Title: Seduction for Dummies

Characters: Jane, Lisbon, the hot mail room guy

Genre: Romance/Humor

Prompt: Lisbon has a very subtle way of flirting... with the mail room guy.

Written for chizuru_chibi / Chiisana Minako in the mentalistprompt fic meme on LJ.

Swaying her hips that provokingly was just grotesque. Lisbon wasn't able to remember when she the last time purposely drew that much attention to her body. At least it was lunch break and hardly anyone was around to watch her making a fool of herself. Her smile felt frozen on her lips and she wondered how any man could fall for this cheap farce. Still she was too stubborn to chicken out now and continued stalking from her office to the kitchen, sticking exactly to the game plan.

She had no idea what on earth was sexy about tucking her hair behind her ear, but someone had told her that it was a seductive gesture, so she performed it every five steps – just in case. In the kitchen he was already waiting for her, smiling brightly and raising an eyebrow upon her entrance. Lisbon had expected a certain bold behavior of him in this situation, but the rapturous delight he was displaying now made her feel nervous. Casting down her eyes, she chose to ignore him in favor of the coffee machine. Aloofness to impress a man was something else she was skeptical about, but it was apparently an approved method of flirting.

Reaching for a mug, she 'accidentally' brushed against his biceps and felt him shiver under her palm. A secret rush of joy about her own abilities washed through her and she turned away from him to hide the smile that tugged at her lips.

Then suddenly, unexpectedly, he turned the tables.

The warmth of his hands was barely shielded by the thin fabric of her shirt.

His breath teasingly danced on her flushed neck.

Enticing, his whispering voice entered her ears.

"Turn around. Look."

She froze, immediately felt embarrassed when she remembered that the purpose of this whole charade unfortunately wasn't doing sensuous things with the man at her side in the office kitchen. So she grudgingly did turn around and set eyes on Carlos, the hot mail room guy, who had stopped distributing papers in the bullpen and instead stared into the kitchen with a defeated expression.

That outrageous plan Jane had come up with to "help her find love" and had blackmailed her into participating in was actually working and she now knew for sure: Carlos was indeed interested in her, just as Jane had claimed.

She closed her eyes to block the sight of the jealous man out and sighed.

It was really just too bad for Carlos that she – with Jane's teeth nibbling at her ear and his fingers fiddling with the hem of her shirt – suddenly didn't care anymore about hot-blooded Latinos at all.

ღ The End