TIC... TOC...

By Basilea

Disclaimers: Nope, not mine...

Spoilers: None.
Pairing: Cath/Warrick

Rating: I can't believe this... I think I should say R!

Song: "Tic Toc" by LeAnn Rimes

A/N: Un-betaed. I'm sorry for every mistake! – And the title comes straight frm a "Vaya con Dios" song...

Five – Nice and gentle... yet rough enough.

When Catherine finally found him, he was sitting at her couch, his head resting against the back of the couch and his eyes closed. She looked at him for a few moments before deciding what would her next step be, and once she knew, she shook her head and walked to him, and before he could even know she was in the room, straddled his lap.

He opened his eyes but before he could say a word, her mouth was back on his, and all his thoughts vanished. "Where were we?" she asked with a whisper, and started unbuttoning her blouse again while kissing his neck. He groaned and caressed her back, but he suddenly place his hands at her shoulders and pushed her away from him. She stared at him and understood what he was thinking. There was no way she was going to let him leave, so she took his hands in hers and slid them down to her breasts "oh, yes...I remember now... this is exactly where we were...". He was fighting against his physical need to posses her and what he had thought was best... but it was very hard because he couldn't remember what was what made him decide leaving was the best. She sensed his hesitation and rubbed herself against his erection and he knew reason had lost the battle. She moaned when he squeezed her breasts. She needed him too much to surrender to reason. He'll leave in the morning and whatever she could share with him tonight was all she was ever going to get. She didn't want to lose that only chance, she'd regret it all her life if she did, so even if her mind told her it was wrong, her heart whispered it was perfect, and she always followed her heart... even when she knew it lead to pain.

He finally gave in and pressed his lips to her chest, and started kissing, licking and biting her. He discarded her blouse on the floor and reached to her back for her bra. Her mind was buzzing but she managed to stop him before he unclasped it. "Lindsay" was all she said. He understood and nodded. She stood up and took his hand in hers and lead him to her bedroom. The walk was short but it gave him enough time to think about what he had decided to do... and not to do. He stopped her at her bedroom's door. "We can't do this, Cath", she pushed him inside before answering "yes, we can... if you're not too loud... are you?" and accompanied that last words with one of her more dazzling smiles and a little purring. "I can't..." his voice said the words but his body proved him wrong.

Her hands became busy unbuttoning his shirt while her lips pressed hot kisses on every inch of skin that she uncovered. "Cath... I... Cath..." his words were whispers and his tone husky "... really Cath, we can't do this" She stopped what she was doing and looked at him with confusion in her eyes. "Why?...  I'm not asking you to marry me, Warrick...  I just don't want to miss the opportunity to have sex with you" And with those words, slid his shirt off his shoulders and her hands down his stomach to his belt.

She wished she hadn't said that but she felt that was what men want to hear. And she really needed him tonight. She would have begged, she would have lied, she would have done anything to get him to her bed. "He'll leave by morning and you'll feel like shit" was what her mind yelled at her, but there was no way she was going to let him go.

Warrick didn't say a word after what he heard. He just stood and let her fumble with his belt and then watched her as she kneeled in front of him sliding his trousers to the floor, but when she was going to take him out of his boxers, he pulled her up. She couldn't fool him. She was displaying some act for him, something she thought was what he wanted to have, but he needed to show her she was wrong. He looked at her with an intensity she had never seen and kissed her, hoping she'd feel what he was feeling with that kiss. And Catherine melted and gave in to that kiss... and to him.

She removed his boxers while he was trying to unclasp her bra, and once he was done away with it, he unzipped her pants and pushed her towards her bed, but Catherine tumbled with her clothes and hit a vase that fell and crashed. They both stop to look at it, but forgot about it as soon as their gazes made contact again.

He pushed her onto her bed while shedding the rest of her clothes, and when she was finally lying naked beneath him, he stopped. "We can't do this." Catherine felt the need to hit him with something, he was so enervating... but she only sighed "Warrick... please... I need you..." And pulled him back to her mouth, but he pulled away from her again. "I mean we can't do it now, with Lindsay in the next room" Catherine closed her eyes and whispered "she's asleep" and pulled him to her again, but Warrick wouldn't give up. He pushed her away once more "She's not. She has some music playing" 

Lindsay couldn't sleep. How could she sleep with all that was going on in the next room? She had heard that kind of noises before, when her father was still home but they felt different now. She wasn't completely sure of what was going on, but she had her own ideas... then she heard something fell and crash... and she run to her stereo and turned it on. ...tic...toc...tic...toc... that was a new song, it was nice... soothing...

