Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jessica Teller (XO) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

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

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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

“You know Larry,” she said with mocked surprise. Lily let her laugh fill the room for a second. “That is a good question,” she said chewing on her lip. “The answer is far less exciting. I have been around a lot and by a lot I don’t mean a lot. You know like the a lot that would make a pastor’s wife blush or exile you from Barlutha V a lot. Not that kind of a lot. More the travel a lot where you experience new things but not those kinds of things but get your heart pounding and make you scream god yes I want to do this like ten times a lot,” she said in an excited tone. Looking at Duncan she realized maybe her point wasn’t coming off right.

Duncan nodded as he listened, but it wasn’t the nod of someone with complete understanding. It was the nod of a man trying to follow a series of complex and interwoven instructions and explanations where you had to turn page around and over once or twice before you realized that it was probably better to throw away the instructions and just go with your gut instinct. Kind of like a blind leap, but one made with faith and trust that things were going to turn out just like they should. He did, however, raise an eyebrow. None of that meant he wasn’t allowed to be confused.

“You know what I mean right. By a lot? The standing on the edge of a cliff on Deneva and looking over the rainbow aurora and asking yourself do I take this moment and jump or let it pass you by.” Even though her heart was pounding and her ears had a ringing sound in them, Lily wore an external calm expression. “I am going to stop talking now and kiss you,” she said slowly as if she was trying to take control of a dangerous situation. “Because I don’t want this moment to pass us by. I want a lot,” she stressed the last two words, ” of moments with you because you are not some Joe Schmoe tour guide pointing out the sites for all the tourist that I can figure out in a second. You are the guy that stayed mysterious, didn’t answer, and made me think take the jump Lily.”

“Shut up and kiss me. Lily Locksley.” Duncan told her in the quiet of the old room. The music had stopped playing now, and it was only the two of them together in the silence and the dim light. His hands still gently held her waist, and slightly pulled her into him as his head lowered to hers. He didn’t move his hands to her face, brush a hair away or gently caress the soft skin of her neck, he just held her to him in a way that showed she was perfect just as she was. He didn’t rush the movements either, Duncan just let his lips touch hers and he fell into the kiss slowly. The taste of her, the feel of her against him and how his hands gently ran up her sides to behind her shoulder blades all blended into that moment, the only moment that had ever mattered it felt like, creation and new beginnings. Everything before that moment was swept away like water under a bridge, and Duncan and Lily stood on that bridge and watched the time past float behind them.

She did not rush it. She knew she didn’t have to. Duncan was not like other men. He was slightly formal and standoffish yet made you feel safe. As her lips touched his Lily got lost in the moment. It was as if there had never been another moment on the Outpost before this. Lily had a hard time remembering how she actually got here. What she knew was why she was here now. It was to meet Duncan Rhodes. As their lips parted she felt a shiver ripple up and down her spine causing her to shake in his arms. The feeling of his hands on the small of her back pressing towards him let a soft moan escape her lips as she used the second to draw in a quick breath. If she needed to breathe it meant they were kissing for a long moment only in her mind it just started. Lily was losing a sense of time when she was with Duncan. As the kiss deepened she felt a hot rush filling her body. The kiss had started soft and gentle. Just a brushing of the lips with the promise of more. Now the promise was being called out. His hands were in her hair. Stroking and gently tugging showing his need for her to be with him or were they. The longer the kiss lingered the more Lily was having trouble distinguishing between the reality of Rhodes standing before her and the fantasy Rhodes in her head. The truth, however, didn’t matter. If the man before her could make her feel like this in real life, then all things in her dreams were possible given time.

Lily

Duncan hadn’t expected the night to come to a point quite like this, especially since he had entered the coffee shop simply looking for a coffee and a sandwich. He most certainly couldn’t complain about meeting Lily and the way that she had made him feel all every moment he had been with her, with her attention on him and everything about her pointing in his direction. He kissed her and felt himself being drawn into her, felt his hands through her hair and caressing her soft and delicate skin, finding her curves. He felt her lips against him, felt his against the skin of her neck.

His hands moved once again to her waist and he lifted her smoothly onto the table behind her. Old and polished oak, it was sturdy and like something out of one of Duncans old estates, which might have been why he chose the style. The lights were already low and the planet outside the window gave them the bulk of their light, all at once giving them the feeling that they were alone yet a part of the universe around them. His hand moved back to behind her neck, his thumb gently tracing the curve of her neck and he again pulled her lips to his. Everything between Duncan and Lily was right, how it should have been. Duncan wasn’t able to see the future, but he knew deep inside that this woman was someone that he was meant to be with and that it wasn’t chance the two of them were here. All of that he knew, yet he didn’t think it. It was already inside him, he just knew that as he kissed her, he was meant to be hers.

They had the night, it was theirs and whatever lay in the future for Lily and Duncan, somehow he knew that they were going to be side by side, just like they were now.

Lt Rhodes, CSO