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Chapter 10:

Lilly woke up early the following morning, her body clock never allowing her to sleep past 6 am even on a weekend. She raised a hand to scrub the sleep from her eyes and slowly sat up. She looked around her room for her cats, wondering why they weren't there to greet her and demanded their breakfast like they usually did. But as she looked around the room around the room at the grey-black walls, at the smatterings of sports posters that lined the walls and into the open closet that was lined with crisp suits. It was then that she realised that she wasn't in fact in her room, and as she looked down she realised she was completely naked. What had she done? And who had she done it with? She pulled the sheet up over her, covering her breast and looked over at the empty bed beside her. She jumped when she heard a familiar voice on the other side of the door, the door opened and Lilly quickly made sure she was covered as he entered the door.

"Oh hey morning" Scotty replied happily as he crossed to the bed, carrying two mugs of hot coffee. He placed them on the night stand and then leaned in to her, his hand coming up to the side of her face. She pulled away from him and he frowned "hey, what's wrong?" he asked softly.

"Scotty, oh God what were we thinking last night?" she enquired "I cheated on Jordan" she buried her head in her hands "I've never cheated on anyone before"

"Lil, calm down" Scotty pleaded "It's okay"

"No it's not okay Scotty" Lilly barked "I can't believe I did this"

"Are you saying you regret what happened last night?" he questioned.

Lilly looked at him in disbelief "Of course Scotty, I was stupid last night" she began "I came here to tell you that we couldn't….that we couldn't do what we did last night, and then you kissed me and I couldn't help myself"

"So last night is my fault, you're saying I forced you or something?"

"No, that's not what I am saying" she said "last night was both our faults, it was a huge mistake"

Scotty stood up and scrubbed a hand across his face and walked away from the bed. He thought after last night she would be on the same page as he was. When he'd awoken early that morning, and looked down at her sleeping form, he couldn't help but press a kiss to her exposed shoulder.

Now she was telling him that last night had been a mistake and she was feeling guilty for cheating on Jordan, he thought that Lilly would feel the same way he did after last night. She seemed to enjoy the sex as much as he did, and now for her to be sitting on his bed, clutching the sheet so tightly around her body and on the verge of tears…..he realised that she was mortified.

"Where are my clothes?" Lilly asked as she looked around the bedroom floor.

"In my living room" Scotty replied.

"Can you please get them for me?"

Scotty nodded, and he headed for the couch wear her blouse, pants and underwear still remained from there time spent on his couch. He gathered them up and headed back into the bedroom. He handed Lilly her pile of clothes and she smiled at him "Thanks" she said as she continued to stare at him "Um, Scotty can you turn around please?"

"What?" he asked as he continued to stare at her,

"Can you turn around so I can get changed please?"

Scotty cleared his throat and turned to face the wall so Lilly could get changed. She slid out from the sheets and quickly put on her bra and panties, before throwing on her pants and blouse "You can turn around now" she said to him as she buttoned up the last few buttons of her shirt. Scotty turned back around to face her, even though she was fully clothed, all he could see was her was the gentle sweep of her hips and pert breasts.

"Look I better go, Chris will be wondering where I am" she started to walk towards the front door.

"Lil, wait" Scotty cried as he chased after her "we really should talk about this before you go, we can't just leave it like this" he added.

"I don't think that it would be a good idea, so I am just going to forget this happened and I'd encourage you to do the same" she retorted and she opened the door.

"So that's it?" he said "you're just going to fuck me then leave, what am I? Your personal sex slave? Just someone to fuck until your boyfriend gets back?"

Lilly sighed, she knew that he was getting angry because he was in pain and she knew that she was partly responsible for it, but she had just spent the night in the bed of someone other than her boyfriend, and as amazing as the sex was, she wasn't going to let it happen again. "I don't think of you like that Scotty" she countered "I think of you as my best friend, we're still friends aren't we?"

Scotty ran a hand through his hair and looked down at the floor "Yeah Lil, of course we're still friends"

Lilly breathed a sigh of relief, she would hate to think she was going to lose Scotty, she loved having him in her life and he was the best partner she had in a long time. She would hate to think that one night of ill-advised sex would ruin that. "I'll see you at work later?"

"Yeah Lil, of course"

She smiled and walked out of the door, closing it softly behind her. Scotty leaned back against the cool wooden door and closed his eyes, banging his head against it. Had he done something wrong, he didn't think he had forced her last night. As he thought back over the nights events he realised she'd had plenty of opportunity to back out and leave and she hadn't. But yet this morning, she'd acted like she'd slept with him in a drunken stupor even though neither of them had had a drop to drink. Great, he said to himself, now it was going to be even more awkward at work.

