A/N: Here it is guise, the last chapter! To be perfectly honest this one is my favorite of all five. Thank you so much for all the reviews, views, favorites, and follows! I can't even believe it. So read on, I hope you enjoy it! xD
Sharon was in her office, blinds drawn, organizing and spot checking the paperwork, signing where needed. Another successfully closed case. Her office door was open, so she could hear the chatter between her detectives and lieutenants. It sounded that they were going to go out to get drinks.
She heard Sykes say, "Maybe you can invite Sherri, Lt. Flynn."
"It didn't exactly work out with us." Sharon couldn't see his face but she was 99% sure that he was pouting.
"I'm sorry. She was really pretty, kinda looked like Captain Raydor if you ask me." She sounded like she was pondering the fact.
Then there was a strangled groan that could only have come from Provenza. "I need a drink, in fact let's all go out for drinks. Now."
There was a general agreement and Sharon could hear them shuffling to leave. Sharon stared sightlessly at the papers in front of her. Did Sherri really look like her? They were broken up. A little flutter in Sharon's stomach betrayed her pleasure at the news. They were still just friends though, who apparently didn't share important life events like girlfriends and break ups. Or divorces, Sharon's thoughts went to the envelope in her drawer, full of signed divorce paperwork that needed to be delivered to Gavin to file.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the entrance of Lt. Provenza. "I don't know if you heard but we're going out to celebrate a job well done. If you would like to come along."
Sharon smiled. "Yes I will. I just need to finish these last few things and I will meet you there. Same place right?"
"Yep." And he was out the door. "Flynn you coming?"
"Huh, yeah, I'll see you guys there. I need to finish up some stuff."
Provenza grumbled. "Yeah sure. See you there."
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Sharon signed her last document and was putting it away in the "Give to Taylor" pile when Andy came into her office.
"Sharon, can we talk?"
She looked up, he must have left his jacket at his desk because he was only in his unbuttoned vest and dress shirt, tie loose around his neck, his shirt sleeves rolled up, his hands stuffed into his pockets. She had never seen him so sexy ruffled before. She realized that she needed to stop looking him up and down and answer him. "Sure." She cringed when her voice went up an octave, it sounded breathy even to her ears.
He looked at her like she was growing a third eye. "Um, you didn't hear what Sykes said did you?" One hand came up to scrub the back of his head.
"That I looked like Sherri." She laughed flailing her arm in what she hoped looked like dismissal and not awkward flailing. She didn't think she pulled it off.
"Yeah that. Thing is..." He stalled, fighting himself. "Thing is, she wasn't very far off."
"Andy." She felt like she pushed all the air out of her body by saying his name.
"I like you a lot. A lot more than for just being friends with you."
She thought back three weeks, then farther back, to dinners, dancing, and visits with his family. A light bulb went off. "You never told Nicole that we weren't dating. How long did you plan on keeping that up?"
"Forever if I could."
She stood up, crossing around her desk. "Andy. What did you expect to happen?"
"I don't know. I just know that I really liked dinner with you, that you like chai in the afternoon instead of coffee, that you laugh when we're together and it lights you up in a way that I have never seen you with anyone else ever, that you wear a certain skirt when you're feeling low and sometimes it feels like you wear it just so you can catch me staring at your legs, and that whenever I see you staring at the murder board, tapping that marker to your lips, I want to kiss you stupid."
She blinked slowly, doe eyes wide in disbelief. Andy could tell she was searching for something to distance herself from the conversation, but she wasn't placing the desk between them. "What about Sherri?"
He dropped his head, a mirthless laugh puffing out between his lips. Making eye contact he said, "I'm an idiot." He picked up steam, talking in a way that might lead to another fainting incident, "And you're perfect, and always called me friend, and our dinners are never dates. I was pretty sure you didn't see me that way and I met Sherri at a bar with Provenza and she was sweet and sometimes if she tilted her head a certain way she looked like you. But she wasn't you, at all and it was horrible and a car wreck. And I'm a huge idiot." He dropped his head.
She stepped closer to him placing a hand on the lapel of his vest. "You are an idiot." Then she smiled, not that he could see it. "But you're also sweet, thoughtful, trustworthy, you make me laugh so much. Like I haven't in so long. You pull out my chair for me, when you stare at my legs it makes me feel twenty years old again, and you do this thing with your hair that makes me want to run my fingers through it."
By the end of her little speech he was looking at her again, smiling as wide as she was. "Yeah?"
She nodded. "Yeah."
Her other hand caught his other lapel and pulled her to him. Her lips pressing hard into his. His hands immediately went to her hips pushing her back into her desk. When they bumped into it, Sharon broke the kiss and giggled. He chuckled with her briefly before lifting her onto the desk, kissing her again. Her hands snuck up into his hair pulling him closer, needing to close even the tiniest space between them.
Sharon didn't know how much time had passed when her phone rang. Sharon pulled away breathing heavily, reaching behind her for her phone.
"It's Provenza."
Andy dropped his head to her shoulder, laughing quietly.
She was still a little breathless when she answered. "Hello?"
Andy could barely hear Provenza tell her that they finally got a table.
"Okay, I just finished my paperwork." Her voice hitched when Andy started kissing her neck.
His laugh was muffled by her hair when he heard Provenza ask if she was okay.
Sharon tweaked his ear, while saying. "Yes, everything is fine. I will be there soon."
Andy wasn't paying attention to what Provenza was saying any more.
"Uh-huh..." She squirmed when he found that spot behind her ear. She kept her voice surprisingly even. "Yes, he'll be joining us." She hung up. "Andy you're horrible."
He looked her in the eye. "I was enjoying myself." He broke out his boyish smirk. It was even more effective than the puppydog pout.
She giggled again, happiness bubbling up from her core spreading a warm feeling through her whole body. "We can't do that while I'm on the phone again. Provenza is suspicious."
"He's always suspicious." He took his thumb, wiping away some of her smeared lipstick.
Sharon laughed again. She twisted around finding her tissue box and wiping away the lipstick she left on Andy. "We're a bit of a mess." She giggled again. "Why don't we go make ourselves presentable and meet back here in five?"
He gave her a sloppy salute. "Yes ma'am." With one last peck on the lips he was gone.
There it is all done...but then people got me thinking about things. So there might be a Provenza reacts epilogue coming soon...but for now I'll leave it as marked complete because the story is done. Until I post that epilogue, maybe by the end of the week. So leave a little review and tell me what you think! :)
