Posted by Captain Dante Knight (Commanding Officer) in Starfleet Academy - Daye’s Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term

Posted by Captain Dante Knight (Commanding Officer) in Starfleet Academy - Daye’s Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term

Posted by Captain Dante Knight (Commanding Officer) in Starfleet Academy - Daye’s Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term
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“If you continue with this course of action we will be facing charges on public displays of affection, fraternization with a superior officer, and public indecency. Might be good for your career. Show you think outside the box and a risk taker,” she teased him with a smile. Getting a bit more serious Natasha met his gaze with her own. “And why would I not want to spend time with you? You make me laugh. You can be fun when you are not all worried about academy rules and such.” Natasha slowly moved forward and pressed her lips to his holding the kiss for a few long seconds. She broke the kiss and pulled her head back looking at him. It was always like this with them: a carefully balanced game of chess. Dante made his move by excluding them from the group. Natasha slapped him feigning an unwanted kiss excuse. Dante had come back with a heartfelt response. The only move she had was to follow back with a dare. “So are we done here or what handsome,” she said feeling her breathing increase as she waited for his answer.

Lt. Natasha Daye, Medical

“Oh we are far from done” he breathed to her softly, looking at the door and back to Tasia with mischievous grin. “Show I’m a risk taker you say? Why would you ever think I’m not?” He said as he lifted her slightly higher against the wall, and adjusted his hands to move to her waist. Natasha had lit a fire in him that he knew was there for her, but hadn’t let be lit. With the two of them at eye level, Nats gorgeous eyes had him lost in their depths, making him want to sink into her soul and feel every inch of her being with him. Dante realised then he needed her, in his life, romantically and physically. And right now.

His lips travelled from her lips and along her jaw, finding the soft spot under her ear and then along the line of her neck to her shoulder. He could feel her warmth, feel their bodies pressed together, and his fingers searched for the lip of her gym shorts. “We’re done when I say we are Tasia” Dante smiled as his lips ran over the soft skin of her neck. “Risks be dammed, I need you. Now.” His lips returned to hers, and his fingers slid between the lip of her shorts and her skin.

Cadet Knight

The good girl Natasha should have said no and put the breaks on their newest workout. She should have remembered that Dante was not hers but someone else’s. It was pretty much of a certainty that Dante was going to drop her like a hot potato after about thirty minutes but something in Daye wanted that thirty minutes. She was not the type to sleep around nor steal someone’s boyfriend for fun and games. Natasha always had a strict hands-off policy with men that were attached. That was however before she met Dante. Daye wanted to get to know him. She wanted to learn everything about him. She wanted to be his. Feeling his lips find all the right spots on her neck, lips, and shoulder sent Daye into dream-like state. She did not fight but encouraged his efforts with those of her own. For the next twenty minutes, they engaged in another form of sparing that had been practiced since time immemorial.

Flopping back onto her back, Daye pulled Dante’s arm down so she could prop her head on it as they caught their breath “Hey Knight,” she said looking up at the ceiling. “I was wrong about something.”

Dante glanced at her with raised eyebrows, as if she had just said some thing so profound, so out of character that he wanted to check her temperature and her pulse, but after the series of alternating sprints and crunches they had just performed, the flush in her cheeks and tired, sleepy look in her eyes indicated that her temperature and pulse were both indeed still elevated. “Yes you were” he said softly with a smirk as he kissed the side of her forehead gently, “a sandwich is not something between two burger buns, that’s a burger. A sandwich is made with flat pieces of bread or a long roll, an calling a burger a sandwich is just plain wrong… oh?” Dante said in mock surprise, catching the look in Nats eye, “It’s not that? Well okey then that’s still up for debate, so what were you wrong about precious?”

“You are a risk taker far more than I thought you were. I mean women in the guy’s locker is pretty much a staple in every teen dream drama queen holo out there but a guy making out with a girl in the woman’s locker room....you got hutzaph,” she said with a small laugh. “Should we get some burgers after this?”

