Okay this is my take on an Ash/Kadien story, or as I call them Ashenko.
This is mature, so all you youngster get on out of here.
I don't plan on this being just a one shot, but that all depends on if readers really want me to continue. I also DO have a plot, so it won't be all smut and dirty language. I do plan on changing a few things, so consider this AU for all intents and purposes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Mass Effect or any of the characters therein.
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Tensions had been running high on the Normandy for weeks now. Between their hunt from Saren and the accompanying stone-walling from the Citadel Council and the seemingly constant missions handed down from Alliance HQ, everyone was feeling the strain. Save for the ground team, no one had left the ship in over two months and for lack of a better term the crew was getting cabin fever. Tempers were flaring, productivity was starting to slack and there was a general malevolent atmosphere hanging above everyone.
Ashley found herself at the mess table during her down time with several of the female members of the crew. She had been fading in and out of their conversation for several minutes as she used a fork to grind her disgusting excuse for meatloaf into a brown paste.
"I'm telling I'm going crazy." CIC communication specialist Monica Negulesco sighed, "I haven't left this boat since we were last on the Citadel."
"Least you got to leave then." Amanda Tsucko leaned back in her chair, hands folding over her stomach, "Adams had all of engineering working overtime to test the new shields." She paused and sipped from a cup, "You're lucky Williams. Least you get to go groundside every few days."
"Not sure if I'd call that lucky, Tsucko." Ashley replied with a smirk, "The worst you have to deal with is a wire shorting. I get shot at by Geth on a regular basis."
"Yeah but at least you get out." Monica sighed, "I'd take an exciting gunfight over another of Pressley's speeches any day."
"You wouldn't say that if you ever did one." Ashley replied, "That Mako is cramped and usually the Skipper lets us grunts do the work while she goes off the Dr. T'Soni looking for Prothean Ruins."
"Lucky bitch gets all the blue ass she wants." Amanda growled, "I haven't gotten any in months. I've got cobwebs in my vag."
"I had a hookup on the Citadel last time, but the dude was all bark, no bite." Monica crossed her arms and huffed, "Barely got five minutes out of him. Left me all pent up."
Ashley looked down at her food, ignoring the two as they descended into an all too familiar conversation. It was a staple of their daily lunches; getting laid. Ashley always tried to stay out of it, telling herself if she ignored their banter she could ignore the itches in her body.
Fourteen months.
Fourteen long, lonely and painful months since she had shared a bunk with anyone, and even then it had been an ill-conceived one night stand with an ex-boyfriend before she shipped out with the 212. There had been no one of Eden Prime; she didn't' have the time. Between the constant patrols and long nights guarding the dig sights, she had nothing but a vibrator to keep her company at night.
After the Geth attack her libido had all but died. You don't see your entire company wiped out almost to the man and then go get laid. Not to mention being on Shepard's ground team meant she rarely got free time when they docked at the Citadel.
"Another reason you're lucky, Ash." Monica said, leaning forward, and pulling the Gunnery-Chief from her thoughts "Us ship girls don't get off every other day."
"Excuse me?" Ashley's eyes widened. Her cheeks flushed with heat.
"Oh don't play coy." Monica smirked, "You're in that Mako for hours with Lieutenant Alenko on survey missions, and we know you two have been doing a little extra drilling on the side."
"I…I never…" Ashley stammered. Unbidden ideas and fantasies played in her mind. The LT was a looker that was for sure. If you liked them tall dark and handsome he was your wet dream. But she had never seen him as anything but the Lieutenant. He was her friend and comrade. He had been part of the team to save her on Eden Prime and he had personally seen to her transfer onto the Normandy. Hell, in the painfully few times Shepard, Kaidan and Ash had all had free time they had gone for drinks. When not in his little shell the LT was actually a riot to be around. He was a great friend, sure, but he was just a friend.
And somehow that was depressing. Ash had been in that damned tank for hours on end with him and the most they ever did was chitchat about gossip or galactic politics. Once she had even brought down a deck of cards for a particularly long seismic scan. They had played poker and blackjack for three hours.
How pathetic was that?!
Why didn't she fuck him then? More importantly why did that idea not even enter her mind?
Oh yeah! He had a superior officer and she wasn't completely stupid.
"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much." Monica smirked, enjoying the narrowing of the eyes from Williams. "So tell us, how is it? I always figured he'd be a lot to take in. Long and thick."
"I wouldn't know, Mon." Ash said firmly, "I've never banged the LT."
"Bullshit." Monica declared hotly, "I'm calling bullshit."
"It's the truth!" Ash protested, "Why would I fuck my superior officer? There are regs against that."
