Prologue

[STSF Corizon 0]

Corizon pressed deeper into the kiss before breaking off with a taunting smile. His lover playfully attempted to regain access to his warm lips and skillful tongue before giving up and laying back with a smile.

 

"Remind me," she said. "Why I tolerate you?"

 

Flicking his hair back behind his head with a fanged grin, Corizon looked into her eyes for a moment. "Because you find me irresistible."

 

"A pirate? A man who I could be jailed for even talking to, let alone sleeping with. I think not."

 

"My boyish charms?"He said as he held her gently in place and began kissing the nape of her neck and worked his way down.

 

Looking up he smirked at her frown. "My skills."

 

Breaking her frown she smirked. "They certainly help."

 

Coming to a rest just above her naval, he propped himself up on his elbows and looked at her, admiring her smooth, milky skin and flowing brown hair.

 

“So what is it your after this time, Windu”

 

His grin widened. “You want to know?”

 

“I asked didn't I?”

 

Leaning forward and kissing her stomach and working his way back up till he was kissing her just below her ears, he whispered. “I am going to steal a ship...”

 

She smirked and turned her head to look into his yellow orbs. “Oh, what this time? A freighter? An old Klingon number?”

 

“One of yours. The Excalibur.”

 

Hardly able to contain her surprise she sputtered for a moment before breaking into a laugh. “Oh, you fool. You shouldn't say those sorts of things, it ruins the moment.”

 

Corizon rolled off of his lover and looked at her with a sternness she rarely saw from the Dameon. There was chilling, drilling feeling to his cold, calculating eyes that seemed to dance with visions of chaos and mayhem. “I am not joking.”

 

When the stare didn't dissipate, her own laughter ceased and she sat up, pulling the silk sheets up around her. “Ah-Windu,” she said, her voice wavering. “Don't say those things. You can't be...my gods you are.”

 

“Of course I am,” he said standing and making his way over to the window of her quarters.

 

Pressing a button along the window seal, his eyes widened as the opacity lowered and the glimmering hull of the Akira-class filled the view.