Stoplight, lock the door.
Don’t look back.
Undress in the dark,
And hide from you,
All of you.
T’Pring stepped into the room, the door barred behind her without a lock. She removed her white dress, a shining beacon in the dim light, and folded it carefully before she set it aside. Bare and exposed, she stood there. Only military secrets protected her now. And those, she grasped tight around her, coiled up in her mind, and turned to face her captor.
The Commander stared at her with ruthless greed. She moved closer, and T’Pring shivered.
~
Joanna’s command was still fresh and unsure the day she captured the Vulcan ship. At the end of it, she had only one prisoner: a young, delicate Vulcan woman with possible Federation knowledge. An uncertainty.
She locked the woman away the first week. Something about her stirred strange sensations in Joanna, unnerving her with their potency.
“Why did your ship cross the border,” Joanna asked the Vulcan woman. She demanded it, not posing it as a question.
The woman only looked back at her, silent, cold. Her features were beautiful, her figure pleasing.
“You are at the mercy of the Romulan Star Empire. It would be unwise to act with impudence.” Frustrated, Joanna left her to her cage.
That night Joanna paced the width of her room, unable to find sleep. When she finally did, it was a restless sleep, full of fragmented dreams of her prisoner, clothing peeling away like the layers of non-emotion which obscured the woman.
She awoke abruptly, her heartbeat elevated.
~
“The physiology is the same,” The Commander said. “The blood.” She touched T’Pring’s fingers, the shock of them like ice. T’Pring’s breath caught, both of theirs did. “The pleasure,” the Commander murmured.
Some part of T’Pring wanted this. The heated tremble in her limbs, the feel of the Commander’s desire focused on her. The other part of her hesitated. Back at Vulcan, so far away, she had obligations to another.
Touching and touched. T’Pring projected the words into empty thought. Her flesh crawled, but in a pleasant way, with the pressure of the Commander’s skin against hers, moving, rubbing, a dance of fingertips and suggestion.
~
Joanna soon allowed the Vulcan woman access to the rest of the ship and a room meant more for a guest than a prisoner. Vulcans couldn’t be broken with the usual tactics, Joanna learned. Now, the woman slept only a few doors away from her.
Joanna thought of that in her restless nights.
Her days passed in lesser torment, but in torment nonetheless. Her command was no longer her sole focus, as thoughts of the Vulcan woman began to draw her attention further and further away from her duty.
“What have you done to me?” she snapped at the woman. “What form of Vulcan mysticism is this?”
The woman defied her with a glance, her perfect lips sealed.
~
The music lifted, and T’Pring released the Commander’s fingers for a moment, then reclaimed them again. When had the music started? She couldn’t remember, anticipation crisp in her mind, blocking coherent thought.
The Commander pulled her closer and their bodies pressed flush against each other. T’Pring released a soft sound before she could prevent it, everything slipping out of her control.
~
Romulan music was quite inferior to that of other cultures. Even through her pride, Joanna admitted that. She had a strange fondness for it nonetheless, and she asked the computer to play a section of it on a whim one day when she had summoned the Vulcan woman to her quarters for questioning. That excuse weakened a little more each time Joanna used it.
But the woman’s beauty, her strange thrall, it never lessened.
Joanna thought that if things continued much longer in this manner, unresolved and unsatisfied, she’d lose her mind. She tried to steel her thoughts again, reminding herself of her ambitions, of her command. Then the woman spoke for the first time.
“I did not know that your people appreciate art,” she said, her voice soft and smooth.
Disbelieving, Joanna wondered if she’d imagined it. “What?”
“Your Empire, you produce music.”
“Of course. And we have dance as well.”
“Dance? I presumed that your culture was centered entirely on war.”
“You presume that there is a difference.”
Joanna showed her, then, the maneuvers of a dance. There was distaste in the woman’s eyes, but she complied, her movements hesitant yet precise.
“Romulan dance is styled as battle,” the woman stated.
“Of course.”
“And what about that of your people, Vulcan?”
“T’Pring.” the woman said. It took Joanna a long moment to understand that the woman had given her name. On the subject of Vulcans, T’Pring did not utter a single word.
~
T’Pring wondered when it had became this. She knew the progression of events, from the first dance to the second, when the Commander made her sexual interests known. Some part about it, consorting with the enemy in such a way, still revolted her.
“We’re the same, T’Pring,” The Commander purred. “Vulcan and Romulan, we still burn for one another.”
There was no escape. She couldn’t flee the ship, she couldn’t flee from this woman who stirred these sensations in her.
“Forget logic. There is no logic in this.”
T’Pring almost did. In lust, she returned the Commander’s touches, let them elicit sounds and reactions from her, let her already lost control slip away even further.
The Commander pressed her mouth to T’Pring’s ear and hissed a word.
T’Pring tried to say it, tried to voice a sound in the midst of the burning dance, but only afterwards could she free the word from her lips and breathe it into the dark room, “Joanna.”
You belong to me,
My snow white queen.
There’s nowhere to run, so let’s just get it over.
Soon I know you’ll see,
You’re just like me.
Don’t scream anymore my love, ‘cause all I want is you.
It’s not perfect.
It’s not entirely what I had in mind, but I had to sacrifice a little of that to explain how everything all came about in the first place.
Also, a lot of this ship consists of PWP without any legit porn (because I can’t write it and don’t particularly want to learn). I really don’t know how it turned out that way, but sex is the vehicle for their relationship dynamic most of the time, and major themes in this mix such as control, manipulation, lies, love is war, etc. are often explored through sex.
Next up: In which T’Pring masters the skill of manipulation and turns the tables a little.
It’ll probably be posted in a few days, because I have loads of homework again.