Posted by Lieutenant Cara Esmé O’Farrell (Counselor / Education Specialist) in Sometimes a Lunch Break Works Wonders

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Gravel Mardusk (Chief of Security) in Sometimes a Lunch Break Works Wonders

Posted by Lieutenant Cara Esmé O’Farrell (Counselor / Education Specialist) in Sometimes a Lunch Break Works Wonders
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Sleep Cara did, but quietly…well Cara talked in her sleep when she was really exhausted. Her combadge didn’t go off once. She woke the next morning with a mild headache from sleeping so hard. She laid there eyes closed as she woke up and then stretched to remove the stiffness in her muscles and realized something…”WHO UNDRESSED ME?!?!”

Her eyes snapped open and she looked around. She was alone, she thought. But if she was in trouble shouting wasn’t helping. A quick glance told her she was in her quarters. She sat up and took a deep breath as she tried to remember what happened after she left her office.

O’Farrell

=/\= Lt. O’Farrell, Lieutenant Commander Mardusk requests you call when you are awake. =/\= the computer said as she moved and made noise.

Computer

Gravel....the thought of him brought back a rather pleasent dream she had been having. She’d told him she loved him and then …well it was pleasant and fading now she was awake. She got up moving to the washroom for a very quick shower and then drew on an ankle length satin robe. She found her combadge still on her jacket and picked it up. =^=O’Farrell ta Mardusk. Ya wanted me ta call?=^=

O’Farrell

=/\= So now that you are rested and not talking out of exhaustion, you still love me? =/\= His tone was amused, but not mocking.

=/\= Breakfast. Come over. We should talk. =/\=

Mardusk

It wasn’t a dream. Oh…he wanted to talk. Great Cara what did you do? Other than confess you loved him in your sleep? =^=I need a few minutes.=^= and she closed the com. She changed into soft grey slacks with a green blouse and braided her hair. Then she stepped out her door, turned right and pressed his chime.

O’Farrell

The door slid open and Mardusk stood a few steps back from the door. “Hey, Red. C’mon in. Want some coffee? Tea maybe?” and he smiled at her and beckoned her to the couch.

Cara walked in, she thought she could really use something stronger than coffee or tea. “Tieguanyin oolong tea.” She smiled at him and sat, legs curled under her on the couch.

Gravel ordered the drink and brought it to the seating area. He set the tea near Cara.

On the low table was an assortment of pastries, fruit, cheese, and bread. “Have some. You slept a while, you must be hungry.” and he settled into the couch. “So… do you remember anything about after you left work?”

Mardusk

Cara picked up some type of pastry and took a bite. She hadn’t looked at the time and really had no idea what time she had left her office. Just that it was after her shift was supposed to start. At his question she put the food down and thought. “Remember? Not much. Mostly a haze of exhaustion and blinking blue dots.” She grinned slightly and then sighed and turned, facing him. “I remember Gravel, but I thought I had dreamt it.”
O’Farrell

Gravel nodded and then said “Okay. So now the question becomes: did you mean it? Or were you just talking out of a lack of filter from utter physical and mental exhaustion? I mean,I know you get turned around, sure… but you walked past your own quarters at least three times. Thus… blinking blue lights.”

Mardusk

Cara scrubbed a hand over her face. “Oh that’s a new record…” But that wasn’t the point. She looked at him for a moment, staring at his eyes. Her stomach was churning and she felt flushed. “Lack of filter doesnna make some thing false, usually it means…” Great she was going to psychoanalyze herself. She looked worried for a fleeting moment. “Yeah, Gravel, I do. I love you. It sounds crazy I’m sure. I know this, between us, is a bit of a wild ride, and ya can tell me ta pump the breaks. I didn’t mean…”

O’Farrell

“Cara… enough. Stop.” he said gently. “Just… pump the breaks on the explaining, okay? You said it, you meant it. Thats all we needed to get out there. Now eat, please. Last thing we need right now is your blood sugar being all wonky and stuff, right?” and he smiled at her.

Mardusk

Cara finished the pastry and then some of the fruit, giving the tea time to cool just a bit. Then she picked up the tea that was still hot and blew across the surface sending the steam dancing and took a sip. The heat and flavor was bracing and helped her fully wake up.

O’Farrell

“Good. Now then… I know things have moved really fast between us. But I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing… but I also don’t want to have either of us in a position where one or the other feels obligated or pressured to move faster to keep up with the other one and end up feeling uncomfortable or trapped, ya know? I mean, truth be told we both probably should discuss where we see this going and if we even think it has the depth and strength to move forward and maybe maintain something I love you too for a long oeriod of time and maybe become something even more. Now don’t get me wrong, I like spending time with you and seeing you laying on me is one of the hottest things I’ve seen in ages and I want that to see that a lot more going forward…” and he looked at her for a moment.

