Home Fires
Chapter One
Boston seemed like a million miles away when Eliot boarded the plane with Kenna and the others. It had been a long couple of days and he was ready to get back home and hopefully a few days alone with Kenna. He begged Nate to take the other's back home and they would meet up in a few days but Nate wasn't having it.
"I promise a week without taking another job." He said as they boarded the plane.
"I'm holding you to that Nate." Eliot growled.
"We're all holding you to it." Sophie said as she sat next to him. That's when Eliot noticed that Nate didn't look so hot. It wasn't the greenish hue he got after an all night bender but his coloring was a bit off. He leaned in and whispered in Kenna's ear.
"Something's up with Nate. He's not lookin' so good." Kenna looked up and saw what Eliot meant.
"Nate, are you okay?" Kenna wasn't afraid to alienate Nate like the others were.
"Fine, just a little jet lag from the last trip across the Atlantic." He said as he leaned back against the head rest.
"Are you sure?" Kenna reached over the seat and touched his head. "Nate, you're burning up." She looked at Eliot. "It's too late to get off the plane."
"Not if I can help it." Eliot stood and went to the nearest flight attendant. Taking out his Air Marshal's badge her smiled his bad boy smile. "We have a medical emergency and need to get off the plane."
"I'm sorry sir but the doors have already closed."
"Darlin' if we don't this man to a doctor in the next half hour he will die. And if he stays on the plane…well I won't be responsible for the outcome." Kenna stood up and came up behind him.
"We need to get off now." Kenna hissed and handed the lady her ID. "I'm with the CDC and we need to get this man quarantined now."
"He's contagious?"
"He will be in forty minutes." Kenna said with authority.
"Let me talk to the captain." She turned to the phone behind her.
"Good call with the CDC thing." Eliot leaned back and whispered.
"Thanks, I'm kinda getting good at pulling things out of my ass."
"It's a great ass by the way." He returned.
"Thanks." The flight attendant returned.
"The door will be open in five minutes. Please have your party ready for debarking."
"Yes ma'am." Eliot smiled. Kenna turned and headed back to their seats. "Nice work Hawks."
"How did you live without me all those years Spencer?" He didn't really know. He had been a lot of places and seen a lot of things but he wasn't sure where he'd be today if Kenna hadn't come back into his life.
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"How bad?" Eliot had gotten them rooms at the Hilton next to the airport and Nate had been hold up in the bathroom ever since. Kenna volunteered to look after him.
"I would venture food poisioning isn't something Nate is real comfortable with." The sounds of retching coming from the bathroom didn't sound promising.
"How are you doing?" He touched her cheek.
"Oddly I'm feeling great." Taking her in his arms he hugged her and kissed the top of her head.
"Sophie's a wreck. Parker and Hardison are getting on my last nerve but oddly I'm fine too." Kenna chuckled. "I just wanted to go home and sleep in our own bed with your damn cat curled up against us."
"We'll be there in a couple of days. I promise."
"I better go check on the others. Tell Nate I'm glad he got the scallops and not me." Eliot kissed her one last time. "If you need anything we'll be next door."
"Thanks." She waved as Eliot left the room for his own.
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(Three Days Later)
Eliot dropped his and Kenna's bags at the door. She had stopped at Nate's to make sure he went straight to the couch and lay down after the long flight. Throwing his keys on the counter he headed to make sure the damn cat had food and water. He hadn't expected to be gone so long. The cat was curled up in a ball on his bed.
"Hey Topher." The cat looked up. "Glad to see you kept things going around here." The cat blinked and went back to his nap.
"You talking to yourself again Spencer?" Kenna came through the bedroom door.
"Tell me again why you have a cat?"
"He used to be much more cuddly but he's a little pissed he's been replaced as the number one man in my bed." She stood behind him and kissed his neck. "I thought I would never get you alone." She wrapped her arms around his waist. "I missed you Eliot Spencer." She started unbuttoning his shirt.
"We've been together for the last week." He said, chuckling.
"Together but not alone." She slid his shirt down his arms. He tried to turn around but Kenna had her leg between his. "I love our friends but man can they throw a wrench in a girl's love life." She undid his belt and pulled it out of the loops and threw it in the corner. The buckle hitting the wall startled Topher and he went flying into the living room.
"Darlin' we just got off an eight hour flight and five of the most horrendous days I have ever had in all my life and you want to…" She undid the button of his jeans.
"Oh, Eliot I want to." She kissed his neck. Her hands slid to his hips and pushed his jeans down.
"You're insane Kenna Shane." He whispered.
"Yeah but I'm also a few other things that you never complain about." She moved her leg and he turned around and kicked his jeans out of the way.
"It's been a long week…" Kenna kissed him and then pushed him back to the bed.
"Are you really telling me no Eliot Spencer?" She straddled him.
"No darlin', I'm just saying, slow down." He whispered. "Just slow down." Grabbing her arms he laid her next to him and turned on his side. Eliot kissed her lips softly. "We don't have to hurry."
"Yeah, we do." She sat up and stripped off her shirt and slid out of her jeans. "Your needy friends will be knocking on that door any minute and I don't want to wait till they're over there problem of the day to make love to you." Reaching over she pulled him on top of her.
"You do have a point." He said in between kisses.
"Yes I do." It was the last thing either one of them said for a very long time.
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(One Week Later)
Eliot watched Kenna sleep. As promised they had been jobless for a week but Nate was getting more than a little board. He was plucking cases out of thin air. Eliot slid on his gloves and leaned over to kiss her Kenna one last time before he headed off to work.
"You think you can get out of here that easily." She turned and kissed him on the lips.
"I didn't want to wake you." He whispered.
"When you're leaving a girl for God knows how long, you wake her Eliot." He sat on the bed.
"I never had a girl that I wanted to come back to before." He told her softly.
"So does that mean you want to come home?" He pushed a strand of hair out her face.
"You really think you need to ask me that?"
"This week was nice."
"We'll have more weeks Kenna. Nate saw what working nonstop did to all of us. I think he's going to back off a little." He leaned over and kissed her. "Just because I'm not here doesn't mean I'm not with you." He put his hand on her stomach. Yesterday he notices the bump was a little bigger than it had been earlier in the week. "I'll always come back…to both of you." He kissed her on the forehead and stood up.
"I'll see you when you get home."
"I could call."
"It was your rule Spencer."
"If I would have called, I might have known you were in trouble."
"It was a fluke. Let's just keep that one rule, since we keep breaking the others." She smiled. "Go before Nate sends Parker looking for you again. I believe she's seen me naked more times than Jimmy did." Eliot shook his head.
"Do you really need to be talking about your husband seeing you naked while you're lying in my bed, naked?"
"Only if it makes you think that you're the lucky one." She smiled.
"I've thought I was lucky since I was nine years old." He turned and left. Kenna threw herself back on the bed and looked up at the ceiling and let out a deep breath and hoped this job was quick and painless.