"Well yeah, if you get caught." Amanda put in, "There are also regs against the maximum number of days a crewmember can go without shore leave. Alliance doesn't seem to care about that."
"Seriously?" Monica leaned forward, looking Ashley in the eyes, "You're serious? All those trips to the surface, looking for minerals and hard metals and you never tested out his equipment?"
"Not even once." Ash didn't know what bothered her more; the fact her friends thought she was getting it from Lieutenant Alenko, or the fact she wasn't.
"That is the saddest thing I've ever heard." Amanda sighed, earning a glare from Ashley.
"Seriously. I thought we had it bad, but you sit next to Alenko all day long and all you do is eye-bang him…" Monica shook her head sadly and Ashley bristled, "Such a waste of good man meat."
This conversation was getting a little too close to home for comfort. He was a superior officer for Christ's sake! These women shouldn't be talking about him like he was a dick on legs. He was an amazing Marine and he had the respect of the entire crew; they should show it!
"Why is it a waste I'm not risking my career just to get my cobwebs cleared out?" Ashley said with clenched teeth.
"Because Lieutenant Alenko is a drop dead sexy hunk." Monica cooed, eyes glazed over and smiling dopey, "You ever see him when he's really focused on a task?"
"Oh! That pout thing his lips do!" Amanda exclaimed, "Don't you just want to suck and bite on those lips until he smiles?
"Every time!" Monica smirked "I'd give him something to smile about." Ashley blinked rapidly between the two women as they went on.
"Those arms!"
"Those smoky eyes!"
"I just want him to whisper in my ear!"
"God, I wonder if his biotics make him a God in bed."
"Ooohhh…Biotic cock! All the benefits of the real thing with the electrical charge of a toy. God…"
"Stop!" Ashley slammed her hand on the table, startling the two women, "Seriously I get you're both horny and revved up, but I still have to work with that man. I don't want to be thinking about his pouting lips or arms or…or whether his biotics make his dick light up like a fucking Christmas tree."
"…so you did notice the lips thing?" Amanda whispered, earning a snorted laugh from Monica and a glare from Ashley.
"I'm done here." Ashley stood up suddenly, scooping her utensils and tray. The others moaned in annoyance but she ignored them. Despite her protests she knew she had lingered too long already. She would never be able to spend time with the Lieutenant again without thinking of his brown eyes as 'smoky' or his lips as 'pouty'.
Thankfully she wasn't slated to go on deployment for a few days. She could get over this funk her brain was in and maybe some time with her personal effects would get rid of that itch between her legs. She made a beeline for the women's dorm. She needed a long cold shower.
"Hey Williams!?" A hard, feminine voice called out. Ash froze and spun on her heel, snapping a sharp salute as she recognized the voice.
"Yes ma'am?" She replied firmly. Shepard smirked as she walked over and Ashley noticed a datapad in her commander's hands.
"At ease." Shepard smiled, "Christ how many times do I have to tell you people to stop saluting me. And it's just Shepard."
"Sorry ma'- Sorry, Shepard." Ashley said meekly, "Old habits and all…" Shepard hummed a response and glanced down at the pad.
"Glad I caught you." She muttered almost off-handedly. She held out the datapad for Ashley to take, "Orders from Alliance HQ. They want us to check out some planets in the Hydra system. We'll be there with an hour or so. Get suited up. I have to get the others."
"Others ma'am?" Ashley repeated, her heart beating a little faster.
"Yeah another bullshit survey mission." Shepard said with a dismissive wave, "Gonna be the same group as always; You, me, Dr. T'Soni…."
Don't say Alenko. Don't say Alenko. Don't say Alenko.
"And Lieutenant Alenko."
Over at the table Amanda and Monica stifled their laughter.
Oh fuck me…
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"This is SO exciting!" Tali'Zorah practically squealed as the Mako's seismic scanners set to work. The device, an overly long tube spotted with sensor nods and display panels, hummed to life as the Quarian punched in the activation codes. Blue lights flashed into life along its side and a radar dish at its peak began to slowly rotate, all the while the machine beeped as it complied returns.
Beep
Beep
Beep
Beep
"Oh yeah…" Ashley mumbled with her arms crossed, "Just riveting."
Alliance HQ had sent them to a verdant if boring backwater world to scan select grid points for platinum and lead deposits. On paper it was supposed to be a five hour mission but in reality, with set up times, delays, fouled up sensor returns and the occasion burned out capacitor in need of replacing it was closer to ten hours; with lots of nothing to do while the machine scanned each grid.
Ashley would be lying if she said she wasn't looking forward to it. A cold shower had failed to quench the fire that had suddenly started smoldering between her legs. It was a stupid idea but she had been hoping to at least get to know Alenko a little better. Try some of her less obvious flirty lines; see if he was in the same boat as the rest of the crew. If they were both sexually pent-up, it would be fairly easy to work out clear-cut rules for a tryst or two.
