~ Baby Makes Three ~

by Larisa

Top 25: Aug. 26, 2002

Disclaimer: Sequel to Cougar's Ransom. Here it is, yeah they look like the girls we al know and drool over. This story

contains; same sex relationship, violence, bad language and every thing else I can throw in. If you're a toddler or it's ilegal where

you are grow up and move away.

Baby Makes Three

By Larisa

Hecate3366@frontiernet.net

The police department was now using a used panel van for their stakeouts. It had been converted to have exactly the same surveilance equipment as the other ones used,

except this one didn't stick out like a sore thumb. Cougar hated the ugly damn thing; she would rather use the old one and everyone know it was a surveilance vehicle, than

what they were now stuck with. She swiveled on her chair to check one of the monitors that had a satelite camera hooked up to it. The picture was crystal clear but boring as

Hel. Clicking her microphone on, she spoke to Ransom who was sitting on a park bench a short distance away from the reflecting pool that was between the Lincoln and

Washington monuments.

"Baby, anything happening out there?" Cougar asked her lover.

"You mean besides the pigeons doing aerial acrobatics over my head?" Ransom growled.

"EEEWWW! You're taking a shower with disinfectant when we get home."

"Hel, I may just shave my head after this!" She snorted as a picture of her completely bald formed in her mind. "Animal, would razor stubble feel good between your legs?"

"If I wanted that I'd either find me a bearded woman or…I don't even want to think of that!"

"What? Some sweaty male crawling al over you?"

"Now ya made me nauseous! Anyway, what's Raven and O'Riely doing and our baby?"

Ransom turned the baby carriage that was sitting in front of her towards where Raven and O'Riely were. "Can you see them?"

Cougar squinted at the monitor, wiped her eyes then looked again.

"Baby, what the Hel are they supposed to be?"

"Uuhhmm…I think they're bag ladies."

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Raven and O'Riely stood across the grassy area from Ransom; they each had shopping carts filed with al kinds of junk. O'Riely kept slapping Raven's hands every time she

reached towards her cart.

"I'l break every one of your grungy little fingers!"

"Come on Radar! Gimme some MM's!" She whined and reached for O'Riely's cart.

"Wil you stop caling me Radar!" Her brown eyes shot daggers at her partner. "Get your own candy, those are mine!"

"Stingy old hagster!" Raven scrounged around in her cart and puled out a Crispy Crème donut. "I'l trade ya?" She waved the donut in front of O'Riely. "Com' on Radar." She

whined some more.

O'Riely gave her a disgusted look. "EEEWWW! You think I want a donut that's been in there!" She pointed to al the trash in Ravens cart.

"What? It's clean, see." She took a bite out of it and chewed slowly while moaning." She mumbled with a ful mouth as she puled out another one. "Last one." She waved it

around.

"OK, here take them." O'Riely handed her the bag of MM's and snagged the donut from Raven's dirty hand.

A few minutes later Raven kept giving O'Riely a funny look and tilting her head at her every time she said something.

"What is your damn problem?" O'Riely asked her strange acting partner.

"Smile."

"Why?"

"Humor me; pretend ya like me or something."

O'Riely gave her a grimace of a smile then growled when Raven fel on the ground laughing.

"What is you problem!?"

Spitting out words between hysterical laughing. "Ant…between…teeth!"

O'Riely turned an unhealthy shade, her temper flared at the thought of having an insect between her teeth. She puled out the box of donuts and saw that the whole bottom

was ful of black ants. A loud roar burst from her lungs after she threw the box at Raven. Raven got the hint that her life was in danger; she got up and stated running as fast as

she could in the mismatched oversized work boots. With in seconds they were roling around in the grass.

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Cougar sat laughing in the van, tears roled down her cheeks as she watched O'Riely try to shove grass in Ravens mouth.

"Baby, it's almost time for shift change. Ya better pul them apart before the mounted cop gets them."

"But Animal, this is the most interesting thing I've seen al day!"

"I'l make it up ta ya when we get home."

"Realy? Ohh I can't wait!" She whispered hoarsely. "I'm going to shut the camera off and I'l meet ya on the other side with the hagsters."

"OK, see ya in a few."

Cougar started shutting down the systems, after hitting the sound system off she was about to turn the monitor off when she saw Ransom throw her hands in the air and take

off at a good clip to where their partners were throwing grass and dirt at each other. She couldn't help but chuckle when her lover dropkicked Raven in her ass and grab

O'Riely by her ear.

"Wil you two stop it al ready!" She yeled at the struggling women. "You're just like toddlers! And as soon as I find out which one of you was playing around with my carriage

I'm gonna beat the hel outta ya!"

Two sets of eyes grew wide as they took in the angry look Ransom had on her face.

"Uuuhhh ooohhh!" Raven ran to her cart and took off pushing it like the hound of Hel was on her ass. O'Riely folowed suit-leaving Ransom to push the baby carriage to

where Cougar would be waiting for them.

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Cougar was waiting outside of the van when first Raven then O'Riely came charging up to her. They stashed their shopping carts in the aleyway then hid behind Cougar when

they saw Ransom coming with a look of revenge on her face.

"Those two are dead women!" She pointed to them and watched them both cringe. "Our baby is deformed, and one of them is to blame!"

"Deformed? How could they deform a dol?"

"Oohh you'l see!" She puled the baby from the carriage and held it out to Cougar. "Now tel me it's not deformed!"

Cougar busted out laughing at the dol. It was a green Alien baby dressed in a sleeper with the word "Believe" in red above a flying saucer.

She huffed and puffed. "I've been sitting out there al day with Sculy and Mulders baby!"

"Baby it is kinda cute in a weird way."

"So you sit out there and talk ta the little green thing!"

Cougar puled her pissed off lover in to her arms and kissed the crown of her blond head. "Baby, look at those two and tel me what you would rather do."

Ransom looked at their partners and snorted. O'Riely was wearing a huge holy flannel shirt on top of what had to be five layers of clothing, a dirty stocking cap puled over

her ratty grayish wig. Her face had dirt smudged al over it along with her hands being different shades of green from puling out grass. She wore a pair of old worn out high top

converse shoes with different colors of tape holding them together.

Raven wore an old faded field jacket that had patches al over it on top of a filthy red sweatshirt. Her old gray work pants were 4 sizes to large and cinched at the waist with a

bunge cord, they were torn off below the knee and peeking out from beneath them were two different colored hunting socks puled over filthy long johns. Puled low over her

eyes was an orange hunter's hat with earflaps.

Ransom wrinkled her nose at them, shook her head and mumbled.

Cougar leaned down and asked. "What was that Baby?"

"I said gimme Sculy's baby." She took the Alien baby from her lovers hand and hugged it to her chest. "Don't worry some thick base make-up, sunglasses and a hat and no

one wil ever know you're different."

Cougar covered her eyes and groaned. "OK, lets get back ta the shop."

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They walked in to their office and received funny stares from the other officers. Cougar ignored them, as was her usual habit. Raven and O'Riely were a different matter al

together. They went tearing in to the Capt.'s office, and plopped down in her guest chairs. Capt. Rourke looked up from her paper work and snorted at them.

"Fits you two. How'd it go today?"

"Radar tried ta make me eat grass!"

Rourke's brows gathered over her nose. "Radar?"

"Yeah, as in Radar O'Riely." Raven pointed with her thumb towards her partner.

"That's only because I ate ANTS!" She slugged Raven in her shoulder and knocked her right out of her chair.

"MEANEY!" She popped her lips and licked them. "Do it again! I like it rough!" Showing that she had no teeth but a mouthful of gums she taunted. "I dare ya!"

"And if I do?"

"I'l give ya a big sloppy kiss!" She licked her lips and wiggled her eyebrows.

"Raven, what happened to your teeth?" Capt. Rourke asked her as she looked closer at the thick gum line.

"Ohh, there stil there Captain." She popped the prosthetic mouthpiece out. "See?"

"OK. Now, besides terrorizing each other. Did anything happen?"

"Nope." Raven shook her head.

"Nothing, no hits on anyone going near Ransom." O'Riely reported. "This person that's stealing babies is only taking them from females that are brunettes. What about Cougar

sitting out there?"

"Ohh noo I'm NOT!" Cougar said from the doorway. "Do I look like a motherly type to you?"

"Uuhhmm…" Was al Raven got to say before Ransom grabbed her ear. Releasing Raven's ear with a yank, she walked around her sisters desk and handed her the baby.

"Here Sis, hold your nephew."

Rourke gave her the raised eyebrow look. Puling the blanket back from the baby she gasped then started laughing when she realized what it was. "He's kinda cute. Next time,

get a different sperm donor. One that doesn't look so much like Cougar."

"Ha! Funny, you're a riot and a half!" Cougar puled Ransom up against her and rested her chin on top of her head. "How about if Ransom wears one of her wigs?"

Rourke thought for a minute then nodded her head. "I have another idea." She dropped down into her chair and gave them al a wicked grin. "Give me about an hour and then

cal me at home and I'l let ya know if it'l work."

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Cougar and Ransom had just got home when the phone started ringing off the hook. Cougar shook her head and pointed at the annoying phone.

"I am not answering that! Happens every time we walk in the door."

"Animal, it could be important."

"It could be a telemarketer wanting ta sel us penis enlargers to."

"Or it could be Sarah. Remember she wanted us to cal her." Ransom picked up the phone then held it away from her ear as her sister yeled over the phone. "HEY! Stop your

damn yeling!" Ransom yeled back.

"Sorry Sis, I was yelling at Mel. She's outside cooking steaks. Anyway, you two have an appointment tomorrow at my doctor's office at 1pm."

"Why your doctors office?"

"Because she's going to give you something to use to make you look defenseless to this asshole in the park."

"Defenseless? I wanna know why we're trying to get this asshole anyway? I mean isn't that kinda the missing persons dept.?"

"Yeah, but they don't have any women that can go undercover and a guy with a baby stroller just doesn't look right." She paused a minute. "Ransom, I put you guys

on this because I wanted to give Cougar a chance to heal. She may be strong and a quick healer but I know her shoulder isn't as strong as she tries leading

everyone on to believe."

"Thanks Sarah. You're right; we both needed a rest from hauling Johns in al the time. Plus when we go back out there they won't remember us as easily."

"Well, the boss is giving me dirty looks, so I'll see you two tomorrow."

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Cougar was lying on their new couch; her clothes were in a pile on the floor along with her shoulder holster and boots. Ransom just couldn't break her of dropping her clothes

where she stopped. Not that she minded seeing her wife wander around nude al the time. And the way she was laying right now made up for al the clothes piled on the floor.

She had her arms behind her head and one leg thrown over the back of the couch. It was enough to make Ransom's body shudder at the sight. She quickly shed her clothes

and crawled on top of a sleeping Cougar. Running her fingers across a firm breast, she watched as one blue eye peeked at her.

"What did Sarah say?" She asked between trying to catch her breath as Ransom suckled her hardened nipple.

"Pointment octor."

"Baby, I didn't understand a word you just said."

She released her wives nipple with a sucking noise. "We have an appointment with her doctor."

"Why do we have to see her doctor?"

Ransom shrugged her shoulders as she went back to nursing on Cougars nipple.

"Gods! Who…cares?" She arched her back offering more of her breast to Ransom. Kneading the other breast Ransom grinned around the nipple between her lips at the low

moaning coming from her wives throat. Switching her mouth to the other breast she let her fingers trail down Cougars side to her hip, then over to brush through the thin strip of

cropped hair at the apex of her legs. She felt Cougar's hips buck against her hand when she ran her fingers across her nether lips. Her fingers felt the wetness developing

quickly and moaned when Cougar opened her legs wider. Breaking her connection with Cougars breast she kissed her way up to her neck, licking the holow of her throat, she

flicked her tongue in rhythm with her fingers.

Cougar was in danger of going up in flames, with each touch of soft fingers teasing her throbbing lips; she tried to thrust her hips to get them where she needed them most.

Ransom could get her so painfuly aroused in a matter of seconds, that most of the time al she needed to do was breath on her and she was history. She gasped when a finger

moved in between her lips and started spreading her juices across her swolen clitoris.

Ransom captured parted lips, sliding her tongue in to her lover's mouth she moaned when their tongues dueled and fought for long minutes until they broke apart gasping for air.

Cougar pleaded. "Please Baby; I need to feel you in me." Her blue eyes a deep color, a light blush across her chest she pushed her hips up trying to connect with Ransom.

"I have a better idea." Ransom whispered in to her ear.

Leaning back on one hand Ransom positioned herself so that their nether lips were pressed together. Placing her hand between them, she spread them apart so that their clits

were pressing against each other. Deep moans escaped their parted lips at the feeling of their juices mingling. Slowly they moved against each other, pressing harder each time.

In minutes their combined orgasms claimed them, tossing them as wave after wave rippled through their bodies. Cougar puled Ransom on top of her; they lay gasping for air

as muscles continued to twitch.

"How come we've never done that before?" Cougar questioned in between breaths.

"I never thought of it before." Wrapping her arms under her lovers back, she then leaned up for a tender kiss. "Actualy George and Besty told me about it."

Cougar's eyes widened at the thought of the old ladies giving her wife sexual positions. "That's scary!" She puled Ransom's head down to rest against the side of her neck.

"Wonder if they know any other positions?" She heard Ransom chuckle right before her breathing evened out and sleep claimed her.

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Cougar had a huge grin on her face as they left Sarah's doctor; she couldn't help but chuckle as Ransom tried to walk to their car. She was leaning back and walking al bowlegged from the extra weight that was now strapped to the front of her. When she reached the car, she fel against the side of it huffing and puffing.

"I'm going to kil Sarah for this!" She reached beneath her now huge stomach and tried to cradle some of the weight from the pregnancy prosthetic pilow that she now wore. "I

hope she thinks this is funny, 'cuz I don't!" Struggling with her now shortened arm reach, she tried to get the car door open. "Sonuvabitch!" Her face was a deep red; sweat was

running down the sides of her face from the burden of walking. Cougar came up behind her and put her arms around her from behind; puling her back against her, she let her

fingers run across her huge bely.

"I think you're sexy as hel right now." She kissed the back of her neck and rocked them from side to side.

Snorting at her wife, Ransom tilted her head back against Cougars. "You have got to be kidding me! I'm huge and with those damn little weighted things pressing in to my

bladder, I'l be running for the bathroom every five minutes!"

Nipping the tender flesh beneath her lips Cougar mumbled. "We can take those off in the car." Moving her way up to an earlobe, she puled it between her lips and sucked.

"Let's go for a ride."

"Animal, we have to get to work."

"Later, right now we have plans." She cupped her wives sex to show her what plans they now had.

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Every one in the office turned and held back snorts of laughter when Ransom came stumbling in, her clothes were wrinkled and disheveled and her hair hung limply around her

face. She leaned against her desk trying to catch her breath. Giving every one of them a growl accompanied with her version of Cougar's "Look" Just made them al bust out

laughing.

"Fuck ya al!" She grumbled.

"We already did that." A low purring voice said in her ear.

Ransom grabbed Cougar by her shirt colar and puled her head down so that they were touching noses. "Just wait til we get home!" She released her wife and stumbled on

tired legs to her sister's office.

"Just wait until I give her a piece of my mind!" She pushed the door open and stood there with a flaming look in her eyes. "You're a dead women Sarah!" Her temper grew

hotter when her sister busted out laughing so hard that she fel out of her chair. She used one hand to pul herself up, but when she saw Ransom leaning against her desk

breathing hard she fel back on the floor laughing.

"Ain't she a sexy pregnant woman?" Cougar said to her sister-in-law. "She's just so cuddly."

"Cuddle this!" Ransom slugged her in her shoulder then colapsed into one of the chairs.

The Capt. Crawled in to her chair and wiped the tears from her face. She kept biting her lip to keep from laughing at her sister.

"You've even got the mood swings!"

"I'm warning you Sarah!" Green eyes blazed and locked with their twins. "I'm so glad you think this is funny. If I had known what you had planed, I would have run like Hel!"

Cougar stood behind her wife and massaged her tight shoulders. "Come on baby, it's not that bad. And you know how I feel about the way you look."

A deep red colored Ransom's face at what Cougar meant. Covering her face with one hand, she gripped Cougar's with the other.

The Capt. cleared her throat to cover up her chuckle. Moving papers around on her desk until she found what she was looking for, she opened the folder.

"OK, the perp likes defenseless women." She pointed her finger at Ransom. "What you are now. He also likes to strike them just as the sun is setting. Which means, that you

and your partners wil be working the park when it gets dangerous." She clasped her hands and leaned closer towards them. "I want al of you armed. He may just be

kidnapper but I'm not gonna take chances on any of your lives with this freak." She tossed the folder back where it was and grinned at them.

"What are you grinning at?" Ransom growled at her sister.

"You two look just sooo cute together, now al you need is your little green baby."

"Go ta Hel!" Ransom growled as she struggled from the chair. Turning as she was leaving the office, she cocked an eyebrow. "I may just do this for real and make you the ful

time monster setter!"

Sarah chuckled at her. Looking at Cougar, she winked and gave her the come-hither motion. "Do you think she's serious about getting pregnant?"

Cougar's eyes grew wide; she spun on her heel and charged out the door yeling for her wife.

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Raven and O'Riely jumped out of their partner's way as they burst through the door.

"She got her pregnant?!" Raven asked O'Riely with an astounded look on her dirty face.

"You are so stupid! If she could do that, do you think she'd be showing that much this early?" She smacked Raven up along side her head. "Dipshit!"

"Hey, she could have gotten abducted by aliens last night."

"If that's the case how come you didn't go back with them?"

"Uuuhhmmm…"

"Just shuddup and move your ass!" O'Riely shoved her out the door so they could catch up with their partners.

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Cougar watched from the command van as Ransom sat on the same bench as before, the look of exhaustion on her face made Cougar weep inside. If there was ever a time

that she was vulnerable, it was now. She had made sure that Raven and O'Riely stayed closer to her than before. She wasn't taking any chances.

Ransom kept an eye out for anyone coming her way; she was on constant verbal communication with the others and knew that Cougar was scanning the area with the camera

that was placed in the carriages front and side panels. Feeling safe, she closed her eyes and relaxed against the bench.

O'Riely was rearranging her shopping cart for the umpteenth time while Raven danced around and sang to herself. Cougar had turned away from the monitor to grab her

coffee, when she turned back she saw a man dressed in dark clothes sprinting towards her wife. Grabbing her microphone, she started yeling.

"PRINCESS RANSOM!"

She watched as the man puled something from his pocket, as he got closer. She threw aside the microphone and busted through the back doors of the van.

Raven and O'Riely took off at a dead run towards Ransom who was sound asleep. They were a good 15 feet away when the man hit Ransom on the side of her head. They

watched her slump sideways on the bench as the man grabbed the baby from the carriage.

O'Riely yeled for Cougar to go to Ransom and they would get the perp. In a burst of speed Raven took off after the perp, she hurtled park benches and skirted garbage cans

as she gained on him. O'Riely took off diagonaly to them, hoping to cut him off before he got away and was able to escape into the streets. Cougar jumped over the bench

that Ransom was laying on, she pushed the carriage aside and picked her wife up in her arms. Checking the side of her head, she saw a large purple knot growing on her

temple.

"Ransom? Com'on baby wake up." She ran her fingers across the knot and watched as green eyes started to flutter open. "Baby? Talk ta me here."

Her voice soft she asked. "Do I know you?"

Cougar's eyes grew wide; her mouth dropped open with a loss of words.

"Just kidding." Ransom touched her head and groaned. "Animal. When they get him, wil you do me a favor?"

"Anything Baby." She replied as she kissed her wives forehead.

"Shoot the sonuvabitch! My head is kiling me, along with my back and I've got cramps in my calves!"

Cougar chuckled and puled Ransom closer to her. "I may not have to if Raven got him."

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Raven was two feet behind the perp, she ran up the side of the grassy area so that she was higher above him. With a battle cry, she jumped.

"SHAWANDAAA!!!!!!" She flew through the air and landed on his back. They hit the ground and roled until they landed in the gutter. The perp tried to get up but found that

he was now handcuffed by one wrist to Raven.

O'Riely came to a sliding halt beside them. Bending at the waist, she gasped for air. Raven got to her feet and jerked her prisoner up.

"Looky Radar! I caught me a man!" She swung their arms back and forth and heard him groan.

"Oohh are you hurt?" She asked. She bent down and picked up the baby, looking at the dirty blanket she gave him an evil glare. Baring her teeth she growled. "You hurt the

baby!" She slugged him in the forehead with it and watched him stumble backwards. "Just wait til I tel the babies mother!"

On their way back with the perp, O'Riely kept poking him in the ass with a stick she had picked up. Every time he turned around Raven yanked on his arm and made him

gasp. Raven made sure that she bounced him off every object in their path. And when they got to where Cougar was waiting for an EMT to check out the head injury on her

wife. She bounced him off the side of the ambulance.

"Hi ya Animal. How's the Mrs.?"

Cougar chuckled, despite the fact she was worried about Ransom.

"Better than him." She pointed to the bruised and battered perp.

O'Riely un-cuffed Raven from him and turned him over to the waiting officers to be taken to the precinct.

"Raven here almost kiled him with her flying balet stunt." She shoved her in the shoulder. "Who the Hel is Shawanda?" She asked a grinning Raven, who just shrugged her

shoulders.

"Did ya get the sonuvabitch?" Ransom asked as she stumbled out of the back of the ambulance. Cougar reached out for her, lifted her down and cuddled her against her side.

"Yeppers!" Raven grinned at her. "Al nice and bruised to." She handed her the alien baby. "Baby smacked him to."

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Cougar lay on her back with Ransom lying with her head resting between her breasts. She ran her fingers through her silky blond hair as she hummed a lulaby.

"Animal? Have you ever thought about having kids?"

Cougar's hand froze; she looked down in to sleepy green eyes.

"Uuhhmm…wel, not actualy carrying one in me. But yeah why?"

Ransom leaned up on one elbow and looked deeply into blue eyes. "I've been thinking about it a lot lately and after today with wearing that preggy pilow." She paused when

she noticed the smile forming on Cougar's face. "I would realy like to have a baby."

"Anything you want baby." Puling Ransom down on top of her, she kissed her with al the emotions that were boiling inside. After the kiss broke and they had caught their

breaths, she purred in to Ransoms ear.

"Can we practice?"

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Ransom replaced the phone receiver; a huge smile covered her face as she crawled in to Cougars lap.

"It's set for 3pm. The doctor had a cancelation so she gave us that appointment."

Cougar wrapped her arms around her and held her close. Using one hand, she caressed Ransom's muscled stomach.

"Baby. Are you sure about this?" She asked as she rested her chin on top of her blonde head. Ransom leaned her head back; puling Cougar down to her lips, she whispered

"Yes." Before she captured her lips in a tender kiss.

"I was thinking of trying this new procedure." Ransom stated.

"And what is that?"

"A turkey bastor."

Cougar broke out in chuckles as she looked at the serious look Ransom had on her face. "Baby, that's not a new procedure."

"It would be for me." Nipping her lover teasingly on her shoulder. "I may even let you do it."

"And who do you have planed besides me?"

"You didn't see Sarah's doctor! Ohhh my!" She threw her head back and groaned."

"That's it!" Cougar's eyes took on a flinty look. "We're finding another doctor!

Ransom chuckled at the jealous actions. "I'm kidding Animal. She's like in her 50's, and can't hold a candle to you." Fluttering lashes at Cougar and snuggling closer to her, she

gave a puppy dog look. "Wil you cal us in to work? Tel Sarah that we have a doctor appointment."

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They sat in the waiting room of the doctor's office; Ransom sat reading a magazine while Cougar paced the floor.

Green eyes peeked over the magazine. "Animal wil you sit down, you're driving me nuts."

"I can't help it." She ran her fingers down her face to stop over her lips. Her blue eyes showing her nervousness.

"Cougar, we haven't even talked to the doctor yet. Why are you nervous?"

She dropped in to the chair next to Ransom and sighed. Taking Ransom's hand, she brought up to her lips and kissed her knuckles.

"I've never been around kids let alone a baby. I don't know what to do."

Ransom puled Cougar closer and puled her head down to rest on her chest. "Calm down, when it's al done we'l have nine months to get you trained as bottle maker and

diaper changer." She grinned when her wife raised her head and gave her a disgusted look.

"Do I have to?"

"Yep, what did you think they come toilet trained?"

"No, but…eeewwwww!" She buried her face deeper in to her wives breast.

Ransom looked up when a nurse caled her name and motioned for her to folow. They both rose and started towards the door.

"You'l have to wait out here until Mrs. Jacolby is finished." The nurse stated.

"Excuse me." Ransom said as she placed her hand on Cougar's arm. "We're married, so my wife wil be accompanying me to see the doctor."

The nurse gave them both a disgusted look. "Of course, folow me."

Ransom covered Cougar's mouth with her hand to keep her from venting her mind. "Animal, take it easy."

"But…" She grumbled. "Tickets! Lots of tickets…parking, speeding, jaywalking a date with Raven and O'Riely!"

Ransom chuckled at her wives vengeful ways. "How about if we just ignore her?"

"Ggrrrrrr…hetro pig." She said just as they stepped in to the smal examination room. Cougar continued to mumble to herself as Dr. George came in. She took one look at the

doctor and al her fears from earlier were set aside. The woman was easily in her middle fifties, with gray hair, thick glasses and gave her a grandmotherly feel. She sighed and

slumped where she sat next to Ransom.

"Ransom, I didn't expect to see you this soon. Did the prosthetic work?"

"Oohh yeah. Wel, it helped make me look defenseless plus it gave me a push towards a large step in our lives." Taking Cougars hand in hers she looked to her wife then back

to the doctor. "We want to have a baby."

Doctor George stepped forward and offered her hand to Cougar. "You must be the other Mrs. Jacolby. I'm George."

Cougar took the doctors hand and was surprised that the handshake was strong. "This doesn't bother you that we're both women?"

"No, why should it. I mean, if it did my wife would have thrown me out years ago!" She laughed at the look on their faces.

Cougar roped her anger in and stuttered before she said she spoke. "But…your nurse…she…grrrrrr."

"Dr. George chuckled at her. "She's not my normal nurse, not that the one I have is normal." Her eyes crinkled at the thought of her unusual nurse and best friend. "Mel's under

the weather, so the one I got stuck with today is filing in from the hospital." She puled a stool over and sat down facing both of them. "Now, how do you want to do this?

There's three different ways that I can perform the procedure, so it's entirely up to the two of you." She saw the shocked expressions on their faces and chuckled. "OK, first.

We can do the usual way by in vetro fertilization, where we use a sperm donor. Two, we do a Laparoscopic procedure on…" She pointed to Cougar.

"Cougar." Ransom answered.

"That's an unusual name. As I was saying, we take eggs from Cougar, fertilize one of them and place it in to your uterus." She took a few moments to think of how to approach

the subject she was about to bring up. She noticed that Cougar was starting to squirm. "This next procedure has been done with success in Canada. It's kind of like cloning in a

way." She saw them stiffen. "But what we do is take two DNA strands from one of, say Cougar's egg and inject it in to one of your eggs. Give it a smal eletro shock, place it

back in to your uterus and see what happens."

