The Lunch Break

September 2005

"Hey, Goddess, put on your best party dress. I'm taking you dancing when I get home," Derek said, wearing a huge smile, as he walked down the aisle of the jet and into the galley. He liked to have a little privacy when he talked to Penelope.

"Gorgeous, this sexy mama don't dance and you know that."

Dramatically he whined "Hot mama, you are breaking my heart and crushing all my dreams in your pretty little hands. Be nice, babe."

"If by nice you mean dance with you then sorry but I'm a itch with a capital B."

"Not my baby."

"Yep, your baby. No dancing for you with me. Another dream shattered. Boo hoo. Do you need me to wipe your tears? I have a place you can rest your head while you sob. Wanna guess where?"

"Woman, you are a temptress of the worse kind. Stop messing with me!" He laughed as he said this. "I will get you on a dance floor sooner or later. You can not hold out forever. Its been a damn year. Give it up already."

"Au contraire, its been fourteen months and you're still at square one with me. And I thought you were a player."

"Don't doubt my skills, baby girl. I got moves you ain't never seen but I just might show you one of these days if you're sweet to me."

"One of these days? I've heard that one before, hot cross buns."

"You could touch my buns if you play your cards right."

"How about a little less talk and a lot more action? Do a strip tease for me and lets get this show on the road."

"Girl, you better behave. I will spank that hot ass of yours for that kind of teasing when you know damn well you would run for the hills if I took off my shirt and showed you what I'm working with."

She purred "That is where you are oh so mistaken, Hot Stuff. You have to take off your pants for me to see what you're working with and, if you did, I'd be too busy using my magic fingers, as you call them, to run anywhere."

"Now who is the big talker, Garcia? You know you want wine and roses. You're one of those girls. On the lookout for a guy who will give you a ring and 2.5 rug rats. That ain't me, baby. Though you make me tempted. You're as fine as wine and I want a drink."

"Lover, drink up!"

He laughed. "You're so silly! I gotta go, baby doll. But I was serious about you getting dressed for a night on the town though. I'll pick you up at ten."

"Slow down, you sexy cave man. That sounded like an order and mama takes requests, not demands."

He cooed "Baby girl, will you go drinking with me tonight? All I thought about when I was gone was getting back to the sexiest tech kitten in the world. Don't deny me, baby. I'll die if I gotta go to bed tonight without getting some time alone with you."

"Okay, you can have your time alone, my Adonis."

"Thank you, sweetheart. Wear something to make me lose my breath. You know I already lost my mind over you a long time ago."

"Slow down. You didn't wait to hear the rest. This offer comes with a condition."

"What's that?"

"Next week, on our lunch hour, you take me to a no tell motel for some afternoon delight."

He laughed. "You are shameless!"

She giggled. "Uh-huh."

"Get your mind out of my pants, woman." He smiled and hung up.

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They went to the bar that night and had an amazing time. The chemistry was sparking hotter than ever between them. At the end of the next week, with her words tormenting and teasing him every time he remembered their conversation, Derek decided to test the waters with Penelope.

Wandering into her bunker he said "Morning, princess."

"I'll show you a good morning, Hot Stuff."

He grinned. "You got in early today. What's up?"

"Just had a lot of updates to run because new security patches came out."

"Look at you, pretty girl, working hard from the crack of dawn. You're gonna need a pick me up at lunch time."

She gave him a flirty smile. "What did you have in mind, bold and beautiful?"

Derek laughed at that one. "I'm more of a Young and Restless man myself." He leaned against her desk and crossed his arms over his chest, feigning casualness. "I bought a house."

"What's that?"

"Yeah, I bought my first house. Its an investment. I've been fixing it up for a while."

"You own a house now?"

"That's what I'm telling you, baby girl. Are the words coming out of my mouth too fast for that brilliant brain to decipher?"

"No. Its just you never said anything about this before. Holding out on your Goddess?"

He shrugged. "You know I do have my secrets. But I might be willing to share them some day. Stick around and find out."

"You couldn't beat me off with a stick." She focused back on her computer. "So tell me all about the new Morgan abode."

"I don't live there or anything. I'm still staying in my apartment. But last weekend I bought some furniture for it. They say a house is easier to sell when it looks lived in. You wanna come by and check it out today on our lunch hour? Its only five minutes from here."

Her brown eyes, covered by a pair of pointy green glasses, rose to meet his. "Alone with you in a house with a brand new bed? I've never had a better offer in all my life. Lead the way, brown sugar."

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He was nervous to show her the house and all his work on it. But he needn't have been because she raved over all he had done. Hearing her praise him and his efforts warmed his heart.

Derek wrapped his arms around Penelope from behind and nuzzled her neck. Something he would never do if the team was around but that he did it all the time when he had her alone.

And over the last fourteen months he had her alone a lot. He always was asking her to spend time with him on his days off. Doing stuff like going to the shore to watch beach volleyball, or going to carnivals, movies, plays, concerts, baseball games, shopping at the mall, whatever he could think of that would get him time with her.

Always as friends. Just friends. He wasn't about to get a serious girlfriend, now or ever. That sounded way too emotional for him. He didn't do well getting that vulnerable.

Hell, he was the guy with the "No Sleeping Over" allowed rule when he was with women.

Penelope interrupted his thoughts when she flirted "Handsome, why don't you do something a little more interesting, if you know what I mean, with your hands than just holding my waist?"

Usually he would throw a witty line back at her but this time he spoke right against her ear, letting his warm breath linger on her skin as he said "This could be our little love shack."

"You are the biggest tease ever. You get me all tingly with your fake offers and send me home to my battery operated friend. I should really spank your bare ass for that one, Morgan."

He was blown away by her. He couldn't even breath sometimes when she said something sexy, and this was one of those times. So he just nibbled her ear instead.

Penelope tensed but after a moment she melted, going all soft in his arms as he held her from behind. She whispered, her voice filled with lust, "What a kick ass way to spend a lunch hour. I love this house, baby! It brings out the tiger in you."

He knew she was nervous but also that she was loving him licking, nibbling, and sucking her earlobes. He moved his lips down her neck, breathing out "We could come here every lunch hour from now on. You wanna, baby girl?"

"For no strings sex? Hells yeah."

Good enough for him. He started to rip off his clothes. That day he was sure they were just gonna have some fun in their love shack. But Derek Morgan wasn't the type to give up a good thing once he had it. It wasn't long before that love shack became the home he was fixing up for the women he wanted to call his wife.

And all because of one lunch break that was spent making good on all their sexy banter on the phone.

THE END