So I felt that the last scene with Tim and Cookie Devine was just BEGGING
for a fiction! So here you go! I hope you enjoy it. There will definitely
be some Calleigh/Tim and some Tim/Cookie (Sara) in this story.
As the elevator door closed Tim Speedle just stared at it. What had just happened? A beautiful woman had just hit on him, and it wasn't just any beautiful woman, it was a porn star. Shaking his head he turned and walked toward the lab to finish packing up the letters that he and Calleigh had been sifting through earlier.
It wasn't like Tim didn't get hit on, he was a good looking guy in a city of beautiful women, it was just usually Delko that got the women. He was the charmer, the extrovert, the outgoing one. Tim on the other hand was the scruffy, sarcastic loner that was usually overlooked by the women around him.
Beep, beep. Tim sighed and looked down at his cell phone; it was H. Grabbing his kit he walked out into the hallway. He was still lost in thought about what had just happened to him a few minutes earlier, that he didn't even see his fellow CSI Calleigh Duquesne. walking up beside him.
"Snob," she said walking up next to him and matching her step with his.
Tim stopped and looked up, half expecting to see Cookie/Sara standing there. "Oh hey Cal," he said looking over at her, "I take it you got beeped."
"Well of course I did, gun shot wound on the beach," she drawled, "my favorite."
Tim rolled his eyes. It was amazing how excited this woman got about gun shots. "Yeah well, I hate beach scenes, way too much room for error, and way too much sand for me to sift through."
"Well let's go Mr. Negative, we can ride together, Horatio and Eric are already there," Calleigh said turning and facing him, "you can drive."
Giving Calleigh one of his patented looks, he grabbed the keys to the Hummer and pushed the down button on the elevator.
The two stood in silence for several seconds as the elevator descended, finally Calleigh decided to speak. "Wouldn't you know, we finish one case and another one is just waiting for us, sometimes I wonder if it will ever end?"
Tim almost chuckled. It was funny how Calleigh hated silence, she always felt like she had to say something. "Yeah well, at least we know who killed Ashley, her family and friends can at least get some peace," Speed smiled to himself as the thought of Ashley's friend Cookie crept into his mind.
"Speaking of her friends," said Calleigh as they stepped of the elevator, "I hear that one of her friends was waiting for you in the lobby today."
Speed sighed; sometimes he hated working in such a small office, "who told you that?" he asked stepping out into the Miami sun.
"Porn trivia queen Valera, said she saw Cookie Devine here today," Calleigh lied; she didn't want Tim to know she'd been spying. "She went to talk to her, and she said she was looking for a Detective Speedle."
"Yeah well, she just wanted to see if we wrapped the case up," lied Speed as they drove out of the parking lot. He wasn't really sure why he was lying to Calleigh, for some reason he just felt weird discussing his love life, or lack there of, with her.
"I see," said Calleigh, "With a name like Cookie her parents pretty much guaranteed her a job in the porn industry didn't they."
"Her real name is Sara," said Speed glaring over and Calleigh, he wasn't sure why he felt the need to defend Sara, but once again he was doing just that, "and she's just trying to make a living like everyone else."
Calleigh looked over at Speed in surprise, she didn't know why she had said what she said about this Sara girl, but she certainly hadn't expected Speed to react the way he did.
"Sorry, there are other ways to make money rather then taking your clothes off for the camera though" said Calleigh defending herself.
"Yeah well, you shouldn't talk about what you don't know."
With that the two rode in silence the rest of the way to the scene.
Calleigh had seen Speed talking to Cookie Devine earlier in the day by the elevator; she just didn't want him to know she'd been spying. She saw the way that she looked at him, the way she leaned in to talk to him.
She remembered thinking to herself, how could anyone compete with that, that's when it hit her, why was she worried about it? It was Tim Speedle after all, it was probably good that he was finally going to get some action; maybe it would wipe that scowl off of his face.
As the arrived at the beach, she knew he was mad at her. She'd been like a 15 year old trying to put down her competition by making fun of her. As she stepped out of the Hummer, Speed didn't even wait for her he just headed up the beach, running she caught up with him. "Look Tim," she said once she finally caught up with the trace expert, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything."
Tim stopped and shrugged, "Don't worry about it, your right, Cookie equals Porn Star in most peoples books."