Ransom gulped. "See what happens?"

"The smal shock causes the egg to start to grow. Sometimes it doesn't, it's just like any other fertilization process."

They both looked at each other, Cougar shrugged her shoulders. "Baby it's up to you."

Ransom looked to her wife, al the love she held in her heart showing in her eyes. "I want our baby growing in me." She said softly. Bringing Cougar's hand to her lips, she

placed a gentle kiss in the palm of her hand.

"Can we do that?"

Cougar smiled at her. "Anything you want Baby."

Dr. George watched the interaction between the two women. At first, she thought that Cougar was the more dominant one in their smal family. Now she saw who the real boss

was.

"OK, Doc." Ransom lovingly gazed at Cougar. "We'l go with door number three."

"Good. I'l make the scheduling and let you know in a minute. I'l be right back."

Cougar rested her head on Ransom's shoulder; with one hand, she caressed her wives lower stomach.

"What are you going to do when I'm a big as a house?"

Cougar gave her a wicked grin. "You need to ask? Ya know you won't need too many maternity clothes."

"And why is that?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Because I'm gonna keep you naked and in bed." She emphasized her meaning by nipping her neck.

Dr. George came back in carrying an armload of stuff. Placing every thing on a smal rolaway table, she gave them a bright smile.

"OK. Good news, you two are my last patients for the day and I just happen to have the time to give Cougar her first examination. Are ya up for it?"

Cougar's eyes grew wide. "What are ya gonna do to me?"

"Ohh, for starters when's your next period start?"

Cougar looked to Ransom. "Baby?" Ransom counted on her fingers then answered Dr. George.

"End of next week, we're pretty much insync with each other."

"Good, won't need these then." She tossed a package of birth control pils on the long counter. "Next is an ultra sound, I need to check your ovaries and some blood tests.

And if everything is fine, then I need to give you a shot of Lupron. It's to keep your ovaries from releasing eggs in to your uterus. Just need you to strip from the waist down

and when you're ready just give a yel. I'l be outside."

When Ransom got up to leave with the doctor Cougar started to panic. "Baby, you're staying right here. Don't you dare think I'm going through this alone?" Ransom snickered

at her and returned to her side.

"You are such a big baby. Come on I'l help you get ready."

Cougar stood with her hands on her hips and gave her wife the "Look". "I am not, it's just that…you're the only one that's been done there. Besides Paula."

"You're teling me that you've never had a pap test or anything?"

"Yep, pretty much. I see enough doctors with out having them poke around down there."

"That just changed Animal." Ransom poked her in the chest. "When I get one done, so do you." She unbuckled Cougar's belt, unfastened her Levi's and pushed them down her

hips along with her silk boxers. Running her hands around her wives hips; she let her hands slip down to grab her ass.

"Now get your ass up on that table."

"You keep that grabbing up and we won't need the doctor for hours."

Ransom pinched her ass and grinned. "We can do that later, now get up there."

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Cougar closed her eyes the second Dr. George lifted the sheet from her legs. She griped Ransom's hand hard enough to make her yelp.

"Gods have mercy!" George yelped and flipped the sheet back down. Cougar rose up to give her a concerned look.

"What's wrong?" She asked with a low voice. Ransom placed her hand on her chest to keep her on the table.

"It's just that I've never seen anything like it before." Her eyes looked huge behind her glasses.

"WHAT?" Cougar yeled.

"Oohh not you, I've seen thousands of those. This." She held up the ultra sound probe and showed them the tiny little rubber dick on the end.

Ransom chuckled then looked at a pale Cougar. "That's OK, neither one of us has seen one of those either."

"Damn Mel, she's always doing weird ass stuff like this."

"Uuhmm Cougar." Ransom blushed a light pink. "My sister in-law is her nurse."

"Oohh great!" She dropped her head back on the examination table.

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Ransom kept peeking at Cougar al the way home. Every time Cougar looked over, she turned her head towards her window.

"What are you doing?"

"Uuhhmm nothin."

"Right and I'm the fucking tooth fairy! Ransom Jacolby?"

She turned to Cougar with an evil grin on her face. "Ohhh al right! I was just thinking of you al spread out on that table." She wiggled her eyebrows at her. "I wish I was at the

foot of it."

"How about our kitchen table, wil that do?"

Ransom bit her own knuckles and moaned. "I want you striped the minute we get in the house!"

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The kitchen table was cleared off except for the writhing tal dark and begging one, lain out across it with her heels at the very edge. Her hands white knuckled the very edge

making the wood creak beneath her grip. Ransom was on her knees between muscular thighs with her arms wrapped around them. Her tongue flicking out just barely touching

the engorged bundle of nerves. Cougar was thrusting her hips upward trying to get more contact with Ransom's tongue.

"Pleeease Baby…don't…tease!" She pleaded with her.

Ransom ran the flat of her tongue from the back to the front making her wife gasp and jump on the table. With the very tip of her tongue she ran up both sides of her clit and

circled the tip until Cougar was begging her.

"I need…you…in me!" Cougar gasped and moved closer to the edge of the table. Ransom unwrapped an arm; circling a throbbing center, she eased two fingers in up to the

first knuckle. She felt the warm silkiness of her lover's juices flow over her fingers as the muscles clutched at her fingertips. Puling them out she pushed them in further as she

flicked the engorged clit with her tongue. Cougar was moaning each time she felt the fingers enter her. Thrusting her hips, she tried to get them deeper.

"Ransom…deeper…Gods!"

The second she felt the fingers go deeper her blood started to boil. Muscles bunged as she thrust her hips in rhythm with the movement of Ransom's tongue and fingers. She

became light headed as her blood rushed to settle in her nether regions. Her breath came in short spurts as the wave roled through her body and pushed her higher until she fel

from a shattering climax. Shock waves coursed through her body from Ransom's tongue licking the juices that flowed from her stil.

Breathless she whispered. "Baby…come...here." She reached down to pul her up on to the table with her. Having her straddle her hips, she ran her hand through the wetness

that flowed from her swolen sex. Ransom's hips thrust down into her hand; she let out deep moans as her hips ground against Cougars hand. In one swift movement, two

fingers plunged into her.

"Gods…yes!" She dropped down on to her hands so that they were on either side of Cougar's shoulders. Rising up Cougar took a hardened nipple between her lips and

sucked greedily. Using her other hand she pinched and twisted Ransom's other nipple until she felt her lover push her hips down so far that her hand encountered her renewed

arousal. She lifted her hips up and soon they were thrusting against each other until they climbed together and fel screaming each other's names out. They lay panting together,

slick with sweat but perfectly sated.

"Baby, what was that crashing noise?"

Ransom lifted her head from where it rested in the nook of Cougar's neck and shoulder.

"Crashing noise? Al I heard was a loud roaring going through my ears." She started to chuckle when she noticed something very different about the kitchen. "Animal, we'l have

to eat in the living room tonight?"

A sleepy blue eye peeked open. "Why?"

"That crashing noise…was the kitchen table. We're lying on the floor in its wreckage."

"Ohhh! Guess we'l need a sturdier one." She puled Ransom's head to her for a deep searing kiss. "Maybe we should go into the bedroom and finish this?"

"Finish?"

Cougar placed her wives hand between her legs to feel her throbbing drenched center. "I think that was a shot of Viagra George gave me."

"You're gonna kil me tonight aren't cha?"

Cougar kissed her gently and grinned. "Maybe just put ya in a coma." Ransom pinched her nipple then roled on to the kitchen floor and crawled towards the bedroom. Cougar

moaned deep in her chest at the sight in front of her; she quickly crawled after her until she was right up against her.

"I like this position!" She thrust her hips into Ransom. "Where's our toy?"

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Her temper raging. Cougar struggled with the tangled sheets that were wrapped around their bodies. She fel across the end of the bed trying to get to the phone.

"WHAT?"

"Wel good morning to you to." The Capt.'s deep voice yeled back over the phone making Cougar yank it from her ear. "Get your lazy ass's outta bed and get in here! You're

an hour late!" She hung up the phone and leaned back in her chair with a huge grin covering her face. "I hope I interrupted something, damn horny ass bitches." She said to

herself with a low chuckle.

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"Ransom get up!" Cougar yanked the sheets from her wives body; she roled on to the floor, which was only like a two-inch drop. Since one side of the bed ended up on the

floor after the slats broke.

"Meaney! Ten more minutes." She pleaded as she roled back on to the bed and hugged Cougars pilow. Cougar crawled on to the bed and puled the pilow from underneath

her wives head.

"Baby, we are an HOUR LATE FOR WORK!"

Green eyes opened halfway to look at a franticaly searching Cougar. She was flipping blankets and sheets al over the room.

"Animal what are you doing?"

"I can't find my pants!"

"That's because they're in the living room hanging off the ceiling fan." She roled on to her knees and crawled towards the bathroom. "JESUS CHRIST!!!" Ransom screamed

and fel backwards from the bedroom. Cougar fel trying to get to see what Ransom was screaming about. "Baby?"

"You little shit!" She grabbed her cat Zeus and held him up in front of her. "Leave my underwear alone!" She puled them from around his neck then dropped him to the floor.

"Sick little pervert!" With a backward smack, she hit Cougar in the stomach for laughing. "You to!"

"What me to?"

"Look what the two of you did to my favorite underwear!" She held them up to show the huge hole in the crotch.

"Now they're easy access." Cougar snickered.

Ransom turned towards her with narrowed eyes, a deep growl rumbled in her chest. In a quick movement, she yanked her underwear over Cougar's head.

"Take that!" She got up and ran from the room.

Little runt!" Cougar mumbled as she puled them from her head. She looked at Zeus and grinned. "Hey Spooky eyes, here have a present." She dropped Ransom's underwear

on his head then went after her wife.

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They ran up the steps and down the hal to their office. As they burst through the door, they came to sliding halts when they seen Raven dressed like a cheap whore.

Immediately they burst out laughing.

"Why the Hel are you dressed like that?" Cougar asked as she wiped tears from her face.

"A fuck you." She tried to walk on the stiletto heels, but her ankles kept bending down and almost touching the floor. "Stupid damn shoes!" She kicked her foot sending the

stiletto right at O'Riely who ducked behind her desk.

"Raven you asshole! One more time and I'm gonna shove it up your ass!" She flung the shoe back at her, Raven ducked and Cougar caught it before it could clobber Ransom

between the eyes.

"Nice catch." The Capt. Said from her office door. "Now get your lazy asses out on the street! I want some swinging dicks brought in today!"

Cougar pointed to their partner's, then crooked her finger for them to come-hither. Raven limped across the room on one shoe; she shot Cougar a glare when she handed her

the stiletto. "I hate this shit!!" She puled on the spandex biker shorts trying to keep it from crawling upward. "Ruin my sex life if I had ONE!" She continued to mumble al the

way out the door.

Cougar and Ransom traded wicked grins and folowed her out the door.

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Raven slid her feet across the sidewalk to the car that had just puled up. She tripped on the curb and fel against the door. Flipping her long hair out of the way, she leaned

further in to get a look at the john.

"Wanna party?"

"How much for a blow job?" The man asked.

"Twenty spot." She gave the man a toothy smile. He screamed like a woman, reached towards her, shoved her back out of the window, and puled away leaving half of the

rubber from his tires on the street. She turned with clenched fists; bringing them up in front of her, she swung them across in front of her body with force. "Damn! Lost that

one." She smiled at Cougar and Ransom.

Cougar narrowed her eyes at her. "Come here!"

"What?" Raven took hesitant steps towards her, when she was two feet away Cougar reached out with one hand grabbed her shirt and yanked her in front of her.

"Smile!"

"Why?" Raven said with her teeth clenched.

"Do it or I'l put you in a head lock!"

Raven grimaced, showing just the very tips of her teeth.

"Princess, wil you look at this idiot!" She lifted one of Raven's lips to show a sharp fang.

Ransom chuckled. "Maybe we should al wear them and scare the johns away from prostitutes."

"Most likely some of the sick fucks wil like it!" She put her arm around Raven's neck and held her. "I'l hold her, you yank her teeth out."

Ransom's green eyes grew wide. "Are you nuts?!"

"Come on baby." Cougar winked. "Paybacks for the Alien baby."

Ransom's shocked face changed in to a wicked smirk. She pointed her finger at Raven. "You bite me and I swear ta Gods I'l get a pair of pliers!" Raven wiggled her tongue at

her.

"O'Riely are you watching this?" Cougar said over her microphone near her colar.

"Yep! Yank 'em al out!" They heard over their earpiece.

"Hear that Raven? Go ahead Baby."

With in two seconds Ransom had yanked the plastic caps off Ravens teeth. She held them between her fingertips and shivered.

"EEEWWW this is sooo gross!!!" She handed them to Cougar. "Thank you very much! I realy enjoyed sticking my fingers in her nasty mouth!" She wiped her hands on the

front of her wives shirt.

They both covered their ears when they heard a loud thump come over their earpiece and then hysterical laughter.

Ransom shrugged her shoulders and turned back to scan the cars going by. That's when she seen Raven jumping back from another car.

"Now what has she done?" Ransom mumbled as she went towards her partner. She jumped back a step when Raven turned and smiled, she scrunched up her nose at her.

"EEWWWW!!! Bily Bob teeth!!!"

Cougar pointed a finger at her and growled. "Get in the van and don't you dare come out!"

Raven kicked off her shoes and went skipping in the direction of the command van.

"Simple damn bitch!" Cougar grumbled under her breath.

Cougar watched as her wife strutted up to an older Pontiac; she looked in to see a man in his middle 40's. As Ransom spoke to him, she swung her hips back and forth.

Cougar watched her tight ass flex in the spandex; her temperature skyrocketed at the thought of pressing up against her from behind. Wiping sweat from her brow, she groaned

when Ransom started rocking back and forth towards the car. Cougar felt a tingle run down her spin and circle like it was going down a drain. The southern region of her body

throbbed and a warm wetness soaked her silk boxers.

"Comeoncomeoncomeon! Move it asshole!" She said to herself as flames licked at her center. She shoved her hands into her pants pockets and moaned when her shirt

puled across her erect nipples. "You've got two seconds! Then she's mine!" Clenching her hands in her pockets caused even more problems when the seam of her Levi's

rubbed across her pulsing clit. "That's IT! Times up!"

She was just about to pul Ransom to their car when she watched her jump in to the car with the John. Cussing under her breath, she took off at a sprint towards their car.

Whipping the car around the corner and in to the parking lot of the motel, it came down off its two wheels when she slid it sideways next to the building. She had just come to

the door when she heard the code words "Princess Ransom." She shoved the door open, grabbed the John by his arm and propeled him out the door and right into the

arresting officer's chest.

"Bust him and you guys are done for the day." Before he could, get a word out she went back into the room slammed and locked the door. Ransom looked over her shoulder

and gasped at the feral look in her wives silvery eyes.

"Oohh SHIT!" She backed up to where the backs of her knees hit the bed. She dropped down and sat with her mouth hanging open as Cougar striped out of her clothes in

two seconds time. Before she could take a breath, 6ft of beyond aroused Animal jumped her.

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O'Riely turned up the volume on the microphones that they al wore when working. She started snickering when al they heard was grunts and groans.

"Getting some!" She winked at Raven.

"Turn it up louder." Raven wiggled her eyebrows as she grabbed the microphone from the desk in front of O'Riely.

They could now hear everything perfectly.

"Oohh Gods Yessssss…Cougar…harder!"

"OOHH BOY!!!" Raven groaned deep in her chest. She looked to a red-faced O'Riely, her mouth dropped open with the next noises they heard.

"Fuck me Animal! OHH YESSSS…right there…ahh…I'm co…"

Raven and O'Riely looked at the speakers then to each other. They both jumped when two screams just about blew the speakers in the van. Minutes later O'Riely was using a

miniature fan to try to cool herself off and Raven was passed out on the floor. She looked to the blinking lights on the control panel and just about passed out herself. The one

button that was blinking was the control that sent everything that was heard from their set up directly to the Captains office.

"We are ALL DEAD!"

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Cougar was lying on her wives-heaving chest; her hips kept thrusting against a muscular thigh with the remains of the tremors coursing through her body. Roling over on to her

side, she took deep gulping breaths trying to get her heart to slow. Ransom ran her fingers across a sweaty forehead and down high cheekbones. A wicked smile came to her

face; she moved up against Cougar's chest and pressed her breasts in to her.

"What has gotten in to you Animal?" She ran a hand down to tease nether lips. She grinned when she heard a deep moan. Slipping her fingers between nether lips, she played in

the wetness.

"I bet I can make you come again." She whispered hoarsely into Cougar's ear. "Make you scream my name so loud you rattle the windows." Her fingers slid deep inside of

silken wals, the tips of her fingers twitching back and forth. "Tel me what you want."

Blue eyes locked with green as her hips thrust forward making her wives fingers go deeper. Between gasps, she groaned. "I love you Baby." Wrapping their legs around each

other, they pushed each other back to the top to fal with their screams echoing off the wals.

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Down the street the command van was rocking back and forth, whooping noises could be heard from inside. Pedestrians made a wide berth of the vehicle afraid of what might

come out of the doors. The whooping noises soon turned to screams as the tow-truck picked up the front and puled away from the curb. Raven was tossed to the floor and

O'Riely stil in her chair roled across the floor towards the front.

"What the fuck!" O'Riely yeled as she seen the back of the tow-truck. "Raven hit the camera in the hotel room off. We're being towed away!"

"Sonauvbitch! Just when it was getting good to!" She grumbled as she flipped the switches off. "One scream away from winning the bet!" She jumped up and down in a tantrum

and ended up on her ass when the van was jerked around a corner.

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Now lying on the floor in a tangle of sheets and blankets, Cougar searched for her chirping phone. Grabbing it up she flipped it open and growled.

"What?"

"Get your asses back here NOW!" Sarah slammed her phone down and stomped out of her office. Her face was a beet red, her hair standing up on end from her angry fingers

running through it. Just as she went through the door, her wife ran in to her chest.

"Come with me!" She growled as she took her hand and dragged her down the halway.

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Cougar looked at her phone, shrugged her shoulders and dropped it to the floor. "Baby that was your sister. She said to and I quote. "Get our asses back NOW!" Panic

showed clearly in her widened green eyes.

"OHHH FUCK ME!" She yeled as she scrambled over to Cougar's side. Turning her head, she puled the earpiece from her ear and then searched for the tiny microphone.

Tapping it, she listened for a second.

"O'Riely are you there?"

"Ransom? Is that you?" A hesitant voice answered right before it broke out into hysterical laughter. Ransom slapped her wife in her stomach; she grabbed up her clothes and

started to get dressed. Her angry glare had Cougar searching for her own clothes and keeping one eye on her.

"Baby, what's wrong?"

"GRRRRR! Those simple sewer slugs broadcast us!"

Cougar brought her hands to her face and groaned. Peeking between her fingers at Ransom, she couldn't help but chuckle.

"It's not funny! They probably watched us to and are seling the tapes on the street corner!"

Cougar fel to the floor laughing at the thought. Catching her breath she looked at her pissed off wife. "Maybe we should ask for half the profits?"

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When they puled in to the parking lot, they saw their partners handcuffed together and being led in to the precinct. Raven was swinging their arms back and forth and singing a

filthy song until O'Riely smacked her in the back of the head.

"Dipshit! I told ya not ta bite him!"

"He wanted ta frisk me! No man touches the Temple of Raven!"

"Temple of Ruin maybe! Hel, no ones worshipped at your temple in the last decade and then it was by mistake!"

"Was not!" She gave O'Riely a sideways glance. "OK, so she was a little drunk."

"Wil you two shut the Hel up!" The officer said as he pushed them through the door.

"Just wait until our Captain gets a hold of you! She's gonna be realy realy PISSED!" Raven stuck her tongue out at him and then ran for the stairs dragging O'Riely behind

her.

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Cougar and Ransom ran up the stairs to their office, just as they came sliding to a halt outside of the door they heard Raven Praising whoever would listen.

"Thank the Goddesses she's not here!" She came running through the door to smack in to Cougars chest. Landing on her ass, she looked into amused blue eyes.

"Run for your lives!" She got to her hands and knees and crawled between Cougar's legs al the way down the halway. O'Riely came up to them with a huge grin on her face.

"Mrs. Captain came in and now our Captains missing. Where's the dip shit at?" Ransom pointed to the crawling figure down the hal. Taking Cougar's hand Ransom led her

down the hal to a forgotten supply closet. She gave Cougar an evil grin and yanked the door open to find her sister and sister-in-law straightening their clothes.

"Jesus Christ Ransom!" Wide green eyes looked at her. "Can't you knock first?"

"What are you to doing in here?" She wiggled her eyebrows at them.

"Looking for a broom." Sarah pushed past her with Mel in tow, leaving two snickering women to folow.

"In my office NOW!" She yeled then pointed towards the door to their office. With grins on their faces, they folowed.

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Sarah stood behind her desk with a flushed face; Mel stood behind her trying to regain her composure after being caught in the supply room.

"Cougar drop your pants!" Sarah ordered.

"What?!" Her blue eyes widened as she looked at Sarah. "You're kidding right?"

"Nope." Sarah replied shaking her head. "Drop them."

"Baby, is this some kind of kinky sex game your family has that you've never told me about?"

"Huh?" She looked to her wife. "I have no idea what she's talking about." Looking at her sister with narrowed eyes. "Sarah?"

"Mel is here to give her a shot." She braced her hands on the edge of her desk. "I'd like ta shoot ya both! What the Hel were you two doing in that hotel room?"

"Astonished eyes looked at her. "You're kidding right?"

"I know what you were doing but why? And on the clock at that!"

A strong hand gripped Sarah's shoulder. "Sarah, it's not their fault. It's the shot that Cougar got yesterday." Her golden eyes twinkled at her wife. "It makes certain people

horny."

Sarah's eyes driled in to Ransom's. "Why didn't you tel me you two were doing this?"

"Wel…Uuuhmm…" Cougar stuttered.

"I want to get pregnant." Ransom told her.

"Then why is Cougar getting the…Oohh my Gods!" Sarah said as her mouth fel open and she dropped into her chair.

"Easy sweetness." Mel rubbed her wives tense shoulders. "I may be a nurse but I left the jumper cables in my car."

Between the three of them, they explained the procedure that they were going to do so that Ransom could get pregnant and carry their baby. Sarah sat with her jaw lying on

her desk. She shook her head and regained her composure.

"If this works, you're off the streets Ransom. I'l not have you risk the baby or your life out there."

Ransom dropped her head down and mumbled her disapproval.

"She's right baby." Cougar tilted her head up. "I want both of you safe. Even if it means you sitting behind a desk until its time."

Ransom was quiet for a few minutes. She looked to each one of them then grinned. "OK. But I get to pick where I sit." She narrowed her eyes. "And I pick the command

van."

The office broke out in sighs; they al knew that they wouldn't win an argument with her.

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A week later after having al the shoots and testing done Cougar was in the operating room on a table next to Ransom.

Reaching across Cougar took her wives hand in hers, a smal smile came to her lips but it never showed the ful emotional range that filed her eyes.

"Baby. This is it." Adding pressure to her hand. "I love you."

Tears formed in Ransom's eyes as she looked into the eyes of the most important person in her life. "I love you to Animal. This is going to work." She watched as a mask was

placed over Cougar's face. Watching as Cougars eyes fluttered closed, she then waited for the same to happen to her.

An hour later, the egg retrieval from Cougar was complete and DNA splicing was finished. They had just finished with Ransom when Blue eyes fluttered open. She was

amazed to see that their hands were stil joined across the space of the two tables.

Her voice gruff from the anesthesia she spoke. "Doc?" She turned her head to see Dr. George puling her mask down and smiling at her.

"You are one fertile woman; we got enough eggs from you to take care of a smal vilage."

"So, is that good?" She paused to try to moisten her lips. "I mean for us?"

"Ohh yeah, we implanted two eggs into Ransom. So now we wait and see what happens." She brushed dark hair from Cougar's eyes. "I know that you're not going to like

what I say but it's for your own good." She saw the concern and fright in Cougar's eyes. "No sex for a week. You have to let your body rest." She chuckled when she heard

Cougar groan. "This is for Ransom to; we want to make sure that the eggs have a chance to do their thing." She squeezed Cougar's shoulder in a comforting way. "Now rest

awhile, I'l be back later to see how you two are doing."

Ransom's eyes fluttered open to find a dark head resting on her shoulder. Running her fingers through the silky dark hair, she sighed when she felt a soft kiss on her neck.

"Animal, are we al done?"

Blue eyes filed with tears looked in to sleepy green. "Al done, but you have to wait awhile before we go home."

"Why?" She questioned gruffly. "I wanna go home." She whined at her wife.

"I know baby, but you're stil half asleep and Doc has to check you out."

Puling Cougar closer to her, she placed a soft kiss on her lips. "I love you Animal." With that, her eyes closed and she fel asleep just as Doc walked into the room.

"How's she doing?" She asked as she checked her pulse.

"She's being Ransom." A bright smile graced Cougar's lips. "She's doing one of her favorite things, sleeping." Brushing blond hair off her forehead, Cougar placed a kiss on her

temple. "Can I take her home now?"

Doctor George smiled at her and nodded her head. "Yeah, go ahead and take her home. But make sure she stays quiet and in bed." She snorted with her last words. "After

what Mel has told me about you two, I don't think staying in bed wil be a problem."

Cougar blushed and dropped her head. "What did she tel you?"

"Oohh about a certain hotel room." She slapped Cougar on the shoulder. "She was late getting back over here that day and I know what she had been doing."

"Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about." She mumbled.

"Sarah never could keep from leaving her ownership marks al over her wife. Plus Mel came bouncing in here with a goofy ass grin on her face."

"Ohhh!"

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Ransom sat watching her wife across their joined desks; she kept holding back a grin from coming across her face every time Cougar x'ed out a day on her large desk

calendar.

"Stop it!" She growled as she looked into amused green eyes. "It's not funny and I'm about to explode!" She wiggled around in her chair.

"Poor little Animal." Ransom slipped her tennis shoe off and ran her foot up Cougar's leg. She watched blue eyes darken and a strong jaw clench so hard she could hear her

teeth grinding. "How close are you?" She whispered seductively.

"You touch me once more and I'm gonna die right here at my desk!" She growled deep in her chest.

A wicked grin crossed Ransom's face. "Realy? Wel, we can't have ya dying on me now can we?" She slipped her foot right between her wives legs and ran her toes across

the seam in her Levi's. She watched as Cougar jumped in her chair.

"Ransom stop! Pleeease." She pleaded with her.

Ransom just grinned at her and kept rubbing her wife through her Levi's. She watched hands grip the desk so hard that her knuckles turned white. Her face turned a deep red

as her blue eyes darkened to an almost black color. She knew Cougar was close and pushed her over the edge by pushing her toes against her. Cougar stiffened in her seat

and dropped her head on to her desk with a thud. Ransom chuckled when Cougar lifted her head from her desk and groaned.

"You are sooo in trouble! How am I supposed to walk out of here?" Her breathing ragged she kept trying to sit up in her chair. She looked around the office to see it empty

except for their partners sitting across the room. "Baby. You get me outta here before I give the Sewer Slugs something more to watch."

Ransom looked over to see Raven and O'Riely sitting next to each other eating popcorn. They both grinned and waved at her.

