Fighting Against the Odds
Ally's POV: Present Time...
I was reaching for my gun when the sound of a gun clicking brought up my attention.
The man was pointing his gun right at me.
"Drop it." He ordered.
Swallowing back my fear I slowly laid down my gun and brought my hands up in surrender. There were two men who were both wearing ski masks, one was watching me and the other was pointing a gun at me.
"Tell me everything you know about the Miami detective department." The ski masked man demanded. "I-I don't know anything about the Miami detective department, I just started working there about five days ago!" I managed to say. This was horrifying for me, I have never been held at gunpoint ever, not even in my line of duty at the Miami PD.
Knowing your life could be on the line...
"She's no use John boy." The other man chimed.
I breathed a sigh of relief, maybe they would let me go. "Hm, guess we'll just have to kill her then." The man said. My mind was screaming for me to run but I just couldn't not without getting shot, my life was on the line if I made any sudden movements.
Suddenly there was the sound of two guns clicking at the same time.
"Over my dead body."
The ski masked man looked over his shoulder to see Austin standing there pointing a gun at him, but not only was he pointing the gun at him, the other man was pointing a gun at Austin as well.
"Oh detective Moon, haven't seen you since our last encounter in Singapore." The man enthused with a smirk on his face. Austin rolled his eyes at the man's attempt to be mischievous and witty, "Sorry I don't have time for small talk especially with good for nothing men like you." He snapped. His face was red with anger yet his voice seemed so calm.
The man laughed, "Has Detective Moon grown so cold and unfond of his enemies?"
"I was never fond with them to begin with." He sneered.
Austin stepped closer but the other ski masked man stepped even closer to Austin. With the way it was going right now, one of us was going to get shot and hopefully it wouldn't be Austin or myself.
"Look Demetri he's here to rescue the poor helpless girl!" They both laughed and I blushed from embarrassment as Austin scoffed, "She's just my partner," he then looked me in the eyes, a cold dead look on his face, "And that's all we'll ever be."
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Earlier That Morning...
I tossed and turned in the bed. I just couldn't get comfortable!
It was so frustrating that I flew my arm over my head, I tugged at the sheets and pulled them over my body but another force was pulling it back to the other side. I groaned and pulled the covers back on top of me but the sheets got pulled off of me again. Frustrated I gave one last hard yank and I heard a loud thump as well as a groan.
I popped up out of my spot and looked around my bed.
Where the heck did that groan come from...?
Suddenly my head began to pound a little, it was probably some hangover again.
Obviously I don't remember that much about last night, all I know is someone offered me a couple drinks and I drank them willingly. Which I shouldn't have due to how much tolerance I have for drinking.
Running my fingers through my untamed hair I yawned and got of the bed slowly. I looked at my alarm clock and it read that it was only 10:15, work started at 10:45 on Saturday's so I took my time as I trudged to my bathroom. After two minutes of hard thinking on if I should take a shower or not I decided to take one, I mean I had plenty of time.
Stripping down out of my pajamas, I grabbed a towel from the cabinet underneath the sink and sat it on the toilet top from when I step out. I turned the water on warm and stepped inside, I sighed in relief as the hot water relaxed my achy tense muscles. I grabbed some shampoo and conditioner and began to wash my hair as I sang some tunes.
Yes I was one of those people that sung in the shower just for the fun of it as weird as it seemed.
After three minutes of desperately trying to unknot the tangles in my hair I rinsed the shampoo and conditioner out of my hair. Soon I was done with my shower and I stepped out as I grabbed the towel and wrapped it around my wet body. I dried off and squeezed the remaining wet droplets out of my hair over the sink.
Steam fogged up the mirror and wiped it away.
I looked at my image in the mirror and just when I was about to walk away something horrifying caught my attention. I leaned in closer to the mirror hopefully thinking that I was just seeing things.
Lifting my chin up I examined the hickey on my neck.
No freaking way...
How the heck could I have gotten a hickey!?
But then again I can't remember anything from last night.
Sighing I looked at even more, yup...that's a hickey for sure. I huffed and walked back into my room, steam poured out from the bathroom and into my room slowly disappearing. I held my towel tightly against my body as I went through my dresser, I found a pink blouse with ruffles and a pair of black dress pants. I found a nice little black lacy bra to wear and some pink panties that matched my blouse.
I don't know why I was being so color coordinated all of a sudden.
