A/N :Heeeeey, chapter four is FINALLY up ! Okay I'm not gonna talk for hours as I usually do. Thanks everyone for reading, your reviews make me soooo happy and they tell me if you like it or not, if I have to continue with this fic or not, so please keep reviewing :D.
Special thanks to Laura, Alex, Emma and Lauréline, for correcting the fic and giving me ideas :P By the way, if you have any suggestion, any idea, I'd be pleased to hear it. Thanks again for reading :) You guys rock :P
PS : they might be mistakes, sorry.
Annie
Tony and Michelle had been at David's for almost two hours now. They were both having a good time, not necesserally always together but a big part of the evening was spent in company of the other.
"Hey !" she said when she reached him at the buffet. "You okay ?"
"Yeah ! This is fun ! You ?"
"It's great ! I went to dance earlier, it was so funny I felt like I was a teenager again !"
Tony smiled brightly. Michelle poured herself a glass of wine and took a sip. After a few seconds she noticed Tony was staring at her :
"What is it ?"
"Nothing" He waved it away.
"What ?" She smiled and grabbed his elbow to make him face her.
"Nothing it's just ..." He was almost whispering. "You look beautiful"
She said nothing and let him go, but he kept staring at her like he could not take his eyes off of her.
"Thanks" She said, almost whispering too. "I'll be right back" She smiled and turned away. Tony watched her go as he took a sip of his drink. He sighed almost unnoticeably as she vanished in the corridor.
"Tony ?!" someone asked.
He turned around to see who had called him, and then exclaimed :
"Kyle !"
"Wow it's been so long !!"
They shook hands.
"So uh ..." Kyle took a sip of his own drink before continuing :
"What have you been up to now that you left the Marines ?"
"Uh ... I've been the head of CTU Los Angeles for ... three weeks now" he said.
"Wow !! That's great !"
"Yeah ... it happened the day of the bomb ... anyway. What about you ?"
"Actually I went back to New York ... my girlfriend, Francesca, lives there and she really didn't wanna move to LA so I went to live with her ... but we came here to see my parents for a little week ... she's right over there"
Kyle indicated a tall blonde woman who was laughing with two others women, Tony knew them but not their names.
"And you, who did you come with ?"
"Uh ... someone working with me at CTU ... her name's Michelle. But-uh ... I think she went to the toilets" He grinned.
As Tony looked for Michelle, he realized she was no longer in the toilets, but talking with a man Tony recognized right away. It was Tom, the tech guy who had asked Michelle to accompany him to the party. They were both laughing like children.
Kyle interrupted Tony's daydreaming and said :
"So ... what is it like to be the head of the well-known Counter Terrorist Unit ?"
Tony stopped looking at Michelle and turned to face Kyle :
"Uh ... it's a lot of work. I mean I didn't know being the head of CTU meant spending half of your day on the phone. But I like it" he smiled.
Kyle laughed. Tony slightly looked back at Michelle. He didn't like the way Tom was looking at her. Obviously, he was flirting with her. Then Tom started tickling Michelle to make her laugh even more.
"Are you and Michelle together ?" Kyle spoke out.
"Uh ..." he looked back at his old friend. "Not really ... it's our first date actually ... although it's not even a real date.
"Oh ! That's sweet. She's really beautiful" He smiled.
"Yeah" Tony smiled back.
He turned his face for the twentieth time. He frowned at what he saw. Tom had placed his hand on Michelle's hip and was whispering things in her ear. He softly pulled back, but left his hand on Michelle.
"I'm sorry-uh ... I'll be right back" Tony bursted out and made his way to Michelle and Tom. When he reached them, he put a hand on her shoulder and faced him :
"Excuse me"
Then, he pulled Michelle against him and softly placed his lips on hers.
Michelle was nicely shocked, but after a few seconds she joined and placed her hands around Tony's neck, intensifying the kiss. Even though he was well aware that every single person in the room was watching them, he put his hands around her waist, pulling her closer to him. They kissed until they couldn't breathe anymore, then they pulled away.
The room was in total silence, except for the music. Michelle was looking at her feet, ashamed. Tony looked up at everyone with an uneasy look. Suddenly, David, who was standing just near the hifi, bursted out laughing at Tony's face. Some people joined him, even Tony, and Michelle were just slightly smiling. The people started talking again, and quickly no one was staring at Tony or Michelle anymore. She looked up at Tony with shiny eyes.
He reached for her hand and pulled her into the corridor that led to the toilets, and stopped into a corner so no one could see them :
"I'm sorry. I just ... I mean he was there and he was ... flirting with you and then ... and then I realized how much I want you to be mine" He whispered, staring at his feet.
Michelle smiled brightly. She took his face in her hands and kissed him passionately. It was more romantic that the other kisses, but sensual as always. When they broke apart, Tony said :
"Maybe we should get back ..."
She smiled brightly :
"Do you wanna get back ?"
" ... No"
She pulled him closer and kissed him once more. The kiss seemed to last forever, but the two of them found it way too short when they had to break apart to breathe.
After a few seconds of staring at each other, they considered getting back where everyone was. They danced together for the rest of the evening. They were both tired of dancing but it felt so good to be with each other, to feel the other, they couldn't help but dancing again and again. It was total happiness. His hands around her waist, hers on his shoulders, smiling as much as they could because it was perfect. It couldn't be more perfect. It was all they had ever wanted since they had met. To be together. Just to look in the other's eyes and see what they both wanted, what everyone wanted. Because Tony and Michelle were so in love with each other that it was written in their eyes.
Michelle closed her eyes as Tony gently pressed his lips on her forehead, and rested her head on his shoulder. They stood like that until they realized that people were leaving. Tony kissed Michelle and took her hands in his, stroking them softly. She wrapped her arms around his waist and kissed him again, then pulled away. They walked hand in hand towards the door and took their belongings, said their goodbies to the few people they knew as well as David, thanking him again for inviting them, and walked out the door.
(Anyone want a fifth chapter :D ?)