Chapter Three; Absolutio
Absolutio. Noun. 1. Free from obligations. 2. Completeness. 3. Finishing. 4. Perfection.
"I had hoped to feel better. I thought that seeing justice done and the criminal convicted would give me a sense of... closure."
"Well, I hope it brings you some satisfaction, at least, knowing that it was worth it. He'll be shipped off to a penal colony, and tomorrow you can go back to your old life."
Data looked broodingly into his glass. He and Geordi had sat a little way from the others, who were chatting amiably about nothing in particular, released from the tension of the trial.
"Satisfaction. Yes, of a sort. But I suppose I had hoped that it would help me to... become me, again."
"You are you. Always have been, always will be."
Data sighed heavily. "And now I have ended up ruining what we had."
Geordi cocked his head, his brow furrowed. "What do you mean?"
Data rubbed the rim of his glass with his thumb. "Because I asked you to testify on my behalf, our relationship is now known. I am sorry, and I will understand completely if you wish for us to cease romantic contact."
"Wait... wait, hold on..." Geordi put a hand up, forestalling further comment. "You think that because people know about us, that I would want to stop seeing you?" He barked a laugh. "That's crazy. In fact, you couldn't be more wrong."
Data frowned deeply, looked askance at the engineer. "Explain."
"Well..." Geordi leaned back in his chair and rubbed the back of his neck. "Before, I was so worried about people finding out, 'cause I didn't want anyone to know that I was, y'know, attracted to men. But now they know, our friends I mean, and you know what? They haven't said a word. Not even Riker! I thought they'd be teasing, or maybe even that they'd hate me, but... they don't mind, because it doesn't matter. I, I don't mean..." He leant forward, brushing away his statement with swift chops of his hand. "I don't mean that we don't matter, that you don't matter, I just mean that the fact that we're both, y'know, men, that's the part that doesn't matter."
Data shook his head. "I am still not grasping your meaning."
"Look, it's just... I was worried about telling people, and now I don't have to, and it's like a weight off my mind. And now that they know..." He reached out and took Data's hand. "I don't care if everyone knows. Because I... I care about you, and I want you to be happy, you deserve it. Because you're sweet, and funny, and clever, and you're kind and sexy..."
Data's lips stole whatever words he had left, and the remaining air in his lungs. He reached for the android's uniformed shoulder and held on like a drowning man as Data's fingers walked across his back. Somehow everything else melted away as their tongues entwined and the world ceased to exist outside of the warm insistence of his lover's passionate embrace. Data's kiss was assertive, and left Geordi in no doubt of his intentions. He nearly tumbled forward out of his chair as Data drew back, separating their mouths. The android took the glass from Geordi's numb fingers and put both of their drinks aside, before taking both of Geordi's hands in his.
"Upstairs. Now." The android's golden eyes were glowing as he drew Geordi to his feet.
"We... we should tell the others..."
"Get a room!" Shouted Riker.
"That was my intention, yes." Breathed Data in reply, drawing Geordi towards the turbolift.
The doors opened and Data pushed Geordi into the lift, pressing him against the wall and sealing his mouth onto the man's throat, biting and kissing the place where his hot blood ran close to the surface, feeling the pulse of it on his lips. Geordi gasped, his hands gripping the back of Data's jacket as the android pushed his thigh into his crotch, coaxing him to arousal. Their lips met again, fervent and desperate, and the doors opened onto the corridor leading to their rooms.
"My room is closer." Gasped Geordi, and they tumbled through the door, shedding clothes and bumping noses and teeth as their hands and lips fumbled.
Data gripped the front of Geordi's undershirt and tore it from his body, bending his head to bite the man's shoulder as he ground himself insistently against his lover. Geordi groaned, wrestling with the fastening of Data's trousers and trying to wriggle out of his own as Data slid his hands under the waistband and cupped the man's buttocks, pressing their bodies together, urging further contact.
"Stop! Wait, hang on..." Geordi put his hands to Data's chest, pushed him back a pace. He could see that Data had that glorious glow, and he felt the answering heat in his own body, centred urgently on his sex. He breathed deeply for a moment, holding Data at arm's length. He could feel the android trembling.
"Just... wait. I... are you sure? I mean, today, now? You okay?" Please say yes Geordi thought, in the closest thing to a prayer that had ever gone through his mind.
"I..." Data was shaking, his hands on Geordi's shoulders trembling, the nails digging into the soft flesh. "Yes, with you, yes. I... I want to have something... good..." His eyes flicked left, right, left, right, accessing... "What I want now... is gentleness. And, joy. And love."
"Okay. But, just, let's... let's slow down, okay?" Because if you don't stop being so good at what you do, it'll be over in about twenty seconds.
Data closed his eyes, nodded twice in accent. Slowly he ran his hands down Geordi's arms to take his hands and lead him to the bed.
