AN: well, here is another chapter, thankyou for all the reviews and feedback; it's always great to hear from people.
Ties that bind
By Cat
Chapter two
Sam got out of the car and closed the door, as did Danny. Sam looked up at Danny's relatively small house and made a small comment in the back of her mind. She looked at Danny, who was walking towards the front door. She instinctively followed and stood next to him as he retrieved his keys from Sam. He opened the door and turned to look at Sam, with a brief, but small, smile upon his face- the first Sam had seen from him for a while.
"Would you like to come in for a moment?" He questioned the smaller brunette with an inward smile. "Just for some coffee or something." He assured her and for the next few moments, all he did was look at her quietly for the next few moments, while she made her decision.
Sam smiled gently and her thoughts became rushed. She had once dated him, which had been nothing at the time. But over the course of time that she had worked at the Montecito, she had come to realise that she was wrong to end the small relationship. She had come to terms and realised that she now had feelings for the guy, which wasn't actually an everyday thing for her, she had often refused to date guys, dumped them when they weren't right and was generally an enemy to anyone of the male persuasion.
"Umm, sure!" She said and followed Danny into his house. It was only coffee after all…
Sam looked around as Danny led her into a moderately large living room. The walls of the hallways had photographs- new and old- hanging from the walls, as did the walls of the living room. The living room had a small coffee table and a sofa on either side of it, with a television which was off to one side.
Danny gestured for her to sit down and went to fix coffee for the two of them, leaving Sam to look around the room. She looked over to a wall and observed the photographs for a moment. Sam's eyes wondered across to a particular photo, one of Danny, Mike, Mary and herself. She remembered that Delinda had taken the photo, unaware to the occupants of the shot. It had been taken at one of Mike's barbeques, during which she had only just become good friends with the group Danny had come to know. The group- Ed, Nessa, Mike, Delinda, Danny and Mary- had become like family to her and the Montecito, a home, more of a sanctuary though.
When she had first gone to work at the Montecito, she had promised herself that she'd stay no more than six months in the casino, now it was close to a year that she had lived there. 'Funny how I never keep my promises.' She commented to herself, placing the thought to the back of her brain.
Sam looked up as Danny re-entered the room, handing a steaming cup of coffee to her. "Thankyou." She said gratefully. She blew away the steam and sipped gently before putting it down on the coffee table and looking around the room once more. "They say that pictures are worth a thousand words, but I never found it within myself to keep photographs." She commented to the other occupant of the room.
"Pictures are memories, sometimes if you remember one image, than you can remember most of your life." Danny said, letting his mind wonder into a distance he had not seen for years.
For another hour, the two friends sat in Danny's living room, just talking. Talking about recent events, past experiences and what the both hoped for the future.
"Danny, I," Sam said as she looked at her feet silently, for some reason she wanted to tell him her feelings, she just didn't know how. She wanted to tell Danny about how she felt and came to realise that she really liked him.
"Yes, Sam?" Danny questioned, looking slightly confused; he had never seen her troubled by talking to someone, especially him. They usually shared friendly banter, but this was most unlike her. He hadn't exactly known the brunette for all that long, not as long as he had known Mary, but he could tell that something was up.
Danny and Sam both looked up when the heard the barely inaudible ringing of Sam's phone. Sam clipped the phone off her belt and looked at the screen. "Oh," she said to Danny with a look of remorse, "excuse me, but I have to take this." Sam exited the room and entered the front hallway to take the call.
Danny took a deep sip of coffee and looked around the room, realising that, recently, he hadn't taken a good look at any of the pictures that adorned his walls. 'I need to redecorate,' he mentally commented…
"Umm, Danny?" Sam said as she re-entered the room, clipping the phone back onto her belt. "We're going to have to go. Ed wants us both back at the Montecito; apparently something's happened."
To be continued…
AN: love any feedback.