But Lieutenant Alenko had to go and get one of his terrible migraines and was now laid up in the medbay to sleep the worst of it off. She couldn't get angry at Alenko, nor at the his last minute replacement. But that didn't mean the fire and itch didn't grate at her nerves. She hated herself for it, but she had been nothing short of nasty towards Tali since Shepard and Liara took off in the shuttle to hunt down a Prothean burial site further down the coast.
"Back on the Flotilla we never had anything this advanced!" Tali was bouncing on her heels she was so excited. A fresh set of readings came in, displaying as rune text and numerical values on a blue tinted display. Tali practically hummed as she copied the data onto a datapad.
"So accurate…" The Quarian mumbled under her breath. She looked up at her Marine escort, "Ashley! Come see! We found a mass of magnetic slag in the lithosphere!" Ash glared at the purple visor of the woman. She could just see the toothy grin the engineer was sporting. Ash snorted; Quarians got off to high-tech equipment. Who knew?
"I've seen shit like that before, Tali." Ashley responded coldly. Tali visibly deflated and let the datapad hang from its strap across her waist. She approached the Gunnery-Chief hesitantly.
"Have…have I offended in some way, Chief Williams?" The girl asked in a soft voice. Ash sighed, feeling ashamed of herself, the situation and her bitchy attitude towards the young woman. Truth be told she enjoyed Tali. Of the entire crew only their Quarian engineer seemed immune to cabin-fever and prolonged deployments.
"I…I'm sorry Tali." Ashley said and motioned for the woman to take a seat on a rock across from her, "I'm not myself."
"It's not one of those colds again, is it?" The Quarian shrunk back slightly. Ashley snorted.
Not a cold, but a fire.
"No, nothing like that." Ashley waved her worries away, "You're safe."
"Oh good…" Tali fidgeted with her fingers, "Then why have you been acting like such a bosh'tet?"
Ashley groaned and leaned back, placing the Mrk V Banshee assault rifle she had been polishing for the last hour down on the grass.
"Its personal." She said simply. She wasn't sure if it would be a good idea to tell the young Quarian about her sudden desire to hump their Lieutenant. Tali wasn't Alliance and Ash couldn't see her running off to Shepard to rat her out, but still Ashley hesitated. She wasn't even sure Tali would understand. Quarians had sex; they had to in-order to survive. But their suits made it damn near impossible to fuck anyone without falling into an allergenic coma.
Ash paused; maybe Tali was the perfect person to talk to.
"I'm sure you've noticed the crew had been a little…on edge, lately."
"I have." Tali nodded, "Back on the Flotilla we call that ask'ta. Star sickness is the literal translation. That's why there are a lot of resources funneled into recreation ships and leisure activities. A ship's captain can't afford for their crew to get edgy. It's bad for morale and productivity."
"Well we don't have any floating parks, though that would pretty cool." Ash said and fidgeted nervously, "Some humans relieve their stress in more…intimate…ways."
"Oh? OH!" Tali looked away and Ash was sure the girl was blushing, "Oh that. That's not really common on the Flotilla."
"Immune system and all…" Ash ventured.
"That and Quarian courtship is fairly intense, especially for women." Tali said bashfully. A moment passed as Ashley hoped the engineer would be able to put 2 and 2 together without having to say 4. "So…you're ask'ta and you don't have a…intimate partner."
"That's the long and short, yeah." Ashley sighed, "Most of the crew is in the same boat."
"I heard humans were more sexually active then the other races." Tali said absently, "An Asari I shared a shuttle cabin with before arrive on the Citadel told me human males in particular are insatiable."
"Basically."
"So…do you have a partner in mind?" Tali asked. Ash pondered for along moment, wondering if it was too late to jump ship on this conversation. But no, she was in too deep.
"It's not you. No offense." Ashley said quickly, holding up her hands gently, "I'm just not into aliens. Or women."
"None taken. I wouldn't be into you anyway either." Tali smirked behind her mask and Ashley snorted.
"But…there is a guy up there" Ash looked away, her cheeks growing red, "that I wouldn't mind…relieving stress with."
"Who?" Tali chirped and Ashley was suddenly reminded of her little sister, such was the young girl's enthusiasm, "Who?!"
"Look I need you to promise not to tell Commander Shepard." Ash looked over her shoulder, as if mentioning their commander would suddenly materialize behind her.
"Ash, come on. I would never do that." Tali sounded almost offended. Ash smiled at her, but looked away.
"…Kaidan." She mumbled under her breath.
