~Subject: "Holly" mf love/romance
~From: drambo@cloud9.net (Dawson Rambo)

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                         "Holly"
                      By Dirty Dawg


Basic Disclaimer : This is a story about a man and a woman
who happen to fall in love in the workplace.

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   Holly and I had a good gig going. We'd been partners for four
years, working Narco buy-and-busts as a pair of dirtbag-biker
wannabees. Holly wore her trashy best, with the torn jeans and
middrift t-shirts, high heels and snapping bubblegum. I had my hair
long, in a ponytail, wearing the leather vest and usuala biker
garbage. The huge old Harley the department bought us for the gig
carried us to and from work. We'd racked up an impressive list of
arrests, and were looking foward to several more years of busting
bad guys.

   One of Holly's biggest assets as a cop was the fact that no one
in their right mind would ever guess that the petite dirty-blonde
was on the Job. She carried herself like a cokehead biker bitch,
but I knew the real Holly. Sweet and soft on the inside, hard as
nails on the outside. We'd been in some hairy situations over the
years, and more than our share of firefights. The small Colt
Commander .45 she carrried in her purse worked well for my little
partner, and she was a fucking dead-on shot when the heat was on.
I couldn't even think of ever having another partner, or another
best friend. Working that closely with someone, undercover for
extended periods of time tended to bond you to one another. I knew
all of Holly's secrets, and she knew all of mine...but one.

   Somewhere along the line, sometime in the last six months, I'd
fallen quietly, desperately in love with my partner. When I
realized it, I started working even harder to hide my feelings from
her. The last thing either of us needed was personal romantic
feelings fouling up our professional relationship. And most of all,
I didn't want to risk our friendship. Holly was the most special,
most beautiful woman I'd ever known, and I fancied her my little
sister. She was so small and quiet at times, it was hard to imagine
the little firebrand she could become when it was time to take down
a scumbag.

   Then we got made as Narcs, and we had to be transferred from
Narco to somewhere else. At least the brass upstairs understood
that Holly and I were great together and didn't split us up. What
they did do to prove that they had their heads up their asses was
transfer us to Vice. Hooker details and bookmaking busts. Not
nearly enough excitement to make up for getting transferred out of
Narco after six successful years.

   And the first thing they did after transferring us to Vice was
give us the shittiest assignment on the books. One that had been
waiting for us, they said. Tailor made for a team like us. This one
was going to make our careers, they told us. Front page of the
newspaper. All the talk shows. They'd probably make a television
show out of this one, they told us. A lot of ego stroking took
place before they revealed what the damn job was.

   Word on the street was that a strip bar called "Hooters" was
dealing drugs out of the back, and that some of the girls were
available for more than lap dances for a certain amount of money.
They wanted us to go undercover, Holly as a stripper, me as a
bouncer, and 'make the case,' as we were told.

   Holly and I had spent a lot of times in and out of strip bars
when we were undercover for Narco. We knew what the lifestyle was
like, what the women went through. It was a hard, rough life, and
I wasn't sure Holly wanted to go undercover as a fucking stripper,
taking her clothes off for a room full of men every night. And
that's what undercover meant to her and I: We went under,
completely under. We became new people. Shields and guns left at
home, new names, new identities. The Intelligence boys provided
good paper and backgrounds that would pass almost any
investigation.

   Holly and I talked about it in one of the interrogation rooms.

   "You know," I said. "We don't have to take this one. We can do
hooker detail. Get you dressed up in a short skirt and high heels,
and let old men talk dirty to you. At least no one..." I trailed
off.

   "Has to see me naked, right?" Holly's smile was rueful, and I
knew what she was thinking. "Ben," she started, "you know what it's
like for a woman on this job. We have to do it better, cleaner than
any of the men. If I turn this down, word will get around that I'm
getting soft, and no one will offer me any of the good jobs
anymore. Hell, they might put me back in uniform, writing traffic
tickets or some nonsense like that."

   "Holly," I said. "No one will think any less of you if you don't
want to take your clothes off for this job. No one can make you do
this."

   Holly sighed, looking at me with her deep blue eyes. "Don't you
see, Ben? They can make me. Just by offering me this undercover,
they are making me do it. If I don't...after we left Narco...we'll
never get anything ever again worth doing. Hell, they might split
us up, partner!" Her open palm came across the rickety wooden
table, and I took it, feeling her warmth. Truth be told, I didn't
want Holly up there, taking her clothes off, getting pawed by
men...but for a completely different reason, a reason that I
couldn't tell her. It was completely her call.