Cadet Natasha Daye

Looking around the room, Dante looked back to Nat with genuine surprise. “We’re in the girls locker? So we are. You had your arms wrapped around my neck so tight I wasn’t paying attention to what door I came through.” He laughed and bit his lip as he watched her, “Now we had better move, the women get released early so unless we want to get literally caught with our pants down” he waved a hand in the general direction of their aforementioned attire, “lets dress and make our exit before Hornsby decides to pop his head in and remember his youth a little.” Dante stood and helped Nat to her feet, picking up her gear and holding it out to her. “Burgers will be great, I’ve seemed to have worked up an appetite, and I kinda think I want to spend some more time with you right now .”

----------------------- At that moment, across town--------------------------

John, the hulking, burly Security Cadet and arch nemesis of Dante rolled onto his back and looked up at the ceiling, his own heart pounding, and looked at the time. “That was fun” he told the beautiful red headed woman that had been lying with him, “and to think we’ve been assigned the same ship, what luck is that, that we can keep on doing this when we graduate.”

He reached down and took his trousers from the floor, not looking back as he started to dress. “I wondered why you called earlier, we don’t normally catch up like this until tomorrow, but I’m glad you did” he said and glanced back at her now that he had his trousers on and was reaching for his shirt. “I thought you had lunch planned with that guy earlier today, I wasn’t expecting to hear from you at all until tonight. I need to go though, I have something to do. Call me if your free later or tomorrow, and we can do round two.” John stood and smirked at Ashley, and watched the shape of her figure through the light blanket, then leaned down to give her a kiss.

Cadet Knight

“Yeah, tomorrow is probably not going to work. Dante will be over his huff and I need to talk to him. John,” Ashley said sitting up as he leaned down to kiss her. “Dante is a good man. I need to do this my way okay. I don’t want to hurt him.”

----------------------- Three hours later, across town--------------------------

“Enough about me,” Daye said taking a large sip of her vanilla milkshake. “Tell me a secret you have told no one. I want to know all about the great Dante Aligheri Knight.” This was not entirely a fluff statement. Natasha did want to know about the man but she also wanted just wanted to spend time with him. After their escapades in the ladies locker room, Knight did do the gentlemanly thing and take her out to dinner. So maybe the order of events was wrong, the person she was with was right. Natasha did not lack for attention from men. What she lacked from men was any interest to keep them after about three dates. In high school, it was men with big dreams and little ambition. When she entered the Academy is was huge ambitions with egos to match but little thought to anything but their career. In Dante, she had found a combination of both. The man had a drive. Like most people here, he wanted his own ship one day and wasn’t afraid to do the hard work that came with it. Like most people here, Dante excelled at his coursework and had the extracurriculars to match. What set him apart was Dante’s approachability. The only people that complained about him were the cadets that did not give him their full one hundred percent.

As Daye set the milkshake down and picked up a fry, she mulled over the events that had gotten them to this spot. Initially, she had flirted with him simply because he was cute. The disastrous first sparring match landed her a few private lessons on the parade field to help her refine her skills for the self-defense class. As the weeks and months progressed, Daye discovered she genuinely wanted to know more about him. Now she was sitting across from him getting her wish.

“Before you start though I want to say something. I don’t sleep around. What we did was great and I don’t regret it but I want you to know that is not the typical me. I know you have someone. I am not going to say I respect that because clearly if I did I would not have been with you in the locker room.” Natasha looked down at her food before sighing and continuing with her confession. “You are just so....special. You are smart and kind with a great sense of humor but you are also don’t take crap from anyone or compromise your principals to get ahead.” Daye knew she was stumbling around her words. This was far harder to verbalize out loud than it was to say it in her head. “What I am trying to say is I hope what we did a few hours ago didn’t change your opinion of me. I know you have a girlfriend. Rumor on the street says you love her and plan to marry her. The other side of the street says I am a fool for even looking at you but sometimes you have to take a chance. Throw it all out there and say I am going for broke. I don’t love you. Not yet anyway but I need to know if there is a chance for us. I get you are with Ashley. What I need to know is am I just a fling? You can say yes. I’d rather you say no,” she gave him shy smile, “but I will respect the truth a hella lot more than some placating reply meant to make me feel good before you return to Madison.”

There is was. The ultimatum. Natasha hoped Dante understood she was not asking him to pick her over Madison. She was only asking for the chance to get to know him.

Cadet Natasha Daye