DISCLAIMER: Hey you know they aren’t mine, I know they aren’t mine, and everyone knows I don’t intend to harm them, at least in this short thing, but I will return them unharmed regardless of the story line, or if not unharmed then at least on the mend. Seriously, I don’t own anything other than the story. The characters and the show they come from belong to Shoot the Moon and other big rich television and production companies. Lee and Amanda belong to Bruce and Kate because they are the only ones who could play them and pull it off.

AUTHOR: Loree(Phax)

SUMMARY: Answer to the Three Little Spies Tag challenge.

RATING: PG possibly PG-13, nothing gratuitous, but things get a little intense, or at least I hope that’s what you think.

TIME FLIES

"What?!" Amanda’s voice held shock and disbelief.

"You have a cute nose." Lee smiled at her obvious confusion.

"My nose?" He nodded still grinning. "Thank you, you have a cute holster."

"Holster?" His face fell a bit.

Amanda smiled as the tables turned to her advantage. He now thought she felt insulted, she could read the back tracking in his eyes, as he tried to come up with something to make up for it. She turned and put a finger to his lips as he started to speak. "You have a cute nose too, Scarecrow." His face perked up again.

"Thanks."

Lee shook his head at her teasing, "My pleasure." It was then that he realized that Amanda hadn’t removed her finger from his lips. She realized it at about the same moment and the background noise of the plane and the other agents faded until they ceased to exist. She felt the play of his lips as he grinned softly. Then she thought she felt he most chaste kiss upon her fingertip. All she could see was the unnamed emotion in Lee’s hazel eyes, all she could feel was the softness of his lips on her finger.

She didn’t know what was going to happen but she hoped that this was finally it. That he would finally give in to the feelings she read in his heavy lidded eyes. She felt her cheeks burn with anticipation and hope. He began to lean closer to her, and the sounds of laughter intruded maliciously and the moment was broken almost before it had begun. She sighed in frustrated disappointment as Lee straightened.

Lee ran fingers through his hair in frustration and embarrassment, he hadn’t meant to let it go so far. He didn’t want their first nonwork-related kiss to bear witnesses. He looked around to see the other couples in the cabin firmly occupied with each other. Lee took Amanda by the hand and discreetly led her through the door to a more secluded cabin.

He didn’t know if he could work up the courage to try again, but he wanted to be alone with her for a little while, without the world interrupting. He finally settled on the cabin with a small couch that appeared to be an abandoned office. The desk was set up facing the small windows away from the couch on the other side of the cabin. This cabin was just behind the cockpit so he didn’t foresee any interruptions. Leading her over to the couch he let her sit first. He took a place by her side and kissed her hand secretly delighted by the startled expression on her face.

"Do you ever feel like the world conspires against the two of us?" He asked as he released her hand.

"Yeah." She sighed as he opened his arm and she settled against his firm strength. She let her cheek rest on his chest. "It feels like that more and more." She rubbed her lips together like she always did when she was a little apprehensive about something.

"Lee?"

"Hmmm?" She felt the syllable roll through his chest before it emanated from his throat and finally escape his mouth.

"What exactly are we doing in here?"

"I just thought it would be nice to be alone for a little while before we get to DC. We have four hours to kill. I liked the idea of spending the time talking about anything other than a case for a little while."

"That sounds nice. I enjoy talking about things other than work."

He smiled keeping things light, following her lead. "Me too." ‘Come on Stetson you’ve been dating this woman for a while now, what are you afraid of?’ he asked himself as he let his hand wander her arm absently stroking it, up and down in a hypnotic motion that affected the both of them.

Amanda relaxed further into him as he continued to caress her arm. ‘He seems to be enjoying this and I know he wants to kiss me, why doesn’t he? Its past time he kissed me.’ Her fingers were playing with a button on his shirt as her thoughts took over. Lee finally registered what her fingers were doing and he looked down at her observing the changes to her face as she moved from thought to thought. There was a tiny smile on her lips and he wondered what she was thinking. He was loathe to disturb her though in favor of observing.

