Prekrasnyj Polkovnik - Beautiful Colonel

   As had been their custom over the past few months, Mac found herself at Sergei’s apartment tutoring him in English and preparing him for college entrance exams.

          It had been a very stressful week for Mac.  Her caseload wasn’t heavy, but it was filled with boring cases that required more paperwork than actual litigation.  There was an awkward phone call from Mic the other day that at first had been good, but rapidly deteriorated into an argument.  Why he even bothered she didn’t know, and earlier this evening was the icing on the cake.  The blond had been a set up for the Admiral, but Harm had ended up flirting with her most of the evening.  Just when Mac thought she and Harm might be able to get things right this time, in comes another blond and there went Harm chasing after her.  Mac let out a heavy sigh.

          “What is wrong prekrasnyj polkovnik?”  Sergei asked with those Rabb ocean blue eyes staring into hers.

          “Nothing, it has just been a long week Sergei” she said as she quickly looked away- it was too much to see Harm’s eyes in his brother’s gaze.

          She found herself searching for differences and could only come up with three obvious ones between the half brothers.  Sergei was a few inches shorter than Harm, his hair a dirty blond- quite a few shades lighter than Harm’s dark brown and Sergei’s accent.  They shared, however, many of the qualities that Mac so loved in Harm, the loyalty, compassion, zeal for action and depth of character…. She let out another sigh and reached up to massage her neck.  The muscles tensing with her thoughts.

          “Here prekrasnyj polkovnik, let me” Sergei jumped up on the back of the couch, his legs on either side of her and placed his hands on her shoulders.  He began digging his fingers into her sore muscles and she groaned in pain.

          “I am sorry, but you are very tense.  Relax and I will make you feel better.”  He lightened his touch a bit and thought his brother was the stupidest man on the face of the planet.  Anyone with eyes could see how she looked at Harm.  Every time he tried to bring this up to his brother it would end up with Harm telling him to mind his own business and a change of topic, but he was pretty sure his brother wouldn’t be happy if he walked in on them as they were right now with Sergei’s hands on Mac.  He was also willing to bet that some thoughtless action or words from his brother led to most of this tension he was slowly working out of her.

          Granted this amazing woman was a few years older than him, but he was very attracted to not only her sexy body but her strength of will and courage, and he could go on.  He would have asked her out had it not been for the obvious looks and interaction between her and his brother.

          He had promised himself not to let any thoughts of her past his fantasies because of his brother, but he was getting tired of seeing her so upset and frustrated because of his brother’s fears.

          He dreamt of holding her and trying to make her at ease, but he knew this could never be, but he thought it would be enjoyable….

          Sounds interrupted his thoughts, Mac had let his fingers work their magic and was now leaning her head forward so that his hands could work on her upper back, moaning her pleasure and relief at his touch.

          Her mind had wandered to another time, where sitting on a couch while Harm’s hands had worked out stress caused by a seemingly endless night of translating Russian documents.  How badly she had wanted to turn around that morning and kiss him, but what really surprised her was how badly she wanted to turn around and kiss Sergei.

          No, she thought, she couldn’t do that.  It would be wrong on so many levels, besides given Sergei’s infatuation with Lt. Singer, he was probably just like his brother- only interested in blondes.  But his hands felt so good and the gentle motions and patterns he was rubbing against her back and shoulder muscles were beginning to affect muscles and points on her body his hands weren’t even near.

          Sergei leaned in closer, he rationalized his move to himself by saying it would give him better leverage to work out the knots he was finding, but really he just wanted to be closer to this beautiful woman, to smell the light citrus scent of her hair.  This was dangerous he thought.  He could easily see himself leaning in slightly more, placing soft kisses on the curve of her neck and letting his fingers find their way around to….’Stop’ he reprimanded himself.  It wouldn’t be right.  He would be taking advantage of Sarah, taking advantage of her feelings for his brother, of her loneliness caused by his brother not to mention a feeling of betraying his brother,  But it had been so long since he held a woman in his arms. 

          He was sure his brother thought he had something going on with Lt. Singer, but after seeing an angry look cross Mac’s face when he had mentioned her one evening, he had not seen her since.  He just liked to tease his brother with the thought there might be something between himself and Lt. Singer.

          He must have hit a tender spot in her back because Mac let loose a half pain filled, half relief filled moan louder than the rest and it sent all thoughts of Harm and how wrong it would be out of Sergei’s mind.

          “Shhhh zdrovo edinitsa, I am sorry” he whispered as he brought one hand up and brushed the hair from her neck, leaning forward, placing a light kiss on her bare neck.

          Not sensing any resistance, he slid down between her back and the back of the couch, sliding one arm around her waist drawing her back to him as he placed more light kisses on her neck, dipping down below the loosened uniform collar.

Translations:

Prekrasnyj- beautiful

Polkovnik- Colonel

Zdrovo- precious

Edinitsa- one

All translations from http://ftp.vpcit.ru/cgi-bin/dict/bobo/word

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