PREVIOUSLY:
"What the fuck is going on here," a deep voice demands as there is a loud knock on the window.
"Oh fuck," Charlie says, her heart racing still racing with desire for Joey and now also with the fear at being caught.
"Fuck," Joey pulls her shirt on. Holding her hand up against the glare of the torch shining in, neither Joey nor Charlie are able to make out who it is.
"Well?" the voice demands again.
Joey's eyes narrow as she recognises something in the voice. "Georgie, you bitch," she yells as she throws the door open and climbs out of the car.
Watson stands there with a look of amusement on her face. "Sorry."
"You're not sorry at all," Joey accuses her.
She shrugs.
"God damn it Georgie, all I wanted was a little time alone with Charlie, is that too much to ask for."
"Come off it Joey, we both know that you would have done the same thing to me if our positions were reversed."
"That's beside the point. You know Charlie doesn't want this out so how do you think she felt when she heard that fake voice of yours."
Watson ducks her head down, peering into the car where Charlie was still trying to collect herself. "You ok Charlie?" Charlie glares at her, snapping that she was fine.
"How did you even find us?" Joey demands.
"It was just luck that I saw your car on my way home."
"You should have just kept going."
"If you must know, your foster mum has been trying to reach you for the past two hours but you wouldn't answer your phone."
"Shit." Joey pulls out her mobile, "I turned it off at the hospital and forgot to turn it back on." She sighs when she sees all the missed calls.
"Harley got into trouble at school today."
"What sort of trouble?"
Watson's lips twitch, "Let's just say that she's taking after you."
"Just spit it out Georgie."
"She's been answering back at the teacher."
Joey grimaces at what that could mean, "Please tell me she didn't swear at the teacher."
"No, luckily for you, she hasn't taken after you in that area, but she was quite forceful in telling the teacher that she was wrong and it wasn't the first time." Joey sighs, not sure whether to be upset with her daughter for answering back or proud of her for standing up when she thought someone was wrong. "Mrs Alsop wants to see you as soon as you're back in the city."
"God, why can't that old dragon just retire," Joey mutters, not relishing the thought of seeing her old teacher again.
"I'm sure she remembers you with fondness."
"She wasn't overly fond of you either." Joey glares at her, "You could have waited until I got home to tell me this."
"Yeah I could have, but I didn't know if you'd be home tonight." She grins, "And this way was more fun."
"For you maybe," Charlie says, having finally gotten out of the car. Charlie leans against the car, her expression far from amused. "You know Georgie, I'm thinking that you and Angelo really do make a great team out on patrol and I'm thinking that once this trial with the rotation system is over, you and Angelo should be paired permanently."
Joey sniggers at her sister's horrified look. "That sounds like a good idea Charlie."
Watson glares at the both of them for a moment before relenting. "Fine, I was wrong ok, it was a bad thing that I did and I'm incredibly sorry for ruining your time together."
"You know her better than me Joey, does she seem genuine in her apology?"
Joey leans next to Charlie, "Not even close."
"That's what I thought."
"Have you two had your fun?" Watson asks, a little amused at being double-teamed.
"What do you think Joey?"
"Well, in all fairness, I probably would have done the same thing."
"And I suppose if I did pair her with Angelo permanently, everyone would have to suffer with her endless complaints."
"And nobody wants that." Joey and Charlie smile at each other, before looking back at Watson. "We'll let it go, this time."
Watson shakes her head, grinning at them. "You two had better work on your double act before it becomes obvious to everyone that you're together; the smiling at each other is a dead giveaway."
Joey shrugs, "You already know about us."
"I'm just warning you that you're both so comfortable with each other now that it's starting to look more obvious that you're more than just friends."
Joey glances at Charlie who was looking pensive. Joey sighs, "Other than avoiding each other in public, there's not a whole lot we can do."
"Well, you could start by not flashing your tits to every car passing by."
Joey looks down, not having bothered to button her shirt up when she had put it back on. "Since when did you become such a prude," she says, buttoning up her top. "Besides, my bra covers more than my bikini does."
"It does?" Both sisters snigger at Charlie's sudden attention. "God, you're both as bad as the other," she mutters in embarrassment.
"We are not," they say at the same time, both of them with big grins on their face. Charlie finds herself grinning back.
"Georgie, don't you have somewhere else to be?" Joey reminds her.
"Charlie must be rubbing off on you Joey, usually you just tell me to fuck off."
"Georgie, fuck off."
Grinning, Georgie bids them a goodnight and heads back to her car. Joey puts her arm around Charlie, "Are you ok?"
"It's just what Georgie said about it being obvious about us."
"We just have to try a little harder, that's all."
Charlie shakes her head, "That's impossible Joey, because whenever I'm with you, all I can think about is you and touching you."
Joey presses her body against Charlie's, "Really?"
"Really." Charlie circles her arms around Joey's waist. "And it's so hard not to do this when we're together," capturing Joey's lips.
Joey reaches to her right, opening the car door and manoeuvring Charlie onto the back seat, their lips never parting as she moves over her. "You have got to be fucking kidding me," Joey groans when Charlie's phone starts shrieking.
"Sorry, it's the alarm to remind me to pick up Ruby, Nicole and April from the cinema." She grimaces, "They're having a sleep over at my place tonight."
Joey sits up, grinning wryly. "I'm kind of glad now that Georgie interrupted when she did or we would have been a lot further along when the alarm went."
"I shouldn't have pulled over in the first place."
"We did manage a little time together."
"Yeah, but we always end up even more frustrated."
Joey chuckles, "Just think of our next time Charlie, we'll be more than ready."
"At this rate, there'll never be a next time," she mutters.
Joey leans over her, "I promise you Charlie, there will be a next time."
Charlie's heart catches at the look of hunger in those brown eyes she so loved, "God Joey, did you have to say it like that, because now I just want you even more."
"Sorry," Joey says, making no effort to let Charlie sit up. "When exactly do you have to pick up Ruby?"
"That depends, how quick can you be?" Charlie challenges her.
"I could bring you in a matter of minutes," she assures her confidently, "But I'd rather make it last."
Charlie sighs in frustration, "Then we don't have time."
"Bummer." Joey moves, giving Charlie room to sit up. Charlie climbs into the front seat before she's tempted again. Chuckling, Joey joins her there. "I suppose you'd better drop me off at my place after you pick up the girls."
Wanting nothing more than to finish what they had started, Charlie reluctantly starts the car while thinking that the next person who interrupted them had better watch out.
Next chapter, Charlie and Joey finally find a way to be together.