Emily Quartermaine
Yuka Layton
Aidan Thornton
DFS Lavie: Bridge/crew quarters/Captain's ready room/various other places
Aug 21, 1145 hours
Aidan left the bridge and headed to the mess hall. It was more the chance for drama was lessened there. Plus is was less tempting to get into other activities and lose track of time. Reaching the line, he saw that it was chili macarnoi day. One of his favorites, as it was hard to make wrong. He doubled down on it and added a side salad. Grabbing a cold coffee shake he found an unoccupied table and sat down. "Maybe the whole universe wasn't against him after all, he thought to himself.
Yuka and Emily were done by this time. Yuka was sitting at the desk in the main room of the living quarters staring out into space seemingly lost in some extremely important thought. She was considering her situation and everything that had transpired over the last 24 hours. She was also considering the last two weeks and in so many things that happened over that short amount of time. She wanted to unload all of her thoughts, love, feelings and everything else on these two and wanted to express how much she cared so deeply for Aidan she regretted her decision to not reaccept his offer to marry her but at the time when she had even said that she was not in the right frame of mind to begin with. She wanted to go run to him and explain to him how she felt and just repair what she had done over the past even just 12 hours but she felt that such a thing that's not appropriate right now. She wondered how she would fix this and what she could say to Emily even though she was sure Emily understood her circumstances. The extremely long drawn out thought that was literally blocking her out of everything else around her was written all over her face.
She finally exited her thought well not completely out of it she thought that maybe a change in scenery would be a good idea. She changed into a dress and headed to the mess.
Aidan's problem was too much time to think. The more he thought about it, the less it made sense to him. He could understand the attraction going on between Emily and Yuka. It made perfect sense. It also stung to think the she just tossed aside his entire belief system without a second thought. He knew he loved her. The strange attraction that flared between them and caught him like an out of control forest fire. Maybe he'd been too getting involved after the burnout of his marriage to Carol.
Upon arriving there it was prime time for people having lunch. She decided to just grab herself a coffee. A couple glances from people who were working in Medical but they didn't say anything to her and she noticed Aidan over at a table by himself she stood in the middle of the room staring at the table wondering what she should do hoping he didn't notice her.
Emily was going over the deployment situation with Shiori as the squad's executive officer as well as helping to Cameron place the newly formed fire team as they walked into the mess in deep conversation. Emily's blue-violet eyes flashing hotly over something the Vulcan was saying as they got in line.
Yuka heard familiar voices and this caused her to retreat to a table. It was one that was near to where Aidan was but it was still far enough away that she hoped he wouldn't notice her but was also blocked by a bunch of other crewmembers. She was trying to shield herself from everyone that she knew eventually someone would notice her to her downfall.
In his mind, Aidan was still going over the options. What he really wanted was one of two options, neither of which seemed to be in the mix. He stayed and Emily didn't, which seemed unlikely. Or he left and got his own quarters. Aidan wasn't brought up to run from adversity, though he wondered how much he wanted to run to hurt her or isolate himself from further pain. The idea of a modified 3 person arrangement struck him as so alien he'd pushed it from his mind almost entirely.
(Emily is arguing with a Vulcan and debating clam chowder)
Yuka continued to think and eventually something in the back of her mind exploded. She stood up and walked over to the table Aidan was at. She did something as impulsively as she possibly could and just put two things on the table directly in front of his tray. One was the ring and the other was a letter that she wrote him in the event that something ever happened to her she just stood there amazed that she actually did that.
"I am telling you, Shi. I don't care what command tells you, giving Marcus his own fire team, let alone allowing him to choose that..person to be his sniper is sillier then watching you eat skull soup!" Emily stated in a very firm tone to the Vulcan who was actually looking for that very dish.
Yuka said in a forceful tone to Aidan. "I was a moron.... A complete bumbling idiot... do you hear that worthless... completely stupid... and selfish... a completely worthless selfish idiot..."
Aidan was dumbfounded. He barely had the sense God gave him to keep his mouth closed, it still holding the first bite of his lunch. It took a second for Aidan's shift to actual thought. He wanted to jab her one more time and ask "how this pertained to him, I already knew that part". What he did say was, "What are you telling me?"
