ANY OF THE 3AM SENTENCE STATERS W JOE AND BESS 💗💗💗
A (kinda) quick one shot, the crew goes camping, Joe and Bess get some privacy for the first time and being together comes naturally to them. (Nothing really inappropriate) please enjoy (like, pls)
“I’m a being of pure power,” Joe huffed as he stumbled across a line in the dirt “I don’t need sleep.” His hands fell onto his knees as George and Frank jogged up behind him.
Frank draped his body over his camping chair next to the fire “Then I’ll sleep for you.” George walked over to Frank giving him a swift pat in the middle of his back, “Don’t tell me I just out ran an ATAC agent.”
“Not this agent!” Joe sat down on the stump next to Bess around the fire.
Frank wheezed, “It’s 3am. We are in the middle of the woods,” he inhaled and swallowed, “I’ve had a long day.”
“So what Hardy, some of us have had a rough day too,” Deirdre rolled her eyes.
George laughed, “Oh you’re just upset that no one told you Ned wasn’t staying the night up here with us.”
“Quiet,” Bess hissed, “Nancy will hear you!”
“Let her hear,” Deirdre chugged the last of her beer.
“I’m… Bed… ‘Night,” Frank staggered to his tent.Deirdre got up from the picnic table she was sitting on, “Try not to make too much noise when you come in the tent girls, 'night losers.”
Joe raised an eyebrow and glanced from Deirdre to George. Once Deirdre was in the girls tent George threw a broken graham cracker at Joe. “Hey,” Joe flinched, “that’s a good cracker!”Bess giggled. George crossed her arms in her fold out chair across the fire from them. “Nancy is already sleeping in the girls tent and Bess will be in there too.” Joe did the classic yawn and arm stretch to get his arm around Bess. “Bess has options.” He winked, making Bess flush with color. George huffed, “gross.” She broke her fire stick and tossed it into the dying flames. “I have better things to do-” “Like Deirdre?” Joe interjected. “-than watch you flirt with my cousin, goodnight guys. And Bess,” George glared at Joe, “don’t make any bad choices.”
The fire crackled softly and crunch of the forest floor under George’s shoes faded away.“Well looks like it’s just you and me left. You and the the midnight forest run champion,” Joe took a sip from his beer bottle. Bess handed him a water bottle, “you better pace yourself.” “You’re always looking out for me,” Joe took the water bottle, “thanks Peach.” He winked and took a drink of water. Bess blushed again.“So, that offer… you weren’t serious, were you Hardy?” She took a bite of her chocolate bar while intently staring at him.
Despite his best effort to stay cool he almost choked on his water. Her gorgeous blonde hair had lost some of its curl throughout the day. Joe wondered if it still smelled like her coconut shampoo. And her skin seemed to glow in the dim light of the embers. He was just staring at her for a bit too long now, he had to say something. “Well I mean, I’m sure it’s a bit crowded in the girls tent by now and you don’t want to go and wake everyone up, could you pass the marshmallows?” Joe sipped his water so he could stop talking.
“You know what I mean Joe.” Joe popped some marshmallows in his mouth. Her curves looked great in her jeans and flannel, something she didn’t wear often. “Frank and I do have separate tents now,” he raised an eyebrow, “not to pressure you or anything.” Her sudden confidence was unlike her normal self and it threw Joe off his game. Bess watched him get up to put the bag of marshmallows away. “It does sound interesting,” Bess whispered. Joe turned around excitedly, “it is late.” “It is.” She stood up. “I’ll just grab my things from the car, I’ll meet you inside?” She grinned sweetly at him. He was clearly excited she was finally coming around. “Inside?” “Inside your tent, Joe.”“Yeah.” A bit dazed he grinned back at her.He put the last embers of the fire out and grabbed his flashlight. Once in his tent he cleaned up a bit. He checked for bugs, twigs, moved his dirty clothes, and made sure everything was comfortable for Bess when she got back.
