Tegan Chronicles STV Style 3:
What's Left of the Flag 34
Once Tegan was seated and Janeway closed the office door she spoke. "Do you know what's going on?"
Tegan pursed her lips to the side and shrugged noncommittally with her eyebrows.
She turned and addressed Tuvok. "I had a headache and she touched the base of my skull and it was gone. Crewman McMann had a fractured sternum and yet when he arrived in sickbay the doctor said he wasn't in pain. This was after he forced her hand to his chest in engineering, she collapsed as soon as he let go of her, according to Chakotay. She was out for about two hours." Janeway looked at Tegan. "I'm willing to bet if I asked B'Elanna she would say that the pain from her burns went away when you touched her as well."
Another shrug, this time she added her shoulders to the mix. "I don't know if she would or not. I went back to that place." She changed the subject and moved her eyes to meet Tuvok's . "It was darker than before, and there was this thing there."
"A 'thing'? Please clarify." Tuvok requested.
"I wish I could. It was huge; a large dark black figure that formed out of one of the clouds. Stupid I know." She continued and explained what had happened while she was there.
"Delicious?" Tuvok lifted a brow.
"Yeah."
"He didn't tell you what your gift was?" Janeway asked just in case she had forgotten that part.
"I didn't think to ask. I was mad that my grandmother wasn't there. I was mad 'it' was there."
"It?" Janeway's left eyebrow dipped in question.
"'Delicious'." Tegan didn't have a better description for whatever it was.
Janeway nodded. "Do you think that your gift could be that you're able to heal people?"
"Well, I am a physician." Tegan smiled briefly before she became serious. "But I don't know that I can do more than take away pain, and I'm not even sure that I'm doing that."
"Twice now you've helped my head."
Tegan shook her head. "Coincidence."
"I do not believe it is coincidence." Tuvok interjected his observation.
"I don't know."
"Deltan?" Janeway looked at Tuvok.
"I don't think so. She does not have the physical qualities of a Deltan, though the actual ability does sound similar."
"Deltan?" Tegan stared at them both.
"A species with the ability to take pain away merely through the use of physical touch." Tuvok explained without going into detail.
"Interesting." Tegan covered her mouth as she fought against the urge to yawn and lost.
"But at what cost?" Janeway asked as her eyes traveled Tegan. "You collapsed after what happened with Mr. McMann, and after helping B'Elanna and touching the back of my head you almost collapsed again."
"Stop worrying." Tegan sighed. She was ready to get out of the tiny room before she drowned in the sea of Kathryn's worry. "Besides we don't know that I helped McMann. We also don't know that if I did help him that it is what caused me to lose consciousness, and I was tired when you were helping me—that's all."
Kathryn watched Tegan rub the bridge of her nose. "Does your head hurt?"
"No."
"There's something you're not telling me." Her eyes narrowed on Tegan.
Tegan took a deep breath. "I'm tired."
"Something else." Tuvok watched Tegan's eyes shoot up to his confirming his statement.
She just looked at him but didn't say anything. After a few minutes he and Janeway made eye contact, Kathryn lifted her brow and shook her head. "You can return to the bridge Tuvok."
"Yes ma'am."
She looked at Tegan for several seconds after he left. "I want you to stay with me tonight."
"Fine." Tegan decided not to argue with her.
"In fact when the doctor releases you, you can go ahead and go there."
"Yes ma'am." She grinned.
Tegan almost immediately talked the doctor into discharging her and promised him she would rest for the remainder of the day. She left sickbay and went to her quarters and put Fraggle two in a box because it looked better than carrying it down the hall by a leg or taking a duffle bag into the captain's quarters. When she arrived in Kathryn's quarters she took a sonic shower and dressed in a pair of cotton running shorts and a replicated Johns Hopkins medical school t-shirt and laid down on the couch with her stuffed Starfleet command frog and a PADD.
Kathryn walked in an hour after her shift ended to find Tegan sprawled on the couch with the frog under one arm and the PADD resting up against her breast. She walked over and gently picked the PADD up. She didn't want to wake her but the soft click the PADD made when she rested it on the coffee table woke her. "Hey."
