Posted by Lieutenant Dr. Solomon Kane (Medical Research & Development) in If This Isn’t My Bed, Then Whose Shirt Is This?

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He was on fire. Every nerve, every synapse, every sensory receptor on and in his body starting to fire all at once. It hurt… but he didn’t want it to stop. Time slipped away and all that was there was her.

At one point, he pulled his lips from hers and said “Alexis, I…” but the words hung on his tongue. But what the mouth couldn’t say the eyes held in them. He brushed her cheek with his fingers.

Time stood still when he said her name. She didn’t recognize by name what was in his eyes, but she recognized it was a reflection of what was in her own. He brushed her cheek with the same fingers that had so carefully sketched her picture to life, like he was sketching her, bringing her to life in reality. She closed her eyes leaning slightly against his hand. In that moment something fundamentally Alexis came alive. Her eyes opened and watched him, recognized him and called to him.

And then he kissed her again and let her take him where he had never been.

Kane

It was too much, too overwhelming, too intense, too unfamiliar, too raw. Her mind tried to take it, analyze it, define it, give it shape and form. She shook her head insistent that her mind stay off that she stay in that moment, that didn’t seem to stop. She let him distract her and she sank into the way he kissed her, and Solomon Kane had total control of when and how her mind was allowed to turn back on.
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Hours passed and they remained right there, together. Frigga finally came and tugged on Kane’s pant leg and did a little dance and spun in a circle. You’re both happy and I’m happy and I don’t want you to not be happy but I gotta GO! she said with her movements. Kane finally broke the connection, at least part of it, and looked down.

Alexis rested her forehead against his shoulder, still pressed, squeezed, tightly against him and stayed there letting time start running again. Reality couldn’t return, it had changed, and Alexis didn’t want it to go back.

“Dog door is next on the list.” He looked at Alexis, and said “Walk? Or stay here. We should get your stuff if you’re moving in… you know, for a while.”

Kane

Slowly her mind kicked back in, “Program her combadge to your door.” She was moving in…for a while, but how long was that. Alexis knew though, it didn’t matter how long awhile was, when it came to an end it would break her heart. “Ummm…walk. Then we don’t have to leave a second time.” Did that sound too suggestive, needy, or something? At that moment she didn’t care. With a resigned sigh, once his arms relaxed, she reluctantly stood up, one hand still laces with his. “Come on Frigga. Quick walk okay, no ball this time.”
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Kane stood, keeping his hand with hers and said “Ok. Dog. Then your place. Then back here. Ok? And if you want, just give me a list and you can wait outside while I go in your place. Either way, you’ll be ok. Promise.”

Kane

Her grip tightened on his and there was a noticeable detachment in her eyes as he talked about going to her quarters to get her things. Alexis just nodded, her voice contrastingly chipper as she spoke to Frigga. “Alright come on Frigga, let’s go.” Stepping by the door they slid open and Frigga took off for the turbolift twirling and spinning and dancing in place. The dog could barely stand still in the lift for the two deck ride to the arboretum. When the lift stopped Alexis shook her head with a smile, “Go!” and Frigga took off. By the time she and Solomon reached the doors Frigga was somewhere in the foliage. Several people called out to Frigga as she passed by, mostly patients that took advantage of having a therapy and trained assistance dog on board. Frigga was polite and calm, but made a bee line straight back to them as soon as she was done. She glanced from Kane to Alexis and back and then wove her way around Alexis’ legs and nosed her hand.

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