Open Heart One Shots (Choices)

Moonlight (Mature)

Summary: Ethan and Cassie spend a weekend at Naveen's lake house before starting their new jobs.

Rating: Mature / NSFW

Cassie Valentine woke to the quiet and the dark. It took her a few minutes to remember why she couldn't hear the dull sounds of traffic outside her window or why the bedroom walls were wood paneled instead of painted a pleasant shade of blue.

They were at Naveen's lake house outside the city, a last weekend away before they started their new roles at Boston's Edenbrook hospital. Her as Director of the Diagnostics Team and him as Chief of Medicine.

Dr. Ethan Ramsey, the occasional rebel and wildcard of medicine was going to become Chief Ramsey. She couldn't be prouder of how he'd started to embrace the role and its possibilities. He had inspired her before they'd ever met and continued to inspire her after. And now he would get to shape more generations of physicians to come.

But that was for next week. For the next two days, they would just be Cassie and Ethan and spend this time away from their responsibilities relaxing and reconnecting with each other. In more ways than one, she thought with satisfaction, remembering their explosive lovemaking as soon as they'd walked through the door.

The bedsheet beside her was cool to touch and she wondered where Ethan could be at this time of night. The bedside clock signaled it was two o'clock in the morning. She climbed out of bed and reached for her robe, tying the belt into a loose knot as she padded to the window overlooking the lake.

There in the pale moonlight she saw him, his powerful body cutting through the dark water as he swam towards the dock. Smiling, she took the stairs down, her bare feet not making any sound, the silk train of the robe fluttering behind her.

She reached the edge of the wooden dock at the same time he did, noticing how the moonlight made his body appear silver in the dark and the ripple of muscles in his upper arms as he tread water, floating in place.

"Hi," she whispered, suddenly feeling shy at the heated gaze in his eyes.

He perused her standing above him, those beautiful blue eyes growing dark as he slowly scanned her body, starting from her bare legs, stopping at the crotch and then her breasts, her nipples pebbling against the silk the longer he stared.

"Hi," he said back, amused at how her eyes drifted down to his bare chest, lower still before snapping back up when she realized he wasn't wearing swimming trunks.

In the dark he couldn't see her blush, but the hitch in her breathing and the slight parting of her lips gave her away. Keeping Cassie on her toes wasn't always easy, but he knew how to take advantage when given the opportunity.

"Take off the robe," he ordered, his voice rough with thoughts of what he'd like to do her.

She hesitated and he drifted closer. "Don't make me repeat myself. Undress. Now."

"We're out in the open," she said in a tone that betrayed her excitement tempered by a lifetime of caution.

He grinned. "I know. It's the middle of the night and there's no one around for miles. We're completely alone, love. I promise you."

He placed his wet hands on her ankles and watched her shiver from the cold and something more. Her eyes stayed on his as she unbelted the robe, teasing him by slowly slithering it down her arms, revealing her nude body inch by inch when she stopped. The tops of her breasts held the material up while her hand pressed against her core, denying him a peek.

"Don't tease me, Rookie," he warned with a growl. "You won't like the consequences."

Her resulting smirk and challenging look told him she wasn't afraid. When she turned her back to him, her long blonde hair swept to the side over shoulders laid bare, he gripped the edge of the dock and pulled himself up and out of the water.