Chapter 82

Caught in the Act

It took several seconds before the horror finally sunk in that Catherine and Warrick had been standing there for a moment or so watching Gil and Sara making passionate love against the wall.

Gil dropped his hands instantly, letting go of Sara. He almost spun around until he realised this would only expose himself to both of his colleagues, and right now, he was particularly convinced he'd already exposed enough. He dreaded to think what they could already see from where they were standing.

"Jesus Christ, Cath!" Gil cried out.

"Wow. Caught with your pants down," Catherine uttered. "Or more like caught with your pants off…" she whistled. "I just never thought I'd see the day…"

"Turn away!"

"Geez, I always thought you had to be an animal under that calm exterior," Catherine gave a wry grin.

"Turn away!" he repeated, yelling it even louder this time, growing more and more furious by the minute.

Catherine grabbed Warrick's arm and they turned together to face the opposite direction to give the two lovers a chance to pull their clothes on. "God, calm down, okay?"

"Calm down! You just let yourself into my house!" Gil called out to Catherine, he grabbed his pants and awkwardly pulled them on without taking the time to search where his underwear had disappeared to, "don't you even think about leaving, Catherine, I'm not done with you."

"Apparently you're done with Sara, though," Catherine remarked, and she and Warrick shared an embarrassed chortle.

Sara pulled her top on quickly and slipped her pants on, her cheeks were a furious crimson, her eyes squinted in anger.

Gil clenched his fists, "what gives you the right to just walk in here whenever you feel like it!" he demanded of Catherine, moving towards her.

"Look I didn't know that you guys were having wild sex against the wall – I thought you guys had just high tailed it as a joke!" Catherine responded, "if you'd answered your damn phone or listened to your messages you'd have heard me say I was coming over!"

"Then you should have knocked on the damn door!" Gil yelled at her.

"I did, and it came open – you didn't even close it right…"

Gil remembered distinctly Sara closing the door, he turned to look at her, raising an eyebrow.

Sara's cheeks flushed an even brighter red if that was possible, "uh…oops?"

Gil put his hand over his face and rubbed his eyes, hoping to god that maybe when he took his hand away again, everyone – except perhaps maybe Sara - had simply disappeared. However, when he opened his eyes after taking his hand away, they were all still there, Warrick seemed a little traumatized.

"How am I ever gonna look either of you in the face at work again?" Warrick asked.

Gil might have laughed if he weren't so humiliated, it was the first time he'd ever been ever been caught in the act.

"I think I might need therapy, now," Warrick sighed, but gave a slight smirk as he averted his eyes.

"I think I'M the one who's going to need therapy," Sara uttered angrily, she picked up her panties from the floor and stuffed them quickly into her pocket before either Warrick or Catherine could see.

Catherine tried to smile brightly, "perhaps we can all get a group rate."

"It's not even funny, Cath!" Gil said, his cheeks growing hotter by the second. "God, how long have you two been standing there, anyway?"

"Long enough to see the finale," Catherine mused, she looked away and pursed her lips together to keep from laughing.

"It's not funny!" Gil cried.

Warrick didn't dare look at either Sara or Gil, he too had the look of laughter playing around his face, and he seemed to be fighting it.

"Oh come on," Catherine responded, "from where I'm standing it's definitely funny," she folded her arms, "But anyway, it's your own damn fault," she decided, she raised an eyebrow as if to challenge him on the subject.

"How is it my fault?" Gil frowned.

"You left us at the bar – didn't even bother telling us you were going," Catherine pointed out. "If you'd said you guys were heading off early to have mad kinky sex against the wall we'd have understood."

"It wasn't mad kinky sex," Gil uttered.

"Oh please," Catherine smirked, "you're talking to an expert here."

Warrick glanced momentarily at Catherine out of the corners of his eyes and then looked away shaking his head ever so slightly

Gil glanced towards Sara from the corners of his eyes. Sara seemed to be having trouble looking at anyone face to face right now. He'd never seen her face so red, he could practically feel the heat radiating from her from where he stood.