"But maybe not in yours," said Calleigh, "maybe that's why she came to see you." What was she doing, she was sticking up for this girl who was after Tim.
"Yeah well, it doesn't matter," he said wanting to change the subject, "Let's go talk to Alexx."
"Where are Eric and Horatio?" Calleigh asked as she approached Alexx.
"They got called on another scene about ten minutes after they got here, said you were on your way," the ME said as she ran her hand through the hair of the dead girl.
"What have we got here?" asked Tim joining the two women.
"Female, looks to be around 30, two gun shots," said the Alexx as she lifted up the body, "through the back, poor thing, you didn't even see this coming did you?"
Calleigh kneeled down, "do we have bullets?" she asked peering at the gun shot wounds through a magnifying glass.
"Let me guess, no" said Tim as he walked carefully around the scene snapping pictures.
Alexx looked up at him, "you're right, how did you know?"
"There's only one set of prints leading to the body, and no drag marks, my guess is she was dumped here."
"Our trace expert ladies and gentlemen," said Calleigh standing up.
Tim smiled over at her; it was amazing how they could go from fighting back to joking in less the ten minutes, which was one of the things that he loved about Calleigh.
"So you two need to find a crime scene," said Alexx, as she zipped up the body, "I'm going to get this girl back to the lab and see what I can do to help you."
"Thanks Alexx," said Calleigh as she bagged a piece of fabric, "we'll see you soon."
Tim Speedle opened the door to his apartment and fell onto his couch. He hadn't been home in almost two days, and he was exhausted. He and Calleigh had spent most of the day at the beach finishing up with evidence, and the rest of the day sifting through it at the lab.
He couldn't get over Calleigh today; it was so unlike her to judge people the way she had judged Sara. It was almost as if she was jealous. "You're crazy Speed," he said to himself as he got up and walked into the kitchen. He looked down at the file on his table.
It was his file from the Ashley Anders case, opening it he looked at the list of witnesses. Cookie Devine, 555-2452. Part of him wanted to call her. He wasn't sure if it was because he wanted to talk with her, or if it was just the fact that he liked being wanted. Sighing, he picked up his phone and dialed.
"Hello," said a voice on the other end, "hello?" the voice repeated.
"Sara?" he questioned finally finding his voice.
"Yes, who is this?" she asked.
"It's uh, Tim Speedle...remember..."
"Detective Speedle, of course I remember you," she said cutting him off.
"What can I do for you, do you need more information about Ashley."
Tim was tempted to say yes, just to save face, but it was too late now, "Uh, no actually, I was just about to head out for drinks, thought you might want to come with me."
On the other end of the line Sara Piper smiled, "Are you asking me out?" she questioned, enjoying this game they were playing.
"Yeah," he said, "I guess I am."
"I'd love to, how about I meet you at Chance's in about an hour," she said taking the initiative to pick a place.
"Sounds good," he said, "See you then."
Breathing hard, he hung up the phone, happy that he had managed to get through that conversation.
"Hey Cal," said Eric Delko as he walked into the gun chamber, "how's the DB on the beach coming along?"
Calleigh looked up at her friend and sighed, "it's not, we think the body was dumped there, so now we are looking for a crime scene, and I'm going cross eyed from trying to match this bullet hole."
"Well hey, a couple of us are going for drinks, why don't you come with us?" said Eric, "we've had a few hard days, we all need a break."
Calleigh sighed, "You're right, let me just finish up, and I'll meet you in a second, where are we going?"
"To Chance's," said Eric, "Velera swears it's the place to be."
"She is just party central all of a sudden," Calleigh drawled, "Is Tim going?" she asked nonchalantly.
"No, he already headed home," said Eric, "I called his cell, but there was no answer, but we can have fun with out Mr. Personality I promise," Eric teased.
"Oh I know," said Calleigh defensively, "I was just wondering."
Eric looked at her funny, but decided to ignore it, "alright well hurry up."
Tim Speedle sat at a booth in Chance's bar, watching the door. He had just gotten there but the place was already getting crowded. Looking up he saw Sara walk through the door.
He smiled to himself as he looked over at her. She looked like just a normal girl; she was wearing black Capri pants, and a dark pink halter top that barely showed her mid-drift. If you didn't know any better you would think she was just a business woman letting a little loose for the weekend, not an adult film star.
She smiled as she saw Tim at the table and walked over toward him. "Hey Detective Speedle" she said, sliding in to the booth.
