BECAUSE IT'S NEVER TOO LATE, JUST GET UP AND START ALL OVER AGAIN!

Brooke groaned at the sound of her alarm going off, she looked over and realized it was quarter to five.

She jumped out of bed jumped in the shower and made sure she hurried up taking only 15 minutes she wrapped a towel in her hair threw on a pink bathrobe that came to her knees and said "LOVE PINK" on the back. Then she heard a knock at the door.

As she opened the door she realized it was Criss.

"A little early aren't you?" she smiled

"Oh, well um..."

His eyes looked her up and down noticing how the tiny robe hugged her perfect body she noticed but just smiled.

"Oh well I wanted to tell you to wear something warm, but not too warm maybe jeans and a light sweater " he tried not to sound to controlling

"Why where are we going?" she had one eyebrow raised

"That's for me to know and you to find out" he winked then walked away

Oh he's so cute Brooke said to herself. She ran off dried and flat ironed her hair, still wearing the robe she went out and picked what she wanted to wear. She decided on dark jeans and a medium green and white sweater. She applied light make-up no cover up after all she really had nothing to cover up, light eyeliner, mascara and peach toned lip gloss and skin toned eye shadow that added a little shimmer.

7:35 and he still wasn't there but she had some time to herself and plopped on the couch not a minute later there was a knock on the door.

Criss stood there he was wearing a black t-shirt with some type of design on it with his chains and jeans with a plain black sweater.

"Hey you ready?" he sounded nervous

"Yah I just have to go grab my purse, you can come in" she smiled at him he flashed one back

He stood there not knowing what to say and just watched her as she ran up the stairs the loft type bedroom in her suite. Grabbing her purse she ran back down slipped on some shoes.

"Ready to go?" she said

"Yah come with me" he said holding out his hand



Brooke took his hand they both felt a sudden energy that rushed through their veins but both never said anything about it.

During dinner they talked about many things mostly about Criss' demonstrations and Brooke's job. Both were so interested in each other's lives, Criss was amazed about what she did and of course she was astonished by the life threatening stunts he pulled.

"So, why did you want me to wear warm clothes? Where are we going?" she asked

"Ah, that's the surprise you'll just have to wait" he winked

After dinner they got into Criss' escalade much similar to Brooke's but hers were full swabs, gloves and fingerprint powder. They drove for about twenty minutes until the car stopped and Brooke looked to see an arena, it was a quad pad two were free and two had hockey games going on. Criss had rented out one rink that they had all too themselves.

"This is nice but I don't have skates" she said
"That's what you think" he pointed over to the corner there were a pair of figure skates for her and hockey skates for Criss.

"So, can you skate?" he asked her
"Yah, can you?" she replied

"Um, yah I can but I can't do it without falling on my ass at least once" he laughed slightly

She tied up her skates and fixed Criss' because he didn't tie them tight enough.

"So do you want me to help you or will you are okay?" she smiled

"Maybe, you should hold my hands that ways if I go down you come with me" he smiled

"Okay, but you're going to at least try to skate by yourself "she skated quickly over to the other side of the rink "Skate over her and then I'll help you"

"Why do you have to be so meaning to me?" he laughed and struggled to get to the other side of the rink by the time he reached the centre she decided to skate there and meet him.

"So let's get this straight you've been burned alive, blown up, walked on glass but you can't skate?" she said smiling
"Exactly, so you going to help me or what?" he smiled

"Well, I was thinking about it but thought it would be funnier too see you fall on your ass" she smiled as she skated away



Criss took one step and fell flat on his but.

"See what you're doing to me" he yelled and smiled

Brooke skated over to him turning her skates to the side forcing flakes of ice on him
She bent down holding her hand out and he took it smiling

"Okay now that I'm stable tell me more about yourself, you said you've moved around a lot so where have you lived?" he asked making conversation

"Okay, well I was born in Italy and when I was 5 and my brother was 1we moved to Beverly Hills so when I was 13 we moved to New York, then when I was 15 we moved to Miami then when I was 16 we moved to Vegas, then my parents got divorced so I moved to Beverly Hills with my dad and my mom moved to Orange County"

"Wow, well I lived in New York then moved to Vegas" he smiled still holding on to her hands, they were so soft and he never wanted to let go. He just stared at her smiling she was beautiful.

