OK! I think this was quite a quick update! Hope you like it AND I'm on Half Term now... for a week so updates should be a bit quicker... should be... not promising anything!
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10. We're Getting So Close
"WILL!" Emma nearly shouted "What's going on? What's wrong?"
"You're in a towel"
"Yeah, I noticed that myself funnily enough." Emma replied dryly clinging the towel tightly to her. "What is it? What's wrong?" She asked again turning serious. "Is it the kids? Did one of them get hurt, I knew playing Hide and Seek would be a bad idea... I know I didn't say it at the time but I thought it could get them in trouble – it did didn't it? Have they kicked them out the hotel? What do we do now?"
Will blinked again knowing that what Emma was asking was important and she was starting to stress herself out – Will could pick up the signs even in his... state he just couldn't seem to form any words... well any words to reassure her.
All his brain was thinking about was how her skin would feel if he gently ran his hand down her arm and maybe let it wander a bit and if goose bumps would appear after his hand smoothly and softly swept past a patch of skin.
"WILL!" Emma did shout that time and started to snap her fingers in front of his face causing Will to jump slightly and nearly fall on his backside. "Seriously – concentrate!" Emma pleaded as Will blushed it was obvious that his 'ogling' had not gone unnoticed.
"What's happened? What's wrong?" Emma asked again.
"Erm..." Will swallowed "It's just... you're in a towel." He nearly whimpered and decided to look at the doorframe instead of Emma.
"Yeah, I was in the middle of my shower."
'Crap..' Will thought nearly weeping – how could he forget she was taking a shower? Of course she was.
"I'm so sorry Em."
"Why?"
"Because nothing's wrong, the kids are fine... it's just I'm the..." Will trailed of still not catching Emma's eye.
"You're...?" Emma prompted not catching Will's last part of the sentence.
"I'm the hider – Puck and Finn are after me."
"You have got to be kidding me Will!" Emma nearly laughed her hand coming to rest over her heart. "I thought one of them was lying in a pool of blood with the intensity you were ringing the doorbell with!"
"Sorry." Will muttered rubbing the back of his neck. "I just didn't want to get caught and hiding in my own room is against the rules."
"You have rules to play hide and seek?" Emma asked as Will looked up at her and shrugged slightly before croaking out,
"Rachel came up with them."
Emma nodded, her wet, soapy hair had turned a deep red as it had come into contact with water. Will gulped as he desperately and unsuccessfully tried to expel the image of Emma in the shower...
"Right, of course she did... Will why you here if nothing's wrong?"
"I was wondering if I could just collapse on your chair?" Will admitted honestly "I'm too old to play hide and seek."
"Too old?" Emma laughed just as a door slammed signaling that someone had just climbed the stairs.
"Dude! Why did you do that?" Puck's unmistakable voice came drifting down the halfway causing Will to wince.
Emma rolled her eyes as she stepped to the side letting him in; he gratefully walked into her room as she muttered "and how this doesn't break the rules I don't know."
-X-
Both Puck and Finn let out a sigh of relief when Miss Pillsbury's door finally shut – luckily their accident of shutting the door behind them loudly paid off meaning that Mr Schue was finally in her hotel room.
Puck swiveled back to lean against the wall. "Thank god he finally went it – seriously how long does it take to get into a flipping hotel room? If that was me trying to hit on Miss P I would have been in that room in a minute flat." He bragged.
"No you wouldn't." Finn rolled his eyes, "Miss P would never let you in her hotel room alone, I'm sure that's illegal."
"Hey it never stopped Mrs Jones." Puck pointed out.
"Seriously? When?"
"Never kiss and tell." Puck replied cheekily. "Never kiss and tell."
"No you're more kiss and knock up type aren't you?" Finn pointed out as Puck glared at him.
"Fine, I deserve that. Changing the subject will this satisfy your girlfriend now?"
"God I hope so, we need to focus on Nationals not getting Mr Schue and Miss P together." Finn agreed. "You did see that she was just in a towel right? I mean... wow, before I never really saw her in that way but...wow."
"Dude, I know she was in a towel! Mr Schue isn't a man if he doesn't tap that! Hell if he doesn't tap that – I will!"
"He's in love with her Puck." Finn shook his head. "He's not going to just 'tap' that! And you wouldn't have a chance with Miss P."
"Since when have you turned into such a girl?" Puck complained causing Finn to glare at him again. "Fine, maybe not now but I grantee that by the end of this trip Mr Schue would so have taken Miss P's V card and I can so tap that."
