Disclaimer: The SWAT Kats are owned by the Hanna Barbera and the Tremblay Brothers. I own the OCs.

I loved writing this chapter. Telling Tim and Candice's story is so easy and fun, not to mention how Mark asked Lisa to marry him.

Thank you MisaRae for being my Co-Author

Chance hated being alone more than anything in the world, especially now with his injuries preventing him from moving around too much. With most of his weight on his left leg, he stood and grabbed the crutches that were leaning against the end table to his left, placed them under his arms, and proceeded to walk towards the windows. His mind wandered as he made his way to the window of how hot Callie had looked in her nurse's uniform that he wasn't paying attention to where he placed his right crutch tip. The tip hit the leg of a side table and slipped, causing Chance to fall on his injured leg. After he fell, he placed both of his paws on his right thigh and screamed in pain at the top of his lungs. After a few minutes, the pain subsided. He let go of his thigh and tried to get up off of the floor. Since the crutches had fallen out of his grasp, he had to rely on the end table for support. He placed his right paw on the table, followed by his left, pressed down on the table, and started to right himself. However, as he started to stand on his left leg, the table creaked and gave out from under him, sending him crashing to the floor. Seeing that he no longer had anything to help him up, he was now stuck, lying on the floor until someone came and helped him up. He said, "Some hero I turned out to be. I can't even get up off of the floor without someone to help me. I feel like a turtle that is stuck on its back."

Candice's stomach let out a light growl, since she really hadn't eaten anything since noon. She took a quick glance at Tim and saw that he was up to his old tricks again.

Tim just could not help but steal quick glances at Candice. Every time he looked at her, all he saw was the perfect she-cat for him. He then saw that she had caught him staring at her, and quickly turned away.

Candice got up and briskly walked over behind him, draped her arms over his shoulders, placing her breasts against his back, and whispered into his left ear, her voice low and sultry, "Tim, if you don't stop stealing tiny, little glances at me and then turning away when you get caught doing what I asked you not to, not only will I not be willing to date you…" Her voice changed to one of annoyance before she said, "I will claw those beautiful eyes out of your face."

Tim was enjoying feeling her breasts against his back and hearing her sultry voice, until she said that she was going to claw his eyes out. Tim gulped and turned his head to meet her intense, but angry gaze and reached out to place his right paw against her left cheek. As he made contact with her soft fur, he gently caressed her cheek and said, "I'm sorry, Candice. I have been bewitched by your beauty, and cannot stop myself from looking at you."

Candice grimaced, and then placed a light kiss on his lips. She said, "I bet you say that to every beautiful she-cat you meet. Shall we get a light snack from the cafeteria? I need to eat something; I haven't eaten since noon, unless you want to be my lunch?"

Tim smiled and replied, "As enticing as that sounds, I think I will pass." He stood up and extended his paw for her to take before he said, "May I have the pleasure of escorting you?"

Candice had never had a tom friend act so gallantly towards her. She was quite impressed. She thought, 'I have dated countless toms before, and none of them made me feel the way Tim does. Could he be the one that I have been waiting for?' She righted herself and straightened her skirt. Candice extended her left paw to Tim, and let him lead her out of her office.

Tim felt a tiny spark jump from her paw to his as their paws touched. He looked into her gorgeous golden eyes, and his heart started racing in his chest. He thought as he walked with her, 'What is with this she-cat? No other she-cat I have dated has ever made my heart race like it does when I am with her. Am I falling in love with her after being with her for just one day?'

As they walked through the office building, one of Candice's friends caught up with them and said, "Hey Candice, what did you do to get a handsome Enforcer to watch you like a hawk?"

"I found him in a box with a sign outside my building that said 'free to a good home'. He looked so cute in his uniform that I had to take him in. Sheila, meet Tim. Tim, this is Sheila, the gossip queen around here," Candice replied.

Tim extended his right paw to Sheila and said, "It's nice to meet you, Sheila."

Sheila took Tim's paw in hers, gave it a good squeeze, and held it for a few minutes as she let her eyes roam over his form before saying, "It's nice to meet you, too, Tim." She definitely liked what she saw.

None of it escaped Candice's notice, though. She felt a predatory growl build up in her as a wave of jealousy swept through her. Candice said through clenched teeth, "Sheila, don't you have a meeting or something to attend?"

Sheila turned to Candice and saw that she was getting ready to rip her to shreds. She quickly released Tim's paw and said, "Um.. Yeah.. I do have a meeting to go to. See you later."

Tim watched Shield turn tail and leave rather quickly. He then turned back to Candice, who still had her jaw clenched and her teeth bared. He asked, "You ok, Candice?"

Candice grabbed his paw and marched him down the hall to the cafeteria.