Lilly pushed open the front door, praying that her sister was still asleep. She had just enough time to take a quick shower and get ready for work. If she could just get upstairs without Chris knowing, she could pretend that she'd been there the whole time. She was halfway up the stairs when she heard someone clearing their throat behind her. "Where we're you all night?" Chris asked.

"Huh?" Lilly asked as she turned around to face her sister.

"Where we're you? I came home early last night and you weren't here"

"I…err…I was at work all night, interviewing a suspect. One of our suspects assaulted Scotty and it took a while for him to sober up so we could interview and book him"

"Oh, is Scotty ok?" Chris asked in concern.

"Yeah, he's just got a cut lip and a bruised cheek" Lilly replied "I just came home to shower and change then I am going back in"

Chris frowned "Well if you worked all night, won't Stillman give you the morning off?" Her sister asked "When are you supposed to sleep?"

Lilly shrugged "I am fine Chris I had a nap in the break room" She lied "I really need to get back to work, I'll see you tonight"

"I have to night off, I am spending it over at Alana's were going clubbing"

Lilly smiled "Well have fun then"

Chris nodded "I will, have a good day at work"

Lilly waited for Chris to go back into her room, before she breathed a sigh of relief, resting her head against the wall. Now not only had she cheated on Jordan, she just lied about it. What was going on with her? This wasn't her, when Patrick had cheated on her, she'd been in so much pain that she vowed she'd never put anyone in this situation, not that she'd of cheated before the whole Patrick incident.

He continued upstairs picked out a clean shirt from her cupboard. As she started to undress for the shower, she realised that everything smelled of Scotty, her clothes, her skin her hair. She needed to get rid of the smell of him, in order to try and erase the memory of last night. But every time she closed her eyes, visions of the previous night replayed in her head. His rippling muscles, his firm hands that roamed over her body, bringing her closer to ecstasy, not to mention the glorious and intense orgasm she had. She was sure her head would have exploded with the power of what she'd felt, the feeling of him moving inside of her, the strength of his thrusts and the sweet taste of his lips.

Dammit, she needed to stop picturing it. If she was every too move on and pretend nothing had happened between them, she had to stop picturing him naked in her mind.

Scotty was still in a foul mood when he arrived at work later, normally after sex; Scotty Valens was walking on air, nothing would get him down.

He fondly remembered the early days of his and Elisa's sexual relationship, when they had to hide it from both their parents because of their strong opposition to pre-marital sex. All that sneaking around had been worth the guilt he felt though, whenever they made love it had always put him on cloud nine. When he first had sex with Lilly in Connecticut and then back in Philly after Elisa had died, it hadn't felt the same as when he'd had sex with Elisa. But last night, my God, last night she had consumed his every sense. The sex was simply mind blowing and some of the best sex of his life.

But Lilly had made it quite clear that it was never going to happen again. He supposed he should feel guilty that they had gone behind Jordan's back.

He knew that Lilly wasn't the kind of person to cheat on someone, and neither was he, so her reaction this morning was understandable though painful. Was sex with him really that bad?

He walked into the break room and pulled his mug out of the cupboard, slamming it down on the laminex surface. He pulled the coffee pot roughly towards him and poured himself a large coffee.

"Bad night Scotty?" Vera asked as he came up beside him, Scotty simply growled in response "Wow man, you need to loosen up" Vera commented "When was the last time you got laid?"

"Shut up Nick" Scotty snapped and he stormed out of the break room over to his desk. Vera frowned over at his best friend, he hadn't seen Scotty in this bad a mood before.

In Vera's opinion his best friend needed to relax, maybe with some company of the female persuasion. There were going to be some nurses from Penn General at Jones' tonight, maybe if he persuaded Scotty to go with him and got enough alcohol into him, he could convince Scotty to take one of them home with him. He looked up as Lilly walked into the break room and head over to the coffee pot to pour herself one. "Morning Lil, hey Heard you and Valens had an interesting night?"

"Pardon?" Lilly snapped, almost spilling the coffee "What did Scotty tell you?"

Vera frowned in confusion "Nothin' Boss said that our suspect socked him in the jaw"

Lilly breathed a sigh of relief "Oh yeah, we charged him with assault but he had an alibi for our murder"

"What did you think I was talkin' about Lil?" he asked curiously.

Lilly blanched "Nothing, look I better get back to work" she left the break room so quickly that she left her coffee behind and Vera noticed that she averted her eyes away from Scotty as she sat down.

What was going on with those two lately? He thought to himself as he walked back out into the bullpen.