I grabbed all my clothing and laid them on the bed. I dropped my towel and picked up my bra, "Oh darn it I forgot my deodorant in the living room again!" I wrapped my towel around my body and rushed to the door opening it but suddenly as I stepped out my body collided with something hard and we both fell to the ground with a loud thump.
My eyes fluttered open to see the one person I would never imagine meeting in this kind of situation.
"A-Austin!?"
"A-Ally!?"
We both looked at each other in shock but then looked at the position we were in.
My towel was loosely hanging on my chest and I knew Austin was starting to notice as well. I scrambled to get to my feet and I ran into my room slamming the door shut as I locked it. I heard Austin groan and he bang on the door.
"Ally I-I...what the hell just happened!?" He yelled.
I leaned up against the door and my breathing heavied and I felt like I was having some anxiety attack. I've never been in such an intimate position with a man before, no actually never in my life have I experienced such a feeling...
"Just leave me alone!" I yelled back looking down.
My hand cupped my neck in the place where the hickey was.
That is explains everything now...
Austin gave me the hickey, it's the only logical explanation for how it got there in the first place.
"Ally if you think we had sex we didn't I remember everything now I swear it!" He pleaded. I sighed and cracked the door open, he had bed hair and for some reason it looked so freaking attractive.
Hello!? Ally you're supposed to be pissed off with him!
"Austin just go please, I won't tell anyone about this just please go I'm very uncomfortable right now." I said refusing to look him in the eye. I could feel his eyes pouring into my own but I still wouldn't look at him.
"Allison tell me if you're scared, tell me that you don't believe that I took advantage of you last night." He begged softly. I could hear the sadness in his voice, but for some reason I couldn't believe him right now and I had every right to. I mean he left a hickey on me we must have had some sexual intimate interaction between each other.
"I need time to think.." I said looking up at him. "P-Please l-leave."
He nodded in agreement and walked away, I waited till I heard the door slam shut and I shut my door. I heaved a sigh and quickly got dressed. I clipped my bra together and pulled on my panties. Flashbacks of the incident that happened just a while back made a shiver go up and down my back.
You're sooo attracted to him let's face it he's some hot eye candy...
My conscious declared, I rolled my eyes.
He's not eye candy, he's my freaking partner.
Ha, that's not what it looked like a while ago...
I huffed and continued to get dressed. I pulled on my dress pants and my blouse, I went through my closet to look for a pair of ballet flats. I wasn't really in the mood to wear some stupid high heels this morning. Looking at the time it read 10:27, there was plenty of time for me to work on curling my hair to perfection.
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"You guys had sex!?" Sonita yelped.
I cupped my hand over her mouth and glared at her, "Not so loud Soni!"
"I'm sorry Ally but this is too much of a big deal! I mean you freaking had a make out session with the Austin Moon!" She cheered. I sipped on my hot cup of coffee, "I don't even remember half of what happened all I remember now is that we went to some bar together and he got drunk as did I."
"Wow Ally you're so bad."
I laughed, "Anyways I feel like it's going to be awkward between us."
She hesitated for a while before speaking, "Well of course it's going to get awkward between you two, you're both partners in crime so it's going to a be a little tense and all. If I were you I wouldn't try to avoid the subject, I would talk to him but that's just my opinion."
My fingers tapped against the table.
Now it just got more complicated. How was I ever going to have a normal conversation with Austin after what happened this morning?! He saw me in a freaking towel that was loosely hanging around my body!
"Ally is there something you aren't telling me about?" Sonita asked raising an eyebrow curiously. I let out a nervous chuckle and awkwardly got out of my chair trying to avoid any eye contact with her, "N-No n-nothing else happened anyways I'll see you later bye Soni!" I rushed out of the cafe and walked up the flight of stairs leading to the second floor of the building.
I looked at my wrist watch and realized if I wasn't there early enough Austin would scold me about his evaluation list once more. I fastened my pace down the corridor, I noticed that Austin's door was cracked open. I inched closer to the door and heard voices, it sounded like Dallas and Austin were having some type of argument.
I held my breath and listened to the conversation.
"You slept with Dawson! Austin I thought you promised me you wouldn't fuck this girl up!" Dallas snapped angrily. I could hear Austin groan and the squeaking of his chair, "I didn't sleep with her we just had a very intimate make out session on her couch!" He argued.
I blushed at the very thought.
"That's not as good as you think it is!" Dallas retorted.
