Posted by Lieutenant Commander Kord (XO) in Dinner with the XO (Kord)

Posted by Lieutenant Tiastri Ezial (Chief Engineer) in Dinner with the XO (Kord)

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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

Kord smiled. Usually people were put off or adverse to his bio-electrics.

“I can direct it over short distances, but there’s still residual bleed over. So anyone standing near the line of fire will feel the shot too. My effective range is about thirty meters. However…”

Kord concentrated for a moment. The lights in Tia’s quarters dimmed by half, the temperature increased to a warm but still comfortable level, and gentle music began playing.

Kord merely smiled at Tia.

“Not everything is about aggressive energetics.”

• Kord

Tia had made an overly animated pout till Kord mentioned others getting bleed off. “Guess that means I want you on my side for away missions.” She laughed till he changed the ambiance in the room. She looked up at the dimmed lights and then back at him

“I don’t even know this musical piece. So it has to be from your collection.” She smiled again but this time it was softer and more intimately directed at him. “You do realize that if you can cook, as well, then keeping this in a platonic friends level is going to be ssoooo much harder.” She laughed with a teasing tone. Her hand reached out once more, fingertips gently touching the top of his hand as she drew her hand back and forth.

“You also realize that now I want to know more about you, Kord? About the genuine you that you feel a need to block so thoroughly from everyone else. I want to be the one person you can relax around.” With such magnificent gifts, Tia could only imagine the struggle it was too keep them under control and at bay all the time.

Tia

Kord let her fingers roam.

“Mentally and emotionally relaxed is a possibility. As for electrically, I don’t think frying potential love interests is a good thing.”

Kord gave her a mischievous smile, “And yes, I can cook.”

Kord knew this was moving along at unheard of speeds, but there was something about this person that brought forth feelings he hadn’t had in a very long time.

• Kord

Tia smiled. “True… I am not a fan of fake tans. I’m thinking electrocution wouldn’t be a great turn on.” She laughed to make sure he knew she was teasing. Then she paused in her caress and had an idea. “I wonder if science could help us turn one of the smaller cargo bays on the lowest of the decks into something… I don’t know,” she was trying to find the words to the concept in her mind. “Ummmm… into a safe place you could ‘electrically relax’? I mean, a place with proper shielding that would protect the ship and systems. It would allow you a place to go when you need to relax completely. I mean, it can’t be easy maintaining control all that time, can it?” She had no idea if it was easy or hard. After as many years as he had had to, she imaged ‘he’ considered it easy. But even ‘easy’ didn’t mean ‘I never need a break’.

The idea that in all his years of existence he had had to always hide, control and maintain that vigilance regardless the stressors or hardships she was sure he had been thru. If nothing else came of their friendship, she wanted to be the one person he could feel safe to be himself around.

Tia