Come inside my walls of ecstasy, with  me

close the door and throw away the key

That's the way you can start by

moving in nice and slow

taking your time to move down low

cuz everything you do is everything I need

Lights are low, so here we go lets get busy.

Catherine paid attention to the sound that came from the other side of her bedroom's wall. He was right. She wasn't sleeping. "Warrick, she's heard me before... it's OK..." she wasn't very sure about it, but she remembered some rough nights when Eddie was home, she survived hearing that, maybe it was OK to hear some nice things for a change... "I think she even picked a good song for us... but I have to talk to her about it later..." and those were the last complete sentences they were able to say.

Tic Toc ... hands on the clock

time to make my body rock

move with me, you get me

so hot that I can't stop.

Tic Toc ... You got the spot

Here I come ready or not

move with me, you get me

so hot that I can't stop.

Tic toc tic toc, baby.

Lindsay was expecting the usual noises, so she turned the volume up, she didn't want to hear the squeaking of the bed, her mother's moans and whimpers and all those words she could sometimes hear her father say even though she was always told she should not say because they were bad words.

You opened up my world to paradise so nice

feels so good my body liquefies

When you touch me I lose control and I start to shake

Your love is so good that I ain't gotta fake

Cuz everything you do is everything I like

The plot thickens, time's tick'n you're my toy tonight.

Catherine was so glad to have it nice and gentle yet rough enough. He was as good as she knew he'd be,  and as careful and expert as she could only hope a man could be.

Tic Toc ... hands on the clock

time to make my body rock

move with me, you get me

so hot that I can't stop

Tic Toc ... You got the spot

Here I come ready or not

move with me, you get me

so hot that I can't stop.

Tic toc tic toc, baby.

Warrick was surprised at how good she felt. Everywhere he touched gave him pleasure and everywhere she touched him made him shiver, and when he got inside her, he felt as if the world had stopped spinning, and then started spinning at double speed. And he started pushing and thrusting as if the world could end at any minute and those were the last seconds of his life.

Tic Toc the clock keeps on tick´n ... Hurry up before It gets too late

A little to the left .. a little to the right

a little bit longer ... all the way tonight

I close my eyes, my body tenses

Boy your touch hits all my senses

don't stop ... come on ... I'm almost there!

And Catherine was twisting beneath him, her legs clenching around his thighs, her nails digging in the skin of his back, her eyes closed and her breath on his shoulder. He thrusted and thrusted, increasing speed and depth, encouraged by her moans and gasps.

In the middle of the night

reality stops

and I'm suspended in you arms

as I melt from your touch.

And she cried out his name when she came and her voice and her movements triggered his own release.

Tic Toc ... hands on the clock

time to make my body rock

move with me, you get me

so hot that I can't stop

Tic Toc ... You got the spot

Here I come ready or not

move with me, you get me

so hot that I can't stop.

Tic toc tic toc, baby.

Tic Toc, Tic Toc, baby.

She waited till her breathing became normal and her heart stopped racing to open her eyes. He had buried his face in her neck and he had his hands on her hair.  She caressed his back and he raised his head and looked at her. They didn't speak because they couldn't find the right words, but they both understood. She cleaned the sweat from his face and he kissed her forehead, then her nose and then her lips. She kissed him back.

She woke up and found herself wrapped up in his arms. She could feel his heat on her back and turned around to see his face. She laid there in his warm embrace just watching him sleep and she thought she had never seen anything more beautiful in her life. She thought about what had finally happened, and she knew it wasn't sex what she didn't want to miss. She loved him. There was no way she was ever going to get enough with just some casual sex with him.  She kissed his eyelids and then his lips, and when he opened his eyes and looked at her, she knew she was wrong about him.  Desire was gone, and all that was left was love. She knew she only had one chance and she was determined to take it: "War?..." Warrick caressed her hair behind her ear and smiled at her "... please... don't go".

That was all he wanted to hear. He kissed her nose and whispered: "Never"

Fin