to propose to Jules?"
"Yes" everyone chimed.
Jules smiled slightly for she was starting to get over her anger for Nat. It was a nice thing for them all to do and she can't be angry at someone for doing something nice for her.
"Right, well Sam did propose to me and I did say yes. Can we eat cake now?" Jules eyed the cake that Sophie made sitting on the table with 2 gold interlocking rings iced in the middle and congratulations piped at the top.
"No I want details" Natalie whined.
"Ugh, fine" Jules let out, sitting down ready to tell her story. All the women gathered around her as she retold the events of last night. 'Oohs' and 'aahs' came out in choruses which made all the men stare at the women like they were crazy. Everyone thought Sam was incredibly gentlemanly when he gave Jules his jacket and then a stream of 'awws' filled the room when they started dancing and then gasped silence when he got down on one knee and asked the question.
"And then I said yes and he put the ring on me and then we went to the bedroom and we.. y'know" Jules ended her story.
"She makes it seem so blunt. I scooped her up, carried her to the bedroom and then we made love. Honestly, you could have ended it better than 'we went to the bedroom'. Sam interjected.
Before Jules could argue back, ed interrupted "as nice as that story was, we don't need the details of that particular activity thank you very much".
"Scared I'm better than you Ed?" Sam joked
"You wish"
Sam walked round and sat next to Jules taking her hand.
"I can't believe how can you not have set a date yet? It's like the most important thing" Nat questioned them.
"We got engaged yesterday and I'm sure you know from the story, we were kind of busy" Sam retaliated. His sister was starting to deeply irritate him.
"Still, it's kind of a big deal, you can't plan anything else until you set a date" Natalie moaned on.
Sam couldn't listen to Nat badgering them any longer otherwise the wedding would end up being in a prison. "Nat, I love you, you're my sister but this is our wedding. We want to do things in our own time so can you just back off. Save all this energy for your wedding".
Jules gave Sam a smile and squeezed his hand to say 'thank you for restraining your mental sister' while everyone turned to look at Spike. His mouth was opening and closing like a goldfish showing blobs of the cake, trying to work out what to say, while the colour slowly returned to his face.
"We will er have to er see…." Spike turned to look at Ed for help but he just shook his head indicating he wasn't getting any assistance from him.
"TEAM ONE HOT CALL!" Winnie's voice came loud over the speakers.
"Right team gear up". Greg yelled over the siren, automatically switching to 'Boss mode'. Everyone said goodbye and followed Greg to the gun cage.
"Just another day" Sam whispered to Jules wrapping his arm around her waist.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this and I'm sorry for the REALLY long wait. But I will do the next bit soon. I promise.
TeawithJam xxx