Chapter Fourteen:

The secrets out

   **Writers Note: some of this chapter's dialogue is taken directly from the pilot, I do not take credit for that, I did not write it, standoff's amazing writers did.**

     Matt woke up to the sun shinning brightly into the room, he looked down on a sleeping Emily, the sun was shining directly on her face, Matt thought she looked so beautiful lying there. He leaned over and turned off the alarm clock, he had a better way of waking her. Matt started to plant kisses on her bare arm. He could feel Emily starting to stir and he continued to kiss her body. "Mmmm" Matt heard Emily moaned. Matt continued his assault of kisses up her arm. "Five more minutes" Emily whined.
 

    Matt laughed at her as he started his attack on her again; he started to kiss her neck and slowly moved over to make contact with Emily's lips. Emily gave in and kissed back, there was no way she was getting back to sleep now anyhow.
  

    "Good Morning" Matt said
   

    "Good morning" Emily replied as she noticed the time on the alarm clock. "Matt, we have ten more minutes of sleep left"
   

    "But we're awake now and what can we do to pass the time?" Matt asked with an evil grin on his face
 

    "Please tell me you did not wake me for a quickie" Emily said
 

    Matt gave her a shy grin, he moved so he had Emily pinned, Emily thought Matt was going to kiss her, instead he started to tickle her. Emily tried to squirm out of Matt's grasp but she couldn't. Matt finally eased up on his attack, Emily was still giggling as Matt leaned down and gave her a passionate kiss. They broke from the kiss and Emily started to get up, covering herself with the sheet "we still have five minutes" Matt said

    "I know and I was thinking you might like to join me in the shower" Emily said with an evil grin as she dropped the sheet and headed for the bathroom. Matt didn't have to think twice and quickly got up and followed Emily into the shower.

      Standing with Emily in the warming waterfall, soaping her skin so it yielding silk was overlaid with a white froth Matt could barely contain himself. As water cascaded down her naked body , streaming over her high firm breasts, running over her firm buttocks, trickling into her most feminine places Matt gently rubbed the sponge around her neck and shoulders in a round circular motion continuing  down to her breasts. As he moved down her body his member grew harder and harder. Emily’s nipples were erect and so inviting. Her eyes were closed and she moaned softly in relaxing pleasure as Matt’s hand moved lower, gliding over her smooth tummy and down to her ever sensitive area. Matt picked one of Emily’s legs up and placed it on the water spout; he then positioned himself inside her. Slowly together they moved, his fingers were dug into her hips and her hands pressed against the shower wall. Matt’s thrusts grew deeper and faster. Emily’s head was thrown back in pleasure as her hips were now thrusting hard and fast against Matt. All at once she cried out her release and slumped against the shower wall for a few moments. Emily straightened up and Matt held her close against his chest, the warm water washing over them.

    "You two are late" Lia said to Matt and Emily as they arrived at the office almost two hours later.

    "I know" Emily said. The shower had taken longer than planned and they both ended up having to leave the same time, Emily hopped Lia wouldn't catch on to the fact they both arrived at the office at the same time. Luckily for Emily and Matt, Lia wasn't given the opportunity to over think it because both Matt's and Emily's pagers went off.

    "You rang" Matt said to Cheryl once they found her

    "Yeah we have a hostage situation downtown, Rick Keesler has taken his two sons hostage. HRT are already on route" Cheryl replied
 

     "No way, the Rick Keesler?" Lia asked

    "Who’s Rick Keesler?" Emily asked

     "You are kidding, he's the star of the show Heartland" Lia said. Emily just looked at her dumbfounded.

    "Come on, you can drive while I brief you on pop culture" Matt said handing her the keys
   
    "Funny" Emily said grabbing the keys”

     "Lets roll" Cheryl said. The team headed off to the scene.