They both grabbed a light snack from the salad bar and took a seat at an open table.

After Tim sat down, he took Candice's paw in his, lightly stroked it, and asked, "Mind telling me what happened back there? You looked like you were going to rip Sheila's throat out."

Candice calmed down as Tim stroked her paw. She let that fit of jealousy fall away as Tim spoke. She smiled at him and replied, "I'm not sure. My mother was always very possessive of my father. Every time another she-cat would get close to him, she would growl and latch onto him. I guess she got that from her mother, who was a lioness. I am protecting what is mine, just like my mother does with my father." She quickly slapped her paws over her mouth as soon as she finished speaking.

"I'm yours?" Tim asked.

Candice removed her paws from her mouth and took Tim's paws in hers. She then replied, "Tim, I don't know where this relationship, if you can call this a relationship yet, is going. However, when I am with you, I feel very different, and I like that feeling a lot. How do you feel when you are with me?"

"To be honest, Candice, I have never felt this way towards another she-cat before. When I am with you, my heart races, I feel butterflies in my stomach, and the only thing that I want to do is kiss you. If you will let me take you on a proper date tonight, I would love to get to know you better."

Candice reached up with her right paw and gave Tim's left cheek a very gentle caress.

Tim closed his eyes as Candice caressed his cheek. He really liked, no he loved, the feeling of her paw against his fur. He let out a very low purr as her gentle touches continued.

Candice felt a light vibration against her paw. She pulled it back slowly, and once it was on the table in front of her, she asked, "Did you just purr? For me?"

Tim was shocked that he had purred from just a simple touch. None of the other she-cats he had dated in the past managed to get him to purr. Even during sex, he never purred for them. Yet Candice's simple touches set his body afire. Tim reached across the table and took her paws in his before he replied, "I... I guess I did, Candice. I apologize if I have offended you."

Candice smiled, since she had him on edge, and she liked it. She caressed his paws with hers and leaned over the table. She kissed his left cheek and whispered into his ear, "If you keep purring like that, I might be forced to have my way with you. You have no idea how erotic that purr felt. I will have to try to make you purr again, when we are alone." After she spoke, she sat down, removed her right shoe, and ran her foot up Tim's left leg under the table.

Tim reached under the table with his left paw and stroked Candice's left leg. The fur felt silky soft against his paw. He didn't want to let go, but they were still at her place of work, and it was definitely not appropriate for him to be doing that there. He reluctantly let go of her leg and placed his paws on the table.

Candice, on the other hand, liked having his paw on her leg. Between him purring and stroking her leg, she was definitely getting aroused. She got up and grabbed his paw to lead him back to her office.

Tim had to walk at a very brisk pace to keep up with her as she led him down the hall and back to her office.

Once they were back in her office, she closed the door, grabbed Tim by the lapel of his shirt, slammed him against the nearest wall, and kissed him forcefully.

Tim could not believe how aggressive she had become. However, he liked that she was willing to be the aggressor, and kissed her back with all the passion he could muster, placing both of his arms around her so he could bring her closer.

Candice pushed him back ever so slightly before she said, "Tim." She followed that up with a kiss. "Don't start," she kissed him yet again, "what you can't finish, and" another kiss, "especially with me." The moment she finished speaking, she kissed him just one more time.

Tim wanted nothing more than to pick her up and carry her to the couch so he could have sex with her. Not make love, but have hot, passionate sex. He pushed her back, looked into her intense golden eyes, gulped, and then said, "I haven't been kissed like that in a very long time, Candice. I'm not sure why you kissed me like that, though. We have only known each other a little more than a day, and yet, when we are together, it's a raging inferno. I could very easily fall in love with you, and be very happy while doing so."

"I could very easily fall in love with you, too, Tim." Candice said as she reached up to stroke his cheek with her right paw. She then checked the clock and saw that it was 3:30 in the afternoon. She knew that she was not going to get anything else done that day after kissing him like that. She then said, "I'm not getting anything else done here. Why don't we go for a long walk, so we could have a good talk before dinner?"

"Sounds good to me, Candice. While we are walking, we can stop by my apartment so I can pack a bag, since I will be staying at your place for quite some time," Tim replied, then kissed her one last time before letting her go to collect her things.

As Candice walked away from him, she made sure to add an extra sway to her hips, in order to keep Tim focused on her, and nothing else.

Tim could not remove his gaze from Candice's swaying hips and tail, even if he wanted to. The way her skirt clung to her body, and the way she was walking, made his heart stop.

Candice gave a quick look over her left shoulder to see if her little stunt had the desired effect. She saw Tim standing there like a statue, and his eyes were intensely focused on her. She quickly turned her own focus back to her case, smirked, and softly said, "Like I said before, you're mine, Officer Tim."

