Pairing: Bella/Jess/?

Rating: M

Genre: adult/humor

Word Count: FIVE HUNDRED! BOO-YAH, GRANDMA!

Prompt: "It all started with a dare."

Partners In Crime

Bella wrapped her arms around her legs as best she could, tucking the long blue shirt demurely under her butt.

Wiggling her little red-polished toes on the cool bench, she turned her head, laying it on her knees with a tired sigh as she watched her friend.

Her amigo.

Her sidekick.

Her cohort.

Her partner in crime.

Literally.

Jessica Stanley sat at the far end of the bench, slumped against the wall. The dark green T-shirt she wore on loan was the only article covering her just to the tops of her long, tan legs as she nervously shook her hand, rattling the handcuff that shackled her to the long bar on the wall at her side.

Digging with one French-manicured big toe, she poked at a crack in the painted concrete floor and asked the million dollar question, "Think your dad will let us go with a warning?"

"In Seattle for a conference," Bella informed her sadly, grimacing with regret. "Deputy Mark is running the show this weekend. Besides, we got caught on the rez. The only reason we're here is because they don't have a 24 hour police force. Billy and the council will most likely have the final say in matters regarding misdemeanors on sovereign soil. La Push is an independent governing nation."

"He's got a sense of humor, though, right?" Jessica was trying not to freak out. She was nineteen and it was freakin' spring break. College kids were supposed to do stupid stuff.

Not with seventeen year old boys, naked, and in public, a little niggling voice in the back of her head reminded her.

When she gulped noisily, Bella tried smiling at her in reassurance.

Tried.

Then the babbling began, "I mean, he was our age once. He'll totally understand we just got carried away. It all started with a stupid dare. Besides, I mean, he's seventeen. That's not even illegal in Washington State."

"I'm pretty sure the charge will be 'corrupting a minor', Jess, not 'statutory rape'."

"'Corrupting'…? But—?"

"You can have sex with all the seventeen year olds you want, Jess. It's getting caught fucking like wild monkeys on a public beach by a cop that's the problem," Jake called out from the holding cell across the hall where he lay on his own long bench, one hand behind his head and the other dangling from its own cuff shackled to the bar in his cell. "Being under eighteen is no saving grace, either, just so you know. I could get hammered with public indecency, too."

Flicking a quick glance at Jessica through lowered lashes, Bella shared a conspiratorial look with her before glancing at Jake who had popped one eye open to check out the girls, grinning lazily at both of them as the unsated monster in his boxers stirred at the sight of their bare legs.

"It was totally worth it, though," Bella murmured, giggling, choking a laugh out of Jake and a spurt of snorting giggles out of Jess.