"Tim," he said looking up at her, "call me Tim, Sara."
Sara's smile widened, it has been a long time since she'd been on a date with a guy who hadn't already seen her naked, and knew her real name.
"Well Tim," she said looking him in the eye, "I'm glad you called."
"Me too," he said as he flagged down a passing cocktail waitress, "What would you like?" he asked her.
Sara didn't know what to say, she was definitely not used to a guy taking care of her on a date, it was nice to have someone care so much, "Uh, just a beer is fine," she said looking at the waitress.
Tim looked at her surprised, "What?" she said.
"Nothing," he replied, "two beers."
"Coming right up," the waitress said, and she walked away.
"You just don't seem like the beer type," Tim said.
"Oh really? And what type is that?" she teased reaching out and touching his arm.
Tim just laughed nervously, "I'm not very good at this," he admitted.
"At what?" she questioned looking at him.
"At this," he said pointing around him, "I don't really get out much."
Sara smiled sincerely at him, "Neither do I, not with someone who wants to be with me for me anyway."
Just as Tim was about to respond he heard a familiar southern drawl enter the bar, looking up his fears were realized when he saw Eric, Tyler, Valera and Calleigh enter the bar.
"Great," he murmured.
"What is it?" Sara asked turning around and looking at the door.
"It's my friends from work," Tim stated as the waitress handed them their beers. "
"And you don't want them to see you here with someone like me right?" said Sara looking dejected.
"No, that's not it," said Tim, "I was just surprised to see them that's all, and there's nothing wrong with being seen with a beautiful woman."
Sara blushed and fiddled with her bottle, "Well we can still go somewhere else if you want."
"No, I'm fine right here."
"Alright kids what'll it be?" said Calleigh as she and her friends settled into a table.
The four ordered their drinks and began talking. "I'm so glad that last case is over," said Tyler as he fiddled with a napkin, "as much as I liked researching the porn industry, it was a lot of hard work."
"Oh please," said Eric, "you know you loved it."
"I thought it was exciting to investigate someone like Ashley Anders," said Valera, "A celebrity scandal, got to love it."
"Ya'll are crazy," said Calleigh, "I don't understand the draw of the porn industry, why would anyone want to do that for a living?"
"It's exciting," said Eric, "I mean, it's such a forbidden thing..."
"Hey is that Speed over there?" interrupted Tyler as his eyes scanned the room, "and who is the hot chick he's with?"
Everyone's head swung around to look at Speed and his companion, who were lost in conversation. Calleigh was the last to look up, hoping that Tyler was wrong. But sure enough there he was engrossed in conversation with a beautiful blonde, and Calleigh knew exactly who it was.
"Damn, she's hot," said Eric staring at Sara, "Where did he meet her?" Eric squinted harder over at them, "wait that's not..."
"Yep," said Calleigh reading his mind, "That's who it is."
"Who?" asked Valera looking over, "wait...no way!?"
"What am I missing out on?" asked Tyler feeling left out.
"Speed is on a date with Cookie Devine," said Eric shaking his head.
"The adult film star?" said Tyler, fixing his gaze, "you're kidding, how did he meet her?"
"On the case," said Calleigh finishing her drinking and raising her hand for another, "and her real name is Sara Piper, Speed's very defensive about it."
"Wait," said Valera, "you knew about this?"
"Well not officially," sighed Calleigh, "I just saw them talking today."
"Well go Speed," said Eric smiling, "that boy needs some love."
Calleigh gave him the evil eye, and it didn't go unnoticed by Eric, "I think it's silly," said Calleigh, "not exactly the best choice of a girl to be dating, I mean hundreds of men have seen her naked."
"That's kind of exciting though," said Valera smiling at Eric, "I mean, all these people see her, but someone we know is out on a date with her."
"We don't even know if they are on a date," said Calleigh rolling her eyes.
"Well I'm going to go find out," said Eric standing up.
"I think we've been spotted," said Sara looking over at Tim's friends who were in the process of whispering.
Tim looked up and saw Calleigh roll her eyes at Eric; he didn't know what had gotten into her lately. Then he saw Eric rise and walk toward them.
"Speed," said Eric walking up to their table, "I just called you."
"Yeah, I was busy," said Tim in an even tone.
Eric just stood there for a minute, and then finally added, "So who's your friend?"
