Disclaimer: Definitely not mine.

Summary: One night in a bar...

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Sometimes, she goes to a bar looking for a nice guy. Sometimes she goes to relax by herself. Apparently, the men of the world have those two times confused.

"Can I buy you a drink?"

CJ sighed. "No thanks." She had stopped looking at the guy who had now asked her the same question four times. Something inside her longed to just punch him out or make a scene, but the rational part reminded her that she was a public figure and couldn't do that.

Instead of leaving her like the other times she had turned him down, he sat down on the stool next to her. "C'mon, what're you drinking?"

"No thank you." As he reached his hand out, she murmured. "Don't touch me."

A hand fell on her shoulder. She groaned and looked up. Her eyes widened and she smiled as she saw who it was. Danny took her hand from where it sat on her leg and kissed it, fiddling with her ring as he did. "Hello, sweetheart."

As she continued to gawk wide-eyed at him, he turned to the persistent man next to her. "Oh, hello. I see you've already met my wife. And you are?"

"Your wife?" The man looked suspicious. "She didn't say anything about being married."

Danny showed the man CJ's hand, with the silver band. "Slipped this on her almost a year ago. Isn't that right honey?"

CJ swallowed and nodded. "Of course."

The man stood. "Well, nice to meet you. I'll just be going now."

"Nice to meet you too." Danny smiled at him, then pulled CJ up. "Not a word until we're outside."

She followed him out the door, only pausing to throw some money on the bar and grab her coat. As soon as the jingling door closed behind her, she pulled her hand back. "Wife?"

Danny grinned. "Sorry, I figured he'd beat me up if I just said girlfriend."

CJ shook her head and laughed, then looked down at her hand. "It doesn't really look like a wedding band."

"Low lights in the bar, he couldn't tell." Danny took her hand and turned her ring back around, so the emerald was visible again. "I think I saw it in a movie once, just turn an ordinary ring around and it looks like a band instead."

She sighed. "Good thinking." She glanced back at the bar. "Guess I'm done in there for the night, now what?"

"Why don't you take a walk with your adorable husband?"

"Adorable, huh?"

Danny held out his arm for her and she grasped it. They began to walk down the cool streets of Washington.

Sometimes you go to a bar to relax alone, but end up relaxing the rules for a nice guy instead.

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