Title: Parts
Episode: What You Leave Behind
Pairing: Odo/Kira
Hand touching face, mouth touching mouth, thumb and finger touching black bowtie. All the same. That is the most thrilling thing: every touch is alike. Seeming cloth or seeming hair is his naked flesh, just as much as seeming skin is.
He has no parts, nothing to be accepted or rejected singly. Every inch of him is hair and skin, hand and eye, tongue and brain — inseparable. He can be accepted, loved, only as a whole.
Now he is subsumed by a greater whole, all touching all; and she stands alone, fingers pressing palm, part touching part, integratable no more.