Lee let out a small sigh of relief as the steamy air of the showers hit his body. He had silently stood inside the door of the head for at least ten minutes, wondering if he was completely crazy to be letting himself do this. The woman that had been driving him to the edge of sanity all day was currently naked only a few feet away. And his mind had decided the logical next step was to get naked and join her.

"You're crazy," Lee said, pulling his tanks off and throwing them to the ground. His shorts soon followed. He grabbed a towel off the counter and slung it around his waist, making his way into the stalls. The sight waiting there for him made him stop in his tracks.

He had told Kat that he planned on just taking his shower and leaving without even letting Kara know he was there. That had been his intention. But he hadn't planned on what his body's reaction would be to actually seeing her there in front of his eyes.

The water was cascading down her body in soft, slow trails. He watched in awe as she ran her hands through her hair before finally resting them one on her shoulder to rub out some tension. Her body in motion looked positively sinful, and his worn body was beginning to take notice in a painfully obvious way.

"This was a stupid idea," he muttered, pulling his eyes away from her body and turning to leave. He misjudged his position in the room and knocked over a metal towel rack with a large bang. He froze in his tracks

"I told you nuggets to stay out of here until I was done," Kara hissed. "Do not make me come out there and hurt you."

Lee let out a sigh of relief. She hadn't turned around so she wouldn't even know it had been him. He could still sneak off without having to explain why he was having such a hard reaction to the women he had seen naked too many times to count.

"Lee? Is that you?"

Frak.

He turned and saw that she was now staring at him from her shower stall.

"I wanted to take a shower," he said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Okay. So why were you running away?" Kara stared in shock as Lee's face broke out in a blush. "No. No fraking way." She started to laugh. "You couldn't take the sight of me without clothes, Lee? That's too cute."

"It wasn't that," he said, glaring as he made his way to stand next to her shower. He hated when she could read him with such ease.

"Then what was it?" she asked as she looked up into his eyes.

"You've been a little touchy all day. I wasn't sure you would have the self-restraint necessary if I took my shower with you."

"With me?" She licked her lips as the right side of her mouth turned up in a small grin. "You were planning on taking a shower with me?"

"Maybe that's the first thing I would do if given the chance," he said taking a step closer. He knew that he was playing with fire here, but suddenly he understood why Kara had been tormenting him for so long. It was fun. "Why? Does it make you nervous to have me here, Kara?"

She narrowed her eyes at him before holding the soap out and dropping it into his hands. "You couldn't control yourself even if you tried."

"Isn't the whole point of that silly triad wager? To not have to control myself?" He took a few steps towards her until she had unknowingly back up against the outer wall to the shower. The water was close enough to spray the sides of their bodies lightly.

"What are you doing, Lee?" she whispered as his eyes became predatory. This was not where she thought this little flirtation would end up. She had aimed to make him uncomfortable, maybe loosen him up a little bit. She hadn't actually expected him to start doing the crazy, off-the-wall things that were more typical of her. She swallowed hard and tried her best not to look scared out of her mind at this new side of Lee.

"You're not the only one who wondered how the other would taste," he said, planting both of his hands firmly on the wall on either side of her head. He leaned in and nipped lightly at the side of her neck. His hands found their way to her waist and rested there as he took a through inventory of where her neck met her shoulder. Kara bit her lip in order to keep in the moan that had been slowly building up inside her frankly since the second he came into the head and started to stare at her.

She knew that there was a lot of reasons to push him away, but she jut couldn't get her hands to do what she wanted them to. Or maybe her hands were doing exactly what they wanted to and she didn't even know it.

Lee paused in his assault on her body when he felt her hands reach out to pull lightly on the towel wrapped around his waist. "You're playing with fire there, Kara," he warned, pulling back to look into her eyes even as his towel hit the ground. "And you know what they say about that."

"Lee."