"OK, but we're not leaving the station." She wiggled her eyebrows at her. Grabbing Cougar's chair she wheeled her chair and al down the halway to the supply room.

"Baby, what in the Hel are ya doing?"

"Using Sarah's hideaway until we can get home."

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Once inside of the supply room, she puled Cougar's Levi's down until they hung off one foot. Putting Cougar's legs up on the arms of her chair, she then dropped down to

bury her face between quivering thighs. She moaned the second she ran her tongue across wet swolen lips. Like a greedy animal, she licked the juices flowing from her wives

throbbing center. Within seconds, Cougar's body tensed up and a strangled cry burst around her hand that was covering her mouth. Her hips thrust forward one last time

before she dropped her head back. Gulping air, she groaned when she felt Ransom's wet curls slid across her groin.

"You're gonna kil me, or someone else wil get us both when they catch us in here."

"I don't care. I need you." She attacked her wives lips in a crushing kiss. Grinding against her and pinching her hardened nipples between fingers she was quickly climbing to the

threshold of ecstasy. Breaking the kiss, she grabbed the side of Cougar's neck with her teeth. Sucking hard she pushed her center down and found fingers eager to enter her.

Impaling herself, she ground down and roled her hips forward.

Cougar curled her fingers and touched the soft spot inside of her wives channel. She felt her body spasm and then muscles tighten and flex around her fingers. Ransom's

scream was muffled against the sweat-dampened skin of her neck. That alone sent Cougar back over the edge, her scream echoed in the smal room. Gasping for air, they

colapsed against each other.

Minutes later, she had regained some of her composure. "Baby, how are we gonna get out of here? I can't walk, my legs are Jel-O."

"Don't care. We'l just live in this little room." She snuggled closer to her wife.

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O'Riely and Raven leaned back against the wal and waited. O'Riely kept covering Raven's mouth to keep her from laughing aloud.

"If we get caught, I'm gonna kil you!" O'Riely glared at her Cohort in crime.

"But Radar, it don't matter 'cuz once I snap their picture we're dead anyway."

O'Riely covered her eyes and groaned. "We are sooo dead!"

They both glanced sideways when they seen the Captain coming down the hal towards them. They scrambled to their feet and tried not to look out of place. It was hard

considering they had bags of popcorn, candy and cokes at their feet.

"What are you two up to?" Sarah asked.

"Uhhmm…lunch time?" Raven stuttered.

"Yeah…we ahhh…needed a change of scenery."

"Right." Green eyes looked at them then turned to the supply room door. Yanking the door open she just about fel over when she seen her sister straddling Cougar's lap.

"For Christ sakes! Ransom get your damn clothes on! That goes for your animal to!" Before she could close the door, Raven snapped off a few pictures and went running

down the hal screaming bloody murder.

"Nuddy pics nuddy pics!"

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Two weeks later, Raven was banished forever to the command van. So O'Riely was forced into being Cougar's other prostitute on the street. It took everything that Cougar

and Ransom had not to laugh hystericaly at her when she came out to stand on the corner with them. Her dress looked like something that Diana Ross had given to a second

hand store years ago, her wig looked like a Liz Taylor reject and her earrings left over Frisbee's. It al added up to look like Whoopi Goldberg doing a demented Tina Turner.

She kept squirming and puling on her sequined dress and faling al over herself because of the high heels she had on.

"This SUCKS DONKEY DICKS!!" She belowed when she fel off the curb trying to get up to a johns car.

"Hey baby, did you say you suck donkey dicks?" He asked her with a lecherous grin on his face. "I gotta huge donkey dick for ya ta suck on." He opened his coat and flashed

her.

"Buddy, I've seen rats with bigger dicks than that!" She waved her hand at him. "Go get one of those dick pumps and come back when it's bigger." She stumbled away from

the car with a disgusted look on her face.

"Why do we have ta do this gross shit! If I wasn't already a dyke, that would have made me jump over the fence!" She held up her thumb and index finger two inches apart. "It

was this big! What the Hel do ya do with that?"

Cougar grinned at her. "Use it for fishing bait?"

"Nah, it was even too smal for that!" She puled one of her shoes off and groaned. "Are we done yet?"

"Another hour or so." She looked around for Ransom who had gone to get them some coffee and junk food. Her stomach was bothering her and she thought it was because

she had not eaten anything that morning before they came to work. Or that her period was coming again, which she didn't want at al. She watched as Ransom came sauntering

up the sidewalk swinging it for al she was worth. Giving Cougar a sexy smile she winked, then stuck her tongue inside the crème-filed donut she was eating. Cougar felt her

pulse slam between her legs almost making her fal to her knees.

'Wanna lick?" She asked as she rubbed up against Cougar's side.

"You are an evil woman!" She bent down and licked the donut and Ransom's fingers. "But I wanna lick something else later." She wiggled her eyebrows at her and chuckled

when Ransom's face blushed. Taking a smal bite of the donut, she chewed and moaned deep in her chest. No sooner had it reached her stomach then her face turned a pale

shade of gray and she took off running towards a garbage can in the aley. Ransom was concerned and folowed close on her heels. Finding her retching, she rubbed her back

and helped support her weak body.

"Animal what's wrong? You're not getting sick on me are you?"

Cougar spit a couple of times and wiped her mouth with the napkin Ransom handed her.

"My stomach has been feeling horrible al day. I hope it's not the flu."

Ransom puled her head down to rest on her shoulder, running her hand down her back in a soothing way she tried to comfort her.

"You're going right to bed when we get home. You look terrible."

"But Baby!" She whined like a two-year-old.

"No arguments! You're tired and you look like Hel." She lifted Cougar's face up to look into her tired blue eyes. "You tossed and turned al night."

A sheepish look came across her face. "I know I was having the weirdest dream." Her face turned a deathly pale. "Ohh my Gods!"

"What?"

"Come on. We have to go get something." Taking Ransom's hand she puled her to the closet drug store. Going up and down the aisle, Cougar found what she was looking for.

Ransom's eyes grew large when she saw the pregnancy test in her wives hand.

"Cougar?"

"I know, I can't explain it but the dream I had was me being pregnant." Her blue eyes twinkled. "Humor me Baby. I know it's kinda early for this but…"

"OK. When we get home."

On their way back to where O'Riely was walking in circles trying to keep from going nuts from boredom. They walked past a hot dog stand and before they had even passed

it, Cougar took off at a ful out sprint to the nearest aleyway.

Ransom dropped her head. "Not again."

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Ransom was being driven nuts by Cougar's pacing back and forth in front of her while she sat on the toilet.

"If you don't stop right now, I'm gonna bitch slap you." Her green eyes were flaming as she looked into nervous blue. "I can't do this if you're gonna run back and forth in front

of me."

"I'm sorry Baby; it's just that…wel."

"Come here." She extended her hand to Cougar and puled her down to her knees. "Calm down. Do me a favor and hold this." She handed Cougar the pregnancy test stripe.

Cougar gave her a questioning look.

"You're part of this so you get ta help take the test." She moved her legs apart far enough that she could get Cougar's hand between them. Cougar's face turned a bright red;

the rest of her blood flew southward at the speed of light. She moaned deep in her chest at the feeling of Ransom's legs holding her hand and what she was about to do. She

cleared her throat but couldn't get any words out. Taking a deep breath, she dropped her head down to rest on Ransom's chest.

"Baby, this is kiling me."

"What is?" Ransom soon found out when Cougar lifted her head and she looked into darkened eyes. Placing a soft kiss on her lips, she spoke in a hoarse whisper. "The feeling

is very mutual."

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They lay on the bathroom floor gasping for air; Ransom was stil sprawled across Cougar's chest where she colapsed after their shared earth-shattering climax. Smal tremors

stil shot through her body with every breath.

"Animal…if you…were a…man…I'd be…pregnant…forever!"

"And I…be a proud…daddy."

She picked Ransom up and carried her to their bedroom where they made the windows shake until early hours of the morning. Cougar's eyes popped open when she felt her

stomach rol, twist and turn. She flew up out of the bed and fel to her knees in front of the toilet.

Ransom roled over and off the bed with the force of her wives quick departure. Rubbing her eyes and cussing under her breath, she crawled up on to the edge of the bed.

She froze in mid movement when she heard Cougar retching in the bathroom. Stumbling down the halway and into the bathroom, she dropped to her knees behind Cougar

and rested her head on her back.

"I think we should cal the doctor."

"Nah ahh. I'm OK now." She turned and took Ransom in her arms and gave her a quick hug before she got to her feet. As she was brushing her teeth, she noticed the E.P.T

test sitting on the sink counter. Picking it up she looked at the color, the toothbrush fel out of her mouth and she let out a war cry that had Ransom coming three foot off the

floor.

"What did ya do that for?" She asked as she tried to pop her ears.

Cougar spun around, dropped to her knees and placed a loving kiss on Ransom's bely.

"Animal, what in the world has gotten in to you?"

Cougar handed her the test strip and continued to place loving kisses on her bely and lower areas. Ransom blinked twice at the color of the test; she sunk to her knees and

looked at her wife with wide eyes.

"We're pregnant!"

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Cougar cooked their breakfast and watched as Ransom's face turned a deathly pale as she looked down at her eggs. She swalowed a few times but lost the fight. Jumping up

she ran for the bathroom and dropped to her knees in front of the toilet. She retched with dry heaves until tears flowed from her eyes. Cougar kneeled behind her, puled her

back against her chest, and wiped her face with a wet washcloth.

"And so it begins." She whispered close to her ear. "Good thing we have two bathrooms." Kissing her temple, she rocked her back and forth and hummed softly in her ear.

"Baby, how long does this morning sickness last?"

"I don't know but it better not be long. I'l die if I can't eat."

Months later with Ransom's pregnancy keeping her from wearing her "Ho" clothes she started working in the Command van. While Cougar and O'Riely stood on the street

corner picking up johns. Ransom had helped O'Riely pick out clothes for her part as a prostitute; they now were able to seize more johns since she didn't look so demented.

Ransom's biggest problem was Raven; she couldn't get her to sit down for two seconds without having her jump up and dance around the van. She wore an earpiece attached

to a CD player. Humming to herself, she danced with an invisible partner.

"If you don't sit down I'm gonna tie your simple ass up!" Ransom screamed in her ear.

"You're no fun." She mumbled. "Just like Radar, she told me I need Ritalin or something." She turned off her CD player and pouted as she took her seat next to Ransom. In

two minutes, she was weaving in her chair and spinning it in circles. Ransom gave her a raised brow look.

"That's it! Gimme your damn CD." She took it from Ravens trembling fingers and grinned at the smal whimper that escaped Raven's lips. After inserting it into the vans stereo

system, she grinned at Raven.

" Jennifer Lopez?" She started nodding her head to the beat; soon she was up and dancing around the van with Raven. The van was swaying from side to side and caught

Cougar's attention. She sided up to O'Riely and whispered in her ear.

"Look at the van. What are they doing in there?"

"You have to remember that Raven is in there with your wife, and Raven's not wrapped to tight."

They started across the street towards the van. Cougar turned her head when a black Monte Carlo came creeping towards them. She heard the engine reeve and saw the car

come barreling towards them. She pushed O'Riely towards the van and jumped to the side as it went tearing past. Running back out in to the street she tried to see the license

plate but found that it was spray painted black.

"What the fuck was that?" O'Riely asked as she puled off her broken heel and limped over to Cougar.

"No idea. We better keep an eye out; I think we may be in a little bit of trouble here."

"Why do you say that?" She asked with a curious glance.

Cougar raised her left eyebrow. "Cal it a gut feeling." She knew it was more than that; it was a feeling that went right to her bones.

They opened the back door of the van and stood shaking their heads as they watched their two partners dancing around inside. Raven was behind Ransom grinding on her,

their hands linked above their heads swayed with the movements of their hips. The Latino beat was deafening so they never heard Cougar step in. She walked up behind

Raven and started to grind against her. Raven reached back and ran her hand across the back of Cougar's head, her fingers tangling in her long dark hair. Al movement

stopped for Raven when she realized who was behind her. Casting a glance over her shoulder into smiling blue eyes she gulped. Cougar held a finger up to her lips; she nodded

her head no when Raven went to say something. Raven squeezed from between the couple and ran for the back of the van to join a snickering O'Riely.

Cougar ran her hands down across Ransom's breasts and tweaked her nipples. Her wife slapped the offending hands before she even noticed that the body that was grinding

up against her was a lot taler than her previous partner was. She spun around with a clenched fist and fire sparking in her green eyes.

"I'l knock the…" Her jaw dropped open and she gazed at her wife. "Cougar?"

"Hi Baby." She winked at her and grinned evily. "Having fun?"

Ransom's face turned a light pink from embarrassment. "We were just…dancing."

"I saw, now you're going to keep an eye out for a black Monte Carlo."

"Why? I thought we're supposed to keep an eye on you guys out there."

Cougar dropped her head and mumbled. Ransom moved closer and lowered her head to look into troubled blue eyes.

"Animal? You had better tel me what's going on." She pushed her wife back to a chair and made her sit. Flipping off the stereo, she waved for the other two to join them.

"Now that we're al together, I want to know what the Hel is going on!"

Cougar shrugged her shoulders and looked around at them. "I just have this awful feeling." She ran her fingers nervously across her thighs. "That car that almost ran us over…"

"WHAT?" Ransom grabbed her wife by the front of her shirt. "It tried to run you over?"

"Wel, yeah it did. But." She held up an index finger. "We were faster than it.

Ransom dropped into a chair and ran her trembling hands across her face. Her green eyes flashed numerous emotions when it hit her that she could have lost her wife to some

idiot behind the wheel of a car, while she was dancing around and not paying attention to her surroundings.

"I'm sorry Animal. We should have been watching you guys out there." Tears filed her eyes and flowed down her cheeks.

Cougar wiped the tears from her cheeks with a fingertip. "Ransom, there's nothing you two could have done if it would have hit us."

"But…" She paused when Cougar puled her in to her arms.

"Don't beat yourself up over this. Just keep an eye out for it and cal in the description." She kissed her tenderly and gave her a smal smile. "Don't worry, OK?" She looked to

Raven who was already caling in the description of the car. Ravens face turned a deathly pale as she looked to the others.

"They've got a hit and run over on Ohio Street. It's a prostitute." She hung up the phone and dropped into a chair. "They said it was a black car that hit her. She's on her way

over to the hospital now. The officers said she's in pretty bad condition and may not make it."

Ransom started to shake as the news hit her. She clutched Cougar tighter to her and sobbed in to her chest. Cougar puled her car keys from her coat pocket and tossed them

to O'Riely.

"You guys take my car and go back to the office. Let the Captain know what happened and we'l be back in a while."

On their way from the van Raven gripped Cougar's shoulder and looked down in to pensive blue eyes.

"I'l take your place on the street. You stay in the van with Ransom."

Cougar smiled at her and nodded her head. "Thanks Raven." When they were alone, she puled back far enough that she was able to look into red-rimmed green eyes. "Baby

nothing is going to happen to me." She used two fingers to lift her chin up. "I'l never leave you."

"That could have been you and O'Riely hit by that car." She started to sob al over again; wrapping her arms around her wives neck, she buried her face against a warm neck.

"Let's go home, we'l order out and vegetate on the couch." She was worried about Ransom's stress level and what it could do to their baby. She wanted nothing better than to

just stay home for the next nine months and not have to worry about anything but keeping her wife happy.

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The next day the Captain had puled al four of them in to her office and wanted to know every single detail about the car that tried to run them down. She gave Cougar a

direct order to plant her ass in the van with Ransom.

Later that night as Cougar was taking a nap with her head resting on Ransom's lower stomach the phone rang. Ransom picked it up and answered in a whisper.

"Jacolby."

"Ransom, it's Raven. We found that car that tried to hit Cougar and Radar."

Ransom's eyes grew large with the news. "Where?"

"Down here under one of the bridges, wel, we found what's left of it. It's been torched and the only thing that didn't burn was the rear license plate with some of the black

paint stil covering it."

"Can you find out whose it is? Maybe we can get a clue that way?"

"Al ready did that, it was stolen last month from Baltimore."

"Sonuvabitch! So much for that, what about the hit and run victim?"

"But, we have a witness that seen a tal woman running from the car right before it went up in flames. Radar's talking to him right now; I'l let ya know if we get anything. And

the victim was DOA."

"OK, thanks Raven. I'l tel Cougar when she wakes up. What are you two doing out at this time anyway?"

She heard her chuckle. "We were out uuhmm…"

"Looking for the car, say no more. Thanks again, we'l see you in the morning."

"What did Raven want?"

"I didn't know you were awake." She ran her fingers across a high cheekbone. "They found that car but it was set on fire." Blue eyes looked up at her.

"And?"

"They have a witness that seen a woman running from it." She told her the rest of what Raven had told her. "Lets go to bed Animal, my back is kiling me." Cougar roled to her

feet then helped Ransom off the couch; wrapping an arm around her, she led her to their bedroom.

"I think that was just some asshole wanting ta run someone over." Cougar said with more conviction than she felt. "I think I'l be safe…" She caught fiery green eyes driling in to

her. "In the van."

Ransom pushed her back on the bed and then crawled up her body to straddle her hips. "Don't be so sure of that Animal; remember you'l be in there with me." She captured

her wives bottom lip between her teeth and nipped hard enough to hear her whimper. "And if you get bored, I'l do a strip tease for ya." She roled her hips to get her point

across.

"Why wait until I'm bored?"

"If you haven't noticed ohh briliant Warrior, I'm al ready naked."

"Does that mean ya won't dance for me?" She wiggled her eyebrows and gave her a seductive grin.

"Maybe later, I wanna play right now." She leaned down, puled a nipple in to her mouth, and sucked greedily until Cougar was arching her back to offer more.

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When they reached their corner the next afternoon Raven and O'Riely were al ready standing on the street. Cougar couldn't help but laugh at the way Raven was dressed.

"Animal, she looks like a miniature version of you." Ransom replied as she bumped hips with her wife.

"Fat chance in that, she looks more like she should be in a leather bar." She opened the back door of the van and busted out laughing.

"What?" Ransom tried to see around Cougar. "Let me guess, the sewer slugs did something gross and disgusting?"

"Nah, just kinky." She moved so that Ransom could see the mattress and throw pilows covering the floor of the van. She stepped in and found an assortment of love oils and

edible underwear. "Now al we need is a strap-on and we're al set." She remarked to a blushing Ransom.

"Nope, they thought of that to." She pointed to a strap-on attached to the microphone sitting on the counter top.

Two hours in to their shift, Raven came trotting over to the side of the van and knocked on the side door. Cougar was about to rip her head off for leaving O'Riely alone when

Ransom stopped her.

"She's bringing us lunch Animal, you know I have to have something to eat or the monster rears its ugly little head."

Cougar slid the door back and almost fel over when she saw that Raven had three huge take-out bags from a Chinese restaurant in her hands.

"Here ya go, one of everything they make." She hefted the heavy bags up to Cougar. "Ya know ya made them happy people today. They thought they're feeding the whole

precinct. I thought I was gonna have ta cal 911 after I told them it was for just two people."

Ransom rubbed her hands together and sniffed the air. "Gods that smels good! Orange chicken's in that one." She pointed to the bag in Cougar's left hand.

"You're unbelievable Baby." She handed her the bags and reached for her walet.

"Nope, I don't want your money Cougar." Raven held up her hand. "It's my treat."

"Are ya sure?" Cougar knew that al the food had ta cost a smal fortune.

"Yep, I know what the monster in her stomach sounds like. I heard it al day yesterday." She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself. "Gave me nightmares!" She gave

them a smal wave then ran back to where O'Riely was trying to pick up a john. She never saw the car sitting just down from the command van.

Greenish eyes looked over the top of a pair of Gargoyle sunglasses, a wicked grin came to a wide mouth to show even white teeth.

"So you're hiding in the van now? That's OK, doesn't matter one bit." A long fingered hand tossed a cigarette out the window. "I'l stil get you and your dark protector.

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Cougar had made her umpteenth trip from the car; she had the entire living-room floor covered with bags boxes and loose articles. They had spent a smal fortune at the mal

shopping for baby stuff. Dropping on to the floor, she sighed and fel backwards to lie sprawled out in the only spot that wasn't taken. Unfortunately, it was in front of the

kitchen door, she saw a blonde whirlwind come charging through the door. Closing her eyes and clenching her teeth, she waited for Ransom to jump over her. Instead, a smal

booted foot stepped on her stomach as her wife headed for the bathroom. With Ransom being in her eighth month of pregnancy, the baby had found where her bladder was

and liked to plant tiny little feet against it and push. Cougar grinned at her when she came back in to the messy living room naked from the waist down. She turned her body on

the floor so that Ransom would have to step over her head to get in to the kitchen.

Ransom stopped before her and planted her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow at her she smirked.

"Animal, you're a pervert."

"Yeah, but ya love me anyway." She wiggled her fingers motioning for her wife to come to her. With some difficulty, she lowered herself down to Cougar's level. Cougar rose to

lean on one elbow, with her other hand she made slow circular caresses on her wives swolen bely. Resting her cheek against Ransom's side, she listened for any little noise

from inside.

"How ya doing in there? Ya know your Mommy feeds you some weird stuff." She pretended to listen to their unborn baby, snickering she shook her head and looked up with

smiling blue eyes at Ransom.

"Critter says ta stop eating those Jalapeño's or she's coming out early ta smack you."

Ransom smiled down at her goofy wife, she loved the fact that Cougar was so loving to their unborn baby.

"Ohh so we're having a critter are we?"

"Yep." She gave Ransom a big toothy grin. "Guess what I bought today?"

Ransom groaned at the thought of what her wife could have gotten, she roled down to her hip then reclined so that her head was resting between Cougar's breasts. "Dare I

ask what you bought?"

Cougar reached behind her and puled a bag to her side, she reached in and puled out a tiny little biker jacket. "Ain't it cute?"

"What, no little biker booties?" She laughed at the way Cougar was placing the little jacket over her swolen bely.

"Uuummm…wel ya, I got those to."

Ransom ran her fingers down a muscular arm and watched as goose bumps rose after her fingers. "Have you thought of a name yet?" She tilted her head back to look in to an

angular face.

"Wel, I kinda like Critter." She grinned.

"Animal, we are not naming our baby Critter. I was thinking of Paula." She waited to see what Cougar thought of her idea about naming their baby after her deceased partner

and lover. Tears filed pale blue eyes as a smile graced her lips. She bent down and placed a tender kiss on soft pink lips.

"It's perfect." She hugged Ransom to her. "But I'm stil gonna cal our baby Critter."

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Cougar was laying on the floor in the room that they had turned in to a nursery. She had just finished putting the crib together and was exhausted. She looked up when Ransom

came in to the room with a plate with slices of pizza on it and a tal glass of milk. Sitting down in the rocker, she handed Cougar the plate and glass.

"I brought you some supper." She puled a slice off the plate then produced a jar of grape jely.

"Thanks Baby." She watched as Ransom dipped her pizza in to the jar then took a bite. "That is sooo gross!" She shivered at the thought of eating jely-covered pizza.

"Is not, it's good. Here try it." She held out the slice to her and watched her take a smal bite. They sat in the room sharing a jar of grape jely and the glass of milk.

"What's in that box over by the closet?" Ransom asked as she handed the glass back to Cougar.

"Didn't you buy it?" Cougar asked.

"I thought you did." She crawled over to it and slid it across the floor to her wife. Cougar opened it and closed the lid quickly, she had a disturbed look on her face and couldn't

erase it before Ransom saw.

"Animal what is it?" She asked with a questioning look on her face.

"It's a mistake, we must have gotten someone else's box by mistake." She slid it behind her but wasn't fast enough to keep Ransom from getting it. "Baby please don't look in

there!" She gave her wife a pleading look. Ransom ignored her and opened the box anyway, her face turned a deathly pale as she looked down at the plush stuffed bears. It

was of a mother and baby and they were both missing their heads. She dropped the box to the floor and sunk to her knees. Tears flowed from her green eyes as she continued

to look at what some sick asshole had done. Cougar came up behind her closed the box and puled her in to her arms.

"Who would do something so sick?" She asked as she puled Cougar's arms tighter around her.

"I don't know but I'm caling your sister. I'l have her send someone over to get the box, maybe we can get some latents off it."

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After tucking an emotionaly wrecked Ransom in to bed, Cougar caled Sarah and told her what they had found. The captain agreed to have someone come over, get the box,

and run tests on it. She also told Cougar under no circumstances were they to come in to work. She told her that she would have a car parked outside of their house to keep

an eye out for any unwanted visitors.

"Sarah we don't live in the district, how can you send someone over here?"

"I have my ways, don't worry about it. Now go take care of Ransom." Sarah hung up with Cougar and made another cal. She was not about to risk having some deranged

idiot hurt either her sister or Cougar. She knew that neither one of them could live without the other.

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A dark car puled down the street from Cougar and Ransom's house, a dim glow came from inside as a smal red light was turned on. Cougar peeked from behind the curtains,

curious and a little scared. She slowly crept to the back door and stole into the cold dark night. Taking to the backyards she approached the car from behind, puling her sig

free of her holster, she held it close to her body. Gripping the handle on the passenger side, she flung the door open, dropped to a shooting stance and scared the Hel out of

Raven and O'Riely.

A donut went flying towards the windshield as O'Riely jumped in her seat and yelped. Raven was sputtering as Chocolate milk ran from her nose and down the windshield.

"What the Hel are you two doing sitting out here?" Cougar asked as she put her Sig away.

O'Riely gripped her chest and took deep calming breathes, she looked over at Cougar with blinking brown eyes.

"Captain sent us to keep a look out."

A sheepish grin covered Cougar's face. "Ohh sorry guys, I thought it was who ever it is that's sending weird shit to us." She chuckled when she saw Raven trying to pul her

shirt far enough to wipe the windshield.

"If you guys need anything, just come around the back of the house." She handed O'Riely a key to the back door then pointed at her chest. "If you two see any thing funny at

al, cal me ASAP."

"Gotcha, any thing funny we'l cal."

Cougar closed the door then returned home. She went in to the bedroom to find Ransom stil sleeping, she sat down on the edge of the bed and ran her fingertips over her

swolen bely. A smal smile came to her lips when she felt movement. She couldn't wait until the baby arrived, she was curious as to who it would look like. She hoped more of

Ransom would come out in their baby. After undressing, she lay down next to her and placed a possessive hand on Ransom's bely. With in moments she joined her wife in

slumber.

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After a week of not having any thing strange happen, the Captain put them back on the streets to resume hauling johns in. Ransom was getting more irritable by the day, she

snapped at Cougar constantly for no reason. One night while at home she became so enraged over Cougar leaving her clothes on the floor that Cougar ended up sleeping on

the couch that night.

The next morning Cougar's six-foot frame was hanging half way off the couch, she groaned at the sharp pain shooting through her lower back. Stretching her legs out, she

gasped when a muscle cramp made her stop breathing. Tears slid from her closed eyes to soak her t-shirt and pilow, she cried more from her emotions than the pain in her

back. She broke down sobbing into her hands, she was worried that her relationship with Ransom was in trouble. She felt smal hands pul hers from her face, she looked up

into the puffy tear stained face of Ransom.

