Chapter Three - Falling, And Falling Fast

Jamie was laying in bed, she turned to look at her alarm clock, it had only just ticked over 3am. She had to be in at 8am, another five hours, and she knew she wasn't going to be able to sleep, every time she closed her eyes she saw them, she saw Flack's bright blue eyes. She sighed and pulled the covers over her head in frustration.

"Get a hold of yourself Jaime-Anne you've known him less than a day and your already losing sleep over him, this isn't healthy!"

Jamie always felt better once she had given herself a good talking to. It was one f her habits. Fed up of not being able to sleep Jamie got out of bed and walked into her living room, switched on the light and walked through to the kitchen and grabbed herself a can of coke and walked back over to her sofa, she sighed loudly and slouched on the sofa.

"I bet you he isn't having this problem."

Jamie got settled into a comfortable position and picked up her copy of The Da Vinci Code and carried on from where she left off, trying to push the thoughts of Flack out of her mind, she knew she would be calling Lindsay tomorrow and telling her everything.

But what Jamie didn't know, was that Flack was having the same problem.

Over in Flacks apartment he was laying in bed with his arms behind his head, he looked over at his alarm clock, it had only just gone past 3am, "This is going to be a long night."

Knowing that any chance of getting any sleep had passed the moment Jamie kissed him, he got up and headed to his living room. On the way through to the joining kitchen Flack turned the lights on and grabbed a chilled beer from his fridge, he knew that drinking more alcohol wasn't going to help but he didn't feel like anything else, but then again he and Jamie hadn't really drank an awful lot. Which he was thankful for, he didn't think he could handle their interaction if he knew she was off her face and probably wouldn't remember any of it!

He crashed onto his sofa and switched on the television, as per normal there wasn't much on at that time of the morning. He left it on some interactive game show, and he picked up his copy The Da Vinci Code and continued reading, this wasn't the normal type of book that he read but Stella had suggested them and he found them surprisingly good.

He began to get frustrated, he kept finding his mind wander to thoughts of Jamie and their kiss, and he had read and re read the same line in his book.

"Damn it Flack, what's wrong with you!"

Flack focused his eyes and tried to keep his focus on reading his book. He knew come tomorrow Danny would have questions.

Over in Lindsay's apartment, Lindsay and Danny were sleeping soundly, both were tired and had fallen fast asleep in each others arms, which is why being woken up by a telephone call and gone three-thirty in the morning will always go down well, which is exactly what happened.

RING RING

Danny and Lindsay stirred, both in a comfortable sleep.

RING RING

Danny opened his eyes slowly as he heard Lindsay groan and pick up the receiver.

"Hello?"

Danny grumbled to himself and rolled over.

"Lindsay, I'm sorry for waking you, I couldn't sleep."

Lindsay a little agitated.

"So that meant you had to call me? At just gone three-thirty!"

"I'm sorry, I really needed to talk to you, and besides you owe me for all the times you called me at ridiculous hours telling me how great Danny is!"

Lindsay sighed and laughed out loud, she looked over at Danny and smiled.

"Ok, give me a minute while I sort myself out, I will take this call in the living room, Danny's sleeping."

Within a couple moments, Lindsay was curled up on her sofa with the phone to her ear listening intently to Jamie.

"Ok, shoot, what's the problem?"

"Don, I cant stop thinking about him. After you left we stayed until closing and he walked me home, to my door in fact, we kissed, oh my god Lindsay the kiss, and then he asked me if I wanted to go out with him Friday night!"

Lindsay laughed quietly.

"I take it you said yes?"

"Of course I said yes, he's amazing Linds, I have only known him less than a day, but I cant stop thinking about him, him and those lips, Linds he is such a good kisser, it wasn't passionate or anything, just a you know the type I mean, don't you?"

"Yep, I know the one you mean, the kiss that gives promise of things to come, not to quick but just long enough to get the fact that your interested across, I've done that one on Danny."

"I thought you might have done. I was sitting here reading my book and I just kept reading the same line, that's when I knew I had to call you Linds, I cant wait to see him again, I told him I had to be at the lab for a meeting with Mac tomorrow and he said he would make sure he was there as often as he could be so that he could see me! Linds no-one has done that for me before, but I'm scared I've fallen for someone who doesn't feel the same, I doubt he's sitting up unable to sleep!"

Lindsay laughed and sighed down the phone.

"Jamie, I know Flack, and the way you two were last night, there isn't a doubt in my mind that he feels the same, and besides, if he says he is going to hang round the lab on the off chance he might catch a few moments with you, I think its safe to say he is feeling the same way. Does that help?"

Lindsay could hear Jamie sighing, she smiled at the thought of her best friend and colleague getting together, it also meant that she and Danny could double date with Jamie and Flack. The sound of Jamie's voice tore Lindsay away from her day dreaming.

"Linds? I know your right, you always are. All I can say is thank you for dragging me out tonight or last night whatever it was, I owe you big time!"

Lindsay laughed and smiled again.

"Look, we've both got work in the morning, try and get some sleep Jay, I know its going to be hard I was the same way with Danny, trust me he will be popping into your head when you least expect it, I'll see you tomorrow, yeah?"

"Sure thing, thanks for listening Linds, you've been a big help as always, see you later, bye."

"Bye."

With that Lindsay put the living room back where it was and walked to the kitchen, she reached for a glass and poured herself a glass of water, when she turned to walk back into the living room she nearly dropped the glass, stood in the doorway of the kitchen was a shirtless and sleepy Danny.

"Danny, you scared the hell out of me!"

Danny smirked.

"Sorry Montana, I could feel my ears burning, you weren't talking about me were you?"

Lindsay knew full well that Danny had probably heard her half of the conversation, she just shrugged and walked past him.

"What if I was, what are you going to do about it?"

Lindsay was now stood back in the bedroom, she had placed her glass on the dressing table, she was standing by the end of the bed with her hands on her hips waiting for Danny's comeback. As Danny walked back through the living room he made sure he turned the lights out, once he had done that he walked into the bedroom and stood opposite Lindsay and smiled in the way he always did, Lindsay hated it when he did that, it always made her melt, it didn't help that Danny knew that and always used it to his advantage.

Danny mimicked Lindsay's position, but he held his arms over his chest.

"I can think of ways Montana, and don't tempt me."

"Come on Danny, I'm a big girl, tell me, show me…what would you do about it?"

That's when he did it, he lunged and Lindsay and started chasing her around the bed, both laughing. When Danny caught Lindsay he threw her on the bed and straddled her and started tickling the shit out of her, Lindsay was laughing uncontrollably.

After play fighting for a couple minutes they both fell on the bed and curled up into each others arms.

"So what was that all about? Who calls at that time in the morning?"

"Jay, she cant stop thinking about Flack, you know what she is like, I swear this wasn't such a great idea, I'm not going to hear the end of it."

Danny laughed and kissed Lindsay on the forehead.

"She must have it bad."

Lindsay laughed.

"I think the same can be said for Flack."

TBC