Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Side-Sim - Training Room - Working out old kinks

Posted by Commander Ryder Raauhl (Executive Officer) in Side-Sim - Training Room - Working out old kinks

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Side-Sim - Training Room - Working out old kinks
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His eyes widened at the sudden vicious attack, the strike glanced his nose as he twisted his body to the right and attempted to dodge the attack, it was half successful. His nose burat open and the pain exploded across his face. Lifting his hands he grabbed her arm and threw her over his shoulder by pivoting on the balls of his feet and the twisting power in heis hips before following the woman down, he straddled both legs, pinning them to the mat one arm holding hers back and a hand clenched behind him as he looked down into her own broken face.

• Commander Ryder, XO

Cursing silently Casela did not want to be in this position. Her grappling techniques were wanting. Crap. crap. crap. She was breathing hard, and he knew he had her. Her arms weren’t going anywhere. She pulled her knees up to dig her heels into the floor and bucked trying for a type of scissor kick to throw him off. She rolled trying to get her arms free at the same time. It would hurt like crazy, but she’d head butt him in the nose if she had to.

Lt. Synthi-er

Ryder resisted as best he could to stop the woman from getting out from under his lock, for a counsellor she was easily the hardest opponent he and any of his hosts had faced. As she bucked the Trill XO fell forward ungracefully so that neither he or she really had the upper hand their battered faces a fraction apart, her torn lip, her black eye and bloody cheek drained him of all his anger and in a whisper “I’m not him and you are none of those things.” The moment was paused, as if someone had slowed time as they lay staring at one another, Ryder unwilling to move. He noticed how beautiful her eyes were, like diamonds among the rough of her beaten face. He had gone to far, how could he forgive himself.

• Commander Ryder, XO

She was still pinned, and she about to make another attempt to throw him off, he was a fierce opponent, something/someone she hadn’t faced in a long time. Casela hadn’t really been listening for his thoughts, but his total silence was suddenly broken, and that changed the whole thing. She was winded but the fight or flight mode was gone. His thoughts suddenly loud in the stillness inconvenienced her more than anything. She whispered into the sudden stillness, “No I’m not.” She swallowed hard watching his face, only inches from hers. “And you are nothing like him.” She stayed very still, time slowed and stretched.
Lt. Synthi-er

Ryder wasn’t sure when or how his lips had touched hers, having no recollection of even the thought to do so entering his mind. All he was aware of was the metallic taste of the blood on his lips and the sweet saltiness of her lips pressing again his own, his eyes had closed and his breathing had slowed to match that of the atmosphere in the room. He hadn’t considered that this was going to be the way their fighting both physical and mental would end up with the pair of them bloody and bruised embracing each other, Noa dissolved and he became just Ryder Raauhl, kissing Casela. He wasn’t sure if she was about to head but him or kiss back either were welcomed now.

• Commander Ryder, XO

Casela wasn’t aware of when he moved, but some how his mouth was pressed to hers. And the absurd thought crossed her mind, how in the world was he kissing her? His face was as bloodied and bruised as hers, so it had to hurt. His mouth was firm and she tasted the sweat and blood from both of them. She twisted her hands away from his grasp, but instead of hitting him, she just kept kissing him. They really needed to stop…some time…eventually, right? Her breathing slowed to match his and the only thing she was thinking about was Ryder, not Noa, not Raauhl, just Ryder.

Lt. Synthi-er, CNS

Flashes of images rolled through his mind, when they first met, the now countless times they had argued and the doubley amount of times she infuriated him, secretly he enjoyed it all and only now did he realize it. They were still kissing, her body relaxed under his as he found her hand again but this time holding them as opposed to restraining them. Time had surely stopped for them, two supernovas colliding into one another, and he selfishly didn’t want this moment to end.

• Commander Ryder, XO

Casela wasn’t sure where she was anymore. Her whole body relaxed and she threaded her fingers with Ryder’s her other hand wrapping around his neck, pulling him closer. All she really wanted to do was stay right there kissing him. She felt like she was exploding. She really didn’t know how long they stayed like that, lost in the feel of each other. She would have happily stayed right there and not moved, until his hand skimmed her ribs, that were cracked. “What the…!” She came up off the floor throwing him off. She pressed a hand to her side to help stop the throbbing. She looked around, her eyes glazed, not really registering where she was at first. “Ryder?” she whispered. Her lips swollen from more than that mean left elbow he’d given her. She looked over at him, breathing hard, and really confused.
Lt. Synthi-er

“You used my first name,” He said trying to bring but his lips were cracked and bloody. He was pretty sure he was missing one of his front teeth but didn’t dare confirm it. The realization for everything that had happened, their tension, fighting, and then their embrace which out of everything made the most sense. “We should get cleaned up before someone walks in” Ryder was avoiding the question on his lips and from how she looked at him her as well. “Come on.” He stood clutching his side and groaned before limping to her and putting out a bruised and swollen hand.

• Commander Ryder, XO

Of course she had used his first name. You don’t kiss someone, like they had been, and use rank. Did you? She really had no idea and no experience. Casela looked at his hand. She was coward. She didn’t realize that till right that second. If she took his hand she was afraid he’d kiss her again, and even more afraid that he wouldn’t.

She took his hand anyway and stood up. A hand pressed firmly to her ribs. She walked stiff legged to her bag. She took out two towels and walked one back over to him. She couldn’t quite look him in the eye. “Stay here, Ryder, just for a moment. Please?”

Ryder hadn’t even the chance to respond before she had disappeared from view and out of the holodeck, he wondered if kissing her had caused her to bolt and that the next thing he would hear is an unauthorized launch from the shuttle bay but he trusted her and so he waited patiently with nothing but the sound of the ship, his own lumbered breathing and the pain that came with it.

She slipped silently out of the training holodeck. Unseen movement one of her better skills. She slipped down the corridor and was back in the holodeck in a few moments with a medkit. “Here. No one will think twice about the crazy counselor getting herself hurt. Not so good for the XO.” The medkit had a dermal regenerator, pain medication, and a tricorder and several other things. “I’m pretty good with the kit, I can help…” she was so embarrassed, more she was suddenly…shy? It was a very strange thing to her. If Ryder was paying attention he would see she was blushing and still wouldn’t quite look at him. “If you need help that is. I have to go report…to…Cpt. Manhattan.” She left the kit with him, grabbed her bag and left as quickly as her bruised body would let her.

The foggy gaze that had always come when Casela was around had lifted and now she fully had his attention so her rosy cheeks didn’t escape him however he decided not to say anything or give away that he knew. “I can fix myself, go report to the good Captain and” he chuckled before bending over clutching his side, “Try and explain this away with him, I don’t think the age of excuse of walking into the door will quite cut it.”

• Commander Ryder, XO