"I'm sorry Animal." She buried her face in her wives neck and sobbed until she fel asleep in her embrace. Ransom woke to fingers running through her short blonde tousled

hair. Easing her head up from where it rested on Cougar's chest, she looked into bloodshot eyes.

"Are we al right Cougar?" She asked with a smal voice. "I'm sorry I've been such a bitch, I talked to George and she says it comes with being pregnant."

Cougar kissed the top of her head and hugged her. "I thought I was doing something wrong." She looked in to her wives eyes. "I was afraid that I was losing you."

"I'l never leave you Cougar Jacolby, you're stuck with me for the next 60 or 70 years." They came together in a heartfelt kiss, when it broke they lay in each other's arms

enjoying the feeling of their hearts beating as one.

"What are we doing today?" Ransom asked from where she was nesting in to Cougar's body.

"Vegetating. Maybe order out and watch some movies on TV."

"Good because I don't feel like doing anything."

"Baby, I caled George the other night and she wants me to come in for a check up."

Ransom sat up on the couch and stared at Cougar with a worried expression on her face. "What's wrong?" She gripped wives hands in hers. "Tel me."

"I've been spotting a little, it's probably nothing but I want to see Doc about it." She took a deep breath trying to keep calm. "I'm scared Ransom. I don't know my family

history and that's a big problem."

Ransom puled her in to her arms and rocked her back and forth. "It'l be OK, I promise you." She kept up her strong front but inside she was faling apart.

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Ransom had just come back from the bathroom when the Captain caled al four of them in to her office. As soon as Ransom sat down, she became the baby petting zoo.

O'Riely was the worst of al of them, she kept talking to Ransom's stomach until Cougar smacked her in her head.

"Get off my wife you perv!"

"Meaney! I was just talking ta the baby."

"That's a change!" Raven replied from a safe distance. "She usualy talks to herself."

"And you wear underwear with little frogs on them!" O'Riely threw back at her.

"My Ma bought those for me and what were ya doing looking at my underwear?" Her left eyebrow rose as she gave her cohort an evil look.

"Raven, you streak through the locker room everyday."

Raven's face deepened in color. "Forgot about that."

"That's enough you guys!" The Captain dropped in to her chair and puled out a file from her center drawer. After handing it to Cougar, she sat back with her fingers templed

against her lips. "That came back this afternoon from the lab. They found some good prints on the box, unfortunately, they belong to the two of you."

Cougar sighed and handed the file back to the Captain. "Now what?" She asked as she sat on the arm of Ransom's chair.

"Don't know, we wait until something else happens."

"Sarah this is crazy." Ransom said as she driled her sister with flaming green eyes. "We're supposed to wait until some sick bastard tries to do something again before we can

get them?" She rubbed her face with her hands. "What if we go over al our past cases and see if any one matches the description of the woman seen running from that stolen

car."

"It's a shot, what have we got to loose?" Sarah replied.

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The large table in the conference room was covered with files from both Narcotics and vice. Raven and O'Riely took half of the files, they were checking the description of

perps against the strange woman. While Cougar and Ransom were checking acquaintances and family members of perps. Three hours later with al of them seeing double from

looking at numerous pictures and reading descriptions. A knocking gave them a reprieve from the boring search. Raven crawled across the floor and opened the door to Sarah

with an arm ful of pizza boxes.

"I knew Ransom would be to the point of sacrificing one of you to the monster in her stomach. So I brought supper for ya and another box of files."

She smiled at the groans, she knew that they were about ready to set fire to the files they already had.

"Ease up; I'm here to help ya out. The top box is Ransom's; it's got those nasty little fish on it."

A huge grin came over Ransom's face after she opened the box, then disappeared.

"Animal, ya know what I need now?" She batted her eyelashes at her wife.

"EEEEWWW! Baby that is sooo gross!" She reached into Ransom's backpack and tossed her the jar of grape jely. "Jely covered fish, YUCK!"

Everyone in the room gave Ransom a funny look as she poured Jely al over her pizza. "Don't give me those looks, its good. Cougar had some last night." The looks turned to

Cougar.

"It didn't have fish on it last night." She shivered as Ransom took a big bite of her food. After eating they al went back to checking the files, halfway through the box that Sarah

had brought with her O'Riely gave out a whoop and jumped up to give the file to Ransom.

"I think this is her! The description fits." She said as she pointed out the woman's picture. Ransom motioned for Cougar to look.

"This is one of your cases from Narcotics. It's about two year's old; Sandoval Rames was in possession of 4000 kilos of cocaine." Her eyes grew wide at the amount.

"Cougar what the Hel did she have it in a semi truck?"

Cougar gave her a smirk. "Yep, great big black double cab rig and fancy trailer with a dragon on the side." She looked at the picture and growled. "I hate that bitch! She bit me

in my leg when we arrested her."

"She's scary looking!" O'Riely shivered and moved away. "Looks like the type of woman Raven would pick up. Dark and gruesome!"

"Raven studied the picture of the woman; she had brown hair with reddish high-lights, green eyes, and a very wide mouth showing an evil grin. "Even I ain't that desperate! If it

is her, how come she ain't in jail?"

"She should be." Cougar said as she reached for a phone. "Let me cal the state pen and find out if she is stil there. If she isn't we have a big problem."

A few minutes later Cougar hung the phone up. The expression face was terrifying. "She escaped eight months ago from working with the road crew."

Sarah rubbed her temples with fingertips. "OK, I want that picture sent out on the wire to every precinct, cop car, desk jockey and airport." She pointed to Cougar and

Ransom. "I want you two to stay in the van; under no circumstances are you to come out until your shift is over."

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Two weeks later with no sight of Sandoval Rames or anything strange happening to them, Cougar and Ransom sat in the van watching their partners work the johns. They

were so bored that Ransom was making paper airplanes and tossing them at Cougar's head.

"Baby one more airplane and I'm gonna…"

"What Animal?" She hit her in the back of the head with another one.

Cougar got up from her chair, a deep growl came from her lips as she stalked towards her grinning wife. Ransom had nowhere to go, and with the size of her bely, she couldn't

realy move to fast.

"Now Animal, this isn't fair! I can't run away like I used to." She backed the chair up against the wal of the van. "I'm sorry Animal, I won't do it again!" She squealed as

Cougar dropped down between her knees and puled her shirt up. "No! Not that!" Cougar buzzed her bely repeatedly until Ransom yeled uncle.

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Raven and O'Riely were standing across the street from the aley where the van was sitting. The johns had slowed down and not much was happening on the street. Out of the

corner of her eye, O'Riely saw a Humvee sitting half a block away. What got her attention was the woman getting in to it.

"Raven, look at that woman." She nodded with her head. "Is that our suspect?"

Raven turned and acted like she was talking to her partner, she squinted her eyes trying to see better. "I don't know? Better cal Cougar."

Before she could get Cougar on the radio, the Humvee tore away from the curb and headed straight for the van. Raven started screaming over her microphone for Cougar to

get out of the van.

Cougar keyed her microphone and asked Raven "What the Hel her problem was." Before Raven could reply, the van took a direct hit from the Humvee and slammed into the

side of the nearest building. Cougar went slamming into the counter and fel to the floor. Ransom was thrown from her chair and landed on top of her, before they could move

the van was hit again and pushed down the aley backwards. Cougar roled over on top of Ransom to protect her from the stuff flying around the van. They heard metal tearing

and the squeal of tires as the van was shoved over the top of debris in the aley.

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Raven and O'Riely took off across the street after the Humvee; O'Riely was caling for back up as they ran. Raven puled both her Sigs from her shoulder holster and started

firing at the back of the Humvee. They both jumped to the side as the Humvee came barreling backwards towards them. It's brake lights came on and it took off again to plow

into the van. It pushed it out into the next street, on coming traffic couldn't avoid it and slammed in to both sides.

Cougar and Ransom were tossed around inside and slammed into the back door when it came to a shuddering halt. Smoke bilowed from under the hood of the Humvee;

flames could be seen licking at the edges of the crumpled hood. O'Riely watched as a tal dark woman fel from the driver's side of the Humvee and took off at a limping jog.

"Raven get her!" She yeled as she ran to the Humvee and jumped in. With great force, she slammed it in to reverse and drove it backward towards the aleyway. She jumped

from the door and ran before it exploded. The force of the explosion threw her to the ground; she covered her head to protect herself from flying debris.

Raven was running behind Sandoval. "Stop Police!" She screamed. "Fuck this shit!" She dropped to one knee and took careful aim with both her Sigs. Two shots rang out and

Sandoval dropped to the ground just as two Police cars came around the corner. Raven pointed to the downed woman and told them to cuff her. She spun around and went

back to the Command van, seeing O'Riely trying to force the door open she added her strength to the struggle. With a screeching of metal, they got the door open and

crawled in to the wrecked van. Looking through the mess, they saw Cougar's legs sticking out from under what was once the computer counter.

"Ohh sweet Gods!" Raven said as she dropped to her knees and looked underneath it. "Radar cal for an ambulance, they're both hurt bad!" She could see blood running down

the side of Cougar's face and soaking through her pant leg where a jagged piece of metal was sticking out. Squeezing back behind the counter she checked both of their

pulses and that's when she noticed the stream of fluid leaking out from under Ransom.

"Ohh Gods! Radar, Ransom's water broke! Help me move this thing off them." She laid on her back and put her feet under the counter. "Radar, when I push up on this see if

you can swing it to the side?" As she pushed up with her feet she let out a yel, O'Riely used al the strength she had and swung it to the side where it fel with a loud bang.

Raven crawled over to Cougar and brushed her long hair back from her face, she could see a large gash right above her right eyebrow. Ripping the sleeve off her shirt at the

shoulder, she used it to bind Cougar's head. When she was finished, she noticed blue eyes starting to flutter.

"Cougar come on wake up!" She cupped Cougar's face in her hands and waited until blue eyes started to focus. "Can you move?" She wiped the blood from where it had run

into Cougar's eye.

"Come on Animal, Ransom needs you!" Cougar groaned as she moved off Ransom.

"Baby?" She brushed blonde hair back from her forehead. "Oohh Gods!" She screamed when she saw the blood covering Ransom's shirt. Raven grabbed her by her shoulder

and shook her.

"It's your blood! We have to move her, her waters broke and I think the baby's coming." Raven looked to the ceiling and prayed. "Please forgive me for this." She hauled off

and slapped Cougar across the face. "Snap outta it!" Cougar shook her head, silvery eyes driled into Raven.

"Now help me!" Raven screamed in to her face.

O'Riely came back into the van and helped them move Ransom in to the middle of the floor. Cougar placed her head in her lap and tried to wake her. A few moments went by

with Ransom just laying there motionless. Raven puled her shirt up and placed a hand on her stomach. A bright grin came to her face. "I can feel it! Cougar we have to get her

pants off, can you lift her hips up?"

"Yeah, just be careful with her."

"Don't worry I wil. Radar give me a hand here."

They al heard a low groan come from Ransom when they moved her, green eyes fluttered open. A look of confusion settled on her face.

"Animal?" She asked with a rough voice.

"I'm right here Baby." She held her hand in a gentle grip. "How do you feel?"

"Oohh Gods!" She screamed as her back arched off the floor. "The baby, it's coming!" She squeezed Cougar's hand to the point that Cougar grimaced.

"Where the fuck is the ambulance?" O'Riely asked in a low voice so that Ransom couldn't hear.

"I hope ta Gods they hurry, 'cuz I only know about birthin animals." She pushed Ransom's legs up so that her knees were bent and apart enough for her to see. "Shit, this is

gonna be a fast one." She mumbled.

"Hold on Raven, I'm gonna go get some blankets from one of the cruisers and I'l check on the ambulance.

"Cougar I need you to time her contractions." She said with more seriousness than Cougar had ever heard from her.

"I hope for your sake you know what you're doing down there and stop looking at my wives…you know what!" Her eyes were a flinty color as she driled them into Raven's

unbelieving green eyes.

"Cougar, how am I supposed to deliver your baby if I can't look?"

"Wil you two….AAAHH…stop it!" Ransom bore down and gripped Cougar's hand in a death grip! "Goddamnsonuvabitch! I hate you Cougar!" She yeled as another

contraction came.

"Breath Baby."

"I'd rather kick your ass!" She growled at her wife.

Ransom gripped Cougar's thighs and pushed herself into a half reclining position. Digging her heels in to the floor, she pushed as another contraction tore through her body.

"Cut your dick off Animal!" Cougar's eyes grew large at the threat that came from Ransom's mouth.

Raven looked up at Cougar with a wide grin on her face; she wiggled her eyebrows at her. "OK, Ransom I want you to bare down on the next one." She didn't finish what she

was about to say as O'Riely came back with blankets and a pair of surgical gloves. She puled the gloves over Raven's hands and helped her spread the blanket out beneath

Ransom's hips.

"The ambulance is stuck a block away. Their trying to get the traffic outta the way so they can get here. So until then, you're it."

Raven's mouth dropped open. "Shit!"

"RAVEN!" Cougar yeled at her.

"Oohh yeah. Push Ransom, as hard as you can." She leaned forward, braced one of Ransom's legs with her one hand, and felt for the baby's movement with the other. "That's

it! I can see the head."

Sweat was pouring down Ransom's face; she had a death grip on Cougar's thighs and was panting in-between contractions. Cougar had her arms wrapped around her. She

would help her lean forward with each contraction.

"Come on Baby you can do it." She placed a kiss on her temple. "I love you Baby."

"You're gonna pay Animal!" She growled as another contraction tore through her body.

"One more Ransom and the shoulders are out." Raven said from where she was kneeling.

O'Riely placed a hand on Ransom's stomach and put a smal amount of pressure on her. "You're doing good." She said with a bright smile.

Ransom started to tense up, her fingers dug into Cougar's thighs. She let out a loud scream as the baby's shoulders slid out.

Raven held the baby's head in her hands; she looked up at Ransom's straining face. "That's it Ransom! One more smal push and you're al done!"

"I can't, I'm too tired." Ransom cried as she fel back against Cougar's chest.

Cougar kissed her head and whispered to her. "One more baby, just one more and you're done."

"Come on Ransom, we'l help you." O'Riely said as she placed gentle pressure on Ransom's bely above where the baby was.

Ransom leaned up and gave one more exhausting push, she cried out as the baby slipped free of her body. Raven held the baby out to O'Riely who was holding a blanket in

her arms. She wiped the baby's face with a corner of the blanket and watched as a smal mouth opened and let out a scream.

"Damn Ransom, she sounds just like you." O'Riely said as she placed the baby in Ransom's arms. Tears streamed down Cougar's face at the sight of their daughter. She

pushed the edge of the blanket back to see dark hair peeking through.

"Animal she has dark hair like you." Ransom said as she leaned her head back against her wives chest.

"She's beautiful Baby." Cougar cried as she rested her head on top of Ransom's.

"Wel you guys, we're gonna go see if we can get the ambulance here before the baby goes to colege." Raven said as she crawled towards the door. "We'l be back."

Cougar hugged Ransom to her, tears flowed freely down both of their faces as they looked at the smal bundle in Ransom's arms. She took one of the smal hands in hers and

was amazed at the tiny little fingernails.

"Her fingers are so little." She whispered into Ransom's ear. "I love you Baby. I can't believe you did this."

"We did it Animal, she's both of us."

Cougar turned her head when she heard male voices coming closer to them. Then she heard Raven and O'Riely warning them if they hurt Ransom, they would need their own

ambulance for transport.

Once they had Ransom and the baby in the ambulance, it only took one steely glare from Cougar and a puled Sig from Raven to get the paramedic to let Cougar go with her

wife.

As Raven and O'Riely stood watching the ambulance pul away, their Captain showed up out of breath.

"How's Ransom and Cougar?" She asked trying to catch her breath.

"The proud parents are doing fine." O'Riely replied with a huge grin.

"She had the baby? Here?"

"Yep, in the wrecked van. It's a little squirmy slimy bugger." Raven said with a smirk.

"You're such a dipshit." O'Riely said as she smacked her in the head. "She had the baby and what's shocking is dipshit here delivered her!"

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Cougar sat with her head resting on the edge of Ransom's hospital bed, it took Sarah an hour to get her to let a doctor suture the gash above her eyebrow and to remove the

piece of metal from her thigh. Then it was by making bodily threats. Now completely exhausted she slept holding Ransom's hand in hers. Ransom was stil unconscious from

when the doctors had put her under to suture her where she had tore during birth and the other cuts she had received during the accident. Their daughter was in the neonatal

ward, even though she was early she was strong and healthy and doing fine. The nurses were amazed at the voracious appetite the little thing had.

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Ransom woke hours later to find Cougar stil asleep with her head resting on the edge of the bed. She ran her fingers through her dark hair and noticed that it was stuck

together at her temple. She then noticed the bandage above her eyebrow and the seepage of blood coming through.

"Animal?" She whispered so as not to give her a heart attack. "Time to wake up Cougar." She heard a low moan and then bloodshot blue eyes peek open to look at her. A

smal smile came to Cougar's lips when she saw green eyes looking down at her.

"Hi Baby, how do you feel?"

Ransom groaned deep in her chest. "Ever had a very big dildo stuck up your…you know?"

She chuckled at the look on Ransom's face. "Uuhhmm…no Baby, but I get the point. Other than that?"

"I'm hungry." She whined.

"It's been what five hours since you had half a cow for supper?"

"Hey I used a lot of calories giving birth." She ran her fingertips across Cougar's lips. "Have you seen our baby yet?"

"Nope, wanted to wait for you." She leaned up and placed a soft kiss on her wives lips. "I love you Baby."

"I love you to Animal. Can we go see our baby now?"

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Ransom was sitting in a rocker in the natal ward, Cougar was sitting at her feet while Ransom breastfeed their baby. A fiery warmth wrapped itself around Cougar's heart as

she watched tiny fingers flex as Paula nursed. She stil couldn't believe that they had a baby, reaching up she traced her finger across the little hospital bracelet that read Paula

Justice Jacolby. Ransom was caling her PJ but Cougar insisted on caling her Critter. Getting to her knees, she leaned so that she had her head resting in her wives lap.

"Love you Baby." She whispered as she wrapped her arms around Ransom's thighs.

"Hey sis, how's it feel to have two babies?" Sarah asked from the doorway.

"One baby and one toddler." She snickered when Cougar bit her thigh. "I'm stil tired from everything but I feel great." Tilting her head to the side to see around her sister, she

gasped as an older woman looked over Sarah's shoulder.

"Ma?" Tears filed her green eyes as her mother walked in to the room.

"Ransom, she's beautiful." Mrs. Rourke remarked as she puled the blanket down to see Paula. "I know it's been a very long time since we've spoken or even seen one another.

When Sarah caled to tel me that you had given birth, I had to come and see the two of you."

Ransom wiped the tears from her eyes, running her hand down Cougar's back, she introduced her to her mother.

"Ma, this is my wife Cougar Jacolby. Cougar this is Ma, don't cal her Mrs. Rourke unless you want a kick in your ass.

Mrs. Rourke grinned at Cougar and her daughter. "So this is the woman who stole my Ransom's heart."

Cougar stood to her ful height, when she did this Mrs. Rourke had to look up at her.

"I feel like a dwarf!" She said as she gave Cougar the once over. "Can I hold my granddaughter?"

"Sure Ma, her names Paula."

"Critter!"

"Animal, when she's old enough and outside playing are you gonna yel, Come here Critter?"

"Better than here kitty kitty."

Mrs. Rourke snorted and roled her eyes at them. "Sure can tel you're married."

"You should see them at work! Some times I need a playpen in the center of the office." Sarah remarked.

Mrs. Rourke down at her granddaughter and smiled. Running her fingers through the sparse dark hair, she was surprised to see little greenish eyes blinking up at her. "Ransom,

she has your eyes and nose." She looked then to Cougar. "But she has Cougar's hair color and chin. Cougar was a male family member a donor?"

"No ma'am. My DNA was injected into one of Ransom's eggs."

"Realy? You mean that in a way you're the daddy?"

Cougar chuckled. "I guess you can say that, I never realy thought of it that way before."

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A week went by with Paula having to stay in the hospital, even though she was born early her weight gain alowed the doctors to release her early. For someone who had never

been around children before, Cougar and Paula were inseparable. Ransom came in to the living room to find them asleep on the couch. Paula was on her back with Cougar's

hand laying across her stomach holding her in place. This was a side of Cougar that only Ransom saw, she is a tough bitch at work but if the others could see her like this, they

would quickly change their minds. Sitting on the edge of the couch, she ran her fingers down the high cheekbones. She would never get over the fact that she was married to

this beautiful woman. With just one look from crystal blue eyes, her whole body would tingle. She caught a pair of green eyes gazing at her; she winked at her daughter and

tried to hold back a chuckle when a tiny tongue slipped past pink lips. Tiny-fisted hands beat at the air as she struggled against the large hand holding her.

"Are you hungry?" Ransom whispered so not to wake Cougar.

"You're kidding right?" A deep gravely voice came from Paula. "I wanna T-Bone and baked potato with lotsa sour cream."

A huge smile came over Ransom's face, her eyes crinkled along with the sides of her nose. "Sounds more like what your Ma wants?"

"Nah, she likes breast milk." Cougar couldn't hold back the laugh when Ransom smacked her in the shoulder. "Can't blame me for trying."

"No, I can't." She dropped a soft kiss on her wives lips. "But I'l make the T-Bone for you since the Critter doesn't have any teeth to chew with. Unless you want to chew for

her and do the mama bird thing?"

With raised eyebrows, she thought for a second. "Uuhmm…no thanks."

"OK, foods on the table. Go wash up and I'l put the Critter in her bassinet."

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Ransom was putting the dishes in the dishwasher when Raven and O'Riely came sneaking into the kitchen. Cougar looked up from where she was watching their daughter

sleep.

"Guy's, good news and bad news." O'Riely whispered.

Cougar's eyes narrowed at their partners, she looked over her shoulder where Ransom was wiping her hands on a towel.

"OK, what is it?" Ransom asked with a pale face.

"Bad news is that crazy bitch escaped the hospital, good news is she'l never do it again."

Cougar gave a death glare. "Stop beating around the bush, what happened?"

Raven dropped into a chair and braced her chin on folded hands. "I kinda shot her in the head by mistake." She grinned at Cougar. "I told her to duck."

O'Riely smacked her in the head. "Did not. You said 'Stop! Daffy Duck!' Then shot her."

"Wel, the word duck was in there. Anyway, you guy's don't have to worry about anything anymore. That is until Critter starts dating."

The new parents looked at each other and groaned at what they had to look forward to in the years to come.

Cougar's brows rose to her hairline. "EEEWWW DATING!"

"Worse Animal. DATING BOYS!"

Raven looked to O'Riely and grinned. "Maybe not."

The End

Baby makes three

By Larisa

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The Athenaeum's Scroll Archive

~ Cougar's Ransom ~

by Larisa

Disclaimer: Alt/original. Yeah, yeah I know who they look like, but they're al mine. Sex/violence/bad

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Cougar's Ransom

By Larisa

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Muzzle flashes lit up the dark aley as shots voleyed from end to end. The noise was deafening, the flashes stealing everyone's night vision. Dark forms ran in a crouch to take

cover behind dumpsters and trashcans. Garbage littered the ground and gave off a horrible stench, made even worse from the rain earlier that night. A deep voice caled a

cease-fire. Al was quiet except for the sudden burst of static over the radio attached to someone's Kevlar vest. A spotlight lit up the back of the aley to soon be folowed by

the flashing red and blue strobes from a police cruiser. The lights bounced off the wet pavement giving the entire area an eerie glow.

A tal, dark-clad figure walked towards the back of the aley looking at the prone forms lying on the ground; some moaned some did nothing but stare blankly up into the dark,

star less sky.

"Al right guys get this trash off my street. Al weapons go to balistics. Jackson, check their car for whatever they stashed in the trunk before we got here."

"Gotcha, Sarge," Jackson, the only female narcotics officer on the crew walked towards the black Lincoln. She rounded the driver's side and puled the keys from the ignition.

She searched the back seat and found an assortment of weapons on the floor. Her next stop was the trunk where the Sarge thought the drug dealers had put the 10 kilos of

coke that they had picked up at the docks earlier. The Sergeant had a bad feeling al of a sudden. She puled her 9mm from her shoulder holster and yeled, "Jackson,

NOOOO!" Everything moved in slow motion as she ran towards where Jackson had just released the trunk lid. A loud blast shattered the stil air. Jackson was thrown

backwards, landing 4 feet away from the car. Four shots rang out, puncturing the rear fender, and another two as the Sergeant launched her 6-foot body diagonaly towards

where Jackson had landed. The rest of the officers ran towards the shots. With weapons drawn, they stopped to see their Sarge pul Jackson into her arms. She puled

Jackson's Kevlar vest away from her chest to find her T-shirt covered in blood.

"You're gonna be al right, Paula. Where the fuck's the ambulance!?!" Jacolby yeled at no one in particular. She was pressing on Jackson's throat trying to stop her from

bleeding out when she heard the sirens coming.

"CJ, I'm sorry," Paula whispered.

"It wasn't your fault, you're gonna make it, do you hear me?"

Paula reached up a hand to pul CJ's face closer. She pressed their lips together in a soft kiss. "I love you, CJ." Her hand fel away and the light faded from her eyes as her

body went slack. CJ puled her tightly to her chest and screamed her rage into the night.

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6 Months later.

Sgt. Jacolby, better known as CJ by the DC Police Narcotics Force, wandered into the Captain's office. Dropping into the chair across from his desk, she pushed her long,

greasy, black hair out of her bloodshot eyes. Dark circles and bags marred her features around her eyes. She had dropped so much weight in the last six months that her

clothes hung on her. Her once beautiful face was pale; her high cheekbones gave her a cadaverous look. She gave the Captain a glare with her ice blue, souless eyes.

"You wanted to see me?"

He stood up behind his desk, running his hands over his face; she could hear his whiskers scrap on his palms.

"CJ, it's not working." He turned to face her. Leaning onto the edge of his desk with his hands, he looked at her with concerned brown eyes. "I've transferred you to Vice,

you'l be reporting to Capt. Rourke."

She shot up out of the chair so fast that it slammed backwards into the wal.

"This is fucking bulshit!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "I've been on the force 15 years and 10 of those I've worked Narcotics! And now because I'm having a rough

time of it, you're transferring me! Wel FUCK YOU!!!" She punched her fist through the wal of his office, kicked his desk and threw the chair she had been sitting in through

the glass window of his door. The entire time he stood back behind his desk waiting for her to finish.

"I know what Jackson meant to you, it was no secret around here, but you can't just stop living because of it."

"What the Hel do you know about losing someone!?! You weren't there; I held her in my arms and watched her blood pour through my fingers! And now you're getting rid of

me when al I want to do is get the assholes that caused this!"

"Jacolby! The guys refuse to work with you. You're a loose cannon out there for God's sake!"

She had calmed down but now paced back and forth in front of his desk. "Now what? I'm supposed to chase pimps and johns?" Slapping her hands down on his desk, she

glared at him. "And toss slags in the can?"

"It's either that or you ride a desk until you or I retire. It's your choice."

"God damn fucking shit!" She threw her head back and took a deep breath. "When do I have ta be there?"

