Chapter 5
Payback

"Fire those damned torpedoes!" Yelled Sowl while holding onto her Bridge chair.

"Torpedo systems are offline!" Kless responded, "I'll need to..."

"Do what you have to do, NOW!" The Captain readied her phaser and grabbed her Bat'leth, which she always kept next to her chair, "What's the condition of their shields?"

"They are down, the Breen ship's having trouble too." Terak replied.

"Excellent. Terak, Kabor and Kless get ready to board them. We'll give them some payback." The blonde Klingon had to shout, the noise from the jolts and continuous weapon fire from the ships' confrontation were very loud. Sowl tapped the comm badge on her wrist, "Pathlat, how's Sick Bay?"

"We have had some power fluctuations... ave some injured, getting them patched up and sendi... ack to work. Other than that we... fine" the Nausicaan's voice was broken up by some interference in the comm system "Lunos is still..."

"Keep it up, nobody slacks on my ship. Sowl out." The Captain nodded to Kless who promptly initiated transport on the Breen ship.

As they materialised on the Breen's bridge, a crossfire of cryo-beams and rifles welcomed them aboard. The Klingon boarding party had to quickly find cover and returned fire.

Sowl quickly scanned the area to find what looked like the superior officer. He had some sort of decoration on his suit that seemed to indicate he was of higher rank. She moved swiftly from cover to cover to get to closer to his position, exchanging fire whenever she was attacked.

A sudden acute pain to her right shoulder accompanied by a thud took Sowl by surprise. A Breen had snuck up on her and had managed to hit her with the back of his rifle, causing her to fall on one knee. He quickly pointed the weapon at her to shoot her, but she swung a kick at him, causing the rifle to fly off somewhere.

The Breen was fast at unsheathing a knife and threw himself with force at the Klingon, who was still off-balance from the kick. He wound up on top of the blonde, locking her down on the floor with the intention to sink that knife into her throat.

The other officers were too busy with the rest of the Breen crew on the Bridge and couldn't support Sowl. An attempt from Terak to launch himself at the alien who had knocked his Captain down was stopped by another Breen before he could even try. Kless and Kabor were pinned down by cover fire.

Sowl and the Breen struggled on the floor for moments that appeared to take an eternity. The knife was getting closer and closer to her throat, while she was trying to push it upwards by pressing against the alien with both arms. She was a proficient close combat fighter, but this opponent was strong.

"This is not the end of me, P'TaQ", growled the Klingon who quickly released her right arm from the wrestle. Suddenly the Breen gasped, his grip on the knife loosened up and Sowl was able to push him aside, as he fell on the floor like a dead weight.

"You people forget important details, such as the Bat'leth on the floor next to you." said the Klingon Captain to the dying Breen.

A sudden burning sting to her leg forced Sowl to bend on her knee once more.

"And you forget you are surrounded and on an enemy ship" said the Breen commander with a pistol pointed at her. The Klingon slid her hand onto her belt only to realise her disruptor was lost somewhere. She had no way to defend herself.

She waited for the execution without breaking eye contact with the Breen.

Execution which never came, as the Breen Captain himself got shot right in his chest by a disruptor beam and dropped on the floor.

"Not just yet, you owe me a Bat'leth match still!" Said a familiar voice.

Sowl turned briskly to her right, to see a weak Lunos with a pistol in hand, while leaning on Pathlat with her arm.

More Klingons had boarded the Breen ship and the fight quickly turned to their favour, with just a few aliens left which were being taken care of quickly.

"Always showing off, boarding with just a few people" Lunos added with a smirk.

"I didn't want the Breen to counter our move and overtake our ship, in case they decided to board us in the meantime. It seems they didn't do that, hm?" Explained Sowl, "Anyway, what are you doing here?"

The First Officer attempted to gain some balance and tried to stand on her own, "Saving your ass!"

With the Breen ship apprehended and most of the supplies recovered, the K'Mis was able to see some peace and quiet for a while. A few weeks had passed, giving the crew time to recuperate from the battle.

