Hey everyone! As always, I am SO SORRY for the wait, but well, my life is still just as crazy as it always was sooo… I am sorry this wasn't out earlier! Also, I know I should be writing This Time it's Gonna be Different, but I was doing a Rookie Blue rewatch and I was watching 1x13 and I just HAD to write this one! So here it is! :) Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks to everyone who helped for this chapter; Stacy, Elissa, Jamie, I love you all, you're awesome!
Getting the lip gloss out of the cosmetic bag that was in her locker, she turned back to the mirror in front of which she had been standing for the last few minutes. She was applying the last touch to her makeup, trying not to think too much about what was going to happen later when Sam came into the room.
"Hey." She said casually, not turning her eyes from the mirror, but she could still see him from the corner of her eye. "What do you think?" She asked him as he put on his leather jacket.
He walked to her slowly as she smiled, putting back the lid on the lip gloss.
"I hate to say it, McNally, but you don't exactly scream cheap thrills. We got some work do." He told her, walking around her as he went to lean against the rack behind her, looking at her reflection in the mirror.
"What are you talking about? I can be waaay cheap." She told him with a mischievous grin, pulling on her shirt so her breasts would be more visible.
That last thing wasn't really hard considering the tank top she was wearing was pretty low cut. Sam laughed, lowering his eyes to his feet almost like he was blushing at the sight of her skin and now definitely exposed breasts.
"Okay." He said, looking down for a couple more seconds before he looked at her again. "All right." He continued, nodding as he walked to her left. "So how long you been dancing?" He asked as he stopped really close to her, looking at the image that was reflected in the mirror.
"Couple years. You know, pays the bills." She answered simply, looking at him from the corner of her eye as he continued to look at the mirror.
"And what's our story?" He asked again, still staring at their reflection as he slid his arm behind her, trying to see how hot they would look as a couple.
"You pay the bills, too." She simply said and that sounded wrong in his ears; that's not a story that would be really convincing with Angel.
"Come on. We're selling ourselves as a hot and heavy couple here. We have major history, okay?" He told her, pulling her closer to him as he took advantage of the fact that he was going to play her boyfriend to finally do what he had wanted to do since the night of the blackout; aka feeling her body against his.
"All right." She said looking clearly a bit uncomfortable, but Sam couldn't tell if it was because of the way he was holding her or because of the fact that she really didn't know what to say.
"How'd we meet?" He asked, looking at them again; they were actually making a pretty hot couple now that he was thinking about it.
"Uh, at a club, and I thought you were pretty cool." Andy started as Sam turned his attention from the mirror, looking at her face as she answered his question.
He was so close to her now; he could even smell the soap on her skin and the sweet aroma of the lip gloss she had just put on.
"How did I make you feel?" He asked her as he took a few steps forward, still holding her real close to his side. "Did you like me right away? Or did it take a while?" He continued, as he moved even closer to the mirror.
Andy could feel his breath on her cheek as he spoke and she kept her eyes forward, not turning to look at him because then she didn't know what she would've done. There was that incredible tension between them. It had always been there and she could still feel it now.
It had been more than a few weeks since the night of the blackout now, but she could still remember perfectly how his body felt against hers; how his lips were soft but firm over hers and she was so distracted by those memories that she just couldn't think of a good answer to the question he just asked.
"I don't know." She said, a silly grin still on her face as she looked at the mirror, seeing him stare at her lips which made her even more uneasy.
"You don't know?" He asked his low and deep voice making her shiver as she tried to organize her thoughts in order to be able to give him an answer but it was a battle already lost.
"Okay, I guess. I… I don't know." She tried, not even able to express a clear sentence with him holding her like that.
His hand was wrapped up around her stomach and the heat radiating from his body added to this particular Swarek smell was making her head spin.
"Somebody asks you a question, you can't be thinking about it, McNally. You gotta know. Do you understand what we're getting into here?" He asked, suddenly really serious and Andy got more serious too, his last sentence acting almost like a cold shower on her.
