Chapter 5: The glow inside burns light upon her…

September was here and Sarah was just getting used to her new way of living. She had gotten used to walking around the London streets seeing as she had no car, but she didn't mind. She enjoyed the cool breeze flowing around her as she walked to her favorite coffee shop. The early morning breezes whipped around her body like a blanket making her feel refreshed and happy. She liked that fall and winter would be here soon.

Sarah walked up to the barista and ordered her usual caramel macchiato. While she waited for her coffee she went through the list of errands she would be running today. Before Tom and Jade had gone to New York for Comic Con Jade had informed Sarah of Tom's upcoming birthday. She had taken her to lunch and told Sarah that since she would be gone for the week that she would have to plan the party. She had agreed to do it with much enthusiasm thinking it would be a small party with about 20 people or so until Jade pulled out a binder with names and phone numbers of guests', caters, and party suppliers. Sarah was shaken at the idea she would have to plan such a huge birthday party and only one week to do it. She was hoping that it would be short notice for the venue so she could have more time to plan but to her luck Jade told her she had booked the venue over a month ago.

As Sarah grabbed her coffee and sat at an outside table and pulled out her note book and the big party planning binder. She went through each page checking off her to do list she had mostly everything ready to go all they needed now was the birthday boy.

It had been two months since she had taken on the role of personal assistant to Tom Felton and sometimes Jade. Sarah rarely saw Jade, she was starting to think she was hired strictly to be his babysitter. It didn't really matter to her though she had gotten comfortable being around Tom at all hours of the day. To her it didn't really feel like a job, it felt like she was hanging with a friend rather than her "boss".

On the days she was with him which was mostly all week they did nothing but hang around his place and do some occasional outings. She often reluctantly went to sit in interviews with him at first she felt she would be in the way but he convinced her that as his personal assistant she had to be there to make sure he didn't make a fool of himself. That was the only time he used the "personal assistant" term, to get her to do things she didn't want to do which rarely ever worked. She wouldn't let him boss her around even though he was essentially her boss. He had lost that privilege many weeks ago, before it happened. It being the reason she's been trying to distance herself from getting too close.

Sarah remembered that one crucial morning she met him at his flat she was suppose to wake him for an early interview via satellite for a talk show in California at 10am on the west coast. She didn't want to do it but somehow he got her to agree to be his morning wake up call.

She had woken up late and had just got out of bed and quickly called a cab to take her to Toms. She didn't have much time to get ready she quickly washed her face, brushed her teeth, put on a jacket over her black tank top and didn't bother to change her black shorts before heading out the door. Ten minutes later here she was (thanks to the speedy service of the cab and the key to his flat) calling his name from the door of his bedroom telling him to wake up and that he needed to be ready in an hour so he could drive to the station that would be relaying the interview.

He rolled over in his bed and placed the pillow on his head to drown out her voice. It didn't work. She walked to the front of the bed and said "Thomas! Wake up now! If I knew you weren't going to wake up I would have slept in as well! "

Sarah, like Tom was not a morning person she cherished her sleep just as much as he did and the fact that he had begged her to get up in the early morning and that she actually done it made her furious. This was the last time she was going to take the personal assistant thing seriously.

He looked over to her standing at the foot of the bed with her hands pressed on the side of her hips. She was pissed and he knew it. He looked right at her and said "No! Sod off!" and threw the pillow right at her head.

She picked up the pillow and threw it right back at him. "Fine! Go back to sleep!" she shouted as she walked out of the room. He's going to get out of that bed if it's that last thing I do she thought to herself. She quickly ran to the kitchen and grabbed a pot from the bottom cabinet. Turning on the faucet and shoving it under the running cold water. Once it was full she slowly but quickly walked back to his bedroom walking through the open door she heard his faint breathing. Pot in hand she whispered "Sorry Thomas" then second thought "no actually I'm not sorry" and dumped the pot of cold water right on to the back of his sleeping form.

He quickly shot up out of his bed confused and soaking wet, only seeing Sarah retreating toward the door.

