Disclaimer: 24 nor its characters are mine. Note: please read and review. I have more ideas but I don't want to waste my time if you don't like it. Sorry, this chapter is REALLY long.

The familiar ring came to my phone. I had finished with Chase about an hour ago and was working on processing the data sent over from IT.

"Dessler."

"Hey, it's me. I actually do need you on some real work stuff. Could you bring the data analysis you were working on in IT and then we need to look over the documents together."

"Sure."

I hung up the phone and printed out a copy of what I had been working on. I picked up the file with the data in it and made my way to Tony's office. Even though I knew this was going to be work, I couldn't help but get butterflies in my stomach. Every second was like an eternity when we had to pretend to not be involved. I wanted to melt into his arms, just be there and not move, not try to mask our relationship as though it was something we should be ashamed of. I jolted myself back into reality. Still the gleam in his eyes as I entered made my heart leap.

She walked into my office, her face serious. This was work, but still, I knew I had partly called her into my office just to be with her, to look at her, to make any excuse to touch her. I noticed every curve of her body, every lock of curly hair falling down into her beautiful face, her finger quickly sweeping the stray curl behind her ear. I wanted to be that hand, to touch her face, to be close to her. But I couldn't. I knew I couldn't. Work had to come first. Yet seeing her stand there, watching her turn so gracefully to close the door, I couldn't help but want to run to her, pull her close to me, kiss her, tell her I loved her. Once I had shut the door behind me I saw the look on his face, the look in his eyes. The look that said 'yeah we should work but I don't want to', which when he looked at me quickly turned into a 'the door has a lock' look. I couldn't control myself. My emotions took over. I walked over to him, closer and closer, until I was right where I liked to be, right up against him. I gazed into his deep, dark eyes.

"Tony?"

"Yeah?" he said, staring into my eyes.

"I know we're supposed to be working, but"

I kissed him. I couldn't help it. My brain was no longer in charge. His lips were soft, moist, perfect. He kissed me back softly, lightly. He put his hand on my face, and pushed a loose curl out of my face, tucking it behind my ear. I put one arm around his neck and one hand on his face. It was perfect.

It was perfect. I don't know how long I would've lasted had she not kissed me. I probably would have gone insane working alone with her in a room with the door closed and not kissing her. I intensified the kiss, I put my arms around her back, pulled her closer, kissed her harder. I was lost in her kiss and never wanted to come back. She put her arms around my neck, ran her fingers through my hair. Her fingers were soft, they were faultless. She was faultless. Finally we broke apart. I rested my forehead on hers, my eyes closed. I opened them to her beautiful face, I couldn't move from her embrace, and I didn't want to.

"Tony, we should probably get some work done."

I could hear her trying to bring herself back into a reality, trying to return her voice back to seriousness. She failed dismally, her words trailing off. I smiled, and turned to the file she had brought in with her. She walked over behind me and started explaining about the files and what she had found out. I tried to listen, but she, she was too distracting. I forced myself to concentrate. At least I could hear her voice. I suppressed a grin.

I was talking about work, blabbering on about God knows what, unable to truly concentrate on what I was saying.

"So, crypto decoded it and it looks like it's not a serious threat."

He was gorgeous even when he was just standing there, looking at me, taking in whatever the hell I was talking about.

"Good. So that's settled. We still need to go over the documents sent over by Division though."

I sat on the edge of his desk and opened the folder. I started reading out a portion of the documents, inserting comments about things unclear and what we had discovered. Tony walked up behind me. He rapped his arms around me and I paused. My heart was racing. I wanted to turn around, forget work, put all of my attention on him. But this had to get done. We both knew if we couldn't work together anymore than we would have to end the relationship. The mere thought made my heart sink. He pushed my hair to one side as I continued to read and started kissing my neck. He had found my weak spot. I paused and giggled. I felt like a kid again, sneaking around with my boyfriend so that my parents wouldn't know, except now every person at CTU, all of my friends and coworkers were my parents, and we had to hide it from all of them. It was exciting. Not to mention who I was doing it with, Tony, who I was downright, no matter how hard I tried to resist, falling in love with. I reached up and put my hand behind his neck. By now, I had stopped reading and Tony was sitting on the edge of the desk right behind me. I smiled. I liked the feel of his lips on my neck. They were soft, he was gentle, and I was paralyzed in bliss.