Yes, she did understand what they were getting into. It was actually the scariest thing she had done so far in her life. Although it was also pretty exciting and well, she did get to play Sam Swarek's girlfriend which was never really bad anyway.
"Absolutely." She told him, getting a bit of her stability back as she answered his question, her tone just as serious as his was a few seconds ago.
"All right." He said as he looked in the mirror again.
"So let's start this again shall we." He said, waiting for Andy to nod before he continued. "So how did I make you feel?" He asked again, his mouth still incredibly close from her ear.
"I thought you were annoying and that you had a big head but…" Andy started before he interrupted her.
"You know that you're supposed to be my girlfriend right?" He teased, getting closer to her if that was even possible.
"Shut up and let me talk. You asked me a question." She replied, slapping his shoulder softly with her right hand. "I thought you were annoying, but after seeing you a few times I realized that you were a good guy, incredibly generous and with a really kind heart. I just knew that you were the one. You kinda grew on me." She said with a shaky voice, turning slowly to face him, her face now really close from his.
"I did?" Sam asked her, his voice not really louder than a whisper.
"You did…" She started, turning her head a bit towards the mirror to avoid his burning gaze. "Well, Edie thought Gabe was a good guy." She added even if she knew that the line between her and Edie and the one between Gabe and Sam was definitely blurry right now.
"Of course, that's what I meant. I'm Gabe right now though, and you're Edie." He said. His mouth was really close to her ear and she shivered. "That's what being undercover means. We really need to get into our characters you know?"
Andy nodded, not trusting her voice to stay stable if she talked right now. "I mean, Edie and Gabe are young, in love, and we can't keep our hands off of each other." He continued, brushing his nose against the skin of her skin making her breathe in loudly.
Biting her lower lip to avoid herself from doing that noise again, she closed her eyes for a second. This proximity was killing her. Did he even know the effect he was having on her right now? She tried to take a step away from him, but his hand was safely secured on her waist and she couldn't go anywhere right now.
"I can't have you all tensed up and jumping at every touch." He said again, moving his lips to the lobe of her ear as she stayed still, her eyes closed as she tried to keep her body from having those automatic responses.
"Well maybe Edie isn't used to public display of affection." She tried, opening her eyes and taking a deep breath as he finally moved his head away from a couple of inches, looking at her with dark eyes that were full of something she couldn't quite decipher. Lust? Fear? Excitement over the undercover op?
"We're not in public right now, and I mean, you're a dancer. You're not the kind of girl who would be shy of a little making out in public." Sam added, raising an eyebrow as she turned to look at him for a second, sighing softly.
"We're not them right now anyway; you don't have to play this game." She tried to convince him, but she could feel both their bodies responding to the other and she knew it was way more than a game.
"What do you mean we're not them Edie?" Sam asked as he lowered his head again, his mouth incredibly close to her neck.
"Sam…" She breathed out, lower than a whisper, her eyes closing and her body going into overdrive just from the feeling of his breath on her skin. Her neck had always been super sensitive; which of course he must've known seeing how he was acting right now.
"Not Sam, Gabe. That's the best way to prepare for an undercover op. We wouldn't want you to start calling me Sam in the middle of the bust now would we?" He asked her, his mouth closing on the soft skin of her neck as he finished talking.
"No… No we definitely… Would not want… That." She said, her knees wobbling as he drew her even closer to him, keeping her from falling to the ground.
Andy had absolutely no idea how to react at what he was doing right now, but she didn't want him to stop. She didn't want him to stop AT ALL. She had forgotten about how he had the ability to make her feel this kind of things. Because yes, of course, the sex with Luke was okay, and she couldn't really say anything against it, but the fact was that with Sam? It was… Heavenly.
He wasn't even doing anything really and she felt like she would explode right here and then. She bent her head slowly to give him more access as his hand gradually sneaked its way under her small tank top, making her breathe in heavily as soon as his fingers hit the naked skin.
Raising her right hand to his cheek, she pulled him up, her eyes locking with his as she could see he was feeling exactly like she was right now. His breathing was erratic and he made her swivel so she was completely facing him, his hand now resting on the small of her back.