He decided the way his name on her lips sounded was pure sin. Especially when it was this throaty whisper that he had never heard before. He liked it. "Yeah?"

Her right leg wrapped around his leg, and with the help of her hands on his back, she pulled him in flush with her body. "Burn me."

His eyes lit up with surprise as she grabbed his head and roughly tugged it to meet hers. Her lips pressed down onto his in a searing kiss that felt like it had been building since eternity. She could feel him give in as his hand reached around her waist and pulled her up off the ground. Together, their bodies twisted until he had her pinned underneath the fall of the water.

She sighed as her body came to rest against his and her feet touched the ground. For a moment, they just stood together not moving. The water beat down on their bodies, but suddenly it wasn't relieving any of the tension. At least, not in the way either one of them needed.

Lee stared at her for a split second before dropping his head to kiss her lips gently again. He nibbled one corner of her mouth and then the other, letting his breath come out in a long sigh. She worked her hands through his hair and suddenly her whole body relaxed in his arms.

He couldn't deny it anymore. This was what he wanted. He wanted the woman he couldn't have, the woman he shouldn't have, shouldn't want. And for whatever reason, she was letting him. This closed off woman was letting him in close to her.

Something inside of him that had been holding back burst.

It was instant heat. The kind that could burn a man alive if he wasn't careful. And Lee knew she could feel it too by the way she pushed her body shamelessly up against him. As if they had a mind of their own, his hands teased their way up her body until settling firmly against her breasts. His touch turned feather light against her as he realized he had no clue why they were both letting this happen. Why now of all times were they going through this uncharted territory.

All he knew was there was no way to stop it.

Throwing the last bit of caution he had out the window, he kissed his way down her neck to meet his hands. He heard her hiss in anticipation as he lightly teased his way around her right nipple, taking care to come close but to never really touch it no matter how much she struggle. And boy was she struggling. Her whole body bucked against his hold, begging him for more without saying a word.

Kara cried out helplessly when his mouth finally closed, hot and hungry, around her nipple. She fought for breath as he worked her body over with the same devotion he showed for everything he did. When that boy committed to something, he really committed, she thought with a small laugh.

"What are we doing?" she whispered as his mouth shifted to give attention to her other breast. "Oh gods, Lee. What the frak are we doing?"

Lee didn't respond to her question, too wrapped up in the beauty of her body to even register that she had spoken. This was the woman who had haunted his dreams for years, long before Zak had died and the world had ended. She was the one woman who understood him. The one he actually dreamed of loving openly when they finally found a place to call home.

He should have known he wouldn't be able to resist the temptation for as long as that would take.

The temptation of having her right there, ready and waiting, made him slip his hand down her water-moistened body until he came in contact with the heat between her thighs. He kissed her neck lightly and was delighted to feel her pulse begin to jump. She shuddered against his touch as he began to tease her folds lightly with the tips of his fingers. It was no surprise when the shudder turned into an all-out struggle to make him enter her more. It bordered on begging, and the thought that he had as much power over her as she did over him made Lee grin in anticipation.

He waited until her struggling subsided and she opened her eyes to look at him before he slid one finger deep inside her. He watched in excitement as Kara's eyes flared with emotion. Her mouth dropped open, inviting him to lean down and tease her tongue with his. He pushed another finger inside of her as she turned their kiss to something more primal. He could hear her breathing become shallower as he pulled her to edge and back with only his fingertips.

She wrenched her lips away from his and rested her head against his as his hands began to increase the tension building inside of her. "We shouldn't be doing this, Lee."

"I know," he whispered, kissing her softly. "Do you want me to stop?"

Kara had to hold back a groan of disappointment as he drew his fingers away from her. Once she had got over the loss of contact, she actually took stock of what he was offering. It was a way out. They didn't have to go through this. They weren't too far gone to pull away.

Sighing, she looked into her eyes and shook his head. "No. I just wanted to be clear that you and I are making a mistake."