Bess unzipped the tent flap and crawled in with her bag. Joe couldn’t believe he felt a bit nervous about this. Then again he had never been this alone with Bess. “I thought you were going to change in the car.” Joe caught himself staring at her jeans.“Well… I thought you’d be helping me with that,” Bess sat down next to him. Joe was fixated on her eyes, they seemed to glow in the darkness of the tent. “You’re being really forward tonight.” Joe touched the bottom of her pant leg. Her voice fell a bit, “oh, I just thought that you, I mean I didn’t mean to, I figured you might like, I’m sorry do you not like it?” She scratched the back of her neck as she stammered, not able to meet his eyes anymore. There was the Bess he knew. “No, no I do like you. It. I like it, and you.” Joe was stammering now. “I mean you’ve never seemed to be interested.” Bess smiled and looked up at him, “well you’re always gone on a case, it’s hard enough with my best friend being gone all the time but if we were-” “Yeah I get it.” Joe sighed and rubbed her shoulder. “Why are you changing your mind though?” “Well if Ned and Nancy can do it, why can’t we? I mean it then it can’t be that hard to do, not that we should be together, but we could but that’s not that what I-” Joe kissed her. He was kissing Bess. He was kissing Bess in his tent and they were alone and she liked him. And she tasted like chocolate. “Sweet,” he thought, literally and figuratively. Bess ran her hands through his hair. She pulled away from his lips, “wait so are we together or just?” “Whatever you want,” Joe leaned into her again but she leaned away letting her hand slide to his chest to stop him.“Sorry,” Joe smiled shyly, “but really, I don’t want to force any decisions. And about Ned and Nancy…” Joe rolled his eyes thinking about his brother’s huge crush on Nancy and how he suspects that Nancy isn’t as perfect a girlfriend as Ned thinks she is, sadly. Bess cocked her head like a confused puppy, “what about Ned and Nancy?”“They… I mean Ned doesn’t know… Frank-”Bess grabbed Joe’s shirt collar playfully, “if you have gossip Hardy, you better tell me.” Joe laughed, “don’t tell anyone, okay? Frank has this huge crush on Nancy, he has since like, forever. And Nancy… well, lets say I felt pretty awkward being the third person when we were all in Hawaii.” Bess gasped, “NOOO-” her mouth was covered by Joe’s hand, she was a bit too loud. “Nummphh,” Joe slipped his hand from her mouth to her cheek and rubbed it with his thumb. “I don’t know anything for sure except Frank is in love with Nancy, no telling, okay?” Bess nodded and kissed his thumb, “ you know Joe, with all the flirting you do I thought you’d be on top of me by now.” Joe sighed and slipped one of his arms around her back swiftly laying her down and climbing over her on his hands and knees. “Is this better, Peach?” She ran her hands down his back and played with the end of his shirt. She kissed him which he took as a yes, and as the ok to make out. “Although, I still haven’t changed yet,” she managed to say between kisses, “could you maybe-” Joe sat up, “yeah sure you can go ahead I’ll try not to look.” Bess sighed, “Joe…” Joe was already turning around “I said I’d try.” Bess grabbed him by the shoulder and made him face her. “Joe, I appreciate how sweet you’re being, I really do. But right now I don’t want that.” Joe looked at her, puzzled. “Well what do you want?” Bess gave him a look and raised her eyebrow, almost mimicking the way he flirts with her. Joe gets it. He points to her flannel shirt, “are those buttons or snaps?” “They’re snaps, why?” Bess asked, confused. Joe kissed her, taking her hair into his hands, playing with it. The sent of her coconut shampoo still lingering. He tugs at her hair, their lips are drawn apart, just long enough for Joe to rip her shirt open.“Impressive,” Bess mumbles against his lips. Joe lays Bess down and again but just as he’s about to kiss her neck they hear a scream in the distance. Bess shoots up, accidentally knocking her head into Joe’s.“Shh,” he sits up too and holds her close, kissing her forehead. Bess grabs the flashlight, “should we investigate?” “I’ll go wake up Frank,” he whispers as he takes the flashlight from Bess, “you’ll be ok if I leave you here?” Bess nods, “I can go in the tent with the girls if I have to.” Another scream pierced the stillness of the night. It causes Bess to jump, they both rush outside. Once outside their tents they see Nancy and Frank are already out, both armed with flashlights at the ready, and George is crawling out of the girl’s tent.
“What was that?” George whispered.“I don’t know but I’m going to find out,” Nancy grabs her backpack from inside Frank’s tent. Bess shoots a look at Joe who shrugs as if to say “I told you so.” “I’ll go with you,” Frank walks up to Nancy.Bess widens her eyes in disbelief, she totally sees it now. “Me too.” Deirdre says hushly. Bess hugs Joe, “be careful,” she whispers in his ear. Joe smiles, it almost hurts him, he finally gets Bess, she finally lets go of her fear of opening herself up to him just for him to leave, and what’s practically a new case seems to fall into their lap.“I’ll stay here with George and Bess,” Joe whispers to the others. Bess smiles up at Joe. No bad decisions were made tonight. Although, she couldn’t speak for Frank and Nancy.
