"Is it me or is today actually getting less productive?" Lexa questioned, sighing and standing from her crouching position on the warehouse floor as she decided the powder spilled there wasn't the least bit any type of needed clue to her or even slightly interesting. Crossing her arms she glanced over to Jesse, seemingly in his own little world across the room.
"Jesse. Hey, Jess."
"Huh?" he asked, turning momentarily towards her.
"What is it?"
Allowing her curiosity to lead her way the woman walked over to stand beside the molecular who stood peering at the safe on the floor.
"I was just wondering what was in this safe," he informed, kneeling down to blow the collected dust off the top of the large metal box, informing them that whoever was there not only left a while ago but in some what of a hurry.
"So why don't ya have a peek?" she suggested.
Not that he needed any encouragement, no way, he was already sure whatever was inside that safe was something he wanted to possess.
Concentrating, the molecular phased his hand through the front of the safe, feeling his way, to twist the knob from the inside, opening the locked door.
Smiling proudly he reached inside pulling out a small stack of cash, twenties, probably containing about a thousand dollars or so.
"Guess whoever was here left in an awful big hurry to leave that behind," Lexa suggested, raising an eyebrow at the man she couldn't help but noticed had a new gleam in his eyes at the sight of the money.
"Yeah but it's good news for me," he informed, his own eyebrows raising in triumph as he slipped the stack into his coat pocket.
"Alright, let's get going on those other warehouses," the brunette was quick to say, turning to head for the door. It only took a few moments for her to notice her fellow teammate didn't seem to share her view and her attention was called back to him as he was now snooping around the draws and desks about the room.
"Jesse, are you coming?"
"Not yet I wanna see what other goodies are laying around here."
"What? What are you talking about we already checked there's no one here."
"Well, there might be something useful," he replied opening the desk draws and rummaging through them disappointed at finding only pens and notebooks.
"I already checked in there. There isn't. Come on let's go."
Sighing, he looked up; fearing she might be right and there didn't seem to be anything of much use to them.
"Yeah alright. Maybe they left the big stash at the next place we'll check."
Lexa face scrunched up at his words shocked he had even said them but before she could question it was noticing him grab a watch off the desk as he made his way towards her.
"And you said there wasn't anything useful," he teased, shaking the watch briefly before her as he walked by before slipping that into his pocket as well.
Shaking her head in confusion the woman merely sighed before following him outside and back to the Helix.
"So…what's the deal with you and Emma?" Katherine asked, setting the broken piece of wood back down on the floor of the dirty warehouse.
"What do you mean?" the feral questioned, her glowing eyes still scanning the walls for any clues, fingerprints, or anything else that might be of use.
"Well, you two are dating right?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"Oh."
Shalimar continued searching the room, trying to ignore the only thing she seemed to be picking up was lust and desire from the attractive woman not more than five feet from her own heated body, and even more so unable to ignore the tone in her voice as she acknowledged finally that her and Emma were in a relationship.
"Why?" Shalimar asked, turning towards the blonde and ignoring the old saying 'curiosity killed the cat' in favor of suspicion.
"Oh I don't know. Just asking," the blonde answered sweetly, so sweetly, in fact, Shalimar couldn't help smile as she took a step closer, sure she felt a few extra beads of sweat drip from her forehead for her actions.
Katherine was a very detail oriented person and regardless of the fact she paid extra attention to Shalimar, the increased desire in the air would have been noticeable to anyone. Anyone within fifty feet at least.
"Oh, I found this on the desk over there. It might be important," the blonde informed, lifting a zip disk to hold before the feral who was already close enough to smell the extra beads of sweat she herself was producing at standing so close to the feral.
Shalimar reached out to take the object from the woman, her hand brushing against the attractive younger woman's and she couldn't ignore how good it felt. How soft the woman's skin was as it grazed her own.
Biting her lip slightly, Shalimar turned her eyes to the meet the deep emerald pools the fellow blonde was already using to stare into her own with. It was amazing how she seemed to stare right into her and Shalimar couldn't seem to pry her own eyes off the woman, as she gazed upon her, taking her eyes on a trip from the top of her parted blonde locks above her forehead, down her smooth facial features, and seeming to pause at her lush lips. Those lips seemed to call to her, and it was loud, so loud, in fact the feral was beginning to pray something louder would interrupt her, get her mind off the ruby red, lustrous and appealing lips so close to her very own.
She wanted to kiss the woman, she had to admit, and she hated it. Hated the way she was feeling inside and hated herself for wanting to kiss someone else. She'd never seriously considered cheating on Emma before, and not that she was now per say, all she was thinking about was the heat accumulating inside her with ever second and those lips sitting there like a big glass of water just waiting to cool her off, it was entirely too temping for her. It was only the feral in her after all, wasn't it?
Whatever it was, Shalimar's heat wasn't subsided at all, and neither was Katherine's for that matter. Both of them were so engulfed in the desire floating around them neither of them seemed to notice they were still practically holding hands and drawing closer to one another, or at least, their faces were, and neither seemed to mind.
As they continued to close in the last few inches something inside the feral seemed to push through the heat, telling her yes, she did mind, despite the fact every part of her was wanting to kiss the woman she couldn't ignore the feeling inside her heart which, luckily, was strong enough to turn her head just as Katherine's lips were closing in on her, planting a sensual kiss upon a steamy feral cheek.
For a moment they were still, and Shalimar tried to get a grip on herself and just what was happening, though it was becoming increasingly difficult as she felt she was losing more control by the minute. And worse than that, she was starting to care less about that very fact by the minute as well.
Katherine licked her lips, taking in the taste of the feral's sweat which had rubbed off on her and knowing one taste wasn't nearly enough, but had merely been a tease which surely got her hooked right away.
"Shalimar," Adam's voice interrupted through the comring and for once she was almost grateful. Well, half of her was grateful, the other was still annoyed with the heat she was infatuated with.
Taking a few steps back she allowed herself some space to answer him.
"Yeah, what's up, Adam?
"Is everything going alright?"
"Uh, yeah, we found this disk but I guess whoever was here has cleared out," she informed raising the disk to take another look at it before stuffing it in her back pocket.
"Good. I want you two to stop by and check on Brennan and then come back here. I think Emma might need your help."
"Emma?" Shalimar instantly repeated the woman's name as it seemed to strike a nerve deep inside. No matter what was wrong with her at any moment Emma's own safety always took top priority with her. "What's wrong with Emma?"
"Nothing, I just think she could use you around at the moment."
"Alright, we'll be right there."
"Good. I'm sending you Brennan's location now."
"Let's go," Shalimar ordered the blonde, turning to stride for the exit before Katherine could even begin to question what had just happened or even have a chance to enjoy what little she had experienced, only knowing as far as she was concerned things were just beginning to heat up.