"Tomorrow afternoon at 3pm. I'l let her know that you'l be there."

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Capt. J. Rourke hung up her phone after talking to the narcotics Capt. She had no idea why the Hel she had agreed to take Sgt. Jacolby into her vice unit. "Just what I fucking

need! A damn cop on self-destruct mode!" She left her office to hold the shift briefing, she was going to have to break the bad news to the rest of the vice squad and see if she

couldn't bribe one of them to be her partner. The gods know that none of them wanted to be partnered with her down in narcotics.

Rourke stood in the center of the room and waited until everyone shut up. At 5 foot 8 and 125 lb., she didn't look like much but most of them had found out that if you pissed

her off she could kick your ass al over the briefing room and not even break a sweat. She ruffled her spiked, blond hair with one hand and slapped the briefing sheets on her

thigh with the other.

"Al right guys, I got some news for ya." She walked over to one of the chairs, putting her foot on the seat she rested on arm across her knee and looked out at everyone from

under her dark brows. "Now this was not my idea! It came from up top and I had no say so in the matter. I'm sure you al know Sgt. C. Jacolby from Narc Squad." She

watched as they either blew out their breaths through gritted teeth or covered their eyes with their hands before she continued.

"As of tomorrow she wil be here with us."

"Ahh Capt. What the Hel did we do wrong?" one of the guys whined.

"Now listen, she's got 15 years on the force, she's a seasoned cop with more busts than any other cop in this precinct."

"And she's a dyke!"

"Shut your damn mouth, Pete, or I'l knock your head off!" Her green eyes shot bolts at him.

"Sorry Capt." He slunk down in his chair. Rourke puled her long, blond hair off of her shoulders and flipped it behind her. "She's had a rough time since she lost her partner, so

no bulshit!"

Pete opened his mouth again and made a comment about what kind of partners they actualy were. Rourke ignored him; she had her ways of revenge and he just made his

way to the top of her shit list.

Dupont Circle, Washington DC

CJ sat at the bar in one of the gay clubs in Dupont circle. She had been drinking ever since she left the station house that morning, at one point she was stone cold sober after

she drank her way there. Now she was feeling absolutely no pain whatsoever. She kept watching in the mirror behind her for a familiar face to walk past. But it only came in

her dreams. That's why she started drinking so much after Paula died. It was the only way she could sleep and not have the dreams of their time together to the very painful

end.

She got up from her stool and stumbled out the door; she had walked from her apartment for the simple fact that she was a cop and obeyed the law of the road. She now

stumbled up 14th St. where al the prostitutes hung out in doorways and street corners. As she passed them, they did cat cals and made promises of a night she would

remember. She passed them al by. Just as she went around the corner, she hit an uneven edge of the sidewalk and went down on one knee. She felt a hand at her elbow

helping her up. Al she could see through her drunken haze were a pair of concerned green eyes.

But another pair of eyes were also watching her, and they were also green. They never let her get out of their sight until she made it to her apartment. Then the dark blue car

went on its way.

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The next morning CJ walked into the vice squad's briefing area, with her she carried a smal box that she had used to clean out her desk in narcotics. She looked pretty much

as she had the day before except worse. If they hadn't known she was a cop they would have locked her up for vagrancy. Heading right towards Capt. Rourke's office, she

pretended that she was alone and that no one was starring at her.

Capt. Rourke had seen her come through the main doors and couldn't believe that it was the same woman from 6 months ago. She remembered her as being beautiful, with

long silky black hair, crystal-blue eyes and a very muscular body. Now there was nothing but an inner death.

Son of bitchin' assholes! Rourke thought to herself. "They have got to be blind! Can't they see she's trying to kil herself?" She was mumbling when CJ came through her door

and sat down. Rourke looked up from her desk to see pale blue bloodshot eyes watching her.

"Sgt. Jacolby, I'm glad you could make it." She walked around to stand in between CJ and her desk. "I know you don't want to be here but I'm glad you're going to be on my

team."

CJ was impressed. No one had ever wanted to get that close to her and if they did, they made damn sure that they had an escape route directly behind them to run to. Lets

play good cop bad cop! CJ thought to herself as she stood up and towered over Rourke. Glaring down at her with her best 'fuck you look', she growled, "just tel me where

my desk is!"

Rourke loved power games, if she didn't end the game here, CJ would walk al over the place. She moved so that she was toe-to-toe and looking right up into CJ's cloudy

eyes. "No more drinking on the job and clean yourself up! You look like shit." Her green eyes were on fire, singeing CJ where she stood. "Far corner near the door, its empty.

And don't bite anyone out there, I know they're al assholes but they're my assholes."

A lopsided grin came to CJ's face. "You're a fucking bitch ya know that?"

"And so are you, so we're even." She grinned back at her. "I'l have a partner for you later on."

"How much?" CJ asked with curiosity of what kind of bribe the Capt. would have to give out.

"Major surgery if I don't get what I want. I keep a rusty pocket knife around just for castrations." She held out her hand and waited for CJ to take it. "Either we shake or I bust

your knee caps, your choice?"

"You know what, Rourke? I think we're gonna get along just fine."

They shook hands; Rourke watched every one scatter the minute CJ left her office. She noticed heads looking sideways into her office. "Stupid spineless shitheads," she

mumbled under her breath as she walked out of her office. "What the fuck is your problem? Get to work before I get pissed!" Before she made it back in her office, she

noticed that the desk joining CJ's was empty. "Where the Hel is Justice?"

A low whisper came from the wimp of vice squad. "Capt. Ma'am, Justice caled." She spun on her heel to glare at him. "Running late!" he rushed out.

"Son of a bitch! CJ, your partner's running late as usual." Rourke looked over to see her putting her few things in the desk drawer. "Justice wil be at the command van on 14th

St. at 4 o'clock. She's the package. Delany and Hawkins wil be your back-up." She gave the two officers across from her the death look. "They WILL explain the operation

to you when you get there."

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Justice rushed around her smal apartment above the local deli in Georgetown. Once again she had kiled her alarm clock with a vicious toss across the room while she was stil

half-asleep. She hated having to get up early and go in for briefing. But the general population didn't think that 3pm was early. Let them work all night and half of the

morning and see if they want to get up and do it all over again, she thought. "Shit, where the Hel are my damn shoes?" She crawled around on her hands and knees

looking under the sparse furnishings that she owned. After finding her shoes under the couch, she looked down at her black fish net stockings and saw al the long, creamcolored hair stuck to them. "Damn it, Zeus! I'm gonna shave your hairy ass!" Her Himalayan cat looked at her with one ice blue eye and went back to sleeping on her clean

clothes in the laundry basket. Grabbing up what she caled her 'ho' purse, she ran out the door with her high heels in her hand.

Flagging down a DC Flyer cab she gave him the address, which with one look at her waist-length, curly red hair and slutty clothes was unneeded. She might as wel put a sign

on herself saying 'Prostitute'. She looked at the gaudy watch on her wrist to see that she was 35 minutes late; the guys were going to bitch a blue streak. "What the Hel would

be new?" she mumbled to herself.

"Ma'am? Did you say something?"

"Naw, just talking to myself."

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CJ walked up to the command van that was sitting out of sight in a dark aley. A flashback of that night slammed into her chest, she could barely breathe. "Shit, come on CJ it's

over and done with," she mumbled to herself. She took a deep breath, opened the side door of the van and crawled in. Hawkins was sitting on a short stool in front of the

surveilance center. She was amazed that he fit in the van! He had to be 5 inches taler than her own 6ft frame and outweighed her by 75 lb.! His skin so black that it showed

blue and his close-cropped hair peppered with gray. When he took a quick look up at her she noticed that his eyes were a hazel color and very warm. She reached out a hand

and introduced herself to him. She felt like her hand was swalowed up by his huge paw.

"So what do we do here?" she asked.

"Ohh, we got the easy part, but you get the fun part!"

She didn't know what their idea of fun was but what did she have to lose? "OK and what kind of fun is that?"

"Me and Delany," pointing to the smal thin cop sitting in the driver's seat of the van ignoring her completely like she was a victim of the plague, "keep in contact with Justice as

soon as her skinny ass gets here. She's the package that you get to folow to the motel. We have a room that is set up with the whole 9 yards, cameras, audio and you." He

reached over on the smal desk and handed her an earpiece and receiver. "As soon as you hear the code word 'Princess', you rush the room and bag the John; there's 2 cops in

the room right next door that wil help you. They actualy do al the paperwork and take the guy in."

She cracked her knuckles and gave him a leer. "Let me see if I got this right. I'm more or less her pimp. I cuff the asshole, leave him there and bring Princess Justice back here

to stand on the corner and pick up another John?"

Both officers looked at her in total amazement.

"Damn you're good!" Hawkins remarked.

"I have many skils." She winked at him. "So where is she and how do I know which one she is?" She looked at the monitor that showed the corner with a guess of seven

whores standing on it.

"Sorry guys," a rich contralto came over the speakers.

"About damn time, Justice! I thought I was gonna have to put my pumps and wig on!"

Justice laughed. "Hawk baby, we're not busting anything that would pick you up! He'd go right to the mental ward!"

"I may not be Rupaul, but I look damn good in stilettos."

"More like Dennis Rodman!" Delany tossed in from the front seat. CJ was starting to think this might not be so bad after al. These officers seemed to get along real wel.

"OK, I hear her but I don't see her."

"Sorry Sarge, she's the realy short one with the long, red hair."

"I heard that! I am not short! You're just too damn tal!" Justice was wondering who the other voice belonged to that she kept hearing in the background. She could listen to

that voice al night long, deep and rich. Mental slap! Mind on your job not job on your mind. Gods it's been too long since I got laid! Sweet, now I'm having a nice long

talk with myself. She took a deep breath and tried to calm her voice. "Who's my Daddy today?" she asked as she put a sexy strut in her walk.

"No Daddy today, Princess, you've got a Mamma."

She dropped her voice even lower. "Oohh, I like Mamma's too!"

"Yes Princess, we know, now get your ass out there and do some struttin'." Hawkins shook his head and peered up at CJ. "Don't mind her, she's harmless. Nope I take that

back; she's a marriage destroyer. The car you'l be using is a silver Lincoln sitting right down from Princess. She has the keys. "

Oh great! Not only does she do the dirty job but she actually lives it too! CJ thought to herself. She watched the little redhead strut her stuff on the corner amongst the

other whores. Her black leather mini rode up her thighs every time she bent over to look in a car window. CJ found herself wishing more cars would stop. "I'm going to go get

the keys and I'l pul the car around so that I can folow whichever way she goes."

"They always head in the same direction, to the motel room."

She shrugged her shoulders at Hawkins. "I trust no one."

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CJ put the earpiece in and slipped the receiver into her pocket. As she got closer to Justice she noticed that she was indeed short. Maybe five foot five if she was lucky. She

was leaning in a car window talking to a prospective John when CJ showed up.

"What are we talking about here price wise?" the John asked.

"That depends on what you want. A BJ is $25, straight is $50, and any kink is $70. I'm the best here at everything."

CJ felt flames rushing south just listening to her sales pitch. She would hand over her paycheck for a night with Justice. What the Hell am I thinking!?! She was about to slap

her self in the forehead for even thinking of sex when she heard Justice say that she would have to check with her Mamma.

"Mamma's right here, Baby." Justice turned her head to the side and looked at CJ. She thought. O hh great! Both a horny Congressman and a dyke are hitting me on at the

same time. CJ saw the look and knew that Justice didn't know who she was.

"I need the keys to our Lincoln. Rupaul needs some ribbed Trojans."

They both grinned; Hawkins was going nuts in the van. Justice was just glad that she had her earpiece turned down low. She told the John to wait a second. Looking through

her purse she puled the keys out, dangling them in front of CJ; she swung her hips for the John's benefit as she closed the distance between them. "Time to pul this one in," she

whispered to CJ. "Just play along with me."

Coming within an inch of CJ, Justice held the keys up to crystal blue eyes. CJ went to reach for the keys only to have them puled away. Justice had a wicked grin on her face.

Taking the tips of the keys, she ran them up the inside of CJ's thigh across her groin and up between her breasts. "See ya in a little bit," she whispered as she put the keys in

CJ's hand.

Hawkins muted the Mic and busted up laughing. "Did ya see what she did? The Princess is being bad today!"

"I think she's trying ta scare the Sarge, remember she doesn't know her."

"Ohh shit, Justice is playing with fire!"

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CJ started the Lincoln and puled into traffic, keeping her eye on the car that Justice was in. She puled into one of the aleys and waited for the car to pass, then mixed in with

the rest of the cars but keeping them in sight. The whole way she was fighting with her body; she was shocked that she was so close to losing control over just having Justice

play with her like she did. Her thoughts ran to the last time she had spent in the arms of her lover and partner, Paula. They had just finished making love when they were paged

about the drug takedown. It was supposed to be another bust just like any other time. In a matter of seconds, her whole life was gone. She almost missed the car turning into

the shady motel because her mind was running over that night and the rage was building back up in her. She puled the car off to the side and waited until Justice and the John

went into the room. Getting out, she stood right in front of the door and waited for the code word. She listened to every word that was said. She was getting ready to run for it

because the John had decided that he didn't want to pay the ful price for a blowjob, and was teling Justice to forget about it. She heard the guy moan and then Justice said,

"the Princess ransom." CJ pushed the door open and found the John with his pants around his ankles and his dick hanging out. Justice was putting the money in an envelope

and grinning at CJ.

"Hi Mamma, come to play?"

"Yep, threesomes are my specialty." She gave Justice a lecherous grin. The John's hard on was short lived when he saw the flash of a badge and his hands were cuffed behind

his back. Justice pounded on the wal to the room next door to let them know she was done.

"There wil be some nice guys that come in here and read you your rights. But right now I have to go take care of the Princess." She looked over his shoulder and saw that

what she had said brought back his hard on. "The guys next door are both homosexuals," she whispered.

She found Justice standing outside the door laughing. "You are sooo bad!" she said as she tried to get a grip on her laughing. CJ walked close enough to grab her ass. She

looked over her shoulder at a pair of shocked green eyes.

"Pay backs Princess, are a bitch."

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They worked until Midnight puling the Johns in and arresting them. CJ had returned the Mic set-up to the van and watched as Justice got into a cab and left. She figured that

way she would look like any other working girl on the street. She would have to talk to the Capt. about the use of the Lincoln; the car was a piece of shit. If she had to chase

someone she would never be able to do it; the car was too big and it ran like it had a lawnmower engine under the hood. She checked her watch one more time and decided

that she would be able to make it to one of the bars and stil have time to get a good buzz before closing time. She was only a few blocks away from one of the biggest gay

bars around, so that's where she headed.

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The music was blasting; hundreds of gays and lesbians were crammed on every square inch of the place. People where even sitting on the railings on the second floor. CJ

pushed her way through the crowd to get to one of the six bars in the place. Catching the bartender's eye she ordered a double Jack Daniels. Two mouthfuls and it was gone.

She held the glass up to him for a refil. By closing time she had emptied a bottle of Jack al by herself. Stumbling through the doors, she headed back to where she had parked

her car earlier. She never saw the dark car folowing her the entire way. Getting her keys out she swayed on unsteady feet. Once her door was opened she fel into the seat and

passed out.

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The next afternoon, CJ was sitting in her own car, which was a late model Mustang, watching Justice do her magic on the johns. So far they had gotten three and it looked like

it was gonna be one busy night. She looked away for a few seconds too long; the john had a hold of Justice and was trying to pul her through the passenger-side window. He

punched her in the face once, trying to knock her out so that she wouldn't struggle. CJ flung her door open, making a sliding jump over the guy's hood. She landed on the

pavement and in one movement had him by his throat and out of the car. She slammed him down on the ground and kept punching him in his face. She was about to pick him

up when she felt smal hands grab her by her biceps.

"CJ, STOP! You're kiling him!" Justice screamed at her. "CJ let go of him." CJ looked into worried green eyes. Justice froze. What she saw in CJ's blue eyes was nothing less

than an insane rage. She lowered her voice. Please CJ let him go. Hawkins and Delany wil take care of him, I promise." Before she could get CJ out of there, a patrol car

came over.

The officers had them sitting in the back of the squad car until they could clear who they were through headquarters. However, to make it look believable and not blow their

cover they were arrested. But they would have to wait until the ambulance got there and took away CJ's punching bag. Justice looked over at CJ, then to where she was

looking down at her swolen and bloody hands. Justice took her hands in her own and looked at them. "You have some boxer's fractures; your hands are going to hurt like Hel

in the morning. I want to thank you for what you did." She looked up into troubled blue eyes. "I've never had that happen before, I was caught off guard." Justice stopped

speaking when she noticed the tears weling in CJ's eyes. Puling her into her arms, she held her as she sobbed. She was stil crying when the officer got in the car.

"Get us the Hel outta here, now!" Justice growled.

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Justice put CJ in her car and ran inside to tel the Capt. that she was taking CJ home and taking the rest of the day off as wel.

"I want a ful report from both of you tomorrow!"

"Don't worry, you'l get it." She was just about out of the Capt.'s office when she turned back. "Oh, Sarah, can you get the guys and CJ's car in? We left them out there in the

van. Here are her keys."

"You're lucky I love you, otherwise I'd kick your ass for using my first name!" Justice blew her a kiss before she went back out the door.

When she got back in her car she saw that CJ was sleeping. Her features showed no stress; the worry lines smooth along her brow and mouth. She looked so peaceful for

once. Instead of waking her she decided to cal the office and find out her address.

She puled up in front of CJ's apartment building. Shaking her by the shoulder she watched as swolen blue eyes looked at her with confusion.

"This is where you live isn't it?"

"Uuhhmm yeah, it is. How'd you know?"

"I caled the office from my cel phone. Are you going to be al right?"

Tears started forming in her eyes. "I'l be OK, thanks." She reached out her hand to run her fingers over the bruise on Justice's chin and jaw. "How do you feel?"

"I'l survive nothing a little cover up won't take care of."

CJ got out of the car, leaning back in she told Justice that she was sorry she broke down and thanked her for bringing her home.

"I'l pick you up tomorrow for work, I had your car taken to the station."

"OK, I'l be waiting." Justice watched as she went into her building.

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CJ stripped out of her clothes. Dropping them onto the living floor, she went into the kitchen for a glass and the last bottle of Jack Daniels she had in her apartment. Pushing

stuff off the couch onto the floor, she laid down. Balancing the glass on her chest she filed it halfway, slammed it, and then refiled it again. She was drifting off to sleep when

the memory of Justice ran through her head. She knew every little facial expression she had after just a short time being around her. She swore she could stil smel her perfume

on her skin from where she had rested her head against her breast. Sleep claimed her and took her to relive Hel.

CJ woke to the sound of a car horn blowing outside the apartment building. Struggling to get up, she tripped over the empty bottle and slammed her foot into the end of the

couch. The words that came out of her mouth could have set fire to the place if possible. She pushed the curtain back from the window and saw Justice in her car below.

Sliding the sash up, she stood completely naked in the window.

"HEY! I'l be right down!"

Justice almost fel over in her seat when she looked up and saw CJ flashing her and anyone else in the area.

"No modesty there! Damn crazy woman." With just one look, a heat burned between her legs, her heart pounded in her chest and she would do anything to be able to touch

that body; other than the smal frequent touches that she did out of habit. "Shit! I'm in big trouble here. And she's such a filthy little pig but I stil find her beautiful." She sat back

in her seat with a sigh. "I wonder what she looks like cleaned up?"

CJ gave out a huge laugh; she knew that she had just given Justice a good shock. "Set a fire burning in her bely like she does to me every time she smiles."

They spent another day on the street, but this time CJ did not sit in her car and watch. She stood right behind Justice like a pit bul guarding her pup. No way in Hel was she

going to let what happened the day before happen again. She would have to run like Hel to get to her car so that she could folow them but she felt that it was a smal sacrifice

to make just to keep her partner safe. She watched as a car stopped in front of Justice. She swung her hips as she walked over to the car. Bending through the window at the

waist made her black, spandex mini slide up her thighs and show the black, silk French-cut panties underneath. CJ let out a low moan, she knew that Justice and the guys could

hear her but she didn't give a damn. This was pure torture watching Justice move like a cat in heat. What made matters worse was the shirt or lack of a ful shirt she was

wearing over her black bra. It was a dark green fishnet with holes large enough that gold fish could swim through it. It covered absolutely nothing, and Justice made sure that

CJ knew this every second. She had developed a habit of turning to CJ and adjusting her bra, or the worst part was when she would lick her lips before saying something to

her. She kept CJ in a state of arousal the entire time they were working. She was thinking wicked thoughts about the tight rear that was swinging from side to side in front of

her when she heard the john getting mouthy with Justice. Al it took was CJ walking towards the car and he shut up and left.

"CJ! I could have handled him!"

"I'm not taking any chances on you getting hurt again. It's not worth getting one asshole off the street." The emotions that Justice saw in CJ's eyes warmed her. No one had

ever cared this much for her welfare while she was working the streets. She just wished it went the same way off of the job as wel. She knew how she felt but CJ was a

mystery; she changed from minute to minute. But at this minute from the flushed color of her cheeks and the sweat trickling down her temples, she knew that she was highly

aroused. She could pick up the soft scent of musk whenever she got close to her. She herself was not any better off. Just knowing that CJ was watching her made her lower

regions throb. She was so tempted to send the crew back to the station and make use of the motel room with her tal dark partner. But Sarah would kick her ass and that's the

only reason why she didn't do it.

It was late and the action had dried up to nothing, so CJ decided to cal it quits and make an early night of it. Her team agreed with her. She made sure that Justice got a cab

home and she headed off to the nearest bar to drown her old sorrows and her developing feelings for her partner.

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Justice had her stereo blasting, dancing around her kitchen with a mop in her hands. It had been a while since she had realy cleaned her apartment and since she was done with

work early, it was the perfect time to do it. She hated dirt and even worse clutter that was one of the reasons she had so little as far as furniture went. Once the floor was done

she grabbed a Coke, her paperback she had been trying to read and laid on her couch with her cat, Zeus.

CJ sat at a back table in the local bar. She had a number of empty beer bottles and shot glasses on the table in front of her. She figured that she stil had 4 hours to drink

before she would be kicked out at closing time. Then she remembered that the club Tracks stayed open longer. She tossed some bils on the table and half stumbled out the

door.

20 minutes later she had sobered up with the walk from the other bar. Tracks was packed as usual but she didn't care, she would spend the rest of the night here and then

make her way home.

Two hours later she could hardly see where she was going as she made her way out the door. She stumbled al the way down the sidewalk. It was a replay of the last 7 months

of how she had become to function. By some kind of homing sense, she found her car to pass out in. The dark car puled up along side her Mustang. The person got out, took

the keys from the door lock and drove away.

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Rourke looked out into the briefing room, for once Justice was there and she was 20 minutes early. She was just about to start briefing when CJ came stumbling through the

door. Her shirt was soaked with sweat and her hair hung limply around her red face. Everyone turned to look at her and decided right there and then they would ignore her for

as long as she was in Vice. She was bent over at the knees and gasping for air.

"CJ, is there a problem?" Rourke asked.

"Lost... my... car keys...had to... run... here."

Rourke looked at her. "Better get yourself a spare set."

Justice walked up to her and wrinkled her nose. "Are you going to survive?" Blue eyes gazed up into green, her heart stopped and slammed into her feet. She hadn't noticed the

day before that her eyes were such a beautiful green. "Uhhmmm.... Yeah...catch breath." Justice nodded to her then walked over to the Capt. "Can I speak to you?"

"Sure come on in my office." Justice closed the door and leaned up against it. "The only way I'm working with her is if I can take her home and clean her up! She reeks of

bourbon and sweat."

Rourke smiled at Justice. Dropping into her chair, she puled out her top drawer and tossed her a set of car keys.

"What are these?"

"CJ's car keys. I found her passed out in her car at 2am with the door hanging open and the keys hanging out of the lock."

"And what were you doing out at 2am?"

Two sets of green eyes made contact and held. Rourke broke the contact first. "I was at TRACKS and left at the same time CJ did. OK?"

"Hey, I'm not your keeper, I was just curious is al. I'l bring her back as soon as I get her cleaned up and I won't tel her that you took her keys."

"Thanks, if she asks tel her patrol turned them in. And I'l give Delany and Hawkins something else to do until you two get back."

Justice grabbed CJ by her hand and dragged her out of the room.

"What the Hel are you doing and where the Hel are you taking me!?!"

Justice swung her around by her arm and shoved her up against the wal. Pushing her hand against her chest she came up on her toes so that she was taler. Green eyes filed

with fire and disgust driled into her. "I'm taking you home so you can get cleaned up. I REFUSE to be in a car with you al day when you reek like a bottle of bourbon. So just

shut the fuck up and get your ass moving!"

CJ was in shock. Never had anyone got in her face and yeled at her like Justice just did. In a way it was funny, Justice being so smal but bossy as Hel. She sure was sexy

when she was mad.

A lopsided grin covered CJ's face. "Wil you wash my back?"

"Yeah, with lye soap and a wire brush! Now move your grungy ass before I plant my foot in it!"

"I just love bossy women!" She stopped again and looked at Justice. "Yesterday you had very long flaming whore-red hair and today day it's short and blond, explain please?"

"CJ, I wear wigs."

"Oh OK, I like you better this way."

Justice raised her eyebrow and grinned at her. "Thanks."

Rourke had stood in the halway and watched the whole thing. She knew that CJ was in deep shit now. Once Justice sinks her teeth in, there is nothing that is gonna make her

let go. She knew personaly what those teeth felt like.

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Justice parked in front of CJ's apartment building. She got out and waited for CJ. Folowing her into the building, they took the stairs to the third floor. She folowed her to

apartment 33 and stood behind her as she looked at the door.

"OK, we're here." She turned to look at Justice. "But now how do we get in? Are you gonna slip under the door and unlock it?"

Justice slapped her in the shoulder. "Cute! How about I use your head and bust a hole in the door?" She puled CJ's keys from her 'ho' purse and opened the door.

"Hey, those are my keys! Where did you get them?"

"Sure are, patrol turned them in to the Capt. this morning. And you're not getting them back until you take a shower and put some clean clothes on!" She put her hand on CJ's

lower back and pushed her through the open door.

"Gods! This place is a pigsty! When is the last time you cleaned this place?"

CJ chuckled at the disgusted look on her partner's face. "I think it was December." She kicked a pair of filthy Levi's out of her way.

"You're a fucking slob! How can you live this way?" Justice looked at the 7-month colection of empty beer cans and Jack Daniels bottles laying al over the floor along with

filthy clothes, shoes and fast food containers.

CJ cocked her left eyebrow and gave Justice a lopsided grin. "Can you tel I'm not domesticated?"

Justice pushed a bottle out of her way so that she could close the door. "Wild animals aren't domesticated but they don't even live like this!" She moved further into the living

room and saw part of the kitchen. "EEWW! This place should be condemned!" Grabbing her hand she puled her in the direction that she thought was the bathroom; she

almost fel over at the sight of that room too. Ignoring the dirty clothes, she pushed CJ into the room. She planted her hands on her hips and gave CJ a dirty look. "STRIP

NOW!"

