AN: So just like the other chapters this is a one shot moment in time in Natalie and Adrian's relationship, in my head the relationship would have started the way it did in my other story but you don't need to have read that for this just know that Adrian and Natalie started dating about seven months after he solved Trudy's case and this would be how Leland could have discovered that they were dating (instead of the way that I had in my story)

2:43 AM

"Hello?" Natalie murmured into the phone. She had been sleeping peacefully and hadn't bothered to look at the caller id when the ringing phone woke her up.

"Hi Natalie, sorry to wake you."

"Captain?" Natalie asked confused.

"Yeah, it's me, I am sorry but the deputy mayor is dead looks like it could be an accident or suicide, but who knows. Anyway, the mayor and governor want Monk on the case so I wanted to get him here as soon as possible."

"Where are you."

"His house it's 18 Vinton Ave," the captain let her know.

"What's going on?" Leland barely heard through the phone. It wasn't Natalie's voice, it was someone else that was there with her, a male someone.

"We have a case we have to go," Leland heard again, it was muffled as if Natalie had poorly covered the microphone on her cell. Leland knew he must have misheard her, she said we have to go, surly she meant I have to go. He heard the male voice again but couldn't make out any of the words that were said.

"Captain," Natalie's voice was back to normal, "I will go as fast as I can, but that is fifteen minutes away the soonest we can be there is in half an hour."

"Oh, um that's fine Natalie, I will see you both then bye." Leland quickly hung up before Natalie could respond or he could say anything stupid. Then he took a breath and gathered his thoughts, maybe his mind was playing tricks on him it was two in the morning. Natalie was fifteen minutes away and she said she would be here in half an hour. But Monk lived ten minutes away in the opposite direction, so Leland knew even if she just got out of bed and into the car now it would take her longer than that to pick Monk up and get here. Could he have been the voice…no that was absurd, Natalie just didn't think it out with the timing because she was still mostly asleep.

Twenty-eight minutes later, Natalie's car pulled up with Monk in the passenger seat. Leland checked the time on his phone, and then the time of the call then repeated this twice more in disbelief as the pair walked over to him. He didn't say anything to them about it now, because they had a death to investigate, and really what could he say. Adrian was able to conclude in half an hour that the death was a suicide and although forensics would still need to go over the scene it now looked like the case would quickly be closed. Just before four in the morning Natalie and Adrian were getting ready to leave and Leland was walking with them back to their car. "Thanks again for coming down here in the middle of the night."

"No problem," Natalie said, "but I don't plan on us coming down to the station for any paperwork until at least noon now."

"Fair enough," the captain agreed with a chuckle. On their way back to her car they hit a patch of gravel, Natalie and Leland continued to walk directly through it but of course Adrian stopped and took the long way all the way around on the sidewalk leaving the two of them alone. "Thank you for making good time getting here too."

"Like I said it was only fifteen minutes away," Natalie tried to stifle a yawn as she spoke.

"Yes, but I was thinking about it and Monk lives south of you, doesn't he?"

"Yeah," Natalie said casually trying to not let on that she just realized how they had slipped up.

"So, it's kind of amazing that you were able to get up, get changed, contact him and get him to get ready, drive ten minutes south and then twenty-five north all in half an hour," Leland said with a smirk.

"I am pretty amazing," Natalie agreed knowing that they were now officially caught.

"You know when I called before," Leland added, "I thought I heard a man there with you."

"You did?"

"The voice sounded so familiar," Leland looked pointedly at Adrian who was almost to the car now himself.

"Just one of those voices I guess," Natalie said, just as Adrian caught up with them at the car.

"What?" Adrian asked, having no idea what their conversation was about.

"I just said you had one of those voices," Natalie let him know.

"One of what voices?"

"Don't worry about it," Natalie took his hand in hers and Adrian's head immediately shot up looking at the captain and then back down at their linked hands. "Don't worry about that either, he already knows."

"Congratulations Monk," Leland said, "on solving the case quickly and well everything," he added with a smirk.

"Wait, what?"

"Come on, I'll tell you on our way home," Natalie surprised both men as she leaned up and kissed Adrian's cheek before letting go of his hand and walking around to the driver's side. "Goodnight captain," Natalie called as she got into the car. Adrian eventually snapped back to attention, his face turning read as he mumbled something that could have been a goodbye before getting into the passenger seat.

"Well I'll be damned," Leland said to himself as he watched their car pull away. He stood in that spot until he could no longer see their tail lights before returning to monitor the scene. Even though the case had been straight forward, it was definitely an interesting night.