Two people do their part to conserve water

THE DROUGHT (Part 1)

Mission Gym. Late Evening

Nell bounded down the hallway, passing the bullpen and making a beeline to the Gym. The past few days at work had been so boring that she had a ton of pent up energy and was looking forward to getting it out working out. She turned the corner and came to a screeching halt. She had expected to be alone tonight but it seems Fate had a different plan

Eric sat on the bike pedaling away, his head down low trying to will himself past a difficult part. He was in a simple pair of gym shorts and a tank top, something that caught Nell off guard. She had never seen him in a tank top before and the image, to her liking, would be forever burned in her memory. He was panting heavily and sweat was pouring out from him. She walked up to him as he lifted his head and saw her. He smiled and pulled out an ear bud.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" He asked between breaths

"I've been going stir crazy for the past few days so I wanted to unwind a bit tonight." She said, returning his smile.

"What about you?" She said as she set her bag down and stood on the mats in the middle of the gym. She started to stretch her legs out and get warmed up.

"I finished up all the security work Hetty asked me to do and decided to work out here tonight." Eric said.

"I see." She said as she switched legs and started to stretch out the other. Eric couldn't help but stare at her. She wore a black pair of jogging pants, a red tank top, the straps of a black sports bra peaking out behind it, and her hair tied back in a pony tail. He smiled when he realized that she still wore the necklace he bought her as a birthday gift a few months ago. It was a simple silver chain with the word "Rockstar" hanging from it.

"I'm so glad this week is over. I've been bored out of my skull with the drudgery." He said, the resistance on the bike moving up again.

"Never thought I would ever actually want a terrorist threat to show up." She replied as she spread her legs and bent forward.

Eric tensed up. He tried so, so hard to not stare down her chest but it was to no avail. Good God she looks amazing! "No joke" He said.

She stood up and started to put her gear on as Eric started his cool down on the bike. He dropped his head again, trying to catch his breath. Nell took a moment to sneak a look at him. She had seen him without a shirt on but there was something about him as he was now that just drove her crazy. Fortunately she was good at keeping herself contained but she did have to admit it was hard to not jump into his arms and begin to rip his clothes off.

She started to work on the new MMA machine that was brought into OSP a few months ago. Seemed like everyone had a go at it and after a few moments she understood why. It was actually rather enjoyable and in no time at all she was working up a sweat

Eric got off the bike and walked over to one of the sit up machines. He strapped himself in, set the weight, and began to crunch forward. Every once in awhile he stole a glance over at Nell who was totally focused on the machine, her skin starting to glisten. Eric forced himself to look away before his body did something that he would regret later on. After doing 4 sets he moved to the bicep curl. After a few sets he sat there, giving himself a rest, and found his glances toward Nell getting longer and longer.

"Like what you see over there Beale?" She said, causing Eric to turn red with embarrassment. His brain searched for a reasonable response but all that came out was "Uh, yea." Mentally he slapped himself

Nell looked from around the machine at him and gave him a wink. "Good." Was all she said.

Eric started another few sets and then got up. He walked over to the machine, taking a drink of his water. Nell had finished her workout and stood there, bent over trying to catch her breath. Eric reached down and grabbed her water bottle and handed it to her.

"Thanks" She said as she took a drink.

"You're really good at this." Eric said.

"Sam has been working with me teaching me boxing. He wants me to get better at hand to hand for when I go out into the field." She said, standing up and brushing a few stray strands out of her face.

"Well with his backround you can't really ask for a better teacher." Eric said.

"You ever used this thing?" She nodded toward the machine.

Eric shook his head. "Nah. Not really my thing." He said.

She took another drink. "You should give it a try sometime. It's a lot of fun." She said, giving him a smile.

"I might do that." He said. He was toying with the idea in his head but was mostly trying to talk himself out of it then talk him into it. Thankfully the "Into it" voice won.

"What do you have going on tonight?" He asked her.

She shook her head. "Nothing really. I don't feel like going out tonight, especially like this" She waved to indicate herself.

"I think you look fine." He said it before he thought about it

She smiled. "Really, Eric?" She said.

"I'm serious. I like this look on you." He said, deciding not to hold anything back.

She dropped her gloves and slowly walked up to him. She stood extremely close to him and look into his eyes.

"You know, I like this look on you too" She whispered.

Eric had to concentrate just to keep standing. Thankfully the shakes in his legs could be attributed to the workout he just completed.

Nell was having the same struggle. Just being close to him and smelling him, sweaty as he was, was a total turn on for her. She bit her lower lip.

"You know that we are in a drought real bad right?" She whispered.

He nodded. "Yea, Deeks was talking about it earlier." He replied.

"He was right though. We all need to do our part to conserve water." She said.

"And how do you purpose we do that, Miss Jones?" Eric said.

She ran a finger along the strap of his tank top.

"Well, Mr. Beale, it is incredibly wasteful for us to take showers separate, when we can take one together and use half the water." She said, with a sly grin.

"I like the way you think. And we have this place to ourselves" Eric said, running his hands along her shoulders.

Nell grabbed his neck and pulled her to him, her lips crashing into his as she ran her hands across his chest. He responded by wrapped his arms around her waist. Both their breaths started to quicken and they hungrily devoured each other. Nell's hand found their way under Eric's tank top. She ran her hand along his chest and sides, feeling his skin and the toned muscles beneath them.

Eric responded by lifting her up off the ground. It elicited a slight yelp from her but when she realized what he was doing she went back to kissing him.

Eric wrapped an arm around her back to support her as she wrapped her legs around his waist. Holding herself against him with one arm she started to pull on her tanktop with the other. Eric, realized what she was doing, started to pull up with her until she was free of it.

"Shower" She breathed before returning to kiss him as he carried her in his arms into the locker room.

I was toying with the idea of making this M rated, but decided against it. If there is enough want for it I will turn this into a 2 parter

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