CJ's brows buried themselves in her greasy hairline. "You gonna watch?"

"If I have to! Now move it!"

CJ puled her filthy T-shirt over her head and dropped it to the floor, next were her shoes and that's when Justice noticed that she had no socks on. "Let me guess, you don't

have any clean clothes left."

"UUhhhmmm nope," she grinned at her. "I can't find the washer or dryer."

"You have one here in your apartment?"

"Yep, somewhere." She unbuttoned her Levi's and let them drop to puddle around her ankles. She just stood with a grin on her face as Justice gave her the once over.

"Do you know what a razor is?"

"Yep, but I can't find it. Surprise!"

Justice pushed past her to the shower and turned the water on. After a few minutes, she checked the temperature. "Now get in there and don't come out until you're clean!"

CJ gave her a sloppy salute and crawled into the shower. Standing under the hot water she felt al her aching muscles start to relax.

Justice was having fits! She plowed her way through the mess in the kitchen and found a box of huge leaf size garbage bags. She started in the living room picking up trash.

She was only part way and the bag was ful. Using another one she decided that the living room could wait a minute and she headed for the bathroom. Shoving al of the dirty

clothes into the bag she headed for the bedroom. If she had a match she would have just tossed it and slammed the door closed. The dresser drawers hung out with clothes

hanging over the edges; in fact, there wasn't an area that didn't have clothes hanging off of it. With the bag ful she started searching behind doors in the halway. "No wonder

you couldn't find the washer and dryer! You buried it with dirty clothes!" Puling the bag of clothes into the halway, she lifted the lid on the washer to find it empty. With a load

of wash started she headed back to the living room to get the rest of CJ's clothes. She checked her watch and decided to cal work and have both of them signed out for the

day.

"Sarah, have you ever been here?"

"Nope, why?"

"Can I have the place condemned?"

She went on to describe the condition of the apartment. When she hung up Sarah was stil laughing. An hour later she had the kitchen cleaned and part of the living room. One

load of wash was done and in the dryer and another one washing. She walked into the bathroom to check on CJ. What she found she didn't expect. CJ was sitting in the tub

sound asleep, a razor in her hand and the water stil running. Hitting the stopper on the tub, Justice let it fil. She sat on the edge of the tub behind CJ and puled her towards her

so that she could keep her from sliding down into the water. Puling a plastic cup off of the sink, she soaked the long, black hair. She was washing it for the third time when CJ

woke up.

"Do you do this for al your partners?" she asked with a deep, throaty purr that sent shivers right to Justice's toes.

"Nope, you're my first."

"A virgin, I feel so special." She started to moan deep in her chest from having her scalp scratched. "Gods that feels good. Keep that up and you'l be able to do anything you

want with me."

The thoughts that went through Justice's mind were scandalous.

"Justice? How long have I been in here?"

"About a hour and half. Do me a favor?"

"Keep that up and I'l marry you and give birth to your children."

Justice chuckled at the extremes that CJ would go through to have her hair washed. "You don't have to go that far."

"OK, then I'l marry you and you have the kids." Justice was beginning to think that CJ was serious.

"Would you cal me by my first name? Al I ever hear is my last one and it gets tiring."

"I would if I knew it."

"You don't know it?"

"Nope, the only thing that's in your file is the letter 'R' and Justice. I thought you were like me and didn't want anyone to know it."

"Ohh sorry, it's Ransom."

"You mean like 'holding me for a ransom'?"

"It was Dad's idea, you know how cops are."

"Your dad was a cop?"

She tilted CJ's head back so she could rinse the shampoo out of her hair. Blue eyes looked up at her sending tingling feelings right to her nether regions. "For 22 years before

he died of a heart attack."

CJ clasped her hand and brought it to her lips. Placing a soft kiss to her wrist, she said she was sorry about her dad.

Tears filed Ransom's eyes when she thought of her dad. "It's OK; he died at the place he loved the most, his desk." CJ turned in the tub and puled Ransom to her wet body,

holding her tight as a flood of tears were unleashed. They stayed that way for a while until Ransom puled a little away from her. "Lets get you out of here before you get

anymore wrinkles."

"I need to wash first, after sitting in that water I feel grungy." With a quick move she puled Ransom into the tub with her.

"What the Hel did you do that for?" she sputtered.

"You're gonna wash my back for me." The grin she had on her face was completely innocent on her part but it had a different effect on Ransom. If she wasn't already laying in

the tub, she would have falen in on her own from the grin.

"I'l wash your back but then I have to... shit."

"What?"

"Walk around with wet clothes on!" She slapped CJ in the shoulder.

"You could always walk around naked until your clothes dry."

"I think you just want to see me naked."

CJ gave her a wicked grin. "Could be?"

Two could play at this game, Ransom thought to herself. She washed CJ's back and teased the Hel out of her in the process. Just when she was putty in her hands she got

out of the tub, stripped right in front of her and left the bathroom.

CJ was in agony; she bit off a little more than she could chew this time. As soon as Ransom started shedding her clothes, CJ turned the water to cold. After she dried her hair

she came out of the bathroom. She didn't even recognize her apartment; it was cleaner than when she went into the bathroom.

"Ransom! What happened to my pigsty?" She walked into the kitchen and had to grab the doorframe to keep from faling. "I am stil in my apartment, right?"

"Yeah, looks different when you can actualy see the floor, huh?"

"You're cooking too?" She moved to that strange appliance that she had used for a storage area for her beer bottles. Then she noticed that Ransom had on a white dress shirt

and nothing else. She could see her muscular thighs and a whole lot more through the shirt. "Where did you get the shirt from?"

"It's yours; I washed some of your clothes."

CJ couldn't believe it, her apartment was cleaner than it was over 2 hours ago, her laundry was being done and now Ransom was cooking. She wrapped her arms around her

and placed a kiss on her neck. "I don't know what to say?" Squeezing her tight she kissed her neck again. "I'm going to marry you some day." Ransom stopped what she was

doing, looking back over her shoulder into smiling blue eyes. Her breath caught in her chest, there was a completely different woman standing before her. Turning in CJ's arms

she reached up to run her fingers through long, black silky hair. There was color in her cheeks now; her eyes no longer had that cloudy look from being drunk. Stil too thin for

her height but beautiful beyond words.

"Gods you're beautiful." Ransom's fingers trailed along CJ's high cheekbone down to her lips. She couldn't stop herself. She leaned up and kissed her softly. Just that one gentle

kiss made her knees weak. Laying her head on CJ's chest she noticed that she was feeling warm, naked skin.

"CJ? Look in the dryer and find something to put on before I make an ass out of myself."

"Just for you, but I get to pick what I put on." She gave her a wicked grin as she walked butt naked out of the kitchen.

She's gonna drive me nuts with lust! Ransom thought to herself. No that's not true, Gods could I actually be falling in love with her, she thought for a second. Too late,

I've hit hard! She smiled at her reflection in the kitchen window. Very hard!

CJ opened the dryer and puled out a pair of men's BVD briefs. She chuckled low in her chest at the look she was going to get from Ransom. For some reason she realy liked

that name. But she loved the woman it belonged to. I didn't just think that, did I? A warm feeling filed that cold dark hole in her soul that had been there for so long.

Suddenly she didn't have the urge or need to drink. She went into her bedroom and puled open a bottom drawer. Rummaging around she came out with five bottles of Jack

Daniels. Carrying them into the kitchen with her, she set them al down on the sink counter. Ransom turned from putting the hamburgers she had been cooking on two plates

when she heard the clink of bottles. Her eyes grew large when she saw CJ's bare back.

"Nice attire ya got there, CJ."

She turned and spread her arms out to her side. "Ya like?"

A bright blush covered Ransom's face; she gave her a lopsided grin. "Kind of revealing don't you think?"

"Actualy, I have on more than I usualy do."

Al Ransom could say was "Oh!" as she looked at CJ's firm breasts.

"Wanna help me?" CJ asked.

"That depends on what you need help with."

CJ held up one of the bottles of bourbon, unscrewed the top and started pouring it down the sink. "I don't need this stuff anymore." After they poured out the bourbon they

put the empty bottles in one of the garbage bags.

"Supper's done, so sit down and eat before it gets cold." Ransom watched CJ eat like a starving wolf; she wondered if she even chewed her food before she swalowed.

Ransom was the first to admit that she ate a lot but she never ate four hamburgers at one sitting plus French fries. Ransom got up to put the plates in the dishwasher that CJ

never seemed to have ever used before, considering she had filed it almost al the way up when she cleaned the kitchen. She put the last of the pans in and turned to find CJ

watching her. She approached CJ and wiped mustard off of her chin with her thumb. Before she could move away, CJ had puled her onto her lap so that she was straddling

her thighs, then she sucked the mustard from her thumb. Flames shot through her body to settle between her legs. After releasing her thumb CJ buried her face against her neck

and took a deep breath. Ransom tangled her fingers in the long, black hair and puled her head closer to her. CJ felt so safe and content to just sit with this gentle soul in her

arms.

"Wil you stay with me tonight?" CJ asked.

"Anything you want, it's yours."

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CJ carried Ransom to her bedroom. She stood holding her in her arms and began to laugh. "There's no sheets on the bed."

Ransom puled away from where she had her head resting on CJ's shoulder. "Do you have sheets?"

"Somewhere around here." She eased Ransom to her feet. "It's been 7 months since I've slept in here. I usualy sleep on the couch."

Ransom saw the pain fil CJ's eyes. "Do you want to talk about it? I'm a good listener." CJ became very distant as she just stood and looked at the bed; memories rushed

before her of a time long ago. She took a deep breath and let it whistle between her lips. She went out to the halway closet and found a package with a brand new set of blue

satin sheets in it. Ransom picked up the pilows off of the floor and sat on the edge of the bed. She didn't know what to do or say and found it best to just do nothing and give

CJ some time.

She stood in the doorway, building up courage to go back in, face the past, and bury it for good. She realized that the woman that sat on her bed meant more to her than

anyone from her past. They seemed to fit perfectly together in every way.

"Wil these work? I found them in the closet."

After finding brand new blankets in a trunk at the foot of the bed, they had the bed made. CJ puled the covers back. After she crawled into bed, she held her arms out to

Ransom. "Come to bed, baby." Ransom flipped off the light switch and crawled into CJ's arms. Cuddling up against her side, she rested her head on her bare shoulder.

"This feels so right to me." Puling Ransom closer to her, she kissed the crown of her head. "I stopped sleeping in here after Paula was kiled, I just couldn't make myself come

in here and sleep in an empty bed."

Ransom reached up to cup CJ's face; she felt tears escaping from the corner of her eye and slip down into her hair at her temple. "CJ, you don't have to tel me if you don't

want to."

"No, you need to know." She told her al about her 2-year relationship with her partner Paula. And how she had been kiled by a drug dealer hiding in the trunk of a car the

night they were making a big drug bust. And how she felt that it was her fault that Paula died, she should have been the one to check the trunk because she was the senior

officer. "That's also one of the reasons I drank myself into oblivion every night since. I felt so alone and empty. But now..." Ransom leaned up on one elbow when she heard

CJ pause. She looked into CJ's crystal blue eyes.

"I have you… that's if you want me?"

She received her answer by way of a deep passion-filed kiss that lasted many minutes until they needed to come up for air. Their eyes stil closed, they leaned their foreheads

together to colect themselves.

"Gods what you do to me, Ransom," she whispered in a roughened voice. Green eyes opened slightly to take in the woman before her, memorizing every plane of her face

from her finely arched brows, straight nose, high cheekbones down to her soft lips and square chin.

"Just looking at you makes me melt inside; you are a beautiful woman, CJ."

"Cougar." Blue eyes twinkled at her. "My first name is Cougar."

"Your parents named you after a big cat?" Ransom's brows rose upward, a wicked grin lifted one side of her mouth. "Wel, you do move like a big cat."

"I never had any parents."

"What do you mean?"

"OK, I'l give ya al the sordid details. A police officer was making his rounds at the DC Zoo; his last stop was the large cat area. So he was just about to take off for the night

when he heard this strange noise coming from the cages where the cougars were. He thought that maybe the cats had gotten a hold of a stray dog or something. So he was

standing by one of those big green garbage cans when he heard the noise again. He puled the lid off and started going through it. It wouldn't have been the first time that he

had puled out a kitten or puppy. Kids like to throw them in to the big cats and watch them get kiled. At the very bottom he found ME in an old cardboard box with the name

Jacolby's Beef Company on the side of it. They say I was only about 4 hours old at the most.

Ransom cocked her eyebrow at her and smirked. "You're lying to me." Cougar's face never changed from its serious look. "You're not lying are you?" Cougar shook her head

no. "That's awful! How could a mother do that to her baby!?!" Tears formed in her green eyes when she thought of Cougar being abandoned at birth. She wrapped her arms

around Cougar and cried for al the pain this woman had lived through. And made a promise to herself that she would never hurt her or let anyone else do it either.

"It's OK, Ransom, the state made sure I was taken care of and I think I turned out OK, maybe a little flawed." Her words were stopped by a pair of soft warm lips that made

her train of thought derail. Ransom broke the kiss to look deep into her eyes to her very soul.

"You're perfect, and I would love you even if you weren't."

"Did you say you love me?"

Ransom smiled at her. "Yes, I did. I do love you, with al that I am." Tears weled in Cougars eyes to slip down her cheeks. She placed soft kisses on Ransom's lips, tasting the

salty tears. She roled them onto their sides. Puling Ransom close to her, she deepened the kiss until they were both moaning into each other's mouths. Hands explored

unknown flesh trying to absorb and memorize every smal detail. Cougar broke the kiss to whisper in a deep, passion-filed voice. "You are the light in my dark soul and the

love that fils my heart. I love you, Ransom."

Completely drained from the emotional roler coaster they had been on, they drifted off to sleep wrapped in each other's arms.

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Cougar and Ransom sat at their desks doing some paperwork that they had been putting off for the last couple of days. Ransom kept looking up at Cougar then glancing back

down before she got caught. She heard Cougar chuckle. "What?"

"You're rotten at sneaking peeks."

"And how do you know I was peeking at you? I could have been looking at something totaly interesting behind you."

"Oh yeah, that blank wal is quite the talk of the squad room." She looked up at Ransom from under her dark brows. Ransom jumped in her chair and took a deep ragged

breath. She looked between her thighs to find Cougars bootless foot stroking her. "Gods!" A deep moan rumbled in her chest. "Cougar, what are you doing...I know...oohhh

Gods" She pushed forward into Cougar's foot. "I'm in big trouble here and it's your fault!" She grabbed her toes before it was too late and she made a spectacle of them.

Cougar grinned and winked at her.

"I don't think I can get up from my desk."

"And why is that?" A huge smile crossed Cougar's face.

"For the simple fact that I'l be walking bow-legged with jerky steps al the way across the room!" she whispered between her teeth.

"You could always let me finish what I started."

"Here!?! You wouldn't?" She felt toes coming up the inside of her thigh. "Oohh Gods you would!" Her face was turning bright red.

"CJ, Justice! Where's my paperwork?" Capt. Rourke yeled from her office door. She noticed that Justice was a very deep red and Cougar had a wicked grin on her face.

"Right here on Justice's desk."

Ransom gave her pleading eyes. "Please don't."

"I'l bring it right over." A sigh of relief whistled between Ransom's lips. Cougar got up and walked across the office with a limp. Ransom's eyes grew wide when she noticed

why. "I'm going to kil her!" she said to herself. The Capt. took notice of a slumping Justice and Cougar with only one boot on coming towards her. Cougar saw the Capt. look

at her sock covered foot.

"New boots, real bad blisters." She handed over the paperwork and went back to her desk.

Right, CJ, like I'm going to fall for that! Rourke thought to herself.

She leaned forward across her desk to pin Cougar with her eyes. "I can't believe you walked over there like that!" Cougar leaned back in her chair, crossed her arms behind

her head, and stretched not only her back but her one leg as wel. Ransom's head hit her desk with a thump. Her body started to move closer to her desk. A low moaning

came from between her lips; it was heard by one of the other officers. He asked if she was feeling OK.

"She has a bad headache," Cougar replied. "I think I'l run her home so she can get some rest." Ransom looked up from where her head rested to glare at Cougar. "I think a

cold shower and a good night's sleep wil take care of your problem." Her brows wiggled at her.

Cougar puled her boot back on and straightened up her desk, leaving Ransom to suffer. She walked around to the back of Ransom's chair, puled it out, and pushed her

across the office and out the door.

"You're crazy! Do you know that? Everyone in there probably knows what you were doing to me!" Cougar spun the chair around and started to go back to their office.

"COUGAR! What are you doing?"

"Let's go show them just in case they don't know for sure." Ransom planted her feet onto the floor stopping the chair from moving.

"Oohhh Gods!!! Please, Cougar, lets go home?"

"Home? Home. Kay!" She spun the chair back around and pushed Ransom al the way to the elevator that would let them out into the parking garage. Ransom set a new

record for getting out of the parking garage and home. She slid her Eclipse to a stop, ending halfway up on the curb. She was in her apartment before Cougar was halfway out

of the car. Al she could do was chuckle at her. "Guess I'm in big trouble here."

Cougar stood in the middle of the living room looking around for Ransom. A loud cry came from the halway. Before she could turn, a little, naked blond tackled her and they

crashed onto the couch.

"Now you're gonna pay for torturing me!" Ransom grabbed the neck of Cougar's T-shirt and ripped it down the middle and off of her body. Grabbing a hardened nipple

between her teeth, she nipped the very end causing Cougar to arch her back and hiss at her.

"You want it rough? I can do rough." She swung her legs over the edge of the couch with Ransom stil holding onto her. Ransom captured her mouth and kissed her with such

hunger that she almost forgot what she was doing. Getting to her feet, she carried Ransom to her bedroom. She was two feet away from the bed when her Levi's fel around

her ankles. She lost her balance and they fel to the bed in a heap. Cougar was struggling, her feet tangled together in her pant legs.

"Help! Baby, help me please, I'm stuck!" She whined the last words.

"Good! Now ya know how I felt in the office!" She grabbed the soft skin of Cougar's shoulder and bit down, sucking the skin between her teeth until Cougar writhed beneath

her. Forcing one leg between Cougar's, she pushed up making contact with her throbbing center. Wrapping her other leg around her thigh she thrust her hips in a maddening

frenzy. Long fingers wrapped in her short, blond hair puling her to her lips so she could nip at her bottom lip. Sucking it into her mouth, she ran her tongue across Ransom's

teeth until she was granted entrance. Their tongues slid and twisted around each other, moans were swalowed as they pushed closer to the edge. Cougar ran her nails down

Ransom's sweat coated back before digging them into her firm ass. She bucked upward when she felt her nipples pinched between little fingers.

"Ohhh Gods!!" Ransom yeled when she felt two fingers enter her from behind. Her back arched as she pushed harder. "Cougar.... I'm..."

She thrust once more and screamed Cougar's name loud enough for everyone in the deli below to hear. Cougar felt Ransom's muscles squeeze her fingers and throb around

them; hot juices flowed over her fingers and thigh.

Cougar's back arched as she climaxed; tremors shook her body until she colapsed. Their breathing was short and ragged as they rode out the final tremors coursing through

their bodies. Cougar wrapped her arms around her lover. Puling her tightly against her chest, she kissed her neck and breathed in the lavender scent from Ransom's shampoo.

"Baby..." Cougar gasped as a tremor shook her. "I love you."

"I love you too." She tried roling off of Cougar to give them more room. "I'm stuuuuck!" she groaned against her lover's neck. Cougar looked down to see Ransom's foot

stuck right along with hers in her twisted pant legs. "Wel, I guess we'l just have to stay like this." She moved her hips against her lover. "Then again, what I want to do I can't

because we're stuck!" Cougar started laughing deep in her chest. "What's so funny?"

"Wanna cal 911 and give them the code for officer needs assistance?"

Ransom started wiggling around trying to get loose before her lover could dial the phone. "You're crazy!" With a good jerk she got her foot free and grabbed the phone out of

Cougar's hand.

"You know there's going to be no doubt in anyone's mind about us." Ransom had a very serious look in her eyes.

"Good! Now maybe that rumor about you being the destroyer of marriages wil go away."

"Destroyer of... Who said that?"

Cougar flung her arm over her eyes and groaned. "Son of a bitch!" She slipped her arm up to see ferocious green eyes starring down at her. "Delany and Hawkins, my first day

on the job they said..." She stopped when she saw the huge grin cover her lover's face, then she started laughing and gasping for air.

"Oohhh, geez... those idiots!" She crawled on top of Cougar and wiggled around until she was comfortable. Lacing her fingers together on Cougar's chest, she rested her chin

there as she looked up slightly into curious blue eyes. "They cal me that cuz of al the married johns that we bust. They get their names put in the paper under the prostitution

heading. Everyone reads that part of the Police Log to see if they know any of them." Wiggling her eyebrows at her lover she continued. "Who would be more interested in

those names? Married women!" Leaning forward she brought the tip of her tongue up under Cougar's chin al the way to her bruised lips, tracing them with the very tip until she

was granted entrance into a warm mouth. Moving further up her lover's body, she supported her weight on her hands that were on either side of Cougar's shoulders. They

kissed slowly. With silent agreement they took their time exploring each other's body, soft caresses over heated skin brought low moans to joined lips. Ransom broke away to

taste her lover's neck, licking her way up to flick her tongue against Cougar's earlobe. Puling it into her mouth, she nipped at it with her teeth.

Cougar's blunt fingernails ran from shoulder to thigh, raising goose bumps across slightly tanned skin. Bringing her fingers back up to brush the fine hair up the center of her

lover's back. She loved the feel of tight muscles twitching beneath her fingertips, and the soft breasts pressed against her own.

Every nerve ending in Ransom's body was screaming for attention. A low thump pounding between her legs, she could feel her juices start to flow from between her nether lips.

She rocked her body against her lover's, looking for as much contact as she could get. She felt shivers run through Cougar when she licked the edge of her ear. Slipping her

tongue into her ear, she circled it around a few times then jabbed it forward. Cougar gasped, her hips jerked upward. A slight grin came to Ransom's lips as she thought to

herself; you are in BIG trouble now, Cougar. Deciding that she needed to explore the other ear as wel, she worked her way down her neck with little nips and licks. She

breathed softly against her lover's ear, her warm breath blowing the dark hair back. Cougar's center was pulsating, her juices soaking her thighs and the blankets beneath her. If

she didn't stop her now it would be al over in a matter of seconds.

Ransom slid halfway off of Cougar so that she was now closer to her target. Taking her time, she used one hand to explore the luscious breasts of her lover. She felt Cougar's

one hand run up her thigh and brush against her blond curls and her hips jerked as long fingers found her wetness. Cougar moaned deep in her chest when she felt how wet her

lover was, she ran her fingers back and forth between her lips, coating them and her palm.

Ransom was close to losing control. What her lover's fingers were doing to her was pushing her close to the edge quickly. Running her fingers down the center of Cougar's

chest she came to the thick patch of dark curls. Using her entire hand, she dragged it between her legs. "My Gods, Cougar, you're soaking wet."

Her hips jerked upward when two fingers slipped between her lips, Cougar was so close. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath trying to calm herself long enough to

hold on.

"Baby, look at me." Ransom whispered to her. Their eyes met and locked, Ransom started to move her hips against her lover's fingers.

"I need to feel you in me, Cougar." Her back arched as two fingers entered her. She froze and waited for her body to calm down, then she slowly slipped two fingers into her

lover, and she felt the muscles throb around them as she slowly withdrew halfway then pushed back in. They matched a rhythm with their bodies. Ransom watched the muscles

in Cougar's jaw clench.

Ransom whispered, "Come with me, Baby."

Cougar screamed her release, her body going rigid against Ransom. As soon as Cougar's hot juices poured out over her hand, Ransom fel over the edge, screaming her lover's

name against her neck.

Cougar was stil trying to catch her breath when she felt Ransom lick her ear. Before she could stop her, she felt the quick jabs of a hot tongue inside. Her hips jerked once and

she went over the edge again. As she jerked, her fingers hit that sensitive spot in her lover and sent her back over to join her.

Tremors kept rippling through them with every breath. Ransom was so tempted to slip her tongue back into her lover's ear but she knew she herself couldn't handle another

climax. That is until they both rested a few minutes. Slowly they withdrew their fingers and shared a few soft kisses. After wrapping their limbs around each other, they drifted

off to a deep slumber.

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Cougar opened her eyes slightly in the dark room. She was lost at first until she felt the warm body wrapped around her. She sighed as she cuddled closer and was drifting

back to sleep until she felt something cold on the back of her thigh. She thought it was Ransom until the cold was replaced with something very rough and warm. Her body

stiffened up against her lover, making Ransom groan and try to burrow herself closer.

"Baby!" she whispered loudly in her lover's ear only to see her cover it with her hand. The thing that was behind her touched her again. This time she puled Ransom's hand

away and bit her finger. Green eyes shot open wide at the sharp pain in her index finger.

"Did you bite me?"

"Sssh, there's something behind me, I can feel it!"

Ransom gave her a wicked grin. "That's my pussy."

Cougar raised an eyebrow at her. "Is not! I know what that feels like and it's not behind me!"

"Bet me! I win you pay for supper."

"Deal!"

She wiggled her eyebrows and used a baby voice that confused the Hel out of Cougar. "Come ta Mamma baby boy, come here, Zeus." Cougar heard a little meow and a

cream-colored furbal walked up her hip and laid down between their bodies that were pressed together. Eyes the same color as her own blinked up at her. Zeus licked her

chest and started purring.

"So where are ya taking me for supper?"

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Ransom, dressed in a large men's dress shirt, sat on the floor in front of the coffee table with Cougar beside her in her usual relaxing attire of nakedness. Containers of every

available type of Chinese food covered the tabletop. Zeus took his rightful place in between them and nothing that Cougar did could change his mind. She gave him a whole

shrimp on the other side of the table to just watch him bring it back and sit between them to eat it. "Spoiled damn cat," she said as she looked down into his crystal blue eyes.

"You have spooky eyes, Zeus." She heard her lover coughing and tears started to come from her eyes. Reaching over, she slapped her in the center of her back.

"Are you OK?" Concern showing in her eyes.

Grabbing her Coke she took a long drink. "When's the last time you looked in the mirror?"

"I don't know... a little while ago. Why?"

"Because big kitty and little kitty have the same color eyes."

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Not!"

"Yep! Zeus, tel her!" He brushed up against her side and meowed at her. She picked him up and carried him to the bathroom, standing in front of the mirror she held him up so

that they were looking at their reflections. Green eyes showed up below them.

"See, told ya!"

She turned Zeus to look at her. "We have spooky eyes!"

Ransom took her cat and put him on the sink. Stepping up close to her lover, she ran her fingers across her dark eyebrows and down to end up with her hands behind her

neck.

"You have beautiful eyes." She placed a kiss on each closed eye and then soft lips. "Let's clean up our mess and go to bed, I'm exhausted."

"It's late and we have to work tomorrow... afternoon." She made an evil sounding chuckle. "That means we can play al morning."

