Ten

As the night was coming to a close, the pair of them had finished dancing together for the fifth or sixth time that night. They had walked over to the rest of the team as the DJ had announced the last song, Erin hugged Kim as she smiled they were close friends and they knew she iced the further away from the venue and the precinct so she was always the one who would leave early compared to everyone. Then she hugged Kevin, Antonio, and Adam, she joked with Hailey and Jay hugged Hailey and Kim before given the men from the intelligence unit a pat on the back, and he wished them a safe journey home, like Erin and the rest of the team had wished to each and every one of them a safe and well journey to their homes.

The two of them walked up the giant glass stairs before they hugged each other as they were leaving the venue. Jay offered to take Erin home before, earlier in the week, he was still unsure whether he was but he walked out with her to the back exit when the car park was, and taxi rank, if she was getting a yellow taxi, was placed out of the huge glamorous venue. They both turned their heads at the same time each of them knocking each other's noses into one another, they stood staring into one another gleaming eyes. He bent down, his lips against her lip, at first they were only brushing light. His touch on her shoulder sent a shiver through her body and to her spine before their lips had even touched she had trembled at his touch. The singular touch sent shivers through her nerves, shivers that made her whole body tremble against his body as they stood leaning against his truck.

'If you want me to stop, tell me now,' he whispered in her ear.

"Don't stop," she whispered softly in his ear.

There wasn't a moment of realisation. He held his hands parallel on either side at her neck. His mouth was on mine, and I stopped breathing. He shuddered and there was a sound from the back of his throat, he softly growled into her mouth as he kissed her passionately, and she purringly moaned into his mouth. Little shivers of pleasure shot through him as he deepened the kiss, parting her lips. They had both stopped thinking, they were thinking of anything except the pleasure incurring in each other mouths, she dug her fingers into his hair, soft silky and gelled to perfection, she roughened the sharp clean edges of his hair to a scruffier boyish look. The spark between them was alive like never before, they were everything to one another but something didn't feel perfect, their hearts swelled with love to the point of near bursting. The rush of sensations crawling across their bodies was maddening, exciting. Scary. Thrilling.

His hands were on her hips, and he lifted me up as if I were made of air. My leg wrapped around his waist, while she stood with her other leg, with the dress she was wearing hung around his waist as her right leg clung to his body as if it was her oxygen. They couldn't get enough of each other, they have begun to devour one another, drowning in each other in kissing of passion between former lovers and partners. Lowering his hands to hold her hips, she tugged at his shirt as she placed her hand on his chest and neck. Even in her heels, she was still shorter than him, but he had been up at an advantage when she was kissing his lips. His skin against her skin, as he kissed her left shoulder.

They had been tension between the two of them for months, they had slept together cuddling all night, it seemed inevitable that it had been building up to this for months, they both wanted more, they wanted each other, but they were hesitating, they didn't know if it was what they should be doing. Their hips moulded together when they slid against one another against the truck he owned. She whispered his name in his ear, then his arms tightened around her, crushing her against his chest and his hands slipped behind her back.

Their lips remained sealed. She let go of his waist with her leg so she was standing on her own two feet again, she looked at him as he looked at her. Jolted. Jarred. They had entered the unknown yet they were feeling guilty and awful for kissing one another so passionately.

"What was… what did we just do?" She questioned.

"Erm…" He stammered.

"We can't do what we just did again?…" Asking for recognition of her feelings she struggled with what she thought what they should do next.

"No, we shouldn't, were friends, that's all, nothing else…" Jay appealed.

"It's not worth it, were good friends that it, that all, so we agree to nerve mention this again,"

"Agreed," Jay accepted willingly, after feeling like he had caused them to violate their old found friendship.

Hailey walked out of the venue with Kevin on her arm, as the two of them were a little drunk they waved goodbye, together smiling as they talked for a little while before they had gone. They had acted like nothing had happened as they had agreed too, they stood there together for a couple of seconds, the two of them felt paralysed, lost in thought, running crazy thoughts in their heads and then they began to talk like nothing had happened, and they were just really good friends again.

"I could take you home, it's getting late and you know what it's like waiting for a taxi at 10 at night is like," Jay offered, and then forgot what had just happened as if it was a dream.

"Thanks… yeah that's a lovely offer thanks, Jay," Erin accepted the offer that her ex-partner had offered, and she had forgotten too, they both acted as nothing had happened between them and that was the way it would stay.

They walked towards his truck, as he walked toward the passenger door to open it for Erin as the true gentleman he was. She began to ask a simple question from her friend, that would make them both reminisce of the past times that they had together, that she was always this boss really, she was the boss of the two of them before she was promoted to his boss as Sergeant of the unit that she had served before him.

"I could drive, like old times?" Erin asked, standing in her royal blue gown.

"I suppose you could, you always were a bossy partner," Jay joked.

"Okay then give me the keys, how about some cookie dough before we give it a night, and go our own ways," Erin smirked.

"Oh, it's on, your buying then." Jay mocked her as he threw her the keys to his truck.