He pulled Geordi down on top of him, their chests in searing contact as his sensors registered every glorious millimetre of the man's skin, each tickling hair. He put his hand to the back of the engineer's neck and pulled him into a kiss, gentle but insistent. Geordi shifted his body over until he was alongside and Data turned to face him, pressing himself close. He felt Geordi's fingers trail down his back and he trembled, the delicate touch awakening his skin into shivering tremors. He arched his body into his lover's as Geordi's hand reached his hip, skimming down his still-uniformed thigh and then in, brushing close, so close, to the seat of his lust. He closed his eyes and gasped as Geordi raked his nails up his flank, sending shimmering waves of pleasure/pain surging through him.
"Stop." He gasped. He wriggled away from Geordi, but only to put enough space between them that he could divest himself of his remaining clothing. Geordi groaned in appreciation at the sight of the expanse of glittering skin laid out before him and dragged his own trousers off, kicking his socks and boxers off the side of the bed. He looked at his lover, clearly wanting, his lust evident. Data's golden eyes were roving up and down Geordi's body, drinking in the sight of his nakedness, his proud sex standing ready.
"I want you inside me." Data slid closer, wrapped his arms around Geordi, pillowing the man's head on his solid bicep.
"One step at a time." Geordi was breathing hard, sweat beading on him already. "Do you need lube?"
"Touch me, now." Data crooked his knee and put his foot flat to the mattress. He took Geordi's hand and guided it past his cock. Geordi ran his fingers between the android's buttocks, feeling the puckered opening, so like a human's. Data hissed between his teeth.
"In, please. Inside."
Geordi pressed his finger to the tight hole. Tentatively he pushed in past the ring of hard synthetic muscle, and was astonished to find his finger sliding in up to the second knuckle.
"Oh... Oh fuck, you're wet?" He gasped, half delighted, half shocked.
The android didn't reply, except to reach down and grip the man's erection in one firm pale hand. Geordi gasped and pressed his finger in as far as it would go.
"More, two, now, Geordi." Data gasped. Geordi pulled his finger out and pushed in his index and middle, easier now with the lubricant slicking them. Data gritted his teeth and rocked his hips.
"Move." He growled, and Geordi obliged, sliding in and out of the slick opening, and Data matched the rhythm with his hand.
"I need..." The android pressed his forehead to the man's. "You need to open me. Stretch..." He broke off in a hoarse cry as Geordi bent his fingers inside him and touched something.
"Whoa! You okay?" Geordi made to pull away, and Data grabbed his wrist, pressing the man's fingers into himself.
"Again! Geordi, bend... f...f..." He craned his head back as Geordi complied, crooked his fingers in a beckoning movement, stroking the sensor bank inside his anal cavity. Data's hand found Geordi's cock again, setting the pace now, demanding.
"What is that?" Geordi was fascinated. He had never seen the android this way, almost wild with abandon as he rocked himself on his lover's hand.
"I... I believe it is a cluster of sensors intended to approximate the human pr..." His voice disappeared into a cry as his lover moved inside him again. His pale fingers tightened around the man's hardness, his pace relentless, and Geordi felt a rush of pleasure threatening to engulf him.
"Oh God..." Geordi gasped "Stop, stop..." Data's hand ceased its movement. "Stop, let... let go..." He gritted his teeth as the android complied. "I... I don't want to come yet..."
"I... I do..." Data rocked his hips, driving Geordi's fingers into himself.
"Oh God..." Geordi moaned again, biting his lip. "No, you gotta stop." He pulled his fingers out and drew away a little, the shock of the cool sheets welcome against his heated skin. He was gasping, and achingly close, sweat beading his body. He looked across at Data, who was regarding him with lust filled eyes. The look alone was almost enough, and he put his knuckles to his mouth and bit down, hoping the shock of pain would give him a few more minutes.
"You do not wish to experience orgasm?" Data quirked his head.
"Nuhh... Not yet." Geordi breathed, regarding the dents in his skin left by his teeth.
"Why not? Is that not the point of intercourse?"
"Well, yeah, but... there's two reasons, really. The first is, when a human male has an orgasm, it usually takes a while before he can perform again, so it would be a shame to come too soon, and spoil the evening." He drew in a deep breath and sighed it out. "The second reason is, well, it's usually better if you wait for it. The anticipation, y'know?"
"I am familiar with anticipation." The android reached for him, and with a fraction of his phenomenal strength, lifted the man bodily to lay him down on top of his pale nakedness, face to face, chest to chest, and cock to aching cock. "I am also familiar with impatience."
"Geez..." Geordi could protest no further as Data's mouth found his, soft lips working against his mouth with delightful intensity. He moaned into the android's mouth as Data slid his tongue over his, teasing and tangling, until the android let his head fall back onto the pillow to look up at his human lover. Data reached up and gently removed Geordi's visor, putting it on the table next to his combadge. The android mused for a moment on the fact that, even in the giddy heat of passion, he had taken his combadge off his jacket and placed it within reach, and he smiled a little at his own quirk and then forgot everything as Geordi gripped his neck with his teeth. Data bucked his hips and gasped.
"A moment." Data untangled his legs from Geordi's, tucking his knees up either side of Geordi's ribcage and tilting his pelvis, rubbing Geordi's hardness through the cleft in his ass.
