He wished he could say that he'd assessed the situation thoroughly or that it was because he was drunk. Neither were true. He wished he could say he'd seen it coming, if he had he wouldn't have followed her. Instead he'd come to make sure she was ok, then pushed her up against the cubicle wall and kissed her like his life depended on it. She wasn't exactly helping manners with the way she groaned as he kissed down the side of her neck, if anything it made him wish they were doing this at his house. Finally she came to her senses and pushed him away gently. He breathed in harshly as he saw he flushed face.
"Not that I think this should be a regular thing but Jesus Christ Steve some warning next time" she said. Steve smiled and pushed her hair out of her eyes.
"Shut up" and then he claimed her lips again. She lost herself for a moment before pushing him back.
"I really shouldn't, you're my boss. I might lose my job" he grinned.
"Kono, I promise you won't lose your job, you're too valuable to the boss" she laughed at that.
"I really shouldn't Steve, especially because I was just about to kill someone" his eyes turned dark.
"Kono if you ever bring up that…. That douche I will not be held responsible of what I do to him. Chin's already threatened to kill him, nobody cheats on his baby cousin. His words" she laughed before leaning up to kiss him lightly.
"Don't worry boss, he'll leave me alone if I have anything to say about it. Now shoo, we've been in here a while and if we go out looking like this questions will be raised." He frowned and left her with a smile, standing at the mirror he refastened his buttons and re-did his hair then left.
The next day everything had shifted, Kono kept blushing like a school girl whenever Steve walked by and Steve had to avoid Kono otherwise he may say something flirty which would alert the others to something that was going on. In fact Steve had lost it when Kono decided to take on five armed guys without back up. He had given her an hour long lecture on proper procedures to which Danny had scoffed at. He let her go with a glare. Yet he felt so guilty so he decided to go and apologise but when he ended up at her house he could hear screaming. Instantly he went into navy SEAL mode and stalked up to the front door. Suddenly the door flew open and an old man stormed out, Steve heard crying and walked inside. What he saw was disturbing, things were thrown across the room and glasses were smashed on the carpet. Kono was in amidst of it all sobbing her heart out. Steve walked tentatively towards her and knelt down.
"Kono?" she looked up startled.
"H-h-h-hey st-st-Steve." She replied. Steve didn't say anything and just hugged her, when she finished crying Steve let go.
"Go pack a bag" he ordered, she obliged. Steve grabbed her keys and when she'd come back down he threw her bag in the back of his trunk and fastened her in.
When he got home he tucked her in bed and decided to have a sleep on the couch, silently promising that he would help her in the morning.