"What was that?" Tali leaned forward, glowing eyes alight with amusement behind her visor, "It sounded like-"
"Kaidan, okay? Lieutenant Alenko!" Ashley declared. The silence that followed was deafening. The wind howled and the grass swayed. Tali's eyes stayed lock on the Gunnery-Chief for a long, hard moment.
"…really?" Tali asked eventually, and Ashley bristled at the surprise in the Quarian's voice, "Why him?"
Ashley sighed and looked away. Monica and Amanda's words played over in her mind and she found she had always thought Kaidan was sexy, she just never understood that. "He's just...sexy. Those eyes, those lips, and his voice" She smiled despite the fact she was fanning the fires in her body, "It's hard to not want him"
"Engineer Tsucko talks like that." Tali chuckled, "She lusts after just about every man on the crew."
"Yeah. She was the one who gave me this damn idea." Ash muttered and put a hand to her forehead, "Christ's sakes Tali, why can't I get his lips out of my mind? I never in what, four months on the Normandy saw him as sexual or as a man or any of this schoolgirl crap. But now…" She sighed, "Now it's like a switch went off in my brain and I can't get it to turn off."
"He was supposed to come on this mission…" Tali said suddenly. Ash looked at her for a moment.
"Yeah."
"And I'm here instead."
"…yeah."
"Oh Keelah…" The Quarian put a hand to her visor and shook her head slowly.
"Look I'm not angry at you. I'm…angry at the situation."
"You two had planned something?"
"Well not exactly."
"Does he even know you desire him?"
"I didn't even know until a few hours ago! Some of the crew were talking at lunch and they just got this idea in my head and…fuck I can't get it out."
"Were you just going to jump him down here then?"
"I hadn't planned on it." Ashley snorted, earning a giggle from the Quarian. After a moment she sighed and looked down at her hands, shaking her head in disgust, "Look this absolutely crazy. He's a superior officer and this is ten kinds of against the rules."
"Kaidan is actually a nice guy. He helped me get situated with a bunk in the dorms when I first came aboard. On the Flotilla giving someone something as valuable as a new bed is practically a dowry." For some reason that made Ash's eyes narrow and Tali was quick to add, "Not that I'm into him! I just don't think he would turn you into the space police just for approaching him." Tali fidgeted "I don't have a lot of experience in this stuff, but I can't imagine your situation will be getting better any time soon unless you and him...you know…that."
"Oh Ashley Ashley Ashley…" She shook her head and laughed in self-deprecation, "If dad could see you know…"
"You father joined his ancestors in haven?" Tali questioned softly.
"Heaven." Ash corrected, "And yeah, a few years back. But I still believe he's checking up on me from time to time."
"Would he have enjoyed Lieutenant Alenko?" Tali asked, ignoring the persistent beeping from their scanner as it completed another section of grid. Ash laughed, a nostalgic smile on her face.
"A career man like Alenko? Yeah, he would have loved him. Cooked him something on the grill, give him a beer and talk his ear off about deployments." Ash's smiled turned mournful, "I wish LT could have met my dad."
"So…what's the problem?" Tali asked simply. Ashley looked up, meeting the young woman gaze. She had hoped Tali would teach her a few Quarian methods for ignoring sexual frustration. Instead the Quarian had basically sold her on the idea of getting some from Kaidan.
Ashley sighed.
"At this point, just a migraine."
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Later that night Ashley found herself squaring off against a red leather punching bag. The mission to the surface had taken almost twelve hours and she had been pent up and sexually frustrated the entire time, despite getting a little positive reinforcement from Tali. The hours had dragged on until the blue sun had set in the sky. It had been hell, despite the pleasant company.
And it had all been for naught, at least as far as she could tell. They had written their reports and submitted them to Alliance HQ only to receive a 'Thanks, here's some more' response.
And now the Normandy was enroute to another backwater world for yet another survey mission. The time spent scanning rocks and minerals were rapidly starting to fray Ashley's already stretched nerves. She had need to get some of this pent up energy out.
So in a just a tight-fitting sports bra and short PT shorts that clung to her hips and ass, leaving nothing to the imagination, she had descended into the cargo bay in the middle of the 'night', so much as that word applied in a warship, to burn off some energy.
Ashley snarled and hammered her fist again into the bag. It resisted and pain flared up her hand and forearm. Even with wrapping her fingers in athletic tape her fingers bled with the repeated strikes to the practicing pad. She had lost count of the time, only knowing that in that one moment of sharp pain in each hit the fire in-between her legs was forgotten. She punched again. And again. And again. Each time she snarled and gritted her teeth against the pain and hammered her fists all the harder. Sweat dripped down her forehead and soaked her skin. The air in the bay was chilled, leaving her skin prickling with cold. Sweat soaked into her bra and shorts, causing them to cling firmly to her skin.
