Conversations

Author: Joy

Email: Julianna@ziplip.com

A/N: My understanding about the Witchblade cancellation are as follows: They did it right after the season finale saying they wanted the show to go out with a bang and didn't know if they could top this last season. This seemed to be touted as the main reason. There seemed to be a slight hint of it maybe having something to do with Yancy Butler's dependency issue. If that is the real cause then I'm willing to let it go. I have too many members of my family that are alcoholics to bitch about my favorite TV show being canceled. Health and well being over entertainment any day. Now I don't know if they didn't say it flat out was because they wanted to leave her to her privacy or what but the other excuse just doesn't fly if you've ready the interviews of the show's creator. He had started to plan for next season way before this one ended. So that's my take.

Does that mean I'm going to stop writing fanfic for the show? Hell no. In fact I say we do our best to show support in anyway we can including writing. We can have our very own Elseworlds right here. (Elseworlds is a Superman comic reference. There is a whole series of stories that take place in a different manner than the original story line i.e. All the Kents have been super strong and so forth.)

A/N2: Here we go again. Cue the partners.

Danny and Jake walked over to Sara's bedroom door where upon tilted their heads to observe the activity occurring a few feet from them. A dark haired guy was all but lying on top of their partner while kissing her deeply causing throaty groans from both. "Hands! Hands!" Danny yelped as he saw Sara reaching places he didn't want to see.

Sara looked over Gabriel's shoulder, grabbed a shoe next to her bed and chucked it at both nosy men, "OUT!" Jake and Danny both jumped out of the way of the projectile. "CLOSE THE DOOR AND GET OUT!"

"Fine," Jake muttered tugging a disoriented Danny away who shut the door on his way out.

Gabriel looked down at Sara and shook his head, "That will not endear me to your partners."

She raised an eyebrow; "I don't really care. They know better than to stand and stare plus that I'm gonna react to."

He gazed at his love and smirked, "You" He shook his finger at her only to have her capture the digit between her lips and caress it softly with her mouth and tongue. All coherent thought left Gabriel at that moment. "S" he groaned.

She smiled and pulled him down to her mouth again, "We'll visitget rid of guests" she whispered between nips at his mouth. "Then we'll" she snaked her hand down the front of his chest and moved lower.

Gabriel began to shake with desire. He pinned Sara bodily to the bed and truly began to feast upon her. "We'll play it by ear," he gasped.

"How long have they been" Danny gestured at the door.

"Oh calm down. They were both fully clothed and even Sara is not brazen enough to get it on with three people in her living room," Jake contended.

"I just don't like that I didn't know he existed until today," Danny practically pouted.

Vicky smirked, "Gabriel has been has been around for a while."

"Another reason I'm annoyed. Why didn't she say something?"

Vicky shook her head, "OkayIf it makes you feel better I'll confess now. I'm real interested in 'tall, dark and handsome' that just left. He seems to be interested in me as wellSo now you have the skinny on someone at the outset."

Jake's jaw tightened. When did he start to care what Po did or who with? 'When I found out Angela got engaged,' he thought to himself. His last steady of over a year had moved on to 'the one.' Suddenly Jake began to reevaluate the relations he had made since moving to NY and he found Vicky was the one woman he felt most comfortable with. Sure he still lined up his weekends until he figured out what he was going to do but but now there was more than competition. 'Serves you right for waiting.'

Danny was groaning about Sara, "I haven't even gotten an introduction."

"You will soon," Vicky encouraged. "I like him a lotand he loves Pez. There's no way around it." The two men looked uncomfortable. Vicky turned to them and said, "Lets sit and chat in the living room so when they emerge you won't be staring."

Jake sat casually, "So where did that guy run off to?"

"He's picking up dinnerand before you guys try to invite yourselves the answer is nothus being why the food was ordered before you got here," Vicky replied.

"I'm hurt," Danny pouted.

"Whine all you want but I finagled this so I could get fixed up and you are not about to interfere."

