Received: from [66.218.67.198] by n21.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Apr 2004 03:16:03 -0000 X-Sender: campbratcher@psci.net X-Apparently-To: ASCEM-S@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 75189 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 03:16:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Apr 2004 03:16:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailstore.psci.net) (63.65.184.2) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Apr 2004 03:16:02 -0000 Received: from max (as1-d62-rp-psci.psci.net [63.69.225.62]) by mailstore.psci.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id i3C3FjFS019090 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:15:46 -0500 Message-ID: <002001c4203c$776bda20$3ee1453f@max> To: "ASCEM-S" Organization: ConGlomeration X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 63.65.184.2 From: "Keith & Jessica Bratcher" X-Yahoo-Profile: sileya MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEM-S@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEM-S-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list ASCEM-S@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:15:53 -0500 Subject: [ASCEM-S] NEW DS9 "Sugar in the Morning" (O/K) [PG] 1/2 Reply-To: "Keith & Jessica Bratcher" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Title: Sugar In the Morning Author: OdoGoddess (odogoddess@odospadd.com) Website: soon to be at www.odogoddess.com Rating: PG Pairing: O/K Ep/Spoilers: none, sometime after "His Way" Archiving: please ask, thanks Linking: same as archiving Summary: Kira wakes up to Odo's sweet nothings. A/N: with thanks to my beloved Ce (and the McGuire Sisters!) for the title ;-) ---------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This non-profit material was produced out of love for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and is not intended to infringe upon Viacom, Paramount Pictures Corp., Pocket Books, nor any other holders of Star Trek copyrights, in this or any other universe... ---------------------------------- Sugar In the Morning by (-|-)* Judith (odogoddess@odospadd.com) "Do you know how pretty you are?" Odo's voice was pitched low and he spoke gently, but Kira heard him nonetheless, smiling as she roused from sleep. "You are very, very pretty." Kira tried unsuccessfully to pry open an extremely uncooperative eye. It had been a very late night and she felt as if she'd barely had any sleep. She couldn't even lift her head up and gave up the attempt, hoping he could see she was waking. "Oh, yes," Odo practically purred. Kira sighed contentedly, smiling, eyes still closed. She could listen to that particular tone of voice all night. Sometimes she *had*... "And cuddly. Did you know you were cuddly?" Her smile widened, feeling very content and dozy. "And so cute. Do you know how cute you are?" Kira's smile grew radiant as she nodded and made a stronger effort to open her bleary eyes. She tried to swallow past a dry tongue and began to work her jaw. This elicited a yawn, which made her jaw crack and caused her to wince. __Getting older, Nerys. Better start working out more. Maybe running that massage program Dax goes on about.__ "Easy now. There's no need to rush." Kira rubbed at her jaw and managed to peel one eye open. Which promptly shuttered before she got a glimpse of anything aside from her pillow. She sighed again. "It's okay. We've got *all* morning*." Kira smiled again, relaxing. Trust Odo to remind her they could stay in bed all day if they wanted. She felt a wave of warmth and affection. He made her feel so loved. "Are you hungry? Did you eat enough last night?" She shook her head to the first and nodded at the second, thinking of the large dinner she'd had at the new restaurant on the Upper Promenade. Something Julian had said was Italian food. Something called a pizza. Strange round, flat human food. She'd only ordered and eaten one, but still it made her feel as if she eaten an entire Algorian mammoth. "How about something to drink then?" She shook her head again, grateful for such a solicitous lover, and finally managed to open her eyes. She looked over to her beloved... who was faced away from her on the bed, one long arm reaching over to the bedside table where something moved. She frowned, blinked and focused on... a tribble. A particularly fuzzy white and brown tribble about the size of her fist. It was next to a small pile of what she recognized as a handful of Cardassian groats. It didn't seem to be eating, merely nuzzling at the food dispiritedly, apparently full. "Not thirsty?" Odo murmured, stroking it gently with a single finger. The tribble wriggled a little and seemed to stretch to try to press against his hand. The constable smiled and began to lovingly carress the happy creature that began to trill its contentment loud enough for Kira Nerys to hear it across the bed. It apparently did not want food, but some attention. "Who's my little precious one, eh?" Odo said soothingly. Kira smiled at his tone, swallowed a little to clear her throat. "Should I be jealous?" she managed to ask in a sleep-roughened voice. Odo swiftly turned and smiled at her. "Nerys? I thought you'd sleep until afternoon." She shook her head, still amused, and indicated the tribble with her chin. "Where'd that come from? I thought all the tribbles had been removed from the station?" "They were except for those that Bashir kept to study. This is one of them. He marked them." Odo gently lifted a bit of the tribble's furr where she could see something shiny, a small metal tag, that stuck out from it's skin. "See?" She nodded and he continued, still petting the animal, "After I reformed this morning I heard an odd noise in the vent shaft and went to look. And it was all alone in there, warbling piteously." His voice changed to a softer higher pitch. "Weren't you, little one? Did you escape from the cold Infirmary with all those nasty bright lights?" Kira smiled at his tone of voice and then remembered, "Didn't Julian sterilize them, too?" "Yes. At least, I recall him saying he was going to." Odo gently scratched the tribble's back and it purred loudly. "If he hadn't, the station would have been overrun by now." The colonel relaxed, laying her head back on the pillow. She watched her lover communing with the tiny animal. Not that it needed saying, but she felt the need to fill the silence punctuated only with cooing, trilling noises. "So you rescued it." It wasn't a question. Odo looked back to her. "Well, I couldn't leave it alone in there. It's probably been wandering the station, looking for its friends, wondering where they went to." Odo turned back to the tribble and began to stroke it again. "Weren't you little fellow? All alone. Poor little thing." Kira arched both brows at this, bemused. "Did you tell Julian you found it?" "Well, no. Not yet. It's still very early. I... didn't want to wake anyone." Odo's voice dropped again into a soft, soothing tone as he picked up the little animal and held it to his chest. "We wouldn't want that, now would we?" The colonel nodded, watching the pair. The tenderness in Odo's expression and the gentleness of his hands as they stroked the soft fur made her smile. "I guess that answers that question." "What?" She looked over at Odo who was looking at her questioningly. "I asked if I should be jealous." She smiled so he would understand she was being facetious. "Jealous? Of a tribble?" She arched a brow rather pointedly and he looked down to the soft, spotted creature which, despite having no visible eyes, seemed to feel his gaze and began to trill a bit louder. She smiled as she noticed his expression grew softer as he simply watched it and eventually gave in to the impulse to gently stroke its soft fur. After a moment he seemed to come back to himself, and he turned back to see her smiling. "There's... just something about them," Odo admitted. "I don't know. They seem to ... radiate love." "Well, that's okay, sweetheart. So long as you remember it's not the only thing one around here that loves you." "Nerys..." She was surprised at his expression, which was stunned and almost disbelieving, and thought back over what she'd said. __I said I loved him.__ (-|-) * * * (-|-) * * * (-|-) 2b cont'd [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! 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