I'm not entirely sure when court workers get back from Christmas vacation or even if they have Christmas vacation, well for this story they get Christmas off and start working again on the 26th.

Also, sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter up! For some reason I was having so much trouble writing it! So sorry that it's pretty lame. ~markaleen

Harry walks up to the table in the cafeteria. The rest of the group is sitting there.

"Hiya gang! How goes it?" he sits down.

Everyone says 'hi' back and say that they're all fine.

They all finish eating and they start heading to the court room except for Christine and Harry who both go to pull each other aside.

They say each others names at the same time, look at each other, both insist the other talks first.

Christine ends up being the first to speak.

"I was wondering if we could talk before session?" she was trying not to look him in the eye much.

"Sure." He says a bit nervously, "Let's go to my chambers."

IN HARRY'S CHAMBERS

Harry and Christine sit in Harry's chambers for a minute, then at the same time, "Look, I'm- What? You first. No, you."

There's a brief pause.

Finally Harry says, "Miss Sullivan… Christine, I'm real sorry 'bout the other night…"

"No, don't be! I'm sorry, if I wasn't so hopelessly romantic this wouldn't have happened." And if we had locked the door- Wait, what are you thinking? It was just a little kiss! It's not like this is the first time you've done this anyways! Well… it's the first time you've ever been caught…

Caught? You make it sound like you were doing something illegal! It's not illegal to kiss a judge... is it?

Harry spoke, somewhat startling Christine because she was deep in thought, "Well, I do take some responsibility, I was the one who said 'hey look what we're sitting under' I also hung it there. Well, I hadn't really planned on it being more than decoration." Although this wasn't bad…necessarily…

"Well, I was the one who couldn't help herself and gave into-" she stopped herself right there. She didn't even want to think the rest of what she was about to say nevermind say it out loud… and to Harry! Oh boy, nice going Christine... you know you're lucky you caught yourself this time... next time someday you're going to blurt something out and really regret it! You need to learn to think before you speak! I just REALLY hope he isn't going to say-

"Gave into what?"

"Nothing…"

He said it.

They stand in silence for a moment.

Christine broke the silence, "So what are we going to do?"

"What are we going to do about what?"

"This whole thing!"

"What whole thing?"

Christine starting to get annoyed, "Oh come on Harry, you know what whole thing… the kiss…"

"Oh…" he kind of knew what 'thing' she was talking about but sometimes her wondered… No Harry… don't think it. It will just make things harder for the both of you. "I'm not sure…" he suddenly remembers that this isn't the first time this has happened. "Well, wait a minute… It's not like this is the first time that we've… well, you know." He was never really comfortable when these talks came up. "There was the mistletoe that one year when we were snowed in because of the blizzard, and then the next year the collard greens that Buddy hung up..." Come to think of it... I'm always the one who pressures her into it... oh great! She probably thinks I'm some... I don't know... some... pusher into uncomfortable situations...

Christine most certainly knew… Yeah... nice memories... when no one walked in. We could enjoy the moment then get on with our lives without a second thought...

Well... maybe there was a second thought.

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop thinking of this! You're just going to get yourself into more situations like this where you can't control you're-

What is this! Do I need to think before I think!

After she had her little moment in her head, she remembered that she was in the middle of a conversation with Harry. "I know that. But this is the first time that anyone's seen us… or even knew about it…"

"True…" I liked it better when no one walked in.

Another moment of silence.

"Well, I think our best bet is to do what we usually do, pretend that nothing happened and that nobody saw… or found out…"

Christine nodded in agreement and they both left Harry's chambers then headed too the court room to start this evening's session.

That's it, pure and simple, go on with our lives as if it was just any regular day. This will be a piece of cake.

Won't it?