Title: "Someday Is Something"
Rating: M
Summary: Charlie and Joey sort things out, how will Morag react to her stepdaughters' relationship? As Joey concentrates on the trial, will the girls cope being away from each other for a few days?
Chapter Twelve
For the first time in a few minutes Charlie looked hopeful, the two girls stood there staring into one another's eyes. Finally breaking their stance, Joey leaned forward and lightly kissed Charlie on the lips. The kiss was brief, but still passionate, and when Joey pulled away, she rested her forehead against Charlie. "Wow," she whispered, "that was..." "I know," Charlie finished. Joey leaned forward again, pushed her lips against Charlie's. Three months later and she could still get lost in her sweet taste. The kiss quickly deepened, but they were suddenly interrupted by a third presence in the room. Morag cleared her throat, as the two girls pulled apart clearly embarrassed. "Morag, we were just...um," Charlie tried to think of something to say. Morag took off her glasses, and smiled, "Well now that's sorted, can we get back to work here young Joey?"
Morag sat down as the two girls stood there gobsmacked at her reaction. One of the town's most respected matriarch's didn't even bat an eyebrow, "That was a beautiful speech now Charlie, I hope you memorized it because that would work well if you're intending to say something on Joey's behalf at the court case." "Um, uh Morag you don't seem very surprised by this, um us I mean," Charlie pointed out. "Why should I be Charlie? It's been pretty obvious from the start that there was something going on, and your father realized that over the past few times you've visited you've been very anxious and closed off. He knew you were struggling with something, but wanted to wait until you were ready to talk about it. Now we really need to get onto this trial business so I hope you don't mind but from what I gathered from that speech of yours Charlie, you've waited three months to win young Joey back, so I don't think either of you should have a problem waiting until after the trial is over before you...work out your issues." Joey and Charlie looked at each other, knowing that Morag had a point but not wanting to wait for three whole long days before they could be together. "I'll um just walk you out to your car ok Charlie?" Joey said, almost asking Morag's permission instead of Charlies.
The two girls were standing at the car a minute later. "So three days huh?" Charlie confirmed. Joey sighed thinking how long that sounded, "Yeah today, tomorrow and then it's the court case. If it goes to plan of course and it gets cleared up in a day quickly like Morag believes." "And I'm guessing you'll be stuck hanging out with Morag for the next two days solid, and then the next day you'll be busy with the trial?" "Yeah that about sums it up," Joey responds. "So I'm guessing you're probably not going to have much time to work everything out with me over the next few days?" Charlie said sadly. "I'm sorry Charlie but Morag's right I need to concentrate on the case, put all my energy into facing Robbo again." "Then I'll see you at the trial in a few days. Tell Morag I'll call her later tonight to discuss what she wants me to say on the stand," Charlie told her. "Three days, hmmm sounds like a lifetime to be apart from you now that we're..." Joey said. "Come on, we survived through hell and back for three months, a couple days will be a walk through the park, then everything can go back to normal, right?" "Absolutely, I can't wait for this all to be over so we can be together again. Would it be totally lame of me to tell you I'm missing you already?" Joey asked sweetly. Charlie leaned forward and kissed her – in public and broad daylight Joey mentally noted - "Not at all, I guess I'll see you at the trial. Miss you." Joey watched as Charlie got in her car and drove off. She walked slowly back over to the apartment, thinking to herself, three days, that's some kind of new torture, and while looking up at the heavens, she laughed, "Bet you guys think this is real funny don't ya?"
Two days later, the evening before the court case, Charlie couldn't believe just how long, boring, and painful it had been to get through two lousy days. How in the world did I manage to survive three months without her? For two whole days Charlie immersed herself in her work, barely spending any time outside of the office. She decided to take some time off work, so she could be at the court case, and depending how long the trial went for, she was hoping with her extra days off she and Joey could get away to the city for a small holiday. She was planning on surprising her with the idea once Robbo was put away. Joey couldn't wait for the case to be over, spending so much time with Morag was not a good thing. She certainly was a tough lawyer, and was glad that Charlie had asked Morag to help. By the end of the two days, Joey felt completely drained. Morag had sat her down like she was on the stand, and prodded and questioned her relentlessly, exactly how the defence lawyer would the following day. Having everything you do called into question, how am I gonna cope with all this? The first night away from Charlie, Haley and Coop had rented some DVD's and bought a stack of junk food to try and spend one night relaxing not having to think about the trial. Didn't work too well, Joey spent that night crying herself to sleep, in Haley's arms, trying to cope with the impending questioning and how she'll react to seeing Robbo again after everything. But after the second day of the same thing from Morag, Joey knew her friends' keeping her company wasn't going to distract her. But there is someone else who might....
Charlie was at home washing her dishes after a late night dinner. She wasn't getting any work done at the office, so figured it would just be better to forget about it all and get back home. She was so consumed with her thoughts she didn't hear the knock on the back door behind her. Joey smiled as she watched Charlie standing there. Sneakily she slipped up behind Charlie, surprising the cop when she wrapped her arms around her waist and lightly kissed her on the cheek, before resting her head against Charlies shoulder. "Got a bit of a break from the case, we've done all we can, so I was hoping somebody might be able to distract me tonight?" "And let me guess you came here 'cause you thought VJ could distract you with a card game or Rubes could distract you with her constant chatter about Xavier? Well it seems my girl you're outta luck tonight, Leah's gone over to Roman's, VJ's at Stella's, and Ruby will be out late at the movies with Jai and Annie," Charlie sweetly told her, turning around into Joey's embrace, so she was facing her. "Well that's too bad, huh? Well surely there must be someone who can distract me from reality at least for a few hours..." Joey said almost begging Charlie to hurry up and make a move. "Hmmm I think I can find a way to distract you for a few hours...maybe you never knew but I'm also excellent at card games, or maybe you want to help me alphabetise by DVD collection, or we could eat some ice cream and you can bore me to death with talk of boats," Charlie teased. Joey leaned closer into Charlie, "Tomorrow night. I promise you I'll bore you about boat talk," she smiled, "but tonight I don't really want to talk about anything right now." "My thoughts exactly," Charlie agreed. The two girls pulled each other closer, into a slow and passionate kiss, forgetting the world outside, just for a night.