Her skin was soft. I liked being close to her. I started to stroke my thumb on the outside of her bare right thigh. She was wearing a skirt and top that looked amazing on her; I couldn't keep my hands off of her. And I didn't want to. She let out a breath that she seemed to have been holding in. I could tell I was turning her on. I smiled slightly. She closed her eyes and let her head lean back onto my shoulder. 'I don't think I have ever been this attracted to anybody before,' I thought. I mean, I was obviously crazy about her, but there was a much stronger physical attraction when I was around her than I had ever felt for somebody else. What was surprising, was that we hadn't actually slept together yet. Well, we had spent the night at each others apartments, we had slept in the same bed, but we hadn't slept together yet. I think we both liked each other so much that we didn't want to ruin it by making it only about sex. I wanted to show her that I liked her for her, not just that I wanted her. Don't get me wrong, I wanted her bad, but the last two months had been spectacular none the less. Not to mention, now that we had waited, it had to be absolutely spectacular when we did do it. Still, being close to her, kissing her neck, touching her soft skin. I was happy just to be with her. I opened my eyes. I could feel his hand on my skin; I didn't want this feeling to end. Tony's thumb was slowly creeping further and further up my skirt. Apparently he liked this as well. I grinned. I turned around on the desk and put my hand on his face. We kissed. He leaned forward, one hand on my neck the other on my back. He kissed me harder, pressing his lips against mine, slipping his tongue into my mouth. We stood, still kissing, and somehow made our way over to the couch in the corner of his office. We sat down, and he pushed me over so that I was lying on the couch, him on top of me. He pulled back, and I gasped for air. He rested his forehead on mine, looking into my eyes. His eyes were dark, but full of something I figured only I saw. He gazed lovingly, hungrily, at me, unbuttoning the top two buttons of my top. I leaned forward to kiss him, putting my arm around his neck to pull him closer. I nibbled on his lower lip, feeling his back underneath his shirt. Right as we were passionately kissing, Tony just finishing unbuttoning my top, my hands up the back of his shirt, his hand on my leg, it happened.

"Tony, we need to go over-"

"Tony, we need to go over-"
'Shit,' I thought. I scrambled off of Michelle and she swung her legs into a sitting position as fast as she could, but there was no hiding it. Even if we had gotten off of each other in time, the top of her shirt was unbuttoned, her lipstick was smeared, and her elaborate curls that had been pulled back were loose. I could only imagine what I looked like. I was sure her lipstick was all over my mouth, not to mention my hair, which she had been so tenderly pushing her hands through, was sticking up. It was horrible. I felt like a fifteen year old again, my father walking in on me making out with my girlfriend. Jack just stared. Michelle glanced down, her hands in her lap.

"What the hell are you guys doing?"

He didn't seem too angry, but he definitely wasn't happy.

"Uh, we were just-" Michelle started, but her words trailed off as she met Jack's angry gaze.

"Tony, what the hell are you thinking? This is against every protocol in the book. You of all people should know the consequences of dating inside the agency-"

Nina. I had had enough. Michelle was nothing like Nina, and he seemed to be assuming that it was dangerous to get involved with her.

"That's enough Jack."

"No it's not. Tony, do you want to lose your job. What about you, Michelle? Michelle, you are usually so rational, what are you doing messing around with Tony in his office?"

He had it all wrong. He must've thought that we were just fooling around, no strings attached.

"We're not messing around, Jack." I said.

"Really, because from where I was standing, that looked like some pretty good-"

"I'm in love with her, Jack."

I couldn't believe I was telling him this. It just spilled out. At least it was a good truth.

"You're, what? Michelle?"

I looked at her. I was still taken aback by her beauty, even when she was just sitting there nervously. She finally spoke.

"We've been dating for two months."

She glanced up at Jack, nervously.

"I'm sorry, we shouldn't have, at work, but he's telling you the truth. I'm in love with him too."

Jack just glared, seemingly taking in what we had both just said. I wasn't concentrating on Jack right then, though. I was looking at Michelle. She looked at me, her eyes full of emotion, of love. I looked into her eyes; God I loved her. And she really loved me; it was all there in her eyes. I took her hand and glanced back up at Jack.

"Well, I wasn't expecting that," he said, brow furrowed.

"Jack, we don't want anybody to know about this. About us. Not only could we get fired, but we're really not ready to tell anybody. You know, deal with everybody in our business."

I looked at her. Her voice was so beautiful. The very sound of it relaxed me.

"Uh, oh." Jack was smirking.

"What?"

"Well, it's just, that's the exact same look I used to get when I looked at Terri. OK, guys, I'll keep quiet about this, just, if you're going to, you know, mess around in here, at least lock the door."

I was filled with relief.

"Thanks Jack."

"Yeah."

He left, a grin on his face, closing the door behind him. I looked over at Michelle. She waited a moment, and then leaned over and kissed me. Her lips were so soft, and she climbed half of herself onto me. The door opened.

"Oh, and guys, not now."

Jack left, grinning ear to ear, as if knowing exactly what was going to happen when he left and taking pleasure in interrupting them again just to make his point. I looked at Tony. That had been so embarrassing. I got off of him, standing up, and he stood up, too. I turned and faced him, tracing my finger around his lips to get rid of my lipstick that was on his face, and then smoothing out his hair. He wiped my smeared lipstick off my face, and re-buttoned my shirt, glancing up to my face, a small smile creeping over his face. I redid my hair and sat down in a chair, reading the files out to Tony and reviewing the relevant data.

Twenty minutes later we had finished working. I walked around to where she was and sat on the desk in front of her.

"Look, I'm sorry about-"

"Don't, Tony. It worked out fine, and I can't say I'm not glad we did it."

This was one of the things I loved about Michelle. Even when faced with hard situations she stuck firmly to her decisions and beliefs. I smiled at her and kissed her on the forehead.

"OK."

"I'll see you in two hours. That's when we get off tonight, right?"

"That's right."

"OK, see you then," she said, turning to leave after giving me a brief smile.

"Hey, Michelle?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

She smiled, that addictive, charming smile of hers.

"I love you too, baby. See you later."

End ch.2: sorry soooo long... please rr so I can know whether to keep writing as I do have some more ideas for love/romantic scenes. Thanx. :)