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FROM:  smartissexy21@yahoo.com
Date:  February 23, 2010
Subject: The Force of Love 

Title:  The Force of Love
Author:  Brae M.
Rating: PG
Category: Friendship/Romance (eventually)
Archive:  Please ask.
Disclaimer:  The characters aren't mine.  If they were, 
I would be rich and have no need to be at work 
tomorrow morning.  
Spoilers:  This begins during the beginning.  The plan
is to write a series of vignettes following the development
of the relationship between the partners.  Every episode
will be included.    
Author's Note:  During Martin Luther King, Jr. day this 
year I was reading an article and the following quote appeared:
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy
into friend."  The great Dr. King was on to something, though
I highly doubt he thought it would be used for fanfiction.
All the same, it has inspired this.
Also, before you all get upset with me about finishing
Progression, if you are reading it, I promise to finish.
I just need a break after some things in my personal life.
Summary:  How did he go from hating her to relying on her.
When did she decide he was more than an annoyance, but a 
friend.
Feedback:  Always appreciated.  If you like it, my e-mail address 
is smartissexy21@yahoo.com. If you don't like it, I don't have 
an e-mail address.
Acknowledgements:  Thank you to anyone who has every sent me
any feedback.  You have no idea how encouraging that can be
to a writer.  Also, I know this idea has been done a thousand 
times, but this is my take as inspired by Dr. King.  Thank you
to my wonderful husband for all his love and support.  



THE FORCE LOVE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy
into friend."  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

CHAPTER ONE:  The Pilot
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He tolerates her.  Begrudgingly.  He dislikes her from the 
moment her rosebud lips start lecturing on time and
distance, and her eyebrow rises in skepticism.  She is an
annoyance, a novice with an agenda.  She is his adversary.

She detests him.  Whole-heartedly.  She hates his smug 
expression, his over-exaggerated arrogance, and the way her
surname rolls of his tongue.  He is crazy, a lunatic with a 
gun.  He is her rival.

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Three days later and he decides that she might be useful.
Her naivety does not absolve her from suspicion, but he
thinks she may have the integrity to see past their agenda.
He convinces himself that this growing feeling has
nothing to do with mosquito bites and a power outage.

As she returns from her first field assignment, she still 
thinks he's delusional.  However, if nothing else, the motel 
fire has given some merit to his chaotic ramblings.  Either
way, she does not believe that anything other than an
orangutan was in Ray Soam's grave.  She ignores the memory
of his hot breath on her back.


CHAPTER TWO:  Deep Throat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

He offers to buy her a drink.  He knows she will decline.
Her sanctimonious tone only encourages him more.

When he returns from the bathroom, she sees panic and 
paranoia on his features.  As far as she is concerned,
this case is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money.
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He thinks she must be the most pragmatic person he has
ever met.  It annoys him that her pretty little head can 
dispense rationality with such precision.  The fact that she
even knows about such things as the Aurora Project is enough
to keep her around, for now.

He truly is a Sucker.  She wishes he would have given her
his twenty dollars.  She would have bought something far more
useful with it.  Maybe a copy of "Explaining Away Paranormal
Phenomena through Physics and Science."  Not that he would have
read it.  His strict adherence to all things unexplainable is
certainly keeping her on her toes.
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He doesn't think she is keeping anything from him, but all the 
same, he feels the need to take a look without her.

As she draws her gun on an official of the federal government,
she decides that next time she is keeping the keys.
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As he loops around the track, he can't help but admire her
tenacity.  Maybe not a spy, but certainly not a comrade.

She does her best to convince her superiors that he is
not a threat, merely a fly in their chardonnay.  She
is not so sure that is an accurate assessment.

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TO BE CONTINUED