Sara looked up and smiled at him, and Tim realized he was being rude, "This is Sara, Sara this is my friend Eric."
"Nice to meet you Eric," said Sara shaking his hand, "now why don't you call the rest of your friends over here before they fall off their seats," she said to Tim looking over at his friends across the bar.
Eric laughed at her, "funny and beautiful, what are you doing with this clown?" he joked pointing at Tim.
Tim glared at his friend and Sara spoke up, "well I happen to find this clown quite adorable."
Tim smiled, and Eric took a seat at their booth waving over the rest of his friends. Tim rolled his eyes, as he got up and went to sit by Sara, this wasn't exactly what he had in mind for his first date.
"Well hey Tim," said Tyler sitting down next to Eric, "what are you doing here?"
"Yeah Tim, thought you were headed home for the night?" added Valera.
Tim noticed that Calleigh wasn't saying anything, just staring at him. Things had been so odd between the two of them lately, he wasn't sure why, and this whole situation with Sara wasn't helping things.
"Everyone," said Tim ignoring Valera's question, "This is Sara Piper, Sara, this is Tyler, Valera and Calleigh." Sara smiled at all of them, "well it's nice to meet all of you."
"You too," said Calleigh smiling sweetly, "So how did you meet Tim?"
Tim glared over at Calleigh, she knew how they met, and she was just being difficult.
Tim held his breath as Sara answered, "In the park," she said sweetly smiling at Tim. Sara wasn't stupid; she knew that this blonde girl sitting across from her had some sort of issue with her.
"Well I still think you are way too hot to be hanging out with Speed," joked Eric breaking the tension, "but it's nice to meet you."
Sara smiled over at Eric, "well thank you Eric."
Once everyone was settled, the waitress came over with another round of drinks. The group sat and drank, laughing and talking about their lives. Tim looked over at Calleigh and caught her eye, she gave him a small smile, but he just turned away. He wasn't exactly happy with her at the moment.
"So Sara," said Calleigh once again breaking everyone's silence, "you look really familiar, would I know you from somewhere?"
Tim gave Calleigh a swift kick under the table and she looked up at him with innocent eyes. Sara squirmed uncomfortably. "Um, I was at the office the other day to talk to Tim, maybe you saw me then?"
"No, I don't think that's it," continued Calleigh. As she was saying it Calleigh didn't know what was getting into her, she would blame it on the alcohol tomorrow when Speed got mad at her.
Tim looked up at Calleigh, and glared at her hard in the eyes, "Hey Sara," he said standing up, "lets go dance."
Sara smiled gratefully at him, "That sounds like fun," she replied as she accepted his hand and stood up with him.
Much to the distain of Calleigh, and the amusement of everyone else, the two walked toward the dance floor hand in hand.
As the night wore on, Chance's continued to get busy, and the group continued to drink. They were all pretty tipsy by now, and Sara glanced down at her watch. "Well it was so nice meeting you all," she said laughing, "but I have a shoo..." she was about to say shoot when she stopped herself, she wasn't sure how Tim would feel about her talking about her line of work in front of his friends. "I have to get up early for work," she continued.
Tim stood up with her, "I'll go get you a cab." Grabbing his coat he followed her out of the bar to a chorus of goodbyes from his friends.
Sara breathed in the fresh air, "your friends are nice," she said smiling over at Tim.
"Sorry about Calleigh," he said turning to look at her, "I don't know what's with her lately."
"Oh I do," said Sara laughing, "She smells competition."
"What?" said Tim with a bewildered look on his face, "Calleigh and I are just friends."
"Yeah well, girls notice these things," said Sara shifting her gaze to her feet.
"Well it doesn't matter anyway," Speed said tilting Sara's chin up, before he lost his courage he leaned in and captured her lips with his.
Sara was surprised by his forwardness, but leaned into his kiss, opening his lips with her tongue to gain interest. Tim reached his hand around and ran it through her hair, as she leaned her hands into his chest.
After a few minutes they both came up for air, right as a cab approached.
"Wow," said Speed as his face turned red.
Sara just laughed, "Good night Tim Speedle, and thank you for a wonderful evening."
"I'll call you," he said as he opened her door.
"Yeah you better." With that Sara got in the cab and waved.
Tim walked back and leaned against the side of the bar, he couldn't believe what was happening, he had just kissed a beautiful, nice, wonderful girl, but for some reason something didn't feel right about it.