Finn nearly rolled his eyes before he realized what Puck said. "What? I could!"
"No you couldn't and why would you be trying to help Mr Schue 'tap that' if you want to?"
"Because while I'm not in the running for them getting together – I am when they get married, and I bet a lot more on that bet then I did on the bet that Artie is so going to win."
Finn thought for a couple of seconds before saying, "Wait? You were going on about Miss P being a virgin!"
"Well Miss P is so not going to be a virgin by the time we're back in Lima dude."
"But she's a virgin now?"
"Eh – yeah.." Puck nodded looking at Finn ,"I can smell the virgin hormones coming of her."
"Virgin hormones? But she was married for 3 months!" Finn protested trying to wrap his head around it.
"So? Even if she did lose it when she was married I doubt it would have been to Dr. Toothy." Puck shrugged "So now that our 'mission' is finally flipping done want to go down to the game room? See if there are any half decent games there?"
"Yeah, I still can't believe Mr Schue actually bought the fact that 13 High School students were going to play hide and seek." Finn shook his head.
"I know when I heard Berry say that, I was there going 'that's never going to happen', Mr Schue must have it bad if it's effecting his judgement that bad."
Finn just rolled his eyes before turning back to the staircase.
-X-
Will walked slowly into Emma's darkened hotel room, the curtains were closed and it took a couple of moments for his eyes to adjust from the sunlit hallway to the darkened room. He could still hear water rushing out from the shower head in the bathroom which signified that Emma had just leapt out the shower when he rang her doorbell, the partly bathroom door also signified that as well. Will turned when he heard Emma shut the door behind her and flicker the light switch on bathing the room in artificial light.
He smiled nervously looking anywhere but in her direction.
"Thanks again." He murmured feebly. "For letting me hide in here."
Emma shrugged but clutched her towel closer to her, "Something told me you weren't going to leave plus I didn't particularly want Finn or Puck to see me in a towel."
Will couldn't help it, he smirked before replying. "But you don't mind me seeing you in a towel?"
"Well you're not seeing me in a towel now are you?" Emma asked laughing, "You're not even looking in my direction!"
"Just trying to give you some privacy." Will murmured.
"You weren't like a couple of minutes ago." Emma teased.
"I don't know what you're going on about." Will shook his head as Emma snorted.
"So you weren't just opening ogling then?" Emma asked as Will's head snapped towards her for the first time in a couple of minutes.
"I... I..." Will stuttered as Emma looked at him knowingly.
"Well while you are stuttering – I'm just going to finish the shower you interrupted earlier." Emma sighed, "I don't want this soap to set in my hair."
Will nodded dumbly. "I'll just... wait here then."
Emma nodded before turning letting Will see a lot of her bare back, he gulped again as he turned and collapsed in the chair next to the desk taking shallow breathes, Will shut his eyes tight trying to keep his thoughts pure, well as pure as he could when Emma was in the shower... naked.
Will shook his head and opened his eyes wide; okay closing my eyes won't help. In need of a distraction." Will thought as he looked around the room and saw the TV, reaching for its remote on the generic bedside table which also was resting a generic alarm clock which was showing that the time was now 3.15pm so he only had to hide out here for another hour and 45 minutes.
That wouldn't be hard right?
Will's ears perked up when he heard the shower had been switched off and the sound of the shower curtain being pushed to the side before he knew it he was clutching the remote in his hand when Emma came out of the bathroom her hair twisted up into a towel and her body wrapped up in what looked like a warm, fluffy bathrobe.
The type of bathrobe that just made him want to hug her and burry his nose in the crease of her neck just to inhale the pure scent of Emma Pillsbury.
"Hey." Emma smiled, "Going to watch some TV?"
"Erm..." Will looked down at the remote which was hanging limp in his hand. "Yeah, if that's alright with you Em, if it's not don't worry about it, I was just..."
"Will," Emma interrupted, "You're babbling – it's like you haven't seen me in a towel before or something." She grinned cheekily as Will nodded – the tense atmosphere diluting slightly. He looked up and she truly took his breath away, her face, arms and legs slightly red – a sign that she had just come out of the shower making her seem... clean and refreshed.
She did seem better in herself; now this wasn't the first time when he's saw this expression on Emma's face. It was one that he loved the most and treasured the most because it was the one Emma had whenever they had one of their friend/movie nights – it means she was as relaxed as she could be, and that usually happens when he was around.