"Well we know when we're not wanted," Jake said in a wounded tone. "We come to check on our partner and what happens? We get shoes chucked at us, yelled at, and told straight out we aren't to stick around for dinner. That is just rich."

"Look I can't control what Sara did butLook Ian is a real quiet guy. If you guys were there it would be two more people he didn't know at the table. Sara and Gabriel will talk mainly to each other but they both know himI think. Anyway I just want a small chance at conversation, okay? From what I understand, I've gotten a relatively nonverbal man to be verbal around me. I kind of wanna keep it that way."

Danny sighed in a big rush of breath, "So okayWe'll be good. What's wrong with Pez anyway?"

"I think it's her blood sugar. There is no history of diabetes in her familyIf it happens again just get her comfortable and try to wake her up. Soda or candy would be good I'm not a hundred percent on it. It maybe an inner ear abnormality as well. Both are known for people passing out for what appears to be no good reason," Vicky speculated knowing she was lying to her friendsbut it was for a friend. "What you don't want to do is send her to the hospital every time this happens. It isn't often enough to cause any real problem and it seems to resolve itself with rest and liquids."

"She's not going to crash a car, right?" Jake questioned.

"No, I'm not going to crash a car," Sara moaned at him sitting on the armrest of the chair he sat on.

"Anyone want anything?" Gabriel called from the kitchen pulling silverware and plates down for dinner.

"What's there?" Danny called very amused that this guy was acting as if they were old friends despite the lack of introductions.

Gabriel took in the contents of the former vending machine type refrigerator unit Sara had in her kitchen. "Milk, water, lemonade, Coke, Sprite, some nasty looking tea. How long has this been in here?" he blanched.

"Like I am ever here long enough to notice," Sara groaned.

"I am so glad Ian shops for you otherwise you would only eat junk," Gabriel complained. "We're cleaning your fridge before something walks out of here on its own." He strolled up handing her a Sprite.

"Yeah, bite me!" Sara snarled and then yelped when Gabriel took her up on the offer.

"This is why I like you so much," Vicky beamed at him.

Sara rolled her eyes, "Jake, Danny this is my boyfriend Dracula."

"You normally call me Angel," he contended.

"You are an angel," Vicky smirked patting his arm lightly.

"Don't encourage him," Sara snipped.

Vicky shook her head; "You do that well enough on you own." That earned a glared from Sara and a mega watt smile from Gabriel.

Gabriel walked back over to the fridge, "Sorry guyswe started arguing before I got your orders on beverages."

"I'll take a Coke," Danny stated.

"How good are you at catching?" Gabe asked.

"How good are you at throwing?" Danny retorted. Gabriel smirked and tossed the officer a soda. "Not bad. Now lets hope this doesn't explode on me."

Jake began, "Do you have"

"If you ask for a diet anything I am going to laugh in your face," Sara announced.

"I was going to ask for a beer."

"NopeNo beer. Tonic water but no beer," Gabriel relayed.

"Water." Gabriel threw him a bottled water at him.

"And for you Vic?" the young man asked quickly.

"Got some hot tea? Not the nasty stuff you mentioned. Nothing else sounds good with duck."

Gabriel began to rummage through shelves. "Sara you got a clue?" he asked.

"Put the water on and we'll ask Ian when he gets back."

Jake raised an eyebrow, "Now explain to me why Ian does your shopping for you?"

Sara went to speak but Gabriel interrupted, "Because if left to her own devises Sara would eat hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, fried rice, frozen dinners, ice cream, and never once look at a green vegetable Ian took it upon himself to be her guardian so making sure she doesn't kill herself from the inside out aids that process."

Vicky shook her head; "Oh to have two men so thoroughly devoted to your health"

"I'm sure if he keeps staring at you that hard you'll find Ian standing on your fire escape and restocking your shelves," Gabriel stated. All the occupants of the room gawked at him. "I meant literally Frustrated or something?"

Danny, Jake, Sara and Vicky all sighed out, "Yes."