Sighing he walked back into the bar, preparing for an onslaught of questions from his friends.
As the elevator door closed Tim Speedle just stared at it. What had just happened? A beautiful woman had just hit on him, and it wasn't just any beautiful woman, it was a porn star. Shaking his head he turned and walked toward the lab to finish packing up the letters that he and Calleigh had been sifting through earlier.
It wasn't like Tim didn't get hit on, he was a good looking guy in a city of beautiful women, it was just usually Delko that got the women. He was the charmer, the extrovert, the outgoing one. Tim on the other hand was the scruffy, sarcastic loner that was usually overlooked by the women around him.
Beep, beep. Tim sighed and looked down at his cell phone; it was H. Grabbing his kit he walked out into the hallway. He was still lost in thought about what had just happened to him a few minutes earlier, that he didn't even see his fellow CSI Calleigh Duquesne. walking up beside him.
"Snob," she said walking up next to him and matching her step with his.
Tim stopped and looked up, half expecting to see Cookie/Sara standing there. "Oh hey Cal," he said looking over at her, "I take it you got beeped."
"Well of course I did, gun shot wound on the beach," she drawled, "my favorite."
Tim rolled his eyes. It was amazing how excited this woman got about gun shots. "Yeah well, I hate beach scenes, way too much room for error, and way too much sand for me to sift through."
"Well let's go Mr. Negative, we can ride together, Horatio and Eric are already there," Calleigh said turning and facing him, "you can drive."
Giving Calleigh one of his patented looks, he grabbed the keys to the Hummer and pushed the down button on the elevator.
The two stood in silence for several seconds as the elevator descended, finally Calleigh decided to speak. "Wouldn't you know, we finish one case and another one is just waiting for us, sometimes I wonder if it will ever end?"
Tim almost chuckled. It was funny how Calleigh hated silence, she always felt like she had to say something. "Yeah well, at least we know who killed Ashley, her family and friends can at least get some peace," Speed smiled to himself as the thought of Ashley's friend Cookie crept into his mind.
"Speaking of her friends," said Calleigh as they stepped of the elevator, "I hear that one of her friends was waiting for you in the lobby today."
Speed sighed; sometimes he hated working in such a small office, "who told you that?" he asked stepping out into the Miami sun.
"Porn trivia queen Valera, said she saw Cookie Devine here today," Calleigh lied; she didn't want Tim to know she'd been spying. "She went to talk to her, and she said she was looking for a Detective Speedle."
"Yeah well, she just wanted to see if we wrapped the case up," lied Speed as they drove out of the parking lot. He wasn't really sure why he was lying to Calleigh, for some reason he just felt weird discussing his love life, or lack there of, with her.
"I see," said Calleigh, "With a name like Cookie her parents pretty much guaranteed her a job in the porn industry didn't they."
"Her real name is Sara," said Speed glaring over and Calleigh, he wasn't sure why he felt the need to defend Sara, but once again he was doing just that, "and she's just trying to make a living like everyone else."
Calleigh looked over at Speed in surprise, she didn't know why she had said what she said about this Sara girl, but she certainly hadn't expected Speed to react the way he did.
"Sorry, there are other ways to make money rather then taking your clothes off for the camera though" said Calleigh defending herself.
"Yeah well, you shouldn't talk about what you don't know."
With that the two rode in silence the rest of the way to the scene.
Calleigh had seen Speed talking to Cookie Devine earlier in the day by the elevator; she just didn't want him to know she'd been spying. She saw the way that she looked at him, the way she leaned in to talk to him.
She remembered thinking to herself, how could anyone compete with that, that's when it hit her, why was she worried about it? It was Tim Speedle after all, it was probably good that he was finally going to get some action; maybe it would wipe that scowl off of his face.
As the arrived at the beach, she knew he was mad at her. She'd been like a 15 year old trying to put down her competition by making fun of her. As she stepped out of the Hummer, Speed didn't even wait for her he just headed up the beach, running she caught up with him. "Look Tim," she said once she finally caught up with the trace expert, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything."
Tim stopped and shrugged, "Don't worry about it, your right, Cookie equals Porn Star in most peoples books."
"But maybe not in yours," said Calleigh, "maybe that's why she came to see you." What was she doing, she was sticking up for this girl who was after Tim.
