Ransom lay in bed thinking of Becket and the mission they went on to the crystal perv planet. How much things have changed since they went on that first mission together?
She almost took her clothes off in front of him in that cell, she was hot and the fit she threw when he sent her the brig made it really made him aware. This chick was hot when she got mad, feisty had never been something he was into but with her. He could totally dig it and he did.
Then when she got promoted to force her to transfer, spending that much time in close proximity was not helping him let it go. So, his plan to piss her off was working. It had been commendable that she could find a way to get the worse jobs done and enjoy it, but it made the captain promote her thus more time around her. Thus, driving him crazy.
He was supposed to on a break and knew that the captain was doing this to drive the rambunctious rule breaker off the ship, but he didn't think it was working. She wasn't stupid, she even made doing the worst jobs fun, it seemed like nothing got to her. He admired her tenacity.
He heard a knock at his door, he knew he had pushed her with the audit thing the talent show, and poker. So, finding her fuming here was not the biggest surprise but he could hide the smirk.
"Mariner? Something on your mind?" He was enjoying her anger it was cute.
She pushed past him.
Stood in the middle of his room hands on her hip, he wants to hold on to while he… he stopped that train of thought when her foot started tapping.
"What the hell are you and my… Captain up to with this promotion shit Jack-ass."
He wanted to reprimand her, but it was still hot when she got riled up. Maybe he was hoping it would end up like this. So, he decided to see if he could release his own tension.
"You should watch the tone emLieutenant/em you might get thrown back into brig." He walked closely behind her.
She spun to find him practically touching her and some of the wind out of her sails.
He steps forward and she stepped back still glaring, "accusing" another step, "your" another step, " commanding officers" another step, "of trying to trick you?"
He took one last step, and she bumped the bed and fell back. He had a huge smile and a hungry look in his eyes she knew what it meant, but still always surprised her.
"Yeah, maybe I am. I know you hate me but."
"I never said I hated you Becket." He smiled down at her as he crawled over her. "Quite the opposite really."
He leaned down and was so close to kissing her but didn't.
"You should know that by know."
She did it was made glaringly obvious when after she was released from the brig after the crystal freaks mission.
FLASH BACK:
She stormed it to his office locking the door and only halting for a moment at his shirtless body sweating from his post shift workout.
"Ensign Mariner I see you have been released early." He was smirking, it was him who had it done knowing why she loved to be there.
"Are you fucking stupid my rolled-up shirt sleeves! That's why you send me to the fucking brig!" She was huffing and stalking in on him still on his bench. "My sleeves are always fucking rolled up Ransom it's part of my whole bad ass image thing!" She waved her hands in the air.
She stamped her foot and her hands fisted at she sides as she yelled and all he could think was how cute it was and really enjoyed the fact, she was still wearing the med bay gown and socks.
"How's the foot?" He was smirking as he stood up over her slightly short form. "Will it be a nice scar? You going to show me when it's all healed up. I'd love to see more if you have any."
She blinked then remembered she was mad and to not let his gravely sexy voice distract her from her mission of telling him off even if he looked really sexy covered in sweat… wait not why she was here.
He noticed her eyes roaming and smirked again. He decided to push it a little more. He stepped in close to her almost touching.
"Fucking kidding right now! My scars? You will never see the rest even if…" she was fuming but losing her thread his proximity was throwing her off. The musky smell was distracting.
"You should show some respect to your superiors Becket." His smirk in place.
"Oh yeah why don't you make me Jack!" She yelled.
Then suddenly he was kissing her, and she was shocked, and he took advantage by letting his tong slip into her gapping mouth. She responded just as vigorously after the shock went away. They heatedly kissed until they need air.
His hands moved from her hips where they had found themselves during the kiss and went to her ass and lifted her up, she kissed him first this time. He groaned as she wiggled in his grip making her grind on his cock through his pants.
He walked to his desk and set her gown. Kissing his way down her neck. She lulled her head back as his hands pushed up the thin gown and when his hand found her to be soaked.
"Fuck Becket so wet for me already?" He said into her skin.
"Ugh it's been a while. Are we doing this or talking more?" She said while undoing his pants and looking down. "Dam dude that thing is huge!"
