OK. I had to write this quickly to get it out of my system. Please note that this chapter is definetely rated "M". I hope you enjoy this. Reposting this since it may have been messed up due to the Visitor Tracker Outage.

Kono reached out to touch Steve's shoulder, "Ste...,". She never finished calling his name. Steve spun around – she had forgotten how fast he could be - and grabbed Kono's forearms in a vice like grip.

Steve stared into her eyes. "Kono? What the hell are you doing?" His voice was harsh and raspy, and his eyes raked her body hungrily as her wet clothes clung to every curve.

"Steve. I….," Kono really had no words. He was so handsome. His dark hair wet and plastered and the water running over and beading over his muscled torso. Kono was still not thinking straight; she was driven purely by her desire now and she moved closer to Steve, looking into his eyes willing him to see what was written in hers.

"Kono," Steve whispered, voice hoarse with desire, "I…Aw hell." Steve pulled her to him and his mouth covered hers. The kiss was hard and hungry. It encompassed all the years that he had wanted her. Kono responded willingly, her mouth devouring his as hungrily. She needed him to know how much she desired him. She started twining her hands around his neck, when he broke contact and away and pushed her away from him.

"Kono," he said, his voice shaking with desire and regret, "I can't. Adam…,"

"…is gone

," Kono finished for him. "He and I broke up." She realized that she was babbling, but she needed to tell him. She should have told him all this years ago. "I realized that it was never going to work. He had one thing wrong with him that no amount of money and no amount time could ever fix. He wasn't you, Steve. He wasn't you."

Steve looked at Kono thunderstruck. She watched the emotions play in his expressive eyes. First confusion and sadness, then hope, and then comprehension. This woman about whom he had dreamed from the first day he met her; the woman to whom he subconsciously compared all others; the only woman who he could every truly love. His mouth worked to say something, but he was so overwhelmed that no words would come.. Instead, he buried both hands in her hair and tipped her face upward. His lips came down on hers again and this time, he was not going to stop.

Kono was swept away in a tide of emotion and sensation. Steve's kisses were driving her crazy. When he nipped her bottom lip, she opened her mouth and permitted his tongue to mate with hers. She felt Steve remove her tank top and then undo her bra. His fingers fumbled as he worked on the button of her shorts. She could not contain the giggle that escaped her lips as Steve growled in frustration. She took his hand, kissed the palm and undid the button, letting him pull down the zipper and slide the shorts and panties off.

Steve stopped the kisses just long enough to look at Kono and his breath caught in his throat. She was flawless. Absolutely perfect. He felt himself becoming aroused even as he pulled her to him again. His hands roved over her body, getting to know it in a way he only dreamed of before.

He cupped her breasts and rubbed his thumbs against her nipples eliciting a sigh of contentment from Kono. All the wanted was to be close to Steve to feel his body against hers. She pulled her hands through his hair. Steve's hands continued their journey downward; he gently slid them down her sides and across her belly. Not stopping his assault on her mouth, he reached between her legs. He was rewarded by a gasp into his mouth as Kono moaned in pleasure. His fingers entered her and found her already slick and hot with her own arousal. He stopped his kisses only long enough to look at her. One look into her passion-darkened eyes and he knew he was lost. Without a thought, he picked her up, braced her against the shower wall.

Steve entered Kono with agonizing slowness wanting to prolong the pleasure. Kono cried out and dug her nails into his shoulders. Steve groaned deep in his throat as he began to move. He moved slowly at first, but his need was too great and he started to move faster and faster. Kono's breath came in gasps and soon she was moaning in rhythm to his thrusts. Steve felt her tighten around him, as she began to shake and cry out his name. With one more thrust, he too found release whispering her name into her shoulder.

With his remaining strength, Steve lowered Kono to the ground, and wrapped his arms around her as she rested against his chest with her arms around his waist. The water continued to pour on them as their heart rates slowed enough for them to speak.

Kono looked up at Steve and smiled. "Hey sailor," she whispered.

"Hey," Steve responded as he looked down on her his eyes warm.

She stood on her toes to plant a light kiss on his lips. "Come with me, we're not done." She stepped out of the shower, and reached a hand for Steve.. She led him, still dripping into the bedroom. There they stood and embraced. Kono kissed his mouth, and then moved to his chin and downward to his neck. She kissed the hollow of his throat and then worked her way down his chest. He was all hard muscle and sharp angles. When Kono felt Steve's body start to respond to her, she looked up and smiled wickedly. She pushed Steve lightly so that he was sitting on the edge of the bed.

Steve had always been a man of control. Even in intimate situations, he was in full control of his faculties and of what was going on around him. Now he completely relinquished that control to the woman who he trusted with his life.

Kono knelt between Steve's knees and began to caress him. Steve moaned with pleasure which spurred her on. After a few minutes, Kono took him into her mouth and started to move back and forth. Steve was holding the edge of the bed so hard his knuckles were turning white. He took his hands and entangled them in Kono's hair as his hips began to move in time with her mouth. "You are going to kill me," he gasped and he thought he actually felt Kono smile.

When Kono felt Steve fully erect and actually felt his body shake as he tried to control his desire, she ended the ministrations with her mouth. She stood up and straddled Steve, lowering herself slowly onto his fully erect shaft. Her head dropped to his shoulder as the pleasure of the contact overtook her and Steve threw back his head and groaned as he was enveloped by her warmth. She moved slowly, using his shoulders as leverage gasping each time he fully entered her.

When Steve felt that he could take no more, he grabbed Kono. He pulled them both onto the bed. Kono was still straddling him and now she started to rock her hips back and forth. All Steve could could do was breathe out her name as his hands held her hips and moved up and down her back.. Kono's head dropped and her hair acted a curtain. Steve reached up and took her face, pulling her to him. "I want to see you," he whispered as he continued to kiss her.

Kono's movements became faster and faster and she began to moan as the pleasure began to build in her. Steve moved in time and his gasps matched hers. His hand moved in between them, and he found her most sensitive spot. He gently teased it, as Kono began to cry out. Her movement became almost frantic as she began to lose control. She felt Steve's release and it took her over the edge as the two cried out in almost perfect unison. Kono collapsed on top of Steve, tucking her head under his chin and listening to his racing heart. He kissed her hair and stroked her back.

There, somewhere in that place of perfect peace, the two of them fell asleep in each other's arms, the sorrows and trials of the past few days momentarily forgotten. Together now as they had always been meant to be, they would be each other's strength and they would face together whatever the new day would bring.

I hope that this was a good chapter. I certainly had fun writing it. I always wanted to write a shower scene. Please let me know. Your reviews are very much appreciated.