Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsswing.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!feed3.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!news-toy.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Sender: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: From: Istannor@Aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEML@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEML-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: New: TOS : A Higher Duty: PG: 13/28 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 237 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 05:55:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.142.218 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 1102139729 209.198.142.218 (Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:55:29 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:55:29 EST Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:85925 X-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:55:35 PST (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Title: A Higher Duty Author: Istannor Contact: Istannor@aol.com Series: TOS Rating: PG13 for violence Part: 13/28 Codes:TOS Summary: This is set during the second 5 year voyage of the Starship Chapter 13 Nighttime fell in the darkness of the cavern. They had eaten and told more stories while they sat companionably, in the darkness of the cave. Finally, Ramie was put to bed. J'usreyan went to take the watch and relieve Kirk. Kirk came back to the area where they had placed their bedding, but he was too awake and antsy to sleep. He knew the Enterprise was getting close and rescue was imminent. He just had to time his call to the ship correctly, so his ship got it and not the marauders in orbit. Conversely, he thought it was probable that Spock might attempt to contact him, even though he would have been told that Kirk was a captive. If he did, that would solve all their problems. Suddenly, he had a need to be alone. He rose quietly and wandered back into the caverns where he could turn on the light without being seen. Once there, he shone the lamp into the pitch coal darkness and was rewarded with his own personal light show. He was still sitting there in silent revelry when he heard the approaching footsteps. Therenna came to his side and sat beside him in shared silence. "Why do you do this, Jim?" "For pure pleasure, Renna, just look at it. It is so beautiful. When I think of how many hundreds and thousands of years it took to make something like this, it helps me keep my perspective on life." "Jim," she moved closer and lightly touched his arm, "I wish I could see the world through your eyes. You are not at all what I expected. Kirk turned towards with a shy smile on his face. "Ok, let me guess, you were waiting for me to scream, holler, and shoot you down, screaming: die Romulan dog. Or, are you referring to the rumor that I torture babies and eat the flesh of my enemies. I gave up those habits last week." He softened his sarcasm with a gentle smile. "I am very happy to hear that, Captain. Especially, since being shot and eaten, all in one day, might be a little much." Therenna paused and stared at him. He met her gaze with an openness she had rarely seen in her years as the Preator's spy. She tried to weigh his soul and perhaps he was doing the same because they found themselves falling towards each other until their lips met in a kiss that was neither tentative nor reluctant. She felt his feelings, his questions, his desire, through her touch and the loudness of his feelings flooded her senses. Kirk rocked back, startled and perhaps a little nervous about the depth of the intensity of his response. "I... forgive me, Renna, I did not intend to do that." He wanted to reach out and touch her again, to feel the overwhelming beauty of the gentle soul that sat beside him. She seemed to call to him, and he felt his heart stirring with feelings of tenderness for her. He knew he could learn to love this woman. "Shh, Jim,." She silenced his protests with gentle fingers against his lips. "I had every intent to do what we did. Please... do it again." He did it again and again until they slid slowly to the cave floor, gently kissing and caressing each other with all the tenderness that Therenna had once dreamed of, but finally put away as not for her. They were bathed in the shimmering lights reflected from the cavern around them, and the gently rushing of the water in the background. They made slow, unhurried love and afterwards lay wrapped in each other arms, sharing a sense of awe and the afterglow of pleasure given and received. "Renna, you fool." M'arenn cried in a hoarse whisper, startling them out of their revelry. She stalked over to them with visible rage written over all of her features. "How dare you lay with this Human. Get up, blast you. Are you completely out of your mind? Get up now, and make yourself presentable." Kirk and M'arenn smoothly disentangled themselves from each other and sat up to face their accuser. Kirk stood up gracefully, and helped Renna to her feet. He did not respond to M'arenn's enraged glare. He reached down and silently began to dress. Renna copied his example. When he had finished he turned to his accuser. "M'arenn," Kirk quietly spoke to her, without a trace of embarrassment or anger, "your