Tegan Chronicles
Affairs of Love 4
"How close are you and Janet?" Tegan asked over a carton of low fat chocolate milk in the mess hall.
Paige blew across her coffee, a caramel ribbon of hair falling across her features before she could push it back. "Not as close as you two are, why?"
"We're just friends."
Paige wrinkled her brow. "I was just saying, not as close. I'd say not as close as you are to Sam, or Daniel, or Jack."
"Teal'c?"
"What? Did you really think kissing him was going to work?" Paige laughed.
"Why do you say that?" Tegan poured her milk into a glass.
"He's an Alien, and there's absolutely no chemistry, you may as well have kissed a wall."
"Then who would you suggest I kiss?" She watched Paige cautiously sip her coffee.
"You don't want to know." Paige sat her mug down.
"What if I do?" She drank a quarter of the glass of cold milk before sitting it back between them.
"How was Greg, I missed seeing him when he was in town."
"He was Greg." Tegan closed her eyes her face flushing.
"He might work," Paige mused.
"Might?" Tegan opened her eyes and shrugged. "He's out of the question. Jack?"
"You already said it, like kissing a brother, albeit a much older brother; Same with Daniel."
"Hmmm? How do you feel about bending rules?"
"Depends, are we talking lose my job rule bending?"
Tegan nodded holding her glass in front of her lips. "I'd be court martialed for disobeying a direct order, if caught."
Paige grinned like a school girl. "Just kiss her."
"Who?"
"Janet."
"You're crazy." She finished off her milk.
"Then kiss me."
"What makes you think if kissing Teal'c didn't work that kissing a woman would?" Tegan lowered her voice even though they were alone aside from the staff back in the kitchen.
"It's worth a shot, right?"
Even though it was her original intent in finding Paige, she suddenly felt like it was a bad idea. Greg was a better choice, she could call him up and he'd be on the next flight out.
"You know he's not going to cancel surgeries just to fly out here and kiss you." Paige read her mind. "If it works, you were miraculously cured. Either way it was a one time thing, and it stays between us."
"Fine," She caved, "My quarters in ten minutes."
She opened the door and closed it as soon as Paige walked in.
"Anxious?"
"Let's just get this over with." Tegan paced by the bed.
"I'm going to need a cover story if anyone sees me leaving."
Tegan walked over to her desk and found a disc with nothing of importance on it. "I asked you to get this for me."
"Fine." Paige laid it on the corner of the desk where she could grab it on her way out. "I want you sitting on the bed, so if this works you don't break any furniture with that hard head of yours."
"You mean you're not going to catch me if I fall?"
"Is this what you pass off as foreplay?" She joked knowing Tegan was still a virgin, at least as far as she was aware.
"Maybe we shouldn't…" Tegan was cut off as Paige's lips connected with hers, a soft warm chaste kiss, and it was over.
"How are you feeling?"
"Like I just kissed Teal'c." She grinned, but it quickly faded as Paige pushed her back onto the bed.
She'd seen the pallor caress Tegan's cheeks. "Lay back T."
Several minutes passed before Tegan spoke, "I'm ok."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah." Tegan nodded, she'd never lost consciousness.
"Well, Janet's going to want to run labs in the morning, so I guess we'll see if it worked then. In the meantime take it easy." Instead of standing to leave she bent forward easily finding Tegan's lips with her own, pressing another slightly longer kiss there before pulling back.
"What was that for?"
"I just wanted to be sure." She smiled and stood up. "I think you should stay away from your lab for the night."
"I'll think about it." Tegan watched Paige grab the mini disc and switch off the light on her way out.
"Hey?" Sam looked up as she saw Paige coming from Tegan's quarters. She was getting ready to grab her keys and head out.
"Hey," Paige smiled and held up the disc. "Tegan asked me to grab this for her."
Sam returned the smile.