"Are you sure? Is this what you want?" Geordi gasped, the slickness from the android's opening smearing itself along his hard length as he slid again across the tight hole.
"Geordi..." Data's voice was almost a whine. "In me, you, now, I want you inside me..."
Data backed up his statement by reaching down to guide Geordi's hardness to the opening, pressing the tip of his cock against that tight ring.
"Slowly." He breathed as Geordi breached him. He gasped as the man inched himself inside with slow small thrusts, drawing back a little and then each time pressing in a bit further. Geordi groaned as the tightness gripped him, dipped his head to rest on Data's shoulder as he pressed himself into his lover. Data clawed his back, his nails dragging lines into the man's skin and making him hiss through his teeth. He tilted his pelvis again, rocking the man's hardness deeper inside himself, and suddenly there was that incredible burst of sensory information as the tip of Geordi's cock slid across the pseudo-prostate, and he grabbed the man's hips and bucked himself onto his hardness.
"Stop! Wait!" Geordi breathed into the android's ear. Buried in that welcoming warmness, he took a few deep breaths, focusing on steadying his breathing. Data whined slightly and shifted his hips, and Geordi shook his head.
"Wait. Or... Or I'm not gonna last." Geordi relaxed down onto Data's body to rest his forehead against the android's. Data ran his nose along Geordi's cheek and kissed his lips lightly, plucking at the plump soft skin. He had waited for this, this moment of oneness, and Geordi was right, he knew, right to wait and treasure it. He closed his eyes, revelling in the weight of his lover's body on his, the feeling of fullness, the ache of his own hardness between their bodies. He ran one of his feet up Geordi's thigh and moved his hands up the man's back, caressing the warm skin, causing the hairs to rise with the passing of his fingers. He smiled to himself and brought their mouths together again, crossing his feet behind his lover's back and tilting his hips in invitation.
Geordi groaned into his mouth. This was exquisite. The tightness, the heat of it, and the strength beneath that smooth supple skin. He pushed himself in, rocking his pelvis into his lover. Now it was Data's turn to moan as he was penetrated ever more deeply, and he uncrossed his feet and let his legs go limp to allow himself to be opened. His tongue flicked into Geordi's mouth and he clutched the man's back, urging him on. If he tilted himself just so... There! He broke the kiss with a gasp as the head of Geordi's cock raked that spot inside that seemed to exist only for this, this extraordinary explosion of sensation.
"Again!" He gasped, and Geordi was only too eager to comply, sliding himself along and into his lover, digging his toes into the sheets. Data's fingers pressed into his sweat-slicked back as the android arched himself into the man's body, crying his ecstasy to the ceiling, his golden eyes open in wonder. This, this was what he had waited for, this feeling of completeness. To be held like this, to give himself so totally, to surrender willingly, and nothing could compare. He would remember this, now, remember the joy and gentleness, and no-one else would, or could, touch him like this again.
"Geordi, Geordi..." He gasped, grasping his lover's hips and pulling. "Faster, now, please, please!" Geordi drew a shuddering breath that came out as a moan as Data writhed under him. "Data, I... I'm gonna..."
"Yes!" Data pressed their bodies together, driving Geordi to hit that spot again, bringing him closer to the peak of his ecstasy, that glorious hot sunburst feeling that all of his sensors were activating at once. His cock throbbed, trapped between their bodies, and he slid one hand between the man and himself to grip his hot lust. He shouted and bucked his hips again, and Geordi shouted with him and the tip of the man's cock hit that spot again and it was so good, so good and all he could do was say his lover's name again and again as hot fluid spilled over his hand and stomach as he was lifted up on the wave of sensory information and pure sunlit pleasure until he crashed down the other side into nothing.
"Oh fuck, oh fuck..." Geordi gasped as he let his weight fall onto the android's now motionless chest. He pressed his face into the crook of Data's shoulder for a moment, lost in the sweeping tingling sensation of the afterglow. Beneath him Data trembled and drew a huge breath as he relaxed, his hands falling away to the sides as he came to from his shut-down.
"Hey. You okay?" Geordi murmured. He felt Data nod and heard him say something that sounded a bit like 'Yahrgh.' Geordi gave a breathy chuckle and slowly drew himself out of his lover, and Data hissed a little at the feeling of emptiness.
"Damn. I had no idea it would feel... That was... amazing." Geordi rolled off the android to flop back into the cool sheets, sending a shiver of goose bumps walking up his skin.
"Yah."
"You... you okay?" Geordi's questing fingers found his visor, and he clicked it on to look at Data, lying prone next to him. Data's gaze seemed to be fixed on something a thousand miles away straight up, and his mouth was hanging open. He blinked twice.
"Yes." The android turned his head and slowly focused his golden eyes on the dark skinned man sharing the bed with him. Geordi's breathing was slowing, his skin shining with sweat, and there was a shimmer of Data's lubricant smeared on his stomach.
A slow smile spread across the android's face, and he began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Geordi asked, his own face creasing into a grin.
"Nothing. Everything." Data breathed, and reached out to draw the man into an embrace. "Simply the joy of the moment. I love you."
"I love you too."