She hadn't imagined it, had she? Stealthman was definitely flirting. Couldn't spin a compliment like that and be thinking anything else. But given the straight face and the lack of a leer that one would expect following up the sentiment, Alex couldn't presume, so she fired back before thinking better of it, "As long as those eyes are on my backside." Her gaze darted away from him. "Focused on keeping me in one piece."
Perfect. Now she'd given Charles wholesale privs to ogle her ass. She gulped the rest of her water and slid the glass to the edge of the table for a refill that wouldn't help. How were they going to work together if her mouth was on the fritz?
Avoidance?
She'd not run away, but he wasn't the only one who could keep a low profile. As a mechanic, constantly flitting about the ship, busy as a Terran honeybee? Lowest of the low profiles.
It was one solution. She glanced at him again. It wasn't necessarily the best one.
There was always getting the innuendo out of her system.
Oh, frag. He'd been talking. Answering her own damned question. And instead of brilliantly pretending to have been paying absolute attention, what came out was: "I'm sorry, how long?"
A second apology in less than a standard daycycle? It was all Alex could do to prevent herself from slamming her head into the table, seeing if it knocked those senses back into place. Didn't help that she was already off-balance from her Agency's apparent lack of faith in her abilities, the giant gap in her intel stream, the need to rely on an unknown babysitter...uh, partner. Because he, too, wasn't anything she'd expected. Not the bureaucratic, overbearing type--despite the manhandling--but amiable, easy-going...and altogether far too interesting.
Maybe the coffee that her fingers had sought to claim was strong enough to help clear her head. That consideration was short-lived, as he held her hands around the mug and fried a few more circuits. Alex's prickly attitude seemed to deflate at this--her failing, her flaws, her uselessness, not his--and the scowl went all the way to a sad flatline before she obscured the expression with his drink. Which changed everything. She hummed, eyelids shuttering over hazel at the rich taste. "Okay. I'm not sure that counts as round 2, but you're definitely right. Almost as easy as tea," she decided, "and not bitter in the least! Amazing how much better the original, real, things can be." She set it back on the surface between them and slid it his way, the need to abscond with it, or at least to keep it on her side of the table, abated. Alex rolled her shoulders back as she imagined caffeine sinking down to her toes. "Maybe we can smuggle some onboard. I can hide it in the hydroponics." Now she flashed him a quick grin and glanced toward the kitchen, where the waitress emerged with two over-full platters. "Don't know where we'd stick the cows, though."
Perfect. Now she'd given Charles wholesale privs to ogle her ass. She gulped the rest of her water and slid the glass to the edge of the table for a refill that wouldn't help. How were they going to work together if her mouth was on the fritz?
Avoidance?
She'd not run away, but he wasn't the only one who could keep a low profile. As a mechanic, constantly flitting about the ship, busy as a Terran honeybee? Lowest of the low profiles.
It was one solution. She glanced at him again. It wasn't necessarily the best one.
There was always getting the innuendo out of her system.
Oh, frag. He'd been talking. Answering her own damned question. And instead of brilliantly pretending to have been paying absolute attention, what came out was: "I'm sorry, how long?"
A second apology in less than a standard daycycle? It was all Alex could do to prevent herself from slamming her head into the table, seeing if it knocked those senses back into place. Didn't help that she was already off-balance from her Agency's apparent lack of faith in her abilities, the giant gap in her intel stream, the need to rely on an unknown babysitter...uh, partner. Because he, too, wasn't anything she'd expected. Not the bureaucratic, overbearing type--despite the manhandling--but amiable, easy-going...and altogether far too interesting.
Maybe the coffee that her fingers had sought to claim was strong enough to help clear her head. That consideration was short-lived, as he held her hands around the mug and fried a few more circuits. Alex's prickly attitude seemed to deflate at this--her failing, her flaws, her uselessness, not his--and the scowl went all the way to a sad flatline before she obscured the expression with his drink. Which changed everything. She hummed, eyelids shuttering over hazel at the rich taste. "Okay. I'm not sure that counts as round 2, but you're definitely right. Almost as easy as tea," she decided, "and not bitter in the least! Amazing how much better the original, real, things can be." She set it back on the surface between them and slid it his way, the need to abscond with it, or at least to keep it on her side of the table, abated. Alex rolled her shoulders back as she imagined caffeine sinking down to her toes. "Maybe we can smuggle some onboard. I can hide it in the hydroponics." Now she flashed him a quick grin and glanced toward the kitchen, where the waitress emerged with two over-full platters. "Don't know where we'd stick the cows, though."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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