Side by side || Emily Prentiss

23.

"It couldn't have been anyone else but you with my breakfast. Come in." - she told Daisy, leaving room for her to enter and closing the door behind them

"Good morning." - Daisy told her, smiling and pressing a small kiss on her lips

"What are you doing here so early?" - Emily asked her, taking her tea and her donuts with an ecstatic expression and sitting on her chair

"I couldn't sleep well, I needed to talk to you." - said Daisy trying not to look too serious and sitting down on her usual chair in front of Emily

"What happens now?" - the older agent asked her with a concerned expression

Daisy didn't know how to set up that conversation, she just knew that she needed Emily to understand that her feelings for her were real, she just knew that they needed to experience them before it was too late.

"I know we've talked about this before Em, but I really can't live pretending to just be your colleague anymore." - she said in one breath

"Daisy, I already explained to you what the problem with this whole situation is." - Emily replied defeated

"And I understand it, I don't care about telling others that we're in a relationship, I don't think they need our help to understand it anymore, but I want to live it Emily. I don't want it to just last the hours we have sex, I want to live you outside the bed."

The black eyes of the gray-haired woman became, if possible, even darker, but they were full of love and sweetness; they moved gracefully over every feature of Daisy's face and Emily couldn't help but feel like the luckiest woman in the world.

"Are we in a relationship?" - she asked with a smile

"Call it what you want, I don't care, that's not what matters."

"I like relationship, even if it has to remain a secret." - she then said, reaching out to move a lock of Daisy's unruly hair behind her ears

"Emily Prentiss, my plans were never like this. When I realized how I felt for you I tried so hard to keep you away from my heart, but whatever spell you decided to cast on me worked perfectly and, please, allow me to truly experience you."

Emily didn't understand the desperation she read in the young woman's eyes, but despite that she couldn't help but get up from the chair and crouch at Daisy's feet while the other woman was still sitting in her chair.

She placed a hand on her knee and peered into those brown eyes, hard as reinforced concrete, as if to try to delve into her soul. Emily was sure that Daisy could dominate her in bed as much as she wanted, but when it came to feelings she was fragile and insecure and she needed a hand to deal with them in a healthy way.

"Let me take you to dinner tonight. A date, just you and me. What do you think?" - Emily said in a low voice, with one of the sweetest tones Daisy had ever heard in her life

"Really?" - the young woman asked her, a little in disbelief

"I also want to live you out of bed D. We will have to be a little careful and choose a place a little far from here, but if you are willing to take this precaution we can have our first real date as a couple."

At that word Daisy's heart leapt and it was almost impossible for her to swallow. She was sure of what she felt for Emily, but hearing the other woman talk about them being a couple out loud was a blow to her heart: she had never had any other relationship except with Claudia.

"All right." - she said after a while, remembering the reason why she was there, why she had said those things to Emily

"Are you sure? I know it's easier to think certain things than do them. If you need time we can wait longer, we have all the time in the world." - Emily said, as if she had read her mind, able, for the first time, to truly understand what was going through Daisy's brain