After they awoke at 9am, they made love most of the morning and afternoon, right up until 2pm. Ransom rushed around after their shower together trying to find slutty clothes

to wear. She searched through one of her drawers and found a pair of almost see-through white spandex biker shorts. Puling on a black G-string and the shorts, she then

grabbed a very low cut white sports bra with a zipper in the front. Next was which wig she would wear. She looked at al 12 of them and decided on the blonde one that were

al smal braids. Grabbing her heels, she ran into the living room to find Cougar laying on the couch asleep. She leaned over her lover and gave her a soft kiss on her lips, when

she received no reply she kissed her neck, nothing. A wicked grin came to her lips. Leaning over, she grabbed a nipple through Cougar's T-shirt; nipping the end she finaly got

a rise out of her.

"Do that again and we'l be caling into work again."

Checking her watch Ransom saw that they had 15 minutes to get to briefing. Pinching her lover's other nipple between her fingers she told her to get up and just maybe they

would use the motel room during lunchtime.

Blue eyes shot open. Before Ransom knew it she was being dragged out the door.

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Capt. Rourke had just come out of her office when Ransom and Cougar came to a sliding stop in the room.

"Nice of you two to join us." She puled a chair over to put her foot on so she could take her usual intimidating pose. "We have a problem. Last night on the South West Side

we had a prostitute picked up; she was raped and beaten pretty bad. She's in the hospital now and from what I have learned she got a good look at the john." She handed

copies of the composite drawing to one of the vice officers; he looked and passed the others along.

"Looks like every other john out there," he said.

"But there's one big difference. This guy has only three fingers on his left hand. He's missing his ring and pinkie finger. I've puled some other females out of patrol duty to help

cover the streets. He was driving a blue Nissan Pathfinder with Maryland license plates. We don't have the tag number. So keep your eyes open out there." She used her foot

to push the chair back. "Be safe out there." Before she went back into her office she pointed at Ransom and Cougar, then her office. The two of them groaned and dragged

their feet to the Capt.'s office.

Ransom stepped in first then waited for Cougar. Rourke gave them both funny looks. She first stepped up to Ransom then gave Cougar a critical look. "Next time, Sergeants,

go out to eat before you play sports." The partners gave each other a raised eyebrow. Then Ransom let out a low moan. She puled her lover over to her and tried to cover the

huge hickey with her shirt colar. "Sorry, Cougar."

Rourke spun on her heel to look at Ransom. "Cougar? Her pet name fits al right!"

"Sarah, Cougar is her first name. Think about it dipshit, C. Jacolby?"

Rourke moved to stand toe to toe with the smaler SGT. Their green eyes blazing at each other.

Cougar was getting worried that they were going to come to blows.

"Listen here you little slut, I'l beat your ass again!"

"And I'l bite your ass again! This time I'l make sure you can't sit down!"

"What!?!" Cougar stepped between them. "You bit her in the ass?"

"Yep, she deserved it! She's lucky she doesn't have any tits, otherwise I would have twisted them off!"

Rourke's eyebrow rose over her left eye. A shit-eating grin came over her face. "Ya know your little game you two were playing yesterday?" They both groaned at the memory.

"If the old man had been here, there would have been shit hitting the fan!"

Ransom poked her in the chest with each word. "If dad would have been here, he would have had to look in the supply closet for you!" Cougar stepped backwards and fel

into a chair.

"Holy shit! You two are sisters!"

Two faces with the same expression turned to look at her.

"Took ya long enough, Jacolby." Rourke puled her sister into her arms and kissed her on the side of her head. "You take care of my little sister. If you hurt her, I wil hurt you!"

Cougar gave her a bright smile. "I wil never hurt her; you have my word on that."

"Good, now get out there and find that fingerless asshole."

Cougar turned to look at her Capt. "Supply closet?"

Ransom hid behind her lover. "Yep, with Delany's sister!"

"Oh shit! No wonder why he keeps yeling about dykes!"

"Stil!?!" Rourke yelped. "Just wait til I get home and tel Mel!"

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Cougar left Ransom at her desk teling her she would be right back that she was going to the locker room to change clothes. While she waited, her sister came over to her

desk.

"She looks a hundred percent better, amazing what love can do to a person." Ransom blushed at what her older sister had just said.

"Is it that obvious?"

Rourke laughed at the expression on her face. "Like neon signs! Where's she at?"

"Changing her clothes, we didn't have time to go by her apartment before we came here."

Rourke's eyebrow buried itself in her hairline. "What time did you two get up?"

"Around 9 o'clock. We were busy."

In a conspiratorial tone Rourke asked. "So tel me little Sis, is it al true what I hear about her?"

"Every single word!" They both turned to see Cougar standing behind them. Both sisters remarked in unison, "Hooooly fuck!"

Cougar had on a pale blue muscle shirt and tight black leather pants tucked into the tops of a pair of Highway Patrol motorcycle boots. Puling her black Ray Bans down off

the top of her head, she gave them a lopsided grin. "Come on, Princess, let's go destroy marriages."

Rourke stil had her mouth hanging open after they had left.

"DAMN!!! Why not me!?!" She whined al the way to her office.

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Hawkins and Delany kept an eye out for the other two Sergeants. Delany was watching out the windshield while Hawkins moved the camera on top of the van. Delany came

out of his seat when Hawkins yeled, "Delany come look at this! You ain't gonna believe this!!!!"

Delany shook his head and grunted. "How come al the dykes look like that?"

"Got me buddy, at least we get to look at them if nothing else."

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Ransom took her spot in between the other working girls and had to laugh at the looks they were casting at Cougar.

"Hey, Princess, are there any more around that look like her?" A Hispanic woman named Jade asked.

"Nope, she's one of a kind and alll mine."

Cougar dropped her head and flashed blue eyes over her sunglasses at her lover. The very tip of her tongue came out to lick her lips. Ransom felt flames erupt southbound.

Ransom was watching cars go past when she felt someone come up behind her. Thinking it was Cougar; she turned with a huge smile on her face. It disappeared the minute she

saw that it was a huge black man dressed in baggy clothes and a basebal hat flipped backwards. He had a whore in tow behind him.

"I've never seen you here before." He gave her the once over. "You know this corner belongs to me and these are al my whores. Now I can arrange it so that you can be here

for say 90-10 of what you bring in with your snatch."

"I don't think so." Ransom turned back around and ignored him.

"Listen you fucking cunt, no one disses Shaz!" He brought his arm back to punch her but found that his arm somehow come to be twisted up behind his back. He tried to pul

away but Cougar brought his arm up higher.

"Now you listen you fuck! The Princess is mine, if you want to live to see tomorrow you'l haul your ass outta here!" She let his arm go and was just about to walk back to her

spot when she caught movement out of the corner of her eye. She heard Ransom scream at her to look out. Shaz had puled a long knife from his jacket and he swung it

towards Cougar's back. She bent over at her waist as the knife went past. Spinning on one foot, she did a reverse spinning back kick to the back of his head, before he fel his

chin connected with the toe of her boot from a front kick. Blood spurted out of his mouth along with his gold teeth. Cougar grabbed him by the back of his jacket, pressed

him over her head, and tossed him onto the hood of his parked car. His girls ran over and started puling al of his gold jewelry off and puling wads of money from his

pockets. They al scattered when they heard sirens coming their way. Cougar grabbed Ransom by her hand and they took off for the nearest aley, it was too early in their

work shift to go to jail. Ransom pushed Cougar up against a wal running her hands over her lover checking for knife wounds.

"Baby, I'm al right. He didn't even get close." She saw the tears getting ready to flow down her lover's face. Puling her into her arms, she placed a kiss on her forehead. "It's

OK." She lifted her lover's chin with two fingers, leaning forward to capture her lips in a deep kiss. Ransom wrapped her arms around her neck, puled herself up, and

wrapped her legs around her lover's waist. They continued to kiss although a spotlight from a police cruiser was on them. One of the officers got out of the car and came

towards them. Cougar puled her walet out and flipped it open showing her badge.

"Damn it, Jacolby! Get a fucking room somewhere!" he yeled over his shoulder on his way back to the car.

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Stil flustered from their make out session in the aley, Ransom tried to put her mind back on the job. She was doing poorly. She knew that her lover was standing behind her

looking at her ass. She would like nothing better than to haul her to the motel room and ravage her body for many hours. Dropping her head down she closed her eyes and

took a deep breath, when she opened her eyes she almost fel over. Al across the upper area of her breasts were hickeys.

"COUGAR!" She yeled to her lover and scared the Hel out of the girls who returned once the had cops left. She spun around on one heel and stomped over to stand in front

of her grinning lover.

"Hi Baby, problem?"

She pushed her chest out at her. "Tel me what you see?"

Cougar puled her sunglasses down and looked over the frames.

"Beautiful breasts?" She gave her a big grin.

"Try again, animal!" She planted her hands on her hips, her brows drawing down over the bridge of her nose.

"Hhhhmm let me see." Cougar leaned forward for a closer look. In a flash her tongue came out and licked Ransom's cleavage.

Her breath hitched in her throat at the feel of her lover's tongue.

"What am I gonna do with you?" she moaned.

A lopsided grin graced her face. "Take me home and make me your sex slave?"

Ransom shook her head then walked away from Cougar, gesticulating with her hands every word she mumbled, Cougar picked up the words whip and muzzle. She couldn't

help but chuckle at her lover's actions. Fiery and stubborn as Hel came to mind.

She was stil grinning like a maniac when she saw a dark Nissan Pathfinder round the corner and stop. The other girls walked up to it so Ransom waited. If it was their guy

they could always pursue and arrest him once he stopped. One by one the girls stepped back on the sidewalk. They thought they were going to lose him until he stopped right

in front of Ransom and beckoned her over. Cougar gave the code word that she and Hawkins had agreed upon in case the fingerless rapist showed up. Her nerves were on

end and she thought she was going to lose her lunch right on the spot. It got worse when she heard her lover say Princess ransom. But Cougar couldn't do anything there in fear

of blowing their covers.

She jumped into her car and tried to catch up with the speeding SUV.

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Ransom got a bad feeling the minute she got into the SUV, the guy had dark sunglasses on and had a basebal cap puled low over his forehead, revealing nothing of his face

beneath the shadows. She moved her 'ho' purse in between them as a block.

"I have a motel room right up the street here, it's al set up al we have to do is go there."

He never looked over at her when he spoke. "I have a special place in mind, we won't be disturbed."

"We won't have that at my room either." She was starting to panic. She looked in her side view mirror for Cougar's Mustang. Her heart slammed in her chest when she didn't

see it. "So, tel me what would you like me to do for you?"

"We'l discuss that at my place."

She tried to calm her nerves by taking a deep breath. "I just want to make sure I have what I need, I keep an assortment of toys in my room." She watched his knuckles turn

white when his hand tightened on the steering wheel. In a split second he had a hold of her throat; she tried to pul away by leaning back against her door. That's when she saw

his left had with the missing fingers.

"Easy, lets not rush this. I just want to please you."

He released her but kept his hand free. She looked in the mirror again and stil didn't see her lover's car. Where the Hell are you, Cougar! Her mind screamed.

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Cougar was in a rage; she was stuck in the middle of traffic. The SUV had caused an accident involving three cars. Two of them were cab drivers that were screaming at each

other in a foreign language. She keyed her Mic and told the guys the problem, they told her that they had reported it and had cars out looking for the SUV in the general area.

She tried to listen to what Ransom was saying over the receiver that she carried but it was badly breaking up and then it faded al together.

"Fucking son of a bitch!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. She jumped from her car, puling her badge out she hung it around her neck as she started running between

cars. Off to her left was a guy sitting on a Harley, she grabbed him by his arm shoved her badge into his face and took his hog. Kicking the back end around she sped off in

the direction that the SUV had gone. In one congested area she went up on the sidewalk to get around the backup.

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Ransom now knew where they were headed; the driver took the exit that would take them down to the Naval yard. She knew that there were numerous empty warehouses

down there and he could pul his SUV into several of them and no one would be the wiser. She would have to bide her time, he was bound to give her enough freedom that

she could use the gun she had in her purse. Right now was not good, she was too close. He whipped his SUV around the back end of the very last building on the docks.

Once stopped he told her to stay where she was at, he would get her door.

He came to her side and puled the door open, dragging her by her upper arm into the warehouse. She balked when she saw chains hanging from the beams above. She had

stuck her hand in her purse before he made it to her side of the SUV. She searched without alerting him. It's not here! Her mind screamed. She tried to find anything that she

could use for a weapon against him.

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Cougar flew through the streets on the hog looking for the asshole that had her lover. She would kil him with her bare hands if he so much as used a cuss word. She saw a

police cruiser going through the light in front of her. She gunned the throttle and chased him until he saw her waving her badge.

"Have you guys seen a dark blue Pathfinder come by here?"

The cop gave her a blank stare. "Were we supposed to be looking for one?"

"Wasn't it put over the radio?" she yeled as her patience left.

"No, we haven't heard anything and we haven't left the car."

She grabbed him by his colar and puled him to within an inch of her nose. Pure rage showed in her ice blue eyes. "You broadcast it now!" She gave him the description and

the general direction it was headed. "And tel them that he has taken a vice squad SGT. Posing as a prostitute!"

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The rapist stil had a hold of Ransom's arm; her fingers were starting to tingle from him cutting off her circulation.

"Why this place? It's so dirty and I can't afford to get my clothes dirty. Why don't we just go back to my room, it's much cleaner." She rattled on hoping to distract him enough

to let Cougar find her. She was worried because her receiver was no longer picking up either the van or her lover. He came at her in a rush. Fear ran through her heart, al she

could think of was she was going to die and never see her lover again. "I'm sorry Cougar, I'l always love you," she whispered.

"I SAID NO!!!" He grabbed her by her throat and rushed her backwards towards a wal, slamming her into it. She slipped to the floor and everything went black.

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She was furious! After she found her lover she was going to kil both of the officers in the command van. She had spent the last 45 minutes searching every motel lot in a 10mile radius. She felt her cel phone throb on the back of her belt. Puling the hog over she shut it down and answered it. Her face went pale as she listened to Ransom's voice

on the other end.

'Ooohh yes! Faster! Faster!"

Cougar's hand was getting close to crushing the phone with every word she heard screamed from her lover. She felt betrayed that her lover would be intimate with someone

besides her. Her teeth grinding together she was about to throw the phone when she heard a man scream... in pain. Her muscles relaxed at the sound of Ransom laughing like a

crazed maniac. A flow of relief washed over her as she heard Ransom screaming at the rapist.

"How'd ya like that you fucking bastard!?!" Her breathing was ragged like she had just finished running wind sprints. "Cougar? Sweetness are you there?"

"Are you OK? Where are you?" Cougar was ready to run on foot to where ever her lover was.

"Calm down, Baby, I'm OK. Can you come get me? I'm at the Naval yard, in the very last warehouse." To Cougar's ears she sounded almost happy.

"Gods, do you know how scared I've been? Did you cal for back-up?" Her words rushing out of her mouth.

"Nope." She chuckled. "I want you to come first... wel you can do THAT later. Just get here and then we'l cal in the cars. OK?"

"I'm on my way, Baby. I love you, Ransom!"

"Love you too, animal."

She kicked the Harley over and tore off of the sidewalk where she had parked, leaving a wide trail of rubber. Making her own shortcuts through the city to get down to where

Ransom was, she broke every road law known to man, plus ones that they would have to put into effect because of her.

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Cougar puled the bike right into the warehouse, her eyes widening at the sight before her. Her heart beat in her chest at what she saw before her. Ransom was playing tag with

a very naked man that was handcuffed to a chain above his head. Every time she got near him he would scream like a woman and jump out of her reach.

"Having fun?" Cougar asked with a very worried look on her face. Her lover's mental health didn't look healthy right now.

Ransom wiggled her eyebrows and gave her an evil grin.

"Ooohhh yeah!!! Watch this." She ran at the guy, faked left, cut back and slapped him in his dick. He let out a blood-curdling scream.

"I just love these things!" She held up a tazer for Cougar to see.

Cougar walked over to her and puled her into a tight hug, being careful of Ransom's toy.

"I was so worried about you; these damn receivers aren't worth shit!" Puling back she looked down into green eyes, she saw a glint of revenge shooting through them and

wondered if that is what others saw in her eyes as wel. "How did you get him naked and hand cuffed?

They walked outside to get away from the blubbering man.

"Dumb ass there decided that I needed to be slammed into a wal. So when I fel to the floor, I was put in perfect position to zap his tiny little dick with my tazer. After he

blacked out it was easy."

"Ransom, you could be charged with police brutality for what you did afterwards."

"Nah, he doesn't know I'm a cop. He thinks I'm one of those SM bitches."

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Rourke was waiting for them when they came back into the station. She was so proud of her two Sgt.'s She had a huge grin on her face until she saw the bruises on her sisters

chest.

"Ransom! Did he do that to you? That fucking SOB! Come here let me see." Her protective nature took over along with a rage that was bubbling below the surface.

"Nah, it's OK realy." She sidestepped Rourke.

"Did he do...?" She noticed that Cougar found the floor real interesting. "Gods! I don't believe you two!"

"Sarah, calm down! Let me explain." She hated to have to tel her sister this part. It was like inviting her into their sex life.

Rourke's face was bright red, veins standing out in her neck and temple.

"Did they bring in a black guy missing his front teeth?" Ransom asked her.

"Yeah, some pimp. Said he was jumped by gang bangers. Did he do that? Cuz if he did I'l make sure he loses the rest of his teeth!"

"What! That simple asshole!" Cougar's eyes blazed at his bald-faced lie.

"OK, I got it. But that doesn't explain the... bru... hickeys!"

"We had to get away from the scene or we'd get busted again. So we hid in this aley." She was trying to look as innocent as possible and Cougar placed a blank expression on

her face. "So, we heard sirens coming. To make it look like we hadn't seen anything, we pretended to be making out. And it worked too!" She finished with a big grin on her

face.

"Wel, it doesn't look like you two were pretending one second of it!"

Cougar's mind wandered away from the conversation to go with her memories of what had happened a few hours ago. She had the feeling that something wasn't right; then it

hit her. "Ohhh shit!!! My car!" Cougar ran for her desk. After 5 minutes on the phone. She came stomping back towards them, a deep growl roared from her chest. "Some

fucker stole my damn car!" Flames shot from her eyes; her hands clenching so hard that they heard her knuckles cracking. Ransom stepped over to her and ran her hand up

and down her arm.

"But I realy like that Hog ya came to my rescue on!" Ransom wiggled her eyebrows at her lover. "Have you ever... you know?" She whispered to Cougar who then turned 10

shades of red.

"Sarah, we're signing out, we have to go buy a Harley!" Ransom dragged her lover towards the door.

"Oohh Gods! My sister the nympho!" Rourke covered her face, stumbled blindly into her office and fel over the chair that was sitting in her way.

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Cougar was laying on Ransom's couch with her lover sprawled across her body. Their sweat-dampened bodies sticking together, they tried to catch their breaths from their

recent activity.

"I am never doing that again with you, Cougar!" Roling onto the floor, she groaned as she crawled the entire way to the kitchen. "I hate running! I don't know how you talked

me into it, but it ain't gonna happen again that's for damn sure!"

"You poor baby, and I even went slower than I usualy do."

She heard a loud thud come from the kitchen so she jumped up and ran in to find her lover spread eagle on the cold tile floor. "Slower? Ya mean you run faster than THAT!!!!"

remembering that she had to sprint the entire time to keep up with her long-legged lover.

"Wel, yeah." She kneeled down over her dropping kisses on her heaving chest and working her way up to slightly parted lips. She laid down and rested her head on Ransom's

shoulder. She had to ask her about what had happened with the cal in and now seemed as good a time as ever. "When I caled Delany and Hawkins today, and had them cal

in what was happening. Which one would have done it?"

"Delany, why?"

"Because he never caled it in. And I want to know why."

"Are you sure?" Her voice took on a serious tone.

"Yep, I caled dispatch from the office and they never got the cal in." Her mind started to reel at why he had not made the cal in. She would have to talk to Rourke about it.

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Cougar ran for the ringing phone, snatching it up she gasped a helo.

"Not again!" Rourke asked with an astounded tone to her voice.

"Huh? Ohh no I was outside. Is there a problem Capt.?"

"You could say a BIG problem! The fingerless guy squealed like a pig last night!" Cougar started praying that he didn't say anything about Ransom's little game.

She hesitated as she asked. "What did he say?"

"Ohh for starters, the first pro he beat up and raped was a mistake. He thought, now get this!" She paused for effect. "He thought it was Ransom!"

"Ransom! Why would he go after her?" She was getting pissed now.

"Because he was paid to... By a cop! I want this cop Cougar, I want his dick stuffed and put on my wal! No one fucks around with my little sister!" Her voice was belowing

through the phone.

Cougar could feel the rage building up from the very bottom of her being. "I'l get him! And you can use his nuts for tennis bals!"

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Cougar was so pissed that her hands were shaking; she handed her helmet to Ransom before they got through the door to the office. Ransom had no idea what was going on

with her lover, al she knew was that whoever had pissed her off on the phone was going to pay for it.

Cougar strode into the room and headed directly for Delany, his eyes grew huge as he saw the glacier colored eyes driling into him. He tried getting out from behind his desk

but Cougar was faster than he thought. She grabbed him by his lapels, lifted him her ful arm's length off of the floor, and slammed him against the wal. He thought she was

going to let him go when she puled him back only to have the feeling of flying without wings. Cougar lifted him over her head and threw him through the Capt.'s closed door.

With a crash, Delany landed; he was knocked out cold and laying on her floor amongst pieces of wood.

Rourke stepped on his chest and peeked out her door to make sure another body wasn't coming her way.

"Cougar, what the Hel was that?" Her lover stood with her green eyes shot wide from watching her lover's temper unleashed.

"I'm not done yet!" Cougar belowed then watched the room clear of everyone but Ransom and Rourke.

Her breathing ragged her eyes icy cold she asked, "did you get your present Capt. I would have wrapped him for ya but I'm fresh out of cement."

"It was him?" She groaned at Cougar's nod. "Shit! Mel is gonna be pissed! Guess I better cal Internal Affairs and have them come get that piece of shit off of my floor and

someone to replace my door. Next time, knock before you throw someone in there."

She stepped harder on his chest as she made her way to her desk. IA was up there within two minutes. They had heard the whole story the night before from the rapist and

had started an investigation that morning. Only to have it solved by a Vice squad SGT.

After they had finished their interview with Delany, they had found out that he was pissed and felt rejected because SGT. Justice had spurned his advances and then she turned

around and started to have an affair with SGT. Jacolby. He wanted to see both of them hurt so he hired the fingerless guy to rape and beat SGT. Justice, hoping that she would

see the error of her ways and come to him so that he could cure her of her disease. The Internal Affairs officers didn't think twice about having him locked up, they would have

loved to put him in general population right off the bat but would have to wait until he went through the whole court thing. Delany's sister who was also Rourke's life mate went

to see him to let him know that he no longer had a family. They had al disowned him when they found out what he had done. After she left he just sat in his cel and laughed

hystericaly. "It's not over yet! Do you hear me? It's not over until you're al gone!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.

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"So animal of mine, what do we do until Internal Affairs lets us go back to work?" Tilting her head to the side she gave her lover a smal grin. "What say, you, me and your new

toy hit the road and go visit the mountains for the weekend?"

"That al depends." She puled her little blond into her arms. "On if you're going to ride on the front or the back." Green eyes gave her a confused look. "Cuz if you're on the

front, we'l never make it out of the parking lot."

"Oh?" Cougar reached down and massaged her tight ass, puling their hips tight against each other. "OOHH! I think the back of your hog would do until we hit the mountains,

then we'l see what happens."

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A jet-black Harley with two leather-clad riders tore down the country roads of Maryland. They had no idea where they were going; they were just letting the roads take them

to someplace quiet and serene. They came flying over the bridge that crossed the Potomac River; they could look to their right and see the river flowing over the rocks, where

fishermen and tubers played in the water along with colege kids from Shepardstown. They came across the next bridge and up into Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Ransom was

thinking of the movie Sweet Dreams about legendary country singer Patsy Cline, she remembered that it was filmed somewhere around this area. As they came down from the

top of the hil she saw a smal sign that read Bakerton. Tapping Cougar on her shoulder she pointed to the right, Cougar leaned the bike over and took the turn. They watched

the green fields fade into thick woods with every twist and turn of the road.

Bakerton was founded before the Civil War was even thought of, some of the residents are the relatives of the original settlers from the 1700's others moved there for the

tranquility. During the time of the Civil War, soldiers of both sides set camp within miles of each other along the Shenandoah that runs beside Bakerton. On calm soundless

nights, the echoes of those long ago fought battles can stil be heard on the stil night air. Wisps of mist in human forms can be seen crossing fields and the stench of black

gunpowder and sulfur can be smeled in the air. As time came forward scenery changed but the feel of tranquility remained. The settlers advanced and found that a gold mine

was beneath their feet in the name of Limestone. In the open fields and dense trees the tops of the mines can stil be seen from the early 1900's. Train rails are stil in some

areas where the train would travel from Harper's Ferry to Bakerton to haul away the cars ful of the precious ore. One kiln stil stands at the bottom of a pasture where the

miners made Milk of Magnesia. During the hottest days of summer when the grass dries and turns brown, the foundations of Ten Row can be seen just inches below the

ground's surface. Years of memories are buried in these lands, Ten Row where the miners lived and the Quarry where many died when an underground stream broke through

the base rock and flooded the tunnels in just hours. No one knows for certain just what is under the crystal blue water's surface, for it holds the past in its cold grasp. Al the

miners are long gone now and only the stories passed down from relatives are known. That is where Cougar and Ransom now stood, atop the limestone quarry wals gazing

into the crystal blue waters. A feeling of peace overtook them, the scent of honeysuckle and lilac floating on the air. Cougar could stand here forever just watching the changing

colors of the water as the white clouds passed over. The peace and quiet was almost deafening to her ears. After living in Washington DC her entire life and having no peace,

just the loud noises of cars, buses and trucks rumbling by at al hours of the day, she was almost lost here without it.

As Ransom took a deep breath, a smile came to her face, her white teeth flashing at her lover. Wrapping her arms around her waist she leaned into her quiet strength. She

couldn't believe how beautiful it was here. The tal cliffs and green trees outlining its edge. The white limestone at the water's edge made the water seem bluer, almost the same

color as her lover's eyes at this moment. A warmth flowed through her body at the thought of how extremely lucky she was to have the love of this beautiful woman and to

know that her love for her was deeper than anything on this Earth.

As Cougar puled Ransom into her arms, the creaking sound of their thick leather motorcycle jackets broke the silence. Inhaling the scent, Ransom closed her eyes; she loved

the smel of leather, especialy on her tal lover. She puled back to look up into crystal blue eyes, then over the ridge of mountains in the distance to see the sun starting to

settle.

"You know this is the exact spot that Charley Cline proposed to Patsy. To think that Jessica Lange and Ed Harris stood right here!"

"Baby, what are you talking about?" Cougar looked down into smiling green eyes.

"The movie, Sweet Dreams. About the singer Patsy Cline . They filmed it right here, wel, part of it. But in real life Charley proposed to Patsy as they looked out over the

water. It's so beautiful here; I can see why he picked it."

