Six Senses

Now , who else but sweet , innocent
Ryo would secretly have kissed every
man on the team ?

Lucky stiff.....


Enjoy, as much as Ryo did !


Moon








Ryo would never kiss and tell , despite what he'd told JJ
about how far he'd gotten with Dee . " Just Kissed " seemed
so innocent back then . As if anything concerning Dee could
possibly be innocent . But that's another story , another book ,
and Ryo is still struggling with his part in the plot .

Ryo is gay . Not straight , like he'd hoped . Not bi , like Dee .
Gay . He's accepted it ; it's not a secret anymore . But
even Dee , who knows nearly all his secrets by now ,
doesn't know them all .

Ryo has some things he keeps as all his own . Oh he's no
fool , he knows Dee has secrets too . Knows there's more to
the looks Dee sometimes gives JJ when the younger man
isn't looking back . A remembering , painful kind of look .
That's a book Ryo doesn't want opened either . Because
if he never reads it , it can't be true .

Right ?

But it's true Ryo kissed JJ once , and Dee doesn't know .
Not that is was a sexual kiss at all . It was two weeks after
Max Fork's horrible death . Ryo had gone to the stations'
basement to check on some evidence held in storage there.


He did not expect to find anyone else in that place where
another officer had died , least of all , JJ .

Halfway down the steps he heard it . A kind of whimpering ,
choked sob . Cautiously , his hand went to his side arm .
Three steps from the landing , he saw a figure turned away from
him , standing in the beam of light from the overhead lamp .
Feet apart , arms outstretched in firing stance , hands locked
around a magnum .

JJ . Shaking from head to toe , in full panic mode , finger on
the trigger of his gun .

Ryo froze in midstep . One sound , and he would either have to
shoot or be shot himself . JJ was muttering under his breath ,
silvery head darting this way and that at whatever memories
assailed him . Ryo started backwards up the steps , slowly ,
silently ...

JJ crumpled then , sobbing . He sat on the floor like a
frightened child , arms wrapped around himself , rocking .
The gun lay on the floor beside him .

Ryo watched in an agony of indecision. Next thing he knew ,
he was moving down the steps and across the floor , sweeping
the gun out of range with his foot . So lost in his misery , JJ
didn't respond , not even when Ryo knelt beside him and gathered
him in his arms .

Gradually , the crying and shaking subsided , and JJ made to pull
away . Ryo only tightened his hold .

" Don't tell anyone , " JJ whispered into Ryo's shirt . " Please ? "

Ryo rubbed his back . " I won't . But next time you have to come
down here , tell me . I'll come with you . "

JJ sniffed . " Yes , Ryo-senpai . " After a few moments he moved away ,
and Ryo let him this time . They stood while JJ swiped his eyes and
fixed his rumpled clothing . Ryo retrieved the gun . He checked the
safety and handed it back to JJ , who quickly reholstered it .

"Thank you , " JJ said , looking down .

Ryo smiled . " Go wash up . If I run into Drake , I'll tell him you
got held up searching the storage lockers , okay ? "

JJ looked up at him , a strange expression on his face . He shook
his head slightly . " I should have fallen in love with you instead , "
he said . And before he turned back up the stairs , he leaned in ,
took Ryo's face in his hands , and kissed him on the mouth .

Ryo was still standing there , amazed , as JJ's footsteps echoed
away on the floor above .

Ryo kept his silence about that kiss , and the next .

In the early days of his sexual relationship with Dee , they could barely
keep their hands off each other . At home or in the office , it didn't
matter .

"Meet me in records room three " , the note said, making Ryo
feel giddily like a teenager again . He leaves it on the front of
Dee's computer where he's sure to see it . Dee arrives shortly after
in the appointed spot . Before he can flick on the light , Ryo has
him up against the wall. He tastes tobacco and coffee on his tongue ,
hears the startled gasp he makes as he presses into him , groin
to groin .

" Tag , you're it , " Ryo whispers against his mouth , and is out the door
before Dee can respond . In his haste to get back to their office first ,
he almost collides with someone in the hallway .

Dee .

" Whoa , slow down , baby , " Dee smiles . " Wait til we're home before
you jump me . "

Ryo gapes stupidly . " I--ah--just a minute , " he stammers , and back
tracks to the records room at top speed . He turns the corner just in
time to see a rather shell-shocked Drake emerge .

" Oh my God --I'm so sorry --" Ryo blurts , running over .

Drake'e eyes widen in panic . He holds the file in his hands in
front of him like a shield . " Jesus , you're not going to kiss me again ,
are you ? " he pleads .

" No --no , oh , I thought you were Dee ! I asked him to meet me --
and then you came in --and I had left the lights out --and --"

"Ryo , " Drake interrupts , holding up a hand . " I don't want to
talk about it . I don't want to think about it . And most of all , I
don't want Dee to know about it . "

" Okay , " Ryo says , appropriaetly cowed . Drake stomps off , muttering
under his breath about how no place on the staion is safe anymore...

The kiss Ryo shared with Ted was brief , and chaste , and thankfully
free of drama . Someone had insisted that spin the bottle be made an
annual tradition at the precinct's holiday party . ( Ryo later heard Ted
was the instigator ) . After trying desperately to get the bottle to
land on Janet all evening , Ted looked on in dismay as it landed on Ryo
instead . Worse yet , Ryo had just been enlisted by Janet herself to
take her place while she ran off to the ladies room .

Ted blushed to the roots of his hair , looking frantically at the bottle ,
at Ryo , and the ladies room all at once . The penalty for a pass was
twenty dollars in the Christmas fund ( Toys for Tots drive for Mother
Lane's orphanage , a worthy cause ) . Not only was Ted broke , he couldn't
bear the catcalls from his fellow coworkers , for fear Dee would wander
over to see what all the fuss was about .

Ryo took pity on him , and took matters in hand . Or lips , really .
Hand on the back of the neck , tilt, press , done . He shrugged ,
and smiled . It's just a kiss , he said .

Janet chose that moment to return , loudly proclaiming that Ryo
had stolen her kiss , while Ted tried to bury his burning face in his
hands . If at all possible , Ted was twice as scarlet when Janet was
done kissing him .

Ryo has been kissed by Berkeley only once , but once was
enough to sense the man's passion and force . An excellent kisser ,
of course , like everything else he did , Berkeley was perfect at that
too . Probably perfect in bed as well , if perfect is what Ryo wanted .

Dee is not perfect , of course , and neither are his kisses . Sometimes
it's too early in the morning , and neither of then has brushed their
teeth . Dee tries hard not to kiss Ryo after a smoke , but sometimes
he just can't wait . Sometimes it's too wet , or too much teeth or tongue .
Sometimes , Ryo's not in the mood , especially if he's tired , or Bikky
is nearby .

But Dee is sweet , and patient , and always looks him in the eye
afterward , and smiles . As if each kiss is a gift he can't believe he's
gotten , and he's thanking Ryo for them . Ryo can still taste Dee on
his mouth when the other man whispers , " I love you '" , and know he
means it And if that's the only kiss Ryo tastes for the rest of his life ,
that's just fine with him .