"Someone could…" He started as he turned his head to the door of the locker room; yes he was telling himself that they were just trying to get into their characters, but he knew he was just lying to himself.
"What if Gabe wants to kiss Edie while they're in there. I mean, it surely wouldn't be their first kiss." She told him, her eyes lowering to Sam's lips as he swallowed, opening back his mouth like he couldn't breathe properly with it closed right now.
"You're right, you're totally right." Sam said, nodding slowly as he agreed with what she had just said.
"We can't have them thinking that it's our first kiss either." She whispered; the pronouns all mixing up in her head… Her, him, Edie, Gabe, them, us… This was so confusing.
"We can't have that, nope, although technically it wouldn't be our first kiss." He said on the same tone, leaning towards her as she ran her hand against his cheek.
"Just shut up…" She said with a small smile.
"Yeah…" He said more for himself than for her and she repeated his word as he brushed his nose against hers.
Andy backed down from an inch, just for a second; taking the time to look at his eyes to convince herself that she shouldn't do it. It actually had the contrary effect, and she felt a jolt of electricity go through her veins, making her lean forward quickly until her lips collided with his in an explosion of fire.
His second hand went behind her head as his right hand moved a little up her shirt, still resting on her bare skin, diffusing a flow of lava starting where it was and travelling all the way to her toes. Bringing her second arm up, she pushed herself on the tip of her toes, trying to get as close to him as it was humanly possible.
That kiss was nothing like she thought it would be; it was more intense. It was actually more intense than the night of the blackout, just like if her body had been craving it ever since and so now that it could have it, it could just spontaneously combust right on the spot.
Biting her upper lip, Sam held her close to him, feeling her legs shake under her as she moaned quietly in his mouth. "My god Andy…" He said, not able to tear off his lips from hers to even say those words.
"Edie." She whispered in a breathless voice, her head spinning.
That seemed to stop Sam in his passion, because he slowed down his kisses only a second later and finally leaned back, his eyes closed as he tried to regain his breathing.
"Well… Now that this is settled we should probably get back to the others, they must be waiting for us." He said, running a hand in his hair as he looked at her.
"Yeah, yeah we should." She answered, still out of breath as she tried to regain composure from what was probably the best kiss of her entire life.
"At least Edie and Gabe have great chemistry. It's really real don't you think?" He told her as he walked away from her, giving her a wink as he got out of the locker room, leaving her alone.
Breathing deeply, Andy ran a hand across her face before closing her eyes for a second, opening them back just to walk out the door about a minute later.
When Andy got out of the car her heart was racing, she was just freaking out. She was the first one out and barely saw the others get out of the vehicle as she walked around, scanning the crowd to find Sam.
Her eyes got caught on a body that was lying on the ground as her heart stopped in her chest, waiting for Boyd to lift the drape covering it. Relief went through her veins as she realized it was Angel and not Sam. But where was Sam then? She was standing in the same spot when someone called out her name.
"McNally." He said and she could've recognized this voice between thousands.
Rapidly turning towards the voice that had called her name, she saw him. Starting to breathe normally again, she walked quickly to the where he was, casually sitting on the hood of the car. She was so happy he wasn't lying on the ground somewhere with a bullet in his chest or something.
Grabbing his arm, she walked quickly to a place a little less in the middle of everyone. She finally let go of him as they stopped behind a communication truck, hidden from the other officers. That spot was almost quiet, and she just started at him as he frowned, wondering why she brought him there.
"You're okay." She said, her voice only a little louder than a whisper as she stared at him, her eyes getting teary with every second that went by and he just smiled at her, laughing softly.
"Yeah, thanks to you." He said, looking at her with the same intense gaze. She couldn't stand it anymore and wrapped her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly as he responded with the same passion, holding her close to his body. "You were great in there." He told her, his mouth right next to her ear before he took the right to breathe in her hair.
