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Notes: First, many thanks to Rena and Tricia for their encouragement to post this and their help with beta-ing this story. Second, This is "not-smut". It's the closest I can come to intimate scene writing and I still blushed my way through some of it. :-) The original version of this story was written 5 years ago in another fandom, but it seemed to translate well.
Rating: PG 13 at least - suggestive
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A Stakeout
By TT

Ranger shifted slightly in his seat. It had been a long shift, watching the suspect's house. It had been made longer by the fact Stephanie was sitting next to him. Now, with just a few minutes left, he couldn't help but let his eyes wander just far enough from their target, the house, just far enough to see Stephanie in his peripheral vision.

The job would have been much more enjoyable had it not been forty degrees out. It was just cold enough in the car to be a little uncomfortable. A little while ago, Stephanie had left to pick up a coffee and a tea from a shop around the corner. Right now, Ranger's tea was sitting in the cup holder steaming quietly. Stephanie was cradling her coffee in her hands, warming them.

Focusing on Stephanie, he took in her profile. He once more noted her remarkable skin. He felt the desire to touch that skin, to taste it grow inside him. He watched closely as her coffee steamed in the cool air.

Slowly, Stephanie lifted the cup toward her mouth. She paused just before the lid rested against her soft lips. A curl of steam rose from the opening in the cool air, cautiously making its way upward. He watched as the ghostly tendril reached toward the soft pink of her perfect lips. Jealousy rose within him as he watched the steam glide over her skin, caressing the tender surface as it penetrated the warm cavern of her mouth as a lover's tongue claims its right to its partner's domain.

He watched as she exhaled a combination of steam and her own breath, her own essence and unconsciously licked his own lips as if trying to taste it.

His focus was once more directed toward that delectable mouth as the supple lips closed upon the white surface of the lid. He could almost feel their touch, their firmness as they descended upon his own, sealing their mouths together with gentleness and passion, comfort and desire. He could feel the honesty of the kiss, the revelation of her and her feelings for him in its fire.

As he slid deeper into the fantasy, he could feel his body begin to respond. In his mind, she broke the kiss' seal, her pink tongue darting out, teasing his lips, entering his mouth, entwining her tongue with his own. His hand ran along the side of her neck to cup the back of her head and draw her downward upon his naked body as he claimed her mouth, feeling its heat, feeling the need in her kiss. He could feel the smooth softness of that skin under his fingers as he ran his other hand along the length of her body, using his legs to encourage hers to open wider. He could feel the heat build between their naked bodies as they moved into position. He allowed her to break the kiss long enough to gain position. Their eyes were locked in a conversation every bit as intense and erotic as the one their lips and tongues had just completed. He was reaching up, grabbing her hips in order to steady her as she lowered herself upon him when the back door of the Explorer opened.

Startled out of his reverie, Ranger shook himself and tried to bring his mind back to the present.

"Hey, Ranger, man," Tank greeted from the back seat. "What's been going on here?"

After a few minutes of updating Tank on the activity, or lack thereof, in the house, he turned back to once more look at Stephanie only to discover she had set her cup of coffee back down in the cup holder.

Suppressing a sigh, he started the Explorer and set off to Morelli's house to drop Stephanie off.

Someday, he told himself. Someday.

End

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