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Chapter Three

"Right, me and Nick are heading over to Charlie's to watch the game," Warrick told Lia. "so you get my keys, drive yourself and Sanders to work when the shift starts, I'll see you there." Glancing at Lia's bedroom door, as if to see if Greg was still there, Warrick continued, "If you want to bring him swimming, he can borrow something of mine- again- but if you guys feel like having a sleepover again, I must insist that he gets his own stuff first." Lia laughed.

"I'll tell him to start keeping something in his car. Now get going, I'm sure Nick is waiting." Warrick shrugged and headed to the door, and waved as he left. Lia laughed as she turned to the kitchen to grab some cereal. As she was sitting down, Greg came in, running a hand through his hair. Lia laughed.

"Well, now I know how you get those spikes," she told him. He smiled back.

"Only without my special gel they come down. This is merely a quick fix." He yawned and gestured to Lia's cereal. "How can you eat that? It's like, six in the evening."

"I've never become accustomed to eating supper food right after waking up. So I just eat cereal. Want some or are you ok with something else?"

"Can I just have a glass of juice or something? I don't normally eat this close to waking up." Lia got up and opened the fridge.

"Orange okay?"

"Yeah, that's fine." Greg said with another yawn as he sat down opposite Lia's chair. She took a glass and poured him some juice, and slid it over to him as she sat back down.

"You're still tired?"

"Not really, I just take a while to completely wake up. I normally swim right when I get up, which is part of why I don't like to eat right away."

"You want to go for a swim now?"

"Nothing to swim in. And apartments don't take well to skinny dipping," Greg said with a grin. "Not that I know from experience, of course..." Lia laughed.

"Right. Well, Warrick did mention you could borrow something of his- again, as he said- and he also said that you better pack a suitcase next time you sleep over."

"Great, I'll remember that. But you just ate, it's not safe to swim-"

"When you've just eaten, yeah, I know, but I only ate a little, we can wait like ten minutes while we get ready, and walk up. Happy?" Greg shrugged.

"Yep. Just be careful."

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Half an hour later, the two of them were in the water. They were the only ones in the pool, and the only ones in the pool room, for that matter. At the moment they were playing a rather involved game of water volleyball, a spur-of-the-moment idea from Greg, who had noticed the ball floating in one of the corners. After about five minutes of playing, they were tied 9-9. They had decided that the winning score would be ten. Finally, Greg spiked the ball at Lia, who fell over trying to hit it and went underwater. Coming up and shaking her head like a dog to get the water out of her eyes, she threw the ball back to Greg.

"Looks like you won, Greg," she laughed as she caught her breath.

"Yup. Who's the greatest?" he teased, holding the ball up like a trophy. Lia stuck her tongue out.

"Good question. I'd say that would be a tie between...oh...Warrick and Matt."

"Oh, you're gonna get it for that!" Greg exclaimed, dropping the ball and swimming toward Lia. She laughed and tried to swim away from him, but he managed to grab her leg and pull her back. Pinning her against the side of the pool, he started tickling her.

"Greg! Quit it!" she gasped out between fits of giggling. He paused for a moment.

"Say I'm the greatest."

"Nah.." she said, then doubled over again from laughing as Greg renewed his efforts. He was laughing along with her.

"C'mon, say it, you know it's true, and I won't stop until you do!" Greg teased her.

"Greg...can't breathe..." Lia forced out. Greg stopped again with a concerned look in his eyes, which disappeared as soon as Lia pounced on him, returning the tickle treatment. They both went under the water for a second and came back up, laughing. Lia leaned back on the wall and closed her eyes for a minute, catching her breath. When she looked up, Greg was just looking at her, standing maybe half a foot away from her, leaning one arm on the side of the pool. Any other guy just staring at her would've made her uncomfortable, but he didn't.

"What?" she asked finally. Greg blinked, then answered,

"Nothing." He grinned. "Nice move though. I actually believed you for a minute." Lia grinned back.

"I was exagerating. But only a little. When I laugh a lot I have trouble breathing sometimes. It did give me a good opportunity though." She glanced up at the clock.

"It's almost seven thirty," she announced. "I'm still hungry, and I'm sure you are by now. Let's go get some food, then go for a walk or something?"

"Sure," Greg replied, "If you feel like going for a drive, though, let's stop by my place for a bit, so I can get some of my own clothes."

"Sounds like a plan."

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A/N: I have my first reviews!

CatherineLouise: Glad you liked, and sorry about the cliffhanger- it wasn't supposed to be that way, my computer sometimes doesn't fully upload the file. It's fixed though!

HyperSquishy: Thank you! I always pictures Warrick as the kind of person to really want to protect his family so- there he is. Glad you liked, enjoy this chapter!

Sorry this chapter has taken so long, and so short, I've been away and pretty busy, not to mention the writer's block I always seem to get --sigh-- Anyway I'm going on the assumption the the graveyard shift is from like midnight to eight in the morning. That's how the timing in this story is going to go.

I'll try to update again some time this week!