A/N: this story is fairly flying out of the brain! So as always enjoy and thank you for all the reviews. It's amazing at motivating me.

Chapter 12

A week later,

Kara walked along the p-way towards the front of the ship on her way back to her quarters. It was the long route but sometimes she just liked to go around the long way and clear her head. It wasn't like there were many people walking around at this hour. She was halfway past the Boatswain's locker when someone grabbed her by the arm. She was yanked from the hallway into the cramped space, she went to grab for the arm and counter attack but stopped when she came face to face with Danny.

"Are you kidding me!?" She hissed in a low voice to him. Her heart was pounding a million miles an hour from the shock of being yanked into the cramped space with him. She had heard bad stories about women being attacked on vessels not that it had happened on any vessel she served on but her brain didn't dismiss it from possibly happening. Not every man in uniform was a good guy.

"You've been avoiding me." Danny told her cutting straight to the point. He looked good, she hadn't seen him in a month and she was already counting down the last two months in her mind by the minute.

"I've been working, as have you. We're just on opposite ends of the shifts." Kara said, it sounded lame to her ears as she had been avoiding him. It was that she was afraid of their kiss, how amazing it had been, how much she wanted more to the point she'd break all her self imposed rules. So she avoided him, she knew it was cowardly and she should have faced him earlier but she was so good at throwing up road blocks of having to be on duty in CIC or sleeping.

"You haven't been in the gym either." He pointed out.

"Busy, with these weapons tests and drills. I'm not here for your pleasure and convenience." Kara said drily, she hated that her bitch side came out to play but she did feel annoyed at him scaring her. Annoyed at herself for not seeking him out earlier. But right now she just wanted to lean into him and soak up whatever time they had. But she couldn't, the risk of being caught was at the forefront of her mind.

"So we're back to that?" Danny asked with an exhausted sigh as the walls were back up around Kara. He knew it was a protective measure but he'd hope they could have stayed lowered for him.

"No and now isn't the time. Anyone could come past and hear us." She told him, she went to leave but he blocked her exit. She gave him a warning look that he ignored.

"No one is coming by here for at least another three hours unless there is an emergency and an alarm will sound. I've had three weeks to track you and scope this place out. It's more secure than the Gym given there are no cameras in here." Danny said, Kara's eyes went wide in realization of his words.

"Oh my god." Kara said feeling the air rush out of her lungs and her face heat as she had forgotten about the Gym having a camera. They were done for. It was only a matter of time that she'd be called into the Captain's stateroom and stripped of her rank and informed she was being Dishonourably discharged and probably charged for fraternising.

"Relax, no one has reported us and I paid off the crewman who was on that shift to turn a blind eye. Only he knows and he won't say a thing, I'd pay for the footage but if that disappeared well, eyebrows would rise. So let's hope no one tries to hurt themselves to claim disability." Danny joked.

"Oh my god." Kara said as she couldn't believe what a moron she had been. That if she was booted from the Navy then she had failed at not becoming her mother. She would be booted from the Navy and she'd have to start from scratch. Something she didn't want to do. She really wanted to blame Danny for being attractive and just breathing but it was her fault. She made the first move. She bent over and took slow and deep breaths as she couldn't help but feel immense disappointment in herself in the moment.

"Hey, it's ok." Danny said as he moved towards her and soothingly rubbed her back. It made her want to cry as no one ever really comforted her.

"My career, this is my everything and I totally screwed it." Kara said as she straightened her back and decided she just had to face her fate and deal with it.

"You haven't done anything wrong." Danny said, Kara gave him a look. "Ok, that kiss was against regs but it was hot and well worth the risk which was minimal." he added, he knew she was fanatical about her career but until now he hadn't realized how much of her identity she had placed in being in the Navy.

"I can't lose my commission." Kara told him.

"You won't, the people on this ship really care about you. They wouldn't turn you in unless it affected your work which it obviously doesn't given you've been able to stay away from me with ease." he commented, a little hurt at her absence from his life. But he understood her reasoning even if he ached to kiss her.

"Oh, is your ego bruised?" Kara asked, wryly. That made him smile.

"Yeah, it is a little. You know you could have given me a heads up instead of disappearing." Danny told her.

"I know, I'm sorry." She said stepping away to put space between them.

"I was worried I did something wrong." Danny said.

"No, it's just that I didn't want lose my self control and being around you-"

"I make you lose your self control?" he asked innocently but he had to admit he felt pretty chuffed that he wasn't the only one affected by the kiss or the only one who was invested in their relationship. It may seem like a non event from the outside but to him she was the second woman he'd ever felt like he could have a serious relationship with. He barely knew who was under all the rules and regs but he wanted her in his life.

"It seemed like a two way street on that." Kara remarked as she watched him lean against the doorway into the space as he wasn't ready to let her escape just yet. But then she figured it took him a good amount of time to figure out her schedule and to wait for her. The effort that should seem creepy and rather stalker like was rather endearing given she knew if she told him to leave he would.

"I know but I'm not ashamed or scared of it." Danny said.

"I'm not ashamed, I just have a lot to lose here if this doesn't work." She said gesturing between them, acknowledging that there was something between them.

"So do I but I don't want us to spend the rest of this trip avoiding one another. I want you Kara, I'll keep my pants zipped but I want to see you, be with you as much as I can without raising too many eyebrows." Danny said putting himself out on a line for her. He appreciated that she didn't deny being afraid, they could lose a lot but to him she was worth it. He felt it in his bones that the woman before him was not a passing fling, she was more and he wanted to be with her, explore that with her.

"It would be safer. The less we meet the less chance of losing our self control and getting caught." Kara pointed out. Danny couldn't help but feel a sense of relief that while she hadn't said the same to him; she was actively trying to make it work between them.

"Or, we still meet but here instead of the Gym." Danny told her.

"And what would we do? share a bag Cheetos and talk about our dreams for the future?" she asked glibly, not even thinking of what he meant. It only dawned on her when he smiled at her, the smile that made her weak in the knees and do stupid things as she was ready to climb him like a tree.

"Glad you asked." he said cockily, he grasped her by the nape and lowered his lips to hers in a kiss. It was no peck on the lips. Next thing she knew, his tongue was sliding against hers, his hands gripped, and she was gone. She let out a breathless moan, her body pressed tight against his.

He slid his hands down to her ass, gripping her through the thick fabric of her coveralls. He kissed her until his head swam, until nothing existed but the taste, the feel of her mouth on his, and the soft sounds she made as he kissed the living daylights out of her.

"Meet me here day after tomorrow same time." he breathed against her lips before he peppered her neck with kisses, "We'll meet in the hallway, you can check my six and vice versa. If it's clear you address me as Lieutenant, if it's not say Lieutenant Green and we'll just pass by one another. Try for another night." he told her, the plan he'd formulated for them, hoping she'd not ignore him again. He had a plan that was low risk and meant they could see one another.

"Ok." Kara replied a little breathlessly, as any plan sounded good to her as long as he kissed her again. Her brain completely boggled but her body singing for more of his attention.

"Yeah?" Danny asked for confirmation as she looked a little punch drunk.

"Yes." she said with a smile but this time she pulled him down and kissed him.