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Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

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“So is it the middle school hobble wobble or are you going to show me your moves you sexy bloke,” Lily said in a horrible cockney accent.

“We aren’t going to be very graceful, but let me teach you a few steps. You might want to go over them sometime, you might need them in the future.” Having the ability to dance in a more formal style was always a good thing Duncan had found. Official functions always had the formal dance component, and if you were at a more unofficial function you could always profess this was the only way you knew how to dance. It was a good way to avoid the social side of places if you really didn’t want to be there.

Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can’t help falling in love with you

Raising his right hand, he placed it just under Lily’s shoulder blade, then lifted his opposite elbow. He stood straighter, but Lily being on his feet meant that she was far closer than normal. “This is going to feel a little odd, but follow what I’m doing. You’ll pick it up quickly.”

“And if I don’t want to? If I am happy right where I am,” she asked curling her fingers over his. “Maybe I am a slow learner. I might need the ten pack dance course from Rhodes Romba Dancing School. Tell me is there a waitlist?”

He took his first step, directing her steps with the core of his body rather than his arms. It was of course clumsy and far less than elegant, but he never took his eyes from hers and his grin was wide as he clumped around the dance floor with her on his feet. He could feel her against him again, all of her curves and the softness of all the right places in her body as he let the music guide his steps while they danced, kind of, in front of the large windows with the planet just outside for them.

Lt Rhodes, CSO

Lily let him move her about for a period of time. It was so relaxing and exciting at the same time. Duncan was the gentleman but the way he held her and moved her body spoke volumes about the things she did not know about him. As the song ended Lily stepped off his feet. She did not, however, remove her hand from his. Instead, she raised their arms until he let go letting Lily adopt the middle school dance pose she teased him about. Still looking into his eyes, Lily moved her fingertips to the back of his neck where she traced small circles with the softest pressure as she spoke. “Okay okay okay so I like the middle school hobble wobble,” she said softly. His hair was so soft as her fingers explored the nape of his neck. “It requires less concentration and lets me focus on you instead of my feet. Now tell me something about you. One thing someone no one else knows and I will do the same. It will make this moment ours forever. No matter how many times I dance with someone or you look out the viewport standing next to another woman we will have this one moment that is ours. Our dance under the light of a planet in a galaxy that has been around for billions of years before us and will go on billions of years after us. Yet this blink will be ours forever. I can go first if you like,” she offered.

Lily

Duncan raised an eyebrow as he looked at her, and then looked at the giant greenish blue planet hanging in space just outside the the huge windows of this empty bar that Duncan had been painstakingly rebuilding himself. His eyes slipped back to the beautiful woman in his arms and he smirked. She was cute, and she was able to hold his attention far longer than most people could. There was something about her that made him want to spend his time with her. She had made him smile, frown, swear inside and laugh outwardly all in just a few precious hours. That was something that to Duncan, told him far more about her than just her looks or where she had picked him up from.

“Okay, wait a moment. Exactly how many guys have you danced with in front of giant beautiful planets in a darkened room, that you need to sort them all with snippets of personal information like an i.d. system?” His hands dropped and circled her waist, his fingers gently following the curve of her sides as he spoke. “I could just be the guy that refused to play your game,” he whispered and brought his head closer to her, his lips by her ear. “I could be the guy that stayed mysterious, didn’t answer. So that way I will always be that one guy, not I like tripe guy or I have 6 toes and they are all webbed guy. I would always be that one guy that you think of and what my secret might have been.”

Lt Rhodes, CSO