AN- Thank you guys for wishing me a happy b-day. I feel loved! Anyway. This chapter takes their relationship further, but not without a little angst and denial.

Chapter 7

Dee sat in the tub. He had to get himself under control and he hadn't taken a long hot bath in so long, so he decided he would soak in the tub for a while.

'What the hell?'

Dee thought while he lay in the tub.

'Berkeley? Me? Oh God, what is happening to me? Berkeley Rose kissed me and I liked it.'

Dee sighed. He was feeling lots of things at this point. Why did he enjoy the kiss? Why did Berkeley do it? Did he have the same feelings for Berkeley as he did for Ryo?

'But, if I feel for him wouldn't I be betraying Ryo?'

Dee still couldn't get over the fact that Berkeley had chased after Ryo for so long, and Dee had hated Berkeley with a passion. Ryo knew that Berkeley was the exact type of man that Dee hated. And now, Dee wanted nothing more then to feel Berkeley's lips against his again.

'Ryo? Would you be mad at me if I wanted to date Berkeley?'

Part of Dee wanted to, but the other part of him was afraid of betraying Ryo.

'Ryo, help me.'

Dee sighed as he got out of the tub. He let the water out, and dried himself off. He pulled on a pair of boxers and got into bed. He just wanted the night to end.

Not to far away Berkeley Rose sat on his couch. He had long ago given up on the book he had been reading and was now looking out the window.

'Why the hell did I have to go and do that to him? He is still grieving over the loss of his partner, and all he wanted to know was if it was ok for him to see other people. Shit, I'm such a dumb ass sometimes.'

Berkeley scolded himself. He had been for the past hour and a half now.

'And now what happens? I see him tomorrow and do we act like nothing happened? Maybe we should just blame it on the wine. Yeah. I only did that because I was drunk.'

Berkeley was proud at himself for coming up with such a lame excuse. He knew why he had done it. He had done it because for the past few days he had dreamed of Dee's lips against his own. He couldn't explain the attraction he had for the black haired detective.

'What I wouldn't give to see his emerald eyes dark with lust.'

Berkeley immediately got that thought out of his head. He knew he shouldn't have even thought such a thing. Dee and him were enemies, right? Dee being on the anti Berkeley having Ryo campaign and himself being on the Dee and Ryo break up so I can have a chance campaign. They were complete opposites. Berkeley hated the type of person Dee was, and he knew Dee hated the type of person he was. But still...

'Maybe. There might be a small chance, right?'

Berkeley sighed. It was getting late and he needed to be down at the station early. Although he wasn't supposed to help Dee on the case until later that day, he still had his duties as a commissioner to do.

Dee woke up the next morning to knocking at his door. He quickly threw on an old wife beater he had, and got the door.

"Hey Dee. You ok?"

"Yeah. I'm fine, now what do you want JJ?"

Dee wasn't in the mood for any of JJ's shit right now. He had hoped, for JJ's sake, that it was work related.

"I am here to tell you a time change. Berkeley will be by at about nine instead."

Dee just groaned and shook his head.

"Not earlier. Why so early? Something happen?"

Dee asked while yawning tiredly.

"I don't know. Said something about an incident he wanted to talk to you about."

JJ saw the blush that covered Dee's face. JJ's mouth dropped to the floor.

"Holy Shit...you're not? Are you? You and Berkeley?"

Dee gave JJ a death glare.

"No. And why would you think such a thing?"

"Because for once in your life you blushed an odd shade of red at the mention of 'incident with Berkeley.' That's' why."

Dee still gave JJ the death glare.

"Don't you go and start rumors, Jemmy Adams. Or I swear you will regret it, understood?"

JJ flinched at the mention of his first name. He hated it with a passion and knew Dee wasn't kidding when he used his first name.

"Ok, ok. I wont say anything."

"Is that all you came to tell me?"

JJ nodded his head.

"I'll get going then. Be ready by nine. Oh, and here."

JJ handed Dee a file.

"He wants you to make sure you are familiar with the case before tonight. And since he wont be by until later he wants you to read over the case."

Dee nodded his head.

"Bye Dee. See you later."

JJ walked away, with Dee's threat still in his head. He knew Dee wasn't kidding, but still he had to tell Drake about what happened.

Dee waited patiently for Berkeley to come over. He had been nothing but nerves all day long. He didn't want to 'talk' about anything that had happened between them.

'I need to just chill.'