"Yeah well, it doesn't matter," he said wanting to change the subject, "Let's go talk to Alexx."
"Where are Eric and Horatio?" Calleigh asked as she approached Alexx.
"They got called on another scene about ten minutes after they got here, said you were on your way," the ME said as she ran her hand through the hair of the dead girl.
"What have we got here?" asked Tim joining the two women.
"Female, looks to be around 30, two gun shots," said the Alexx as she lifted up the body, "through the back, poor thing, you didn't even see this coming did you?"
Calleigh kneeled down, "do we have bullets?" she asked peering at the gun shot wounds through a magnifying glass.
"Let me guess, no" said Tim as he walked carefully around the scene snapping pictures.
Alexx looked up at him, "you're right, how did you know?"
"There's only one set of prints leading to the body, and no drag marks, my guess is she was dumped here."
"Our trace expert ladies and gentlemen," said Calleigh standing up.
Tim smiled over at her; it was amazing how they could go from fighting back to joking in less the ten minutes, which was one of the things that he loved about Calleigh.
"So you two need to find a crime scene," said Alexx, as she zipped up the body, "I'm going to get this girl back to the lab and see what I can do to help you."
"Thanks Alexx," said Calleigh as she bagged a piece of fabric, "we'll see you soon."
Tim Speedle opened the door to his apartment and fell onto his couch. He hadn't been home in almost two days, and he was exhausted. He and Calleigh had spent most of the day at the beach finishing up with evidence, and the rest of the day sifting through it at the lab.
He couldn't get over Calleigh today; it was so unlike her to judge people the way she had judged Sara. It was almost as if she was jealous. "You're crazy Speed," he said to himself as he got up and walked into the kitchen. He looked down at the file on his table.
It was his file from the Ashley Anders case, opening it he looked at the list of witnesses. Cookie Devine, 555-2452. Part of him wanted to call her. He wasn't sure if it was because he wanted to talk with her, or if it was just the fact that he liked being wanted. Sighing, he picked up his phone and dialed.
"Hello," said a voice on the other end, "hello?" the voice repeated.
"Sara?" he questioned finally finding his voice.
"Yes, who is this?" she asked.
"It's uh, Tim Speedle...remember..."
"Detective Speedle, of course I remember you," she said cutting him off.
"What can I do for you, do you need more information about Ashley."
Tim was tempted to say yes, just to save face, but it was too late now, "Uh, no actually, I was just about to head out for drinks, thought you might want to come with me."
On the other end of the line Sara Piper smiled, "Are you asking me out?" she questioned, enjoying this game they were playing.
"Yeah," he said, "I guess I am."
"I'd love to, how about I meet you at Chance's in about an hour," she said taking the initiative to pick a place.
"Sounds good," he said, "See you then."
Breathing hard, he hung up the phone, happy that he had managed to get through that conversation.
"Hey Cal," said Eric Delko as he walked into the gun chamber, "how's the DB on the beach coming along?"
Calleigh looked up at her friend and sighed, "it's not, we think the body was dumped there, so now we are looking for a crime scene, and I'm going cross eyed from trying to match this bullet hole."
"Well hey, a couple of us are going for drinks, why don't you come with us?" said Eric, "we've had a few hard days, we all need a break."
Calleigh sighed, "You're right, let me just finish up, and I'll meet you in a second, where are we going?"
"To Chance's," said Eric, "Velera swears it's the place to be."
"She is just party central all of a sudden," Calleigh drawled, "Is Tim going?" she asked nonchalantly.
"No, he already headed home," said Eric, "I called his cell, but there was no answer, but we can have fun with out Mr. Personality I promise," Eric teased.
"Oh I know," said Calleigh defensively, "I was just wondering."
Eric looked at her funny, but decided to ignore it, "alright well hurry up."
Tim Speedle sat at a booth in Chance's bar, watching the door. He had just gotten there but the place was already getting crowded. Looking up he saw Sara walk through the door.
He smiled to himself as he looked over at her. She looked like just a normal girl; she was wearing black Capri pants, and a dark pink halter top that barely showed her mid-drift. If you didn't know any better you would think she was just a business woman letting a little loose for the weekend, not an adult film star.
She smiled as she saw Tim at the table and walked over toward him. "Hey Detective Speedle" she said, sliding in to the booth.
"Tim," he said looking up at her, "call me Tim, Sara."