Shiori's right eyebrow went up and turned to look in the direction of Yuka's voice..followed by Emily
"... I..." (14 at people looking at her and noticing what's going on) she sighed. She realized that like half the people in the room were staring at her. She closed her mouth for a moment and then got down on one knee turning his face to hers. "Will you marry me Aidan Thornton?" She asked swallowing her indecisiveness and pride.
"As long as forsaking all others is in our vows, you have a deal." Aidan said simply. He Vx'ed her "and I mean it dammit. I won't have you toy with my heart again."
Shiori was completely lost as to what had just happened but then again as a Sybokist it wasn't too uncommon for odd stuff to happen.
But when she went to ask Emily a question, the dark haired huntress was gone which simply brought a raised eyebrow from the Vulcan followed by a shrug and her picking up her skull soup.
There was quite a bit Aidan had to get off his chest, this wasn't the time or place. He was so engrossed in the conversation between them he didn't notice Emily walking out.
Yuka wanted him back but she didn't want to permanently lose her friend and first female lover. She knew if she agreed to this that she would lose her most likely forever. She didn't know what to say... as impulsive is doing this was she didn't actually expect him to say yes or continue down the same path. This was a completely cruel fate for her friend and she didn't know what to say or do. At this point the two sides of her mind or once again grinding against one another... what should she do that she had at least a quarter of the crew staring at her. She was even more of an idiot doing such a thing in such a public place with so much was going on... how much of an impulsive moron was she...
"No counter proposal? It seems you haven't made up your mind yet then. I'm needed on the bridge." He started to get up even though he wasn't finished, his appetite gone now and a churning stomach in it's place."
Shiori moved to a table and sat down, taking her first spoonful of skull soup and finding it.. acceptable.
"No... I..." she had already made a scene and didn't want to make anything any worse. But just by being here she had. She felt like she wanted to leave but she couldn't she cared too much for him, this crew and her friend who she probably most likely at this point damned. She wanted so desperately to just hit someone or something.
There was a storage locker nearby. Aidan set his tray down and grabbed her arm a little more forcefully than he intended, and led her there. When the door shut, the two were alone. "I can't keep doing this. I love you with all my heart, but I need my head in the game right now. The Longhorn Corporation will be here TODAY. Civilian transfers and an orbital station arriving. Not a good time for distraction. My first duty is to the ship. One I was happy to fulfill and now I have to do both our jobs. Please stop using my emotions like a chew toy."
Shiori took another mouthful of her soup and then stood up and quietly cracked her knuckles then calmly waited to see what was going to happen next as she sent a message down the line via the Omni.
"... i'm not... Look... I told you already but I'll tell you again this time in more detail... where it not for Emily I would not be alive today... to be with you or to command the ship. I love her and I owe her my life... but I love and want to marry you and have your child... i'm sorry if you think I'm playing with your emotions but that's the truth. As far as you having to do both of our jobs I was going to talk to Dr Shindler about that today. I don't want you to have to do both for any longer than is necessary and in fact if it were up to me I would be back to work today. You don't need the stress of doing my job and yours... The only reason this even happened is because I'm a moron. Ed Lawson is it still on board so he can handle the relations between his personnel and our ship you don't need to be doing that... and the fact that I knew that shows I am still doing my job even if I am on medical leave. My duty is to this crew and that includes you... I think you do not understand my situation, because I do moreso than you think I do... just because I'm a 24-year-old moron doesn't mean I don't understand what's going on around me..." she said this entire thing in a matter of fact tone.
He deflated some. "Okay, maybe a get more jealous than I should. I might covet you a little strongly, but only because you've capture my whole being. I'm sorry." Aidan said, They were both silent for a second. Aidan added., "so what do you want to do?" (edited)
"I want us to be together but I also don't want my friend to end up leaving or doing something even more stupid like harming herself because she decided to support some idiot like me years ago..."
Aidan sat on a nearby cargo container. He and Yuka were now eye to eye. Pulling her close into him, he growled. "Don't expect me to just give up on you. I love you too much."
"... you seem to think I'm the only one who matters... what the fuck about Emily... she walked right on out the door or did you not even notice... The moment I even said anything to you..." Yuka sighed seemingly clenching her fists
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"... I don't want her doing anything stupid over me I'm not worth it..."
