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Spider was still waiting in the wardroom and he obviously was scared, as Bomber could tell from his reaction as she entered. He twitched and looked at her as if she would grab a huge knife and attack him like some psychopath in a horror movie. But nothing alike happened. She appeared to be calm and relaxed as she pulled one new pair of gloves over her hands and approached him.

"Get down, we need to disinfect that wound."

Spider swallowed and leaned down, supporting himself with his elbows on the table. He flinched when she touched him and he hissed sharply as she treated the tattoo with her name carefully with a swab. Her silence made him even more nervous then before and he almost could not push himself to ask her:"What... what did you do to Buffer?"

"Oh, Nav will take care about that. Could you boys be so kind and stop with all that childish crap? And don´t you dare to think about a second revenge so this continues until you two realise how idiotic this is!"

Spider sensed how she applied a thin layer of salve on his shoulder before she started to bandage him. He took a deep breath and started to talk abashed:"I promise, this won´t happen... Bomb, ahm... because of... because of last night, I..."

He straightened his back and drove his hand through his short hair while he watched Bomber cleaning up the used med stuff.

"Bomb, I don´t know how I could loose control, I nearly had... I am so sorry..."

"I don´t want to hear your pardon!", Bomber said shortly and wanted to leave the ward room, but Spider slipped between the young sailor and the door quickly and locked these.

"What shall this be?!", Bomber asked him with a convincingly angry gaze, but inside her she felt a gaggle of butterflies raving.

"Bomb..."

"Leave me alone", she snarled and wanted to push him away, but as her hands met his bare chest, her body would not obey her any more, so her hands were left resting on his muscles.

"I... that...", she stuttered and felt how the words, she wanted to say, simply slipped her away.

How she wished they could do what they did the previous evening... She just wanted to bury her hands in this wonderfully ruffled hair and...

Spider grinned triumphant, bent down to her and captured a kiss from her.

"Billy", she whispered breathless while their faces came closer again. "I don´t think this is a good idea..."

"Why do you think I locked the door?", Spider grinned and shoved one strand of her brown hair behind her ear, his breath caressing her face. "Would you mind if I asked you something?"

"What?"

He smiled and murmured:"Since when are you wax in my hands?"

"You´re to blame!", she answered in a low voice as he pulled her softly into a embrace. "You damn fool made me love you!"

"Well, I must say that I have to return this accusation."

Bomber lay her cheek against his chest and closed her eyes, listening to his heartbeat.

"Nav, my wrists are hurting!", Buffer complained, kneeling on the floor of the galley. He put aside the toothbrush he had been using and got up to his feet to look at Nikki who was seated on the counter top, letting her legs dangle while she ate a bag of crisps.

"Hey, no pause there, Buff – oon, the floor shall gleam! I think you already suspected that you would get some uncomfortable punish when you figured your plan out, so get down and scrub!"

She slipped a gummy bear into her mouth and chewed pleasurable. Buffer grinned and said:"I had hoped my punishment would include to do everything to make you feel good..."

"You know, I would really feel much better if the floor would look more then clean... and after that I could need a nice massage..."

They exchanged some meaningful looks, then Buffer asked:"It´s so quite in the ward room – do you think she killed him and is now shredding the body parts?"

"Buff!", Nikki censured him and slipped from the counter top. "Never... I would guess the two are busy in some other was..."

She twinkled with a naughty expression and Buffer grinned knowingly as he stood up from the floor again and looked down on her. Buffer gave her a warm smile and their fingers entwined. Just as their lips grew closer, they had to jump apart as suddenly Kate stopped by the output counter.

"Okay, Buffer! Will you explain the meaning of that scene between Bomber and you to me? Mi... ahm, the boss and me, we where extremely bewildered! And where is Bomber? I would like to talk to her too!"

"Bomber? I... I think she is in the ward room, doing... doing some things for Swain... and this thing, yeah, you know... that was no big deal..."

"She appeared extremely angry to us and additionally she screamed she would kill you!"

Nikki and Buffer laughed artificially and Buffer explained:"Oh... she was just... kidding!"

One of Kate´s eyebrows rose up to the ceiling, it was clear she would not be happy with the information she got so far.

"Well... I believe you – for the moment. But I will also talk to Bomber and if she has another explanation, you will have to serve me the real details!"

Kate left, heading towards the ward room and Buffer whispered into Nikki´s ear:"I think there is something going on between the X and the boss again – they left his cabin together when we ran pass."

"You sure?", Nikki inquired, wondering if he could be right, while Buffer grinned and nodded resolute.

Kate walked the short way from the galley to the ward room down the hallway and tried to operate the door handle, but the door did not open. Kate wondered why Bomber would lock the door for working and vigorously knocked on the door.

"Bomber?"

Bomber and Spider synchronously raised their heads and looked at the door. Spider indignantly pressed his lips together, then he murmured:"Why does she want something from you now? She shall get in line, it´s my turn right now!"

Bomber had to suppress a giggle and leant the back of her head against his shoulder.

"Bomber? Please, answer me!", Kate´s voice came from the other side of the locked door and Bomber answered:"X, I am not feeling good presently, could you please come back later?"

"Okay, but then we definitely have to talk with each other!", Kate said, then they heard how she left. Spider grinned and breathed out:"Finally she is gone..."

"Yeah, luckily...", she answered and nestled herself into his arms. Spider´s fingers played with the hem of her grey uniform shirt and he whispered:"This morning I heard Buffer and Charge talking about you having a tattoo yourself."

"And if I had one?"

"Where is it?", Spider asked curiously and planted some kisses on her neck. She smiled and said:"I don´t see any reason why I should tell you that..."

He turned her around in his arms and kissed her. "How about that?"

"Not bad... but don´t you have anything more... convincing?", Bomber grinned and Spider did not need to be asked twice until he leant down to her again.

Some minute later they pulled apart and as Spider looked at her questioningly, she just nodded as she could not answer due to the lack of oxygen.

"So, where is it?", Spider wanted to know, but Bomber just placed a finger on his lips, then she turned around and to his astonishment she pulled her t-shirt over her head.

"Wow", he murmured and his fingers followed the trail of the small rose vines on the middle of her back. "This is beautiful... Is it me or are these vines forming a B?"

"I designed it myself – but the letter would be a complete coincidence!"

She turned to look at him, blinked with a small smile on her face and slung her arms around his neck. Spider left some kisses on her shoulder, then he said into her ear:"Mine was made by me too – but stupidly Buffer found the damn sheet of paper and turned it against me."

"You´re cute, do you know that?"

"So, what if the cutie suggested that we utilize the time until the X will return?"

"Well, I just wanted to say the same thing!", Bomber smiled and pulled him down to kiss him once again.