Again a short one. There will probably be another couple of chapters.
Spike in Love Chapter 4
Shona inwardly asked herself for the millionth time "What on earth am I doing?" as she checked out of the hotel she had been staying in. After her credit card transaction was finished she turned round and said "Ok, let's go." Mike (Spike) Scarlatti picked up her suitcase and carried it to his car that was parked outside.
"Are you ok?" asked Spike, as he was driving towards his apartment. "You look a bit pale." "I'm fine" replied Shona "It's just as I've said, I've never done anything like this before." "Neither have I" said Spike smiling, "well not exactly like this. I've arranged with Ed to miss the next few days' workouts so that will mean I don't need to go into work as early until you leave. He thinks I've lost my mind, well the whole team do except Jules. She thinks it is romantic."
When they arrived back at Spike's place, Spike walked up to Shona and caressed her face and then swept her hair back behind her ear and said to her "I mean it, no one has ever had this effect on me. You are very special." They leaned closer to each other and kissed.
A couple of hours or so later Shona said "You need to know something; if my husband hadn't been killed we would have probably been divorced by now. Things weren't going so great between us."
A few days later when Shona was at the airport for her overnight flight back to Scotland a harassed looking Spike made his way to departures thinking "typical, a callout is going to stop me saying goodbye to Shona." Security let him through after he spoke to them and ran into the departure lounge just as the passengers started boarding and ran up to Shona and kissed her gently saying " I told you I'd make it. Here take this" pushing a piece of paper into her hands. "I don't want you to leave and I don't want to lose contact with you. I think I love you Shona, and I love it that you use my name and you don't call me Spike. It makes you special in another way. Common sense tells me it is too soon but my heart thinks it's not." Shona glanced at the paper and he continued "It's all my contact details, landline number, cell phone number, works phone number, my email number and my Skype details." Shona looked into his eyes, and replied "I think I love you too. You too are special. I will email you when I get in, the time difference means you will probably be sleeping when I do so." She had to board the plane as almost everyone else already had and she turned away with a tear in her eye. Spike also was trying not to cry, he was happy she loved him but sad she was leaving so soon. "I think I'm due some vacation time. I'll see about coming over to you." He said almost choking. When Shona had boarded the plane he turned round and saw Jules standing near to the door. He was shocked as he hadn't known that she had followed him. Jules just looked at him, walked over to him and said "come on, we need to return to base, paperwork doesn't wait. I'll drive." They walked back to the vehicle which incidentally was blocking a doorway and if it hadn't been a police vehicle it would have been moved. Jules then said "Is she the one?" Spike nodded as he couldn't speak and Jules continued "It's hit you hard and fast eh?" Again he just nodded and looked sadly out of the window at the passing city.
When he returned home all he could think about was Shona, her smile, her hair, her looks and her personality. He sat down and started pricing flights to Scotland.
