Day 6
"I bet you can't do three claps." B'Elanna said, crossing her legs on the bed, watching Tom. She watched as he did a push up and clapped three times. "Okay, I'm impressed." He smiled up at her and kept doing his impressive three-clap press-ups.
"I can do something, well, I used to be able to, but I think I still can. Let me take a break first." He walked over and sat next to her, taking a drink from her cup.
"Hey, that's mine." She pushed him and split a bit on his top.
"Well, exercising so much, just for you, may I point out, makes me thirsty, but I could stop?"
"No, no, it's okay, you just keep exercising and looking so gorgeous." He laughed and kissed her. "Y'know, I think you were gonna show me a trick!"
"Ah yes, okay." He took his shirt off and passed it to her, getting ready to continue his exercising. He did a few push ups, then during another one, he flipped over and landed back in the push up position, did a few more, then did one backwards. "What do you think?" He wiped his forehead as he said it.
"That…was…amazing!" He smiled cheekily and pulled her onto the floor.
"I think you need to do some exercise."
"Are you trying to tell me I'm fat…or out of shape?" She questioned him, hurt in her voice.
"No, definitely not…" He leaned in and kissed her. "…I just want to watch you exercise for a bit."
"But I have no motivation. If I don't, I just get to watch you…" She leaned in and kissed him again.
"I have a motivation for you. Try doing a press up." She got into the push-up position but just before she went in to start, he positioned himself so their heads were inline. "Okay, go." She leaned down for the first push up and as she got lower he kissed her and she pushed herself back up. She rolled off to the side and turned to face him.
"Okay, okay. I like that motivation." Just as they began her work out Harry arrived and scared them.
"Well, well, having fun you two?" It made B'Elanna jump but Tom managed to grab her and hold her up, he let her down gently. They sat up against the edge of the bed and B'Elanna leaned onto him.
"Take a seat Harry, the floor is…comfy?" Tom gestured towards the spoken of floor.
"I'm okay, I'm only stopping by to tell you that we are approaching that M class planet and also Captain Janeway says you guys are free to go and returning to duty shifts tomorrow." Harry waved as he left, and B'Elanna and Tom sat in silence for a minute.
"Whoa. That was over quickly." Tom stood up and went over to the pile of clothes on the floor. "And I'm really surprised we were allowed to stay in the same cell."
B'Elanna was busy neatening the bed so it could retract back into the wall. "Yeah. Hey, next time we come in here all I'm gonna think about is Vorik's face earlier." Tom laughed from the other side of the room as he finished getting dressed. The bed retracted into the wall just as Tom brought over her clothes, helping her get dressed.
"What's with that by the way?" He asked, wrapping her jacket around her shoulders.
"What's with what?"
"All the sudden…public displays of affection? Not that I don't like it, I love it, it's just...not how I thought you wanted our relationship to be." Tom held her hand and sat down where they had just been a couple of minutes ago.
"What do you mean?" She asked, sitting beside him.
"Well, today in front of Vorik for one. You were all over me, not that I didn't like it, and in Engineering, right before you were stunned you were shouting about how much you loved me, and in the Mess Hall the other night when we were with Harry and Seven, you were very…intimate. And honestly, I don't mind whether you want us not to even touch during the day or whether you want to be attached at the hip all day, I'm just confused." He looked into her deep brown eyes, seeking answers. She let out a long-sigh and thought about it for a minute.
"I…I overheard a few young, really pretty Ensign's talking about you the other day. Apparently you had been doing that whole workout in the gym and they had been watching. They were talking about you and discussing if they were your girlfriend. At first I thought, we have been together for so long now, how can they not know? But then I thought, because I'm scared to be intimate in public, some people still might not know." Tom looked at her for a second and took her into his arms. "The second reason is, I really hate that we have to pretend to act different around each other in public, once again because I'm scared. And, after trying it, I don't care, as long as I have you, I don't care! I like not having to hide it anymore, I like being able to hold onto you and kiss you in the Mess Hall, to walk to the Bridge with you hand in hand." She looked into her beautiful-blue eyed pilots eyes and smiled at him.
"So, where are we now then? Sort of like out, I can kiss you and hold you in public, or just staying in, like what we do?" Tom asked, but B'Elanna grabbed his hand and led him out into the corridor. Once out in the corridor she kissed him passionately, listening as a few crew members passed by. "So out then?" She laughed and kissed him again.
"So, are you still coming to the Holodeck tonight with me and Tom, Cupcake?" Harry asked as he handed her a sandwich.
"I will comply, also, I talked to B'Elanna and asked her to accompany us. To join in, I said that we could give her a role if she like it." Seven picked up the sandwich and inspected carefully.
"Aww, good luck with that, me and Tom have been trying to convince her to join us for three years, she won't come no matter-"
"She said she would come." Seven took a bite from her sandwich and Harry's jaw dropped.