"You seem better." Will admitted. "Less tense."
"I feel clean." Emma shrugged, smiling ."So what should we do now till... whenever you have to meet the kids."
"Five." Will nodded remembering when he got the kids to agree to all of them to meet back at five just so he knew all of them were going to go back to their rooms when they promised.
"Five then." Emma smiled and released her hair from the towel, letting some water droplets fall down onto her bathrobe which was coming undone slightly as Emma took the towel and ran it through her hair drying it slightly.
Will coughed and turned his head so he was tempted not to look at the skin revealed through the gap that the sash wasn't covering.
"What?" Emma asked still drying her hair.
"You robe is coming undone Em."
"What?" Emma asked and then looked down. "Great." She blushed as she quickly tied the sash tighter. "See I didn't bring in any clothes because I didn't know you were going to be here after my shower." She grumbled slightly.
"Sorry, I can you know stand in the corner or something..." Will looked at the wall.
"In the corner?" Emma laughed. "I think you've been watching Dirty Dancing too much."
Will laughed. "What so it's now – No-one puts Will in the corner?" He turned to watch her giggle uncontrollably.
"Don't think it would be that much of a catch-phrase. No offense."
Will laughed again. "None taken, maybe if you put 'Emma' in it, it might still hold some good catch-phrase power."
"That started off as a good chat up line."
"I was not chatting you up!" Will protested as Emma gave a snort of disbelief.
"Please." Emma rolled her eyes.
"Em, if I was going to chat you up, you would know it."
"Really?" Emma smirked as she walked over to her bed and sat down on the corner of it. She patted the space beside it "Okay – chat me up Will" She challenged.
"Cheesy or normal?" Will inquired as he laughed and sat next to her.
"Whatever fits your style. What do you do whenever you see a cute blonde sitting at a bar?"
"Blonde?"
"You so have a type."
"Do not!"
"Terri, April and HOLLY!"
Will smirked on how Emma listed off the names and how she was still jealous about the very brief relationship he and Holly shared when he unsuccessfully tried to move on from her.
"Nah, I think it's the red-heads that are the ones that are going to last forever."
Emma gulped.
"Any... anyway." She stuttered. "Chat up lines."
Will smirked wracking his head for the really cheesy ones that his old college mates always used and he couldn't believe that they actually pulled by using them.
"Okay I know some, but can I just say I have never used them."
"Sureeeee." Emma drawled out. "Come on, hit me with your friend's cheesiest chat up lines."
"Cheesiest?" Will asked as Emma nodded. "Okay... There is something wrong with my cell phone."
"Pardon?" Emma asked.
"Just go along with it Em!" Will laughed. "There is something wrong with my cell phone."
"Okayyyy..." Emma drawled, "What's wrong with your cell phone?"
"It doesn't have your number in it." Will finished looking straight at Emma who desperately tried not to laugh.
Emma laughed. "That's..."
"Yeah." Will laughed with her agreeing.
"Pretty bad, it doesn't make sense either." Emma finished.
"Why?" Will asked.
"Because you've had my cell-phone number for," Emma let out a puff of air, "years now."
"I've treasured it since you gave it to me." Will grinned cheekily.
Emma laughed again shaking her wet red hair. Which was surprisingly straight in its damp state, he was used to having Emma's hair being curly.
"Hey, your hair is really straight."
"That is a weird chat up line Will."
"No, not a chat up line – observation." Will tucked it under her ear. "I like it, don't think I've seen it this straight before, or wet" He chuckled.
"Thanks." She blushed turning her head in aim to stop him from seeing it making him just be enchanted by everything about her, making his mind think about what it would be like if... when they are together and she would just come out of the shower and look like this. How would he act? Because right now he wanted nothing more than just to cup her cheek and kiss her softly.
And just like that Will realized something, there was nothing stopping him.
"I could be anything you want." He whispered to her causing her to blink and sway slightly in the spot and blink, her heart already starting to race from how he was looking at her.
"Wha... What?" She asked. "What are you going on about? Is this another chat up line?"
"I could be fun... smart... brave? I could even be charming and romantic" Will flashed a grin at her which she swooned over. "Or simple." He shrugged. "I could be whatever you want me to be, Em; you just have to tell me."
Emma blinked dazed before smiling again. "You're crazy."
Will, ever so close to her leaning closer and closer that he was just a whisper away from her lips. "I could be that."
