"The lights go on." Sara looked out of the window. With every minute she could see more and more windows in bright light.
"Do you want us to leave and go upstairs?" As guests of the restaurant they'd get the upper observatory admission free.
"Only if they want us to leave. I like it here." It was cozy, candles were everywhere, jazz and standard music was playing in the background.
"When they ask us to leave we simply order something new."
"Like what?"
"Like…one of these sundaes. Would you like to share one with me? Sitting next to me, very close, I feed you with ice cream, have my arm around you…"
"Are you flirting, lieutenant?"
"Yes."
"Is it the candle light or more the music?"
"Your foot on mine. You never broke contact, Sara. Are you flirting?"
"Flirting with my foot? It's more a kind of being attached to you. I like to have contact to you. I'd never flirt with you…do you want to sit next to me?"
"No, you'd never flirt." Sofia laughed, got up and moved her chair so that she was sitting almost next to Sara.
"Our last night in New York." Sara stroke Sofia's hand with a finger while her eyes moved back to the city in front of her.
"Will you miss it?"
"Somebody almost killed me."
"You ended in my arms, you were never in danger, I was with you the whole time."
"I was never scared. When I heard the shots I was already on the ground, safely under you. I was scared something did happen to you, I never worried about myself."
"And all I worried about was you. I think we fit perfectly together."
"Yes. Everybody wants to make sure the other one is alright, we don't care what is with us as long as the other is fine."
"We do." Sofia sighed happily.
"Excuse me, your sundae, ladies." The waiter had a huge sundae on his tray. Sofia saw ice cream, sauce, cookies, fruits, everything you could ask for on a sundae.
"We didn't order one."
"Mister Keane asked if you would take it even when he pays for it."
"We do." Sara smiled. "Please tell Mister Keane we thank him for it."
"Very well."
Sara dove her spoon in the ice cream, got a lot cream and a cherry on it. "Open up!" She demanded. "And don't you dream of bitching around because he paid for it. You want this sundae and so do I. Eat, woman."
Sofia opened her mouth and ate the ice cream.
"I didn't say a word."
"You wanted to send the waiter away. Not with me, Sofia. He wants to show you want a great guy he is? If he wants to do so with a sundae on a perfect night like this, he can do that. That's not a bribe, that's kind. And if you don't want it, I'll eat it all by myself."
"I ate the first spoon."
"You better eat the third one too."
"The third? What's about the second?"
"That's mine." Sara gave Sofia the spoon. "Your turn, lieutenant."
"You want me to feed you?"
"Spoon by spoon. We'll share our dessert."
"Why did he send only one?"
"Because if you had told the waiter to get lost, they had wasted two sundaes and not only one. And one is enough I like feeding you, it's like being on a date in the Empire State Building. Almost my 'Sleepless in Seattle'. Not on top but you look much better than Tom."
"Thanks. You look better than Meg."
"How can I look better than a blonde?"
"You do that without any make up, Sara."
"Stop flirting, give ice cream."
"I could pour it on my body and you are free to get it from there."
"Honey, with this hot body of yours ice cream is nothing more than a boiling sauce within a second. I'd burn my tongue on it and your body." Sara cocked a brow.
"True." Sofia giggled. "I like that."
"I like you."
"No, you love me."
"True. Want to go up to the observatory after the sundae? Taking pictures, snuggling and then go back to the apartment to finish this night with a glass of wine?"
"Sounds wonderful to me, Sara Sunshine. I'll get the waiter and order the check."
"And I get my money…we need to work some overtime for this night." First they had to get their bosses to pay them for the overtime. That was much harder than working long hours.
"It was worth a week of overtimes; especially when we work cases together."
"That's like holidays…only less dangerous."
"And without you in my bed after work."
"When you ask very kind I might join you occasionally." Sara smirked. Not that she not ended up very often in Sofia's bed or her couch while they were working. She couldn't remember the last time she had slept for a week alone in her apartment. That must have been before Sofia and she became such good friends. In another life, a life that wasn't as good as this life was.
"Where have you been?" When Sofia came out of the bathroom after her short shower Sara was gone. The brunette hadn't mentioned that she wanted to go anywhere.
"Just down the streets, I needed something for the evening." Sara lifted a little bag.
"What can you need? I'm here, that's all you need."
"I prefer my wine with cheese and cracker, Smuggy."
"Shall I leave? So that you, cheese, cracker and wine are alone?"
"I bought cheese and cracker for two, what does that tell you?"
"You've a date."
"Yes, with you. Get the wine, I prepare the cheese."
"Couch or balcony?"
"It's fresh outside…when we wrap ourselves in a blanket we can sit outside, I'd like to see the lights of the city." The apartment was in the middle of a fifty stories building, it wasn't a view like from the Empire State Building but it was alright. And they could get some of the night flair of New York.
"Tell me why do we meet Keane all the time?" Sofia wondered when they sat on the balcony.
"It's his restaurant, he knows many people in Vegas and he has a soft spot for you. He is exactly the man you're looking for if he could keep his pants on. There's a certain tension between you and him but it will never be more or serious because you won't give in. You want to be the one and not one in a million."
"Am I your one?"
"My one and only."
"That's why I sit here with you." Sofia laid her head on Sara's shoulder. "You know we have to come back to here. There are so many things we haven't seen…Corny Island…"
"The Yankees."
"Grand Central Station."
"More of the Central Park."
"Metropolitan Museum Of Art."
"You want to go to a museum?" Sara asked surprised. Wasn't Sofia the one who always complained that her dad had forced her too much into history that she tried to avoid everything with history now?
"It's suppose to be very good and with you a little bit of history can't be bad. And we need to spend some more time around Times Square and visit a Broadway show."
"Madison Square Garden."
"We definitely have to come back. Want to come back to New York with me, Miss Sidle?"
"Absolutely, Miss Curtis. Back to New York, a trip to Canada, beach holidays in Mexico, there are lot of places I want to see with you."
"Europe."
"Oh yes, I could spend months with you in Europe. You ever thought of going to Europe and work there? England, Scotland or Ireland?"
"No, not really. Shall I start to think about that? Because if you go there, the chances that I'll follow you are high. I don't want to be in Vegas without you."
"Looks like you like me, Lieutenant."
"I do, investigator. No matter if you like it or not."
"I do like it." Sara pulled Sofia closer in her arms. "You know, I'm glad Keane can't stay with one woman."
"Why?"
"Because if he could you would be his woman of choice and I had less time with you. He'd take you around the world, to parties with important and famous people and you wouldn't be my lieutenant anymore."
"If he would be my man of choice I'd make him take you with us. There's no way I'd travel the world without you. You belong into my life, Sara, no matter what man is in my life. I'll never make a decision for a man and against you. What we have is something that is for forever, what a man gives me might be for forever but it will never be worth to give up on us."
"Sounds like you want to be with me."
"I do. You won't get me out of your life, not even if you get a millionaire in my life."
"Not afraid I might steal him away?"
"No. You're a true friend and they don't do things like that." Sofia kissed Sara's cheek. Their friendship was for both more important than a man could ever be. No matter if they had relationships, there had never been a man made it between them.
THE END