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alexxmason · 5 months ago

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Radio

Warnings: none, kissing, minor fluff Word Count: 2690+ A/N: Something I took way to long on and just happy to finish. No beta reader, if you see an error YOU DON'T. I had a lot of fun writing this silly goofy ship :)

A strange and hushed sound filled the hall. It was so faint that it could be missed by sleeping officers and agents. Strangely enough, it wasn’t hard to find the source. Just down the hall and the light was on in one of the supply closets. And someone rummaging around from what it sounded like.

When Alex entered, Alder's protege was tipped toed on a paint bucket. Scavenging for something and moving things around as she muttered to herself.

“Valdez, what are you doing?” Alex said when he put his hand up to shield from the bright bulb.

Selena turned to her colleague and smiled quickly, but turned away like she was avoiding his gaze, “Oh, hey. I’m doing some light detective work,” then went back to looking behind another box of whatever Sims ordered. “You can’t tell anyone, though.”

Flashing one more quick smile and jumping down from the bucket only to move it to the other shelf and hop back on. Tip-toed once more.

It was still late and Selena must’ve snuck out of a shared room since she was only in her sleepwear, a large t-shirt, and some gray socks up to her ankles. They looked a little large for her when they were loose around her calves. If she was wearing shorts, they weren’t visible, leaving her legs almost bare. The tanned, honeyed skin was exposed to the cold air.

Alex didn’t mean to stare and when she said a hushed son of a bitch, his attention was back on her rummaging.

She cleared her throat before she began to pull her dark waves into a ponytail, and looked at him again, “if you’re gonna be here, I’m gonna put you to work.”

The half smile on her face made Alex smile a little too. She was almost humorous.

“What’s the job, Bell?”

Selena shrugged and wiped the dust from her hands, her fingers grazing the heavy scar on the back of her right hand, “I can’t pay you, but just know you’re doing me a service,” her scarred hand pressed to her heart, “Plus I’m a hell of an ally, you know?”

Her colleague bit down a smile as he agreed, “Oh, that I’m aware of.”

Alex watched Selena’s lips pressed together, keeping her smile small and light, while her chest rose slowly to contain whatever emotion she was beating down.

Maybe a silly thought. Selena sighed deeply to continue to fight the heat building up inside her when she thought about their last mission.

But he continued, “Still haven’t told me what you're looking for?”

“Can I trust you?” A trick question, but when he indulged her and said yes, it made her hum with satisfaction.

Once she got the confirmation for an alliance, Selena jumped off the bucket to check the hallway. Only Alex didn’t move from the doorway.

Almost pressed into Alex, the woman grazed past him to look around their surroundings while she explained the job, “I’m looking for the radio. Russ thinks he can hide it from me, but he underestimates me.”

The rivalry between Selena and Russell over the radio was entertaining to the team. She turned the knob once to change the station, and he changed it back. He wasn’t even listening to it, she told Alex, but it was enough to have her take it from him any chance she could. It helps with focus, Selena would say. But Adler would take it back and call it a distraction.

Now, he took it a little further and hid it completely from Selena. And she would sniff it out.

Back to work, Valdez went back to the shelves once more and started her search, Mason just said, “Sims could just ask him.”

“That would spoil the search,” she was joking. Russell would not tell him when he knew she was looking for it. That or Selena was enjoying the challenge, “Plus, he wouldn’t help me.”

It didn’t matter anyway, “I’m gonna find it,” Selena turned back at the captain, “Now if you're gonna just stand there and watch, I’ll have to kick you out. I don’t have a lot of time.” There’s a small taunt in her voice at the end. Like a laugh kept in.

“You’re the boss,” he told her before giving her the faintest smirk.

Alex rubbed his eyes a bit to wake himself up as he let out a quiet yawn when he began to search behind some boxes in the corner of the small room.

The woman caught his yawn while she went on with her search, clearly he had been woken up. Likely by Selena, or so she thought. He was just in some shorts and a plain shirt. Tight around his chest a bit. Her wandering eyes jumped from her searching and to Alex. What made her smile to herself was the hairnet he had on, keeping that slick hair back and protected.

But the man caught it and stopped to look at her, “What?”

“Nothing.”

While she went on to look for that radio, Alex stopped and stood up, “you’re smiling about something.”