The door at the end of the hanger bay opened and Ashley paused for a minute. She guessed it was later into the night shift and the engineers were switching out. Perhaps Tsucko was signing out for the night. Footsteps echoed in the empty hanger and she punched the pad again.
"Ashley?"
It wasn't Tsucko.
She paused, fist resting against the leather pad. She dug her knuckles deeper, enjoying and hating the pain of her bruised and bleeding fingers on hard leather. She gritted her teeth.
"Hey LT." She said without looking and lashed out again. "What are you doing up?"
"Chakwas cleared me for service again. And I've been sleeping all day so no point in hitting the bunks." Kaidan paused to look around and Ash wondered - hell hoped - he was checking out her ass, "What about you? Heard the survey mission was grueling."
"Twelve and a half hours stuck on a boring as shit world, looking at data readings and maps…" She hammered the bag and flinched at the pain that shot through her, "So yeah, you could say that."
"Sorry I couldn't be there."
"Me too." Ash mumbled under her breath. Kaidan made a sound somewhere between a groan and a sigh and came over to lean on the punching bag, ensuing Ash couldn't strike it anymore. She tried not to scowl at him. His was deep in thought and his lips were pouting.
God I want to ravage them! I'd give him something to smile about!
"You okay?" Kaidan asked when he silence and her stare had gone on for too long. Ash realized she had been gazing directly at his lips for too long and looking away, blushing furiously. But in periphery on her vision she was sure Kaidan's gaze wondered down to her bra. For a start she realized her nipples were rock hard and ready for action.
"Peachy." She managed, though her voice was barely above 'star-eyed schoolgirl' and nowhere close to the hard-ass Alliance marine she was. Realizing she wasn't going to be boxing anymore tonight, Ash let her hands drop to her sides. Kaidan's eyes narrowed at the sight of glistening blood on her hand wraps.
"Are your hands bleeding?" He reached out and cupped her hand in his. The physical contact drew all the air from Ash's lungs. Her body was pale, sweaty and cold from hours at the pad. Kaidan's skin was hard and warm. It was like his warmth was bleeding into her body through her various bruises. It was intoxicating. "How long have you been at this?"
"...nothing." Ashley whispered then coughed, puling her hands away before she was lost in his suddenly entrancing eyes, "It's nothing LT. Just a graze."
"Come on Ash, don't be like that. Let me see." Kaidan reached again and she let him. His hands were so warm and she felt drawn to him like a moth to a flame.
"They look a lot worse than they feel." She lied. Kaidan was meticulous as he examed her hands. Ash watched his lips bunch up again and her mouth went dry.
God, just start licking LT!
"Really?" His voice was hard but not angry. It was tinged with concern and Ash's heart started to beat harder, "because it looks like you've been beating your hands bloody against a punching-bag for a few hours at least."
"As I said, its nothing." Ash said, more ashamed then she meant.
"Wait here, I think there is a medikit in the Mako." He left her there as he strode over to the park tank on the far side
"LT!" Ash called after him. She hated when people fussed over her, but in truth she was more upset she was no longer in his warming proximity. But Ash took the moment to admire his physique. Ash sighed and had to bite her lip; she liked what she saw.
Broad shoulders, thick muscled arms and legs. An ass she just wanted to sink her teeth into.
Oh yeah that'll do just fine.
"Don't make me make it an order!" Kaidan teased from somewhere inside the Mako. Ash had to steady herself on the boxing bag. The idea of Kaidan using his superior office to abuse her body was suddenly incredibly arousing.
"So why the sudden urge to beat shit?" He called out.
"Just…relieving some stress is all." Ash managed to keep the lust out of her voice and took that as a small miracle in its own right. Kaidan came out of the tank with a small white container. He set it down on her armory work bench and motioned for Ashley to take a seat next to him. Part of her toyed with the idea of just sitting on him and getting down to business, but she ignored it, painful as it was.
"Kinda' a painful way, don't you think?" He asked absently as he sorted through the various contents.
"Well it's not like I have any other methods." Ash said before she could stop herself. Kaidan looked up from the box, giving her an amused if confused look, as if he wasn't entirely sure what she was talking about. Ashley decided it was better she shut up before she put a foot in her mouth again.
"Give me your hands." Kaidan said, motioning for her to rest them on the table. She did and he began to slowly unwrap the blood soaked tape. It was painful and she hissed more than once but she was mesmerized by his slow, meticulous motions. His eyes narrowed and lips pursed. It was all Ashley could do to not sweep away the short distance between them and ravage him on the floor. Her nipples practically throbbed and the fire had turned into a full on inferno.