"I..." Emma whispered as she closed her eyes and felt her breath mix with Will's.
"Shh..." Will whispered, a hand gently coming to cup her cheek. He closed his eyes too leaning ever so closer.
This is it.
They lips were just lightly touching when a fragrant knocking came on the door.
"Miss Pillsbury?" Rachel's voice came from the other side of the door.
"No." Emma whimpered her forehead resting against Will's.
"Not now." Will added then whispered. "Ignore it, she'll go away."
"They could be hurt Will." Emma sighed pulling back, Will's hand still on her cheek. "We're their chaperones for a reason."
He nodded. "I just..."
"I know." Emma replied, it actually looked like tears were in her eyes. "Will... I..."
"MISS PILLSBURY!" Rachel's voice came again.
Emma huffed. "I'm coming!" She added with a whisper, "Hide, Will."
"Pardon?"
"You're not supposed to be here remember?"
"Oh... yeah." Will nodded leaping up from his seat and leant against the wall that when Emma opened the door – as long as Rachel didn't come in – she wouldn't be able to see him.
Emma nodded before going to her door and opening it slightly.
"Rachel?" She asked flustered. "What's wrong?"
The teen seemed upset, tears were actually coming down from her cheeks.
"We can't find Mr Schue."
Yeah because he was nearly kissing me.
Emma nodded ."I'm sure he'll turn up – he's probably just got into the whole hide and seek game too much – you know how he can be."
Will nearly made a sound of protest but stopped himself.
"Yeah." Rachel wiped a tear from her eyes. "Could you call him? Just so I know."
Both Will and Emma froze.
"Erm... It's charging – my phone." Emma made up. "I forgot to do it last night"
"You can't call him with the cord still on?"
"It's turned off – it would mess up the whole... charging of the... battery." Emma stuttered.
She held her breath as she waited for the teens next move.
"Okay." Rachel huffed. "In a half an hour, we are supposed to meet anyway – at the lobby." Rachel stressed.
"Well he'll probably be waiting for you at five then." Emma soothed. "So you guys have finished playing hide and seek?"
"Yeah, we found everyone – just going to relax in our rooms or go to the game room now."
Emma nodded. "You know where I am if you need anything."
"Yeah, we know where both of you are." Rachel smirked. "Bye Miss P."
"I..." Emma blinked as she shut the door then turned to see the TV reflection of herself and Will a little bit further down leaning against the wall. They were both wearing identical faces of confusion.
Will stepped to the side. "Did Rachel just say 'where both of you are?'"
"They wouldn't..." Emma trailed off.
"What?"
"They wouldn't try to set us up would they?"
-X-
"So?" Tina asked as Rachel walked towards her and the other members of New Directions at 5'0 clock in the lobby.
"Yeah, he was in there – I saw his reflection in the TV, he was hiding behind a wall." Rachel rolled her eyes.
"So... do you think I won the bet?" Artie asked.
"I don't know Artie." Rachel smiled grimly. "Miss P was very flustered though..."
"Shhh.." Mercedes warned as the lift dinged open and Will walked through it – a hand running through his hair.
"Mr Schue!" Rachel quickly went back to the role of being upset about where her teacher went. "Where did you go?"
Will looked at all his students, trying to find any signs about his and Emma's suspicions about what the 13 teenagers were up to.
"I hid Rachel – since that was the game, nothing else right?" He asked.
"Of course, nothing else Mr Schue." Finn answered and shrank slightly when his mentor looked him in his eye.
"Right." Will nodded. "Because if it was anything else... like..." He sighed as he looked at his kids. Suddenly he was sure what they were up to. "You should be focusing on doing as well as you can on Friday and I know that my personal life has sometimes... seeped into this club and sometimes I have done things which have included you guys for which I'm sorry."
"Mr Schue we just want to... help." Quinn stated.
Will smiled and shook his head. "And I'm thankful for it but... I don't need your help."
Puck snorted. "Dude, please"
"Puck." Will warned. "Just... let it be and focus okay?" He looked at them all and they nodded. "So come on – time to get ready to have some dinner alright?" Will turned back to the lifts.
"So Mr Schue?" Artie called causing Will to turn round to face him. "Have I won the bet yet?"
"No." Will shook his head, looking down scuffing his foot until he looked back up and smirked slightly. "Not yet anyway."
He walked away with the sound of New Direction's woops behind him.
-X-
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