Date with Destiny - Part Two

Posted on 10 Feb 2016 @ 9:59am by Lieutenant Wilhelm Von Haeften & Petty Officer 1st Class Rebecca Williams

3,204 words; about a 16 minute read

Mission: Episode 10 - Symposium
Location: USS Galileo, Chief Science Officer’s Quarters
Timeline: MD88 2138hours

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Von Haeften stroked his fingers to and fro down Rebecca’s back. The first human words out his throat since their love-making were:

“Oh...my...God...Rebecca.”

Rebecca took a breath before letting it out slowly as she felt the caress of Wil’s fingertips against her back. Smiling at his words, she just turned her head to press a small kiss over where his heart lay beneath. “I’m not quite certain that God had much to input into this my dear.”

Wil laughed softly at her words.

“Are you kidding? Some power has allowed me to share a ship with the woman of my dreams. If that is evidence of a higher power, I don’t know what is. Trust me, I’m a scientist.” he smirked.

Laughing along with Wil, Rebecca winced as she attempted to lift herself but instead fell back against her lover’s chest. Realising that perhaps it was better to stay put, she unfurled one leg from his before rubbing her foot gently along his leg. “Aren’t scientists meant to devote their lives to proving the nonexistence of God like figures? I think I prefer the belief that all things happen as life wants them to happen. We met like we did because it was part of what is meant to happen in our lives.”

Wil looked at his lover, taking her hand into his. “I like that; maybe we have been star-crossed, literally, lovers before we met each other. I’m not sure who to thank for this, God, Fate, or even the verdammt* Q. All I know is, I am happier than I have been in a long time to be able to hold you tonight, and, maybe, if you aren’t done using me as status booster for dating an officer to your friends, many more nights to come.” he said, tenderly before kissing her fingertips.

With one hand being held by Wil, Rebecca nuzzled in closer to his chest before a thought caused her to smile. “My dear...if I wanted a status booster I’d have stayed with one of the Lieutenant Commanders or Commanders who’ve I’ve been with before.” Untangling her hand, the woman went to push herself up again, wavering for a moment before regaining her strength enough to pull herself up so as they were face to face. “Let’s face it...I’m with you for your body.”

“Well, I probably was asking for it from the way I was dressed...I mean, did you see how tight my uniform was today?” Wil jossed.

Laughing at his joke, Rebecca lower her head until they were nose to nose, playfully teasing her lover with an eskimo kiss. “I must admit that the view from behind was one which I could get used to seeing more often. You’ve got a pretty sexy bum on you meine liebe**.”

The German admired her ability to speak such sweet things in his native tongue, and gave his lover a kiss. He was uncertain if she knew exactly what she had just said, but he thought better about bringing it up, instead choosing to believe it was her true feelings surfacing through a Freudian slip.

“You would know about such things, wouldn’t you my dear?” the German said, playfully smacking her own rump.

Laughing, in response Rebecca wiggled her ass a little before playfully pressing a kiss to the very tip of her lover’s nose.

“Care to shower and get some sleep liebchen***? I promise no funny business this time from me.” he said, holding one hand up as if reciting an oath.

Rebecca leaned in to gently press a soft kiss to his lips as her smile broadened that bit wider in response to what he’d said. “Do you believe that I can shower with you without it leading to funny business? Water...suds...bodies...tight space...scrub downs…”

Wil thought for a moment.

“Maybe we should just go to bed then.” he said with a small laugh as he thought about being up all night with Rebecca, unable to keep their hands off each other. He was over 30, but the way she made him feel, he might have been sixteen again in the way his body craved her.

Leaning in, Rebecca tugged gently on Wil’s lower lip before pulling back with a smile. “We could...or we could just have that shower anyway...maybe try see what we can salvage of the food after as I figure we will need sustenance at some point…”

Wil smiled like a man who just got promoted to Fleet Admiral.

“I’ll go start the water love.” he said, that silly grin still plastered on his face.

::One hour later::

Wilhelm Von Haeften limped from the shower. His legs hurt. His abs hurt. His back looked like raw hamburger. Rebecca had not been gentle with him, and he loved every second of it. The sound of the running water served to embolden them to be a little louder than typical. They tended to each other like rabbits in that shower, with only a few minutes of the actual shower time being devoted to hygiene. He was so spent, Wil was sure he might pass out and die from dehydration.

As he gingerly sat down in the chair by the table, the food from his proposed dinner being kept warm in a thermador plate, his leg muscles protested as he sat and his arms complained as loudly as he tried to take weight off his legs.

Letting out a groan of exhaustion as he finished sitting, he turned to Rebecca, who had one of his cotton bath robes on. Wilhelm had settled for his own set of Pajamas, thinking maybe if he looked as unsexy as possible, maybe his body could finally heal.

