** For authors notes, disclaimer etc. see chapter 1

Car trouble 4/4

"If you say I told you I swear what happened earlier will definitely be a one off." He's looking way too smug right now and it's getting on my nerves. So we did have a wasted journey the wife gave us nothing new no matter how much we badgered, cajoled and generally threatened her with an obstruction of justice charge she stuck to her story word for word. A story we both know is a crock of crap and yet there's not a single thing we can do about it.

"It was worth a try Sandra but she was always going to stick to him like glue. I told you earlier some women don't know when to quit and admit their partner is a dick head and complete waste of oxygen." When he sees a woman clearly making a mistake because she still has faith in the tosser she's chosen to spend her life with it always puts him in a mood and this is no different. At least we're back in the car now and on our way home, what's going to happen when we get there I'm still not sure though. What happened earlier was amazing and something I desperately want to be more than a distraction from our location. I want to believe it when he told me he loved me and I want this to be the start of something new and fantastic between us but I need to hear him say it again.

"Yeah I suppose, well let's hope the car makes it home without deciding to strand us in the middle of nowhere again." She's nervous I can hear it in her voice. I just don't know yet if she's nervous because she regrets what we did and said or she's worried I do.

"I don't know even getting stranded didn't turn out so bad the last time did it?"

"I don't think so. Actually I think it ended pretty well do you want to…." Damn we get to the stage where we're talking about it and the bloody phone has to go and ring. Now Brian's voice is filling the car telling us that his football match was great but he's been thinking about the case he has come ideas to run past us in the morning. It's taking every ounce of my self-control not to tell him to bugger off. If she stops now and doesn't finish that sentence once he hangs up I will kill him. We've spent eight years talk about how we feel, now we've done something about it then had to go back to work almost immediately and I want to know that it means for us. She could be about to say it was great and everything but we shouldn't do it again and that's something I really don't want to hear.

"Brain can't this wait till the morning?" I can tell he's trying to keep his tone level but he's one step away from hitting the disconnect button on the dash board. Thankfully it doesn't come to that because Brian has finally hung up and now there's silence. I know he's waiting for me to finish what I had started saying it's hanging in the air between us so thick I could reach out and touch it.

"What do you want; I mean where do we go from here?" Ok I know that wasn't exactly what he wanted to hear but I'm not doing all the work here.

"Where do you want to go from here?" Now this is just getting ridiculous we're like teenagers instead of supposedly mature grown-ups and we're about to hit the point where a decision has to be made about whether I drop him off home and drive away or we spend the rest of the evening together and see if we have something here.

"I want to talk about if this can work. I don't want to go home alone and spend the night staring at the ceiling wondering what we've done and what it means." At last a straight answer from her about something I thought we were just going to talk ourselves round in circles until we pulled up outside my place. "Will you come home with me?"

"You really need to ask?" She's glanced at me from the road to me and is clearly thinking I've just asked the most ridiculous question in the world. "Don't look at me like hat I think I made it plainly obvious earlier how I feel about you. I would have thought that meant it could and should be taken for granted that I will go anywhere with you, you just have to say the word."

"Well I thought I'd made it pretty clear too but we both said it wasn't exactly how we imagined telling each other how we felt and making love for the first time. I needed to know you hadn't just got caught up in the moment I didn't want you to…I wanted to give you an out if you felt you…"

"I don't need an out Sandra, after waiting this long for an "in" I don't care if I never have a way out of this again." We've pulled up outside her house and she's turned in the seat to look at me the small smile she's graced me with confirming everything I've said as it makes my heart race and my stomach flip. "I love you Sandra and if you let me when we get inside I'll show you how fantastic we can be together every time, not just in the heat of the moment in a car in the middle of the woods!"

"hey don't knock being stuck in the car in the middle of the woods." We've made it to my front door and he's pulled me through it pinning me against the wall inside as he kisses me again until I finally get him to let us both come up for air. "Without broken down cars and dark forests we'd never have got this far so it can't be all bad."

"True I'd still rather not find myself in that position again though. I much prefer kissing you here in the comfort of your house." The seriousness in his tone has made me laugh again as I take control of our kiss this time letting myself forget about everything else. We will make this work, we'll do everything to make each other happy. When being together feels this good no matter what the location how could we not.