She caught the keys and they got into the truck, Jay had bought it brand new a couple of years ago after he had saved up for his dream truck for a while. They sat in silence for a while in the car before they had put the radio on for the late-night music and the radio chat shows that sparked many laughs and jokes.

It was a longish drive to the cookie place, but it was worth it, they had sat in the car park with a tub of cookie dough each, joking and laughing, chatting and catching up about the gossip in the office, they had sat there for half an hour, Erin still in the driver's seat, while they finished their dessert, when Erin started the engine in the pouring rain, reversing out of the car park space so that she could drive them onto the interstate so that she could drive to her apartment, and then Jay would drive himself back home to his apartment from the other side of the 10 block area of Chicago.

...

Rain lashed against the windshield of Jay's black truck that he had let Erin drive to get some cookie dough from their favourite shop in Chicago after they picked up a tub of the delicious dessert, they had decided to drive back to Erin's before Jay would drive himself home, as she drove down a deserted, six-lane highway, going a little under the speed limit, doing 50mph in a 60mph zone in the middle of Chicago. Her wheels slipped a little on the wet slippery highway, but she kept the car steady, knowing that she could drive in any weather from a hailstone, snowing blizzard weather to sun shining summer weather. Erin looked through the windshield trying to see what was ahead of her; it was pitch black outside, with the night sky filled with heavenly stars, and only the moon's faint light and the small square orange lights lining the roads to see by each of the lanes on the interstate.

After silence since they had left the cookie shop, the two had listened to the radio, techno, pop, and rap for the hour they had been in the truck the weather didn't seem like it was going to stop anytime soon, and it was lashing against every piece of metal and plastic of the vehicle's frame, making tinning sounds as the rain hit furiously.

"I guess that there's going to be some flooding in the morning, with this much rain pouring down," Jay cut the silence after they listened to the CD he had put on instead of listening to tens of adverts on the radio.

"Yeah, it was forecasted so I think the station put sandbags in front of the garage opening downstairs in case any water wants to enter the gear room and the cage," Erin commented.

The windshield wipers ferociously whipped back and forth over the windshield, attempting to clear away the large droplets clinging to the glass that partially obstructed her field of vision, until the rain started to disperse as it calmed down and the rain clouds moved away from the direction they were travelling to come back home.

"Well at least we will be out of this weather soon. I can't believe how much it is raining," Jay commented.

"That's Chicago for you, its either snowing or raining and anyway were in a truck we'll be fine, it just a lot of rain, I'm coming off the interstate now so we'll be at my apartment in about 10 minutes," Erin remarked thinking of how they use to drive in blizzards when they had to solve cases, she remembered that one time they had gone to a murder scene and they were committed to having to stand around in a blizzard under a tent so they could get crime scene photos because of the weather being torrential.

"Yeah, then I'll drive home, it's getting late now, Jesus it's half eleven, Platt told me to come in for 7 I need to get recertified for my gun again," Jay mentioned.

"I need to do that too, I got an email from he chief saying he wanted me recertified now that I'm in Chicago so they have the paperwork," She sighed as she turned the steering wheel to the exit lane off the interstate a couple of minutes away from her home, "Anyway dancing all night and talking to chiefs and captains all night has made me tired, as soon as I get in, I'm going straight to my bed," Erin muttered.

"I don't blame you that is what I will be doing, straight to bed, put an alarm for early in the morning, I'd like to get some practice in before the guy who is going to recertify me is there," Jay

"Always over prepared Jay, I don't think you need any practice now, you have been firing that old '33 handgun since you started intelligence, I think you know how to get a high score on the practice sheet by now," Erin remarked.

"Well I like practising, it's better to be over-prepared than underprepared," Jay issued.

"Okay, okay, anyway did you enjoy the gala, it was what I remember last time?" Erin questioned.

"It was good, fun even when you avoid people you don't know, orange juice all night and trying to avoid anyone who wasn't from the 21st, so at least I won't wake up with a hangover in the morning before I have to shoot a perfect 100 on shooting practice, something you have never done, ever," He remarked, "I need to beat the boss anyway, need to look good at my job," He laughed as he joked with her.

"Yes, you do, because remember the boss has always beaten you, a near-perfect 100 one year, I got 99, not bad though, but I always get around 94, so that's the score to beat," Erin disclosed.

"Okay, okay you're the better aim, I got 93 last year, and 97 the year before, but put a long-range rifle in those hands of those and I bet you would miss the target, more to shooting a rifle than a handgun," Jay mocked.

After coming off the interstate they slowed as she braked while coming to the end of the exit slip lane, for the district that they lived in, as they entered the other side of Chicago, they slowed again as they changed speed zones in the zone they were in. Seeing the traffic lights turned green from about a couple of hundred yards away, Erin stuck to the speed limit when they entered the intersection and two blinding lights suddenly blazed ahead like two shining eyes trying to pierce the impenetrable darkness of the inside of the truck – and with a jolt, the pair of them realized that those lights belonged to a huge semi-truck – a truck that was speeding towards her from the opposite direction but into the side of her lane.