"Yeah thanks." He ripped away the only thing keeping him from inside her and without warning pushed himself to the hilt. Hissing as he went. "Fuck so tight."
She gasped. "I told you been a while."
He gave her a moment to adjust then when she moved her hips forward more her started at a slow pace, it drove her crazy as he knew it would.
"Fuck Jack faster… harder… please!"
"Yes ma'am." He kissed her again then went at an almost painfully hard and fast pace that caused her to scream out his name.
He watched her eyes roll back when his hand found her clit and rolled it while he pumped into her.
"So good!" she moaned then bit his shoulder earning a moan and his grip on her hip to tighten.
She came squeezing on him so tight he nearly lost it, but he was able to hold back he pulled out and lifted her off his desk took her gown off and turned her over.
"I'll really show you who's in charge Beckett." He bent her over and slammed himself back in going hard once more.
"AHH! Jack yes more. Show me!" This new position was way more intense given his size. She knew this would hurt tomorrow but really couldn't care less.
He was getting erratic in his movements, and she knew he was close. She reached down between her leg and grabbed his balls gently.
"Fuck Beckett!" he groaned.
"Cum Jack! Cum for me please I need to feel it!"
It didn't take long, and they both saw stars.
He was bent over her back as she supported them with both hands on his desk.
She whimpered when he pulled out. He fixed his pants and picked up her gown.
She was still bent over his desk and while he liked the view, he knew she would have to leave unless she wanted to go again.
Slowly she stood and turned to face him.
"Well guess you really showed me, huh?" she, like him was out of breath. Taking back her clothing she dressed. He pulled her in for one more kiss.
"If you ever need a reminder, you know where to find me." He winked and she went back to her bunk to sleep, and he went to his quarters not really needing to finish his work out anymore.
END FLASH BACK
They had acted like nothing happened for the most part. He did however take any and every opportunity to rile her up if only so it could happen again. But it was starting to become an obsession for him, he couldn't get enough. And it had worked.
"You gave her the idea to trick me so I would want to get a transfer!" she accused her legs finding their way around his hips.
"Now does that sound like something I would do?" He smiled and kissed her.
She kissed back but huffed and using his distracted state flipped them, so she was straddling him.
She was wild when she was on top, he came to find he liked it more than when she was bent over his desk.
They met often in his room, again after the ship was nearly torn apart it wasn't rough or wild but surprising them both gentle and sweet. She didn't get awkward after; they still acted the same when they weren't alone.
He found her alone in a bay and locked it after the moon explosion, when she laughed at the fool she made of herself and he was flabbergasted at the idiots who wanted to stop the detonation just for two people. The sex was great but they actually laughed and they both stuck around after to talk about how stupid people are and how ridiculous her best friend's life was.
After the party for that Fletcher guys promotion, he just knew something was up and that she had lied so he dragged her to his office to get the truth, he found it horrifying that they promoted such a dunce and that she and her friend had convinced them to do so very well. When it seemed, he was rearing up to get her in trouble she distracted him by fucking his brains out on his workout bench.
When she had to survive with an old friend from the academy, who he hit on just to get under Beckett's skin or so he swears up and down. He searched her out when he heard she nearly died, it had upset him more than he thought, and he dragged her to a storage room to fume that he had to hear it second hand and demand to know if she was okay.
She had been stunned, he cared so much he would risk being seen with her. Wow.
She insisted she was fine and decided when he kept ranting about her being more carful that she should prove it. "You need to remember I'm a badass space chick." She laughed as she left first. He was still a little frustrated that she didn't take it seriously.
These of course were not the only times it got to the point one or the other would search at least three time a week mostly for sex, but sometimes just to vent to each, other sometimes about each other. 8 outa 10, it was just sex though.
When he had the secret mission to get that alien guy from Romulans they didn't see much of each other, and she had gotten lonely and a little cranky. He felt the same but kept himself busy.
Part of him thought it would be better, it wasn't like she would ever openly date him she hated commanding officers and dating him would make her look bad or something. Jack on the other hand had wanted to be able to tell people for a long time it had nearly been a year and he still hadn't been able to get up the nerve to bring it up. He didn't want to risk it ending.
So, they both were at a stale mate.
