"Nothing"

[Avery Tynte 0]

"Nothing"

Ty & Naara

May 02, 23--

 

"I've hurt people, Avery. I can't live with myself anymore!" Tears ran down the Orion girl's face, her choked sobs echoing against the trees in the forest.

 

"Naara...you missed," Avery said, placing the phaser he held onto his side. He began walking the perimeter, checking for anymore security or surveillance.

"And how would you know?!" she screamed, the forest quaking under the volume of her voice. "You watched where every bullet went, did you?" Kicking a rock with her foot, she rubbed at her eyes with the sleeve of her uniform. "Tanvalno trieban tula!"

 

"Phased energy, Naara, not bullets." He looked up with a puzzled expression. "What in the world was that?"

 

"What was what?"

 

"That.....babble."

 

"Not everyone in the galaxy is born speaking standard. I merely cursed two gods of weaponry." She shrugged nonchalantly.

 

"Oh, is that all?" He smirked. "Trust me Naara, you did not hit anyone. I watched Aaron and Lieutenant Meriva stun the two guards."

 

She blinked back her tears. "Honestly?"

 

"Yes." They had made nearly a complete circle around the area. "Things look clear, no one but us out here."

 

"No one but us?" An evil little smile spread across her face. "Isn't that convenient?"

 

"Yes, so very...." Avery said, sarcastically. He moved to a tree and leaned against it, waiting for the others to finish up so they could return to Arcadia.

 

"You don't sound enthused. Alone in the forest ... except for me."

 

Avery watched Aaron and Vectra down in the clearing working with Koshic and Ariago, prepping them for beam-out. "We seem to end up alone together a lot," he mused. Naara didn't say anything in reply, just staring at the ground, the smile getting a little wider... a little more evil.

 

Avery shifted, wondering what that smile was all about. He watched as she moved into the moonlight's path, her body becoming just a silhouette, another shadow in the pool of darkness around them.

 

That silhouette moved towards Ty quickly, too quickly, as she knocked him to the ground, pouncing on top of him.

 

The silhouette became a blur as he hit the ground. "What the hell are you doing?"

 

"You owe me one, remember?" she stated, coquettishly, bringing her lips down to his. "Now hush, and let the fun begin."

 

Their lips connected as his head sank into the grassy ground. For two beings so different, it was perplexing how often they ended up joined at the head.

 

She bit into his lip playfully, keeping him pinned to the ground. "My favorite doctor ... examine me, won't you?"

 

"Naara, we are on an alien world, " Avery started, gasping out the words when they broke for air. "In the middle of a field, and on duty."

 

Moving her teeth downwards, she started pulling at his uniform closure. "Just makes it all the more exciting. How Not To Get Caught."

 

I should stop this. I should roll her to one side. I should ...I should ... Her teeth disconnected from his lower lip and her lips met his neck. He opened his mouth to speak, to stop this. But no words came.

 

Pausing from her kisses, she whispered something to the effect that he was the most magnificent Bajoran she'd ever laid eyes on. A moment later ... the two were enveloped in a transporter beam...

 

Avery found himself lying on the pad in Transporter Room Two. Thankfully, he and Naara had been beamed to a different room then the other four, and this one was unoccupied.

 

Naara turned a deep shade of emerald, disengaging herself from Avery as they phased into being aboard Arcadia. "Gods ... why'd they go and do a thing like that for?"

 

The change of locale was enough to shock Avery back into reality. "They needed to get Lieutenant N'Dak and Ariago back to the ship." He sighed. "Prophets ... we should have been checking on them. Helping, keeping watch..." He began to ramble off the should-haves.

 

"Oh shut up. You know that you were enjoying yourself," she replied, rolling her eyes.

 

"We are officers, Naara, not children." His sense of self-control was obviously reasserting itself. "We are officers..." He repeated to himself.

 

"Sure, repeat your mantra. I say we just go to your quarters and finish what we started."

 

He closed his eyes and sighed. "Naara....."

 

She smiled, wrapping her arms around his neck again. "Yes, dear?"

 

"We are still on duty." His cold eyes met hers as he spoke the excuse.

 

Eyes sparkling, she grinned. "We're off duty in fifteen minutes, love."

 

Fifteen minutes too long. He closed his eyes, control and surrender fighting within him.

 

Taking his expression as a sign that he was ceasing his complaints, she started kissing him again. "For gods' sakes, you're an odd one, Avery."

 

"You have no idea..." He spun away from her embrace.

 

Her lip trembling, she let an outpouring of tears roll down her face. "You're so cruel! Is there something wrong with me that I don't know about?" Sinking to the deck plating, she wrapped her arms around her knees and continued sobbing.

 

Avery sank down beside her. "It is nothing to do with you, Naara. This is just not me."

 

Harmlessly smacking him across the face with her neatly trimmed nails, she pouted. "You just like playing with girls, I think." She stood, moving towards the door of the transporter room with a peevish expression on her face. "Nothing serious. Nothing ... permanent." Stalking out, she left Avery in silence.

 

Avery leaned his head against his knee, the wind from the door swishing closed hitting his back. Nothing...