"You are such a romantic, who would have known." She bent down and placed a kiss on her forehead. Ransom was thinking to herself, more than you know! She puled

away from Cougar and dropped to one knee before the shocked woman. Puling a smal worn wooden box from her pocket, she opened it to reveal two thick gold and silver

twined wedding bands. "I love you with al my heart, Cougar. Wil you marry me?"

Tears came to Cougar's blue eyes, her throat became tight as she looked down to the woman she loved more than life itself. She had never thought that anyone would love her

to the extremes that Ransom did. She had only one word for this woman.

"Yes!" She dropped to her knees and brought Ransom against her chest in a tight hug. Finding her lips, she showed her how much she loved her. Breaking the breath-stealing

kiss, she gazed into the eyes she would see until her dying day. "I never thought this would happen. And I swear on my life that I wil always be there for you."

Ransom puled one of the rings from the box and slipped it onto Cougar's finger. She was about to place the other on her own finger when Cougar took it from her. Holding it

up, she looked at it and noticed an inscription on the inside of the band. Confusion showed on her face.

"It's Greek, it means eternity. They've been handed down for centuries to the daughters. The last ones to wear these rings were my Grandmothers on Mom's side."

"Grandmothers? As in plural?"

"Let's just say that Sarah and I are not the first."

She slipped the ring onto her finger then placed a kiss upon it.

"For eternity."

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The rumble of the Harley echoed through the smal town of Charlestown. They were looking for the bed and breakfast named the George Washington Inn, history says that

Washington's brother owned it and when in the area, the first President of the States would stay there. It was on a quiet street, its front porch had a wrought iron swing that

faced the smal lawn. Lilac bushes stood on either side of the smal inn, giving off its sweet scent. As they walked into the inn they had a feeling of going back in time. Al the

furniture was the original from that era, the hardwood floors shone from a fresh scrubbing; the whitewashed wals made the smal area look larger. Ransom looked at the

framed pictures on the wal. It was of the area during the Civil War. Union solders stood around a bivouac with Gen. George Washington.

"I get the eeriest feeling from this picture." Ransom hugged herself trying to control the goose bumps and the shiver that went up her back. Warm hands rubbed her hands. She

leaned back and tilted her head up to catch the pale features of her lover.

Cougar's voice was low and deep as she spoke. "It seems so familiar to me; I can almost smel the wet, wool uniforms and the sweat of horses and tack."

"Déjà vu?" Ransom asked, for some odd feeling had struck her when they came through the underpass into Bakerton. But she shrugged it off as just being in a new place.

"Do you believe in that stuff, Baby?" Cougar whispered in her lover's ear.

"I never thought of it before." That is until I met you, she thought to herself.

"I thought I heard someone out here." A short thin woman in her very late 80's strode into the room. Her pure white hair swept back in a bun at the nape of her neck gave her

a very domineering presence. Her light green eyes twinkled when the two women jumped at her voice. "Can I help you ladies?"

Ransom tried to find her voice, the first word that came out cracked. Clearing her voice she gave the older woman a smal smile.

"We would like a room if you have one available?"

The older woman gave them a bright smile showing off her dentures.

"To be young again and in love. If I was only 70 years younger I'd give ya both a run for your money!" She gave a short laugh at the looks on their shocked faces. "What? Do

ya think our kind was just invented in the last 30 years or so?" She chuckled. "By the way my name's George Washington." She held up her hand when she noticed that

Ransom's mouth started to work. "Don't go there little one, Ma had a wicked sense of humor. I say she had lack of imagination." She grabbed Ransom's hand in her frail one

and puled her to the stairs in the other room. "Come with me, you two are in luck. You're the only ones here besides some dorky businessman. You can have the President's

Room for as long as you like."

She showed them into a large room. Against the one wal was and old wardrobe and a chest of drawers. What got their attention was the huge four-poster bed covered with a

hand made quilt.

Ransom wrapped one arm around her lover and leaned into her side. A bright smile lit up her face. "It's beautiful!"

"My grandma made that quilt just before she died. And it's been on that bed ever since." She grinned at their grimaces. "Of course except when it's at the cleaners. I'l let you

two get settled in. Breakfast is at 0730 sharp. Sleep wel, not like you're going ta get any sleep but just thought I'd be polite." She laughed as she walked out the door. They

could hear her say "Youngin's" as she made her way back down the stairs.

"Animal, can we go get something to eat? I'm starving here."

"Sure, Baby, I'm kind of hungry myself."

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The Cliffside Inn was never so glad to see two people leave in the entire time they had been serving the al you can eat seafood buffet. The employees were waiting for the

two women to just pul up their chairs to the bar and dig in.

Ransom pushed back her chair, rubbing her hands across her stomach she groaned. "I think I'l walk back to the inn, I'm stuffed!"

Cougar looked at al the crab leg remains in front of her lover and wouldn't doubt it a bit that she was ful. She blushed at al the shrimp tails in front of herself and bit back the

comment she was going to make. "I think we'l push the Hog back, cuz I feel just as ful as you look." Ransom folowed blue eyes to her protruding stomach and grinned in an

evil way.

"How about afterwards we work off some of these calories?" Her eyebrows wiggled above mischievous green eyes.

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Cougar slowly undressed Ransom, dropping her clothes to the floor one piece at a time. Once her lover was completely naked she stood and gazed at how the light of the

moon coming through the window cast a mystical glow around her body.

"You are so beautiful!" She puled her own shirt off over her head. She stopped when she felt warm lips touch her stomach and travel lower to the waistband of her leather

pants. Fingers floated across her skin as they moved their way down with the release of each button on her fly.

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George lay in her feather down bed and listened with sharp ears, she could hear the soft moans coming from the young couple's room. "For eternity girls, for eternity." She

roled over and drifted off to the lands of dreams.

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Taking their time they explored each other's bodies as if it was the first time they had ever touched, long stroking of fingertips across smooth skin bringing tingles to nerve

endings. Cougar lay upon her back with Ransom astride one thigh, holding onto her hips she held her upright as they moved against each other. Their wetness coating each

other's bodies and mingling together. Cougar ran her fingertips up her lover's sides to the bottom of her breasts. Cupping them, she brought her thumbs across sensitive nipples

bringing them to hardened peaks. Ransom moaned at the feel. Leaning forward she offered them to an eager mouth. Fire raged through her body the second she felt the warm

tongue flick the tip. Lips closed over it and sucked until she was writhing. Placing her hands on Cougar's breasts, she massaged her breasts until she too was moaning.

Releasing one breast she moved to love the other the same way. Feeling Ransom's center throb against her thigh, she knew she was close to the edge. Wrapping her hands

over her back she puled her down for a deep kiss. Slowly she wrapped her tongue around her lover's and sucked it into her mouth. She felt shocks go right to her nether

region as Ransom pinched her nipples. Breaking away from their kiss she gasped.

She knew they were both very close to reaching the pinnacle so she puled Ransom down to lay on her chest and raised her leg to give more contact. They moved faster

against each other. Timing it just right Cougar entered her from behind. Ransom's thigh pressed tight against her bundle of nerves, as Cougar's hips thrust upward. She carried

Ransom with her up and over the edge. Their screams bounced off the bedroom wals, al that could be heard were smal gasps as the tremors jumped through their bodies.

Sharing a gentle kiss, they professed their undying love for each other and fel asleep in each other's arms.

After an embarrassing first few moments at breakfast with George teasing them, they got on the Hog and headed towards Shepardstown. They were on back roads headed to

nowhere in particular when Cougar saw the signs for the Gettysburg Battlegrounds. Puling into the smal parking lot, they parked the Harley. After shedding their leather

jackets and helmets they walked along the trenches that are stil there from the battle. They read each of the bronze plaques that were stationed along the way to the

watchtower. They were drawn to the tower. After climbing the many hundreds of steps, they came to the top and looked out over the open fields. They could see for miles

upon miles, almost being able to envision the battle between the states below them. Cannons where stil sitting on ridges to the east of the tower, angled downward to shoot

down into the trenches. A fine misty fog roled across the fields looking almost like soldiers running to their deaths, saltpeter and sulfur laced the air with a thickness. Their

mouths became dry with the taste. Sounds of rifle fire, screams of pain, the sounds of hoof beats and the clashing of sabers rang out into the air as the women sat above the

ridgeline with picnic baskets watching the battle below. Cougar felt Ransom shiver and wrap her arms around her waist. The heat from their bodies brought them back to the

present with a jolt.

"Cougar, did you feel anything strange just a few seconds ago?"

"Oohh yeah, spooky, unexplainable, X-Files stuff!"

Ransom looked up into darkened blue eyes to see a battle rage she had only seen twice before. "I can see you leading the Calvary with a saber in your hand and yeling from

horseback."

Cougar leaned over and kissed her forehead. "And you were most likely sitting up there with the womenfolk watching." She replied with a smal smile. "What would make a

man fight harder than his soul mate waiting for him after a battle?"

A pensive look came over Ransom's face. "Ya got me on that one, I can't think of a single thing."

Walking arm in arm they headed back for the parking lot, passing dorky looking tourists in their golf shirts, plaid shorts, and loafers.

"Baby, if I ever even think of dressing like that, please shoot me with my own gun!"

Ransom looked at the dorks and shivered. "Only if ya do the same for me?" Shaking their heads they continued walking.

On their way back to Charlestown, they stopped in Shepardstown at the Yelow Bank Restaurant for lunch. They were served the same kind of food that people would have

eaten during the Civil War era. For once neither one of them could clean their plates. It was stil early so on their way back they sung back towards Harper's Ferry. They went

into the smal shops where hand dipped candles, soaps and herbal remedies were made, and found the little shop where they made home made ice cream. They now stood on

a smal bridge and watched Malard ducks with their babies in the water below. Ransom had found in a brochure that this bridge was named Hog Aley, and that captive

soldiers were thrown here amongst the hogs to be torn apart. Ransom shivered at the thought of a pig eating a human. They rounded a corner and came to stand in front of the

John Brown Museum. The house was built pre-Civil War, and in each room was a scene that had been set up with wax figures. Some of the clothes on the figures were original

from that period. A smal speaker box was set up in front of each scene, when the button was pushed a voice would tel its history. Cougar almost came out of her boots when

the wax figures started to move.

"My Gods! This place gives me the creeps!" she whispered to her lover so that no one else could hear.

"Me too, let's get outta here before I have a heart attack."

The last wax figure they saw on the way out was that of John Brown. Cougar's heart jumped to her throat as she looked into his cold life-like eyes.

She grabbed Ransom's hand and puled her out the door, after walking a couple minutes they found a bench and sat down close to one another.

"I think they stuffed old John and stuck him in that house."

"EEEWWW, Cougar, that's morbid!" Ransom slapped her in the shoulder. "You watch too many of those old creepy movies."

Cougar started to hum the music from the movie Psycho, when green eyes turned to look at her, she jumped her lover and they roled off the bench into the grass. They were

wrestling around when Ransom noticed spit shinned boots by her head. Her eyes traveled up the dark green pant legs of a Park Ranger uniform to find smal beady eyes

looking down at her.

"Is there a problem here, ma'am? Is this man bothering you?"

Cougar's head popped up from where she had buried it against her lover's neck. She got to her feet and towered over him by more than a foot. Reaching down, she puled

Ransom to her feet. Steel blue eyes shot daggers into the man. "My wife happens to like when I bother her." After hearing this, the man's mouth dropped open. "So if you'l

excuse us, I'm taking her back to our room so I can bother her for the next 12 hours."

Ransom took her hand and they walked away chuckling at the man stil standing with his mouth open.

"You are a very bad animal!"

"Wanna punish me?" She wiggled her dark brows.

"Most definitely!" She grabbed Cougar's ass as they made their way back to the Hog.

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Back at the inn they were surprised to see George sitting on the swing with another older lady. She was most definitely a member of the blue haired ladies society. Her shoulder

length hair had that light blue tint to it. Ransom often wondered why they had their hair tinted in blue or pink. It would always remain a mystery to her; she didn't have the guts

to ask any of them.

"Youngin's this is my lady friend Betsy. This very tal dark one is Cougar and the pretty little one is her wife Ransom." She grinned at the blush on their faces. "There the ones

who made al that racket last night and drove off the businessman." Their faces showed shock at the news of what they had done.

"Ohh I'm sorry, George," Ransom apologized. "We'l make monetary restitution for any problems we've caused." Her eyebrow cocked at the two old women now laughing at

her.

"Don't worry about it, honey," George forced out between laughing.

"No, don't worry about nothing!" Betsy echoed her lover. "We ran the old pervert off ourselves!" They were laughing so hard that tears flowed down their faces. "Nothin' like

two wrinkled up old women chasing each other through the house butt naked."

Cougar looked down into amused green eyes and winked. "See and you're always complaining about me running around naked in our apartment. I could do it down the hals!"

She got smacked in the shoulder for that one.

"I am not even gonna go there, but there is someplace I want to go." Her eyebrows wiggled up and down. George and Betsy caught the look and laughed al the harder.

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Each giving George and Betsy a hug they headed out the door and back towards DC. It took them less time to get to the city than it had to leave; they had caught the interstate

at the time when everyone was already at work. They puled up at Ransom's apartment and parked the bike. Cougar picked Ransom up along with their bag and carried

everything up the stairs. She dropped the bag and carried Ransom into their bedroom, without missing a beat they fel to the bed.

"My legs are kiling me!" Cougar moaned.

"I didn't tel ya to carry me up the steps, but it sure beats climbing them." Dropping a kiss on her lover's jaw she then snuggled up against her.

"That's not why they hurt, baby, I think it was what we did last night." She pinched Ransom's ass. "I can't bend in a pretzel like I use to ya know, after al I'm older than you!"

"What a lame excuse, animal, 4 years ain't nothin!" She slapped Cougar in her stomach. "Just wait until we're in our 80's and see what we can and can not do!" Cougar started

laughing at a picture that ran through her mind, much to Ransom's amazement she laughed harder when she looked at her.

"What is so damn funny?"

"Walker races in support hose and diapers."

Ransom grabbed a pilow, put it over her lover's head, and jumped on her. "You'l be wearing diapers before me old lady!"

After their roughhousing they lay halfway on the floor and the bed with Zeus looking down at them.

"Baby, what would ya say ta us moving into one apartment instead of going back and forth between the two?"

Ransom roled over and propped her head up on Cougar's chest. "How about if we ditch both of them and get a bigger apartment outside the city?"

"But we have ta stay with in the district, remember that stupid law the City Council passed." In a whiny voice she quoted. "Al city employees must reside in the Columbia

district"

"Ahh fuck 'em if they can't take a joke! We'l give 'em Sarah's address and we'l move ta Virginia!"

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Two days later they were moving into a smal house in Springfield, Virginia. Their commute was about 25 minutes at the most; it was a straight shot up 95 right into the cop

shop. Once they had every thing set up they looked around and started laughing. Nothing matched; in fact the place looked like they decorated it with stuff found set out for

the garbage men.

"Baby, I feel like a bag lady!" Cougar whined while giving Ransom her puppy look.

"Next paycheck we'l go get some new furniture, OK?"

"OK, lets go bless our new bedroom."

Thank the Gods they had no neighbors close by otherwise the cops would have been there to issue tickets for disturbing the peace to them. The next day two-exhausted Sgt.'s

showed up for work after their short vacation. They received funny looks from the other officers as to the way they were dragging ass and how their clothes were mismatched.

Rourke looked out of her office and saw them at their desks, she yeled for both of them to get their asses in there. Cougar mouthed an "oh oh" to her lover who just shrugged

her shoulders and grinned. Giving her sister a huge smile, she dropped into a chair and threw her feet up on her desk. Cougar stood behind her with her hands on her

shoulders.

"Problem, Sis?"

"Ya could say that! You two moved out of the District. Are ya nuts? If any one finds out about this your ass is grass!"

"That's why I put down your address. They'l just think we're one big happy family." She grinned.

Cougar had a strange look on her face, her brows dropped down over her nose. "How'd you find out we moved?"

"Your landlady caled." Rourke's eyes bulged as she saw the ring on Cougar's finger. "Is that what I think it is?" She pointed.

Two toothy smiles came over the couple's faces. Ransom nodded her head. "I decided to make an honest sex slave outta her."

Rourke came around her desk and gave them each a huge hug, she had never been happier for her little sister. And thought it was about damn time she found someone to boss

around besides her.

"There are hearts breaking al over the city tonight!" she joked. "You two are going to have to come over to my place so we can celebrate." She went back to her desk and sat

down. "I got you two new officers for your command van. They should already be there getting everything ready. And be gentle on them, they're coming from burglary dept.

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Approaching the command van from the back of the aley, they were about to slide the side door open when they heard struggling and grunts coming from inside. Fearing the

worst, they puled their guns and stood on either side of the door. Cougar showed three fingers, teling Ransom that she would slide the door then. On three Cougar went high,

Ransom dropped low and just about gave the officers inside heart attacks. A black female officer had a disheveled white female officer hog-tied with radio wire.

"This is interesting?" Cougar said to Ransom. "I'm pissed; they never taught me that at the academy."

"Ohh, you must have missed that class, its SM 101." Ransom put her gun back in her 'ho' purse and gave the two officers a wicked grin. "So, whatcha doing?"

The black officer looked down at her partner then at the two Sgt.'s before her. "Uuuhhmm… You see... SHIT!" She smacked her partner in the back of her head. "It's al your

fault AGAIN!" She stood up leaving her partner struggling on the floor of the van. She held out her hand to Ransom. "I'm Sgt. L. O'Riely and that's," pointing to her partner,

"Dumbass, who tried to pick up a hooker and bring her back to the van!"

"Did NOT! She folowed me."

"Yeah, after ya showed her a twenty dolar bil and ran!"

Cougar looked to her lover and laughed. It seemed that they went from one extreme to the other where their partners were concerned. "Go ahead and untie her, if she steps

out of the van shoot her."

Green eyes peeked out from under brown hair at the word shoot. She looked back over her shoulder at O'Riely. "L. you wouldn't shoot me...would ya?" Her answer was a

huge toothy grin. "Oohh shit!" she mumbled. "OK, I'l be good. By the way I'm Sgt. L. Raven. Every one cals us Double L."

The four of them sat in the van waiting for the johns to start cruising; it gave them a chance to get to know each other.

"Tel us how you got transferred to Vice?" Ransom asked their two new partners.

"It was her fault!" O'Riely pointed to Raven. "We were investigating a BE on the NE side of town, when al of a sudden I hear this loud scream. I take off running and find

Dumbass on the ground being attacked by a K-9 dog. The next thing I know the dog is yelping and I hear a shot fired, I thought she shot the dog. Until I see the K-9 officer

with his gun in his hand. His dog runs over to him stil yelping and Raven's roling around on the ground holding her shoulder."

"He shot me cuz I bit his dog's ear, but I only did it cuz the damn thing was trying ta steal my Zingers!" Her green eyes narrowed. "No one steals my Zingers!!!"

Cougar and Ransom looked at each other then the other two. Cougar cleared her throat. "What was K-9 doing there?"

"He said he was letting his dog relieve itself." O'Riely gave them a smal shrug of her shoulders. "We think differently."

Ransom tilted her head. "Why's that?"

Raven gave them both a big grin. "Paybacks. I kinda stole his dog's yelow rubber ducky one day and he's stil pissed about it."

"OK. Wel, it's about that time, Princess."

"Ready when you are, Animal. If you guys hear the code word 'ransom', radio for a cruiser."

Two heads nodded at them as they left the van and made their way around the block and back to their normal spot on the street. Ransom was strutting her stuff up to a car. As

she was leaning in through the window she got the strangest feeling; the hair on the back of her neck stood up. She puled back from the window to hear Raven's voice over

her earpiece yeling "SNIPER!" She looked over at Cougar who had her hand up to her ear and was looking around trying to see where the gunman was. Ransom caught a

flash from the building across from her. She ran and jumped at Cougar just as she heard a snapping noise. She roled to her side trying to get to her gun and froze when she saw

the blood covering Cougar's chest.

She threw her body over her lover when she heard shots fired. O'Riely's voice was heard over her earpiece caling for back up and officer down. She heard a loud shot ring

out and then a yel to go with it. Then Raven was at her side. She puled Ransom off of Cougar and ripped her shirt open looking for where she had been shot.

"You lucky bitch. Ransom put your hand over the hole and press down. I'l be back in a minute."

Tears flowed down her face as she looked at al the blood on her lover's chest. A deep, sharp pain was tearing at her insides as she looked down into her calm face. "Don't you

leave me, Cougar! You hear me don't you leave me here al alone!" She buried her face in her lover's neck and sobbed. "I can't lose you!"

"I'm not going anywhere, Baby." Ransom lifted her head, tears flowing down her face. "It's just a little hole, got any Band-Aids?" She tried to sit up but Ransom forced her

back down.

"Don't move animal, the ambulance is on it's way." O'Riely and Raven came running over with the first aid box out of the van. Puling surgical pads out of the box Raven put it

over the entrance hole then roled her over and put one on the exit hole.

"You're damn lucky it went right through and didn't hit anything!"

Ransom moved so that Cougar's head was resting in her lap; she brushed back the dark hair off of Cougar's forehead. "Raven, what happened to the sniper?"

"Ooohh I don't think we have to worry about him anymore." She puled her 357 Magnum out of her double shoulder holster. "I got the bastard with my pea shooter."

O'Riely pushed everyone back from the scene and directed the ambulance up onto the sidewalk. Within minutes they had Cougar on a stretcher and her and Ransom were on

their way to the hospital. No sooner had they left than Rourke came skidding to the scene in her car. After her two officers explained what happened they went over to the

building where the sniper had been. Taking positions outside the door with weapons drawn they entered one at a time to search the room. They found the body of the sniper

with what was left of his face.

"Which one of you got him?" Rourke asked.

"That would be me." Raven grinned at her Capt. "Guess my aim was a little low, I was aiming for a forehead shot." She shrugged her shoulders. "That's what he gets for

shooting Cougar and me."

O'Riely and Rourke both looked at her with raised eyebrows.

Raven held her arms out to the sides. "What?"

Rourke looked at her. "You have a vest on?"

"Uhhmm...yeah." She puled her shirt open and showed them. "See it went... son of a bitch!" She pushed her finger through the upper part of the vest over her left shoulder.

"Right through! Cheap ass things!"

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Ransom was sitting in the hal waiting for word about Cougar when her sister, O'Riely and a bleeding Raven came down the halway. She got up and fel into her sister's arms

sobbing. "Why Sarah?" she cried. "Who was he and why did he shoot Cougar?" Sarah pushed her back down in the chair and told Raven to go get her shoulder fixed before

she kicked her ass.

"The guy that shot Cougar was a drug lord, the same one who arranged the drug pick-up that got Jackson kiled. But we don't have to worry anymore, Raven blew his head

off." Ransom cried harder, burying her face against her sister's chest she held on for dear life. O'Riely whispered to her Capt. that she was going to check on both Cougar and

Raven.

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Cougar was stil sleeping after her surgery but her roommate was wide-awake and playing cards with her partner, O'Riely. Ransom sat in a chair right beside her bed, her head

resting on her lover's chest with her arm across her stomach. Rourke was in the nurse's station on the phone with the cop shop, she was trying to get information on the sniper.

A long deep groan came from her chest, rubbing her face she said goodbye. She was stil rubbing her face when she stepped into the room where her officers were.

"I've got some news on our sniper." Three heads turned her direction and waited. "They found a note in the guy's pocket along with a bank receipt. He was paid 50 thousand

to take Cougar out." Fresh tears ran down Ransom's face as she listened to her sister. "The note had a name on it, it was Delany." A deep growl came from Ransom at the

thought of al the stuff Delany had done to them and now he was stil trying to get them from jail.

"I'l kil the bastard!" She went to stand up but was puled back down.

"That's my job, Baby." Cougar wasn't surprised when her lover fel on her and ravaged her mouth with a deep kiss. Breaking the kiss because Cougar gasped, Ransom saw

that she had hit where she had been shot.

Rourke moved closer to Cougar's bed; she hesitated at first but thought it only right that she be the one to tel her who had shot her.

"Cougar, the sniper that shot you was the drug lord who set up the pick-up where Jackson was kiled. I'm sorry."

Cougar's face turned beet red, the veins throbbed in her temples and neck. Rage ripped through her body as she pictured the night that her lover was kiled. She closed her

eyes, her whole body tensed so much that she was ridged in the bed. Her fists clenched on the side rails hard enough to make them groan under the pressure. When her eyes

opened to look at her Capt., Rourke would have falen over if the look had been for her. However, the ice-blue eyes were seeing something no one else could. As Ransom

watched her lover struggle with her emotions, she did the only thing she knew that could bring her back from the brink of violence. She leaned next to Cougar's ear and started

to whisper to her. Her hand reached up to cup her lover's face, warm fingers caressing her cheek as she tried to bring her back. Placing a soft kiss to her temple she puled

back. Taking Cougar's chin in her hand she turned her face to look at her.

"It's over now, you don't need to avenge Jackson. She wouldn't want you to do that. She'd want you to move on with your life and to remember the good times you two

shared." Ransom ran her fingertips across dark brows, letting her fingers trail down and across soft lips. Leaning forward, she softly kissed her. "I love you, Cougar Jacolby."

Blue eyes focused onto green. Letting herself fal into them she sighed and puled Ransom against her chest and gave her a tight hug. She whispered into her ear, "I love you

too, Ransom Justice."

"Baby, it's Ransom Justice Rourke Jacolby. And don't you ever get shot again! Do you hear me?"

"Baby, I didn't want get shot to begin with!"

Three faces broke out in smiles at the couple's bantering.

"How come ya never say that ta me, L?"

O'Riely roled her brown eyes back in her head. "Because you're always doing something to deserve it. Dirty Harriet!"

"Oohh, I guess you're right." She smirked.

"Anyway, I caled the jail to have the asshole moved into solitary until we could send someone over there. Someone saved the taxpayers a lot of money, the guards found him

with a shiv in his chest. They think that the drug lord's people got him when they found out that their boss was kiled doing a job for him."

Cougar sighed. She puled Ransom closer to her chest and placed a kiss on her head. "It's al finished." She looked over to Raven, her blue eyes pinned her where she laid.

"Thank you for saving my life, I wil always owe you."

"Nothin' to it, I loved blowing the asshole's face off!" Raven gave her a very evil grin that made Cougar wonder if she had al her marbles.

Cougar turned to Rourke and smiled at her. "Can we keep these two?" Rourke laughed at her, shaking her head she glanced up at her officers from beneath raised brows. "You

guys are stuck with each other, no one else wants ya! Since everyone is OK, I'm going home to tel the wife the bad news. You guys are on paid leave until after the

investigation. Stay out of trouble!"

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George brought another platter of pancakes out to the kitchen table and put it down in front of her two friends. "So are we al going out tonight? Betsy has been driving me

nuts about going dancing at a bar."

Cougar looked at Ransom and smiled. Very wicked thoughts went through her mind as to what she wanted to do on the dance floor with a certain little blond. "Sounds good to

me, how about it, Baby?"

"Can't let the ladies down now can we? But first we have some business to attend to upstairs."

After they had left the table to retire to their room, George got on the phone to her lover.

"Betsy, you are not gonna believe the youngin's! They're at it again!"

The end

Cougar's Ransom

By Larisa

Hecate3366@frontiernet.net

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