AARON LIVESY

-The Chase-

"The Risk"

Aaron did indeed kiss Jason, a kiss filled with such fire, passion and pure love that indeed led them to having sex in the back of Jason's car in the middle of a pitch black country road. Aaron's head lay resting on Jason's chest. Jason ran his fingers through Aaron's short spiky hair, a content silence still between them since their lovemaking ended almost fifteen minutes ago. Aaron shifted so he could face his boyfriend, the man he loved. Their blue eyes met and Aaron was mesmerized by his smile and it made him lean up to kiss him softly, again and again. Moments later their foreheads rested against one another's and Aaron wrapped his arms around him and held on tightly. Jason knew Aaron was scared but nothing was going to happen to him, not while he was with him, like he promised Jackson he would protect him, care for him but most of all love him like he deserved to be loved. Jason cleared his throat. "Let's go back to mine" he suggested softly. Aaron nodded and let go and sat up, grabbing his discarded underwear off the floor of the car so he could start dressing again. Aaron was very quiet as a thoughtful mood succumbed to him, he felt like an idiot, he felt bad for lying, he felt horrible for running and for having Jason literally chase him and then for him to have to talk him down. They sat side by side in the back seat of the car as they both pulled their clothes back on. Aaron glanced over to him and then looked away again. "Jason I'm sorry"

Jason stopped doing up the buttons on his shirt and looked across at him; he reached out and placed his hand on his shoulder. "There's no need to apologise" he told him with a smile. Aaron smiled back and nodded. "Nothing's changed" Jason added. "If anything has it's that I love you even more"

Aaron smirked, he couldn't believe it, he didn't know why he did but he wasn't going to question it, he'd learned from that mistake. "I love you too, more than you probably know"

"No…" Jason replied as a smile crept across his lips. "I think I do" he told him before getting out of the car and opening the driver's side door and getting in. Aaron pulled his shoes on and got out moving to the passenger side in the front next to his boyfriend. Jason turned off the hazard lights and started the engine. "Fancy a takeaway?" Jason asked with a smile as he pulled away from the side of the road.

"Yeah" Aaron chuckled. "Worked up an appetite what with the running and then the sex…and that by the way was the first time I've ever done it in a car…it wasn't too bad either, we have to do that again"

Jason smirked. "Oh somehow I think we will. I'll stop off in town on the way to mine then how about we eat, and have a chat"

Aaron smiled. "Yeah, sounds good"

…

The next morning Aaron was scrounging around the bedroom trying to locate all of his clothes, it was 11am and he was now two hours late for work and to top it off, miles away at Jason's house on the other side of Hotten. Jason sat up watching Aaron with a smirk on his face. "Argh where are my damn boxers!" he yelled in frustration looking toward Jason who just gave him a look. "What are you smirking at?"

Jason laughed "Oh nothing just enjoying the floor show"

Aaron shook his head before continuing his search.

"Looking for these?" Jason asked as he pulled out Aaron's boxers from beneath the covers, twirling them on his index finger.

Aaron reached over and snatched them from him and quickly pulled them on and finished getting dressed. Once ready, Aaron darted back round the bed leaning over Jason giving him a lingering passionate kiss, leaving him wanting. "You tease!" Jason shouted after him. "Take the car, then again you'd probably get there quicker by running!"

"Ha-Ha very funny" Aaron replied as he picked up the keys and headed off. Jason lay back, his hands behind his head, sighing contently.

A while later Aaron swerved onto the gravel at the garage and Cain surfaced from underneath a car he was working on "Nice of you to show up" he told him as he watched Aaron get out of the car "Where'd you nick that from lad?"

"Nowhere, It's mine" He grinned quickly, a lie obviously, but the car suited him and he had a massive grin on his face as he walked into the office.

…

A few hours later, Jason was sat at his desk at work reviewing cases that had just been handed over, he logged onto his computer and there it was Aaron's warrant still up on the screen staring at him. He found himself staring at it for a few minutes before he quickly closed it. He looked around at the busy office and sighed as he grabbed the first case notes "Suzie you're with me, uniform found a kilo of cocaine in a school kid's bag this morning"

"Yes Sir" she replied as he got up from his desk and headed out, she followed.

Aaron was at his desk doing some paperwork in the office when he heard the familiar sound of his mum's heels coming his way, he instantly sighed and rolled his eyes and reached over to the radio and slowly turned it up.

"Aaron love" Chas said with a nervous smile.

Aaron kept his head down, pretending he couldn't hear her. He wasn't in the mood for her still even a few days after their extremely heated argument.

"Aaron!" She raised her voice and when she realised she wasn't getting any response she turned off the radio.

"What the hell you doing?" he raised his voice with a deep frown.

"We need to talk Aaron"

"Can't you see I'm a little busy" He said as he sarcastically flicked the pages of the invoices in front of him.

"Please son"

Aaron sniggered "Don't you mean whore?" he snapped.

Chas rolled her eyes and looked away for a second before turning back to her son "I never meant that Aaron, I'm sorry I was wrong ok"

Aaron instantly got up and walked out onto the forecourt but Chas followed. "Mum just do one will ya? I'm not in the mood for you, actually I'm in a pretty good mood and I'm not having you ruin it"

"I won't, look where did you get to last night Paddy was worried sick"

"Like you care"

"Believe it or not I do actually, I know Jason knows about the warrant, Paddy told me, well he had no choice really, we weren't speaking I needed to know what was going on"

"Well now you do, you can go"

Chas sighed. "Stop being childish, you were going to run weren't you?"

