It was later in the night that David had paid Kevin his little visit and had later met Lizzie and Miranda at the mall. Miranda had went out to a dinner party that her law firm was hosting and so that had left David and Lizzie alone together for the first time since David had arrived there. The two old friends had ordered some pizza for supper and had sat down and watched some tv. But now the two were sitting at Miranda kitchen table, drinking some wine and going through some shoe boxes full of Lizzie's old photographs.

"Hey Gordo do you remember this one?" Lizzie asked laughing as she pulled the old photograph out of the shoe box that was sitting in front of her and held it up for David to see.

"Oh God!" moaned David as he took the photo from Lizzie and looked at it. It was the one where he was dressed as Elvis competing against Tudgeman in the Science Olympics back in junior high.

"Please tell me you're going to let me have this so I can burn it?" begged David as he shook his head in disbelief as he looked back and forth at Lizzie and the photo.

"OH NO!" laughed Lizzie as she yanked the photo out of David hand "This has always been one of my all time favorite photographs of you."

"Fine" said David smiling as he reached into the shoe box that was in front of him and took out a photo holding it up "Than I guess I'll just hold on to this here photo of you."

"Which one of me is it?" asked Lizzie glaring at David not liking the smug smile that was starting to spread across her friends face.

"Oh it just happens to be a photo of you that day you came to school running off at the mouth about recycling while wearing that very fashionable burlap dress." said David.

"Uh no you cannot have that!" shouted Lizzie shaking her head vehemently trying to take the photo from Gordo.

"Alright than McGuire" said David as he kept moving his arm around so Lizzie couldn't get a hold of the photo "How about we make a trade here? The photo your holding for the photo I'm holding?"

"Alright deal" said Lizzie.

The two than hesitatingly passed the two photos to one another and when they had their hands on their respective photos the two of them both started laughing.

"Man would you look at that head of hair I use to have." said David shaking his head as he looked at the photo "It looks like there's a brown bush growing out of the top of my head."

"Who cares about that." said Lizzie holding up her photo for David to see again "Look at this....this...thing that I once called a dress. Can you believe that I actually showed up at school wearing that thing!?"

"Yes you looked so fashionable." said David laughing.

"Ha ha." said Lizzie sticking her tongue out at David.It was than that Lizzie noticed that hers and Gordo's wine glasses were empty.

"You want some more wine Gordo?" asked Lizzie as she got up to grab the bottle of red wine out of the fridge.

"Sure thanks" said David handing her his glass but not looking up as he continued to go through his box full of old photos.

"Not a problem." said Lizzie as she started to refill their two glasses.For it really wasn't a problem for her. The whole day she had spent with Gordo at the mall and now the two of them alone here in Miranda house was the most fun she has had in........ well, since in forever. Well, more than likely since the photos that they had spent a great part of the night looking at had been taken.

David stood up from the table after he had finished looking through the box of photos he had. Wanting to check out the box of photos that Lizzie had David started to make his way around the table and past Lizzie.Unfortunately Lizzie picked that time to turn around with her hands full of wine filled glasses. The two collided and Lizzie still the klutz that she had been in school managed to spill both glasses of red wine all over David shirt.

"Oh God Gordo I'm so sorry!" said Lizzie close to tears and with a very scared look on her face after she saw how soaked Gordo's shirt had become.Lizzie quickly grabbed a towel off the counter and tried desperately to wipe the wine off Gordo shirt.While doing so Lizzie started mumbling the same thing over and over again.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry......"

"Hey it's was just an accident and all my fault." said David as he noticed the fear in Lizzie's eyes.

Damn you Kevin, thought David angrily. She so scared to death that someone is going to hurt her if she does something wrong. I should have killed that bastard when I had the chance.

"Lizzie.....LIZZIE, look at me." said David as he took hold of both of Lizzie arms "This was just an accident and not your fault."

"Your not mad at me." Lizzie asked with her eyes down cast.

"No hon I'm not mad at you." said David not picking up the fact that he had called her hon,but Lizzie sure had.David let go of one of Lizzie arms, placed his hand under her chin and raised her head up to where she was looking him in the eye "Lizzie I want you to listen to me ok." David waited until Lizzie nodded her head in understanding before he continued "I want you to know that from now on you don't have to be afraid of Kevin or anyone else for that matter. Because not only is Miranda keeping you save but you also have me here keeping you safe. Do you understand what I'm telling you?"

Lizzie answer to Gordo question was to lean into him more, wrap her arms around his neck and pull his head to hers so she could kiss him softly on the lips.

"Wow what brought that on?" asked David with a smile once the kiss was broken "Not that I'm complaining about it or anything."

"I....I just want to...what I mean is.....I..." said Lizzie stuttering her way through with a shy smile "Did you like it?"

"Did I like it?" said David "It was probably the best thing that's happened to me in a long........."

But that was all David got out as Lizzie grabbed him again and this time lead a very passionate kiss on him. David started returning the kiss while he's started roaming his hands up and down Lizzie back causing shivers to run up the young woman spine. The two old friends than found themselves gravitating up the stairs and toward Lizzie bedroom.

"Lizzie are you sure about this?" asked David breaking the kiss and gasping for air as the two of them reached the door of her bedroom.

"I've never been more sure of anything in my life,Gordo." said Lizzie as she used her foot to push open the door and than proceded to drag David over to the bed.

David was nothing but shocked when Lizzie pushed him down upon the bed and crawled up on top of him. David was lost in the wonders of the sensation of Lizzie placing her hands under his shirt and running her hands up and down his chest.David was having such a great time at this and really getting more into it but he was surprised when Lizzie while in the process of removing his shirt,stopped suddenly. David looked up from where he was laying on the bed and could see the look of horror starting to spread across Lizzie face as she looked down at something on his chest.

Oh shit the scars, thought David as he suddenly remembered the holes and lines that criss crossed his chest.

"Gordo?" Lizzie said softly as she looked down at him. "What happened to you?" asked Lizzie as she used one of her fingers to trace one of the surgery scars that went across his chest.

"I got shot on a drug bust a few years ago." said David looking up into Lizzie eyes "We were taking down a heroin smuggling operation and one of the idiots started shooting.I was hit in the chest twice and had to be operated on."

"Oh god" moaned Lizzie as she rolled off David and layed down next to him.When Lizzie looked back at him there were tears pouring down her cheeks "This is all my fault."

"What the hell are you talking about?" asked David now completely confused as he turned over on his side to face Lizzie "How is me getting shot all your fault?"

"If I hadn't said those things to you that night in college and pushed you away you would have never went off to be a cop.And so you would have never gotten shot." said Lizzie as she curled up next to David.

"Ok first off the fact that I was shot was no way in hell your fault." said David as he pulled Lizzie closer to him and felt her warm tears fall on his shoulder and chest. David begin to stroke Lizzie hair hoping to calm her down some "And second I chose to be a cop and I love everything about it. I knew the risk when I went into this line of work and I've learned to live with it."

"So this is no way your fault." said David as he pulled Lizzie head off his chest and kissed her on the forehead.

"Really?" asked Lizzie still having a hard time believing that Gordo wasn't mad at her.

"Yes really." said David as he wrapped his arms around Lizzie and pulled her to him for another deep kiss."And now where were we before all of this feeling sorry for ourselfs started?" asked David with a wicked gleam in his eye.

"I believe it was somewhere along this train of thought." said Lizzie smiling again as she reached down and pulled the covers over the both of them while getting back to kissing Gordo.

(I'll let you imagine what went down next wink wink)

TBC