Felina still had Mark's ear in a death grip as she led him back towards Jake.

Jake heard Felina's hard footfalls, and instantly knew that she was mad over something that one of the newbies had done. He cautiously turned towards the sound, and saw his fiancé holding Mark's left ear in her paw. He sighed and asked, "Mark, what did you do to deserve her pinching your ear like a misbehaving kitten?"

Mark really could not reply at the moment. He was too focused on the pain that Felina was causing with her deadly ear grab.

She finally let go, placed her paws on her hips, and forcefully said, "Shall I tell him exactly what you were doing, or are you going to man up?"

Mark rubbed his left ear with his left paw before he turned to her and replied, "You know, you can rip a cat's ear off by doing that? Are you planning on doing that with your kitten? Remind me not to get on your bad side again, Felina. No wonder you made Lieutenant so fast. You are one tough she-cat!" He rubbed his ear a little more briskly in order to get some feeling back into it before he answered her question, "I finished changing, as you can see. As I was walking back over here, I heard either Tina or Katerina purring. I looked over the wall by the lockers, and saw them kissing. Being the young tom that I am, I told them that watching them was better than some of the stag films I used to watch back in school. Katerina whispered something to Tina, and they both continued kissing and letting their paws go everywhere."

Jake really could not be mad at Mark for watching Tina and Katerina making out, although he silently wished that they would not do it in the hangar. Jake walked over to Felina, placed his arm around her, and said, "I have this, dear. Can you go and move the two lovers along?"

Felina was still mad at Mark, but she did as Jake asked. She turned and walked away, leaving Jake and Mark standing by the TurboKat.

Mark watched Felina walk away from them with her tail rigid and straight. It was plainly obvious that she was still mad, and was going to be for quite some time. He turned his head to Jake, and said as soon as she was out of ear shot, "You are going to have your paws full with that one. I thought that Lisa's sister was a spitfire. Felina makes her seem like a tame kitten."

Jake turned his head to face Mark. He angrily said, "Are you out of your mind? You are lucky she didn't rip your head off! When you wear that uniform, you are being held to a higher standard. You are to be polite, respectful, and above all else, trust your fellow team members. How can you expect them to trust you if you act like a teenaged tom?"

"Don't you think that I know that, Jake? Both you and Chance have been my idols for years. I have modeled myself around the way you two act. I was only trying to be Tina and Katerina's friend, and have a little fun with them in the process. I never would have expected them to full blown sex in front of me. If I knew they were going to do that, I wouldn't have said anything to them. I would have kept on walking," Mark said, and then looked at the floor and scraped his boot over it, like a kitten caught with his paws in the cookie jar. He said, "I'll apologize to them when they get back here."

"That's a start, but I think I'll have you wash the TurboKat 2 and the Cyclotrons for a month in penance, and they had better shine, especially the TurboKat 2. Felina will kill you if it does not have a mirror finish when you are done," Jake said.

As Jake was berating Mark, Felina, Tina, and Katerina came back to the main section of the hangar, with Tina and Katerina wearing their uniforms. As they stopped in front of Jake and Mark, Tina spread her legs so her feet were shoulder-width apart, crossed her arms under her breasts, and jutted her left hip out before she said, "Well guys, you think that we will cause enough of a distraction wearing these?"

Mark just stood there smiling, while Jake immediately thought that he was going to have to re-design their uniforms.

The girls were standing in front of a very large, red toolbox with Tina in the center. Katerina stood to her left, with her right leg slightly bent at the knee, and turned so she was facing Tina, with her arms crossed, but resting on Tina's right shoulder, while Felina stood to their right with her paws on her hips and a smile on her face in approval of what she saw. The material clung so tightly to their fur, it acted like a second skin, and the red stripes were placed strategically to enhance the female form to perfection. Felina replied to Tina's question, "I don't care what the guys think; those uniforms suit you both to a 'T'."

Mark let his eyes rake over Katerina's body and said, "Tina, you look like one badass she-cat in that. However, Katerina, if I wasn't hopelessly in love with Lisa, I would be begging for you to take me home. You are frigging hot!"

Katerina giggled, then slinked her way over to Mark and placed her right paw gently on his left cheek before she said, "Sorry, Mark, but I too am happily taken. Tina is the only cat that I want to take home with me and make purr. Believe me, Lisa is one lucky she-cat to have you as her fiancé. All of those well-defined muscles of yours must come in handy when you are in bed with her." She then removed her paw and walked back to Tina in order to kiss her.

Mark stared at Katerina's tail as she walked back to Tina. He only hoped that Lisa would look as good as Katerina did in her uniform. He said, "I wouldn't know. We haven't slept with each other yet. She is still pure, and intends to stay that way until we are married. I am more than happy to respect her wishes. It will make our first time, that much more memorable."