sister and I are doing nothing wrong. You have no right to come back here and attack us. This was a mutual choice, made by consenting adults and..." "M'arenn," Renna interrupted him. Her voice trembled with emotion as she walked towards her sister. "How dare you speak to me and treat me in this fashion? You are not my parent, and I am not some errant child, to be chastised." M'arenn turned her rage on her sister, "How could you? This man killed my beloved, Ramie's father and you are sleeping with him." All the shock and confusion made her speak words that in her secret heart she knew she did not believe. She was past rage. and the confusing part was that she was uncertain if she was madder at her Sister for making love to the Human, or at herself for understanding why she did it. "What do you mean I killed Ramie's father?" Kirk leaned forward, all of his attention on the response. "The Captain of the Romulan warbird that you destroyed across the neutral zone, was my husband, Captain, and Ramie's father." M'arenn snapped the last few words out angrily. She wanted to hurt him as much as she had hurt all those years. "I'll be damned," Kirk whispered and hung his head in remorse as he remembered the horrible waste of lives in that encounter. Three listening posts, with their entire crews compliment, one crewman who had planned his wedding for that day and a Romulan warbird with its entire crew had all been destroyed. What an utter waste it had been, all to test out a new Romulan tool of destruction. "Mother," She heard a shocked whisper behind him and turned to see her son standing in utter disbelief behind her, where he had obviously overheard the conversation. "Is it true?" Ramie turned to Kirk. "Is it true, Captain Kirk?" Kirk looked at the boy, he felt injured by the hurt he saw in Ramie's eyes. He gave a sorrowful nod of his head. "I did my job, Ramie. I had to stop his ship from destroying more outposts. I'm sorry you Father died." Ramsthet leaned back rigidly with clenched fists and closed eyes. He screamed at the Human, who he had come to idolize, now revealed as the murderer of his father. "I hate you, I hate you, you ... Human, I hope you die." he screamed and turned to run back out of the cavern away from them all, screaming out his pain as he ran. M'arenn gasped, suddenly her pain and betrayal was incidental to what she had wrought on her own son. Tears began to trail down her face. "Gods, I'm sorry, Sister you are right; I had no right to do what I have done and now look what I have wrought. I must go after my son. Please, find it in your heart to forgive me." She rapidly retreated towards the mouth of the cave to find her son and comfort him. She would explain to him the warriors' way, so that he would not be burdened by the hate that she had held so close to her breast for so long. Kirk and Renna were left alone in the light of the hand- lamp. He turned to her. He walked over to her and reached out to grab her shoulders. "You knew this all along and you still never told me. Why, Renna?" She leaned towards him and gently stroked his cheek. "I am a telempath. I see what you truly are, in here." She tapped his chest. " I am in danger of be falling in love with, Jim, the man. I do not know the man who fought that battle with that Warbird. I only know you, and you are who I want to feel beside me, inside of me. I will be gone back to my side of the galaxy soon, and this will only be a memory. I needed this Jim. for me, and I wanted to be completely selfish for once. Please, do not hate me for that. " Kirk closed his eyes and gathered her gently into his arms, he murmured, "Never. I guess there are worse ways to be used then what you just did. Would you like to use me again later?" Renna laughed against his shoulder. Shouts rang out behind them and Kirk turned instantly to run to the source, picking up the lamp as he ran. Renna who was only a few steps behind him was quickly left behind as he turned off the lantern to approach the shouting in the dark. He located the direction with the lamp off, and began to run to the noise. A panting, tearful M'arenn who was running back to get them, met them in the tunnel. "Ramie is gone." "What happened?" Kirk barked. "Jus had moved out into the woods to look around, and Ramie ran out past him before he could reach him. He came back here to tell me and he has gone after him." She was breathing hard with the exertion of her all out run back up the mountainside. The zone embraced him. "Here take this light. I'll go after them both. There is a communicator in the pack if the Enterprise calls you, flip it open and they will send help right away." He reached into the pack and grabbed his phaser, one captured Klingon disrupter, a compass, and his bowie knife. "Tell Spock when he gets here, black bishop to King's knight four. He'll know what to do after that." "Wait, I will go with you." M'arenn moved to grab a weapon. "No, M'arenn, you need to stay here in case he comes back before we find him. You can call for reinforcements, if we need them. Please, don't argue with me. This is what I do, M'arenn. Let me do my job." He rushed out before she could respond. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ASCEM messages are copied to a mailing list. Most recent messages can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCEML. NewMessage: