Paula eyed her boots longingly as she stood in front of her closet, one hand rubbing her back. She missed them, but the past few months they had grown more and more uncomfortable as her ankles began to swell, and Leonard had gotten on to her at last for continuing to wear heels. Besides, she couldn’t bend to wrestle with the zippers now. The flat ( Read more... )

Paula lounged by the pool, her head arms folded beneath her head as the sun warmed her back. She was half-asleep from the heat and the fatigue of her late night, and she stretched and yawned, wiggling into a more comfortable position on the chaise. The party to which Jim and Leonard had been invited had gone on until the early hours of the morning ( Read more... )

Two days after the battle, and Paula had only been in her quarters for a brief shower and what felt like an even shorter nap. She'd found Hikaru passed out on the bed, a towel wrapped around him as though he'd meant to wait for her but had fallen asleep before he could even get under the covers. She'd curled up next to him, and vaguely remembered ( Read more... )

Paula couldn’t concentrate. No matter how hard she tried to focus on the work that had accumulated in her absence, her mind kept wandering back to Hikaru. He was still treating her like she was made of glass. Every kiss and every touch was soft and tender, and whenever she tried to take things farther he just wrapped her in his arms and kissed her ( Read more... )

[OOC: Warning! This thread contains dubcon/noncon. Read at your own peril.]Paula was running late ( Read more... )

Paula nodded as she passed a cluster of people, relieved when nobody stopped her. It had been a long day, and though she’d worked off most of her bad mood in the gym, she was hot and sweaty and not feeling all that sociable. All she wanted was a shower, clean clothes, and Hikaru, and she wasn’t too particular about the order ( Read more... )

Encrypted message to: Lt. Sulu
Subject: Tonight

19:00, my quarters.

DO NOT open the attachment on the bridge. Or in the mess.

...Love you.

Attachment:
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Paula woke with the sun the morning after they arrived. Her first sight when her eyes opened was of the soft, white curtains draped over the bed stirring in the morning breeze, light filtering into the room through the open windows along with the sound of the waves washing onto the beach outside. Hikaru was snuggled warm and solid against her back ( Read more... )

There was a buzz of excitement in all of the public areas of the ship. Paula had been in the lab all day and hadn’t checked her messages, so it wasn’t until the end of her shift that she noticed the activity, people chattering in twos and threes. She caught the words ‘shore leave’ and perked up, realizing they were overdue. A decision must have ( Read more... )