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A/N: Coda to the episode Warlord. Italics represent flashbacks.
Tuvok sat alone in front of his meditation lamp, studying the flame and attempting to process the events of the past few days.
Kes, possessed by Tierran, walked sultrily toward Tuvok. Tuvok said calmly, "You will not break my control."
"Not break you, free you from all that repression. All you have to do is let go. I can help you release your own strength and give you what you always desired," Tierran said.
A finger ran over Tuvok's chest. Outwardly he kept his calm, but inwardly he shivered. Slowly and laboriously, to convince himself as much as Tierran, he said, "I have never desired Kes."
"All those hours you spent alone together, all those intimate moments touching each other's minds, you never even wondered what it might be like?"
Unbidden, a particularly lascivious mental image came into Tuvok's mind. At that moment, Kes, no, Tierran in Kes' body, planted a passionate, and, if Tuvok was to be honest with himself, enjoyable, kiss on his lips.
After Tierran had been expelled from Kes' body, they had returned to Voyager. Tuvok had attempted to counsel Kes regarding the ordeal. He had to admit that the counseling session had been uncomfortable to him. He knew that it was not Kes who kissed him, but when she sat across the table from him, he was involuntarily reminded of the feeling of her lips on his.
"I have never desired Kes."
Perhaps in some small way he had desired her. Though he is 100 years her senior, she is a fully grown adult woman. And a beautiful one at that. "I am a married man, completely devoted to my wife," Tuvok reminded himself.
"You never even wondered what it might be like?"
The unbidden lascivious image returned to his mind, but he pushed it aside immediately. He stood up and extinguished his lamp. It is illogical to expend energy wondering about something that can never be.