"Thanks." She whispered, not able to let go of him right now. "I was so scared; I thought you were under that drape I just… I freaked out. I…" She said, her voice breaking under the emotion.
"Shh… I'm fine, everything is fine. You had my back in there." He hushed her, rubbing her back with his hand as he squeezed her tight.
She was so scared in the car, hearing that everything was going down, and she was just so glad that he was there, alive, safe, and holding her in his arms. She wanted to never let him go as he just kept rubbing her back softly for another few moments.
Finally taking a step back, she looked at him, a lonely tear sliding down her cheek before he wiped it with his thumb, softly stroking her cheek as he realized just as much he had fallen for that girl who was standing in front of him.
"See? You don't have to fake it anymore." He said, laughing slightly, her laugh echoing his as she shook her head, still looking at him.
Her eyes went from his eyes to his mouth as she felt that chill going through her veins again, making something in her lower belly clench as she remembered how it felt to have his lips on hers in the locker room and then again inside the Mermaid Lounge. She wanted to feel that jolt of energy again, she wanted to feel him under her, and she wanted to convince herself that he was really safe and here with her.
Taking a small step towards him, she bit her lower lip, leaving him all the time he wanted to back down if he wanted to. He didn't seem to want to go anywhere and he just used his fingers to push back a lock of hair behind her ear, leaving his hand behind her neck as she leaned in a little more.
It was slow, so very slow, as her mouth finally pressed against his, her right arm going around his neck just as slow and steady as her mouth had been.
This kiss was a thousand miles away from the kiss they had shared earlier. She didn't feel like her body was ready to burst into flames, no, but she felt like the world around them was just fading away, like if they were suddenly the only two people left on earth. No more officers, no more criminals, no more noise, no more cars, just them. Two people holding on to each other for dear life.
Sam slowly slid his arm behind her back, tenderly keeping her close to him, pressing her body against his before he lifted his left hand to brush away her hair ever so gently, and leaving it to rest on her cheek after he did.
Her tongue softly drew the edges of his mouth as she could feel him shiver under her hands, his body definitely responding in the same way hers was. She never wanted to let him go, but her brain took back the control of her body as a honk sounded somewhere at the other end of the parking lot and she tasted his mouth one last time before she left it.
Resting her forehead on his, she sighed softly as he nudged her nose with his, still holding her in his arms, not wanting to let her go.
"I guess Edie is really happy to see Gabe right..?" He told her with a smile, covering his back about letting her kiss him, but still hoping that it was more than just a kiss to conclude their undercover op.
Andy shook her head, tracing the corner of his lips with her right thumb just like she had done inside the mermaid lounge before he left with Angel.
"No…" She said softly, still shaking her head. "Andy is really happy to see Sam." She continued as she leaned in again, softly brushing her lips against his for a small moment.
He felt his heartbeat go erratic as he took in the whole meaning of what she had just said. Yes, there was a thousand things standing in their way, but they would find a way to make it work.
"I'm really happy to see you too." He said with a smile as she laughed softly, her eyes full of that spark that made his heart flutter.
Pulling her closer, he laid a kiss on her forehead, hugging her tightly again as he closed his eyes, so happy about how all of this turned out. Andy let her head fall on Sam's shoulder, burying her nose in the crook of his neck as she smiled, this felt so right. That's the way it should be. That's the place she wanted to be for the rest of her life.
Here, safe in Sam's arms, the world could just crumble around her, she didn't care. She had never felt safer in her entire life…
Soooo what did you think?! I hope you all like it! This conclude the first season of The Kiss That Missed, should I go on with season 2? Just let me know!
A HUGE THANKS to all of you who have been following this story since the beginning I couldn't have done it without you! Your reviews are lighting up my day EVERY TIME.
Also, for those who are waiting for This Time, I'm finishing my semester next week and then going to my cabin so that means A LOT of writing so I guarantee you will have a chapter by the 27th! (That's the date I come back, and YES I miss the Rookie Blue premiere, which is KILLING me, but well… I'm still super excited about both my trip AND the premiere! Héhé!)