"oh your going be so sorry for that!" He said with malice as she turned back for only a mere second to look at him. In a flash he was running straight toward her. He was hot on her heels as she ran down the hall and into the living room. Circling around the couch he had a look of a lion waiting to kill its prey, she was scared. She had to get away or else she would have to suffer the consequences. Knowing she would have to be extremely quick she faked her right (his left) and ran in the opposite direction. She ran into the kitchen where they resumed their positions around the kitchen counter.

"What in the bloody hell did you do that for?" he asked in an eerily calm tone.

"You asked me to give you a wake-up call so I did" she shrugged her shoulders and smiled. He smiled too.

As they circled the island counter, she could not keep her eyes off his body to save her life. Standing before her was a half naked Tom. Her eyes wondered over his body looking at the light broadness of his shoulders to the very nearly defined lines of his abdomen, down to the v lines that formed above his hips. Without much deliberation he really was something to look at. She felt her breathing hitch and quickly needed to look away to find something that would not demonstrate her current weakness. She looked to his face and as they came to a stop her back leaning against the counter sink and him standing on the other side of the island, the only thing keeping him from her.

Her eyes studied his face as they stood in silence little did he know she was having a mental fight with herself. Was he really this gorgeous in the morning? What the hell am I thinking? Stop Sarah! Well it doesn't hurt to look right? No it doesn't, you can look but don't touch. As if I would!

She shook her head and laughed looking to the ground. BIG MISTAKE! In a flick of an eye Tom slid across the granite counter top and over to her before she could register what was going on. She felt his arms close around her with his front to her back locking her arms at her sides.

"Good morning lovely" he said in her ear.

Sarah swallowed hard before she replied "Good Morning."

Good morning indeed. Standing with her back to him she could feel the heat of his body penetrating her skin, the warmth of his breath grazing the side of her neck sending an unavoidable shudder down her spine and to her toes. She hoped he didn't feel the vibration of her body.

He walked them to the kitchen sink and turned the faucet on. At that moment she tried to break from his grasp but he quickly brought his hand back around her arms. She looked up at him with wide eyes. His face so close she could see the slight stubble on his chin.

"What do you think you're doing?" she said

Oh I thought I would give you a nice sopping wake-up call you so thoughtfully gave me." he said slightly leaning her over the sink.

"Would it help if I said I was s-s-sorry? Cause I am. I-I really am." She rarely said sorry and meant it, but when she did she struggled to get the word out.

"No, I don't think that will do not only did you wake me from a beautiful dream I was having, but you also soaked my bed and Me." he said with a smile.

"Well at least you don't have to take a shower now" she laughed

And you won't either" he said quickly grabbing the sink spray head pulling the trigger drenching her in warm water.

Okay! Okay! Okay!" she said flippantly while placing her hand in front of her face water plastering all around the kitchen.

He stopped. She turned her body around to look at him, biting back the urge to slap him in the face. Looking up into his smiling face, his hair dripping wet and falling in his eyes, her urge to slap him turned into something else. She couldn't quite describe it but the feeling was something she wasn't used to feeling. Whatever it was had to stay deep within her and stay as small as possible. An exchange was being made between them but she couldn't pin point it. She looked into his blue eyes as they stared into hers. She could see the reflection of desire in his eyes. Breaking the trance shifted her eyes in a different direction she hadn't really noticed that his hands were placed around her waist until he removed them. She backed away feeling cold air wash over her.

"I'll clean this up, you should go get ready you have to leave in an hour." She said heading to the small closet that held cleaning supplies, her shoes squeaking on the floor.

"You don't have to I can- "

"No it's okay. Really I can do it." She said giving him a look of finality. With that he walked out of the kitchen knowing not to press further.

Sarah quicklycleaned up the mess in the kitchen and left. Thankful for having the day off she contemplated those feelings that she felt and if they meant anything. Praying to a higher entity that those feelings she concealed within were a mere blunder.

Whatever feelings she felt she wouldnt describe them. They would forever be known as It if she had given It a name things were sure to be difficult for them both.

A/N: Read and Review please. Sorry for the extremely late update for those of you who are reading. I swear to have the next one up on Tom Tuesday of next week!

I've also added a little more to Chapter 1 if you care to reread it there is an added section of Tom's night before meeting Sarah.