Mardusk

Cara listened to him as she sipped at the tea. Oh she heard him. Every. Single. Word. But whatever she thought or felt about it was kept to herself. She looked back at him. He was teasing and she knew it. “I would never trap ya, Gravel, or pressure ya. I think after last night it’s fairly obvious where I think this is going. And you obviously know how ya feel, so the only question that remains,” she took a long sip of her tea and then she grinned at him, “is what are ya going ta do about it?”

O’Farrell

Mardusl looked at her with a look of mock thoughtfulness, even tapping his chin with his finger, for a long moment before saying “Well, I guess I first have to grin like an idiot for a while and then I suppose we could go in the other room for a bit… ‘seal the deal kind of thing, you know… just to be sure this is what we said it is.” and he grinned. “Then? I dunno. Maybe I take you on a date? Thats what people whos say that do, right? They date?”

Mardusk

Cara was already grinning like an idiot. She nodded in agreement to most of his points. “‘Seal the deal?’ Oh my,” she laid a hand over her heart and batted her eyes at him, “be still my racin’ heart. You jus’ know how ta sweep a girl of her feet don’t ya?”

O’Farrell

Gravel grinned at her and leaned forward putting his face mere inches from hers. “Well, the last time I did that, you told me you loved me. If I sweep you off your feet again? Hell, you’d probably propose.” and he grinned and then put his hand on the back of her head and pressed her lips to his.

Mardusk

Cara looked slightly confused for a moment and then, piecing together sleep deprived snippets, she laughed as she began to kiss him. The laughter faded quickly as the world narrowed to the man in front of her. She started to slide both hands around his neck and realized she still held a cup of hit tea in her hand. So with one hand resting against the side of his neck she tried to reach the table to put it down, without having to stop kissing him.

It wasn’t working. She smiled and spoke softly against his mouth. “Take this afore I spill hot tea on one of us.”

O’Farrell

“Do that and we’d have to get those clothes off quickly… ” and he took the cup and grinned as he looked at her. “Oops.” and half the contents fell on his lap, the temperature not phasing him. “Guess I gotta go get outta these, then.” and he stood up setting the cup down and moving to the bedroom door. He looked back at her and said “You ever told a naked green guy that you loved him? If not, now’s you’re chance.” and he winked and stepped through the doorway.

Mardusk

Cara flopped slightly back against the cushions, eyes closed for a moment, grinning…then she crossed the room and joined him. “Ya have ta let me help. Least I can do, my tea an’ all.” Cara reached for him and soon the tea offended garments were discarded. Cara kissed him across his shoulder, feathered across his neck to his ear. “I love you, Gravel.”

O’Farrell

Gravel looked down at her and grinned. “I know… you told me.” and he lifted her up off the floor and kissed her. “And I’m glad. Because I love you too, Cara.”

Mardusk

Her nerves took off and intense electric shocks fired where his hands lifted and held her. She wrapped her legs around his waist, settling close in his arms. Cara moaned as he kissed her. Her hands trailed up his arms and over his shoulders, heat building the passion between them. She pulled back a breath to look at him and smiled, and then she fell back into him as they sank into the bed together.

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Much later Cara, braid undone, hair splayed across his arm, gently kissed him across his chest. Then rolled to his side breathing heavily, her hand finding his and gently entwining her fingers with his.

O’Farrell

Gravel lay on his back, his arm behind his head and his eyes closed… and a huge smile on his face. “Ok… you are gonna have to tell me just how a nice Irish girl like you learned how to do that. Keep that up and I may lose my Orion rep as a sexual powerhouse. Look at ya… downgrading the reputation of an entire species.” and he laughed.

Mardusk

Cara turned her head to the side and looked at him with a grin, blushing several shades of red, still out of breath. “No…worries…you can…talk…I’m…outta....breath.” She closed her eyes with a huge grin and lay there breathing for several minutes. Then she sat up, curled between his arm and his side, her gaze hot and teasing staring into his. “See tha’s the thing. I’m Irish, Grah-VEL. I can do things with my eyes tha’ other women canna do with their bodies.” Then her gaze slowly traveled down and back up the whole time she was smiling.

O’Farrell

“And you keep looking at me like that, and we will never get outta this bed.” and he smiled and then kissed her. “But out we need to be.” And he slowly sat up. He looked down at her and said “Ya know… I could stand waking up to that-” and he wiggled his fingers over her naked form, “- every morning, I think. Hell of a way to start the day, that’s for sure.” He stood up and said “Okay… shower, then food. Deal?”

Mardusk