Her gaze was heated and desperate the entire time as he cleaned her hands and wrapped them in antiseptic medigel. She almost asked him to kiss them better. He finished his work way too quickly. She had been playing with his body in her mind and she wasn't even close to be ready to be done with him. But he began to pack up the kit.
"That should do it." He said and smiled softly at her. It made her heart flutter. "We should both get some sleep. Heard there's another survey mission in a few days." His gazed travel the length of her jaw, down her neck and to her swelling breasts, glistening in the pale light with sweat. Kaidan gulped hard and quickly look away, but Ashley had caught his gaze. She smirked but all too quickly he stood up.
"Good night, Chief." He said professionally.
No!
"Hey LT" Her hand shot out to stop him. Kaidan looked down at where her hand gripped hers with almost painful desperation. She relented instantly, cheeks flaring, "….can you do me a favor?"
"What is it?" His voice was hesitant.
"The bag is a good partner and all, but it's not exactly good at sparing." She smirked, shoving the bag aside to emphasize her point. Kaidan laughed and rubbed his jaw. Ash's hand twitched as she imagined running her hand up that sandpaper smooth jawline.
So masculine.
"…you want to fight?"
"Spar." Ash corrected and backed away from him. She raised her fists, palms open and lowered her stance, "Come on, Alenko. You spar with the other marines during PT all the time." He hesitated so she continued "I even saw that wrestling match between you and Vakarian. Did the Alliance proud by putting his Turian ass on the floor."
"Shepard brained me for breaking one of his talons." Kaidan sighed and looked around, as if to make sure they were alone. "Bastard couldn't hold a sniper-rifle for weeks."
"Come on LT. I promise I won't tell the unit how bad I kick your ass." She teased, rolling her shoulders and flexing her fingers. They still hurt but the endorphins and adrenaline surging through her veins made it easy to ignore "I'll even go open palm to give you a chance."
"You sound pretty sure of yourself there, Gunnery-Chief." Kaidan's eyes narrowed, lips pursed again.
Oh God bring those lips over here, man-meat!
"In a fair fight? No biotics…I think I have this in the bag." She bounced on her toes as Kaidan continued to pace back and forth, as if debating whether he should high-tail it out or not. "Come on. Show me whatcha' got."
"Sorry, my mom taught me to never hit fragile little girls." Oohh that made her blood boil. What's more the smirk on his face told her he knew it burned. No one called a Williams woman small and fragile. This had gone from playful to personal. Now she was going to assert her dominance over him; take what she wanted. She would show him who was fragile.
"She also teach you never to be a pussy, Mr. Pussy?"
He was fast. He was very fast. One moment Ashley was smirking smugly at him and the other she was staring up at the ceiling with the wind knocked from her chest and a throbbing bruise on her solar plexus.
"1-0, chief." Kaidan said proudly. She realized she had been played for a fool. What she had thought was hesitancy was really stalling to studying her combat efficacy. She had been taunting and teasing; he had been strategizing. He offered her a hand up but she leapt back, rising on muscled calves.
"First to two. No strikes above the neck." Ash hissed through clenched teeth. The blood surged in her ears and she didn't hear his response. Instead she came at him, sweeping in low to use her smaller frame to her advantage.
He blocked her open strike with his elbow and powered his shoulder into her, staggering her back. Ash recovered quickly and replied with a series of blindingly fast punches and knees. Kaidan managed to block all of them but he was pushed back. He jabbed at a sudden gap in her attacks but she managed to catch his wrist and yank him forward. Kaidan was pulled off his balance. She used that moment to hammer a palm strike to his chest. Even as he fell back Ash's fingers curled, gripping his tight white shirt.
The timing was perfect and a large section of the fabric tore free as he staggered backward.
"Evens. One a piece." Ashley threw the white strip aside as Kaidan got back to his feet. They both looked down at the rent in his shirt. Without ceremony he gripped a ragged edge and pulled, ripping the entire thing from his body.
Ash's eye widened in the dim light of the cargo bay. Taught, rippling muscles greeted her and her mouth went dry. The burning in her legs caused her to squeeze them together, if only to fake some sort of contact.
Things were getting heated and heavy between them. The lingering question of whether Alenko had been feeling the weeks of tension on the ship were suddenly answers. He came at her not like a friend and comrade she would fight alongside, but like a caged animal that had slipped his leash. His strikes were blindingly fast, each one perfect and damn near impossible to block, let alone dodge. But still Ashley kept up with.
Counter.
Sidestep.
Strike.
Their bodies were drenched in sweat and every time they stuck and blocked their sweat would mingle. The haze in the air was beginning to affect both of them. Ashley was finding her body was moving without any thought, countering and striking before she even consciously realized he was attacking. His body glistened in the dull light and she was mesmerized by it.
