Touched Chapter 37: A Lead

“What else does that mouth do.” He leered as he pulled back from the kiss, keeping his arms either side of you up against the wall, caging you in. 

You were blushing so hard your mouth couldn’t even formulate a comeback so you just stood there gazing bashfully into his golden eyes as he stared you down.

“You have no idea how gorgeous you are Y/N.” He suddenly said softly, his current statement a complete 180 from his previous question.

His face changed from predator to protector at his trademark top speed and you melted. 

“I’ve got a bit of homework to do tonight unfortunately so I won’t be much fun.” He said casually as he pushed off the wall. “Come and keep me company though, I like you best when you’re snuggled up next to me.”

“Uh.. ok?” You said shyly and followed him back out to the lounge room. 

“Hey uh, the day you saw your mum get taken..” he said as he sat down on the lounge and took his hero visor off, patting the seat beside him. “Did you see the guys faces or anything?” 

“Umm… I…. I did…” you said, thinking back to that day.

“Oh? You could see from where you were behind the fence?” He asked.

“Umm no, I saw one of the guys faces when I walked past him…” you said, still trying to drag that image forward in your mind.

“Wait, so you did walked past the guy?” Hawks said in surprise, “I didn’t know about this part of the story. What happened?”

You told Hawks about how you had seen the black car come towards you up the street as you were walking down the street and how it had stopped out the front of your apartment and you just pretended you didn’t live there and went to walk past but the guy grabbed you and you thought he was going to arrest you but he just ushered you on and that’s when you hid in the neighbours front yard and watched them through a gap in the fence. 

Hawks listened carefully to your story then he broke into a wide smile at the end. 

“I’m so proud of you chicken.” He said gently as he gazed at you. “You really walked past some guy who you thought was going to take you and you stuck to not turning tail and running away. You’re definitely not timid.” He added as he leaned over and pecked you on the lips. 

You smiled with pride and nodded. 

“Yeah, I’m hardcore now.” You said with a big smile.

“Ohhhh~.” He purred, his expression turning from innocent pride to something a little more devious,”don’t go saying stuff like that around me you’re making me wanna ditch the homework and study up and on human anatomy.” He leered. 

“Can you focus for one minute without your mind going there?!” You squealed as you reached behind you and grabbed a lounge cushion and smacking him with it. 

His melodic laugh rang out through the small apartment. 

After dinner and discussing details about what you remembered of the guys who took your mum, you settled down to watch some TV while Hawks looked through the RTA folder, searching for something that might help him find your mum.

He hadn’t said anything to you about her having been taken by people who seemingly weren’t from government but the fact that he had bought it back up, made you a little suspicious.

“Keigo is my mum ok?” You asked him suddenly from where you were lying on the couch between his legs.

He looked at you from over the top of the folder.

“What makes you ask that, chicken?” He asked softly.

“I just… get the feeling that something is wrong…” you said with a bit of worry in your voice. 

Hawks put the folder down and cupped your face in his hand as you continued to stare up at him with worried eyes.

“Do you trust me baby?” He asked lowly.

“Yes.” You replied confidently. 

“Then don’t worry, trust that I’ve got it covered.” He replied with a smile as he maneuvered slightly so he could kiss your lips. 

He pecked them lightly once then squished your cheeks together so your lips would pucker up then he kissed them again, rapidly, multiple times.

“It’s like kissing a puffer fish!” He exclaimed excitedly with a devious chuckle.

You squealed and tried to pull back to escape his kisses but he wrapped a leg over you to pin you down and continued kissing your squished face merrily.

You made all kinds of noises as you fought hard, finally managing to break free and back out of his grasp.

“Ohh?” He leered cheekily, “my chicken has flown the coop!” 

He jumped up and shot towards you with his wings out.

You screamed playfully and ducked behind a chair before tearing off down the hallway and hiding in your room. 

“Ohh chiiiicken…” he sung as he crept towards your room. 

You crawled under the bed and waited with baited breath, watching as his shadow fell across the doorway and his feet appeared.

“Hmmmm…” he hummed loudly, “I wonder when she could be?” 

Next minute a feather slid up beside you and poked into your sleeve, dragging you out from underneath your bed.

“Oh hey.” He greeted brightly, “fancy bumping into you here?” He said cheekily as the feather lifted you up and plopped you down on the bed.

He was on top of you in an instant, pinning you down gently so he could kiss your lips again. 

“That’s not fair!” You pouted playfully as he pulled back, “you have feathers to help you find me.” 

“Ahhh.” He sighed, “true, but all is fair in love and war.” 

“So poetic.” You replied sarcastically as you pushed him off. 

“I’ll give you my feathers next time if you beat me in a wrestle.” He said mischievously as he pinned you down again. 

A playful struggle ensued and you were pretty sure he let you win in the end but he made you work for it and you were sweating and breathing heavy as you finally got on top of him and pinned him down. 

He lay under you, allowing you to pin him down by the wrists as he smoldered up at you. 

“You got me chicken.” He said seductively, “what are you gonna do now?” He said with a smirk. 

You remained silent for a bit still breathing hard, thinking about what to do then suddenly a bold thought came to you and you leaned your head down to his.

You hovered your lips just over his like what he usually did to you and gently took his bottom lip between your teeth and tugged it slightly.

Hawks’s eye shot wide open and he stared at you. 

“Oh my gosh that’s so embarrassing.” You squealed as you release his lip from your teeth, embarrassed that you had been so forward. 

You let got of his wrists and slapped your hands over your face, feeling the heat rise in your cheeks.  

“That was so fucking hot.” Hawks said in awe as he sat up with you straddling his lap, “wow!” 

“Noooooo.” You wailed, “that was embarrassing!!” 

“No it wasn’t!” He replied wholeheartedly, “you made the first move! That’s sexy as hell in my opinion.” 

“I’m all sweaty, gonna have a shower now, BYE!” You squealed as you jumped off him and ran out of the bedroom, leaving a very confused yet turned on Hawks on your bed.

“She’s slowly getting there.” He thought with a smirk as he hopped off the bed and tucked something into his pocket as he walked back out to the lounge room to continue reading through the license plate folder. 

He sat back down and opened to where he had left off. 

“Managed to skirt the question of where her mum is too.” He thought proudly. 

As his eyes scanned the page a name popped out at him and he let out a enlightened and amused chuckle. 

“Well well… isn’t this interesting… is this a coincidence or not?”

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