Daylight
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Song: She's more. By Andy Griggs
PREVIOUSLY: after a long an exhausting day, John and Kerry finally went on
A date! I mean a real one, out of the house even!
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I like blue eyes, hers are green
Not like the woman of my dreams
And her hair's not quite
As long as I had planned
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John and Kerry left the movie theater, and threaded their way through
their fellow moviegoers
towards John's jeep.
"All I'm saying is there was no plot," Kerry stated. "Just admit it,
you just wanted to see that movie because of all the male testosterone
in it, and of course the hero's chick."
"Well, at least I went to see it for reasons other than to stare at Tom
Cruise," John retorted.
Kerry was so pretty tonight, he thought to himself.
"I may have been there just to see Tom Cruise, but at least I was up
front about it," she told him.
John grabbed her arm, and moved them slightly away as a crowd of people
pushed past them.
She loved the feel of his arms, they were so strong, she thought
randomly. They waited a few minutes
for the foot traffic to pass before continuing on their way.
'So do we have a plan, yet?" Kerry asked him cheerfully. "I mean, where
to next?"
John looked at her teasingly for several moment, "I thought we'd just
drive around randomly for a few hours. "
He ducked when Kerry mock hit him in the arm. "You had better be
kidding!"
John considered the question carefully for a few moments. He thought of
all the places he had brought dates before, but none of them seemed to
fit Kerry. Not that any of them were radical or
different, he just wanted tonight to be special.
Kerry watched him silently contemplating. It was at that moment she
realized that if they were going
to do anything at all tonight she was going to have to make a
decision. She would have liked to go to
a blues bar or some such place, but since they had left the hospital and
went straight to the movies
she hardly dressed for there. 'That left only a few options,' she
thought to herself.
"Follow me, I know the perfect place," she told him suddenly.
"I thought I was supposed to think of something." John pretended to
complain, but he was secretly relieved of the burden of deciding.
Kerry laughed at him openly. "You take to long!" she told him,
admiring his strong physique.
"Am I going to like it?" John asked her seriously, thinking how pretty
she was when her hair got
tousled in the wind like that.
"No, of course not," she replied, openly laughing by now.
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15 minutes later.
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Five foot three isn't tall
She's not the girl I pictured at all
And those paint by number fantasies I've had
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"Is this it?" John asked her, surprised at her choice of places.
Kerry just smiled at him. She wondered what John would say if she asked
him to forget what they were doing now, and just go home and make love?
I'd probably scare him away, she thought, then smiled
at his question.
"Trust me!"
John smiled at her, and retorted, "Only if I have to!"
"Be nice!" Kerry told him.
"How nice?" John asked her, smiling slightly, watching as a lock of her
hair momentarily moved
into her eyes. He wished he could just kiss her there, but Kerry being
such a private person and
all, would probably object.
Kerry smiled back at him. "Very."
John shook his head at her, then opened the door to the establishment.
He walked up to the teller
window. "2 please," he said quietly. Kerry watched John as he did the
business part of the
transaction. She was getting a little irritated with the attendant.
The woman behind the
counter was doing everything but giving him her telephone number. She
watched as the woman smiled
and flirted to get John's attention. 'His good looks always did attract
a bit of fascination
from the average woman'. She mentally wondered if she would be put away
if she killed
the attendant. Some women were so rude. She glared balefully at the
woman. She could beat her
to death with her crutch, but it would be a bit hard to claim self
defense in court. She glanced
up at John when she realized that he had asked her a question.
"I think maybe the blue one?" she told him. He smiled at her, and
turned back.
"That will be, one blue and one green," John told the attendant, as he
handed her some money.
Then he turned his attention to Kerry. "Are you sure this is what you
really want?" he smiled at her. Kerry nodded slightly, a smile of her
own lighting up her face.
"Ok then, it's fair game to warn you ahead of time.
You are in so much trouble!" he told her as ushered her out the door.
Kerry smile deviously at him. "We'll see! You don't want to bet on the
outcome ahead of time, do you?"
"Fat chance, I'm already committed to painting your living room. I
don't want to get conned into doing something like cleaning the
gutters."
Kerry laughed slightly then got a tighter grip with her crutch and at
pushed open the door.
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20 minutes later
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So it took me by complete surprise
When my heart got lost in those deep green eyes
She's not at all what I was looking for
She's more
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"I'm going to sit down for a bit!" Kerry told John.
"What tired? You only had a what? A full day at County, a few dozen
weird sick and/or deranged
patients bouncing around at work, and now out you're tired?"
Kerry pretended to glare at him. She was tired and if she wanted to sit
down she was going to!
She strode over to the nearest bench. She sat down and leaned her
crutch against the bench. It
was so quiet here, she thought. She tilted her head back slightly to
watch the sky - 'as much as she
was able to with all the artificial lights on, that is,' she thought to
herself.
John sat next to her and pulled her in his strong arms. If they were
going to rest, he was at least going to enjoy it. He smiled when Kerry
unconsciously snuggled closer to him. She felt so good.
He wondered what was going through her mind. He hoped she wasn't
thinking of her ex. That would
surely put a damper on the whole evening, he thought.
Kerry asked him suddenly: "What's your favorite flavor of ice-cream?"