   We held hands for ten minutes, and then she nodded silently at
me. "Let's do it."

                              **********

    I went under first. I didn't want Holly in there without
backup. I'm a big guy, about 250, 6"3, so I had no problem doing
what it took to get the bouncer's job. Which was basically taking
out the existing one.

   I went into Hooter's one Friday night, and started throwing
Department money around like it was going out of style. I had three
dancers working my table, shaking their silicone in my face,
grinning emptily at me as I tucked twenties into their garters. I
waited until the bouncer was looking directly at me before I cupped
the nearest dancer's left breast in one huge hand.

   He was over in a heartbeat. I felt a hand close around my
shoulder, fingers digging in painfully. I turned slowly, giving him
time to back off. I knew he wouldn't; he was too dumb.

   "Take your hand off me." My voice was quiet, almost too quiet to
be heard over the pounding rock music.

   "Can't touch the girls," the guy said, like it'd taken him three
weeks to memorize that single phrase. "Gotta leave, pal. Can't
touch the girls."

   Slowly, I stood, turning in his grip. I was the same height, and
he had about twenty pounds of chemically-enhanced muscles on me.
But I had my .45 Colt Officer's Model in my waistband quick-draw
holster. And I knew how to use it.

   "I'm not leaving, asshole."

   He smiled and turned away from me. Anyone could see the haymaker
coming. The pistol was in my hand, the hammer almost cocking
itself, the motion was so automatic, and the barrel was against his
temple before he finished turning.

   "Move...and die. Your choice." Eyes as big as dinner plates, he
slowly relaxed and took a step back.

   "Is there a problem here?" I turned and saw a slimy little dude
standing behind me, a thousand-dollar suit not going very far
towards hiding the rodent that inhabited it.

   "No problem, boss," the bouncer said, his voice shaking.

   "You realize, of course, that I have to protect my girls," the
rodent said.

   I laughed. "With him? He couldn't protect a schoolbus full of
nuns."

   "Big man with the gun," the bouncer said, finding a little
backbone somewhere inside. I smiled my darkest, most evil smile and
slowly pulled the gun away from his head. My thumb hit the magazine
release and it slid out of the well and clattered to the floor. For
good measure, I worked the slide, ejecting the one lonely round
from the chamber. It bounced and clattered on the table, and slowly
rolled off the edge to the carpeted floor. The music had stopped,
and everyone in the place was looking at the three of us. I placed
my pistol on the table.

   "No gun, asshole. Now it's just you and me." I saw him thinking,
the little wheels in what passed for his brain turning. He had the
weight on me, but I knew something he didn't: Fifteen years of
akido training.

   His arm came around, the big ham of his fist heading for my
face. I caught the fist with one of my hands, stepped into it,
locking his elbow with my free arm, and levered the arm over mine.
The snap of bone was loud in the quiet club, and the bouncer folded
like a wet suit.

   I had the job.

  

                                 -2-

    It took me two weeks to find out that they were indeed selling
drugs out of the club. The waitresses were carrying the small
packets in the hands that held the tray. If you knew what to order,
you could get whatever you wanted: smack, crack, blow, uppers,
downers and inside-outers.

   But I couldn't find out of the girls were hooking. I just
couldn't ask, and my only job was to make sure that the drunk
businessmen didn't paw the girls. Holly had to come in.

   I was there the day she came in to 'interview.' She was wearing
a denim miniskirt, a pink middrift shirt that hung away from her
skin under the pressing weight of her breasts. Her long blonde hair
was tied in a bouncy ponytail, and she was snapping a wad of gum
big enough to choke a horse.

   "Wherz the manager?" she asked me, bouncing on one hip. I smiled
at her and jerked a thumb at the door marked "PRIVATE." She went
in, and closed the door behind her. Thirty minutes later the door
opened, and the manager, Tony, walked out, smiling. I looked over
and caught a glance of Holly, putting her shirt back on. I saw the
material of her skirt crossing the line of her nipples, and then
nothing. That small view of her tits sent blood lurching to my
cock. She was so incredibly hot, and I wanted to kill Tony for
making her undress for him.

   She came out, smiled at me, and left.

   "Some cunt, huh?" Tony asked me, watching me watch Holly. I
turned back to him with murder in my soul, ready to snap his neck
with my bare hands. "Yeah," I said. "Some cunt."