After a while they had given up all pretense of trying to win the bout. Ashley realized, for lack of a better term, they were dancing. Their strikes and counters were so perfectly timed; such was the synchronization between them. They danced to a beat of their hearts and the roar of their blood.
Looking back on that night, Ashley would never be able to say when the spar changed into something more. In truth the moment was so quick, so perfectly timed and animalistic it felt inevitable. Kaidan shoulder charged her, using his heavier body to send Ashley sprawling. She reacted quickly, rolling with the momentum and rising to her feet in an instant. She lashed out, raising her knee to drive it into his gut. Her timing was perfect and she knew this would knock him over, but somehow quick as she was, he was quicker.
Kaidan sidestepped her leg and wrapped his arm around it, pinning the limb to his side and ruining Ashley's balance. She tipped and threw out her arms to catch herself; they ended up firmly planted on Kaidan's bare chest. He pulled her leg tighter and their hips touched. Ashley felt her inner thigh rub up against a bulge in his shorts and all cognitive process was lost. Her hands shot up to wrap around his head. One ran over his sweat laced hair while the other gripped the back of his neck and wrenched his lips to hers.
There were no words to describe what she felt when their lips met for the first time. It was as if all the tension, frustration and desire that had built up over the weeks locked in the Normandy cascassed into one thought and drove through her mind. She bit and pulled and tugged on his lips. Her spare hand scratched painfully at his scalp, earning a bestial growl from him. Kaidan dropped her leg but she kept it wrapped tightly around his him. Instead he pressed tightly into the skin of her back and she relished his warm skin on her bare flesh.
One hand scratched red marks into her skin with his fingernails, causing her to shutter. The other gripped one of the straps of her bra and wrenched it down. Her left breast popped out of the sweat-soaked cup and she gasped at the sudden feeling, but he didn't let up. His hand kneaded painful into her breast as he bit all along her jaw.
"Mmmm…fuck…" Ash moaned as his fingers flicked and pinched her nipple. She was soaking wet in her pants and needed release soon. Ashley jumped, wrapping both her legs around his hips and one of his hands traveled to her ass to support her. The other continued to play with her nipple. They fell back, luckily falling into the work table. The sound of parts shaking echoed in the cargo bay but there was no one but them.
Ashley's tongue fought for dominance over his. She licked across his teeth and up one cheek and down the other. She needed to taste every inch of his body for this to be worth it. She ground her hips into his, moaning in pleasure. Kaidan spun them and force Ashley up against the wall, effectively pinning her under his weight. She ground her legs together in anticipation. Kaidan tore the rest of the bra off and instantly his mouth traveled to her nipple. Ashley squirmed under his touch and ground against him.
"Oh Christ…" She mewled. It was an incredibly un-Williams thing to say but his tongue was making it hard to think. Kaidan turned his attention to the other nipple. Ashley made to draw his face up to kiss those burning lips again, but he lashed out. One hand enveloped both her wrists, pinning her arms above her head. She was locked - trapped completely. Helpless. She bit her lips at him and ground her legs together.
"Ok big boy." She whispered, every word hot and heavy, "You've got me. Now what do you plan to do to me?"
Kaidan grinned, and leaned forward, lips hovering just out of her reach. She tried to kiss him but he pulled away, teasing her, "Whatever I want."
Oh God yes!
There was such passion and raw lust in his eyes. His grip on her wrists tightened as he placed a finger of his spar hand at her collar bone. He traced an invisible line along her chest, across her neck and down the middle, purposefully leaving her breasts alone. Ashley squirmed; she didn't have time for these games, maddeningly amazing as they were.
His hand traveled slowly down her abs to the lip of her, by now, soaking pants. He grinned and Ashley grinned back. His hand ducked under the elastic waste. When he came into contact with her sorely neglected lower lips Ashley threw back her head, shuttering uncontrollable. Kaidan leaned closer and licked all along her neck as he pushed a finger inside her.
Ash's head thrashed from side to side. It was incredible. He was so warm and she was tight. Kaidan pushed another finger in and she started to pant. He set a hard pace, his fingers plunging in and out of her over and over again. Ash's head fell to one side, eyes open and staring intently at him. Their eyes locked as her mouth moved wordless like a beached fish. He added a third finger and pressed his thumb against her clitoris. Ashley shuddered but refused to take her eyes off him. She was gasping for breath. She tried to move her arms, to touch his body and grab his throbbing member but his grip never relented. He was going to play her body and she could only stand there and enjoy it.
