CHAPTER 35

ACTIONS SPEAK VOLUMES – after 6x01

Jason walked down the stairs, still a bit sleepy, but incited by the smell of fresh coffee and bakery goods. He found Mandy in the kitchen, wearing the Flyers t-shirt. She turned when she heard him.

"Hi, good morning" she greeted him, staying turned until he approached and gave her a kiss.

"Good morning. You shouldn't be doing all of this. You're working today" he said, sitting on a stool by the kitchen island. "And pancakes? These are my specialty" he said, nodding at the bowl.

"Oh I know, that's why I'm doing waffles today. I know my pancakes aren't as good as yours" she mocked him, but she was right. "But I'm making scrambled eggs too, do you want some? I'm hungry so I'll eat both".

He smiled. "I'm hungry too".

She nodded and poured the batter into the waffle machine. "At what time are you leaving?"

"Hum, I don't know. What time are you going to work?"

Mandy paused for a bit, breaking the eggs into a bowl. She muttered "I don't know".

"What do you mean you don't know?" Jason asked, confused.

"I don't have any meetings or visits today" she scrambled the eggs.

"I know, but don't you have work to do? I mean, I don't want you to have to work until late hours to meet your deadlines" he said, worried.

She stayed silent, scrambling the eggs for a lot longer than necessary. Jason got up from the stool and stood by her side, then she turned her head a bit, so he wouldn't see she had tears in her eyes. "What's wrong?" he said, affectionate.

"Nothing"

"Come on, Mandy, why are you crying?" he was concerned, she wasn't a person that easily cried.

She just put the bowl down, dried her tears quickly, then glanced at him, and away. "I don't like it, Jason. My work. Like, the actual job" she muttered. Then quickly added, "I never felt like that". She looked miserable.

Jason gave her a bear hug, and she calmed down a bit. "I know how you feel" he said, remembering how unhappy he was during his time at Command Center.

"It's different than when I left the CIA", she distanced from him. "I liked a lot of the things I was doing when I was an agent, but the price was too high. The lack of time, the guilt, the constant pressure, and when I had to manipulate assets. It was too much".

Jason stared at her, he knew she had more to say.

She thought for a while, then finally could explain how she felt. "It was too much, I had to leave. But now I feel it's too little. What I do during the week doesn't give me joy, or excitement, at all. It's not... fulfilling. It reminds me of when the CIA tried to chain me to a desk in DC".

Jason swallowed, because at that time the reason why the CIA punished her by keeping her on a desk job was because she went rogue to save Bravo. He still felt guilty about it. Fortunately, her impeccable reputation allowed her to come back to the field a few weeks later and work with DEVGRU as an interrogator, even though she wasn't exclusively linked to Bravo anymore.

And Mandy was just like him, she needed something more than a desk job. But he also knew that she must have spent a fortune during her sabbatical months, traveling the world, and she probably couldn't afford being unemployed. She still had her student loan to pay, a house to keep, and Jason could barely pay his own bills and the kids' education with his income, so he couldn't help her financially either.

"I know I have to have a job" she told him, when she noticed he was doing some math in his head, "I just don't want to waste my whole week doing something that makes me so unhappy. So last week I was thinking about it, and when I woke up this morning I decided to quit the consultant job at the NGO where I work on Mondays and Tuesdays." she stated.

"Ok. I totally understand Mandy, believe me. And it's your choice, you know that. But what will you be doing during those two days? Searching for some other job?"

She smirked at him. "When I came back from Seattle and handed my reports to Paul, about the information he gathered, he loved them. He said that he has other journalist friends who need help with analyzing and confirming the information they receive from informants worldwide, and also they are starting NGO's that help people in war zones, so they needed someone to help them with some… logistics, apparently."

"Ok…" Jason saw how excited she was just by telling him that.

"...So, Paul asked me if I couldn't spare a few more hours during my week to work with him and these journalists that he knows, like some sort of consultant. So if I quit one of the NGO's I consult with, I could do that during my free time on Mondays and Tuesdays. And they'd pay me even a bit more than I'm receiving working at Paul's NGO. I said I needed to think, and I promised that I was going to think about it until Monday. So… today".

Jason smirked, he knew her answer. "And you're saying yes"

Mandy raised her shoulders a bit. "I think so. What do you think?" she opened a wide smile.

"Well, you're smiling just by talking about it. Of course if it makes you happy, you should do it". He came closer and kissed her, softly, and Mandy deepened their kiss, but suddenly she stopped "Oh no, the waffles", and she opened the machine to see they were all burnt in one side.

"If you want to, I can still try to make you some pancakes with the batter that's left" Jason mocked her. She stared at him.