"Hello sleeping beauty." Kathryn turned and grinned down at her as she scooted into a sitting position and pulled her legs under her.
Tegan hummed and made a face. "Did you find out what happened in engineering?"
"Bad plasma conduit, it over heated and blew. That's the problem with being stuck out here for so long it's not like we can pull into dry dock and get a complete over haul. We're lucky the injuries weren't worse than they were. B'Elanna is going to do maintenance checks on all the vital systems, herself over the next few weeks."
"I know she wants to do them herself because she's a perfectionist about engineering stuff, but Seven could help her and it would go a lot faster."
"You're right." Janeway joined her on the couch. "I'll suggest it to her tomorrow. So how are you feeling?"
"Strangely really good." She let Kathryn pull the frog off her lap.
"Bad dreams?"
She shook her head. "I'm not sure why I picked him up."
"What do you want to eat tonight?"
"Isn't it Chakotay's night?"
Kathryn nodded. "I told him we'd skip it this week, I'm really not up to entertaining tonight."
"In that case…"
"You don't need entertaining."
"I don't?" Tegan wagged her brows seductively at her.
"Well that's entertainment for both of us. I'm up for that," She grinned. "I'm not sure you are."
"I'm totally up for that." Tegan smiled. "I'm fine, I even had two naps today to prepare for that."
"You're bad."
"I am?" Tegan moved closer to her and kissed her cheek softly. "Are you sure about that?"
"Uh huh." Kathryn groaned as a hand cupped her breast through her uniform. "Very bad."
Tegan unzipped her tunic. "But you like bad don't you?"
"Why do I get the feeling you're just trying to get out of eating dinner?" Kathryn pulled back and searched her eyes.
"Dinner?"
"Yes, you know that meal you eat around 1900 hours."
"We've got time to think about it." Tegan pushed her jacket off her shoulders and kissed her deeply.
Kathryn gently cleared her throat and guided Tegan's body away from her. "No."
"No?" Tegan looked at her like she had lost her mind. She could feel Kathryn's heat in more ways than one. They hadn't had sex since before she had gotten her gift. The one time she had tried Chakotay had interrupted them to have the captain take a look at some interstellar phenomena.
"You aren't going to get out of eating by distracting me with mind blowing sex."
"It is mind blowing isn't it?" Tegan let a cocky grin slip onto her face. "I wasn't trying to avoid dinner. I'm not hungry yet, but if you are we can go ahead and eat."
"I just want to know what you want to eat."
Her grin transmorphed from cocky to downright devilish and she purred, "You."
Kathryn tried to keep a serious air about her as she pushed away. "I meant food."
"Fine." Tegan stood up and looked at her attire. "Let's go see what Neelix is serving."
"You're going like that?" Kathryn pulled her jacket back on and made herself presentable while pushing her libido aside for a little while.
"I am wearing a bra." Tegan nodded.
Kathryn watched her face mutate from jovial to something she couldn't quite put her finger on. "What?"
"Maybe we should just replicate something. I've got plenty of rations and a quiet dinner sounds more appealing."
Kathryn studied her for a minute. "Are you sure you're feeling ok?"
"I'm fine." Tegan stepped up and kissed her lightly on the lips. "You worry too much."
"With you it's never enough, I'm sure." Kathryn let her kiss her again.
"Let me replicate dinner?" Another kiss and she moved away.
"Ok."
"It won't be the same as if I had a kitchen and could fix dinner from scratch, but it'll have to do."
"I'm sure it will be just fine." Kathryn watched her move to the replicator and program in several things by hand.
When she was done she requested, "Computer replicate Tegan alpha zero two five, two servings. What would you like to drink?"
Kathryn watched her put the two salads on the table. She surprised herself when she requested water. "Chicken and pecans?"
"Chicken, pecans, dried cranberries, romaine and green leaf lettuce with honey mustard on the side."
"It looks great." Kathryn drizzled her dressing over her salad and took a bite. "Oh, that is wonderful."
Tegan smiled and took a bite of her own.