Dee sat back down on the couch and waited. It wasn't no more then ten minutes later when there was a knock at the door.

'Shit'

Dee got up to get the door. Berkeley stood in front of him

"Don't you ever ask who it is anymore? I could have been some killer."

Berkeley smiled at Dee. Dee didn't smile back. He just locked the door and walked down the hall, with Berkeley following.

"Are you going to say anything to me at all?"

Dee didn't say anything. He wasn't sure what to say to him.

"Ok. Have you had anything to eat yet then?"

Dee shook his head. He hadn't really felt like eating today.

"Ok. Want to go and get something before we start this stake out then?"

Dee just shrugged his shoulders. He really didn't care if he ate anything at all really. He didn't care if he starved.

They got into Berkeley's car and soon they were at a nice restaurant. Dee sat down and Berkeley sat across from him.

"Dee, I wanted to know how you felt about last night."

Dee nearly spat out the contents of his glass of water.

"What do you mean how I feel about last night? I'm confused that's how I feel."

Berkeley was afraid that Dee was confused about all of this. Hell he wasn't sure himself how to explain it.

"Dee, we were drunk last night. You know we drank almost that whole bottle of wine."

De thought for a moment. Was Berkeley really THAT drunk? He wasn't sure, but for the moment that idea would work.

"Yeah, I guess we were a little tipsy, weren't we?"

Berkeley nodded his head. He knew Dee didn't buy that excuse but it worked for now. The two of them ate, and then went back out to the car. Berkeley went over the plan with Dee. They had the place bugged still, so they were to wait for something to happen, and then, in the event that something did happen, backup was waiting for them to call, and they would take down the drug dealers.

"What do we plan on doing in the meantime? Just sitting there and all. Nothing could happen for all we know."

Berkeley considered Dee's question for a moment. What were they to do?

"Well, I suppose you could sleep and I'll keep watch, or I could sleep and you keep watch, or we could just sit and talk."

Dee wasn't really up for sleeping or keeping a look out for any thing unusual, so he opted for the talking part.

"Fine. What do you want to talk about?"

Berkeley pulled the car to a stop a block away from the warehouse.

"Well, how did you become a cop?"

Berkeley asked Dee, and Dee just looked away.

"That's not a subject I want to talk with you about, Berkeley."

Berkeley saw that he had hit a nerve in Dee.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you remember something bad. It's just, I became a cop because I wanted to put the guy away who killed my wife, and daughter."

Dee looked at Berkeley.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know."

"It's ok. I got the guy who did it. I made sure he was put away for a long time after that."

"I...I was an orphan when I was a kid. I was took in by Mother. I called her Penguin though, and the rest of the kids followed my example and called her Penguin as well. I was a rotten kid. Pick pocket, sneaking out, you name it and I did it. So when I told Penguin I wanted to be a cop, she almost had a heart attack."

Berkeley nodded his head. He could tell that there was more, but Dee wasn't sharing it with him.

"I'm sorry to hear you were an orphan. You never got adopted?"

Dee shook his head.

"What would someone want with me? I was mean as a child. Never listened to anyone, or anything. I did my own thing. Penguin paid for my college. She said I had always made her proud. She said I was the only one that was more like her son, then anyone else there. I had to make her proud, so I stopped being so bull-headed and straightened up. And now, we are here."

Berkeley nodded his head. Dee just opened up to him in a very big way. He didn't know what to make of his newly learned information.

"What was your wife's name?"

"Casey. And my daughter was Dana. She was my pride and joy. I loved them both. Dana had my eyes, and Casey's black hair. I wasn't there when they were killed. I was away on business and the guy had come to rob our house. Casey surprised him and he shot her. Dana woke up because of all the noise, and he killed her as well. Dana...lived for three days. The bullet had went through her lung. They weren't sure if she would make it, and she...she died on Thanksgiving."

Berkeley felt tears prick at his eyes. That's when he felt Dee wipe them away.

"I didn't mean to...bring that up. I...I am sorry."

Dee looked out the window when he felt a hand on his leg.

"No. It's fine."

"Is that what you meant when you told me that you had seen other officers go nuts after losing a wife or a child?"

Berkeley nodded his head.

"Yeah. I kind of went crazy before I went to school. I didn't have anyone to talk to really. Besides myself, and my father...but he wasn't much of a talker. He was very sick when all of this happened, and he died a year later. That was when I went really crazy, and I tried to kill myself. It was in the hospital that I realized I needed to make something out of my life. That if I killed myself, how is that going to put the guy away who killed my wife?"

