Temptations
Chapter 1: Clean
September, 2268
The landing party materialized and immediately pulled off the breathing masks, shaking their heads and making exclamations of disgust. As one, they threw the masks into the waiting bin for decontamination and exited the transporter room, headed for quarters. This had not been the most pleasant task any of them had ever completed.
He headed for his quarters, skin crawling. The atmosphere on that planet had been so damp it dripped. And filled with noxious compounds that left the skin feeling slick, clogged. He wanted nothing so much as a hot, steamy shower to rid himself of the cloying scents, the feeling of suffocation caused by the compounds sliding on his skin.
He was exiting the turbolift when he felt her summons and changed the direction of his footsteps. He lay his hand on the touchplate at her door, and stepped in, immediately hearing the sound of water. She had anticipated him. With a great sigh of relief, he shed his clothing in a heap, contrary to his usual neatness, and stepped into the bathroom, where she slid the shower door open, beckoning.
As soon as he had shut the door behind him, she lifted her hands to his face, full of suds, and began carefully to cover his entire face, her fingertips rubbing just hard enough to dislodge that oily slick. When she withdrew her hands, he put his face into the full stream of the water, letting it sluice his skin free of those contaminants. Then she was pulling his head down again, working shampoo into his hair, massaging his scalp with her dextrous fingers. She rinsed and soaped again, then rinsed one more time, and he sighed, the feeling of clean scalp a tremendous relief.
Now she began on the remainder of his skin. That vile stuff seemed to have penetrated his uniform with no problem at all. She worked at his skin, starting with his back, using a loofah to scrub vigorously. He leaned his hands against the wall and braced himself so that she could attack the vileness on his skin without staggering him. She spread his legs a bit further apart and scrubbed hard at his thighs, his calves. She lifted first one foot and then the other, cleaning between his toes and scrubbing even the bottoms of his feet. And then she scooted around, sliding under his arm, and was in front of him, her back against the wall.
She cleaned his arms, his hands - these more carefully, even under the carefully trimmed fingernails. His chest was cleansed, much lather rubbed into the silky dark hair there, carefully, so as not to pull. His belly tensed at her efforts, she knew too well where he was ticklish. She knelt and cleaned the front of his legs, and then there was only one area left. She hesitated a moment, but he looked down at her and nodded, and she began, hands rubbing softly over his scrotum, gently lifting it to spread the cleansing soap underneath, in all the folds and wrinkles of his skin. She rubbed the lather into the nest of dark silky hair that wreathed the base of his lok, rinsing it all away before continuing. With one hand, she grasped his lok, stretching it slightly while his breath hissed between his teeth, while the other spread the soft suds, rubbing softly all around.
When she rinsed away the last of the suds, checking everywhere to be sure that his skin was clean, he felt much relieved. The heavy weight of near suffocation had lifted from his body and mind and he floated somewhere, hazy with contentment from the feel of her hands on his body. She led him out of the shower and wrapped a towel about him, and he dried himself slowly, never taking his eyes from her. When she led him into the bedroom, to her bed, he folded himself down around her and held her close, sinking into deep, exhausted sleep with her cool body clasped close. When he awoke he would reward her, he left this thought with her and felt her pleased response before he sank away. He was safe here, and she always anticipated what he needed. It was so much more than he had ever expected for himself. He treasured her, for herself, and for what she provided him. He was content.