She started to tear
"I...I...honestly didn't see her. " Aidan said softly. I did agreed, of my own will to give this....whatever this is between all of us a try. I meant it. I'll go after her." I think she might want it to be you, but she might believe it more coming from me, if that makes any sense. God my head is spinning."
Yuka replied"... go deal with her I will make sure Carain keeps everything on the bridge in order... I don't care if Medical says I'm mentally unfit... there's too much crap going on for me to just sit down... both of us need to be focusing on each other and the ship together not one doing both..."
Shiori looked back at her soup and then back at where the captain was taken by the major then allowed herself a moment to growl lightly under her breath.
"If Hukari and Sakura want me in the brig after this whatever... but we both need to do this together..." Yuka Took one more look at Aidan and then left without another word because they could handle their problems later. They needed to find Emily and take command of the ship together as a team
"Computer locate Emily Quartermaine."
Shiori watched Yuka leave the room and simply stated "She's not answering." before going back to sit down
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Yuka arrived on the bridge and Trent stared at her for a moment but since he's been in bridge command for so long he knows what's going on just by looking at her eyes. He had seen such things with Alex Werner on Shadow Fire. He knew not to question his commander and less he wanted a bullet in the brain after all the only ones who are technically allowed to question their commander was the XO medical staff and command unless there was something morally questionable about their orders but he's been doing this for like 20 years nothing was really morally questionable for him anymore.
"Find Commander Carain Mr. Raven." Yuka said to him and he nodded "yes Captain." She called Sakura to the bridge.
Shiori watched the captain simply breeze by and then shake her head as she went back to her soup and simply waited.
Aidan took his tray and recycled it, pocketing the letter Yuka gave him without a care about it's contents at the moment. He was lost in thought, trying to decide were she was hiding as the computer said it couldn't locate her.
Shiori put down her spoon again. "Question?"
"Aidan heard the newcomer address him, he felt a stress induced headache approaching. He tried to remain calm and he turned towards Shiori and said, "Yes?"
"As I simply pointed out to the captain before she breezed by. She, as in Lieutenant Quartermaine, is not answering." Shiori says without flinching before picking up her spoon.
"Thank you Ensign Obvious. That isn't an option right now. Are you suggesting an alternative or just trying my patience along with the rest of the multiverse today?" Aidan offered, trying to get the mental image of choking Shiori back into the recesses of his mind.
Sakura arrived on the bridge. She wasn't intending to actually work for a while but considering everything she was getting reports from and the fact that the captain who is relieved for medical reasons was calling her to the bridge. She and Yuka met eyes. "you'll be in charge until Aidan gets back." Yuka said. Sakura tilted her head. "..." she took the command chair anyway though.
Shiori pointed her spoon at the Marine. "Vulcans never lie, Major. But my squad would not be good at our jobs if we were that easy to find, correct?" She replied evenly, keeping her own emotions in check. "The only person with an override for her is Commander Ward."
"Thank you for that at least." Major Thornton to Commander Ward"
Shiori simply shook her head and went back to her soup.
*Ward here, what can I do for you Major?* Ward's voice came back
"I need an override for Lt Quartermaine's location. A personal matter, but the Captain fears for her safety." Aidan said.
Sakura sighed "Layton.... what the hell is going on..." "Lon-" "Long story does not answer my question and to be entirely honest my cousin would not be happy to hear what you folks are doing so would you rather explain yourself or would you like to have yourself and your ex or whatever the hell he is to you now locked in the brig until an official investigation is conducted?" "Relationship trouble... Emily came from my time and she and I knew each other. I think you know what I mean by that. So when she and I reunited here I was trying to tell the major about our history and that I still had feelings for her and one thing led to another… Basically I had a mental break down and I think they got into an argument or something I don't know I honestly ended up at Medical so I have no idea what happened after I went unconscious. This morning... I made a decision to tell him about my feelings for him but that I still wanted to be with the two of them but that I wanted to marry him and have his kid. Emily saw this and she..." "so you let your personal relationships get in the way of your command?" "nothing is gotten in the way of anything honestly if I didn't have a breakdown none of this would've happened in the fucking first place..." "OK so what do you plan to do about it then?" "Find Emily... get this ship back to normal get away from this goddamn planet and move on..." "that actually sounds like you understand how to do your job... with all the respect I might add." Yuka nods at her rather coarse response. She wasn't going to say anything about how the commander was speaking to her because she was right none of this should've happened in the first place.
