Title: Fingers
Author:
mina_kat9Rating: R?
Claim (+ additional character(s)): Alex Eames (w/ other)
Warning: n/a
Summary: What was it that first attracts a partner?
Alex sat in Deakins' office, listening to him and her partner talk about their current case. The two men's rumbling voices amused her. They were covering the same information she had covered with Bobby already. Now was time to sell it to their CO, time to make him see they were on the right track even though that track would lead them further up the society food chain. She knew she should jump in. One or two well placed words from her would shut down most arguments.
She didn't want to. If she did he would stop that thing he was doing. She smiled faintly, feeling a moment of sympathy for the poor, innocent baseball. When he caught her looking, he glanced down and shrugged. He'd been teased about the habit before and claimed he was much too old to stop now. Not that she wanted him to stop. Watching him was always a pleasant distraction from the pull back and forth the between the two men. Bobby always strived to have his ideas accepted and Jimmy always wished it could just be simple.
Simple. She almost laughed out loud, but she'd have to explain that to Bobby. Instead she took a deep breath and jumped into the fray, settling the argument by presenting an option neither of them had considered. They looked at each other, then at her, before Jimmy nodded with a grim smile and uttered his familiar challenge. "Step into 'em."
***
"Stepping" took almost three days and when they finally landed it was another full day before Jimmy could make it to her place. She made him a simple dinner which they shared in her living room and when it was gone she curled up beside him, laying her head on his shoulder. She caressed his thigh and closed her eyes, letting the stress of both their weeks slowly vanish. After a while she lifted his hand and gently kissed his knuckled.
He chuckled softly. "Still hungry?"
She shook her head and rubbed her cheek against the back of his hand. "No. Not really." She sighed happily. "I just love your hands."
He laughed again. "Oh yeah?" He kissed her forehead. "Of all the things you could choose-"
She shook her head. "No, see, your hands were the first thing I really noticed." She looked up at him. "I never told you that, did I?"
He kissed her again and his voice dropped to a whisper. "No, baby, you never did."
She leaned into him, settling closer to him, and kissed the pad of his thumb. "You and that baseball." She ran the tip of her tongue along his knuckles. "I actually lost track in briefings watching you molest that thing. Kept wondering how you touched a woman, how much of your nervous energy translated to the bedroom." She sucked on his thumb for an instant. "If we sat in your office for too long and you didn't pick it up I got disappointed."
He laughed roughly and shifted beside her. "I'll have to remember that."
She pulled back and looked up at him. "So you can tease me mercilessly?' She nipped his fingertip. "I don't think so." When he raised an eyebrow, she sucked on his finger until he made a small noise and rested his head on the back of the couch. She grinned and flicked her tongue against his finger.
"You are going to kill me one of these day, baby."
She laughed and rubbed her cheek against the back of his hand. "No, see, I'm keeping you young. Having a lover in her sexual prime is good for you." She moved slowly, sucking lightly on his thumb, until she straddled him. His noises made her shiver and he wrapped his free arm around her hips.
His eyes rolled back in his head and he sagged back onto the couch. "Sexual prime, huh?" He pulled his thumb free just long enough to kiss her lightly, then let her suck it on it again. He kept his eyes on her mouth and groaned. "That's it, I'm scheduling a briefing for first thing tomorrow."
Chuckling, she slid out of his lap and pulled him toward the bedroom. "You do that, Jimmy. I'll give you something to think of while telling off detectives."
***
The next morning she watched him wander from desk to desk in the bullpen, coming up behind detectives and demanding updates. Smirking behind her hair, she waited for him to approach her and Bobby. When he did, it was Bobby who appeared to be targeted but she knew full well the performance was for her.
Bobby leaned well back to include Jimmy and her in the conversation and went over what they'd found the day before, which wasn't much. The whole time Jimmy caressed the baseball she kept her eyes on his hands. If he was going to perform for her, the least she could do was watch.
Just before he walked away, Jimmy met her eyes and his expression made her smirk. His little effort to spend the morning driving her crazy had had the reverse effect. Before she and Bobby left the squad an hour later she stopped in his office briefly to let him know where they were going. While she stood there, she shook her head slowly. After giving him the update, she leaned in a little. "Silly man. Sexual peak, remember?"
Laughing at his expression, she walked out and joined her partner on his way out of the squad.
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