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Jason was really happy for Mandy, she deserved to do something that fulfilled her. He hoped that she would feel happier analyzing the information that was being handed by the journalists' informants. He knew that her job was a very important part of her life, which is how he felt about being a Seal. She always supported him during his issues, and he wanted to support her the same way.

But of course he was a bit worried about her spending more time with Paul now, which is probably what would happen. He was getting a bit tired of playing the jealous boyfriend type, he'd never been a jealous guy before, and knew that Mandy didn't like it either. But his feelings for Mandy were only getting stronger, and he was really afraid of losing her. He was realizing how dependable he was becoming of her now, and he hoped it wouldn't be like that when Bravo was allowed to go on ops again.

Jason was slowly eating his eggs, watching Mandy end her call with her boss at the NGO. She was respectfully quitting, and was smiling as she walked back to the kitchen.

"Ok, it's done. That was scary" Mandy put her phone on the island, and set next to Jason. She exhaled, looking relieved.

"I'm really proud of you" he stated, sincerely, looking at her for a while. Then he looked back at his eggs.

He noticed she wasn't saying anything, so he looked at her again. She was looking at him, stern, then she blinked and held his face on her hands, kissing him slowly but deeply. Jason was caught off guard but he really liked the surprise, especially when she stepped down of the stool to come closer. She stood between his legs to kiss him, pressing her body against his member, that was already getting hard; she knew exactly what she was doing, and let out a moan when he pulled her even closer. He heard that and immediately stepped down of his stool, feeling her body against his. She moaned again and finally separated from him, taking two steps back, and stared at him while she took off her Flyers t-shirt and threw it to the side, standing naked in the middle of the kitchen. They were usually very playful during sex, or extremely eager, but they were both acting very serious right now, and taking their time.

Jason kept looking at her, silent, as he took off his navy blue boxers and kicked them to the side. He was breathing heavily while she analyzed his whole body in the morning light, and he was doing the same. He wanted to keep looking at her but also advance at her, and the silence and stillness were killing him, he was painfully hard.

Mandy was taking her time looking at Jason, and she could almost hear her heart racing. It still felt unreal having him at her house, and completely naked, and she wanted to savor it. And him. But her core was burning and pulsating, and she couldn't wait any longer to feel his warm body all around her. So she walked, as calmly as she could, to his direction, and she saw him hold his breath when she stood very close to him, still not touching him. She was feeling how much he wanted her, and his eyes were reminding her how much he cared for her. He demonstrated that many times. So she wasn't so unsure now about opening up her heart, just a bit, for him.

She lifted her hand and grazed a finger, like a feather, on the bridge of his nose, then continued grazing down, touching his lips, neck, chest, abs and then, finally, she slightly touched the tip of his erection. He shivered while she grazed his body, and gasped at the end. She kept her face very close to his, looking into his eyes. "Is it normal?" she asked, serious, with a shaky voice, repeating her own words, and his. He swallowed. "Is it normal for you?" she asked him.

He breathed heavily. "No", he admitted. "It's not".

She felt shivers all over her body, but she thought that this was a moment for a bedroom, not a kitchen, so she just turned around and climbed the stairs, still naked, glancing at him to make sure he took the hint and followed her. Fortunately, he did.

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Jason was almost exploding with the sexual tension and the anticipation, and when she finally got inside the bedroom and waited for him next to the bed, he walked fast to her to take her in his arms, but she gesticulated for him to stop a feet away from her. She smirked when he made a complaining and pleading face; now it was just torture, and she knew that. When she was sure that he wasn't advancing at her, she took a step closer and grazed a finger on his forehead and beard. He shivered once more.

She was serious again, and asked "I need you to show me how you feel about me".

He swallowed, hard, then he licked his lips and kissed her deeply, pressing her whole body against his, embracing her with his arms, leaving her breathless. Then he put his hands on her hair, and kissed her nose, cheeks, neck, going down to her collarbone, breast, then licked her nipple, making her shiver and moan. Her core was pulsating and her heart was racing, and maybe he even heard it, because he placed his forehead right against her chest, between her breasts, and exhaled.