When the crew found out that Captain Freeman was Mariner's mother. He was floored and loved watching people piss her off by kissing her ass. He just had to join in. Though there was a time after it calmed down, he still acting like he was kissing up to her but to mess with her and so he could just hang out with her outside of his room, office, empty shuttle bays, broke down shuttles themselves, or random closets.
"What are you doing?" She asked while eating her lunch her friends Tendi and Rutherford both left to go back to work but she was feeling down about the whole Boimler abandoning her thing.
"Just didn't want to eat alone." He smiled and dug into his food.
"So, you are not hard on me anymore? Or do not make you hard anymore?"
He coughed on his food. And glared at her.
"Really." she napped wiping food off her top.
"Calm down people will just think I'm trying to kiss your mom's ass by kissing up to you." He stopped to look at her for a moment. "You know I would have never let you leave to the Ceritos."
She hardly heard him but when she realized what he said she was stunned.
"Really…"
They ate in silence she left first to get back to work and kept thinking what reasons he had that he wouldn't want to let her leave the ship? She worked on auto pilot until her friend came at the end of their shift to take her to the canteen for dinner. She slightly avoided Ransom that evening but later she did go to his room.
She didn't let him talk and she said nothing to him but when she thought he passed out she kissed him softly before she left.
Some weeks later they had gone back to the normal routine. They were early in the flight bay for a mission to a planet for second contact with a peaceful people. He pulled her into one of the broken shuttles and since they had time decided to have a quickie.
Her legs wrapped around him and she held the bars from the shelves above to help him hold her up. He was going fast pumping up into her, she was just as tight now as the first time.
"Fuck Beckett." He came hard at the same time as her as both shuddered. "I fucking love you…"
They both froze when he said this. His head was on her chest, and she had been looking upward. Did she just hear right? No way he didn't do love. She was sure this was just sex to him, he wouldn't.
"Jack?" she murmured.
"Shit." He hissed and hugged her tighter. He was still inside her hard as a rock the movement caused her to moan.
She pulled his face to look at her. She had a smile, a real non mischievous or mirth filled smile. It was genuine happy her brown eyes brightly sparkled.
"You do? But I thought you sought me when there was no one better or just bored."
Oh, and have you been off with other guys when not with me then?"
"God no I'm plenty satisfied with you no need for anyone else."
"So, you aren't running away I think that's a good sign."
She beamed at him, wiggling some making him groan and roll his eyes back.
"I think we have time to go again before the others get here." She wagged her brows at her. She was feeling giddy, and the sex had rid her of the headache she woke with that morning.
When they were done and dressing, she fixed his hair and pulled him into a kiss. "By the way I love you too, idiot."
She turned on her heal and left the shuttle.
Minutes after his shock left him, he found her talking with her Orien friend as the captain walked in.
The ride down was uneventful, but Beckett felt sick as they landed. When the doors opened the smell of lowers was very overpowering and she puked off to the side right before the ambassador's party came to great them.
"Beckett?" Her mother was rigid but had concern in her voice. "Too much drinking last night maybe?" She hoped that's what it was.
"God no mom I didn't even… drink last night." Her face was pail as she turned away from her crew-mates at her place next to the ship spilling her guts once more. Was it something she ate?
Tendi gave her some water and the group went to work. The flowery city the ambassador and her groups that included her son who was ten years younger than Ransom so only a few months older then Beckett, plus hot, and had made it clear he found to young ensign very attractive. She however was clearly too distracted in her own mind to notice. This only made the young man try harder, Ransom simmer in jealous rage, and Tendi worry for her friend.
They were in a large office Tendi, Beckett, and some other ensign standing behind Ransom and Freeman as they sat across form the delegates.
She was starting to feel dizzy; they had been at this walking around and talking for hours and the stupid flowers were making her so sick. She just wanted to lay down.
"Captain I feel I must say your daughter does not look well…" The lady before them said just as Beckett fell in a heap but her son was able to get to her before she hit the floor.
"BECKETT!" Tendi and her mother screamed. She jumped from her chair and rushed over Tendi knelt to check her pulse.
Ransom felt his heart drop to his stomach and a white-hot anger at the young stupid alien held his girlfriend. He stalked over and took her out of the stranger's arms and held her up. She was breathing slowly she looked dewy and felt a little hot. "Captain?" He forced himself to sound normal.
