Aerrow rushed down the hall.

'Gotta hurry! Gotta hurry! Gotta hurry!' he thought.

As he ran, he checked his watch. He was gonna make it! But just as he past the bridge, he heard Junko call out:

"Hey Aerrow!"

'Damn!' he thought as he stopped in his tracks.

"Yeah?" he asked, turning to Junko, smiling and trying not to look like he was in a hurry.

"Where're you going?"

It was the last question Aerrow wanted to answer. If he told Junko where he was going or, worse, what he was gonna do, he was in for it.

"Just…going on recon!" he lied swiftly.

It was a pathetic answer. There was really no need for recon since the cyclonians had been quiet for weeks now. However, thank goodness, Junko bought it. He shrugged and walked off. Aerrow waited until he was out of sight, and sprinted as fast as he could to the hangarbay. His skimmer was right there and tossed beside it was a pair of binoculars. Aerrow snatched them up and lept onto the skimmer, taking wing as soon as he was outside. He made a great loop around the ship to make it look like he was doing recon, then changed direction and flew toward a cliff overlooking the Condor. He parked his skimmer amid the trees and walked over to the edge of the cliff, staying hidden in the bushes. He checked his watch.

"Shit!" he swore (hey, a sky knight's gonna swear eventually).

He was late! He looked through the binoculars into one of the windows. The bedroom he was looking into was rather small. Pinned on the wall were a few maps, books were stacked neatly in the shelves, there were a few crates filled with crystals against the wall, and crystal equipment was scattered across the desk. The bedroom's door suddenly opened with a whoosh. Piper entered her room wearing a white bathrobe, her dark blue hair wrapped in a towel.

"Phew!" Aerrow breathed, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

So Piper had decided to take her shower late today. He looked into the binoculars again. The navigator had just sat on the bed, removing the towel wrapped around her head and shook out her damp hair. The sky knight smiled to himself as she then began to brush her midnight-coloured locks. Suddenly, he heard a small sky-monkey screech. Aerrow practically screamed and almost dropped the binoculars. He'd been so rushed to get here on time; the sky knight hadn't noticed Radarr sneak into the small compartment on his co-pilot sidecar. Now, the mission specialist looked up at Aerrow. The question in his eyes was obvious: what are you doing here with a pair of binoculars? Before Aerrow could answer however, the sky monkey saw that Aerrow was looking into PIPER'S bedroom window. The sky-monkey crossed his arms and began tapping his foot in the way people do when they're either impatient or disapproving. Aerrow rubbed the back of his neck.

"Look bud, it's not what you think…I'm not…" he started.

The sky-monkey wasn't convinced, and Aerrow knew it. He gave up.

"Okay, okay, you got me. I'm…kinda, sort of…well…all right, I'm peeping! Happy?"

Radarr shook his head, a small smile on his face.

"Reek! *translation: You naughty, naughty sky knight…*"

Aerrow felt his cheeks getting warm.

"Look Radarr, I…I can't help it…Just PLEASE don't tell Piper."

Radarr smiled and nodded. Then, to reinforce his promise, he made a zip motion over his mouth. Aerrow smiled sheepishly, then looked through the binoculars again while his co-pilot lept lightly onto his shoulder. While they had been talking, Piper had finished brushing her hair and had been clipping her toenails. When she finished, she applied some lotion to her legs. Aerrow's face was reddening again and his heart was palpitating. When Piper was finished with the lotion, she then undid the sash of her bathrobe. The fabric slowly slipped from her shoulders. Aerrow's eyes opened to their widest degree, before he keeled over and fainted dead away, dropping the binoculars in the bushes, his nose exploding in a small fountain of red liquid. As he regained consciousness, he saw Radarr holding out a handkerchief for him. He slowly touched his nose, only to find his glove stained with blood.

"Thanks Radarr," he said, taking the handkerchief and wiping at his nose.

Radarr picked up the binoculars and followed the sky knight back to the skimmer.

"I think I'll do some extra training today, so I can…get my mind off…you know…"

Radarr nodded agreeably.

