3. A Valentine Tiger
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When Maggie woke that morning, she had no idea if he was even in the country. The last she knew, the team had flown to Paraguay to help plantation owners convince their workers there was no curse on the land and the ghosts they thought they saw didn't exist.
Around five o'clock that evening she heard pounding on her front door followed by a series of blasts on the doorbell.
She expected an emergency. Stepping out onto the veranda, she looked right and left. Seeing no one, she shrugged and turned to go back inside.
Something bright-colored in front of the door caught her attention and she bent to pick it up.
The red envelope had no return address, no postage stamp, like it had been hand-delivered.
She wasn't expecting a Valentine and doubted one of her patients would drop off a payment disguised as one. It had been years since she was in a serious romantic relationship with someone. At least not until lately.
Her heart thumped a bit faster as she gazed at it and frowned.
John?
But she didn't peg him to be a romantic.
"Aren't you going to open it?"
Firm hands on her shoulders spun her around. Her eyes wide and astonished, she stared up into the face of the man she loved.
His blue eyes twinkled with amusement. She could see he was dressed for an evening out. His gray pinstripe three piece suit fit him as well as one of Face's more expensive tailored suits fit the con man.
In despair, she glanced down at her own clothes. She gaped speechless at him before Hannibal gently suggested she might find something in her closet for their date.
He followed her inside and, leaning against the door frame, watched with a confident smile as she tore open the envelope. A bouquet of red roses adorned the front of a long narrow card. As she opened it, a newspaper advertisement for Serensetti's fell out. She barely caught it before it fell to the floor.
Arching an eyebrow at the Colonel, she grinned. "Isn't this Face's favorite restaurant where he takes his dates to impress them?"
"Well," Hannibal grinned back at her, "I figure if it works for him . . . " He shrugged. "Besides, they have music and dancing, and our resident ladies' man guarantees the food."
If she didn't put a hand on his chest to hold him back, he would have followed her upstairs to help her choose something to change into. "Just wait right there, Tiger."
"Meraow," he smiled. As she walked up two steps and turned to cast another disbelieving look at him, he softly murmured, "Don't be long."
She felt her heart flutter wildly and she whispered, "Trust me. I won't."
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AN: Maggie Sullivan was introduced in the Season One episode "Black Day at Bad Rock" and if Hannibal was to ever have a love interest, she would have been a good match.