Summer Road Trip- Ryan & Natalia

A/N: Okay guys, now I know it is still fall, and it's dull and cloudy outside, and probably snowing or raining, but I thought I could cheer you readers up with some sunny weather and some RaiN fun! Okay, so I came up with this story after visiting Orlando, FL and the states for the first time EVER during summer 2010, and decided to write a pretty nifty story tonight after reading some awesome RaiN FF's! Hehe =D ENJOY! =D

Tuesday 17th July 2011, 1:45pm

Natalia Boa Vista had been working extremely hard these past few months on a really big case that had finally been cracked, and now she could relax and unwind, as her three week summer vacation started on Friday.

She was heading up toward Orlando for a few weeks to chill and relax, as she thought she really deserved a break. She was just finishing filing away some lab reports when Ryan opened the door. She looked up at him and smiled. He smiled back.

"Hey Nat, I was hoping you could run this for me?" Ryan held out the boxed swab. Natalia took it from him. "Sure, no problem, I'll do it for you now, if you want to wait?" Ryan folded his arms and smiled. "No problem, thanks Nat."

Natalia put on latex gloves and took the swab out of the box. Using surgical scissors, she cut the top of the swab and popped it into a test tube. She added some chemical to the test tube and shook it. She placed it in the DNA analyzer and pressed a button.

As the machine got to work, Natalia taped a few keys on the keyboard awaiting the results. Ryan had been watching her as she processed the evidence. He smiled and Natalia saw it. "What has you so happy?" She replied also smiling. Ryan leaned on the desk with his two hands. "I'm officially on vacation for three weeks as of Friday." The grin on his face grew bigger. Natalia chuckled. "Well Ryan, guess what? Ditto." Natalia's smile matched the one on Ryan's face.

Ryan went back to casually folding his arms. "So are you doing anything or going anywhere nice?" Natalia hit a few more keys on the keyboard, and a page of results shot out of the printer. She popped it into a brown case folder and held it in her hands. "Well, I've planned to go up toward Orlando for the three weeks and just relax and unwind; maybe hit the beach, do some shopping, enjoy a pina colada at sunset." Her and Ryan both laughed. "How about you?"

Ryan shrugged. "I hadn't really planned on doing anything apart from maybe relaxing at home and catching up on Ellen that I recorded last week." Natalia raised an eyebrow at Ryan who realized what he had just said. He gave a man-ly cough. "I mean, maybe relax with a root beer and play some Black Ops." Natalia couldn't hold in her laughter anymore and she burst out laughing, and Ryan joined in with her.

When the mental image of Ryan sitting watching Ellen has subsided from both their minds and when they could breathe again, Natalia thought of a great idea. "Hey Ryan, you know, I'm going up toward Orlando by myself, and you're more than welcome to come with me if you want to?"

Ryan's eyes lit up. "Really? I mean, you know, I don't want to spoil your plans or anything."

"No," Natalia said, swatting the idea away with her hand, "It would be fun to have some company."

"Well, if you're sure," Ryan said looking at Natalia, who nodded and smiled, "Okay, sounds like it could be a lot of fun."

Natalia rushed around the desk and hugged Ryan, catching him off guard. "Oh, thank you!" She let go off Ryan and continued "I'll text you what I had planned this evening? And you can text me any things you want to do while we're there?"

Ryan nodded, and after just getting hugged by Natalia, his mind was kind of turned to slush. So he just nodded and began to head out of the lab. Natalia stood there slightly in shock of what she had done and the way in which she had just grabbed Ryan and hugged him.

When she came to her senses, she realized she was still holding Ryan's DNA results. She chased after him calling his name. It took a minute for this to register with Ryan. "RYAN!" Natalia finally had caught up with him. "I forgot to give you these results."

Ryan cautiously took the results from Natalia, and he smiled. "Oh, Thanks." As she was giving him the results, their hands touched, and both their heads shot up to meet each other's eyes. After a few seconds, they broke from their gaze. "Well, I should get back to work." Natalia gestured, not moving from where she was standing. "Me too." Ryan replied, not moving from where he was standing either.

As Natalia went to move past Ryan, he moved the same way. Ryan and Natalia both chuckled nervously. As Natalia went to move passed him the other way, Ryan moved the same way too." They both chuckled, and Natalia stood to one side gesturing to Ryan to go past.

When he did, she continued on her way back to the lab. 'Woah, that was weird,' she thought, 'Why did I feel like that? It's only Ryan; the guy I've worked with for 5 years who is like my bestest friend besides Calleigh.' She swatted the thoughts away again with her hand, and went back to work on filing away DNA reports without giving it another thought.

Ryan however, couldn't get Natalia off his mind. He had just put the report into the evidence box and was now in the locker room getting ready to go home. He was so excited about their trip together, because he had really liked Natalia now for some time; even thought he would NEVER do anything about it because she was his best friend, but he was looking forward to spending time with just her for three weeks.

He stared into his locker with thoughts of Natalia on his mind, until he was startled from his thoughts by Delko at the locker room entrance. "Hey Wolfe, you ready to go for that drink?" Ryan nodded and hurried up getting his stuff ready to go home. "Yeah, I'll meet you outside at Calleigh's car in 2."

With that, Delko was gone and Ryan had just put the last few things into his gym bag. A picture of him and Natalia on his locker room door caught his eye. He looked at it, and how happy both he and Natalia looked. She looked gorgeous as always, and Ryan remembered back to how happy he had felt at that moment when the picture was taken; having this beautiful woman on his arm. He took one last glance at the photo and smiled as he shut the door and headed outside to catch up with Eric for a drink and a game of darts.

A/N: Just in case it wasn't clear, Eric and Calleigh are a couple already in my story, and the reason they were meeting at Calleigh's car was because she was dropping off Eric and Ryan as they were going to have a drink. Also, I would love to hear what you guys think, so please R&R! =D