"Oh God! Oh God oh God oh God oh God!" She repeated the words like a mantra until they had lost all meaning and she was just mumbling incoherently. Kaidan smirked against her neck, trailing painfully wet kissed along her collarbone and leaving glaring red splotches wherever his lips touched. He had enough foresight to not place any above the collar line of a uniform shirt, but still his lips took a huge toll on Ashley's neck as she squirmed under him. His fingers had ceased their pounding, instead he had started to slowly curl his fingers inside her while his thumb pressed tightly against her clitoris and moved in a circular motion over the nub. His movements were controlled, precise and careful to elicit the maximum amount of pleasure. His other hand kneaded painful into her breast, pinching and flicking her nipple. Ashley's legs twitched and she moaned.
Ashley's mouth moved on its own accord, humming and gasping and moaning and drooling in equal measure as Kaidan played her body like an instrument. His fingers curled so perfect inside her and every time she thought she was about to cum, her walls would clench only for his fingers to withdraw to begin the curling motion again. He was driving her insane and they both knew it.
"Oh fuck!" Ashley moaned. Kaidan twisted her nipple and she gasped, feeling another twitch in her lower lips at the sudden amazing pain, "I need to cum! I need to cum!"
"Ask me." Kaidan whispered in her ear, "Beg for it Ashley."
"Please! Please let me cum!" She breathed. His thumb pressed harder against her clitoris, rubbing harder and harder. Ashley could feel the buildup in her, the heat and pressure and insatiable want.
"Use my name." He bit her ear and tugged. Ashley was beside herself, gasping for breath and failing miserably. The pleasure of his movements was beyond comprehension.
"Kaidan!" She moaned and both tried to ignore how amazing and perfect his name sounded on her lips "Oh God! Kaidan! Kaidan! Oh fuck Kaidan let me cum! Please! KAAAIDAAANNN!"
In that moment he triggered his biotics.
A shock on energy shot up through her, starting at the base of her spine and spiraling, inching and spreading throughout her entire body, through the tips of her fingers, up her shoulders, down to her toes and up her neck and ending at her brain. Every inch of her body was alight with humming static energy, like she had stuck a finger in a live electrical socket – only a million times more intense and amazing. Kaidan's thumb hummed with biotic power as it pressed and held firmly on her clit; his fingers shot up straight into her, curling over and over and over and over. Ash's toes curled, fingers clenched. 'Incredible' failed to capture what she felt; it was mind numbing.
Ash's mouth hung open, but no sound issued. Her eyes widened as an orgasm more intense and powerful than all others in her life combined exploded within her. It was like wave after wave after powerful wave of electricity crashing against her body, filling her, merging with her and completing her. Her inner walls clenched – for all the good it did against bioticly charged fingers. Kaidan funneled more biotic energy into her; it was barely enough energy to register on a biotic scanner, but coming from inside her it was intense. Her eyes widened in shock and amazement, gazing at the far wall but seeing nothing. Then he bit her neck. Hard. And her eyes crossed, drool escaping her mouth as her brain shut down.
The pleasure was too much for her. The months of denial and loneliness ending in this seemingly endless orgasm; it overpowered her. Ashley tried to fight against the darkness enclosing her, but all rational thought had long since left.
It was hopeless to fight it because it was incredible.
The last thing she was aware of before she passed out was falling into strong arms as another orgasm rocked her body and she twitched uncontrollably on Kaidan's magic fingers.
Then there was darkness.
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Ashley's eyes shot open suddenly and she gasped in a cold breath. She looked around and her sleep locked-mind recognized her bunk in the woman's dorm. Someone had brought her back up to the dorms and put her on her bunk. The last thing she remembered was a mind shattering orgasm and falling into Kaidan's arms.
Kaidan!
Oh shit!
OH FUCK!
Did that really just happen? Did her Lieutenant just finger-fuck her so hard she passed out from pleasure? He must have because she felt incredible! She let out a long sigh and blinked. The tension in her body was gone. The fire had been quenched – for now. She felt relaxed and happy. Her mood was already ten times more relaxed and focused. She had needed that more than she realized.
She smirked. Poor Kaidan. She had passed out before she could administer to his needs. She would need to rectify that oversight. Ashley stretched and stood up; already some of the other women were up and getting ready for their shifts. Ashley scratched the back of her head and looked down. She was still in shorts and her sports bra, but Kaidan had put her in one of his spar white undershirts. Ashley smelled the fabric. It smelled of military stock soap, coffee and sweat. It smelled like him and she felt her mind going hazy.
Oh I need more of him.
"Well well well…" Monica smirked, "You're looking chipper this morning. Guess that late night boxing thing does work. I might have to try it." She paused and Ashley smiled dumbly. Her lower lips still ached in the most amazing way.
Oh yes, I'm going to need way more of him.
"You work out some of that stress?"
"Mon, you could say it was like magic last night."
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