“I finally figured it out babe…” Wil said to the woman who now shared his life as well as his clothes, waggling his finger at her. “...you are a succubus, here to drain me of my life force one agonizing minute at a time.” he laughed weakly as his abs did not like the effort.

Rebecca watched Wil, despite the aches in her body she wasn’t certain that she had ever felt more alive. Each step took some effort...Wil had brought out his dominance once again and she’d been made to pay for the way that the night had gone but the woman regretted none of it...as it was, it seemed that she just couldn’t sate her appetite for the man and what he offered; no matter what role the other took.

Placing her hands against her chest, Rebecca gasped in sarcastic shock as a light twinkled in her eyes and her voice took on a pitched tone. “Oh no! You’ve found me out! Whatever will i do now…”

Wil laughed heartily at that comment.

“Come on sweetheart, have a seat and I’ll set the meal for us.” the teutonic scientist got up from his seat, with effort, and hobbled his way to the other seat, pulling it out for Rebecca. As his beloved sat down, he snuck in a quick peck on her cheek. Wil proceed to place the dinner before her, a salmon filet with balsamic vinaigrette sauce with roasted potatoes and asparagus.

“Komputer, geben zu unser eine kleine musik.” he said to the computer.

A light piano concerto came out of the speakers, it’s volume prearranged to be soft and in the background.

As Rebecca waited for Wil to be seated, she moved her chair so as she was closer to her lover. “I’m going to need to educate you in the joys of good music...something upbeat with a tune you can tap your foot along to.”

“Remember the last time we had a song with a good beat? We almost made love on the dance floor.” Wil said, the twinkle in his eye telling her of the fondness he had of that memory. “Then you took me to a hotel and had your way with sweet, innocent, little me.” he added, fluttering his eyelashes in a look of pure innocence.

Taking a bite of her food, Rebecca’s stomach growled as it reminded her just how ravenous she actually was. “Sweet...innocent...you…? My dear…those were not sweet innocent words you were saying to me in the midsts of dominating myself and my body.” A smile alite the woman’s lips as she teased her lover.

Wil blushed at that fact. He had taken her as he pleased when she pushed him, and truth was, he enjoyed it. Part of him enjoyed taking her like she was his property, but he would never say it out loud, and to be honest, it made him feel vaguely guilty. He was always taught that a man should cherish his beloved. Wil supposed that if it was only in the midst of passionate love-making, he might be excused. He did not know if such thoughts made him a fool or a romantic or even a true gentleman, but he felt the need to say something.

Setting down his fork, he addressed his lover.

“Rebecca, I know that we...uh...sometimes get a little rough with each other, as the hamburger meat that is my back can attest, but I just wanted you to know that I would never be so...uh...domineering...outside of the bedroom. I care about you. In this relationship, we are partners and friends in everything, I trust you, and I value your company. I never want you to think it’s all about the sex. I want you for you, not for your wildcat sexual escapades. If at any time, you do not like what I am doing, or what I am saying, or how I am acting, I would like you to tell me. I meant every word I said this morning; I want to be good for you and to you, for a long time if you’ll have me.” he managed a small smile, wondering if he had ruined the mood with his serious discussion of their relationship.

As she pushed a piece of food around her plate with her fork, Rebecca listened to Wil’s words. There is was again; the one most prominent word that he was using a lot recently, relationship. It still scared her every bit as much as it did the first time he had said it. Her mouth froze each time she tried to say the word herself...it was foreign and so unfamiliar to her. She cared about him but this was all new territory….

“Wil...Wilhelm…” The woman took her time as she stared at her plate and tried to weigh up her words ever so carefully. “I said it earlier...I live my life that's things happen as they do because they are meant to….I won’t pretend that I’m not scared….You're taking me by the hand and walking me into a situation which I have never been in before. Being with you...committing to this...it’s not the way I wanted to live my life before I met you.”

Placing her fork down on the table, Rebecca finally turned to face Wil as it took her a few moments more to continue, “Sex...I’ve done it all before, you’d be hard pressed to find something I haven’t experimented with at least once in my life. But not now...now it’s different. Now….” Reaching out, the woman took her lover’s hand in hers as she took her time putting her thoughts into words. “...now you are here. You have a way of looking at me that makes me feel like I’m the the most important woman in the world and when you touch me...you make me feel like a woman worth more than a one night stand.”

Beginning to feel embarrassed, Rebecca felt the flush of a blush move across her cheeks as she glanced away from Wil but kept his hand held in hers. She wasn’t used to being so open, typically the men just wanted the body and not the mind but with Wil...she felt that there was no secrets between them. “I’d be lying if I tried to say that the sex didn’t matter as it does to me. Being with you so intimately matters to me. But,,,it matters that when you are with me there is no smoke and mirrors and you are just yourself. You feel no need to hide the soft touches or the hard core dominance...you are just you and that...that matters.”