"Well I can tell you that we didn't have sex or she would be walking very weirdly, she's definitely a virgin." Austin said. I scoffed inwardly to myself, how the heck would he know if I was a virgin or not?!
I couldn't tell if he was being offensive or not.
I leaned forward to see Austin sitting in his chair and Dallas standing his face red.
Suddenly Dallas cocked an eyebrow, "No way."
Austin looked at him in confusion as he laid the stack of papers on the desk. "What?" He asked.
"You like Dawson...don't you?"
Austin chuckled, "There's no proof that I like Allison."
I cupped my hand around my mouth, did Austin do all that last night because he might have feelings for me?
"Ha you keep telling yourself that-"
I suddenly knocked on the door and stepped inside, "Sorry I'm late." I said shyly. Dallas smiled, "It's fine cutie. I'll see you both at the meeting in ten minutes." And with that said Dallas left the room.
Austin eyed me carefully as I walked over to my desk.
I refused to make eye contact with him, I still wasn't over what happened earlier or what happened just a while ago. Austin cleared his throat and stood up, "I know you were eavesdropping on my conversation with Dallas."
I froze in my tracks.
"No I-I wasn't I promise." I stuttered.
He looked at my eyes coldly as if he was searching for some type of error and I blurted, "Would you like a drink from Starbucks?"
"Ally come on-"
I quickly collected my purse and wallet as I slung it over my shoulder, "Ya know what? I'll just surprise you alright? Okay see you in a bit." I rushed out of the room before he could open his mouth. I made my way down the flight of stairs, pass the cafe and scurried out the door.
I needed to get out of that room before Austin realized I was truly eavesdropping and that I lied to his face.
Looking at my wrist watch I realized that I only had ten minutes until the meeting so instead of going through the busy traffic and pedestrians on the sidewalk I decided to take the back way to Starbucks, it was just a quick harmless alley. I began my walk until I heard the sound of a branch snap. I looked back to see two men with ski masks on.
"Well well well looks like we caught a Detective redhanded." The man menaced.
I was reaching for my gun when the sound of a gun clicking clicking brought up my attention.
The man was pointing his gun right at me.
"Drop it." He ordered.
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Present Time...
Hurt struck me as he said those few words.
She's just my partner and that's all we'll ever be.
For some reason sadness overtook me and I couldn't control it, had I grown so fond of him over just these few simple days that quickly? No it couldn't be possible but the way my heart was aching made it seem that way. He must've known that I was dropping on his conversation with Dallas...
I should've known why would someone like Austin ever ever like someone like me.
Austin's eyes still looked at my own, I believe it was the first time since this morning that we actually made eye contact. "Well Austin we'll make you a deal, you give us the microchip and we'll let little ol' detective free."
Austin gripped the gun tighter, "As if I would ever do that, the microchip is too important."
Microchip? What microchip?
"Then I guess she dies." The man said aiming the gun at my head. I closed my eyes waiting for the impact, I waited for the pain, the blood, the cracking of my own skull, I just waited. I slowly opened my eyes to see Austin smirking, "You guys shouldn't underestimate me."
Suddenly Austin whipped out two guns.
He shot the man that held a gun at me twice in the leg.
But then there was two other gun shot sounds. I opened my eyes to see that Austin had shot the other man in the leg and that he was withering on the ground in pain. I looked at Austin who had a dazed look in his eyes and his breathing heavied. I came closer to him and I then realized that the man only had one gun shot in his leg...
Austin and I both looked down to see that his white shirt was stained with blood.
The blood was coming from the side of stomach. Austin began to stumble over but I caught him in my arms, I grabbed my walkie talkie off the side of my hip and cut it on. Austin's eyes looked so weary as I slowly sat down on the ground with him still in my arms, finally I got a signal.
"Hello? Anyone please get help Detective Moon is down I repeat Detective Moon is down!" I cried out. I laid my hand on the side of his stomach and put pressure down on his side trying to stop the flow of blood.
Suddenly a voice came on the walkie talkie, "We're on our way Dawson!"
Austin moaned softly and looked at me, I could feel my eyes tear up and I don't know why. "Aye don't cry their on their way Al-" Suddenly he gave out and his eyes closed. He was breathing but barely.
You'll make it Austin, I'll make sure of it.
A/N-Sorry for the late update hope you like it!:) Thanks for the wonderful reviews!:)
-Taylor:)