"Captain Freeman I and my own would feel no slight on your part if you left to care for your blood. We can always continue tomorrow." The Lady bowed to the victors. "Do tell me of her condition, in our culture family is most important and if we continue the negotiations, we will become friends. As your friend I care for you child too."
"Umm thank you Lady Irma." The captain hesitated to look away from her daughter, but this did not offend she found it a good sign that the Federation cared for their family too. "Yes." She turned to face her fully. Trying not to panic. "Yes, I will contact you later tonight when my daughter has been checked."
The away team rushed to the med bay as soon as they got on the ship. The doc and Tendi sent people out to run tests on the still unconscious ensign. Out in the hall Ransom was leaning on the opposite wall zoned out thinking about how they just got to a good point in their actual relationship that both had wanted but never said anything to the other. now something was wrong with he.
Captain Freeman was pacing worried about her child. She had never seen her like that. The throwing up and then passing out later. What could it be if she wasn't hung over? Then was it some kind of disease? She was still over thinking when the Orien girl came out saying the tests were done.
Rushing to her daughters' side she saw the fluids hooked up to her she seemed to look a little better.
"She was really dehydrated and had a slight fever, but we got her back to normal." Tendi ranted wringing her hands looking at her best gal pal who was just starting to wake up. "Mariner?"
"Ugh what happened?" She groaned. She sat up and looked to the people in the room. "Whoa who died?"
No one found it funny, and she rolled her eyes at them. The head medic came back.
"Okay I need to talk to the ensign alone now." She didn't even look up from her pad.
The Captain yelled at her. "This is my daughter I will not leave until I hear what's wrong with her!" She used her demanding voice that she used on the bridge had Ransom and Rutherford walked to the door.
"MOM! I will tell you what it is when she is done with me. I'll go straight to your office." She groaned into her hands.
They started to bicker about the info the guys slowed to listen, since this was always entertaining to everyone on the ship.
"OH MY GOD SHE'S JUST PREGNANT!" the Orien girl clamped her hands over her mouth after the words left her, the cat doctor rolled her eyes, and the two fighting women were gapping. It went silent until they all turned to the sound of a thump.
Ransom was passed out on the floor, with the engineer standing over him. Saying Oh shit.
"Well, I guess I don't need to ask who the father is." Her mother grumbled. She had not even been aware her daughter was seeing anyone let alone her number one.
The Cat doc woke the commander up and he jumped.
"I swear she asked for it and she liked it!" He yelled as he woke. Again, Beckett groaned in her hands while her friend laughed with the doc and her mother glared at him.
"We'll leave you both alone to talk. I have to call the Lady Irma to let her know how you are and that I can continue our talks." She stormed out but stopped before the door closed. "When you're done here Ransom, I want to see you in my office." With that everyone left.
He walked over to her bed. She was getting nervous, would he be mad, back out, or leave her?
"What are you going to do?' He whispered and he felt lost and unsure what he should be doing or saying.
"What do you mean what am I going to do?!" She snapped. "WE did this Not just ME!"/
She was breathing hard, wanting to hit him or kick him, if only the IVs weren't keeping her in the bed.
"Hey sorry I'm just freaking out. This is huge, I never even knew I could get... um a lady in this… condition…" He sat next to her legs and looked down at his hands. "I mean we only been a thing for…"
"A year Ransom we've been doing this for a year without ever thinking of this possibility and now here we are." She was getting upset, did he really not want this? She thought he loved her, he said he did this morning.
"Hey Beckett, I'm just in shock. Like you said we never thought of this and now here we are." He leaned forward with his forehead against hers. "We will figure this out together. I mean you're really resourceful and I'm like the greatest at everything I do." He smiled when she laughed at him. "We got this. But right now, I have to go talk to your mother slash my boss about how I got her only child pregnant." He stood and kissed her. "You don't think she'd send me to the brig, do you?" His face went pale as he stood to his full hight.
"I would be more worried about her telling the Admiral about this. He may be far off but I'm still his baby girl."
He looked like he might pass out again.
"Hey, don't worry buddy she likes you. You're her favorite number one." She tried to give him a supportive smile, but she still felt supper tired from the long day of walking, standing, and puking her guts out for half of it. "I'm going to my bunk for a nap."