   "Name's Holly. She'll be dancing as Sugar starting next week.
Man, oh man, if she plays her cards right, she'll make a fucking
fortune!" An alarm bell triggered in the back of my mind, but I
didn't say a word. Not yet.

   I got off work at nine that night and met Holly at one of our
favorite bars, O'Mally's. She was waiting for me when I got there,
sitting in our booth, staring into her beer as I slid into the seat
opposite her.

   "How did it go?" I asked. Holly just shrugged.

   "Ok, I guess. He made me-"

   "I saw." We sat in silence for a few seconds. I poured myself a
beer.

   "He wanted...to see my body. To make sure that I could take my
clothes off in front of strange men." Her voice was...sad. That was
the only word I could use...sad. Instantly, my desire to snap
Tony's neck returned.

   "Bastard!" I hissed.

   "Hey, hey," Holly said, covering one of my hands with both of
hers. "Take it easy, Ben. It's Ok. He just looked. He didn't touch.
It was just my body, Ben. Not my heart. Not my soul. It was
like....oh, hell, I don't know. Like going to the doctor's office
or something. I just took off my clothes, and spun around. He
looked at my body and told me I could make a ton of money if I
played my cards right."

   Hoping against hope, I asked, "Did he mention anything about..
.?"

   Shaking her head sadly, Holly said, "No. Not a thing. Any
progress on the drug thing?"

   "All the waitresses are in on it, but I still can't figure out
who's supplying them. And that's who we want." Holly nodded, and we
went back to drinking. Four hours later, we were both buzzed. We
jumped on my bike and I took her home.

   As was my habit, I walked Holly to her apartment door. She lived
on the second floor of some converted warehouse space, in a
wonderfully decorated loft that had a wonderful view of the harbor.
Riding up in the elevator, Holly was leaning against me, her arm
around my waist, head against my chest. Her free hand was rubbing
my chest. Holly had always been a touchy-feely kind of person, and
before I'd fallen in love with her, it hadn't bothered me at all.
Now, however, it was having a different effect on me. My cock was
as hard as steel, and I wanted nothing more than to turn her head
up to mine and kiss those lips. Those sweet, soft lips.

   We walked to her door, and I unlocked it with my keys.
"Goodnight, partner," I said, turning to leave.

   "Hey." Her arm caught mine, and she turned me around. Standing
in the pool of light outside her door, her face was unreadable. "I
know... how you feel about me, Ben."

   My heart stopped. I could feel the sweat on my brow.

   "When...?" I asked.

   "About a week ago. I just...knew."

   Sighing, I looked at the floor. "Now what?"

   "That depends, Ben." I looked at her face. Still unreadable.

   "On what?"

   She looked away for a second, and then back at my face. "On how
well you can seperate your personal life from your professional
life, Ben." Stepping next to me, close enough for me to feel the
pressure of her breasts against my chest, she looked up at me,
directly into my eyes, and said, "Because the thing of it is, Ben,
I find myself wondering what it would be like to...be with you."
Her hand came up and captured my cheek, her fingernails teasing the
hair at my temples. "I find myself thinking about you and
I...together... all the time. But not on this gig, Ben. This is
just too close to what I want to do with you...to you...and I can't
have you thinking with your cock and your heart. I need your brains
and your badge on this one, big guy. Can you understand that?"

   I couldn't speak. Every dream, every fantasy, I'd had for the
last six months, was about to come true. I nodded, looking at her
face, at her eyes and nose and lips, loving the gentle curl of her
ears, the soft cupid's-bow of her lips, her long, thick eyelashes.

   "Yeah," I managed to grunt, looking directly into the most
beautiful face I'd ever known. "I can understand that."

   "Good," Holly whispered, standing on tip toes, "because as soon
as this case is over, I'll race you to the nearest motel." And then
her lips were on mine, soft, gentle pressure exerting against me.
Something happened to me then. My toes started tingling, and my
fingers went numb. My heart lurched, and then started cranking
along. A short, eager, hungry moan came from inside Holly's throat,
and she pressed even closer for a second, and then she was gone,
and I was blinking in the light outside her apartment as I heard
the click of the door lock.

   Wow.

                                  -3-

  

   Holly and I didn't speak about what I'd started to call The Kiss
the entire next week. The day when Holly would make her dancing
debut marched relentlessly towards us, and I was trying to focus on
the case, not on what was possibly the single most erotic moment of
my entire adult life.