John chuckled slightly. "Chocolate, chocolate chip. And yours?" He had
a feeling he knew what was coming next.
"Butter Pecan," she told him.
John continued, "I suppose since we are sitting so close the the
refreshment stand you want me to go
get some."
Kerry smiled sweetly at him. "Well, since you suggested it." John just
shook his head. He got up to
go when a random thought struck him; he then glared at her quite
fiercely.
"NO Cheating!" He pointed to the small white object in a distance. "I
know exactly where that is, and
I expect to see it there when I get back!"
Kerry mock glared back. "*I* have no intentions of moving!" She
pretended to be upset over his remarks.
John just shook his head at her and gave her a warning glance. "I'm
serious, it had better not move!"
Which just made Kerry frown even more at him. As soon as his head was
turned she pinched her arm to
make sure she didn't laugh out loud, she had no intentions of moving
anything as she knew who was
keeping score! She looked back down to the piece of paper in her hand,
then to the object in the distance. She returned her glance to John,
who continued to look over his shoulder as if expecting
her to be a bit duplicitous. As soon as he turned his attention back to
the attendant, she quickly added few marks on the paper she held. 'And I
didn't move a thing!' she thought to herself.
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A while later
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No, it wasn't at first sight
But the moment I looked twice
I saw the woman I was born to love
Her laughter held my soul
And when I hold her I don't want to let go
When it comes to her
I can't get enough
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"I can't believe you won!" John whined, as they were walking towards his
jeep. "I mean I got it
through the windmill and everything. I was sure I was ahead then." He
watched her when he saw her
look almost but not quite guilty. He had a sudden suspicion. "Let me
see that paper!" John told her.
He made a grab for her paper, which she clutched even harder, then
promptly, put it behind her back.
John wrestled with her to get the paper away. Kerry backed away faster
then he had planned and bumped into the jeep. She laughed at him, still
twisting away trying to dump the paper before he could see the score.
John faked a left then went right, which wasn't what Kerry was
expecting. John's strong arms neatly caught her.
He prised the paper out of her hand and stared at it for a moment or
three. "Hey that's not what I got on the 8th hole! he told her. "Only
you would cheat at miniature golf, Kerry."
She smiled at him, then wrapped her arms around his neck. "I wasn't
cheating, I was..." her mind searched for the proper word. "I was
creatively score keeping, and for person who's claiming to be so
shocked, you don't seem as excited as you're supposed to be."
John laughed and kissed her suddenly, savoring the moment.
"Where to now?" He hesitated to ask, when they parted. He wasn't really
looking forward for the evening to end. Kerry smiled up at him. She
had no idea, she just knew she didn't want to go home and be alone.
"Coffee?" she asked him softly.
"That sounds like a good idea," John said quietly, gently pushing her
slightly towards the Jeep. "Let's go."
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The Little Coffee Shop on the corner
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2 pieces of pecan pie and a couple cups of decaffeinated coffee later.
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So it took me by complete surprise
When my heart got lost in those deep green eyes
She's not at all what I was looking for
She's more
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"So, can you name any girlfriend in the past who wasn't a blonde?"
Kerry asked him mirthlessly.
John grimaced slightly. He knew there was one, he just had to think.
Unfortunately it was late, he was tired and he was drawing a mental
blank. He just knew he would remember the name, phone number and
physical address of every girl he had ever dated who wasn't a blonde at
3:00 am. Finally he just glared at Kerry. "I'm declining to answer that
question, on the grounds that, I'm tired and can't think straight."
Kerry laughed back at him. "Just admit it, you usually go for
blondes." John leaned back against the booth.
"I do not. I go for redheads, you just never noticed before!" he
informed her laughingly. "How did we get into this conversation anyway?"
Kerry smiled slightly and nodded her head towards the waitress, a buxom
blonde with an hair down to her waist. "Lady Godiva there was eyeing
you. Remember?" she laughed at him.
They both looked over at the waitress who was impatiently waiting for
them to leave. She was tired, the young man in the corner might be
cute, but at this point in the night all she wanted to
do was go home and sleep. Those two, however, looked like they had no
intentions of leaving, she sighed to herself and started cleaning the
already spotless counter.
John laughed slightly. "I think she just wants us to leave," he
whispered to her across the table.
"Yes, I think so too. Unfortunately it's getting late and we have to
work tomorrow," Kerry whispered back. They were both reluctant to
leave, neither one wanted this evening to end.
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20 minutes later, at Kerry's house
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More than I dreamed of
More than any man deserves
I couldn't ask for more
Than a love like hers
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John waited as Kerry got out her key and fumbled with the door lock. He
really didn't want to leave. Kerry unlocked the door, and found the
hallway light. She paused for a second.
"If I invited you in for coffee would you really drink it?" Kerry asked
him suddenly. John remembered the amount of coffee he had already drank
tonight, sure that there was no way he could drink another cup. But
this was Kerry, his brain told him.
"Um, maybe just one cup," he told her, half joking. Kerry just smiled:
coffee was definitely not on her mind at all.
She closed the door firmly behind him and kissed him. Her intentions
quite clear to both of them. "Let's just forget the coffee!" she said
softly.
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So it took me by complete surprise
When my heart got lost in those deep green eyes
She's not at all what I was looking for
She's more
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Part 8
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