Sara's smile widened, it has been a long time since she'd been on a date with a guy who hadn't already seen her naked, and knew her real name.
"Well Tim," she said looking him in the eye, "I'm glad you called."
"Me too," he said as he flagged down a passing cocktail waitress, "What would you like?" he asked her.
Sara didn't know what to say, she was definitely not used to a guy taking care of her on a date, it was nice to have someone care so much, "Uh, just a beer is fine," she said looking at the waitress.
Tim looked at her surprised, "What?" she said.
"Nothing," he replied, "two beers."
"Coming right up," the waitress said, and she walked away.
"You just don't seem like the beer type," Tim said.
"Oh really? And what type is that?" she teased reaching out and touching his arm.
Tim just laughed nervously, "I'm not very good at this," he admitted.
"At what?" she questioned looking at him.
"At this," he said pointing around him, "I don't really get out much."
Sara smiled sincerely at him, "Neither do I, not with someone who wants to be with me for me anyway."
Just as Tim was about to respond he heard a familiar southern drawl enter the bar, looking up his fears were realized when he saw Eric, Tyler, Valera and Calleigh enter the bar.
"Great," he murmured.
"What is it?" Sara asked turning around and looking at the door.
"It's my friends from work," Tim stated as the waitress handed them their beers. "
"And you don't want them to see you here with someone like me right?" said Sara looking dejected.
"No, that's not it," said Tim, "I was just surprised to see them that's all, and there's nothing wrong with being seen with a beautiful woman."
Sara blushed and fiddled with her bottle, "Well we can still go somewhere else if you want."
"No, I'm fine right here."
"Alright kids what'll it be?" said Calleigh as she and her friends settled into a table.
The four ordered their drinks and began talking. "I'm so glad that last case is over," said Tyler as he fiddled with a napkin, "as much as I liked researching the porn industry, it was a lot of hard work."
"Oh please," said Eric, "you know you loved it."
"I thought it was exciting to investigate someone like Ashley Anders," said Valera, "A celebrity scandal, got to love it."
"Ya'll are crazy," said Calleigh, "I don't understand the draw of the porn industry, why would anyone want to do that for a living?"
"It's exciting," said Eric, "I mean, it's such a forbidden thing..."
"Hey is that Speed over there?" interrupted Tyler as his eyes scanned the room, "and who is the hot chick he's with?"
Everyone's head swung around to look at Speed and his companion, who were lost in conversation. Calleigh was the last to look up, hoping that Tyler was wrong. But sure enough there he was engrossed in conversation with a beautiful blonde, and Calleigh knew exactly who it was.
"Damn, she's hot," said Eric staring at Sara, "Where did he meet her?" Eric squinted harder over at them, "wait that's not..."
"Yep," said Calleigh reading his mind, "That's who it is."
"Who?" asked Valera looking over, "wait...no way!?"
"What am I missing out on?" asked Tyler feeling left out.
"Speed is on a date with Cookie Devine," said Eric shaking his head.
"The adult film star?" said Tyler, fixing his gaze, "you're kidding, how did he meet her?"
"On the case," said Calleigh finishing her drinking and raising her hand for another, "and her real name is Sara Piper, Speed's very defensive about it."
"Wait," said Valera, "you knew about this?"
"Well not officially," sighed Calleigh, "I just saw them talking today."
"Well go Speed," said Eric smiling, "that boy needs some love."
Calleigh gave him the evil eye, and it didn't go unnoticed by Eric, "I think it's silly," said Calleigh, "not exactly the best choice of a girl to be dating, I mean hundreds of men have seen her naked."
"That's kind of exciting though," said Valera smiling at Eric, "I mean, all these people see her, but someone we know is out on a date with her."
"We don't even know if they are on a date," said Calleigh rolling her eyes.
"Well I'm going to go find out," said Eric standing up.
"I think we've been spotted," said Sara looking over at Tim's friends who were in the process of whispering.
Tim looked up and saw Calleigh roll her eyes at Eric; he didn't know what had gotten into her lately. Then he saw Eric rise and walk toward them.
"Speed," said Eric walking up to their table, "I just called you."
"Yeah, I was busy," said Tim in an even tone.
Eric just stood there for a minute, and then finally added, "So who's your friend?"
Sara looked up and smiled at him, and Tim realized he was being rude, "This is Sara, Sara this is my friend Eric."