"So anyway," Catherine began, "now that me and Warrick are here, shall we all just get together and have a foursome?" she asked.

Gil's mouth dropped open, and for a moment the colour drained from Sara's cheeks completely.

"I'm kidding," Catherine grinned, "Lighten up, you two. So you got caught. Big deal. People get caught having sex all the time. Some people do it TO get caught," she added with a hint of mischief in her voice.

"We weren't doing it to get caught," Gil sighed, he stood awkwardly shifting from foot to foot.

Sara stood with her arms folded insecurely, still looking away from everyone.

"I have that bra in hot pink," Catherine said to Sara as if she thought it might be an ice breaker.

"Cath…" Warrick mumbled, "I think we should, uh…go."

"Why couldn't you have just stayed at the bar and pretended it was a date!" Gil burst, he shook his head in disgrace at both of them.

"Sorry man. But hey, you shouldn't have put me in that position," Warrick retorted, "that was uncool."

"How long did it take you to figure out it was a set up?" Gil asked tiredly. He wished he could curl right into bed and hide under the covers for an eternity. He wanted Catherine and Warrick to go away and never mention this night again.

"About two minutes after you left the table. Cath was acting weird – then I figured she knew," Warrick gestured to Catherine.

"Couldn't keep it a secret forever," Gil shrugged, "You two should go out…" he suggested, pointing to the door with his eyes. "Night is still young…" he added.

Catherine raised an eyebrow.

Gil looked at her pleadingly, he wanted her out of his house, but now he couldn't find the energy or the anger to demand her to go.

"Fine…fine…c'mon, Warrick…lets...go find something to do," Catherine made her way to the front door.

"Like?" Warrick asked.

"I'm sure we'll think of something," Catherine said with a sigh, "leave the two science geeks to have mad sex in privacy," she added, and then she and Warrick were gone.

There was a click of the door shutting. Gil made his way to the door, pushed it just to make sure it had properly closed, he locked it with a sigh, and made his way back to Sara who was standing with her arms still folded insecurely, her head low.

"That was…embarrassing," Gil admitted.

"It's okay for you," Sara muttered, "they only saw your ass. I was the one pinned against the wall with one boob hanging out of my bra," she uttered.

Gil had to purse his lips to keep from laughing. As humiliating as it had been, he was already beginning to see the funny side of it. "Can you imagine if we were doing anything more embarrassing?"

"More embarrassing than sex against the wall?" Sara asked, "such as?"

"I'm sure there are a lot of things, but I don't feel like mentioning them all right at this moment in time though," Gil replied. "Point is, it could have been a lot worse…"

"I suppose…" Sara gave a sigh, "god, they totally ruined the moment though, didn't they?"

"Indeed," Gil noted his boxers had been accidentally kicked under the end table and he bent down to pick them up.

"I thought I had closed the door properly…" Sara admitted.

"I know…look, it's not your fault, not totally, it's happened to me before – I mean having shut the door and not having done it properly. That's how Catherine has managed to walk in here so many times without having needed to knock," he shook his head at himself, "I really should invest in some new automatic locks…"

"Maybe," Sara sat on the arm of the couch.

Gil scratched the back of his neck, "Sara…"

"Hmmm?"
"Did I hurt you?"

"Don't start that again," Sara rolled her eyes at him but smiled.

"Please, just answer."

"No, you didn't. The opposite, actually."

"Sorry, it was just…the whole thing was…pretty…uh…intense," Gil admitted after a moment.

"But in a good way. You know…Cath was right, you are an animal under that calm exterior," Sara smirked.

Gil blushed crimson once again, "I didn't think I had it in me."

"I always did," Sara smirked. "So…what do you wanna do now?"

"I think we'd be best settling down to watch a movie," he grinned.

"Works for me."

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