   My history with women was spotted at best; I tend to obsess over
women that I can't have. I built intense, erotic, complicated
fantasies around them, finally working up the courage to ask them
out. Inevitably, I get turned down, and my world comes crashing
down around my ears. Holly... I'd always considered Holly way, way
out of my league, and kept my love to myself. Until now. Now she
knew, and it was quite possible that she was beginning to feel the
same way about me.

   Tuesday was the day. I went on-shift at seven. Holly was due at
eight, and she would dance until two. I got off at three. She
breezed past me without a sideways glance, always the consumate
professional when she was undercover. When eight-O'clock came
around, I listened for it.

   "Annnnnnnnnnd noooooooow, " the announcer said through the
overamplified PA system, "Dancing one stage one, we have
Spice...and dancing on stage two, we have SUGAR!" The music
started, and I watched in slack jawed, dry-mouthed amazement as the
love of my life pranced out onto the stage. She was wearing thigh-
high black leather boots, a black microskirt, a black leather bra
and a white leather vest over it all.

   She looked hot.

   She looked sexy.

   She looked slutty and nasty.

   She looked wonderful.

   She was a natural. Def Leppard was booming through the speakers
as Joe Elliot demanded that someone pour some sugar on him. Holly
moved to the music as if she'd been born to strip, showing the men
her legs and butt and tits, wiggling inside her leather getup. The
vest was off by the end of the first song, and the bra came off at
the beginning of the second. Holly worked the crowd, her face a
twisted mask of professional passion, making kissing motions with
her lips, palming her own breasts and tugging at the nipples.

   The second song ended and Holly worked the barrail crowd,
getting dollar bills jammed into her garters. My eyes were like
lasers, making sure that no one touched her where they weren't
supposed to. No one did, and I relaxed.

   A little.

   Holly danced six times that night, the outfits and her routines
getting hotter and hotter. I also noticed something else about my
love: She was enjoying herself. Immensely. The smile on her face
was genuine, and the heavy-lidded look she gave the men who tipped
her sent blood rushing to more than one cock in that place.

   During her last dance, Holly was making love to a long brass
pole at one end of the long runway, and her eyes locked with mine
in the mirrors that surrounded the place. She grabbed her tits,
tweaked her nipples and blew me a kiss.

   I almost shot in my pants. She looked so hot, so deliciously
nasty, showing her naked charms to the men in that place, shaking
her boobs and her ass, loving every eye on her, every mouth open
and practically drooling as they took in my partner's naked form.

   When she got off, Holly left by the back way. We'd agreed to
meet at her place after I got off, and I couldn't wait to get over
there. I don't know why, I just couldn't wait to see her and get
her impression of this first night.

   I got over there in record time, tapping my foot impatiently as
the elevator creaked its way to her floor. I used my key and found
Holly sitting on the couch, a cup of tea in her hand, wearing a
bathrobe. She'd just gotten out of the shower when I arrived.

   I sat on the chair across from her, concious of the fact that
she probably didn't want anyone near her right now, including me.

   "So," she said brightly, sipping her tea. "What did you think?"

   "About what?" I stalled.

   "About the price of tea in China. Christ, Ben! What do you think
I mean? About...me. About my dancing." Her voice dropped a notch.
"About my body."

   I stood and shed my jacket, stopping to unclip the .45 Colt
Officer from my belt and lay it on the mantle. Stepping around the
coffee table, I joined her on the couch and wrapped her up in my
arms.

   "I think that you are the sexiest woman I have ever known, and
I can't fucking wait for this case to be over."

   "Why?" she asked. "I mean, is it just so...we can...be together?
Or is it becuase you don't like other men looking at me, Ben?"

   I didn't even hesitate. "Both," I said. "I've been thinking
about being with you for so long, Holly. And I hate the way they
look at you. Drooling and gasping and stroking their cocks under
the bar."

   She sat up in my arms and turned to face me. "Really? They were
touching themselves?"

   I nodded, realising that she couldn't have seen that from the
stage. "You...like it, don't you?"

   Settling back against me, one palm on my chest, Holly didn't say
anything for a long time. "Yes," she finally adimitted. "I think I
did. I know that none of those men wanted to get to know me. They
just wanted to...fuck me. In the true sense of that word. I wasn't
a person to them, just a body, a set of tits, an ass...a cunt. I
was nothing but an object to them, something to be lusted after, to
be chased and caught and fucked."