Cam steps into the mess and arches an eyebrow "I can override her sure, but I'd like to know why before I use that." Ward said to the major before giving him a respectful and responsible look. "More to your intent then the subject because if she needs to be arrested, I'd rather handle that myself."
"Lumi." Sakura said and the holograms form of the artificial intelligence version of Lumiere appeared. "search the entire ship for any unrecognized bio science catalog of them by signature. Then enable heat verification ensure it's a life form and then check it against the life signs database."
Sakura told her what she knew. AI Lumi nodded and did as she was told
Aidan offered, "it's a rather complicated relationship matter and I don't want her to hurt herself"
Ward crossed his arms over his chest as he leaned over to look at Shiori for a moment before returning to look at the major. "If she has gone silent that means that she is trying to deal with something or just wants to be alone." Ward sighed and then checked his own connection. "I can get a ping off of her, which means she's still active."
AI Lumi had a list of bio-signs. Sakura requested that they be sent to the command terminal in the seat. She looked over each signal herself
Aidan was thinking, "take all the time you need, hopefully she hasn't eaten a gun."
Ward's eyes narrow and then he brings up his Omni. "She does however have something up that she shouldn't have up at the moment." He stated firmly.
Ward then inputted a series of commands into his system before opening a channel and his voice actually was cold when he spoke next. "Tauriel, I need you to drop the cloak and report in."
*Tauriel to King, what do you require?* Emily's voice came back, no emotion to it.
Sakura looked at AI Lumi. "send the real you to these coordinates."
Lumi's AI tells herself that she is needed. She hadn't gone to sleep yet so she was awake and acknowledged her own request. AI Lumi teleports herself to Emily
Cameron looks over at Aidan for a moment before saying "Black King needs to speak with you, report back."
*Negative, Witch King.* was Emily's response before the link is terminated and Ward looks at Aidan. "Okay..she has gone to her hunting place." He says in a slightly concerned tone.
"Great now what?"Aidan said, his hands becoming more animated as he was getting more agitated.
Ward's Omni then pings. "I have her..she dropped her cloak. Shuttle bay I think." Ward says as he looks at his tool then he looks at Aidan. "Respectfully, may I give you a piece of advice?"
"I could use some actually." Aidan said truthfully.
"First off, let her come to you otherwise you won't be talking to the happy go lucky, perky, and helpful Emily.. you'll get the cold, heartless nega bitch that you heard." Ward offered up. "Secondly, music."
"Thanks commander." Aidan turned and left. He walked back to the bridge.
He hit the comm. In a more pleasant voice said, "Lt Quartermaine, I would appreciate the company of your presence in plotting a little personal strategy." He closed the channel."
After closing the comm, Aidan went back to the bridge. Turning to Sakura who was in the command chair, Aidan said, "stay there for a few. With a little luck I can relieve you and resume my shift." He kept moving and entered the ready room. Emotions flooding him with the memory and he wasn't sure but thought he could even smell Yuka's perfume. He shook his head to clear it, sat behind the desk and started working.
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Lumi appears in front of Emily as she was sent by the other her.
Lumi smiles at the invisible person. "you know that ITC gave me better eyes right... I know you're there... apparently Yuka-chan and Aidan are concerned for your safety... care to talk with me?" She asks.
Lumi appears in front of Emily as she was sent by the other her.
Lumi smiles at the invisible person. "you know that ITC gave me better eyes right... I know you're there... apparently Yuka-chan and Aidan are concerned for your safety... care to talk with me?" She asks.
"... You know of me right? I'm Lumi Trouve formerly I was the ship's AI... now I'm sort of the ships resident super medical scientist operations administrative... assistant... person... it's a long story I love Yuka like a sister... so I keep tabs on her... you are her love interest from home right?" Lumi asked to get clarification on the situation as she understood it.
Emily simply nodded. "Come to bash me too, I take it?" She asks simply, still with no emotion.
