They sat in silence for a second when DK chuckled, "I can still remember the day she and I straightened it out. Actually it was Keira who got the ball rolling. See, "

"Bri, you're full of shit," Keira said to her best friend while driving around. "DK does so like you. How can you tell me that he doesn't after what happened?"

"No he doesn't Keira. If he did, he would have called by now. Yeah, the walk home from the firehouse that night was great. I mean, how could it not have been? Kissing him, in the rain no less," Keira chuckled, "was the best. But he hasn't called."

"Then call him."

"No," Brianne quickly responded.

"Why not? He gave you his number."

Brianne sighed, "I just can't."

Keira decided enough was enough and she turned the car in a certain direction.

"Where are you going?" Brianne asked.

Keira didn't answer as she continued to drive and when Brianne realized where they were heading, she tried putting her foot down.

"No Keira. No I can't go there."

"You're being ridiculous Brianne. DK is definitely interested in you and once and for all you're going to get that straight."

"Keira he's working. We can't just show up."

"Wanna bet?"

Brianne continued to try and argue, but before she knew it Keira was parked across the street from Camelot. She hadn't gotten out of the car when Keira was already on her side, opening the door, grabbing her arm and pulling her out of the car.

They got into the bay area of Camelot arguing with each other, but stopped when they saw DK coming down the stairs wiping his hands clean from fixing something. He too stopped and just locked eyes with Brianne. Keira knew that neither one of them was going to be the 1st to say something, so she decided to butt in.

"Ok, listen. This is ridiculous. I know, hell EVERYONE knows that the 2 of you are attracted to each other. And I for one am not going to just sit idly by and watch you miss out on a great thing with each other because you're both too damned stubborn to come out and admit it. Brianne, you think that DK isn't interested in you because he hasn't called you. Well I know for a fact that that is NOT true! And before you begin to wonder DK, yes Brianne definitely likes you. So you don't have anything to worry about there."

Brianne couldn't have been more embarrassed as she turned her gaze to the floor wishing that she could just turn and run out of the house.

Kiera continued, "So I'm begging you both. Work this out and make everyone happy. Brianne, just come out and admit that you are head over heels for DK," Brianne wanted to die right then and there, "and DK, be a man and let Bri. know that you can't stop thinking about her and just kiss and make up here."

Looking at both of them and feeling satisfied wiht herself, "DK is Billy around?"

Feeling quite embarrassed himself, he pointed his thumb up and behind him and without moving his eyes from Brianne, managed to answer, "Out back shooting hoops w/Bobby and Jimmy."

She smiled and rubbed Brianne's back, "Good. I'm going to show those boys how to play the game right. You two have fun now," and walked up the stairs past DK, patting him on the shoulder, smiling as she walked by.

DK wasn't too thrilled either with Keira at the moment and was glad that she had left them. Looking down at Brianne and noticing that she wouldn't look at him, he went the rest of the way downstairs to her, though she was the 1st to say something.

"I'm really sorry. I know that we shouldn't be here right now while you're working."

"Don't worry about it. The 2 of you have Lieu in your hip pocket so much that you both could run around here naked and he wouldn't be angry w/you for being here."

Brianne actually snickered at that comment, as did DK.

"I'm sorry about Keira too. She just has a way of wanting things to be the way that SHE wants them to be. She doesn't know when to stop."

"Listen, can you hang here for a second?" DK asked. "I'll be right back."

"Ok," Brianne replied.

"Don't leave, ok?"

"Yeah sure. No problem."

And with that, DK ran back upstairs leaving Brianne there wishing she could just high tail it the hell out of there to spare herself anymore humiliation. But she kept her word and when DK returned, he stopped on the stairs looking at Brianne sitting on the edge of the squad just staring out into the street. Seeing the uncertainty in her face, he realized that it's now or never so he continued down to her and slowly walked up to her.

"Brianne?" he quietly said. She turned to see him standing there w/a beautiful pink & white Lily and a pink Orchid in his hand. She smiled softly and took the flowers when he held them out to her as he stood and waited.

"I wasn't sure what kind you like and they were the prettiest."

