Kate got up early the next morning for her meeting with TL in the Shooting Barn. She stood in front of her closet trying to decide what to wear for what seemed like forever. She wanted to look mature, but cute, and pretty but athletic. Finally, she decided on long black yoga pants and a turquoise racer back tank top. She grabbed a bagel to eat on the way, laced up her Nikes,and ran out to the barn.
Once there, she saw TL once again waiting for her.
"Sorry, am I late?" Kate hoped he hadn't been expecting her for long.
"Not at all. I just got here early. I wanted to check out the weaponry, and try to guess what would work better with your body type."
Kate couldn't tell, but it looked almost like TL had blushed when he had mentioned her body, and quickly turned away to hide it.
"Oh, it's just my imagination and wishful thinking," Kate told herself. Still, she couldn't help hoping...
"Obviously you did well with moving targets yesterday..." TL turned and winked at her, and it was Kate's turn to blush and look down. TL continued,
"But that was with a handgun. I want to see what you can to with one of these." He lifted a large, akward looking gun from the rack.
"I've never even sen anything like this, let alone tried one." Kate protested, but TL walked over with the gun anyway.
"If you've never used one like this, then we should probably start on a paper target." Kate accepted this as a compromise, but when she took the gun, she had no idea how to even hold it up.
"What the heck?" she muttered. It didn't even have a place to fit up to her shoulder.
"Here." TL walked up behind her and reached one arm around her to place the gun where it should go. His other arm went around her other side to lift her arm up to sight the gun. It eventually turned out so that he was holding her arms on the proper position for the gun, and was pressed up close behind her.
Kate could feel his warm breath against her ear as he murmered, "This type of gun is meant for intense field work. It's styled like this so that it can be easily shot while moving quickly. It also has a very large range."
Kate tried her hardest to concentrate on what he was saying, but she couldn't get her mind off his long, hard body pressed against her back. She took a ragged breath, and hoping that he couldn't hear how fast her heart was beating, sighted her eye to the gun. With TL still helping her hold it, she took a shot at the target. As soon as she pulled the trigger, the rebound knocked her back into TL. He caught her against his body, and she loked up breathlessly into his eyes. His strong arms held her to him, and they locked eyes for a very long moment.
Then the sound of approaching footsteps rang outside the barn. TL and Akte quickly jumped apart, and TL said, "We'll work on moving targets with that gun tomorow." He didn't meet her eyes.
"Sound good." Kate said quickly. She gathered up her stuff and walked back to her room, more confused than ever.