"No, you'll go to my quoters and sleep in privet."
Before she could argue the doc and Tendi came back.
"He's right you need uninterrupted rest and there we can keep you on the fluids. Hard to do on a top bunk. Tendi take the ensign to the Commanders rooms and set her up.
Before they left the Cat saw them out.
"You're free the rest of the day to stay with her until he is done getting his eyes scratched out by her mother." She laughed at his blanching face as he walked away.
"Okay let's go Beckett. Then when you're up for it we can walk some maybe go look at the warp core."
"What so lame, just let me nap for an hour and we can grab Ruthifored and go." She whispered the last half hoping Ransom hadn't heard.
He did but only smiled and walked off to as the stupid cat put it get his eyes scratched out. He groaned when he reached her office. EVERYONE on the ship had given him wide eyed stairs and talked in hushed voices. Word really got around fast on this ship.
Before he could knock she told him to come in, she had heard the groan.
He stood at attention. "You wished to speak to me?"
She stood and turned her view screen to face him, the Admiral's shocked face was on it. "You remember Beckett's father, Admiral Freeman."
"A-Admiral h-how good to see you again…" He was squeaking by the end. Sending him obnoxious finger guns.
The man on the screens' face had fallen to gapping at the younger man. The 36 year old man, who his wife had just told him got their daughter, who was 9 years younger, his wild baby girl, pregnant. He had no words, at the moment he was still wrapping his head around Beckett having sex at all.
"Can you tell us Ransom how long have you been secretly seeing our daughter?" Carol was trying not the blow up and scream. She had never had to worry about sex things with their daughter she was too busy doing her Robin Hood, badass fighting aliens thing to have much of a love or sex life.
Then there was Jack Ransom who was a notorious lady chaser. True he rarely got lucky but being committed did not seem to be something he could do.
"Well… when was the mission where we got captured by the guys who worshiped crystals?" He paused holding his chin while his boss gapped at him. "Like a year ago I suppose."
"I have seen you hit on girls since then. Even in front of Beckett!" Carol snapped.
"Yeah, to piss her off." He chuckled. "I was never going to get with them, I just like it when she gets all feisty." He nervously shrugged. "Um what is it you wanted to say to me Captain?"
She sat quietly assessing him. Her husband on the screen was looking back and forth.
"Well…" The Admiral was feeling awkward. This was a mess, and it pissed his wife off that her number one was not only seeing their daughter behind her back but got her pregnant. "So, you have been exclusive with her for about a year now and she is now having a baby with you." He paused wait for the pair to look at him, they were having a stare down. "I will remind both of you that my daughter is a stubborn and free-spirited young woman she does not take orders well and won't be cow tailed into anything she does not want to be doing. Honey you can't force her to marry him, she would be mad, then you know what would happen. Let them figure it out. They didn't need to tell you about the relationship and from the sounds of it he doesn't give her preferential treatment in working hours due to it. However, we may feel about this they are adults and I personally hope you will support her with the choice she will need to make. I do on my part hope you will step up Ransom and while I won't abuse my power to hurt your career, I will however, if you hurt my baby girl, my only daughter, take this uniform off and show you were she got her fighting talents from."
He let the threat sit for a moment his wife chuckled and shook her head and Ransom paled. This older man may sit behind a desk, but he still competed in fighting rings and was undefeated in his league. No this would not bode well should the older man decide he needed to take this sort of action. Ransom was fit and could fight really well, he didn't think he would be able to beat her dad.
"Umm if it helps, we did say I love you for the first time today…" It was lame but hoped to stave off any ass beating.
"That's good. Talk to her support her and do not hurt her." The man paused. "Of course, if you do there would be barley anything left of you after she got done if you did." He the burst into laughter.
"Wait!" Carol screamed. "That's it you really aren't going to help me force them to marry?" he had her hands on her hips leaning to the scream.
"Honey I just told him I wouldn't did you really only hear the part of me threatening bodily harm?" He was nonplus to her. "Seriously this is why you and Backet don't get along. You only hear what you want."
"Excuse me?" She snapped. "If you had taken her off the fucking ship when I told you this wouldn't have happened!"