Selena stopped what she was doing, still standing on her would-be stool. “I’m just admiring your dedication.” Alex seemed a bit confused until Selena pointed to his head, “Now I know how that hair stays neatly put.”

He let out a possibly amused huff and kept back a chuckle as he took off his hairnet, “You mocking me?”

“I’m admiring a handsome man,” she responded.

The small comment made Alex sigh. Still with a grin he tried to fight, but it only made Selena feel a little pride.

Her lips curled and hid a slight fluster. He ran his hands through his hair to slick it back.

Whatever she felt didn’t spur when Alex crossed his arms and said, “I thought we were looking for your little radio.”

“Yeah, but you know what,” Selene waved her scared hand while smacking her lips, “I guess I was distracted by the company.”

With a smile, the agent continued to search and sniff out her radio.

Even after some more rummaging and a little time passed, no luck. The two were coming up empty handed, and Selena let out another hushed son of a bitch.

As she put her hands on her hips, her eyes dropped to her colleague when he crossed his arms again and just eyed her. Not glaring but gazing with soft eyes as she asked with a smirk, “What?”

Alex shook his head and said, “Why are you wasting your time when you can go buy one?”

“Mason, I’m on a short leash, you know?”

Embarrassing to admit but it was true. Adler was strict when it came to his protege. Always keeps Selena close by and never usually out of his sight unless it concerns their mission. And especially if he was accompanying her.

It was obvious that Russell’s tunnel vision didn’t leave any room for R & R. Even if it slipped in from time to time, but not for Bell. She was a special case.

Even Park kept her on this tight grip.

Bell couldn’t be distracted and her superiors would make sure she was an effective team member. This mission and Perseus would come first. Not her need to listen to tunes.

Selena didn’t want to drag out the conversation of her lack of freedom and instead mentioned, “I haven’t looked in the store rooms down in the basement or whatever it is, so maybe we can look there.”

But the captain didn’t move at all and only just leaned up against one of the racks of supplies. His eyes stuck on her and Selena smiled at him with some confusion.

She asked Alex again what it was, “Why are you looking at me like that now?”

“You know, if you wanted just to get me alone, there are easier ways to do it.” He was fighting a light laugh at this moment and a smile when she let out an amused gasp.

Both agents kept their soft laughs and chuckles to not wake their colleagues.

Selena shook her head and her ponytail with it, “Alex, I thought you’d think of me more highly than that. If I wanted to seduce you, I wouldn’t do it in a dusty and cold closet,” her hands turning up to their surroundings then to her homely attire, “or looking like this.”

But the man rolled his eyes with a heavy sigh, a smile as he said, “I don’t think you’d need to wear anything to seduce me.”

That slick comment made Selena grin like a fool. She tossed her head back and laughed before looking at him with a slightly flushed face: “Oh, Alex Mason. I’ll have to keep that in mind.”

After another moment of hushed laughter, Selena decided that she’d cut her losses in this location and try another place for her search and Alex shrugged.

“I guess I’m gonna go get whatever sleep I can for a couple hours.”

She gave him a silly smile on her face but shook her head, “You should rest. But I’m gonna keep looking for it. I don’t have much time.”

But Alex found her obsession with this search excessive, and just asked what was the point of it, “You can just get another one.”

“That’s not the point. Want me to be honest?”

He nodded and she said, “It’s the nerve of him. That he knew I wanted to use it and then he just hid it. It’s a little cruel. I can barely leave enough as is. But if I find it, then I will have something that’s kinda mine.”

There it was, a subtle confession. Being cooped up at the safehouse, even if she had the opportunity to join Woods and Mason on their last mission, Bell still didn’t have much free will. She couldn’t understand why, she hadn’t remembered a time she felt so confined. No freedom. Not even enough to find comfort in something so small.

“It’s that important to you?” He asked her.

Selena confirmed it and told him it was. Music was one of the few joys in life. Or that’s what she told him. Selena brought up dancing but that was another topic she didn’t want to delve into.

“Sorry for wasting your time,” there was a bit of disappointment in her tone.

But Alex told her, “No, this wasn’t a waste of time. Not with you.”

Selena hummed with a smile, “Ah, smooth,” and sighed when he looked at her with his own slight grin.

When the two stopped smiling and their soft enamored gazes, Selena told him, “But thank you, Alex. I appreciate the help and gesture.”

