She was getting dressed. He loved watching her getting dressed, especially when she didn't know he was watching. He usually did it while shaving, watching her in the bathroom mirror. But that almost always ended up in him cutting himself. Here he was safe. A full floor under her. There was no way he could get caught now and that made it so much better … and creepier too now that he thought about it. He watched her as she took her robe off and opened the wardrobe. There she stood, in her undergarments, two dresses in hand.

"You should choose the blue one." William called to her.

He couldn't help but laugh when he saw her look around in the bedroom.

"Where are you?" Julia asked, putting her robe back on.

"No, take it off. You're so much more beautiful without it!"

"William Murdoch, show yourself immediately or you're never going to see anything anymore!"

"I'm in the garden." he called.

"How?"

She walked to the window and found it already partly open. And there was some sort of … eyes looking in. She opened the window wider and bended over the edge. There was her husband, standing on two or three wooden boxes, his face glued to some sort of glasses.

"What are these things?" Julia asked as she got her body completely back into the bedroom, kneeling to examine the detective's new invention.

"I call it the circumscope. It enables you to see things without being seen. And right now it is giving me the best veiw ever."

Julia looked down and noticed that the circumscope was directed at her chest and that she had not tied her corset yet.

"Come up here right now!" Julia commanded in a very serious voice.

He knew better than to mess with her when she used that voice. He took his invention back, jumped off the boxes and almost ran back in the house.

"I heard you got your bike back." Julia said as she saw William come in her office.

"Yes."

"And yet you don't sound or seem very happy about it." Julia said, kissing him quickly on her way to file her latest post mortem report.

"Well, it's in pieces now. I don't know if I can put it back together or if they took some pieces. And they stole the saddle bags you offered me."

"You still had them?" Julia asked, really surprised.

"Of course I still had them! They were the first gift you ever gave me Julia, I could never get rid of them."

"But they're so old! They must have been falling to pieces given everything you put in them most of the time." she laughed.

"They were. But I fixed them … regularly."

"You should have changed them William, I would not have been mad at you."

"But they had sentimental value and ..."

"Just go buy some new ones William. You deserve good, resistant accessories to work these cycling legs of yours." Julia said, walking right into him to kiss him.

"Well, if you ask me like that, how can I refuse?" William said, pulling her deeper in his arm to kiss her more properly.

As things began to heat up between the two of them, Julia felt William play with her hair. He loved her hair. And particularly when it was down, cascading on her shoulders and down her back. When she felt his hands getting the pins out of her hair, she tried to push him away without conviction.

"William, you need to stop." she whispered and shivered as he kissed her behind her ear.

"Why?" he asked, contnuing his trail of kisses down her neck.

"Because if you don't stop now I will not be able to stop at all." she said.

"Then don't stop." William said, smiling in her neck when he finally got all her hair free.

"But people can come in and … oh my God William!" she gasped when she felt his hand cup her breast.

"I locked the door when I came in. I've wanted you since this morning Julia. Watching you dress just … and this dress, I just love it." William said, starting to unbutton her dress when he saw all control go out of her eyes.

He turned them around and pushed her against the desk. She sat on it and pulled him to her by his jacket.

"You taste like watermelon." she laughed, her head in his neck, getting his jacket and vest off.

"Well, that's your fault."

"I will have to deal with it now, won't I?" Julia asked, kissing him all over his neck.