Brianne brought the flowers up to her and closed her eyes as she took in their wonderful scent. Some of her hair had fallen in her face as she did this and DK crouched down and slowly, still unsure, tucked it back behind her left ear. She finally looked at him, still smiling softly and thanked him. He grinned back at her.

The two of them, no matter how hard they tried to deny anything, got lost in each other each time they looked into one another's eyes. Brianne moved over a little on the bumper, which he took as an invitation to sit down next to her. He moved to sit down to her left as she said, "these are beautiful."

While Brianne admired her gift, DK looked at her and began, "I was going to ask Billy to give these to you and, well ...." he felt so nervous for some reason, "I'm sorry I haven't called you. I know that I said that I would and I wanted to more times than I can count. I just couldn't get up the nerve and I really wasn't sure if you WERE interested. It's just that after the kiss in the park, I felt like I was pushing you or that I was too forward."

Brianne sat quietly, listening to the man who stole her heart just days earlier when he came to her rescue as he poured his own heart out to her. "Brianne, Keira is right. I am attracted to you." Brianne looked over at him and stared into his eyes and just listened, "I saw the most beautiful woman I've ever seen the other night in Haggerty's playing pool and I ..."

DK didn't get a chance to say another word because Brianne leaned over and her lips met his. He responded to the kiss and had his hand up on her cheek caressing it while they kissed. Unfortunately they were interrupted yet again by the lovely alarm sounding. While their lips were still together, they began to chuckle, pulling apart then as they heard the guys coming down the stairs and pole.

"We don't seem to have much luck in this building, do we?" DK smiled and asked.

"Nope," Brianne answered, getting up off the edge of the engine.

While putting his turnouts on he told her, "I'll call you. I promise."

"Be safe, and thanks," Bri. said while backing up out of the way and watching the guys leave as she smelled her flowers again. The guys waved to her and she waved back and after the squad pulled out, she went outside the building to find Keira standing there waiting for her.

Keira had that grin on her face that Brianne just wanted to kill her for, but she was grateful at the same time because without her friend being such a pain in the ass, Brianne probably would have written DK off and never gone down to Camelot again.

"Shut up," Brianne said to Keira as she crossed the street to get in the car.

"What?" Keira asked, following.

"I know what you're thinking and I don't want to hear it. I can see it all over your face. So here ... you win. Happy? Now just get in the car and let's go."

All Keira could do as she watched her best friend get into the car was laugh and then get in herself and drive home.

Bobby laughed, "leave it to Keira."

"Yeah. Without her, I don't think either one of us would have had the nerve to call the other. While Brianne and I were both embarrassed as hell and angry at the moment with Keira for what she'd done, we were both grateful afterwards."

DK paused for a minute and thought about another night. "And then there was the night at Coney Island."

Bobby smiled softly and nodded his head.

DK continued, "Bri. had never been there before and I wanted to do something special for her. That was at the time that she lost her dad and she was in a funk that I couldn't think of how to get her out of it."

Bobby sat there quietly, but nodded as he remembered that time. Brianne and her dad were extremely close and when he passed, she shut down. Bobby knew how hard a time DK had trying to help her.

"Keira told me about how she would go for drives in the morning back to Jersey to the beach where she scattered her dad's ashes in the ocean. She would just sit on the beach looking out at the sunrise. Keira started talking to her about Coney Island and when Brianne told her that she had always meant to go there w/her dad, but never got the chance, Keira told me. That's when I thought of taking her there one night. For the 1st time in weeks, I'd finally seen a smile on her face. Brianne had let her guard down and just let herself feel happiness again."

Bobby smiled, "she told me about that night. She said that that night, she knew that she was in love with you for certain."

DK looked at Bobby, "She told you that?"

"Yeah. She told me that the 1st time she saw you at Haggerty's, she was scared to death of what she was feeling for you. She'd never felt like that about anyone and while she knew that she loved you then, Bri. was too scared to admit it. But when you took her to Coney, she knew that she could finally admit it to herself."

DK smiled and said, "That was the 1st time we said I Love You to each other. I had wanted to say it so many times before to her, but I didn't want to rush her. And then her dad, well, it just didn't seem like the right time. But that night, I knew. I knew that it was ok to tell her."

DK looked out at the people in the park and went back to the events that led up to that night