"Oh... nope... I came to help you. And to be entirely honest if I weren't here under orders and I didn't have Erik... I would actually probably proposition you..." Lumi said grinning but quickly changed from teasing to being more serious telling from her biological cues that Emily was not interested in fun and games right now. "Yuka loves you deeply still, Aidan's just... he's a special case... i'm pretty sure you don't care but the reason he's so... how he is is because his wife cheated on him with a guy multiple times it was the same guy actually twice... at least as far as the records I have read showed... considering twice was on the record I'm considering there was probably more going on then she would let on that was going on behind the scenes... so he doesn't necessarily trust... especially since Yuka has asked him before if she could pursue another person. He is very monogamous. So I guess my question to you is how can I help? Also just so you know... Yuka did not accept his counter offer... she still wants to be with both of you... she values her relationship with you that much." Lumi wanted to smile but did not.
Emily was about to say something when her Omni flickers as Aidan's voice came through it at which point she let out a low growl and slammed her forearm hard against a tool cart. "People just keep being rude." Emily says in her emotionless tone before flickering her dark eyes back to Lumi. "Respectfully..the offer is appreciated, but I would like not to speak of that..person right now if you please?"
"The Major or Yuka Layton?"
Emily just lets a low growl escape her lips for a moment. "Either..or.." she states.
"... may I ask what is going on in your head right now?"
Some tears start to escape Emily's eyes, "I just need to be what I am..Yuka can't see.. won't..."
(Lumi can actually see a definite struggle going on-the thing that is the killer she has become and the woman Yuka remembers)
Emily starts to raise her right forearm then grimaces and lowers it back down. "I will leave..that will give them what they want..and Yuka will be happy."
"You think of that but that's not true. Well she was talking to him and saw you leave she actually wanted to stab herself."
"let me show you something if you do not mind."
When. Emily hears this she reaches over and clutches her right forearm as more tears fall but her voice remains emotionless as she says "Sure.."
Lumi pulls out a cord from her pocket and pulled out a small surgical scalpel. She cuts the back of her own neck ever so slightly and puts the cord inside of the back of her neck. She then activate something on the other end. "please connect your VX to the frequency I just sent you." She said as a message arrived.
Emily arches an eyebrow and then does that, her eyes tighting as a result of moving her arm a little bit.
The two girls suddenly appear in their minds elsewhere. The first place that they go is Starbase 741. They appear in the security office of the station with a bunch of station security personnel standing around. Suddenly a 20 something boy and in FSF command officer teleport into the center of the room. The security officers attempted to detain the FSF officer but he draws a weapon and in the crossfire the boy is shot. The image continues as the boys taken to the stations medical facility only to die on the table. Emily saw Yuka standing on the other end of the room helpless being told that she could not go over there by one of the medical officers who did not realize who she was or who he was to her. This memory was a re-creation of Julian dying basically in front of her during the recovery efforts of the Starbase from FSF personnel. Lumi then said "The guy who died on the table was Yuka's ex before you... he was taken hostage by FSF personnel when they sent a time traveling team back to find someone to get out her so that they could blackmail her into cooperation. Obviously that didn't happen but he still perished due to being held as a hostage as you saw." Lumi takes her next to a riot during the mission three where Yuka witnessed Kirin burn close to 100 people alive.
The event emotionally scarred Yuka. That much was visible in her eyes.
Lumi then says. "just as you are not the same neither is she... you both have gone through your share of hardships and as a result of that you both need each other still... at this point now more than ever because there is so much more coming. According to calculations from the watchers intelligence service they estimate that there will be an additional level of casualties beyond what even federation intelligence personnel believe. Aidan believing that he can protect her and be her only emotional Savior is incorrect as he himself maybe even eventually succumb to such a fate."
(Lumi is showing Emily some of Yuka's memories re-created from mission reports... some of them were actually classified by the presidents office due to the nature of what they were about.)
"you both are not the girls that each other knew before but that's why you need each other even more now." "if an artificial intelligence program turned human can see that... humanity..."
Emily's jaw twitched hard as her "operational" mind attempted to keep her from feeling due to the hurt that she was feeling at that moment but finally her emotions broke through as she shouted something that sounded like "...." as she whipped around and punched a wall as the tears just kept flowing down her face. "..I kept what I wanted quiet as they argued..I kept my feelings to myself because that one day I promised myself that her happiness was worth fighting for." she said quietly, her breaths coming out in hot bursts. "she kept going on and on about great he was and how she was going to have his child..not even acknowledging the fact that I had just told her that I was coming home to ask her to marry me."
