Trying not to splutter, Lochley said "Delenn... maybe you'd be better off asking John... or someone in MedBay. I don't think I'm the best person for this..."

"But you are, Captain. I cannot ask John, I cannot admit to him that I cannot be a wife to him in the most basic way. And you know John in that way better than anyone else... alive. No one in MedBay can tell me anything that will help. You, on the other hand, you know. Please... Elizabeth. Help me."

How could she refuse? Lochley sighed, feeling slightly trapped. "OK, Delenn. I'll help, or at least I'll try. First things first- what's the main problem?"

"Well," started Delenn, scrunching her face up in thought, "well, sometimes, when we're being intimate, I feel like John's... holding back. He seems tense, like he's restraining himself."

Lochley nodded, thinking deeply. "It sounds like... he's worried. He's not sure how you'd react to his... full enthusiasm. He's holding back because he thinks you'd prefer it that way."

"His 'full enthusiasm'? What does that mean?" Asked Delenn, confusion clear again.

"Well... Some men aren't very... active, when it comes to intimacy." She was fairly certain she was beet red by now. "Some even prefer to just lie back and... let the woman do everything." Delenn looked shocked. Lochley hurried on. "Obviously, John isn't such a man. He likes being the active one, he once told me..." At this point, remembering who she was speaking to, she went bright pink.

Delenn smiled, apparently guessing the reason for her human companion's sudden silence. "It's alright, Elizabeth."

Smiling shakily, she went on. "He said that, as my husband, it was his duty to pleasure me."

Delenn smiled. "You two were happy together."

Lochley laughed. "Actually we never stopped fighting. Even when we were..." Oh hell, might as well be open. "Intimate, we still argued. I wanted to be the one in charge, the emotional provider. The one on top, as the saying goes. He wanted the same thing. We were way too young, and far too impulsive." She smiled fondly and Delenn smiled back. A few moments later, she continued. "Anyway, the point is- you don't need to do anything to please John. He's one of those men who wants to do everything for you."

"And what about his... 'holding himself back'? Is there anything I can do there to help him relax?"

"Well," Lochley thought hard. "You could try initiating some of your sessions... ahem... 'enthusiastically'."

"How would I do it 'enthusiastically'?" Asked Delenn.

"Well..."