“You are the only woman that matters to me Rebecca.” he stroked her red cheeks lightly with his hand. Wil heard the tune coming out of their speakers and held out his hand to his lover as he stood up.

“Care to dance darling?” he said with a smile. When Becca stared at him, he added “I don’t mean like at the bar on Jupiter. Just you and me, in these quarters.”

Looking up, still feeling as if her cheeks were on fire, Rebecca managed a little smile before nodding. “I would like that…” Holding out her hand, the woman moved to her feet with Wil’s help before allowing him to take control and lead her into the dance.

Wilhelm did not plan on anything fancy. He simply took Rebecca’s right hand in his left, holding it outward, his right hand being placed lightly on her left hip. They simply swayed there to the music, enjoying each other’s closeness and warmth. The clock ticked away as they said nothing, only swaying and turning to the tune of the music. Wil felt like they had been there for only a few minutes, but in truth, when he glanced at his wall chrono, the time insisted it was nearly midnight. He stopped their twirling, as Rebecca had laid her head onto Wil’s shoulder, enjoying the beat of his heart through his chest.

Allowing him to sway their bodies in beat to the music which played around them both, Rebecca closed her eyes as she just enjoyed the dance. For this moment in time, all that existed was her and Wilhelm encompassed in this bubble away from the world outside. Just for these moments in time, all that mattered was him and her and noone or nothing else...just being together.

“It only beats for you my sweet.” he said sweetly. When he received a smile from the woman he adored, Von Haeften gently touched her face with his hand before laying another kiss on her lips. Wilhelm did not care how often or how long he would kiss those lips, he would never get tired of it.

“Sleep with me tonight Rebecca. I mean...really sleep that is.” the German said, sheepish at his last words and their possible double meaning.

Rebecca laughed as her head returned to Wilhelm’s chest and her eyes closed once again. She believed in this moment that perhaps they could make this work...perhaps they could manage the right balance of intimacy and just being together. To be just held in his arms with no expectations or preconceived misconceptions...why not? Hadn’t they done it before that night at the hotel...the experience of waking beside him that night had been marred by her feelings of fear and being scared but this time...this time it would be different.

Nodding her head very gently, the woman moved her head so as to kiss the underside of Wilhelm’s chin ever so gently. “I think that maybe I...we could manage that.”

“We’d better. My body is on it’s last leg.” Wil joked. After their soft laughter died down, he took his girlfriend by the hand and led her to the bedroom. He put the covers back on the bed, which had been thrown off in the heat of their desires earlier and allowed Rebecca to claim pride of place on the bed, both to see which side she preferred to sleep on, and also to know how she wished to be held by him, whether against his chest, or spooning, or whatever she decided.

Allowing Wil to lead her, Rebecca couldn’t help but feel a little shy. Her confidence came from being outgoing, getting what she wanted this..this was out of her usual league. Following her lover’s lead, she allowed the robe to drop from her body before moving across to the inside of the bed so as she was against the wall. Tradition on Earth was the woman slept on the inside...it meant that if anyone attacked the house, the man was their first line of defence and they would need to get through him to get to her. Perhaps it was silly but silly seemed right in this moment.

Sitting on her side, the woman hesitated for a moment before holding her arms out to her lover as he moved to join her. After being pulled into his arms, Rebecca nuzzled her head in against his chest, arranging herself to lie facing him, their legs entwined as his arm rested under her head as a pillow of sorts. “Wil….?”

“Yes love?” he said.

Moving her hand so as her fingers stroked against his chest hair, Rebecca tucked her head under his chin as she listened to his steadily beating heart. “Did anyone ever tell you that you're crazy? Lost your marbles type crazy...you have to be to take on a girl like me.”

Wil smiled at the lady whose body warmed his bed.

“Crazy about you.” the joke was as old as dating, and Wil switched to something a little more serious. “And may I never reach sanity again.”

As her eyes grew heavy from the proximity to Wil’s body heat and the events of the last few hours, Rebecca felt a smile pass over her lips as she nuzzled in closer. “Don’t ever change...you’re perfect the way that you are….”

“You are too my sweet.” The German said. After a few minutes, and assured that she was truly fast asleep, only then did Wil dare to say his next line, softly as if said to a candle flame.

“I think I’m falling in love with you Rebecca.”

When she did not stir nor awaken, Von Haeften settled for kissing her forehead.

“Goodnight darling.” he said, as he drifted into his own slumber, his lady wrapped tightly against him.


*damned
**my love
***sweetheart
****Computer, give us a little bit of music


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Lieutenant JG Wilhelm Von Haeften
Chief Science Officer
USS Galileo

&

Petty Officer 2nd Class Rebecca Williams
Yeoman to the Commanding Officer
USS Galileo

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