A/N: ABC Owns Them
Chapter 3
Natalie had so much fun playing pool with him that she was now wearing a smile as bright as his if not brighter. He had just won his first game against her and he let out a huge scream when he did and she laughed even harder.
"Its about time you won one, I'm exhausted trying so hard to lose" she said joking and he laughed with her. John placed his stick on the wall, and she did too, she glanced at her watch and noticed the time, it was after midnight, she had class at eight tomorrow.
'Its late I've gotta go, thanks for the game and for the soda" she told him as she started to walk away, he followed her outside
"Wait" he told her as he tried to catch up to her
"It was fun wasn't it? I mean... I had fun, how about you? You did look like you had fun" he asked her and then he didn't let her answer his question.
"Do you always do that?"
'Do what?"
"Ask someone a question and then just go on and on talking, you didn't even give me a chance to answer and I'm not really sure that's a good trait for a detective" she told him as they walked to her car.
"Sorry" he told her with a small smile as they approached her car. They stood silent and finally he said something
"So, did ya have fun?" he asked and she laughed, she shook her head yes knowing it was probably the most fun she's had in a long time.
"I really did have fun, it was fun to just concentrate on the game rather than the score," she said with a sadness to her eye's
"Well, I've gotta go, gotta get up early tomorrow" she told him as she turned to her car door, she opened it and was starting to get in when he touched her shoulder and turned her. She looked at him for a minute this guy, this detective, he was older so much older than she was, what could he possibly want from her. She watched him get tongue-tied and then he tried to speak, he walked away from her a few feet.
'I..I.. think it may have drank too much, need to walk a straight line to see if I'm able to drive" he told her as she got a confused look on her face till he walked that straight line and took her lips in a heated kiss. His hands came behind her head and tangled in her hair and his mouth devoured hers with deepening kisses, which she wasn't protesting to.
After about ten minute they were both breathing heavy and needed to take a breath, they pulled apart and looked at each other, looked inside the other thru their eyes. They heard someone approach them and clear their throat as they removed their gaze from the other.
"Natty, baby cakes what's goin on?" Roxy asked, as she couldn't stand straight, she practically threw her body on to John's and he caught her before she hit the ground.
" Roxy you're drunk, Let me take you home" she told her as she tried to get her out of John's arms to help her in the car.
"No, I'm not drunk and Billy's here, he's taking a piss, he's coming back, we gonna get more to drink and have a little fun"
"Lets go home tonight without Billy" Natalie told her and she again tried with John's help this time to get her in her car.
"Nope, I need me some Billy, hey, who's the heater?" Roxy asked and Natalie shook her head.
"Wait, he's a cop natty run baby run, we gotta run," she said making a complete fool out of herself. Natalie put a hand on her shoulder and kept her in place.
"Roxy, we don't have to run, he's alright"
"I raised you better than that, you know how to spot a pig when you see them, what the hell is wrong with you, he wants you to sleep with him for protection like the others" she said and John looked at her, she wasn't embarrassed till this point.
"I ain't sleeping with anybody, I'm taking you home!" Natalie told her angry this time, she almost had her in the car when Billy walked over
"Hey, we're gonna have more drinks or what?" Billy said as he grabbed Roxy out of Nat's car and drug her inside leaving an exhausted and upset Natalie feeling as if she needed to explain something to John. She turned to him and his smile from earlier was gone, he seemed disgusted and she knew why, she didn't even want to explain it to him. She didn't say a word and got in her car, she was about to pull out of the parking lot when she saw him get in her car.
"What are you doing?" she asked him
"I need a ride home I'm drunk" he told her serious
"No, you're not, what are you doing?"
"Oh, I lost my keys, can I crash at your place" he told her and she became more confused
"No you didn't"
"Yep I did," he told her playfully as he made a motion with his hands for her to start driving, Natalie hadn't cracked a smile this whole time and she was kind of enjoying his playfulness
Natalie fought it for a few more minutes, her smile, she wanted so much to smile and was fighting it, when she heard him speak
"Don't fight it, you have a beautiful smile" he told her and she let it go, she started her car, they left his at the bar in the lot and she drove to her apartment.
They arrived at the apartment in silence when she turned off the car, she turned to him.
"What are you doing? Cause I know you aren't dumb and you know you're not getting any from me, so what's going on?" her bluntness caught him off guard and he wasn't sure why. She was pretty much a straight shooter to speak; there was no beating around the bush with her, he out of nowhere smiled.
"I wasn't looking for anything, just had fun with you tonight... you're very interesting, I wouldn't mind it if we became friends, I know for me it would be nice to have someone to talk to once in awhile" He told her so sweetly that she almost felt as if she was going to melt, he seemed so sincere, and a friend was definitely something she could use.
"So, so what do you say?" he asked her and she smiled at him.
She leaned in real close to him, close towards his ear as if she was going to tell him a secret when she turned her mouth and kissed him. They kissed for a few minutes but then broke apart.
"Okay Friends" she told him getting serious.
"Yeah, friends, just friends cause you're just a kid" he said with a slight grin.
"Okay, what ever you say but. but I bet you don't no many kids that make you feel like I did when I kissed you" she told him with a glimmer in her eye. He smiled at her and shook her head, she was damn amazing.
