Protecting Sunshine

6. We Don't Have to Be Together

After class, Lucy decided to visit Tim at work, since he was on desk duty. He looked miserable with a sour look on his face and his shoulders hunched over at the front desk until the moment he saw her walking towards him.

She always looks so damn BEAUTIFUL Tim sometimes forgets to speak.

"Hi, Officer Bradford," Lucy greeted with a small smile.

"What are you doing here? I thought we didn't have plans until later?"

"I didn't want to go back to my tower just yet. Besides, I really wanted to do this..." she started and leaned over the desk to kiss him. His little hum was enough encouragement for her to walk around the desk and give him another longer kiss.

Tim pulled her down to sit in his lap as he smiled, "You can leave your tower to kiss me like that any time, princess."

Princess. He keeps calling her that, and she should hate it, but she likes the way his voice sounds so fond when he calls her that.

"I plan to. If your shifts keep you away from me, I just might become a permanent fixture of the Stanford Campus Security Office."

"We get a lot of repeat offenders in here. Normally, I hate seeing the same kids get hauled in here over and over again, but I wouldn't mind if it's you."

"Yeah, I bet you'd like slapping some cuffs on me."

"I don't really use handcuffs, actually."

"You're ruining the fantasy. Shut up," she smirked and kissed him, because if he was not going to be able to help her picture a very sexy arrest, at least he is a very good kisser.

Finally catching on, when he pulled away from her lips, he whispered, "I do have to conduct a search of your pockets, though. Just to make sure you aren't carrying anything illegal." He slipped one of his hands into a back pocket of her jeans while the other still held the back of her neck.

"Search me any time," Lucy quipped. He always touched her so RESPECTFULLY, and it was sweet, but his large hand on her butt, even through the denim, sent so much heat through her that she shivered. "Change of plans. I'll cook dinner tonight at my place."

"You're the one who wanted to go to the fancy seafood restaurant, and your security already scoped out the place. Everything is all planned out." There is quite a number of steps to be taken when properly taking Lucy to a new location, but it was always worth it.

"Maybe some other time, but I think we should stay in tonight."

"How about my place?" If they were going to do what Lucy was so obviously insinuating, he did not want anything to be caught on the security cameras placed around her condo.

"You've never invited me to your place before."

"That's because it's not as secure as your condo, but if we want some privacy..."

"YES!" She cut him off.

"Okay, princess. Meet me at my place at 6."

"I thought your shift ends at 4:30."

"It does."

"Then, I'm coming over at 4:30." Lucy was not very patient when it came to time apart from Tim.

He chuckled. "You like eating late. I'm not gonna start cooking dinner that early."

"Dinner is not the priority tonight, you idiot."

Tim took his hand out of her pocket, which made her frown a little, and he looked at her with a serious expression to say, "Nothing has to happen tonight. We can stop any time, and I won't mind. I don't want to pressure you."