But he answered her with it being no problem and held his hand out to her. To help her down for the paint bucket when she held onto him, “I guess I should leave you to rest.”

Alex yawned a bit before he said, “I guess so,” but still had the same soulful eyes and enamored smile.

But Selena didn’t let go of Alex’s hand. Her eyes stayed on him when she tried to beat down the flutter in her chest and the heat in her cheeks. She was sure Alex had noticed her slight fluster when Selene felt hand entangle with hers, his thumb grazing hers.

“You could always just call it a night and go to bed too,” he suggested.

Selena just waved her free hand and said, “Maybe later. I’m a little restless.”

The suggestion was a smart one, she could sleep but there was an aching heat in her chest. One that rushed to her cheeks while she kept the same flushed smile she’s had since Alex entered the small space.

“What?” Her colleague asked when he saw a certain look in her eyes.

With a faint hum, Selena vaguely admitted, “Just a stupid thing. So silly, honestly.”

“What is it?”

Selena's soft voice confessed, “I was just thinking about the last time we were alone like this,” She smiled, “It’s funny because I had that same urge to kiss you then like I do now.”

A deep and amused exhale leaves Alex’s lips, smiling with a slight embarrassment across his face at the memory.

He could only muster up a small, “Oh?” Alex couldn’t even notice that their hands were still clutched together at some point in time.

“Oh yeah,” Selena nodded but quickly glanced at the doorway and then back at the captain. She tapped on his chest with a grin, “But I was also thinking if I had to make the first move again, I might look a little needy.”

She was beating and fighting against that terrible aching heat in her chest when she saw a subtle fluster in his expression.

“Well, I don’t know, maybe I like it,” he told her before his free hand pushed back any fallen dark hair.

Selena asked with a bit of pride in her tone, “Ah, so I guess I should keep it up then?”

Her colleague hummed with satisfaction and told her, “I wouldn’t hate it.”

If Selena was so bold, she’d drag this banter out. Tease the captain a bit more, maybe. But she could only give him a soft smile, “It’s late. I guess I should let you sleep.”

When her colleague agreed with a deep huff, Alex took his hand from hers and began to follow her out the door of the storage. But Selena turned on her heels with a small smile, “But I do appreciate the help.”

Her hands flat on Alex’s chest, when she saw his subtle smirk, Selena didn’t hesitate to plant a soft kiss to his lips. Almost immediately, she felt his hands wrap around her, embracing her tightly and deepening her kiss.

She slipped her tongue into his mouth, and Selena fought back the softest moan feeling his tongue on hers. An intoxicating heat building inside her core and along her cheeks while Alex’s hands moved from her back to her face.

He didn’t pull away; instead, while he held her lovely face, Alex guided her gaze up. To meet her eyes with a pleased sigh and a slight smile when he cut her off, “If I don’t leave now, I’ll never get any sleep.”

As Selena’s eyes wandered and smiled against his lips, she couldn’t argue or protest. Not with those soulful eyes on her.

The agent pressed her lips once more to his before pulling from him, “You’re the boss.”

Finally, the two made it out of the storage closet and into the cold hallway. It was almost refreshing on Selena’s hot skin and her flushed cheeks. She was still smiling and Alex had a shameful grin.

He pushed back his dark hair, slicking back any strays and into the net carefully and Selena complimented him. Something about him being still so handsome, but it’s the sound of a cough that caught the two’s attention.

“Bell,” a commanding tone in Adler’s voice as he stood at the end of the hall. He was carefully stepping forward a bit before he turned his body to his protege.

Even though he was still in his sleepwear, he was still modest. Sweats and a white top. His blue eyes snapped between the two sternly, and he cleared his throat as he asked Selena directly, “I’m not interrupting anything, am I?”

Whatever smile Selena had disappeared immediately when she caught her superior’s gaze. She straightened up her posture and quickly answered, “No. We were just talking.”

“Well, it’s late. Get some rest, Selena,” Adler instructed her and moved out the way for her to pass back to their shared room.

Alex didn’t speak, but he watched Selena as she shrugged and told him, “Good night, Alex.”

A small nod and wave of her hand before Selena passed Russell down the hall to head to bed. There wasn’t a long moment of silence when Adler eyed his friend and colleague, “I need Sel completely focused,” and before Alex could say anything, Russell immediately gave him a final order, “Don’t distract my agent.”

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