"I know," he said softly. "But I don't really care."

"Neither do I," she said with a shrug.

Lee watched for her a minute more, just taking in the soft lines of her face and the wide brightness of her eyes as they looked into his. If he was a braver man, he would tell her how much she meant to him. How much it had hurt that week or so he had been without her. He would tell her that he loved her and he didn't want to take it back.

He knew that he could never do that, though, so he just pulled Kara back into a kiss and reached down to press into her again. He wanted to feel her moan against his lips, feel her quiver against his fingertips. It surprised him when it didn't take her more than a few seconds to return to that state of panic that told them both she was already on edge.

Lee felt her nails dig into his back as her knees gave out. She let out a small groan as her whole body began to shake. The waves of orgasm washed over her, and all she could do was hold on for dear life. The emotions beat against the back of her head until she lost all vision and had to rely on Lee to keep her from collapsing completely. She had never been so swept up by anything in her life.

Once her body had calmed itself, she shook her head to clear her vision and let out a sigh. "That felt good," she said with a light chuckle. Smiling, she tilted her head to meet his lips once more.

After a moment, he pulled away to look at her. She looked so content and happy. It was something he hadn't seen on her for quite some time. His heart swelled at the idea that he had been the one to put that look on her face. "Gods, Kara. The things you do to me," he whispered.

"Liked that, did you?"

It took him a second to realize that Kara thought he was talking about the stunts she had been pulling all day. She didn't realize that he was talking about something that went a whole hell of a lot deeper than flirting and foreplay.

It didn't matter. He would tell her all the things he had been holding back when they were finished. And at the moment, they were far, far, far from finished.

"Why don't you tell me?" Lee pulled her body in against his again, and Kara gasped as she felt just how much he had liked that.

He groaned as her hand reached down to surround him, flirting its way up and down his length in a slow, seductive dance. If he had thought he was on edge earlier, he had been wrong. Having her touch him was bordering on painful. But it was a pain he would endure any time she was willing to give it.

Before Lee could even fathom what she was doing, Kara had dropped to her knees and had taken him into her mouth. And then everything went black as she ravished him until he couldn't see straight. The sheer heat of her mouth seared through him, scorching him to the bone, and all the while he could feel himself desperately wanting to beg for more. To ask her if they could be like this, be this close, for forever.

His hands darted out to grip onto the wall, the towel rack, anything that could keep him from losing all balance. He had never imagined how erotic it could be to watch the top of a woman's head as she slowly and steadily drove him crazy with her tongue. It had never impacted him this greatly before.

But then again it had never been Kara.

The moans that drifted up to his ears from where she kneeled below almost sent him over the edge. She was enjoying this almost as much as he was. He wasn't sure if he could handle this.

The water had turned cold on them a few minutes earlier, but neither one had noticed. They were generated enough heat to compensate. And the heat was almost getting to be too much for Lee. With a groan, he pulled Kara up to his level. "If you keep that up, I won't have enough energy left to satisfy my drives," he said with a laugh.

"What drive do you have that would actually be better than what I was offering?" she said, even as he wrapped his hands around her backside and lifted her off the ground.

"This one."

Without warning, he pushed himself as far inside her as he could. She let out a sharp cry as her walls tightened around his abrupt intrusion. He felt her tremble against him as she began to spasm with the approach of another body-shaking, mind-bending release. Lee threw one hand up against the shower wall, still holding her off the ground with the other, and held on for the both of them as she let loose another loud moan. She shuddered against the sudden violence of her second orgasm, this one coming with little to no warning.

"Frak me," she said when her body had ridden out the wave and she could see straight again. "I don't think I've ever done that before." She let out a small laugh and wrapped her arms around his neck lightly. "You're good."

"Kara?" Lee whispered, causing her to turn her eyes up to look at him. "I'm not done yet." He pulled out of her body and pushed back in slowly to prove his point.

"Frak me," she repeated as the tension already started to rebuild.

