Posted by Ensign Domingo Chavez (Security Officer) in Holodeck (Post-Sim Side Sim)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Katie Nunn (Counselor) in Holodeck (Post-Sim Side Sim)

Posted by Ensign Domingo Chavez (Security Officer) in Holodeck (Post-Sim Side Sim)

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“I… no, I… um, I’m sorry.” he muttered quietly before turning around and listlessly heading toward the holodeck exit.

Ensign Chavez, Sec

Katie didn’t need to be an empath to feel the intense emotion coming from Chavez. His movement toward the holodeck exit immediately caught her attention and she shouted, “NO!” Closing the distance between them in a few bounds, she grabbed his forearm and used it to pull him toward her, catching his lips with her own. The contact was stiff and awkward, but the kiss was there and she let out the breath that she hadn’t known she was holding. There, she had done it. She stepped back, breaking the kiss after a few beats and her pained blue eyes met his. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, clinging to his forearm with her one hand as though he was going to disappear at any moment. “I’m so sorry.”

Lt Cmdr Nunn, CNS

Domingo’s emotions were further thrown into turmoil. Was this acceptance, was it an apology, was it a polite rejection? He didn’t rightly know, but the feeling of her lips awkwardly pressing against his quickened the beat of his heart. When she pulled away and looked into his eyes with such vivid pain present in hers, his chest tightened as he recognized a kindred soul. Unconsciously he pulled her back into his embrace, tightly and firmly holding her to him.

“It’s okay.” He whispered in response, every time she apologized he whispered reassurance.

Ensign Chavez, Sec

Katie’s body was stiff in Chavez’s arms, but his soothing reassurances slowly pushed the remaining tension out as her arms shifted to wrap around his body and cling to him and his strength. She rested her head on his shoulder, burying her nose into his neck and allowing herself to be lulled into a sense of calmness by his scent and the slight pulse of his heartbeat in his jugular vein. After a few moments to calm, she let out a small breath against his neck and then righted herself, giving him a small smile. “So, I have some things I’m working through too…” she observed with a wry grin and a self-deprecating chuckle. Before he could respond, her lips brushed against his again, much softer this time.

Lt Cmdr Nunn, CNS

Domingo was feeling gratified as Katie relaxed into his embrace. He hadn’t messed up when things mattered most right then, He enjoyed the feeling of her nestling into his neck and the warmth of her breath playing along it. He started to smile at her half joke before he found his smile and lips melting into hers. Every nerve in his body seemed to be attuned to the sensation rippling through him, it was sweet and electric.

Domingo broke away from the kiss and separated away from Katie, in the hopes that she hadn’t felt his body reacting. “Now I’m incredibly sorry. I… hadn’t been that close and intimate with a woman in a long time.” he said with a blush on his face.

Ensign Chavez, Sec

Despite herself, Katie giggled slightly and used the arms that were still around Chavez to pull him back to her, planting a firm kiss on his lips again. She bristled slightly at the word intimate, but it wasn’t her turn for drama at the moment, especially after what she had just put the young man through with her freak out. “I guessed,” she finally said, her tone light, but careful not to ridicule his concern. She shifted to return her head to his neck and shoulder where she had sought comfort before and just breathed.

Lt Cmdr Nunn, CNS