Calendar Girls Chapter 22
The afternoon in the bullpen passed rather quickly, reports were filed away, all paper work was signed and delivered to Hightower's office an hour before the deadline.
Jane and Lisbon were the last to leave the bullpen, by choice having decided they would both go to her apartment afterwards for dinner as both had intentionally skipped lunch. Jane had wandered off earlier in the day to fix her a beautiful dinner unbeknown to Lisbon, she merely assumed he was off skiving somewhere. Well he was about to surprise her...
The ride in the elevator was quite dramatic, no sooner had the doors closed and the designated button pressed both parties drew together in a flurry of shapeless tangled limbs, hell bent on one purpose and one purpose alone... Pleasure!
Tongues duelled for dominance, hands wandered and hot lush kisses were swapped. This was what they both needed both wanted, hot, hard passion. What was that Martini commercial used say? Ah yes! Anytime any place anywhere! By the looks of things now it was literally!
"Don't think"! The growled out command tore from his lips, before any reasoning could end this passionate embrace he surged forwards towards his intended goal, Jane scooping Lisbon up and kissing her with such a devouring intensity, there was a major possibility she would be bruised for a week or so.
He was hungry for her, for all that she was, all that she stood for. He loved her so much, so deeply he had to make her his as soon as possible. He had wasted too many years wallowing in self pity, self destruction but it was this little pixie of a women who had shown him love beyond his wildest dreams...
The elevator stopped. The doors opened to find Karl the night security guard staring at them both quite curiously as Jane carried Lisbon, bridal style out of the elevator but not before he gave the guy a sly wink and a mischievous grin.
The security chuckled to himself and saluted Jane when he looked back over his shoulder, the latter simply smiled...carrying Lisbon to her state registered SUV in this fashion seemed quite natural a thing to do.
He was sure if the elevator ride had been long enough he would have taken her up against the wall but alas they would be home soon. Home! That one word had such a profound effect on him. When Lisbon had announced they were going home he could have jumped for joy at such a simple statement, home now had much more of a meaning for him, he knew he would never ever forget his late wife or his daughter but he knew they would have wanted him to move forward eventually...
The ride home was a quiet affair, both lost so deep in one another's thoughts...
dinner was served unexpectedly by Jane in a flowery apron he had found lurking in one of the cupboards in Lisbon's kitchen, that broke the ice, and had her in a fit of giggles all through dinner...
A dessert of lemon sponge pudding, one of Jane's favourite sweets was served nice and hot and both shared the same dish, staring longingly at each other over the bowl.
Lisbon was enthralled and captivated by the man behind the 3 piece suit. His armour was torn away to reveal a loving man, but not without his scars.
She herself had enough to contend with and had been pre-warned by numerous friends when she announced she had fallen for her unruly consultant that it probably wasn't a great idea to Go There?
It seemed that if it was meant to be, then so be it. Teresa Lisbon was indeed deeply and irrevocably in love and it felt wonderful!
TBC...