Tease

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'The Shower'

"Hey, your face is dirty," Lee said, lifting a hand to wipe away the grease from her cheek.

"Yeah, and you're clean and shiny as a new penny," she said testily. They'd just finished an hour of slaving under Lee's Viper, trying to fix a leak in the lubrication system.

"You stink," he added, wrinkling his nose and smirking.

"Yeah? Well you're ugly and your mother dresses you funny!" she retorted.

"Resorting to insulting my family? That's low Kara, even for you," he wiped her cheek, but left more grease streaks instead of cleaning off the original one.

"Since when is it 'polite' to insult a lady?"

"There's a lady around here somewhere?"

"Lee!" she said indignantly, punching him in the arm, leaving a large grease mark.

"Ow!" He rubbed his arm, spreading the stain further. "Definitely not a lady!"

She snorted at him. "You deserved that."

"You're still dirty," Lee reminded her, and he came close and gave a sniff. "And you still smell."

"Wanna give me a bath?" she teased, echoing words she'd used after being removed from the cylon raider.

Lee laughed, just as he had then. "Race you to the showers?"

"Last one there is a rotten egg!" she called, already in a dead run.

"You already smell like one," he called out, gaining on her.

"I'm so going to kick your ass Apollo," she said breathlessly as they raced side by side down the corridors.

"I look forward to it Starbuck," he grinned, pulling slightly ahead.

"Oh no you don't," she yelled, grabbing his sweaty tanks from the back.

"Hey, unfair!"

"All's fair in love and war," she smirked, breathing heavily. She reached the head slightly before him and was already ripping off her clothes.

"So which is it?" Lee asked, as she stepped into the shower, taking the view of her naked bottom away.

She turned on the water. "What?"

"Love or war?"

She poked her head over the dividing wall. "Can't it be both?" she said mischeviously.

"How would I know whether to kiss you or punch you then?" He put his arms up on the wall between them and rested his head on them, smiling flirtatiously at her.

"Instinct," she said, coming to within an inch of his face.

His nose wrinkled. "You still smell."

"Boy, you really know how to compliment a woman Lee. Shall we get clean then?" and her head disappeared into the spray, falling down her face and drenching her completely. She lathered up her hair and scrubbed at her face.

"I hate this one. The spray is too weak."

Lee wiped the water from his eyes and looked over at her. "You got here first, why did you pick that one then?"

"So I could bitch about it?"

"You wanna come over here and use this one?"

"With you still in it?" Her eyebrows raised.

"Why not?" He winked.

"I ... I ..." she turned back into the shower and let the soap bubbles run down her back.

Lee smiled broadly. He'd finally gotten her! The great Starbuck was embarrassed! It was about time after all the times she'd gotten the best of him. His small victory gave him courage to go on the offensive.

He turned off the shower, wrapped a towel around his hips loosely and stood in front her her stall. still dripping wet. "Hey Starbuck, I need to do an inspection to make sure you're clean. Everywhere."

She ripped the curtain aside and stood naked before him, wearing nothing but a smile.

Lee gasped. The water dripped down her well-toned yet seductively curvy body, forcing his eyes to follow it's trail downwards. She stepped forward so she was only a few inched in front of him. His eyes flew up to her face, and she saw with satisfaction that they were dark with desire.

"Far be it for me to break the rules sir," she teased, enjoying the blush that came to his cheeks. Not to mention the rapidly swelling bulge at the front of his towel. "Inspect away."

Lee couldn't help himself - his hands moved to her body and placed themselves on her hips, heart racing as he felt her soft, warm skin under his fingertips.

" ... so then I told him it was his mechanic's fault for not checking the hydraulics before we went out."

Frak! Lee pushed them both forward into the shower stall, quickly drawing the curtain and ducking down to his knees.

"I'll bet he didn't like that - you're gonna be so frakked when Apollo finds out!"

Kara peeked over the edge of the shower stall. Chuckles and Hotdog were stripping out of their clothes, ready for their post-shift showers.

"Hey guys, are you giving the Chief a hard time again? The CAG will have your ass for that you know." She looked down at Lee, still kneeling in front of her and winked.

"Yeah," Hotdog whined, "but he's so ... obnoxious sometimes. It's always the pilot's fault according to him."

"Well, he does think the ships belong to him - of course he's going to be protective of them." She dropped her hands down to Lee's shoulders, fingers resting lightly on his tensed muscles. Lee smirked and decided to tease her back. He leaned forward slightly and kissed her inner thigh. Kara shuddered as bolts of electricity shot through her.

"Listen Starbuck - don't say anything okay? Maybe the Chief will forget about it and Apollo will never find out," Hotdog pleaded.

"My lips are sealed." She shuddered again as Lee darted his tongue out of his mouth and licked a trail up her thigh. "But you'd best be careful what comes out of your mouth in future." She grabbed her towel off the hook and began to dry the upper half of her body.

"Thanks Starbuck, you're a gem." He beamed at her.

"i've heard that," she teased. "But I've gotta get going now - I've got something else up."

"See ya."

"Later Starbuck."

Kara sidestepped and exited the shower stall, wrapping her towel around her torso. "It's been fun," she said jocularly, as she grabbed her clothes and headed for the door. "Real fun."

Frak you Kara, Lee thought, a huge grin on his face. You are such a tease! He knew her parting comment was for him, and the throaty tone in which she uttered those words made him grow even bigger. He pulled off his towel and sat down in the puddle. Why was it that whenever he and Kara played these games, she always won?

TBC