Hours later, Piper was the one running, well, in this case, walking down the Condor's hallway. The crystal mage had her sketchbook under her arm. She was walking as quickly as she could without running so that she'd attract as less attention as possible from the others. When she reached the hangarbay (no interruptions, phew!), she looked around, checked her watch, and sprinted to her heliscooter. She climbed on and took off as fast as her engine allowed. Much like Aerrow had previously done, she flew in an arch before landing on a cliff facing one of the Condor's windows. However, this cliff was much closer to said window, so Piper didn't need any X-ray peepers for her little…um, "observation". The dark-skinned girl settled down in a few bushes and checked her watch. Good, she was a little early. Deciding to kill a bit of time, Piper opened her sketchbook and smiled at the first page; it was a drawing of Aerrow grinning. She turned the page to an image of him riding his skimmer, an image of him sleeping in a chair, his legs sprawled out and his heads bowed, and a drawing of him shirtless with a headband and war paint on his face (see episode 16). Piper remembered how much she blushed when Aerrow first came on board after his mission on Zartacla. It was a miracle that the sky knight hadn't noticed. She flipped through some other drawings. There was a picture of Aerrow when he surfaced from the lake on the back of the beast on Terra Aquanos (see episode 40), a sketch of him smiling in a very sexy manner, as well as of him shirtless, again, in his swimming trunks with a towel loosely wrapped around his neck, soaking wet and grinning. Every sketch was black and white, and had been lovingly drawn by the navigator herself. Just then, Piper saw that the sky knight had just entered the bathroom. She turned to a new, clean page and raised her pencil. The navigator couldn't help but blush at the thought of what she was doing. Aerrow was sweating, but still looked hot as ever. He kicked off his boots, tossed off his gloves, then pulled off his shirt. Piper let out a small squeak as she saw his firm chest and perfect (and I mean perfect) six-pack (man, all that fighting with the cyclonians was quite the work-out). Piper looked down at her sketchbook and started to draw. There, a head like…that…a shoulder like…that…another shoulder…the hair (the hair was always the difficult part for Piper to draw)…and then the arms…and his back…add a little shading…there, done. She looked back at the window. By now, Aerrow was already in the shower. Steam was pouring from the window so that Piper could barely see him, but the outline of his body was unmistakable amid the jet of water.

"Wow…" Piper sighed dreamily. "He's so…"

She couldn't think of the right word to describe her sky knight.

"Charming…Handsome…Sexy…Irresistible…?"

Piper jumped at the voice and looked around. Beside her, sitting calmly on a leaf, was a black and blue dragonfly. Piper recognized it immediately.

"Kaya?! What are you doing here?"

"I should be asking YOU that question." the shape-shifter said, turning into a human. "Which reminds me: what are you doing here, spying on the naked bod of your sky knight?"

Piper's face flushed crimson.

"Nothing!" she lied. "And I'm not spying on him!"

Kaya smirked.

"Oh you're not?" she asked. "Then why, in the Atmos, are you here, hiding in the bushes, WITH your beloved sketchbook, which is filled with drawings of Aerrow himself?"

Piper groaned, her blush deepening. Kaya raised an eyebrow, her smirk broad enough to wrap itself twice around her head and still have some left to tie a nice bow.

"…Okay! So I'm watching Aerrow while he showers…and when he changes." Piper blurted. "But…boys have been doing it to girls for years, maybe decades. It's just a little payback for us females. That's all."

But she knew that Kaya knew the truth. She could feel Kaya's insightful gaze analyzing her aura. However, thankfully, she didn't press.

"And Aerrow provides some very satisfying payback, am I right?" she asked.

Piper nodded and watched Aerrow as he dressed.

"Yeah," she said. "You could say that…"

"You did it again, didn't you?" Finn asked later.

Aerrow winced.

"Yeah, how'd you guess?"

The sharpshooter smiled knowingly.

"1: you've been training for hours, something you only do when you do this. 2: I know that you're too obsessed with Piper to stop. And 3: Radarr told me, or tried to tell me."

Aerrow shot a glare at his co-pilot and sighed.

"It's unbelievable." Finn said. "I never would've guessed that, between you and me, Aerrow, you would be the first one to watch a girl get changed in front of her bedroom window."

"I know, Finn, I know!" Aerrow said, exasperated. "I'm being a peeping tom, I know! But I can't help it."

Finn patted the sky knight on the back.

"Of course you can't." he said, making Aerrow look up. "It's hormones, or whatever they're called. But it's also because you love Piper. You love her, simple as that."

Aerrow smiled.

"Thanks Finn." he said. "But still, how am I gonna tell Piper I…I love her without giving away that I've seen her topless?"

The sharpshooter put a hand over his chin, appearing to consider the question. For a second, Aerrow thought he saw a smirk on his wingman's face, and then it was gone and he looked so genuinely puzzled, Aerrow thought he had just imagined that brief smirk.

"You got me there." he said. "But seriously, Aerrow; you should consider yourself lucky. I'd give anything to be able to watch a girl get changed without being caught!"

"Yeah, well that's the difference between you and me, Finn." said the unimpressed sky knight. "You'd give anything to see ANY girl topless, while I just happen to be seeing only one topless girl, and that's just enough for me, thank you very much."

Finn shrugged.

"What can I say?" said the blond. "I like girls!"

"Yeah, I guessed that your 'useful matchmaker tips' would run out eventually. I'm gonna go do some more training."

"Training…riiiiight," Finn said, rolling his eyes.

Radarr snickered, then climbed up on Aerrow's shoulder again. He very well knew what his best friend would really be doing. And he wanted to be there in case he passed out again.

"Just don't tell Piper!" Aerrow said, turning to Finn. "Promise."

"I swear, I won't breathe a word to her." Finn replied…while crossing his fingers behind his back.

Piper was in her bedroom, clad once again in her white bathrobe, her hair damp. She wasn't tinkering with her crystals, or getting changed (yet). Instead, she was flipping through the pages of a book. Aerrow tried to see what was on the pages, but Piper was in a position that made it impossible to look (she was sitting on her bed, one leg stretched out in front, the other crossed over it, a position that Aerrow found quite attractive). Man, he hated mysteries.