Emily slowly let her right hand fall limp to her side. "i..kept quiet for her..and all he could do was yell and growl..but I was a good person.."
"human males are extremely unreasonable at least from my understanding the only one that I have been able to see is being reasonable is Erik but he is a holographic program that I created to be my lover.... i'm sure you've heard this before but humanity is quite illogical."
Emily reaches into the neck of her uniform and yanks off the chain with her holo-tag as well as another item and just lets them drop to a table.
"they often do not see what is right in front of them. She was saying how great he was because she wants him to remain with her and she knows that you will be by her side regardless."
"she doesn't want me.." Emily mumbles
"can't be with me and him..was willing to do something.." she starts to say before shaking her head slowly.
"Why do you think she spent time with you this morning then? If she does not want to be with you then why did she do that..."
"everyone forgets that the ship is always watching... monitoring everything you guys do..."
Emily shrugs, "pity sex I guess...she sounded very sure of her wants in the mess. maybe it would've been better if I had died.."
"no... you walked out before she told him how she truly feels." Lumi plays that event next
"If you were to leave Yuka would likely end up where she was before you met her... based on hospital records from that time she had attempted suicide."
Emily's right hand clenched so hard that she actually fought to keep from yelling out in pain. "What am I supposed to do then?! He probably thinks that this is some fucking fling when I love her as much as he does!"
"as for what you are supposed to do I am not knowledgeable on the topics of romance. I am still trying to figure that myself with Erik. Though I might recommend though that you show her that ring. She might be unaware that that is your intention."
Emily looks the AI and then tried to use her hand but stops at the pain and then uses her left. "Not fucking once did either ask *ME* if I was serious about my feelings or if I wanted to marry her." She shouted, unable to hold back her feelings or emotions any longer. "Did she really think that I was so petty then..yes, we had sex that first meeting but it wasn't sex to me, I knew that first moment that there was something about her that was so bright and full of love that I felt at peace..I was scared when I realized that I had fallen for her at first sight."
"have you told her this? As I said to humans are illogical they often do not see what is right in front of them."
"she might have been too busy fighting with her male."
Emily stops and then looks at Lumi for a moment before giving a slight nod. "I tried to..but she kept going on about Aidan hours before I met him."
She lets out a bitter chuckle. "She was more concerned about telling me how she felt about him and how she was going to have his kid.."
"would you like me to talk to her?"
Emily actually got a scared look on her face. "Do you think that she would listen.. honestly?"
"she will listen to me. The problem though is that he believes that she must be his and that monogamy is the only way."
"she would even listen to you if you talk to her but the problem is him."
"after all who do you think you sent me?"
Emily slowly nods.."please go and do it now before I freak out and run.."
Lumi nods. "I will tell her if you want me too however in the little experience I have on the topic it is usually best to come from the person who has the feelings."
"please, Lumi." Emily said as she slowly sunk to the deck. "Secure this area I am in so I don't run okay?" She then asked as she gently cradled her right arm.
Lumi nodded "I actually have a better idea." She Teleports Emily into Defender. The Mech says "I see you did you lose combat like the captain... there is much of this love battle that has been occurring recently. I am apologetic that you have lost in battle. I will defend you from additional combat!"
Emily just sighs and cradles her arm as she cries lightly.
"do you require sustenance" Defender asks
Even through her tears, Emily arches an eyebrow before saying "no thank you but thank though"
"be well you have only lost one battle wars consist of many... you will win eventually!!! Continue to conquer your enemies and victory will occur! Find a way to outsmart them think of a way that they would never expect you to launch your love weapons into them... The enemy will be eliminated swiftly."
