Hook, Line, and Sinker?

Posted on Mon Oct 16th, 2017 @ 1:03pm by
Edited on on Mon Oct 16th, 2017 @ 2:52pm

Mission: https://wellington.pegasusfleet.site/index.php/sim/missions/id/3
Location: Karen Walker's Quarters
Timeline: Current - Immediately after Baiting the Hook (Part 2)

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Deciding that it was time to change the subject to something he felt would be safer, he said "Isn't it about time you showed me the things you wanted me to see?"

"Absolutely..." she answered as she set her glass on the table, glad for the opening he had just unwittingly provided her with. "They're in the bedroom." With that, she stood up and motioned for him. When he stood, she pointed to the door. "In there..."

She followed him in, then stepped back from his view. He looked around, not seeing any type of plants in the room, then said "I don't see any plants in here."

"What I want you to look at is right here..." she said from behind him.

Charles turned quickly, only to find her standing behind him - naked from the waist up.

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For a moment Charles was speechless, unable to quite believe what he was seeing. Finding his voice after a moment, he managed to say "What the HELL do you think you're doing?"

"I told you I had a couple of things I wanted you to take a look at..." she said with a smirk. "Well, here they are. Take a good look at 'em."

"You...you said you had some plants you wanted me to look at," he stammered.

"I never said what I wanted you to look at were plants," she corrected, and as he thought about it he realized that she was right - she had NOT said she wanted him to look at plants. What she had said was that she had brought back some samples of plants from the Taran system and that she wanted him to look at a couple of things - and he had swallowed the bait, hook, line, and sinker. 'Damn!' he thought. 'How the hell am I going to get out of this?'

"This...this isn't right..." he said in a halting voice. "Not r...right at all. I...I...I shouldn't be here..." he said as he started to step around her and head for the door.

Seeing what he was attempting to do, she quickly sidestepped into the doorway, effectively blocking his exit. "What's not right?"

"All of this..." he said, indicating her nakedness. "You need to get dressed."

"But I got undressed just for you Charlie..." she said, stepping closer to him as she thrust out her ample chest even more than it naturally was. "And why isn't it right? After all, I'm single and now that the Spotted Bitch is out of your life you're single as well, so why shouldn't we have some fun. Just a tumble in the hay with no strings attached, hmm...? I mean, c'mon, be honest - how long's it been since you got laid? Six months? A year?" Charles looked a bit uncomfortable at this last and she thought she had hit a sore spot. Truth was, if he would admit it, was she HAD hit a nerve. It had been quite some time - just over a year, in fact, and she was making it extremely difficult to say no. "Besides," she continued, "...what did she have that I don't have, other than spots? She didn't have anything like these..." she said, indicating her breasts as she reached up and lightly stroked his cheek.

Charles reached up and caught her wrist, then brushed her hand away. "Another reason it's not right is because I'm your superior. I know we're the same rank, but after what happened to the Chief, rumor is that I will be the new chief and that may mean a bump up to Lieutenant Commander. And even if by some reason I'm not bumped up, if I'm CSO then I'm still your superior."

"Then prove it..." she said, trying to make light of the situation. "Take me to that bed over there and get superior over me," she giggled.

"This isn't funny Karen - and it wasn't all about physical attributes..." he said slowly. "And it wasn't all about sex either. There's more to a relationship than that, you know. There's love."

"Oh yeah?" Karen interrupted. "How much love was she showing when she walked out on you?" She had not intended for it to come out sounding that cruel. In fact, she had not intended for it to come out at all, but it had and now there was nothing she could do about it. She looked at him for a moment, then realized what it was she was seeing in his expression. "Oh my God....you're still stuck on her, aren't you?"

That had hurt and Charles felt almost as if he had been slapped. Problem was, he didn't know if it was because of what she had said or because she was right. "No! Yes. I don't know..." he said as he realized that she just might be right. And if she WAS right, maybe what she was offering was what he needed to get Laurana out of his mind so that he could get on with his life. "Even if you're right, this is damned confusing. After all, I was married to her for a long time and she IS the mother of my child. I can't just wipe her out of my mind like some whore I once slept with."

"I wouldn't expect you would," Walker said after a moment. "That's why I said just for fun with no strings attached. I'm not looking to tie you down. Hell, I'm not looking to tie myself down. Fuck that. I'm nowhere near ready to settle down. As the actress Mae West said centuries ago 'Marriage is a great institution - but I'm not ready for an institution yet'." She looked at him for a bit, a small, yet somehow sad, smile on her face.

"So what do you say...?"

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Lieutenant Charles Damian
Interim Chief Science Officer
USS Wellington

Lieutenant Karen Walker
Science Officer/Astrometrics Officer
USS Wellington