I know Lilly said she was a vegetarian, but I think she was being sarcastic, ad this to the fact I have trouble writing English without having to think about vegetarian meals, I decided that she'll eat meat in my story. (Hope that's all right with everyone.)

Lunch

After the interview with Marco Delko the partners decided to go to MC donalds for lunch.

"So what do you think about Marco?" Lilly asked

"He seems honest to me." Scotty answered. "Though I did have a problem with the fact that he didn't even seem to care about the fact Amber was missing." he added. 'I also had a problem with the fact that he was checking you out.' but Scotty swiftly reminded himself that he shouldn't feel that way. 'If Lilly knew I felt jealous about it, she would kick my ass. Why do I feel jealous? She's just my friend, isn't she?' Scotty thought. 'And if I wanted something more than friends, I ruined my change by sleeping with her sister. Even if the only reason I got involved with Christina was because it was the closest I could get to Lillian Rush.' Why did he even bother thinking about why she wouldn't want them to be more than friends. He knew she wasn't interested and he needed to get over this silly crush. Because that was al it was, right? A silly crush, it was not as if he actually loved her, was it?

"What can I get you?" A waitress cut through his thoughts.

"Uh, a giant and a cheese burger please." he answered trying to cover the fact he hadn't been paying attention.

"Menu's? Or just burgers?" the waitress asked while looking him up and down, clearly interested.

"Menu's. And coke's light for drinks please." Lilly said before Scotty had a change. The Puerto Rican was surprised by the fact that the blonde had answered in his place. As he looked at her intending to find out why she had answered the waitress, he noticed the fact that she was giving the woman a glare. Making it clear to the waitress that Scotty wasn't interested.

Scotty tried not to smile like an idiot about the fact that Lilly Rush, his colleague and partner was giving an other woman a death glare for checking him out. But he failed miserably because when Lilly looked at him after the waitress had left to get their order, she was blushing furiously. Which indicated the fact that he was smiling wickedly and thus that Lilly knew he had seen the glare she had given the other woman.

Lilly looked utterly embarrassed, so Scotty decided to say something hoping he wouldn't embarrasse her more.

"Glad I'm not the only one feeling jealous today."

He had felt jealous today? When? Was he talking about Marco? She had seen the look he had given her, but she hadn't known that Scotty felt jealous about it. It's not like Marco stood a chance against Scotty, and before she could stop herself, she told this to Scotty.

"You were jealous about Marco? Trust me, he doesn't stand a chance against you."

When Lilly realised what she had said, she blushed even more and looked away.

'God why did I just say that? Can this be any more embarrassing? Oh right, it can, when he tells me he isn't interested in me.' Lilly realised ruefully. 'But if he isn't interested, then why was he feeling jealous?' she wondered.

"Glad to know." came Scotty's reply. 'What did I just say? Glad to know? Smart move Valens, now she won't be embarrassed at al.' he told himself.

Though it might not have been the best thing to say, Scotty's reply did take away Lilly's fear to be rejected. 'This definitely mean he's interested.'

"Here's your food." the waitress interrupted the flustered detectives.

Scotty took the plate and followed Lilly to a table. As they took a seat the Puerto Rican gave her the cheeseburger and started to eat his own meal.

They ate in relative silence for about five minutes until Lilly asked: "So, do you think Amber ran away?"

"It's possible." Scotty replied, realising that Lilly wasn't planning to talk about the events of not 10 minutes ago, to bad for her he wanted to talk about it. He knew damn well that if he let the topic go now, he wouldn't get an other chance.

"Do you always give glares to women who are interested in me? Or was the waitress just lucky?"

"Can we talk about the case please? We are working right?" came the reply.

"Do you have plans for tonight?"

"Scotty, the case."

"I'll take that as a no. How about I'll pick you up around 7 and we have diner? I know a great Italian restaurant." he said not missing a beat.

"I don't feel like going out tonight. What I do feel like is solving this case." Lilly replied

"How about a movie and pizza then? Ok?" Scotty asked, when he didn't get a reply from Lilly he said. "Great. Now about the case, Mandy is definitely hiding something."

Lilly couldn't believe it. What did he think he was doing? Inviting himself over? Though she ignore the pleasant feeling in her stomach when she realised that she was going to spend the evening with Scotty. She felt agitated about the fact that he had been so bold to invite himself over. But she realised that he knew her well enough to know that if he hadn't taken his chance now, he probably wouldn't have gotten an other chance anytime soon. He also knew that when she didn't want something, she wasn't shy of saying no. So when she tried to change the subject instead of declining his offer for pizza and a movie, he must have know she was willing to spend the evening with him. Lilly smiled when she started talking about the case.

"I agree about the fact that Mandy is hiding something, but maybe if we ask Amber's mother we would get some more information." Lilly replied deciding that she was going to concentrate on the case for the rest of the day. Tonight would be interesting to say the least, but she had to concentrate on her work now if she wanted to solve this case.