"Nice to meet you Eric," said Sara shaking his hand, "now why don't you call the rest of your friends over here before they fall off their seats," she said to Tim looking over at his friends across the bar.
Eric laughed at her, "funny and beautiful, what are you doing with this clown?" he joked pointing at Tim.
Tim glared at his friend and Sara spoke up, "well I happen to find this clown quite adorable."
Tim smiled, and Eric took a seat at their booth waving over the rest of his friends. Tim rolled his eyes, as he got up and went to sit by Sara, this wasn't exactly what he had in mind for his first date.
"Well hey Tim," said Tyler sitting down next to Eric, "what are you doing here?"
"Yeah Tim, thought you were headed home for the night?" added Valera.
Tim noticed that Calleigh wasn't saying anything, just staring at him. Things had been so odd between the two of them lately, he wasn't sure why, and this whole situation with Sara wasn't helping things.
"Everyone," said Tim ignoring Valera's question, "This is Sara Piper, Sara, this is Tyler, Valera and Calleigh." Sara smiled at all of them, "well it's nice to meet all of you."
"You too," said Calleigh smiling sweetly, "So how did you meet Tim?"
Tim glared over at Calleigh, she knew how they met, and she was just being difficult.
Tim held his breath as Sara answered, "In the park," she said sweetly smiling at Tim. Sara wasn't stupid; she knew that this blonde girl sitting across from her had some sort of issue with her.
"Well I still think you are way too hot to be hanging out with Speed," joked Eric breaking the tension, "but it's nice to meet you."
Sara smiled over at Eric, "well thank you Eric."
Once everyone was settled, the waitress came over with another round of drinks. The group sat and drank, laughing and talking about their lives. Tim looked over at Calleigh and caught her eye, she gave him a small smile, but he just turned away. He wasn't exactly happy with her at the moment.
"So Sara," said Calleigh once again breaking everyone's silence, "you look really familiar, would I know you from somewhere?"
Tim gave Calleigh a swift kick under the table and she looked up at him with innocent eyes. Sara squirmed uncomfortably. "Um, I was at the office the other day to talk to Tim, maybe you saw me then?"
"No, I don't think that's it," continued Calleigh. As she was saying it Calleigh didn't know what was getting into her, she would blame it on the alcohol tomorrow when Speed got mad at her.
Tim looked up at Calleigh, and glared at her hard in the eyes, "Hey Sara," he said standing up, "lets go dance."
Sara smiled gratefully at him, "That sounds like fun," she replied as she accepted his hand and stood up with him.
Much to the distain of Calleigh, and the amusement of everyone else, the two walked toward the dance floor hand in hand.
As the night wore on, Chance's continued to get busy, and the group continued to drink. They were all pretty tipsy by now, and Sara glanced down at her watch. "Well it was so nice meeting you all," she said laughing, "but I have a shoo..." she was about to say shoot when she stopped herself, she wasn't sure how Tim would feel about her talking about her line of work in front of his friends. "I have to get up early for work," she continued.
Tim stood up with her, "I'll go get you a cab." Grabbing his coat he followed her out of the bar to a chorus of goodbyes from his friends.
Sara breathed in the fresh air, "your friends are nice," she said smiling over at Tim.
"Sorry about Calleigh," he said turning to look at her, "I don't know what's with her lately."
"Oh I do," said Sara laughing, "She smells competition."
"What?" said Tim with a bewildered look on his face, "Calleigh and I are just friends."
"Yeah well, girls notice these things," said Sara shifting her gaze to her feet.
"Well it doesn't matter anyway," Speed said tilting Sara's chin up, before he lost his courage he leaned in and captured her lips with his.
Sara was surprised by his forwardness, but leaned into his kiss, opening his lips with her tongue to gain interest. Tim reached his hand around and ran it through her hair, as she leaned her hands into his chest.
After a few minutes they both came up for air, right as a cab approached.
"Wow," said Speed as his face turned red.
Sara just laughed, "Good night Tim Speedle, and thank you for a wonderful evening."
"I'll call you," he said as he opened her door.
"Yeah you better." With that Sara got in the cab and waved.
Tim walked back and leaned against the side of the bar, he couldn't believe what was happening, he had just kissed a beautiful, nice, wonderful girl, but for some reason something didn't feel right about it.
Sighing he walked back into the bar, preparing for an onslaught of questions from his friends.