The AI stops talking
"oh goddess..did Cameron program you cause you're quoting him I swear.." she mutters softly
"I do not understand who "Cameron" is. Is this the designation for your leader?" He asks meanwhile Yuka went to her office (not the ready room remember she has a sort of study). She was deep within thought wondering what the hell she was going to do. She yelled at Aidan and thought that she cut into him pretty deep. But she couldn't help but worry about Emily. Lumi appeared outside of her office and used to the call button. Yuka just made a growling sound. Lumi entered. She had put the ring in her pocket before entering so that it was not seen. "Dearest... I have something important for you." Yuka looked at her "Aidan sent you didn't he?" "No I was talking to Emily for Sakura remember." "that's right she was looking for her wasn't she... so you did find her... is she OK?" "she is far from OK but then again so are you." Yuka did not provide her with an answer to that even though wasn't a question she felt that she didn't want to answer that or even acknowledge it. "she also believes that you do not care for her." Yuka stared at Lumi with distaste at such an assumption. Her eyes were almost so sharp that they were staring through her. "so how do you feel for her?" "do you want me to break your face seriously... what in the fuck kind of question is that!?!" "it is an honest question." "What part of unrequited love to people not understand... between you and him and the whole goddamn rest of this crew!!!" Yuka seemed angry. Lumi put the broken tag and ring on the desk. Yuka stared at it. She looked at it and continue to stare at it and her eyes begin to widen. "This... looks- "like Emily's bracelet?" "..." Yuka stared at Lumi. "she wants you to be hers." Yuka stared at Lumi again.
"you... ---" Yuka stopped talking and just sat down. "it seems the two of you think that you don't have equal feelings for each other." Yuka rolled her eyes at Lumi. "... Everyone on this goddamn ship is retarded..." she rests her head on her desk.
She starts to tear
Lumi sits next to her. "Dearest..." she rubs Yuka's head. "she loves you." Lumi said. "what do I do... nobody seems to want to let me... love who I want to love... I keep telling everyone I want her to be with me... but then Aidan... this is hopeless..." "have you tried telling them both what you feel..." "she understands." "no she doesn't." Yuka stared into Lumi's eyes in a form of disbelief.
"... she does..." "nope."
Yuka seems dumbfounded almost to the point of shock.
"Where!?" "she does not want to see you." Yuka stood up grabbing the ring. "... Tell me!" Lumi shakes her head no.
Yuka's tears seem to flow more and she just sort of stands there in this disbelief state as time passes.
"Shipgirl you will tell me." Yuka demands raising her head from the desk. "But Yuka-chan.. she does not want to see you." "... at this point you refer to me as Captain." Yuka said coldly though the emotion was still honestly visible in her face. She had feelings for Emily this whole time and it still hurt her feelings for Aidan... she wanted to have his child and wanted to marry both of them but did not believe such a thing was actually possible. She knew that Emily and her were friends, that they were intimate and that there was something close between them but she never did realize that Emily had the same feelings she did for her. To boot notification of such came from Lumiere!? To say she was livid would be an understatement. Yuka walks out of the room without saying anything else to Lumi and goes to the bridge. She did grab the ring before she left though. Upon entering the bridge Trent and Sakura made eye contact with her. "tell me where you sent Lumiere." Sakura shrugs. "there is nobody at that location anymore." She said after checking the scanner again. "that's the thing with intelligence people dear we move out of the way so you can't find it anymore..." Yuka scowls as Sakura... Yuka did not feel very captainly but she didn't feel really much of anything right now aside from this giant gaping hole in her chest where the two of her lovers once were but both seemingly have decided to run off on her. Emily by pure emotional reaction and feeling a rejection and Aidan out of... well she had sent him to search for Emily but she was the one who found her or indirectly anyway. At this point she had decided to go search herself and begin to randomly wander the ship starting with the top most part of the ship which was the sensor module.
upon searching the first room and set of areas nothing was there and so she went down to section B where the excess for the mechbay that was partially completed was. Being that the area was not even complete she highly doubted that anyone would be in there... that is unless they wanted to decompress but she didn't feel anyone here was that suicidal other than herself. After finishing the search of the section she finally came to a realization that this was hopeless.
Defeated and lonely she decided to return to her quarters. Finally a thought came over her... "Layton to Ward." She sent over a encrypted confidential VX channel.
Cameron was looking over some of the information that was presented to him by his immediate superior in Section 13 when Yuka's voice came through a closed/private channel and he then sub-vocalized himself. "Yes Captain, what can I do for you?"
"... this isn't anything that's official but if you have the time could you come to my quarters..."
"Um..sure, saves me having to look over stuff concerning BS and intelligence. Give me a couple of minutes?" he sent back to her.
"Understood." She responded simply. To take her mind off of everything that was going on around her and the fact that if she really had the courage to do this she would probably just smashed her head into the glass of the window in her room repeatedly until the glass broke she made Coco and decided that staring at the replicator and continuing to fiddle with its service console was more worthwhile than attempting to kill her self by smashing her face into a glass window repeatedly.