When Scotty realised that his partner had finally arrived, he looked up at her, trying to gauge her mood. Did she feel differently from this morning? Or was she still pissed at him? By the way she was pointedly trying to avoid his gaze he figured the latter was more likely. That only made him madder; he pulled a case file closer to him and opened it, grabbing a pen from the holder on his desk and starting to scribble notes on a blank note pad.

When Lilly finally looked up at her partner, she found him bent over the case file, a pen clutched so tightly in his fingers it looked as though it would break. He was mad, madder than she'd ever seen him. She really must have hurt him this morning when she rejected him. They needed to talk, so she could explain to him why she slept with him and why it could never, ever happen again.

Will Jefferies came over to them both with a big smile on his face "I think I just found as a solid lead" he said proudly.

"Really?" Lilly asked him, taking a piece of paper from Will's hands and examining it.

"Yep, look at this" he said proudly.

Lilly grinned as she read and then passed it over to Scotty, and for the first time since that morning in his apartment, their eyes met.

The morning turned into early evening and a lead that they had received had resulted in them finding their doer. They were all so happy that for a short period of time, Lilly and Scotty had forgotten that they were not talking to each other. She watched him pack up the files into the box and write closed on the lid of the archive box. "You guys coming to Jones'?" Vera asked as he picked up him jacket.

"Yeah, I am in" Scotty replied "I'll just drop this downstairs and I'll meet you all there"

"Cool, Lil you coming?" Nick asked her.

Lilly sighed as she saw the look Scotty shot her, he really didn't want her to come with them she could sense that "Err no thanks Nick, think I'll call it a night"

"Great, boys night out" he said "You gonna join us Boss?"

"No thanks Nick, I am with Lil, I need an early night" Stillman bid them all a good night and walked over to the elevator.

"Nick and I will see you at Jones' then Scotty" Will added as he and Vera hurried over to catch the lift with Stillman.

"Okay then" Scotty replied as he searched his desk for the last few evidence bags he needed for the boxes.

Lilly waited until the metal doors slid shut before she opened her mouth "I think we need to talk Scotty" she said to her partner.

"No, I think we talked enough this morning" Scotty replied icily.

"I think I need to explain why I flipped out on you this morning" she continued.

"It's fine Lil" Scotty replied "I understand, I was just a warm body to use until your boyfriend got back. Hell I used you when Elisa died, guess it's only fair that you repaid the favour" He picked up the files and walked towards the storage room, ignoring her as she called after him.

"Damn" Lilly replied she ran a hand through her hair and stood up; she was going to follow him, at least if she blocked the only exit to the storage room he'd have to listen to her.

Scotty filed the closed box in an empty spot on the shelf and turned to walk back down the stairs, finding Lilly baring his path. He sighed and rolled his eyes "Rush can you move please your blocking my path"

"Kinda the point Valens, you need to listen to me" Lilly stated.

Scotty scowled "What could you possibly have to say to me that you haven't already?" he asked her.

Lilly frowned "I am sorry Scotty if I made you feel used last night, it was as much my fault as it was yours and I shouldn't of said what I did this morning. I just never thought I'd cheat on anyone, not after Patrick cheated on me"

Scotty's angry expression turned to one of confusion "Who's Patrick?" he asked.

Lilly realised that she had never told him about what happened to her nine years ago, he was her partner after all. "Patrick was my fiancé" Lilly explained "Nine years ago"

"I didn't know you were engaged, what happened?" he asked, Lilly sighed and began to explain what happened. How she'd walked in on her sister and Patrick, how he'd pleaded with her to forgive him, how she'd refused to talk to either her sister or Patrick ever again. Scotty listen intently and realised that this must have been the very reason why Lilly and Chris had not spoken to each other in years, and finally understood why she flipped out on him this morning.

"So I am really sorry about yesterday and this morning, none of it should ever have happened"

Scotty nodded "I am sorry too Lil, for the way I've been acting all morning, I was a jerk" Scotty declared "Friends?" he asked and he opened his arms.

"Friends" She replied as she accepted a hug from him, unable to stop herself from breathing in the scent of his aftershave. When they pulled back he smiled down at her and she smiled back up at him. Suddenly an overwhelming urge came over her and she placed her hands on his shoulders, stood up on her tiptoes and brushed her lips against his.

Lilly withdrew and swallowed hard, what had she just done? More to the point, what did she want to do it again?

Scotty searched her eyes, trying to figure out just what she was thinking, but before he could say anything, Lilly was kissing him again. Pressing her body against his and forcing them up against the stack of boxes. Her hands clutching at his shirt as Scotty's arms wrapped around her waist and started to kiss her back with enthusiasm.

A/N: Lilly can't seem to make up her mind, and I am sure that Scotty is wonder what the hell is going on. Oh dear drama, read and review while I try and sort things out for them.