David:

I lay on my bed with head resting on my hands while a stared blackly up at the ceiling. Listening to music play quietly from the other side of my room and thinking what I was going to do now. Problem was there didn't seem to be a good answer to that question. I hated myself. I hated Ensign O'Hara. I hated the universe. I hated everything, except Saavik.

Would she ever know how much she means to me?

Mostly likely the answer was 'no' now. It seems all this time I'd been thinking we were close, maybe we'd even get somewhere, but Saavik's just made it very clear that we're nothing. I should have known all along. Her work is her love, and nothing else.

Suddenly the chime at my door interrupted my thoughts. I didn't want any visitors right now, but I figured it could well be something to do with work, that was still important to me even if my heart was broken. I didn't mind whoever it was, so long as they kept it brief.

"Enter." I called out, without even bothering to move, I wasn't in the mood for politeness right now.

To my surprise Saavik rushed in. She was breathing heavily and her cheeks were flushed pink. The first thing she did was flatten herself back out against the door with her arms spread wide across it.

I was caught off guard and as I sat up slightly on the bed and watched her. The first thoughts that came to me were how flawlessly beautiful she looked. With her eyes were half-closed, her body thrust forward slightly, and her neck tilted back as she still gasped for air.

I watch her reach for the control panel beside my door and lock it. Only then did she glance across to me.

"Saavik, what's going on?" I asked her plainly, I was confused by her sudden coming, thinking she'd hated me, or at least wished to have nothing to do with me.

At my words she ran to me and sat down on my bed facing me. I'd been learning to read what she felt, given that she was always so expressionless. Yet again here did her face remain motionless, but when I looked into her eyes there was an emotion I hadn't seen before, better than the sorrow or anger I'd seen recently, this was kinder yet stronger than anything I'd seen in her before. More passionate, but I liked it.

She sighed, still somewhat breathless. I sat up fully and watched her, waiting for an explanation to her behaviour. "It is time for truths between us, David." She said to me softly, and after her cold talk to me earlier her voice was the most blessed sound in the universe.

She lifted one hand and placed it near to my face. "Please, allow me?"

"What are you doing?"

"A Vulcan mind-meld, I will share my thoughts with yours."

I glanced at her unsurely and then to her outstretched hand. But I knew I could trust her, I trusted her beyond any other. And so I looked into her eyes and nodded.

Saavik:

I let him see everything. Right from the moment when it first started when I made the mind-meld as David slept and the small kiss I gave him, until my realization that I loved him. I showed him my feelings, my confusion, my uncertainty, my hurt, and finally my passion, my passion that would not satisfy until I had him.

When I pulled back, I watched him closely, unsure of how he would react. I find humans so confusing and then was no exception. David stared blankly at me, I suppose it was disbelief, but I couldn't be sure.

"You kissed me?"

"Yes." I replied, though I didn't want to talk on this, it was a difficult subject for me.

"Why?" He asked.

"I was…curious." I explained.

A smile twitched across his face. "That so like you; always wants to learn."

I glared at him, although in truth I didn't mind. I loved to see him smile at me. I crept over to him, taking his face in my hands. "True. In fact I wish to learn from you right now."

That was all he needed. The next thing I knew his lips where on mine and the air was knocked out of my as he shoved me hard down onto his bed.