Little introduction: Begins near the ending of season 2 finale. 2 Undercover kisses have happened, the 3rd one hasn't. And captain Holt's not leaving. I mean, come on! He has to come back, right? He better come back by the third episode of season 3, or I just don't know what I'll do.

I'm actually sure you'll know exactly where this picks off.

"You're under arrest! This is a work event!" Jake shouted. The buyer dropped to his knees and everything was silent for a moment. For the first time in his life Jake froze. Luckily they weren't in danger as the perp had already surrendered and both he and Santiago had their guns trained on him, but Jake's legs were glued to the spot. Did this count as freezing? It was a term used often enough in the force, but he knew that his state was not brought on by anything police related. Well, technically police related. In the fact that his partner had just kissed him for the second time that night out of no where. He had never hesitated any moment in his life, in personal or work matters. Especially never when a girl kissed him. But this was Amy, not just some girl.

"Jake, I've got your back," Amy said, motioning with her gun to the buyer who was still very much on his knees, and both him and his partner were giving Jake looks. Her prompting gave Jake enough motivation to unlock his knees and walk towards the buyer. He read him his rights and slapped the cuffs on his wrist, keenly aware of Santiago's eyes on him. Of course she was looking at him. She had to make sure the buyer didn't try something. But Jake was sure that her eyes were trained on him, not the buyer. He hauled the perp up and put him in their police car in silence.

In the whole ride back to the precinct, Amy didn't utter a word. Neither did Jake. He needed to think some things out.

Sure, he kissed her first that night, but the second kiss changed things. Or maybe he was just now processing the first kiss too. In the restaurant he hadn't even decided to do it, but he did. He could tell himself all he wanted that it was just a work thing, but it would just be lying. After he kissed her in the restaurant he was sure it would never happen again. So when it did, that night, it had really shocked him. And Amy had initiated it. He knew she was serious about being a cop, but would she really have kissed him just because the buyer was looking suspicious? He supposed she might, but he wasn't completely convinced.

They had pulled up to the precinct before he knew it. Jake was sure that all of this thinking was no good. He wasn't an analyzer. He just made gut decisions. But he knew he couldn't do that, wouldn't let himself do that with Amy. He wouldn't let himself ruin it with her. He walked into the precinct with the inner monologue in his head.

Jake and Amy both got the proper forms that they needed to individually fill out and went back to their separate desks. He glanced up at his partner every so often to see her writing calm as usual. He, meanwhile, had to go back up for 3 separate forms because he made even more mistakes than usual.

"Everything alright?" Boyle asked, giving him a knowing look that Jake absolutely despised at that moment.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," Jake brushed him off. He hated how conflicted he was over this. He was supposed to be calm, cool, disarmingly funny, maybe even charming. Not this. Not... in love. He supposed he could admit him to himself. Jake Peralta was in love. In stupid, stupid love, with his partner and he didn't know how she felt. Amy was usually easy to read, extremely so, but not tonight. In the glances he stole at her, she seemed calm as ever, completely unaffected. He was sure he'd go crazy if he spent too much time dwelling on it.

Suddenly, when he had looked up for about the 40th time, Amy was gone. Her jacket was still there, so she hadn't gone home for the night, but her desk was very absent. He waited ten minutes (on the dot) before he decided enough time had past for him to go looking for her. And he knew the one place she'd be.

She was standing in the file room looking at the floor until he walked in. She started to greet him, but he interrupted her.

"Can I kiss you?" Jake asked. He thought he might as well get it out of the way first before he lost his nerve. There was a slight look of surprise on Santiago's face, but nothing else to give away what she was thinking.

"Johnny didn't ask to kiss Dora," she smiled wryly. Her eyes were still locked on his, an intensity in her gaze he hadn't seen before.

"Yeah, but this time it'll be Jake kissing Amy," he paused, leaving her room to respond. When she didn't, he took a deep breath in and asked again. "So can I?"

Amy watched him carefully, then gave an ever so slight nod, so he went for it before she could change her mind.

Their lips melded together and he took it slow, which seemed to surprise both her and himself. His hands lifted to hold her face in the softest way he could manage. It was actually Amy who brought up the pace and deepened the kiss, biting and licking his lips until he opened them so their tongues could mingle. She curled her hands up in his hair and pressed into him with everything she had.

They broke away when their lungs were both screaming for oxygen. Jake still wasn't sure if this was the same to Amy as it was to him.

"Can we keep doing this?" he asked.

"We're gonna have to sign out eventually, and people will notice if we've both been gone too long." Amy definitely didn't get what he was asking.

"No. I mean, us. Jake and Amy. Together." He felt nervous energy in his chest, like he was a kid again asking someone to be his valentine for the first time. But he didn't care anymore. Because Amy smiled.

"I'd like that."

AN: I'd love to hear what you guys think. I've got a few chapters in mind, so we'll see where this takes us. And Jake will be back to his normal cocky self soon enough, I just liked the idea of him being a little vulnerable in this first chapter. Just went a bit under his facade.

I was informed of the proper ship name, but I'm fond of the ones I guessed, so that's what's in the description. Please please tell if you do like it, and maybe what you'd like to see in the future of this fic.