"So, you think you can skate by yourself now? Brooke said starting to let go of his hands but he surprised her and he pulled her closer into him hugging her close.

"You feel cold, you want my sweater?" Criss asked unzipping his sweater

"Um, sure I guess" she spun around and he slipped his sweater on her. It was baggy on her because she was thin but it was so warn and smelt amazing.

"Are you sure you won't be cold?" she asked looking concerned
"Yah I was getting kind of hot with it on anyway "he shrugged and smiled grabbing her hands again in the state of almost falling

Brooke suddenly heard her phone ring it was a basic ring so she knew it was something to do with work.

"Ugh, hold on I have to get that sorry" she smiled apologetically and skated over bent down grabbed her phone out of her purse, of course it was Greg, why was he even calling he knew she had a date but maybe it was important so she picked it up.

"Hello" Brooke said trying not to sound too pissed as she looked back at Criss standing there trying not to fall.
"Hey Brooke, we need you in here ASAP murder at the Henderson Quad Pad; Hockey murder meet me there in 25" he said not catching her angry tone

"I told you I was going out tonight so I can't meet you here" she said sounding angrier in each word
"Wait, you're already there is that where you're hot date took you?" he asked


"Yah, so what's it too you?" she questioned

"Well, I'll come in and talk to you for a bit" he chuckled

"Oh, no you won't, even if we are in the same building you're going to stay away from me agreed?" she said sternly

"Yah, but can I at least say hi if I see you?" he asked sweetly

"Sure, but stay away" she couldn't help but to agree with his sweetness

Brooke pressed end on her phone turned around to see Criss looking kind of upset. She skated over to him standing right in front of him she was only a few inches shorter than him.

"You have to go don't you" he looked so upset
"Well, I told you I was on call, and you'll never guess where the murder is" She tried to cheer him up

"I have no idea you tell me" he looked sad
"Apparently it was right here something happened during the hockey game I guess..."
"So you have to leave me now, wait how come we didn't hear anything?" he was curious

"First I'm not leaving you I wouldn't do that it's my night off and they can't force me to go in and I'm guessing we didn't hear anything because we're basically cut off from the hockey side other than that glass window"

"So who was one the phone?" he wondered
"Oh, just some guy I work with he wanted me to work the case with him but obviously I said no and he should be here soon and the chances that he'll come and talk to me are high so were going to screw with him okay?" she smiled

"And how are we going to do that?' he smiled cheering up
"Well, I'm pretty sure he's totally in love with me so when he walks in he's going to see something that will piss him off and hopefully he'll learn not to walk in on me on a date"

"And what exactly is he going to see?" he got closer to her their lips almost touching

"This" she wrapped her arms around his neck kissing him, she intended it to be a practice but he took it further, of course she didn't mind she was already falling for him. For what seemed to be forever they were making out. They stood there holding each other, Criss bent down for another kiss but Brooke released herself from his grip and skated around the rink faster than he'd ever seen anybody skate 

before.

"So you've skated before haven't you, like took lessons" he smiled

"Yah I took skating lessons when I was like four and did some speed skating and a little figure skating but quit because I didn't like the whole 'skin-tight outfits twirling around while everybody's watching you' thing" she was now skating backwards so she could face Criss

"Hey, I think those are the crime people now" he pointed to the glass window

"Yup and there's Greg" she pointed to the spiky haired man standing next to Catherine

Greg saw her and started to walk over to the window. When Brooke saw him she skated over to Criss who caught her spinning her around and kissed her as passionately as possible. She looked up and saw Greg's face drop.

"I just realized that they probably want to ask us questions you know like if we saw anything "she tried to explain

"But we didn't so..."he trailed off
"But they don't know that" she said just as Greg walked through the doors and right up to the side boards.

"Hey, can you guys come here for a second?" Greg shouted to them

Brooke took Criss' hands and pulled him with her and once arriving at the boards she faced Greg and Criss stood behind her and wrapped his hands around her waist resting his head on her shoulder .

Greg looked in fury, like he was about to rip Criss' head off.

Greg asked them some questions they didn't know anything.

Criss took her home or back to the hotel rather kissed her goodnight and left her to walk into her room

A/N: Wow, I'm so tired so I have like some pretty amazing ideas for future chapters so I'm just going to go ahead and skip ahead in their relationship a couple months for it to fit in.