     "Ok so do you want to hear my opinion on this?" Emily asked on the scene an hour later

     "Not really but I'm sure you are going to give it to us anyhow" Frank said

     "I wasn't asking you" Emily replied "Rick Keesler is a man that has been sent over the edge. The stress in his life has just been building, first being caught cheating on his wife and that has been publicized to death. And now he is going through a nasty divorce and custody battle, rear ending that vehicle was the breaking point for him"

    "Are we negotiable?" Cheryl asked

    "Yes, I believe we are" Matt answered

     "The guy is nuts" Frank said

     "It is his children, he's not going to hurt them" Emily replied

     "Ok" Cheryl said "Who’s primary?"

     "Matt is" Emily said "He's not going to want to talk to a chick"

     Matt and Emily quickly set up and started to negotiate with Rick Keesler. Three hours later, things were not going well.  The media was all over the scene and Keesler wasn't any closer to surrendering. However, on the bright side Matt was starting to build up a bond and trust with him. Emily heard a beeping sound on the other end. "Hey Rick can you hear that?" Matt asked
 

     "Yeah its me, my battery is dying" Keesler replied

     Emily quickly scribbled "Back up" on a post it and showed it to Matt

     "You have another one with you" Matt question

     "I don't know, there might be another one around the car here somewhere" Rick replied

     "Good cause I wouldn't want to lose you"

     Rick fumbled around his car until he found the charger for his cell, Matt could hear him say something to his eldest son Tyler but couldn't quite pick out what but he knew that Rick sounded agitated. Matt covered the mouth piece of his cell phone  "this guy hates his image, maybe a scandal will help him out, open up new opportunities" Matt stated

     "Umum" Emily said "its manipulation"

     "He's looking for a way out of the car" Matt replied

     "He's been self rationalizing for the past hour and he just plugged in his charger for more. He wants to hang on to what he's got" Emily replied

     "Right" Matt said

     "Hey you are doing great, keep listening and keep him talking, you almost got him" Emily said handing Matt a bottle of water.    

     "Manipulation" Matt said. He started to talk to Rick again. Emily noticed HRT moving outside the car, she knew what that meant, they were getting ready to move in, she jumped out of the car to go talk to Frank. Emily and Frank had an exchange of words and Emily ran off to see Cheryl to stop her from sending HRT in. Emily believed Matt was going to get the kids out. At the same time Rick was listening to the news and saw that the police had stationed a sharp shooter on a hotel near by to take him out. In a desperate act, Rick grabbed Tyler and started yelling. Matt felt like he was about to lose him and the kids too. Matt jumped out of the car and started a little speech about how his life wasn't perfect and Rick wasn't the only person to screw up and Matt ended his little rant with "I'm sleeping with my partner for one." Emily stopped in her tracks; he did not just say that, she imagined it. Matt did not tell everyone that they were having sex. Matt continued to talk to Rick and all that Emily could think about was I'm going to kill him. However, Matt was able to get Rick to surrender.

    An hour later, they were tidying up lose ends at the scene when Cheryl called them over "Special agent Lehman and Flannery, can I see you for a moment?" Cheryl said trying to contain her anger

     "She said special agent, this cannot be good" Matt said jokily. Emily just looked at him; she was in no mood to speak to Matt at the moment.

     "Yes Madame" Emily said
 

     "I'm not dealing with the two of you right now; I'm going to give myself some time to cool off. But I expect the two of you in my office 8 sharp tomorrow morning; we're have a lot to discuss." Cheryl said

     Emily didn't stick around after the conversation with Cheryl. She was too angry to talk to Matt and she was in no mood to hear the rest of the units' jokes. She quickly gathered her stuff, finished up at the scene and left. Matt followed the same suit, he quickly got out of the scene too, he took a look around for Emily but when he did not see her, he headed home; it had been a long day.

     After Emily was home for awhile and had the opportunity to calm down, she knew she needed to talk to Matt. She called his cell for a full solid hour but only got his voice mail so then she tried his landline but she only got his answering machine. After trying to reach Matt for more than two hours, Emily gave up and went on to bed. She was not looking forward to tomorrow coming, she was afraid that before the day was over she be making a trip to the unemployment office, but most of all she feared she would be coming home alone because she had no idea where she and Matt stood and that worried her a lot more then her career being on the line. That's when it struck her, she was falling for Matt. "Just great" she thought to herself as she covered her head and tried to figure out how she got to this point.

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