   I was breathing a little heavy now, getting just a little
aroused listening to her talk that way. "Don't get me wrong, Ben,"
she continued. "I...think I'm falling in love with you, and I
couldn't be happier. And I want to be with you, Ben. I think I want
to be with you forever. But, dancing like that, up there, in front
of all those men, was...well, exciting. Liberating. It was freedom
for me, Ben. Freedom from every image I've ever held of
myself...every thing I thought I was.

   "Up there, on that stage, with my body on display, I got some
kind of...validation that I didn't expect. I mean, I know that I'm
attractive, and that I have a good body. But I've known that only
from the feedback of the men in my life. My father, my brothers, a
boyfriend here and there. My view of my own sexuality has always
been a mirror of what they thought of me. And deep in my heart, I
always felt that...that..."

   "They had to say those things because they loved you, right?" I
finished. I was beginning to understand...a little.

   "Yeah," Holly confirmed. "I guess. But when a man finds you
attractive...sexy...desirable, and you show him everything, bare
you soul, as it were, and you know that he wants you...it's an
interesting feeling, Ben. And it...turned me on. It made me really,
really hot."

   "It made you feel...nasty, didn't it?"

   She snuggled tighter against me, burrowing her head into my
chest. "Is that wrong?"

   I was stroking her hair, letting the clean, washed smell waft
into my nostrils. "Not necessarily. There's a time and a place
for... that, and a time and place for love."

   Turning in my arms, Holly looked at me. "And what this time and
place for, Ben? What do you feel like doing now?"

   "You said...I thought..."

   Smiling, Holly kissed me, and stood, offering me her hand. The
robe had parted slightly, and I could see the swell of her breasts
pushing at the material. That was somehow sexier than her
nakedness, which I'd already seen.

   "The dancing made me...hot, Ben. Very, very hot. I...took
matters into my own hands, as it were, in the shower, but it wasn't
enough. I need you, Ben. Tonight. Here. Now."

   I took her hand and stood, following her into the bedroom. Holly
and I stood next to her bed, not saying anything, just staring into
each other's eyes. Slowly, our faces inched closer together, and
then we were kissing, a true, honest, passionate kiss that about
blew my socks off.

   Holly unbuttoned my shirt and pulled it down my shoulders,
kissing my chest and slowly licking my nipples. Her breath was hot
on my skin, and my cock was threatening to punch out of my pants.
Shirt off, I stepped closer, sliding my hand inside her robe,
across her stomach, feeling her warmth as I kissed her face and
neck and shoulder. Slowly, gently, I kissed her, turning her on as
best I knew how. My hand arched up, filling itself with one pale,
perfect breast.

   Holly gasped at that first intimate touch, and then we were in
a frenzy of shedding clothes and sweaty, grasping hands. Together,
we fell to the bed, naked, rolling around and laughing. I worked my
way down between her satiny thighs and stared at her lightly furred
mons. It was leaking eager, wet lubrication, and I bent to taste
her for the first time. It was like drinking from the fountain of
youth, friends and neighbors. At that moment I knew there wasn't
anything I wouldn't do for my Holly.

   Slowly, gently, I worked her closer and closer to our first
orgasm together. My mind played tricks on me, playing mental movies
of our time together, in shootouts, bar fights, dropping suspects
together...watching her dance, shaking her tits and ass for the
drooling idiots in the bar...it call came together in a mental
collage that had me bursting with excitement.

   Holly dissolved into her first orgasm, a pink flush spreading
across her chest, her hard nipples begging to be sucked, her legs
clamping across my head as I rode her cunt. Gasping, she pushed me
away and flat onto my back, climbing between my legs, staring at my
pounding, throbbing cock with hungry, cat-like eyes. She started
licking at me, using little nips and bites, coating my throbbing
meat with saliva. When all six inches had been covered, she slowly
started working me into her mouth, taking an inch at a time and
enjoying it before moving on to the next inch. She took all of me,
happily and eagerly, down her throat, and then started bobbing her
head, setting up an intense suction that sent my world spinning.

   Too soon, I emptied myself inside her throat, and lovely Holly
drank every drop. She came to me, kissing me, and I tasted myself
in her mouth. We shared a long, intimate kiss, hands still
grasping, bodies moving wetly together. I didn't loose a single bit
of my erection, and I rolled over to finally be one with Holly.

   "Make love to me, Ben! Please?!"