When the Cards are on the Table… Jessie will play. ;) Because I oddly, for the first time, felt like doing a Jescker fic… I know, shame on me. Everyone's been doing Jescker fics lately, and I didn't want to until I started getting tired of just the Conby fluff fics. I wanted to make Becker moan instead… and waking up in the morning to a naked Becker… well that's not so bad, is it? ;)

(Naked Mr. Becker in M rated portion of the story this chapter is only T)

I'd like to dedicate this to my favorite Primevalian, and the future Mrs. Mansfield, PrimevalChick! Hope you like it, Thea!

Jess walked into the ARC with some paperwork, taking the twist and turns through the building without even looking where she was going; by now Jess knew this place like the back of her hand… unlike Abby and Connor, who were still getting used to the new layout-she sometimes saw Connor walking through the building and almost running into things; one day he nearly destroyed one of her computers because was running and had no idea it was there. But Jess was good with directions, whether in a building, on a road, or inside a computer database, she could master it.

She came up to one of the locked doors, still intently reading the papers in her arms, and swished her arm-band thing over the scanner, opening the door. She walked in, looking up for the first time. "Oh!" she nearly yelled, seeing a shirtless Becker standing in the room… wet and gleamy. "Sorry! Uh, sorry," she apologised, but couldn't help not looking away from Becker's shirtless chest.

"Oh it's alright," Becker said, grabbing his dry shirt, but not putting it on yet. "I had a bucket of water spilled on me; I just came in here to change." He paused and looked at the papers in Jess' now slightly shaking hands. "Did you need me for something, Jess?"

Jess' eyes widened and she blushed a little as she thought of some rather inappropriate responses she could have to that right now… She cleared her throat. Get it together, Jess, she thought as she shook her head a little, trying not to stare at the shirtless Becker. "Yes," she finally replied. "Lester said you need to take a look at these files. I think they are some kind of new rule layout about workers and "downtime"…" she paused, her eyes narrowed at the papers. "I really don't know what it means. Lester just told me to hand them out to everyone here. I'm willing to bet it was Philip that thought this up, though."

Becker came over to her, getting closer and he still hadn't put his shirt on, he took the papers and glanced at them. "Yeah alright… as long as Lester knows I probably won't read them."

"Oh I think he expects it," Jess laughed. She saw Becker smile at that and she found herself intoxicated by his bare chest again. Her staring was interrupted by a black shirt as Becker slipped it on finally. She thought for a moment he'd noticed her staring, but when she looked up at his face, he was still looking disapprovingly at the papers. She sighed, a little relieved that she hadn't been caught ogling him.

Jess took a deep breath and walked past Becker to get what else she'd come to the locker room for-Her bag. She grabbed the bag and said to Becker as she walked out, "See you later." He nodded and smiled a little at her. She saw him then throw the papers in the trash, as she had already known he would. She chuckled while walking down the hallway. It was the end of the day, so she was glad to finally be going home… though she kind of just had the perfect way to end a day at work.

When Jess got home, she threw her bag on the couch and almost skipped into the kitchen. She gleamed happily as she poured some juice into a cup and kind of danced to no music.

Connor walked into the room and laughed at Jess. "Well what are you so cheery about?" he asked.

"Oh," Jess said, embarrassed. She'd forgotten that today had been Connor and Abby's day off; they'd spent it all here at her flat apparently… she didn't even want to think about what they'd been doing. "Nothing, really… I just had a good day," she replied with a cheerful smile.

"Uh-huh," Connor said skeptically, the look on his face saying that he knew it was something more. But instead of pressing her, he just shook his head with a little smile and went to sit on the couch, flicking on the telly.

"Where's Abby?" Jess said to him from the kitchen, but she kind of wished she hadn't.

"In the bedroom," Connor replied, the biggest and smuggest grin coming across his face.

"Oh… ew," she added to herself. She loved having the two of them here, and they were obviously a couple, but… well they were in her apartment… using her spare bed. She just tried not to think about it.

Jess took her glass of juice and grabbed her bag off the couch, heading to her bedroom. She closed the door behind her. "Oh!" she remembered that she still had to give those papers to Connor and Abby. She put her bag onto the bed and rummaged through it… immediately she realized that this wasn't her bag. "Oh no," she exclaimed. "Oh… crap. I must've picked up someone else's bag by mistake." She sighed, a little upset with herself. She sat down on the bed, frustrated. "Great… now I have to go back to the ARC and get my bag, explaining to whomever's bag this is that I didn't mean to take it," Jess complained to herself.

Jess looked at the bag again; she caught a glimpse of an ID inside it and picked it up. "Captain Hilary Becker…" she read the ID. Her eyes lit up. "Well… I could always just take it back tomorrow," she said with a sly grin. Then she sighed. "No, that would be wrong, Jess," she tried to convince herself. "But…" she reasoned. "I could just take a small look…"

After a little while of internally debating whether she should look inside the bag or not, Jess eventually gave in to her curiosity and rummaged through the bag. Inside it she found a bunch of licenses for guns and weapons, ARC/military bag things, ID's, etc. But towards the bottom of the bag… there was a picture. Jess picked it up; it was a picture of a very beautiful woman. She flipped it over, seeing what was written on the back: My dearest Hil, I will miss you forever and always cherish the times we had. Love, Melissa. The picture was dated five years ago. Jess figured this must be an old girlfriend of Becker's.

