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Prompt #43: Glass - He looked in her general direction with uncanny accuracy. "What d'you mean, my walls are see-through?"

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It really is in poor taste to tease the blind man. But when the blind man is a SERE-trained CIA operative with exceptional hearing and an uncanny ability to never flub up, it's not really that bad. After all, he's in no way, shape, or form, a normal blind man.

So Annie had absolutely no guilty feelings about saying, "Bold fashion statement today, eh Auggie?"

The sight of his single raised eyebrow alone almost did her in. "Come again, Walker?"

She chuckled and plucked the collar of his shirt. "I didn't think anyone could pull off this color of neon green, but surprisingly you do it well. Especially paired with that hideous shade of mustard-yellow tie."

His eyes widened comically as his hands flew to the hem of his shirt to feel the Braille tag sewn on the inside. Quick as lightning his eyes narrowed in her general direction. "Ha ha ha, Walker. Very funny."

"I thought so," she admitted innocently, smiling wide.

"Stop smiling. It's not nice to tease the handicapped."

"Pfft. Handicapped, my ass."

Watching Auggie was fast becoming her favorite pastime. The easy way he moved around his apartment captivated her. Add a lack of shirt covering that perfectly sculpted chest of his, and her eyes were unabashedly glued to his every move.

"You know I can feel you staring at me, right?"

Damn him and his heightened senses. But she had a sharp wit at her disposal, and it had a zinger ready for him. "You realize you left the front door open for that horny neighbor of yours to ogle, right?"

The cocky grin on his lips faltered slightly. His head slowly twisted to stare in the direction of his front door. The door that Annie had been sure to close behind her. "Please tell me you're joking," he mumbled. "That woman's got a nose like a bloodhound."

Annie giggled at the look of absolute terror on her handler's face. That made the joke come to light, and realization dawned over Auggie's features. "Low, Walker. Very low. Remember, payback's a bitch."

She childishly stuck out her tongue at him. "Bring it on, Anderson."

"Stick out your tongue again and I'm going to teach you the proper way to use it," he warned.

"In your dreams."

Several months after they first started dating, Annie could barely believe her eyes when Auggie held out a small velvet box to her and said, "I, um, I know we haven't been together for very long, you know, romantically, but um - "

She stopped listening once the lid flipped open. Light hit the little ring within, making the diamond set in the silver band seem to glow. One hand reached up to cover her mouth as the other paused halfway to the box.

Then he said, "Anyway, Annie...can you put this on now? I got it on loan from Dexter and he wants to make sure it fits Clara's finger before he pops the question. Your ring finger's about the same size as hers, so..."

Annie's mouth dropped open in shock as she realized that she'd been duped. The smug grin of Gotcha spreading across Auggie's face was nothing short of victorious. "You bastard," she gasped, astonished that he'd managed to get her so thoroughly.

He stuck out his tongue at her. "Like I said, payback's a bitch."

"Stick out your tongue again and I'm going to teach you the proper way to use it."

One eyebrow rose in blatant challenge. "That supposed to scare me?"

"Hey, Auggie..."

"Yeah?" When she hesitated, Auggie sat up straighter in his chair. "What? What, what is it?"

"Well...you do know that your office walls are made of glass, right?"

He gave her a flat stare and dryly replied, "Yes Annie, I've been aware of that fact for a couple years now."

"Good, just making sure."

"Why's that?"

Biting her lower lip, Annie took his hand and turned his palm to face up. She used her index finger to draw a plus sign on his skin, saying as she did, "Remember how you said there was only one thing I couldn't joke about?"

Auggie's face went completely slack. "Annie, are you really..."

"Yeah."

And in spite of his glass office walls, Auggie scooped his newly-pregnant wife up in his arms and kissed her soundly in front of God and the whole DPD amid thunderous applause.

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