He was holding his breath as he knocked on her door. His mind was racing, "Why am I knocking on her door at midnight? It's about the case he reminded himself."
He was about to turn around when he heard the door open, "Agent Gideon" she responded. Her voice was excited and she followed quickly with, "Do we have a lead?"
He was speechless, here she was standing in front of him, in sweats and her hair in a pony-tail yet she was still the most beautiful woman he ever saw.
He sadly said, "No, not yet. I just couldn't sleep and was going to work on our plan for tomorrow, but I just wanted to check in on you and see if you were ok. This case has us all upset."
She was touched she thought to herself, "He was thinking about me."
She told him to come in. As he followed her into the room he noticed she was still holding onto Justin's teddy bear. She watched his gaze; she held up the bear and replied, "I was hoping he would help me sleep."
He nodded his head he knew what she was saying.
She asked him, "Well since you're here, do you want to work on our game plan for tomorrow?"
"Yes, if you don't mind," he replied. He thought to himself, "Well so far so good, she doesn't seem to be mad, and she hasn't kicked me out of her room."
With out even thinking she grabbed the maps he was carrying, and spread them across the bed. She was sprawled out studying them.
He on the other hand was studying her. His mind raced, "God, she is killing me."
After a few minutes she looked over towards him, she noticed he was staring at her. This made her blush uncontrollably and he noticed.
"Sorry, I just want to find that little boy." She needed to distract herself from the fact that Jason Gideon was in her hotel room. Case or not she was alone with him and this was starting to drive her crazy.
Two hours later, they managed to figure out all the routes and divided them up amongst the agents and the available officers. They seemed to work it out that they would be paired together in the morning. Neither one realizing it was on purpose as far as they were concerned.
"There was nothing more they could do tonight, at least case wise…"she thought.
Then she had an idea. Little did she know he had the same one.
At the same time both of them said, "Want to order room service? I am starving."
The both laughed at what just happened, and it seemed to lighten the mood.
She placed an order for coffee and pancakes. As she hung up the phone, she realized that they were alone and not talking about the case. "Emily don't let this go to your head. You're both being friendly. There is no way this will turn into anything."
He too was antsy, "I am alone with Emily in her hotel room, and we have done what we can with the case. Now what?"
She stood up and said to him, "Food should be here in a half hour."
He smiled, thinking to himself, "Well old man it's now or never!"
He said, "Good, in the mean time we can play 20 questions.
She looked at him laughing and said, "Profile the profiler?"
He nodded. She thought "this could be interesting."
She hopped up on the bed sat Indian style and beamed, "Only if I get to go first!"
He agreed. "Tell me a secret the rest of the team doesn't know about you?" she asked.
He coyly replied, "Then it wouldn't be a secret, would it?" She thought "Is he trying to flirt with me?" She wasn't sure if it was because she was tired or if in her head she wanted to flirt with him, she brazenly took the pillow and threw it at him.
He looked and said "Well now missy, you will learn two secrets, one I am a good cook."
He stood up with the pillow, walked toward her. "Is he mad at me she wondered?"
He took the pillow and hit her with it, as he continued "The other is I am a mean pillow fighter."
Before they both knew it they were swinging at each other and laughing the whole time.
They barley heard the knock at the door. "Room service!"
He dropped the pillow and went to the door. She couldn't help but stare at him.
"What the hell" She thought to herself and as he returned with the tray of off as he passed her she took one last swing at him and hit him in the ass.
He turned raised his eyebrows and laughed, "You will pay for that sometime! But for now let's eat."
That bit of silliness did them wonders and made them work up an appetite.
After finishing their meal he said, "Well I have to get going, what would the team think if they found us in a hotel room together?" She laughed thinking to herself, "To hell with the team. You can stay in my hotel room anytime."
She followed him to the door. He looked her straight in the eye he could see she was looking right back, he took this a small sign and figured if this didn't work he would blame it on the case and lack of sleep.
He opened the door and said to her, "After this case is done, I am cooking you dinner, so we can finish our game of 20 questions."
She blushed and she didn't care. She replied, "You're on! Oh… and Gideon I'll bring the whipped cream… that's my secret."
His mouth opened he didn't know what to say. He winked at her and she began to close the door. He blocked her and pulled her into him and said, "I don't care what the other's think," as he held her face and kissed her. To his surprise, she didn't back away. She was kissing him back.
Just then both their cell phones went off.