"I would not have expected that from you, Mark. You seem like the type of tom that would have bedded every she-cat you dated. However, I have to commend you for valuing Lisa's wishes. Not many toms would have been willing to do that," Felina said.

"Thank you, Felina. Lisa is the only she-cat that I have not had relations with. Almost all of the she-cats that I have dated in the past wanted me only for my body, not my mind. Lisa is the only she-cat who ever saw me for who I am, and not just as a walking hunk of muscle. Sure, I loved the attention back in high school and in college, but as I got older, it grated on me, a lot! When I met Lisa, she never treated me like all of my other girlfriends. She looked past my body, and saw that I actually had a mind. I fell in love with her very shortly after that," Mark said.

"Not many she-cats would be able to look past your body and see the tom behind the muscles. Lisa must be very special," Tina said.

"She is, at least to me anyway. Then again, she is used to seeing toms in tights from her brief career as a ballerina," Mark replied.

Tina asked, "Why did she stop dancing and become an Enforcer? If I were her, I would have kept on dancing, rather than being potentially shot at."

Mark turned to Tina and replied, "She would have stayed with her career as a ballerina, if she hadn't accidentally injured herself during a recital. I was sitting a few rows back from the stage with the show's producer and his family. I had her engagement ring in my pocket, since I was planning on asking Lisa to marry me after the performance. The lights dimmed and the show started. As the night wore on, the more nervous I became until I was fidgeting in my seat. Sometime during the second act, Lisa was performing a solo. My heart was pounding in my chest as I watched her perform. Her eyes were locked onto mine throughout the scene. That was when, she misstepped and broke her ankle. She sat there on the stage, trying her best to hide the pain that she was feeling and continue with the show, but she couldn't move. I got up and ran to her as fast as I could, not stopping for anyone who tried to get in my way. When I finally did reach her side, I got down on my knees and picked her up to carry her backstage, but before we left the stage, I got down on one knee and asked, 'Lisa, I know that this is not exactly the right time to ask you this, but if I wait any longer, I am going to pass out. Will you marry me and make me the happiest tom in the city?'

"She thought I was joking at first, until I rested her against my leg, reached into my pocket, and withdrew the box that contained the ring. I then asked again, very loudly so everyone in the audience could hear me ask her, 'Lisa Ericson, will you be my wife?' I slipped the ring on her finger, and she brought it to her face, in order to make sure that it was real. She saw the diamond sparkling in the stage lights, and started to tremble from being so happy. Lisa placed her arms around my neck and replied as tears started to fall from her eyes, 'Yes, I will marry you, Mark!' She then kissed me as I rose and carried her off the stage with the audience standing and applauding the entire time.

"After she had an X-Ray done of her ankle, the doctor had told her that the ankle would heal, but she had a very rare disorder that made her bones slightly more brittle, and the pounding that her body took from ballet would only aggravate her condition. It was the happiest day of her life, but also the saddest. Ever since she was a kitten, the only thing that Lisa ever wanted to do was dance on stage, and now that could never happen again. She started to cry as I held her tighter. After the doctor left, I lifted her face so she could look into my eyes. As I looked into her beautiful but teary eyes, I said, 'I am so sorry that you cannot dance professionally anymore, and I wish that I could take your place so you could continue to follow your dreams.'"

Mark punched the nearest wall, placing a dent in the cement. He turned back to the group and opened his eyes before he said, "Lisa has been through so much that I have vowed to make sure that every one of her wishes comes true. She loved the ballet, and to see her not being able to do what she loves kills me. So when she decided to join the Enforcers and found out that she enjoyed helping others, not to mention that she gets to work with her future husband every day, and started to be the old Lisa again, it made me very happy."

Felina wiped a stray tear away from her right eye and said, "That is so sweet of you, Mark. You must love her a lot."

"She means more to me than my own life, Felina. I don't want to live if she is not by my side, living out our lives as my wife," Mark replied.

Just as Mark finished speaking, Callie, Callista, and Lisa arrived in time to hear Mark's speech.

Lisa ran over to Mark and stood on her tiptoes so she could place her arms around his neck and asked, "Is that why when I asked for some silly little thing when I was upset, you would disappear and miraculously, whatever I wanted would be sitting on my kitchen table in the morning?"

Mark placed his arms around Lisa's hips and replied, "Yes Lisa, I want you to be happy for the rest of your days, no matter what it takes."

"There is one more thing that I want, more than anything, Mark," Lisa said.

"Oh, and what would that be, my love?" Mark asked.

Lisa brought her face inches away from his and answered, "For you to kiss me, right now."

"Your wish is my command, my love," Mark replied, then leaned in and kissed her.

End of Chapter