Aaron stopped what he was doing, he saw Cain in the corner of his eye, he could tell he was ready to but in aswell but when he turned to look at him properly Cain simply carried on what he was doing. Aaron stepped away and Chas followed. "Yes, I was" he admitted. "But Jason stopped me, he loves me and I love him mum, yeah you might not wanna hear it but I love him and I can't change the way I feel… he's not going to tell his boss either that's what you really wanted to know wasn't it?"

Chas blew out a breath of relief and nodded. "Yes, but are you sure you love him?"

Aaron smirked. "Mum, I made a mistake with Jackson that I can never take back, even when I couldn't say it I realised I did love him, I know for definite I love Jason and I've told him so yes I'm sure"

Chas nodded. "I'm sorry for calling you what I did, I didn't mean it I was just angry"

Aaron nodded as he averted his eyes from hers. "Yeah, I'm sorry too, I said some stuff I didn't really mean I suppose, I'm sorry"

Chas grinned happily. "Hug?"

Aaron looked back at her with a frown, then he began to smirk and he rolled his eyes. "Go on then"

Chas instantly moved closer and wrapped her arms around him tightly and to her surprise he hugged back too. "I love you son, I just want you to be safe and happy that's all"

"I know, it just took some time to realise as usual"

Chas nodded as they pulled away. "I'll let you get on"

Aaron smiled and watched her go then he looked at the cars waiting on the forecourt. "This isn't a bloody car park Cain! Where's Cameron?"

"Ooo look at you, the big I am" Cain teased.

"That's right I am…keep at it, I'm going to find him"

"Yes boss" Cain said with a smirk.

…

Jason slumped back in his chair at his desk and brought up the case in which Aaron was wanted in connection with, he tapped and clicked away on the computer and set about reviewing all the case notes. After a few minutes of reading, he found that only the few pieces of evidence that were there, all of which were actually circumstantial had no fingerprints when found at the scene. The only thing possibly linking it to Aaron was the petrol canister used in the fire, even that had nothing to link with Aaron other than he had easy access to it. Jason frowned; he was onto something and quickly got the ID number for the item and left his desk and headed down to the property room.

"Alright Jason, how's tricks?" the duty officer smiled as Jason walked in.

Jason smiled at him as he flicked through the logs, searching for the location of the canister. "Not too bad, pal not to bad" He replied.

"Can I help ya with something?"

"No, no just tying up loose ends on a case" he explained as he trailed his finger down the page. He stopped once he found it and he slammed the book shut and headed back out "See ya later, Dave"

"Jason" he nods in acknowledgment.

Back in the office with the bagged up petrol canister Jason was speaking to a member of staff. "Just taking this to get analysed and to pick up my car from the garage, tell the DI I'm following up on some leads on the drugs"

"Will do sir" Suzie smiled back at him.

A while later Jason got out of a taxi in Emmerdale; clutching the brown evidence bag as he ran down to the garage. He smirked when he saw Aaron bent over working on a car in his overalls "Oi oi Sexy!"

Aaron smirked and he turned round "Hey you! What ya doing here? What's that?" Aaron asked, frowning at the bag.

"Charmin' that is" Jason said as he closed the gap between them, giving Aaron a quick kiss "I need my car for work, keys?"

"And here's me thinking you came to see me get dirty" Aaron said as he handed over the keys.

"Plenty of time for that" he grinned. "Later, gotta shoot babe" Jason said as he winked back at Aaron. He unlocked his car and got in, he put the key into the ignition and started the car and he put his seatbelt on as he blew out a deep breath. "God forgive me Aaron" he muttered in a sigh before revving the engine and speeding through the village, he was heading toward the farm, to Adam.

As soon as he got to the farm he stopped the car and got out, up ahead he saw a young lad who he assumed was Adam. He walked over, his police officer head well and truly on.

Adam turned and saw a tall, well-kept man heading toward him, he frowned and approached him. "Can I help?"

Jason nodded. "I'm looking for Adam"

"That's me"

"Ah good, been meaning to have a word"

"And you are?" Adam asked.

"I'm DS Murray. Hotten constabulary"

Adam frowned and his heart began to pound in his chest.

"Well I say that, I'm actually here as Aaron's boyfriend not as a copper, scare you for a sec did I?"

Adam frowned "Don't know what you mean"

"Ah right, so you let Aaron take the blame for something you did, which in turn ruined his life and it didn't bother you in the slightest when I mentioned the word police?" Jason sighed when Adam seemed to have lost his tongue. "I know everything, Aaron told me and you know what I had to do last night Adam? I had to run after him cause he was so scared when he wasn't sure what I'd do after he told me, he was going to run and I couldn't let that happen because I love him"

Adam scoffed "You love him?"

Jason began to get angry and he stepped closer to him. "And you do? His best mate and you let him do that for you? Put his life at risk for you?"

"I tried to stop him I swear"

"Not hard enough!"

"Now what I'm about to say is to stay between you and I, and you and I alone do you understand that?" Adam nodded. "Good. I think you're a coward, and now after learning what Aaron's been through so far in his life he needed a break, but no you let him, in the end you did, you let him do it and what did he get for it, beaten and raped…"

"That's not fair" Adam said before swallowing hard.

"No it's not is it Adam…not fair that you have quite the nice life here while Aaron doesn't know whether he's coming or going, looking over his shoulder all the time"

Adam sighed. He could see the point Jason was making, but if he came to belittle him and make him feel so small then he had succeeded, he'd never felt worse about the entire situation in a long time until that moment.

"Now I've said that I'm going to put my career at risk by making it all disappear, the means of how are of no importance to you, but it will lift the warrant from Aaron" Adam nodded. "And if you dare speak a word of me even being here talking to you never mind what I'm going to do then I'll lift ya, do you understand that?"

Adam nodded quickly and looked down at the ground. "Y-Yeah…I got ya"

"Good" Jason told him and turned and walked back to his car, he had stuff to do.

TBC...