Amanda, unaware of her observer, continued to remember the brief almost restrained kiss, the only one they’d shared so far. His lips had been soft, and sweet, but she wasn’t surprised by that. He had kissed her before, but the emotion she felt from him that was new, unexplored and enticing. She wanted to explore those feelings he’d let slip momentarily. Subconsciously she felt his eyes on her, but was still to lost to pay it any mind. She liked the feel of his eyes on her anyway.

Her fingers were getting to be too much, but it felt good, right. She should be here like this with him always. His gaze traveled down her supple form. Her outfit accented her figure perfectly in his eyes, but then anything would fit her perfectly, in his eyes.

He felt her soft, down-like hair caress his cheek. He knew in his heart of hearts that no other man had or would appreciate that sensation quite like he did. Nor would any other man really know her like he knew he could, he wasn’t there yet, but he felt the pull between them as surely as he knew he loved her. He just had to muster the courage to tell her. Her fingers were still fidgeting with his button and the soft graze of her fingertips were keeping him from going further along this line of thought.

He reached up and took hold of the hand that fondled his button. Lee twined his fingers intimately between Amanda’s and caressed the back of her hand with his thumb effectively ceasing her touches. He felt a loss when the fingers stilled, but the loss was less dangerous ground than where her fingers were leading.

Amanda came out of her musings when he took her hand, and marveled that aside from his thumb she couldn’t tell his hand from hers, and where his caress of her arm had been hypnotic his stroking of the back of her hand was intoxicating. She shifted again and slipped her arms around him after gently disengaging their fingers. He accepted and returned her embrace. As she pressed in closer facing his side his eyes fell closed and he reveled in the feel of her softness against his side. He felt the curve of her breast ever so lightly against the edge of his chest beside heart. She in turn could feel that heart beating steadily against her. Her head now rested in the bend of his neck and shoulder and her breath was warm on his skin.

Abruptly he knew it. They’d regained the moment. He had but to open his eyes and look into hers and the time would be perfect. So he opened his eyes and looked down at her. Her dark gaze lifted to meet his, and the spark between them ignited and heated the moment for the second time that afternoon. He leaned closer as she raised to meet him.

The touch was gently nervous and so tentative as to almost not be there. Lee moved scant microns closer and the pressure of his lips grew more firm. When she didn’t pull away they gained courage and began to caress hers. When his lips strengthened and she realized that her heart hadn’t stopped afterall, she returned his caress, not really kissing just feeling the texture and pleasing tingle the contact gave.

Finally Amanda could take no more and kissed her Scarecrow slowly and discreetly. When her lips began the motions of their first kiss, Lee thought he would die right there. He’d been oddly content with just her lips touching his. Now as she deepened the sensation his neural pathways ceased to function and time stood still. Then he felt her tongue delicately caress his lower lip, and desire shot through his core.

He opened his mouth and felt her hesitate before accepting his invitation. His tongue caressed hers as she tasted the breath of him. There was still a slight tang of alcohol on both their breaths, and she drank it in then gave him leeway to explore her own mouth.

He caressed her palate and tasted sweetness mixed with the same vodka of his own mouth, and he couldn’t help but think that it tasted so much better in her mouth. The pilot’s voice informing the passengers of their imminent arrival at Dulles went unnoticed the first time it sounded. The second time, however, the two gently and slowly ended their kiss. Lee deposited one last kiss on her lower lip before pulling back completely. He did not let her out of his arms, nor let her gaze fall from his when the dark orbs finally opened.

"I think we need to take more cross-country flights like this one."

His voice was barely a whisper in the room. The only other sound was that of Amanda’s gasps.

"If it takes a cross-country flight then I think we need a plane that never lands."

If it weren’t for the breathless gravity of her statement and the look in her eyes he might have laughed. He smiled at her instead and recaptured her lips briefly to reassure them both that it was real. He then held her tightly as the plane decended.

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