Dee nodded. Berkeley had moved his hand back and fourth on Dee's leg. The part that scarred Dee was that he wasn't even telling Berkeley to back off.

"So, you went to school, and now here you are, trying to set my life back on track, right?"

Berkeley nodded.

"You know, it's strange. I never ever told anyone that before. You're the first person to come into my life after all that happened that I feel comfortable to share this information with."

Dee looked deep into Berkeley's eyes. He saw all kinds of emotions in them.

"I told Ryo about me, one Christmas when I wanted to show him about my past. He accepted it, when most people didn't. I had a few girls who did, but out of all the men I dated, Ryo was the first."

Berkeley looked into Dee's green eyes.

"I accept it Dee."

Berkeley was close to Dee again, just like the first time he had kissed him. If Dee moved closer, just by a little...

"Hey! The shipment hasn't come yet boss? What's the delay?"

The two jumped as the speaker they had sprung to life.

"It will get here soon. They said they had to find an alternate route because of the police."

Berkeley was on the intercom in seconds.

"JJ, stand by. The shipments about to come in."

"Yes Sir."

Dee was snapped back to reality. He was going over in his head what he and Berkeley had just shared.

"Ready Dee?"

"Yeah."

"Hey Boss! It's here!"

In the background the two detectives could hear a ship coming in and people yelling and talking in Japanese. Dee caught only a few words that he had picked up from Ryo. Words like Nani, and Kuso.

"JJ, Lets roll."

"Yes sir"

"Come on troops, it's time."

JJ turned and said to Drake and Jake.

"Berkeley?"

"Yes Dee?"

"Do you want me to go over there?"

Dee whispered. They were in the warehouse. It had been hard for the both of them to sneak in without getting noticed, but they managed somehow.

"No. Stay with me for now. Wait until we get the signal from JJ that they have arrived."

Berkeley was waiting for his pager to vibrate. That would mean that JJ and his troops had arrived. Well, the pager did go off, but...

"Oh shit..."

Berkeley said as the pager made a loud buzzing sound.

"What was that?"

"I don't know look over there."

Dee and Berkeley scattered. Bullets flew everywhere. Dee couldn't see how many there were, but from all the yelling voices he could tell, that there was a lot.

"JJ! Call more backup! We are in trouble!"

Berkeley screamed through the intercom. He was looking for Dee. He had found a safe place for a second to search through the dark. It was too dark for him to see, but he could hear him.

"Shit!"

Dee yelled as he tried his gun but found it empty. He didn't have the time to reload, and he was busy trying to dodge the bullets. He had heard the other officer's and felt better.

"Fuck!"

He heard Berkeley yell. He tried to find his partner. He wasn't sure if he was hurt or not.

"Dee! Hear!"

He caught sight of Berkeley just as Berkeley had slid his gun towards Dee. Dee caught it and aimed at the guy who was about to shoot him. That was when JJ's team had gotten in, and began to assess the situation. Most of the guys where hurt if not dead. The one they had wanted, the boss, had escaped. When Dee felt safe to move he went over to where he had saw Berkeley crawl behind a few boxes.

"Berkeley?"

Dee asked cautiously. He had looked down to see a pool of blood leading from a hole in Berkeley's side.

"Holy shit! James! We have an officer down!"

Dee called to one of the members of the team. JJ came running over.

"Is he ok?"

JJ asked giving Dee his jacket to push up against the wound.

"I don't know. I don't know how far it's in or what happened."

Berkeley let out a hiss of pain as Dee pressed the coat to his side harder.

"I'm sorry. I know it hurts, but just hang in there. Please hang in there."

"Dee...Thank...You."

Berkeley had said before he gave into the pain, and fell unconscious.

AN- I'll stop there for now. Main was that chapter hard. Ok. A few quick notes.

I read somewhere that Dee's hair was black, while other places say it is dark brown. I went with black.

I don't really know Dee's past that well. I haven't got that far in the series. But I do know he was orphaned and he lived with Penguin, and was a real bad kid.

I don't know if Berkeley had a reason for being a cop, and I went and search on him, and all I got was he went to the precinct and Diana loves him madly.

Anyway. Once again, I hope I am not rushing things, but I felt like I needed to have that tension between the two of them. Anyway. Review and I will have part 8 soon!