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Dinner with the XO (Kord)

Posted March 24, 2019, 1:44 a.m. by Lieutenant Tiastri Ezial (Chief Engineer) (Melissa Aragon)

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Kord was taking a drink when she mentioned age gap and nearly choked. He tried to suppress it though a couple of drops managed to find their way down his chin.

“If that’s a problem, then I understand. But it won’t affect that I consider you not just my XO but also my friend. I’m not some ‘straight from the Academy’ child with some starry eyed crush on her Commanding Officer. And I hope I get to know you better.” To her credit, she wasn’t swooning, being seductive or whining. She was merely stating that she felt a connection… and even if he didn’t, she was willing to accept that as well. “I’m sorry if that was too forward. But you ‘did’ ask.” She tried to laugh and lighten the mood.

Tia

Kord coughed politely into his napkin and smiled.

“The age gap isn’t a problem for me, I can’t let it be a problem if I’m going to have any chance at a somewhat normal social life even for a very brief time. However, when others find out how wide that gap actually is, they usually decide to keep the relationship strictly professional.”

Kord appreciated her matter of fact attitude. He’d been around too long to care about keeping unnecessary secrets anymore.

  • Kord

She had to clench her jaw to keep from giggling when the mention of the age gap had nearly made him choke. “Well… Since you brought it up… How big is the gap? 3000 years?” Her voice remained steady and calm as if 3000 was the same as five. Tia had thrown the number out there willy-nilly, but had remembered enough about time travel anomalies that after she said it, she half wondered if he’d say ‘yes’. She had no plans on running, regardless his answer, though. But he’d brought it up so now she was curious.

Tia
CE

Kord looked at her appraisingly for a moment.

“In a round number? Try over forty thousand Terran standard years.” Kord said then observed Tia’s reaction.

  • Kord

She blinked. She couldn’t help it. But she then smiled and picked up her fork. With a shrug and a wink, Tia smiled and nodded to him. “That’s funny. I never would have put you over thirty five thousand.” She took a bite of her dinner and looked at him. This time the young woman’s gaze was softer. “Kord… the age doesn’t bother me. Honest. The question is, will it bother you? To be honest, I am now vastly curious to learn even more about you. The things you have seen, experienced, and endured. I can’t imagine. And I know it’s not all good, no one’s life is. But I want to know. And if I can, add to the good side of your experiences. But… only if you want. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live that long. I’ll settle for friends if that’s all you want.”

She shut up then, realizing that, once more, she was rambling. Before moving another bite of food to her mouth, she murmured, “If you can put up with my unceasing jibbering, that is…”

Tia

Kord leaned back on the chair and looked at Tia for a long silent minute, the weight of his many myrieteris in his eyes.

“In my experience entanglements of love and lust can undo the best of us and lead to folly and pain. The younger races age, die, and fall to dust in the passing of but a breath. The very rare children with other races do not inherit our longevity. My race has decimated itself. Among the younger races, we seem immortal, never aging, never tiring. The few that remain think that it’s better not to care too deeply and have learned to do so. I don’t want to be one of them.”

  • Kord
    “Then don’t…” Tia’s said softly as Kord finished.

She set her fork down and leaned her elbows on the table, one hand reaching towards him in offering. “I can’t imagine the pain of seeing so many you love, age and die while you remain as you are, as you have But I also can’t imagine the idea of exploring love with so many opportunities to learn and grow and touch so many lives that otherwise may not be touched, as you have. I would never force pain upon you, Kord. Nor anyone else. And I can’t give you long lived children if you say it can’t be done. But I can promise to fill this part of your life so it’s less lonely.”

She smiled and winked, “And perhaps I can renew some of the speak you had when you were younger and even renew your vision of us short lived species.” She laughed at him then as she promised to be more than just a pastime. And if he looked closely, she wholeheartedly believed it with all that she was.

She then smiled and shook her head slightly. “But aren’t we getting ahead of ourselves? You haven’t even had dessert. I think worries of broken hearts and decades of watching me get wrinkly are a bit premature. Let’s just agree that life is what life is, and we will make the best of it together… how’s that?” She left her hand out hoping he would at least reach out to touch her and feel her sincerity.

Tia

Kord smiled and laid his hand atop Tia’s.

“I was going to say that it’s a bit soon to be talking of giving me children when we’ve only had the one dinner, but I understand your meaning. I am willing to see where this goes if you believe you can deal with the intricacies not only of our difference in aging, but my shocking personality.” he said with a smile as an electric tingle crawled over Tia’s skin where he touched her hand.

Kord, XO

Tia felt the tingle crawl up her arm. She hadn’t considered a relationship in a very long time. So she changed the feeling up to the simple caring contact of the man.

But then he made the ‘shocking’ comment and she smiled at him. “Does it always feel like that when you touch someone?” She rolled her hand over to raise her palm towards his fingers. Her own finger tips now touching his palm. “And you’re right, of course, that we don’t need to get hitched tonight. You may like dinner, but if dessert is a bust, I may be mopping endless rooms in Holo suites for the rest of my tour.” She laughed at him and shook her head. “No need to rush anything.” Her smile broadened for him in hopes he’d understand that she was willing to take it slow for the both of them.

Tia

Kord shrugged, “If I concentrate harder I can drop my bio-electric field to where you wouldn’t notice it. If I let go a bit more…”

The tingle on Tia’s hand turned into an itch.

She gasped in delight, her eyes and smile widening. “Oh, wow…” She half whispered in appreciation.

“I can never fully relax when I’m in close proximity to most people.”

To demonstrate, Kord stood up from the table and walked across the room from Tia. A moment later, Tia could feel an electric charge to the atmosphere that had her skin itching and her hair standing.

“And this isn’t even with my control fully relaxed.” he said as the charge faded and he sat back down.

  • Kord

This time her breath hitched enough to swallow her gasp. “Kord…” was all she could manage to say. It was like being electrocuted, but without the intense pain.

As he sat back down, she actually moved her chair so she was beside him instead of across from him. “That was… Amazing! And that happens if you relax and don’t constantly keep up the shielding? You should be in security.” She laughed lightly, “You could definitely control a room with that.”

Tia tilted her head slightly, like a curious bird. “Can you make that unidirectional? I mean, in a group of people, can you make it so only one person feels it? And is it only in proximity to you, or can you send it over a distance? Say… Like from the bridge to engineering?” It appeared there was something on her mind with the oddly direct line of questions. As she spoke, her fingers absently stoked the side of his nearest hand. Without realizing it, she wanted him to know she still wasn’t scared off.

Tia


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