Jess figured this girl must've really meant something to Becker if he kept a picture with him like this… Jess sighed a little, carefully placing the picture back and closing the bag. She decided it was time to stop looking through Becker's things.

The next morning, Jess went into the ARC with Connor and Abby. She went straight to the locker room, glad to see that Becker was in there already. "Becker," she said, getting his attention. "Uh, I think I took your bag last night by mistake," she said, feeling really guilty about having looked through the bag. She was sure her cheeks were red with guilt.

"Oh thanks, I was looking for that," he said, taking the bag gratefully. "I would've had a hard time without it today. Thanks Jess." He smiled at her touching her arm thankfully before heading out the door.

"Oh wait!" she stopped him. "Um…" she pulled out the picture from her pocket. "This fell out of it," she lied badly, but Becker seemed to buy it. He took the picture, his face a little… sad? She couldn't ever tell what he was feeling, really. He tried not to show any emotions.

"Thank you," he said simply.

"Who is she?" Jess pressed on, determined to find out who the woman was. "I-If you don't mind me asking, of course," she added, nervously.

Becker stared at Jess for a moment, probably wondering why she was so curious. "Melissa. She was my fiancée at one time…" he said with just a little disappointment in his voice, but his face looked absolutely normal.

"Oh… so… what happened?" Jess asked in a small voice.

"She broke it off. Apparently I wasn't dedicated enough to her for her to stay…" he said with the tiniest hint of remorse in his voice. "But it doesn't matter; that was nearly five years ago," he said. "Don't worry about it. I moved on," he reassured her, seeing the pity look on Jess' face. Jess didn't think Becker was being honest, but in truth he was… he really didn't care anymore. The only reason he held on to Melissa's picture was because he was the best thing he'd ever had and it reminded him of a happier life he once had. But he didn't miss Melissa anymore.

Becker left the room, leaving Jess thinking about whether she'd been out of line to ask Becker about his past love-life or not. He didn't seem to mind her asking, but honestly… you could never tell if Becker cared or if he didn't. Not unless he wanted you to know. Jess shrugged it off; she didn't have time for this, not while she was at work.

Connor was at the new ADD when Jess got there. She walked up to him, a hand on her hip. "What are you doing? This isn't your job," she said, but with a mocking smile on her face.

"Oh, sorry. I just haven't had a chance to look at it since it's… upgrade," Connor said, getting out of the chair.

"It's fine. I did a pretty good job though, didn't I?" she boasted happily.

"I gotta admit… yeah, you did. It's amazing, actually." Connor leaned against the chair, watching what she was doing.

Jess bit her lip, glancing up at Connor for a second. She wanted to ask him something, but she was nervous about asking it… "Connor?" she stared cautiously.

"Yep?" Connor didn't take his eyes off the ADD screen until Jess was just silent for a moment. He looked down at her, curiously. "What is it, Jess?"

She bit her lip again. "Um… do you-do you know when the last time Becker had a girlfriend?" she asked warily.

Connor lifted an eyebrow. "Uh… I think it was some girl named Melissa. Becker talked about her once when all of us went for some drinks. First time I'd ever seen him drunk; he spilled secrets like a bank exploding extra cash," Connor laughed.

"Oh really? Well… what else did he say?" she asked, never looking Connor in the face. She was too embarrassed by the fact that he probably knew why Jess was asking about Becker.

Connor didn't want to say too much, but he did know why Jess was asking. "Only that he never, uh… 'romanced' a girl unless they were in a relationship. Exact words he used, too," Connor added. "In other words, he never has one night stands, I suppose."

Jess' eyes narrowed. "Wait… but if Melissa was his last relationship… that was five years ago," Jess said skeptically. Surely Becker hadn't 'romanced' a woman since five years ago. Jess thought. Why did he use the word 'romanced' anyway? Jess shook her head; she was getting off topic.

"I don't know…" Connor said honestly. He was a little wasted that night too, so he didn't exactly remember everything Becker had talked about. "Wow… if he hasn't had sex in five years…" Connor smiled, trying not laugh.

"Oh wow… poor Becker," Jess said, now believing that this was true. She thought about it for a while. That was terrible… she felt bad for Becker. But also, this was kind of what she wanted to know. Now it was all up to her. Becker is single right now… and she was kind of sure he liked her. So what was Jess going to do? Becker didn't know it, but the cards were on the table… she knew his secret. And she could have fun with this…

TBC! A Two-parter or maybe three-parter. Not sure yet, but next Chapter is the M rated portion. (Please don't read if you don't like M-rated. M-rated for sex. just warning)

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