A/N: Cam/Hunter slash! You've been warned.

Beach Talk
By Dany
PG-13

Hunter heaved a deep sigh of utter contentment. What a perfect day!

Hands behind his head, lazily stretched out on the sand, he looked up into a cloudless sky while a slight ocean breeze caressed his face.

He felt movement next to him and cracked open an eyelid to find that Cam had sat up and was now staring over the glistening water with narrowed eyes – and Hunter didn't think that it was because of the sunlight. Undoubtedly, his partner was in one of his 'deep thought' modes again.

Cam proved him right when he scooped up a fistful of sand, letting the grains slowly run through his fingers. "You know," he said, eyes fixed on the steady trickle streaming from his hand, "astrologers say that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of this world combined."

An unexpected shiver ran through Hunter, and it took the Thunder Ranger a moment to realize just why this seemingly innocent statement suddenly made his blood run cold. Then it hit him. "That would normally impress me to no end," he murmured, "but after what we've seen and fought this past year…" He sat up and ran a hand through his unkempt dirty-blond hair. "Only shows me that there's an infinite amount of possible evil still out there." He frowned. "Way too much alien manpower for Lothor to recruit."

Cam shot Hunter an amazed look. For the Thunder ninja, that was a pretty deep and insightful statement. Hunter felt the look, turned his head and grinned his trademark lopsided smirk.

"Let's just hope they won't find our neck of the galaxy, because I've got better things to do with my time than to kick endless alien butt all over this planet."

Now that sounded more like the old Hunter. Cam returned his boyfriend's grin.

"You do? Like what?"

"There are a few things…" Hunter said suggestively

"Yeah, I can imagine how driving in circles and getting splashed with mud from head to toe would be so much more fun than ridding the world of evil," Cam said sarcastically, but Hunter shook his head with a small laugh and leaned closer.

"I wasn't talking about motocross."

Cam made no move to pull away; instead he kept a straight face, and asked innocently, "What were you talking about, then?"

From the sparkle in Cam's eyes, the samurai already seemed to have a pretty good idea, but Hunter decided to milk the unspoken invitation for all it was worth.

"Lemme show you…"

He pushed Cam down onto the sand, leaning over him and captured his mouth in a deep kiss.

THE END

A/N: CamFan4ever put such a nice dedication on the latest chapter of her "Sparring" series for me that this is a little present to her in return. :)