#probably in

Wherein I exploit the hell out of the Do It Because We’re Undercover and Need to Look Absorbed Into Each Other Trope. XD

Maul didn’t even have time to properly gasp before his back hit the wall and Shiv was kissing him.

They had been posing as a married couple -- which was not actually awkward, they knew each other well enough to convey a great deal of information with a glance, and being in close proximity to each other was nothing they weren’t familiar and comfortable with -- and keeping an eye on several targets in the crowd while a few of the others were breaking in through the back of the building so that Brody could slice into the computers upstairs in the offices above.  The thought being that Maul was eye-catching enough that if people were looking at him, with his red and black patterned skin, they wouldn’t really pay too close attention to Shiv and mark him as a clone.

And it had been going perfectly fine, which was why Maul had no idea how the hell he ended up against the wall with a tongue in his mouth that didn’t belong to Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Shiv wasn’t pulling any punches or faking it, either; he wrapped one hand around the back of Maul’s neck and had his own head tipped over to the side, their mouths sealed together, tongues sliding against one another.  It was so much that Maul actually flailed out a hand as if he could brace himself by clutching at the wall he was against, trying to get enough air through his nose as Shiv held him there with body-weight.

He’d never had any interest in Shiv like that, but in that moment, he suddenly understood how it was that it his sergeant could walk up to the zeltron police officer who had arrested them and walk out five minutes later with a date.  And then keep seeing her on the semi-regular.

It lasted long enough to leave him feeling a bit dizzy, then Shiv drew back just enough to nudge his nose against Maul’s, a quick gesture of playful affection.  And he was smirking. “Sorry, we had the wrong kind of attention on us.  I wanted to get the right kind, instead.”

It took a few breaths to even start to catch up. “--why the self-satisfied look?”

Shiv smirked even more broadly, eyes bright, pulling back just a fraction.  Not enough to remove the intimacy of the pose, though. “Remember our camping trip with Tano?”

It took Maul a pathetically long time to piece it together, but when he did, he actually laughed and groaned at once, remembering his own words, first to Tally, but then encompassing Shiv was well:

“I’m not kissing you--”

and

“Either of you.  Ever.”

“I didn’t kiss you, you kissed me,” he said in the present, face hot, knowing that he was going to get ribbed hard for this later on.

Idk why but this looks like their wedding picture