Gabriel laughed then nuzzled into Sara's ear and whispered, "I'll take care of you soon enough."

"You better," she warned.

"But not tonight" he muttered knowing she couldn't throw a complete fit with people near by.

Sara sat up straight, slid off the armrest, and dragged Gabriel away, "Be back in a minute."

The guys assumed Gabriel said something provocative and stared after the couple as the female detective led her boyfriend away like a prisoner. "If we hear rhythmic thumping coming from the other room I'm outta here," Jake stated. Suddenly a loud thump hit the walllike a body hitting the door. "That's itBye Vic."

"I guess we're leaving. Have a good dinner," Danny said calmly just as something fell to the floor in the other room.

Sara had immediately pinned Gabriel to the door kissing him roughly. He flailed one arm out to steady himself, knocking a large book to the floor. When he recovered his equilibrium he pushed back on Sara's shoulders. "Stop that. You have guests."

"I have partnersthey'll get over it. And what is this 'not tonight business'? Am I missing something here."

He sighed, "Maybe" Gabriel walked a few steps and sat on the edge of Sara's bed. "You have been through the emotional and physical wringer these last couple days. And where I appreciate the knowledge you've gained from the visions it feels like they stepped up the intensity of our relationship at an unnatural rate. I don't want to screw things up over something that can wait."

Sara knelt by his knees and laid her head on his thigh looked up at him with big green eyes and pouted. Gabriel sucked in a harsh breath, "Oh god Don't sit that way."

Coquettishly she rubbed her cheek up and down his leg, "Why?"

His eyes clamped shut as he tried rather unsuccessfully to shake the mental images from his mind of Sara on her knees in front of him.

"Relax," she whispered. "We'll have fun."

As her hand approached his other thigh Gabriel grabbed it forcefully. Sara looked up to see anger in a serious way in his eyes. "If you have to 'coax' me into doing something I don't want to do or am not ready to dowhat does that say about you?"

His eyes were ice. She missed a major clue along the way. "I'm going home," he announced.

"But Dinner."

He shook his head; "I don't want to be near you right now." There was such bile in his statement she believed it was true.

"Tell me what I did?" Sara pled.

Gabriel's jaw tightened that much more. "I don't have to have had past lives to have lived a really long time, Sara."

Her face contorted in pain, "What does that mean?"

He smirked, "Ask the Witchblade? Its been all hell-fired ready for us to get together let it explain to you what you just did. Honestly its not that hard to miss." Gabriel moved to open the door, "Actually if I had been the girl in this scenario and you had been the guy an one on God's green earth could tell youin fact I did tell you, but you weren't listening."

Vicky watched the angry man approach the living room as Ian walked through the front door. He set the bags down and stared hard into Gabriel's eyes, which stared icily right back. Without a word Ian opened the front door again for Gabriel to walk through and then followed him out. Sara hurried toward the door only to have Ian turn around and face her grimly. "No. Eat with your friend."

"But"

"No."

"Where are you going?" Sara said sadly.

Ian rolled his eyes, "I am not totally incapable of comfort Sara."

"Of a man you threatened his life," she snapped loudly.

"Of a man who I understand far better than you."

The front door closed leaving both women shocked. Vicky didn't understand anything that had just happened and didn't like the end of the conversation she heard. Sara turned around and looked pathetic. The coroner gathered her friend into her arms and sat them on the sofa. "We'll eat in a while and save the guys' food in case they come back." Sara nodded but that was all. What the hell had happened in that bedroom and how the hell did Ian know what it was, Vicky wondered.

TBC

A/N: This story is taking on a life of its own. I swear my brain just isn't allowing for simple plots right now. Don't get me wrong I like depth, but I don't like it that when I rewrite things a few times and two characters always end up in a fight. I mean what is that? I know lots of you refer to it as your muse acting up but I have yet to accept this explanation. I'm beginning to think the gargoyles in my room are partially responsible. I may have to tell my husband they need to be moved. After all you can't have small stone creatures whispering to you in your sleep now can you?