'Oh well,' he thought. 'Moping won't solve anything.'

He settled into a more comfortable position while Piper stood up and put her sketchbook on her nightstand. Beside him, Radarr got out the box of tissues…just in case. Blushing red as a beet, Aerrow pulled on his collar. Was the temperature rising? Or was it just him? Just as Piper undid the sash, just as Aerrow caught a very brief sight of her sensually curved body…FINN, of all people, entered the room! Piper screamed and covered herself with the bathrobe again, and Finn, thankfully, blocked his eyes. He was talking, but Aerrow couldn't hear what he was saying (why didn't he ask Stork to teach him lip-reading, why?!). Piper, who'd put on her bathrobe, looked as though she was scoffing. Whatever Finn had said, she didn't believe him. The sharpshooter insisted on…whatever he'd said, and Piper didn't look at him. Aerrow could see that she was getting angry.

'Finn, if you value your life, you'll get out of that room.' he thought, worried that Piper was gonna throw something at him.

But Piper didn't throw anything Finn. Instead, she did one of the last things Aerrow thought she would do. The crystal mage yelled at Finn very suddenly, making him jump back in surprise. Okay, that isn't surprising, but what was surprising was that Aerrow saw tears pouring down her face. Piper was crying. Why? Aerrow watched as Finn, slowly, warily approached Piper and started patting her on the back in a comforting fashion. He started talking again, and this time, Piper didn't seem to contradict him. Then, she looked up at him, her face still tear-stained, and seemed to ask a question. As a response, Finn smiled broadly, said something else…and pointed out the window…RIGHT at Aerrow.

'OH F*CK!' Aerrow thought.

And to make matters worse, Piper turned around. For one moment, they locked eyes…and the sky knight then ducked behind the bushes. He just knew what Finn had told Piper.

"Great, just great…" he muttered. "Now, Piper knows that I'm a peeping tom. And she knows that I love her. This is great, just brilliant. What am I gonna do now?"

Piper sat in her room, still not having changed into her pyjamas. She was staring out the window, waiting, waiting for someone who wasn't there. She couldn't believe that Aerrow really and truly loved her the same way she did. And it was even harder to believe that he was a peeping tom! Then again, she should talk. I mean, she had seen Aerrow with his pants off (and what she had seen had been pretty impressive). So, you could say that she wasn't really 100% surprised. In fact, it didn't really bother her at all that Aerrow had seen her naked. So now she waited for him to show up, waited for him to appear in the cover of the bushes. She wanted to show him that she knew he how he felt about her, and that she shared those feelings. But he wasn't there. Piper felt herself growing frantic with her wanting him to be there. No, she wanted him here, undoing her sash and softly whispering words for only her to hear…Piper shook her head to rid the fantasy. Fantasizing would only make her longing for him worse. She needed to get some fresh air. But as she was passing Aerrow's room, she suddenly knew where Aerrow was.

Aerrow was getting changed when someone knocked at the door. He was prepared to ignore it, but he heard his navigator's voice call softly:

"Aerrow, it's me. I…I need to ask you something."

Aerrow's breath suddenly caught in his throat. Piper wanted to see him? Even after she knew that he'd spied on her? He couldn't ignore this! No way! Forgetting that he wasn't wearing a shirt, he opened the door.

"What did you need to ask me?" he asked, sitting on his bed and patting the spot next to him, indicating for her to do the same.

As Piper sat, Aerrow suddenly saw a strange gleam in her eye: it was shy, hesitant, but wanting.

"I wanted to ask…" she paused before continuing. "How would you react if I kissed you?"

The sky knight didn't expect that.

"I…I'd be surprised…very surprised…but pleasantly so."

"Good," was all the girl said in reply before she pounced.

She crushed her mouth against his, catching him off guard. It took him about 10 seconds to realize what was happening. He held Piper's face gently between his calloused hands as he kissed her back, relishing the taste of her mouth. The girl's hands gently rubbed Aerrow's broad shoulders, then slowly, teasingly, roamed over his chest. They descended from his pecs to his rock-hard abs and, almost without Aerrow noticing, reached for his belt. Piper pulled away and smirked mischievously at Aerrow, before pinning him down and undoing the clasp, wrenching off his pants and boxers in one decisive move. Aerrow blushed red as a tomato and smiled shyly.

"I'm sorry I spied on you." he said.

"It's okay." Piper added. "I've been naughty too."

At that, Aerrow shy smile turned to a smirk. He sat up.

"Oh, you have, have you?" he asked.

Now it was Piper's turn to blush. Suddenly, Aerrow flipped her over so that he was on top. Piper gasped as Aerrow practically tore her bathrobe off and gently kissed her neck. His right hand kept her pinned to the bed while the other gently glided over her skin.

"Then here's your punishment: you will not be leaving this room until I'm fully satisfied." he said, his voice husky.

In response, Piper lifted herself enough to kiss him.

"Go ahead." she purred, pulling him down against her. "I'm all yours."