Sowl was in the holodeck, fighting some holographic Klingons with her Bat'leth.

The sound of the holodeck's door opening up caused the Captain to turn to the entrance for a moment, "Always keeping fit huh?" Lunos stepped into the room, but remained at a distance from her superior while she was still fighting. The blonde fended her last blow to the holographic opponent and then said, "Computer, pause program."

"Hm-hm, I hope you are too." Added the blonde, "We had a sparring to take care of, remember?"

"This is why I just came here." The First Officer smirked and unsheathed her Tajtiqs from the boots.

The Captain assumed her usual battle stance with her Bat'leth, holding it as an extension of her arm. She looked cunningly at her subordinate, "Are you sure you'll be fine? You know, after that bad beating by the Breen?"

"Hey, I saved your ass the moment I regained consciousness" Lunos retorted, "And you have no idea of what manner of threats I had to throw at Pathlat to let me leave the Sick Bay so that I could beam over. And right on time too, it seems."

Sowl perked her right eyebrow and scrutinized her opponent. She shuffled sideways, slowly, waiting for the right moment to strike, "I had it perfectly under control."

"Sure you did!" Said Lunos with a grin. She suddenly jumped forward, swinging her long knife at Sowl, who fended it off with her Bat'leth. The two engaged in and elegant, swift combat, where Lunos's precise, stealthy moves were being met by the deadly dance her Captain's blade.

They kept going for several minutes, when one got the upper hand, the other soon recovered and it was hard to tell who could win... Until Lunos left her guard open for too long while attempting to hit her opponent with an upswing, which was rendered useless by Sowl's dodge, followed by a twirl of the Bat'leth that forced the First Officer to step back, losing balance and allowing Sowl to push her on the floor, the crescent-shaped blade terribly close to her throat. Her body locked on the floor by that of her Captain's.

The blonde Klingon smirked, "So I guess I've won."

Lunos sighed, without taking her eyes off her commander, despite having a blade dangerously close to her skin, "Maybe so."

Sowl felt something poking the side of her waist, the end of a tajtiq was pressed against it. The First Officer grinned once more, "So... about that special treatment you promised..."

"You haven't won!" responded the Captain quickly.

"Neither have you!"

"I could just press this Bat'leth against your throat now, and you'd be dead like those Breen dogs." Continued the blonde.

Silence ensued for a brief moment all the while the two Klingons kept looking at each other in the eyes.

"Or you could press your lips against me..." Said Lunos eventually.

Sowl slowly moved the Bat'leth away and laid it on the floor without breaking eye contact. Lunos allowed her knife to drop from her hand while the blonde leaned on her and met her lips passionately. It was the kiss of someone who had awaited that moment for a very long time, and who feared it'd never come.

With their body tightly pressed against each other, their hands explored every curve. Slowly and sensually, they rid of each other's garments until they were skin on skin. Lunos lightly raked her nails along Sowl's back, as she kissed her neck to then trail downwards to her breasts. Lunos was far from passive making her Captain shiver with the touch of her hands, the warmth of her own lips.

The First Officer took a deep breath. "So... are you a traditionalist?"

Sowl kept tasting Lunos's breast for a few more moments before responding, "I'm laying with another woman, what do you think?"

Lunos hit her lightly, "That's not what I mean..."

"I waited for this for a long time" interrupted the blonde, "I..."

"Will this matter beyond these walls?" The white haired Klingon run a finger on Sowl's lips.

"It will."

"Then tell me."

Their whispers were the only thing filling the otherwise silent room.

The blonde gazed at the person in front of her in the eyes once more. "I love you, Lunos; you better not die on me again, because you are going to have to stick with me for a long while yet."

Lunos smiled, cupped Sowl's beautiful face with her hands and drew her close to kiss her with even more passion.

The whispers abandoned the room to be taken over by gasps and pleas of love.