Title: The Imzadi Files – The Price

 

Author: Rising Sun

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Rated: PG-13

Summary: As the Enterprise hosts the negotiations for the rights to a newly discovered, stable wormhole Deanna and one of the negotiators explore areas of their own

Classification: Riker/Troi

Disclaimer: Star Trek: The Next Generation characters portrayed belong to Roddenberry Productions and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended. All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

 

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Story Written January 5, 2002

 

PERSONAL LOG – Deanna Troi

 

We are … sorry I'm still confused. Here we go again. We were hosting.

 

Correction… pause… computer erase file.

 

PERSONAL LOG – Deanna Troi

 

I was in my quarters looking forward to making love to a batch of real chocolate. It was a battle between reading three messages from my mother and explaining to the computer what REAL chocolate was all about. As they say "Jamais deux sans trois." The Captain called me to Ten Forward; The Enterprise was the host for negotiations for the rights to a newly discovered, stable wormhole to the Delta Quadrant. Can you imagine? A stable wormhole? Who ever heard of such a thing? But what I really wanted was to rest. I had been a hard day. But when the Captain calls; one obeys.

 

I still don't know if I should bless the order or not. I had barely arrived when the doors opened and in walked one of the negotiators, Devinoni Ral. The attraction was mutual, instant and forceful. My skin suddenly felt too tight. My heart raced and my mouth went dry. It took all my will power not to fall boneless to the floor. I can now fully relate to love at first sight. Well lust for sure.

 

He pursued me. After months on board faking this friendship with Will it was good to be chased and I will admit I did not run. I not only kissed the man on the first date we tumbled into bed quite happily!

 

I had forgotten how good it felt to be female with a man. I am Ship's Counselor and that and be gender neutral sometimes. But this man! This man saw the woman, wanted her and made no bones about it! And I for one enjoyed it to the fullest.

 

Enjoyed it so much that I found myself late for my exercise routine with Beverly; late for consultations with clients and worse of all I was not there for Will when he was trust into the role of negotiation when the Federation's negotiator was taken ill. It is suspected with the assistance of the Ferengie.

 

Anyway it turns out that Ral was part Betazed and was using his empathic abilities to achieve an edge over his competitors. I let him talk me into believing that there was noting wrong with that! As a result I was not there for Will when he needed me most. He doesn't know this but that is not the point! I KNOW!

 

In the end I came to my senses and redeemed myself but the price! The Price!

I plead temporary insanity brought on by a lack of sex and the sudden exposure to an over dose.

 

DT.

 

Save file.

 

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PERSONAL LOG – WT Riker

 

My log today focuses on one incident only.

 

There I was in Ten Forward when Devinoni Ral came my way… now there is a man to watch.

 

Piker is a game of cards… true, but it is a game of strategy and counter strategy even as you learn not control emotions and physical reactions that could lose you the game. I found myself in full game mode with this man.

 

I don't which annoyed me more. The fact that he presume to know my relationship with Deanna; the fact that he wanted her to run away with him; the fact that she might or the fact that he was trying to use it to through me off my game in the negotiations. Whatever the reason I wanted to punch the son of a bitch but walked away instead.

 

I must admit I was scared that she would leave with him. Having served without her and now with her. I much prefer serving with her. But I had no say in the matter.

 

I'm glad to report that she stayed… but I suspect that the price was high.

 

Pause.

 

"Computer locate Counselor Troi."

 

"Counselor Troi is in her quarters."

 

Computer save program.