Flutters
He felt a jumpstart to his heart at his first sight of her. It was something that he hadn't felt before and—he would only later admit this to himself—it alarmed him to a large degree.
He wasn't a one woman kind of man. He lived for the moment, never stayed in one place too long He was devil-may-care and cocky. And most importantly, he looked out for himself first. That may have made a lonely existence for him but, he'd learned, it worked best.
This heart-jumping did not fit into the picture.
So his first words to her did not put him in her good graces at all.
"Hel-loh," he said, dragging out the last syllable, accompanying the greeting with an appreciative and very obvious sweep of her figure as she straightened up from the console she was working over in Engineering.
She was wearing the rough but form-fitting garb that the Maquis favored. She was young but he'd been told she was the Chief Engineer and a brilliant one at that. As his eyes moved up, he took in the small waist, the full lips and met her angry brown eyes with a smile he knew looked more like a smirk. He thought he could see a dangerous red flush starting from the ridges on her forehead marking her Klingon heritage down to the smooth cheek.
"And who the hell are you?" Her throaty voice sharp.
"Tom Paris, your new pilot, at your service," he made a slight bowing motion. "And who might you be, honey?" He saw the anger in her eyes flare and caught her fist just before it connected with his face.
"The name's Torres, flyboy. And if you ever call me anything other than that, I'll rip your tongue out." She twisted her arm out of his hold with an almost violent motion and walked out of Engineering, leaving Tom smiling and not really knowing why.
Author's Note: OK, so this starts off my first series of drabblesesque shots ever!
But have no fear, you are in good hands! I decided to make this fun and more of a two-way flow here. In the upcoming chapters, I want to see if you can guess which episode the vignette was inspired from. This first one here is a bit of an exception since we didn't really watch how Tom and B'Elanna first met…so you're off the hook ^_^