Then he suddenly raised his head again and carried her like a bride, laying her gently on the middle of the bed. Mandy bent her legs a little, and he climbed the bed, hovering over her body. He kissed her again all over her body, and Mandy was shuddering and moaning already. He hesitated, then he kissed her thighs, stopped and exhaled again, trying to calm his heart. Mandy understood that he needed his release, so she held his face with her hands and pulled his face closer to hers. He kissed her softly, with his eyes open, and looked into her eyes while he penetrated her tight walls, that were already twitching, pushing deep and releasing a deep moan. He breathed in and exhaled, then he pulled almost all the way and thrust deep and slow inside of her. They both moaned with his slow thrusts. He placed his face on her neck and Mandy pressed her feet on his butt, pushing him a bit deeper at each thrust, while pulling his hair. She was trying not to come too soon, but it felt impossible, she was loving his husky moans, and he was shivering, so she put her hand on his heart, to calm him. But it had the opposite effect, because he began to thrust faster and moved his body even closer to her, releasing some of his weight and touching all of her body with his. He then took her hands off his hair and chest and entwined his fingers on hers, placing their hands over her head, just like he did the other night, and when she started to contract her walls he thrust even faster and gasped desperately, and as soon as she reached her orgasm he came too, thrusting deeply, both of them moaning loudly.

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They both took a while to catch their breaths again, but Jason still had a lot of the sexual tension left to release, and he felt energized with the stem cells treatments, so he got up from Mandy and knelt on the bed. He wanted to show her once again how he felt about her, so when he saw that she had come out of her haze he spread her legs and shoved his face between them, licking from her entrance to her clit, making her gasp. He began massaging her clit with the circling movements with his tongue and lips that she loved, sucking it and licking it hard, and remembered she shivered with the touch of his beard on her folds once, so he moved his chin a bit to test it out, and she shivered, unconsciously closing her legs a bit. He held her thighs and opened them even more, realizing how flexible she was, so he had even more access, and started to move his tongue faster and suck harder, grazing his beard now and then, loving to hear her gasps and moans, and soon she came, hard, contracting her whole body and calling for God. He quickly got up and turned her on the bed, so she was laying with her belly down, raised her hips a bit and, while she was still twitching from her orgasm, he pushed inside of her, deep, and both of them shivered and screamed a bit because she was still twitching hard.

He knew he wouldn't last long, so he thrust deep and fast inside of her, moaning with a husky voice in her ear and making her mad with desire. He wrapped his arms on her waist, covering her entirely with his body, in a protective position that he loved. Mandy felt she was approaching her climax soon, so she held their weight on her arms while raising her hips even more, pushing against him, and he went mad because he reached her deeper now, so he thrust faster and harder; he was the one calling God now, desperate, but he was touching her G spot at every thrust and not before long Mandy came again, and her walls wrapped around his member and he reached his orgasm, hard, grunting and gasping.

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Mandy waited for a few moments after their orgasms passed, catching her breath, then she felt the urge to touch Jason, and to show him how she felt about him. So she turned on his side, facing him, and held his face on her hands and started to kiss his forehead, cheeks and lips, then bit his earlobe and kissed his chest. He moaned and she pushed him a bit to the side so he was laying on the bed and she was on top of him. But she still wanted him closer, so she kissed him deeply and wrapped her arms on his shoulders, raising his torso until he sat with her. She stopped kissing him to see if he was getting hard, and realized he was already fully erect again, so she looked into his eyes, smiled, then held his erection while lowering herself, opening her knees and completely engulfing it. Jason released a deep moan and held her tight, and she started to move slowly, up and down and a bit to the front, so her clit touched him too. They were moaning in unison, then she held his face so he could look at her.

She stopped, breathed in and picked up the pace, and at the same time she started to contract around him, in pulses, wittingly, as she moved up and down, and Jason immediately released a loud moan, almost a scream, shutting his eyes. She knew exactly what she was doing, and he held her so tight that she could barely move, but she continued to move around his erection from all of the directions, twitching and pulsating. "Jason", she called, because she wanted him to open his brown eyes, she wanted to see his reaction, and he opened his eyes, that now were black with desire. He kept releasing deep and loud sounds and she was moaning on his lips, she felt him close to his orgasm, because he was shivering and his face was turning red, so she moved even faster up and down, and now also moving more aggressively to the front, while still wittingly pulsating around him. He suddenly embraced her even tighter and she made one last aggressive movement to reach her climax, calling his name and shutting her eyes, completely contracting around him as he came with her too, screaming her name.

They collapsed on the bed, still entwined, facing each other and trying to catch their breaths. Jason still had a serious face and caressed Mandy's face and lips, and she opened a wide smile at him.

Mandy knew that Jason was a man of few words, at least regarding his feelings. He was very playful and sociable, but he almost never shared his true feelings or concerns, or deep thoughts, with anyone. Almost. He talked about some of them to Mandy, when they were friends, and now during sex too, and she wanted him to be a man of action again, to be sure that he wasn't saying some things because he was pumped on adrenaline. And now she concluded that he showed her his feelings about her, as she asked, and more than once. And it was the most silent sex that they ever had. Apart from the moans, grunts and screams, of course.