"I'm trying," Lee said with a smirk. He gentled began to build up a slow rhythm as she wrapped her legs squarely around his waist and held on to his shoulder tightly. "Remember that bet?" he whispered into her ear.

"Huh?"

It was obvious Kara was suddenly having a lot of trouble concentrating. So as much as it pained him, Lee paused in his movements. This was important. She had to understand the one thing he had always wanted but had never been brave enough to ask of her. "The bet? The pleasure principle?"

"I didn't realize you were going to take that so literally," she said, smirking down at him from where he held her. Having him hold her up off the ground was such a manly, macho display of strength and domination. If it honestly wasn't so hot, she might be angry.

"Me, either."

"So what about it?" She struggled against him in a silent plea for him to start moving in her body again. This whole talk thing was overrated. She had always been more of an action girl. She bit her lip hard to keep from pleading with him out loud to start fraking her again.

"Well, I've been noticing you biting down on your lip rather hard."

Kara immediately let go of her lip as she realized that she had been doing that a lot. It gave Lee the opportunity to lean in and lightly nibble her bottom lip with his own teeth. After a few seconds, he kissed the marks his teeth left behind and pulled back to stare at her. "See what I mean, Lieutenant?"

She narrowed her eyes at his use of rank and tightened her muscles around where he still rested inside of her. His gasp was like music to her ears. Obviously he was starting to have a problem with control. He had a point to make, but damned if she was going to just let him sit there, doing nothing, while he made it. For frak's sake, they were naked in a shower and no one was around. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity.

"Damnit, Kara," he hissed once he had gotten himself back under control. "I'm trying to say something here."

"Less with the talking. Try to make your point without the words."

"Fine," he said. "Whatever you want, Starbuck." All the gentleness disappeared as something inside him snapped. He pushed her against the wall hard enough to bruise and began to thrust inside of her with all his strength. Deciding to worry about the consequences later, he yanked her hair, dragging her head back to expose her throat for his teeth. He bit down on her hard as her whole body vibrated against his motions.

It wasn't a feeling of desperation that was consuming him. Instead he felt an all-encompassing appetite to consume as much of the woman currently struggling to keep control. Kara was biting back the scream that suddenly wanted to come out, and they both knew it.

Lee let out a laugh without slowing down the pace. "That's what I'm talking about. You're holding back on me, Kara."

"What do you want me to do, Lee?" she spit back between his thrusts. "Scream so that the line of people outside the door hear the CAG fraking my brains out?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I want."

He could feel her tense up as the weight of his words hung between them. He stopped his motions as her eyes widened. The full meaning of what he was asking was hitting her.

He was asking her to risk practically her whole career. If anyone heard them breaking the fraternization policy, it was likely her wings would be taken away at least temporarily until a hearing could be made by those in power. Not to mention she would probably lose a lot of her standing with the pilots. They would think she had frakked her way to her current standing in the Fleet no matter how good of a pilot she was.

On the other side, Lee would definitely be stripped of his position as CAG for having relations with a pilot under his command. His father would be humiliated, and chances are all the ground he had gained with the pilots of Galactica would be lost. They would resent him, imagining that he thought breaking policy was fine because he had Daddy to fix it.

"We could get into a lot of trouble if someone hears," she said, staring at him intently.

"I know. But it's almost like my head is yelling at me to let people know what we're doing. I want to imbed this moment into everyone so that they won't forget I was the one who finally got to you. Who finally made you lose control."

Kara stared at him and wondered where this sudden desire to claim her had come from. She had been flirting with Lee for years, and never, not once had he hinted at being interested. She had thought she had gotten a read on him. He was the type of man who didn't care about physical things. He just wanted to keep his pilots and his family alive.

She had gotten it all wrong.

"Okay," she whispered.

"Okay?"

"Make me scream, Lee."

His eyes widened even as she was pulling his body into hers.