A Game Played Alone


She loved him, but that wasn't enough.

He searched for the truth, but he didn't want to hear it.

She loved him but she wasn't enough.

He wanted poppy, roulette, games, challenge.

She was solitaire, no challenge in that.

Nothing to raise the pulses, kick in the adrenaline.

Why couldn't she be poppy?

Just for one night.

Entice him, excite him.

How would it feel, his hands wrapped in her hair.

His eyes devouring her body as she lay naked on the cama before him.

His body pushing against hers, pushing into hers, harder, deeper.

His stubble raking hers breasts, arousing her nipples in readiness...

The sudden glare of the overhead lights blazing into life shocked both of them as much as a gunshot would have. Both heads turned in unison as the passionate almost trance like haze they had been in was shattered, and there, standing in doorway looking almost as shocked as they were, was Emily….

“Err… I was just…err, well, looking for you dad, I just,,errr was wondering when you wanted to go….Sorry, I…I’ll just “ The door was abruptly closed.

“Shit” Cal started to disentangle himself from Gillian “Oh bollocks” as he stabbed his foot on the ‘lie detector’ on the floor...

Cal sat in the semi darkness. Most of the lights in the office now turned off, and the last of the staff long since gone home.
The soft filtered light of his escrivaninha, mesa lamp was shining down on the files scattered across the surface. His pathetic attempt at a reason for staying so late at work as he had so many evenings lately.

Emily was off on her first un parented holiday with some friends. He was concerned obviously, but ultimately he knew his daughter would be ok. Despite everything she had grown up with common sense and he knew he could trust her. No, any fears he might entertain about Emily were...

A/N: I was bored, so i made a short oneshot about Torres mostly, with alittle of Lightman in it too. After Unchained. No relationship implied. I know this isn't good.


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