"You actually got her to come?! What did you say to her Cupcake?" Harry took a large bite from his sandwich as she swallowed hers.
"I said: Lieutenant Torres may I speak with you? To which she said: you can call me B'Elanna, we're friends now. I said: Thank you, we are friends now, you are my very best friend, apart from Captain Janeway. She replied: Thank you Seven, that means a lot to me. I said: As my best-friend, would you accompany me to the Holodeck with Harry and Tom, I get lonely because our men have each other to talk to, the Megan and Jenny Delaney, the Twin Terrors, which made her laugh, have each other, so I would have you. Only this once I promise, I know you don't like Captain Proton. She said: I would love to. I was hoping to get involved in some things Tom likes so this'll be fun. Ill meet you there when Tom goes, I need to get back to engineering, see you later seven. Then I said: bye. Then finally, I came to meet you." Harry had finished his sandwich and was listening intently.
"So B'Elanna's coming. What role do you think she should play?" Harry reached across and took half of the remainder of Seven's sandwich. She raised her eyebrow and her whole eye piece moved. He moved across the table and ran his finger along it.
"Maybe something to do with Captain Proton?" Seven suggested, pulling the rest of the sandwich and the plate away from him. He shuffled back around the table to face her and got himself comfy.
"Cupcake, it's all to do with Captain Proton."
"I mean, something to do with Captain Proton. I think she might find it more interesting if she can be close to Tom in this as well. We could create one, like am Engineer for the ship, so it's close to what she's used to, and it just happens to be Captain Proton's girlfriend. We could even write a starter episode that Tom and B'Elanna know nothing about." Seven finished her sandwich and head over to the replicator. She returned with two of Neelix's cupcakes. "Neelix wants us to try these, he is making several different cake samples and the top five he will show to B'Elanna and Tom for their wedding choices."
"Be, are you sure you want to come, you don't have to, and have you seen my leather jacket?" Tom was searching high and low for it, but could not find it.
"This one?" B'Elanna came sauntering out of the bathroom, wearing it.
"Yes, where did…" Tom faded out as he wandered over to her. "Are you wearing anything underneath there?"
She laughed and leaned in for a kiss. "No, but wait here." She scampered through to the bathroom and re-emerged a few minutes later. "What do you think?" She did a little turn and handed him his leather jacket.
"Be, I love it, where did you get this?" He pulled his jacket over his shoulders.
"Well, Harry and Seven told me to get outfit because they had written a new character and episode." B'Elanna was wearing a tight white top tucked into dark green leggings, with lace up boots. It emphasized all the stuff it should.
"You look like me! But waaaaaay better." He told her, when they left they found that Harry and Seven had already got there and were inside the holodeck. "So, do you know anything about your new character, or this episode?"
"No. They said they'll tell us when we're here." The two entered hand in hand and looked around.
"Thought you'd started the program?" Tom pooped the last of his chewing gum into his mouth, putting the empty wrapper back in his pocket.
"No, me and Harry are making some last minute adjustments, but…" Harry programmed the correct information into the computer on the wall, and Captain Proton's rocket ship appeared around them. We can't start yet, but you two can just go and sit in there. Harry directed them towards a small room that had been added to the ship. Tom walked back out immediately
"Since when did we have a room like this?" Tom questioned, B'Elanna on his arm.
"Don't worry Tom, it's just while we make the last adjustments." Tom nodded and walked back through with B'Elanna.
"So Be?" Do you like my ship?" Tom was looking around when Seven came in.
"You must read these." She laid down to PADD's and left.
"I love your ship, and this one is for you." She handed him a PADD and for about ten minutes they sat in silence, reading about the episode and B'Elanna's new character. "So…says here it's an improvisation episode. Is that usual?" She turned to Tom, who had just finished reading.
"Nope. This is the first time. Also says, they have planned a few events but want to see what happens. Now, Mrs Proton, shall we see what Buster and Constance are doing?" They exited the room to find them kissing all over the control box. "They were some…last minute modifications, weren't they?" B'Elanna laughed and nodded.
"Or maybe it's an example?" B'Elanna walked over to Tom, he picked her up underneath her legs as she held onto his shoulders. He stood with her in her arms kissing her lustfully, they were only interrupted when Harry came through and asked if they were ready, the room disappeared behind them and it became the engine room, as usual. "We'll be right through." Harry left and Tom put her down. She blew a huge bubble and leaned in close so it popped on his and her face.
"You stole my gum!" He let her down but she jumped up on a storage container.
"No…" B'Elanna looked away, but then straight back at him. He finished picking gum of her face, as she did for him. "By the way, Neelix says later on we need to go and choose a wedding cake options and designs. He sent a message to me three times. Now, let's go, I'm excited."