You Are On My Mind

So Much For Being Adults

Linda Reagan had worked a double shift, then a regular, showed the interns the ropes, went to the movies with her niece, went shopping, baked five cakes for a retirement party for Henry, and worked out. She had done all that in the span of two days, but it felt like two weeks. She finally had the weekend to herself to relax. The retirement party was on Sunday, plenary of time for her to have Saturday afternoon to herself.
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"Honey, I'm home!" Danny called, walking into their newly purchased house. It was a little out of their price range, but Frank and Henry has insisted on giving them money. The married couple insisted against it, and ultimately gave in. They had both said they were going to repay the older men. "Linda?" Danny went into the kitchen, and grabbed a beer. He called down to the basement, "Linda!" Out of curiosity, or maybe fear, he went to the basement and surveyed the area. After a thorough check, he headed up the stairs and to their bedroom. The en-suite door was closed, making him believe his wife was in their. Knocking before opening the door, he called her name again. "Linda?"
"Yessir?"
Danny smiled as he saw her soaking in the claw-foot tub. That tub was the clincher when they were house hunting. All her life, Linda had wanted "one of those fancy tubs in the movies". He sat on the floor, "I've been looking for you."
"You found me. Besides, where else would I be at six thirty on a Saturday? Too bad you're still working weekends."
"Yeah," Danny had recently been promoted to first grade detective. He was still on the roster to work nights and weekends. "It'll calm down in a few weeks."
"Until you get transferred again," Linda slightly jabbed at him. He had more than a few IAB investigations under his belt, meaning he either got rip after rip or was transferred as punishment.
Danny playfully pushed Linda into the bubble filled water, getting her damp hair soaked.
She quickly came up again, shaking her head, splattering Danny. "Meanie."
"Just playful."
"I can be playful, too." Linda grabbed his tie, kissed him fervently, then dunked his head. She laughed as he grunted, quickly taking off his tie.
"Oh! You asked for it, missy!"
She continued laughing as she watched him quickly get undressed, getting in the tub with her. He splashed water on her, chuckling as he did so.
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Linda leaned over in her small towel, laying down a big towel to sop up the water that was spilled. She smiled as she sat back on her knees, "so much for being adults, huh?" She smirked up and Danny who had more towels.
"Hey, we did some pretty adult-ish things," he kneeled next to his wife, nibbling her ear.
She giggled, "yeah, we did. But I was talking about the water fight we had before we did those adult things."
Danny shrugged, "inner child, Linda. You gotta let him or her out sometime."
She smiled as she gathered the wet towel, "put this over the shower door, please."
Danny took it and hung it over the shower door. He looked lovingly at Linda, his hands on his hips.
She glanced over at him, "what're you looking at?"
"You?"
"Me?" She crawled in front of her husband, then sat on her knees once again. "Why?"
"You're so pretty."
She kneeled, "thank you. You're not so bad yourself." Her hands rested on the towel around his waist. With her right hand, she yanked her and Danny's towels away, smirking up at him.
"I thought-" he inhaled a little sharply, "thought you wanted to relax."
"I did. For the entire day. It's evening now, and I wanna play."
Danny smirked, shaking his head. He really loved his wife,