"Oh please it was your second in command that knocked up my precious baby girl! Maybe you should have kept a better eye on him!"/
"Ha 'precious baby girl' you wouldn't even take her under your command. You have no right…"
The pair kept going.
"I'm just going to leave; this sounds like a privet talk and…" Ransom trailed off as he backed out. The couple was still fighting and would not notice him missing for 40 minuets.
He walked to his room. He thought about Becket. She is having my baby. He couldn't believe it and was unsure how he truly felt about it. Happy, for sure, nervous, absolutely. He hoped they could make it work, he felt she was the only woman he would want to have kid with. Had for a while but never thought too hard about it.
He stopped outside his door. In his room hopefully sleeping was his girlfriend, who he loved, the first he had ever told, and she was caring his child. Holly shit. I'm going to be a dad.
If she kept it. Though if she didn't what would that mean? He wanted this; it was going to end up this way eventually. At least he had hoped it would. And if it didn't and his moms found out. Well one would cry and the other would beat the shit out of him right after Becket's dad or hold her own son down to help.
Oh yeah, his moms would want them to keep it and his own admiral mother would be on Carol's side to get married and give the kid a family.
He stood there for a while think everything through. He was so lost in thought he didn't hear the door open and Tendi bumped into him.
"Oh Commander." She gave him a sweet smile. Then a pat and push on the back leading him into the room. "She's all yours for now. I'll be back with Rutherferd to pick her up for a walk in a bit." She paused before leaving. "I'm sure her parents gave you a good threat." Her face went deadly. "But know, if you hurt her, I'm a top medic and could easily make it look like a freak accident and Rutherford is smart enough that if need be, they would never find the body." She flashed a bright smile after her dark face faded. "Be back soon."
She flounced off to find her friend who everyone knew she had feelings for.
He shook off a paralyzing shiver from the terrifying yet chipper Orien girl's threat and went inside.
"Becket, you're supposed to be sleeping." He said jokingly scolding her.
She was sitting up and looking down at a data pad. When she met his eyes, she had tears running down her face.
"Shit babe what's wrong?" He panicked and sat next to her.
"This… this is our babies first photo." She whimpered, handing him the pad.
"Babies? Like more than one?" He was gobsmaked when he looked down all he saw was blobs. Then the little heart beats flickered.
"Yeah, we're having twins." She sniffled, rubbing her nose. "Twins Jack. There are two little beings growing inside me, and we are going to be their parents." She was sobbing again, but it wasn't sad like she had thought. No, she felt amazed and overjoyed. She had to wonder though how he was feeling.
Looking at him she found him staring at the pad mouth open and eye wide. He didn't look terrified as she feared but not ecstatic either.
"Jack?"
He looked at her face still the same as when he was looking at the pad.
"Twins?" He whispered. Then he jumped up, excited. "This is amazing!" he paced. "Unless you're not happy then I don't know what it is. But I'm happy we're having two babies! Oh, I hope they can be smart like you and have my looks, unless their girls then they can look like you but till be bad as like both of us. Oh, but the boys, boys suck they'll be all over our girls. Maybe one of each and her brother can look out for her and…" He was rambling but stopped when a small hand reaches out to stop him and he heard her laugh.
"Whow, slow down there, cowboy. Have wait till we know the sexes and then until they're at least teenagers to worry about the opposite sex being a problem. Or the same depending how they swing." She smiled up to him and pulled him down to sit next to her. "But yeah, we're going to be parents. If that's what you want." She ended nervously.
"What I was worried you wouldn't want to." He said shocked she was having the same worries as him. "I think we need to work on communication babe. I was worried you didn't want to be a mom, then I was not sure what I was going to do."
"Yeah, me too but then Tendi showed me the sonogram and, I don't know when I saw their little hearts beat and them swiggling around. It was like this overwhelming joy came over me. This was something we made together, without even meaning too, and now I'm a mom. I want to be their mom, I want to give them life, watch them grow, teach them to be badasses just like us and it just, it's fucking awesome." She was crying again.
He set down the pad and pulled her into a hug. "We'll be great. Now sleep for a bit before your scary green friend gets back with the engineer who programs homicidal A.I.s."
She laughed then sighing happily she went to sleep next to him. All he could think was how he lucked out and couldn't wait to see what would happen next.