An actual couple of minutes later Cameron was outside of her quarters and he pressed the chime to let her know he was there.
she walked over to the door and opened it with the panel on the other side. She was doing as much as she could to keep her mind preoccupied
"...in" was all she said to him when she open the door herself
Cameron shrugged and entered the living room area. "Please tell me that you don't need to yell at me for asking Sakura out." Cameron said in a respectful tone.
"that's not what I asked you here... congratulations though if you met someone you like."
"how well do you know Emily?"
Cameron blushed just a bit at the congratulations. "Thank you, we hung out in the lounge after her shift last night and just seemed to hit it off and I formally asked her out this morning."
Cam's face then took on a slightly confused look for a moment. "Over a decade now actually. Met her at CAMS after she was released by medical..been her friend ever since and her CO for half that." he said honestly. "Took a couple of rounds meant for her and she's done the same, been there for her during the times that she almost fell into the dark."
Cam then took a deep breath and looked at Yuka with a concerned look. "Why do you ask?"
"has she ever talked with you about me?"
Cameron looked at Yuka for a couple of seconds before he blinked in realization. "Wait..you're *THAT* Yuka?" he asked in a tone of honest confusion.
"..." she pulled the ring out of her pocket at this point.
"... does she truly feel this way about me?"
Cam looks at the ring and then motions for permission to sit down in the actual living room.
She nods and joins him.
After they have both sat down, he respectfully holds out his right hand towards Yuka with his palm up. "May I?" he asked while looking at the ring. (edited)
She lets him see it. "it's not actually mine anyway... until she's giving it to me it's not mine..."
Cam took the ring and held it up. "One night during our first year at CAMS, I heard her crying from her half of the room and I was concerned because I knew a little about her past from what she told me and I found her clutching this very ring." he explained. "She told me about this girl that the ring was meant for and how she had planned the perfect night for her only to have it ripped away and how her Yuka must have hated her and thought that she was just like someone named Julian in the end."
Cam turned the ring around in his fingers to look at its inner portion. "This ring and what it represented meant so much to her that she never took it off and when she did, it was to leave it with the only people that she could trust which was me for one." he further explained before using his free hand to tap his chest next to his right breast. "Have you seen her without a shirt on and seen a burn scar right here?"
Yuka started crying silently and the tears just continue to intensify. As he continued to describe the situation she felt her heart literally break in half. She remembered that Emily was hesitant to take off her shirt when they were together this morning.
When he saw her reaction, Cam continued. "You probably didn't know this but we were in the thickest fighting with most of our field operations still black listed but one major battle we were apart of, I can't say where mind you, she was hit hard enough by an explosive weapon that it punched through her armor's chest plating and her peeled away her kinetic barrier with enough force that it actually punched the ring into her body and she didn't feel it."
Cam then turned the ring until he reached a spot that he showed her that was a little bit more..cleaner then the rest. "Right there actually, Yuka. After they released her from the sick bay, she spent a couple of hours cleaning it because she didn't want to ruin this ring because it was the last thing that she had of you other then her feelings and memories."
He then held the ring in his thumb and forefinger and in a passable imitation of Emily's voice he said "I spent weeks getting this ring together quietly and I spent even more time practicing what I was going to say to her, how to make the night so extremely perfect for her so that when I took my chance it would be that one moment that she could look back on, good or bad and with me or without that she could say was perfect."
Cam then offered the ring back to Yuka. "I know more about her feelings for you then I want to to answer your question on that one, ma'am."
Yuka continue to listen to him in the more she heard the more she felt like she was the problem. It was like she had said to Aidan... she was stupid and worthless why did this girl care so much for her? She made rash decisions, hurt people and couldn't even get her lovers to be civil around each other much less reach an agreeable relationship where the three of them could be together. She felt like it would just be better if she disappeared but then it hit her and it would just make things even worse if she were to disappear. She wanted to go find Aidan and slap the taste out of his mouth and get him to understand with these two felt for each other. She wanted to love him but she wanted to love her as well... was there any way this could work without someone being so deeply hurt that it would scar them for the rest of their life? She didn't know what to say or do and she just stared at him almost pleading with him to help her but she never said a thing. Though with how she was acting, her body was reacting and just the look on her face... it was easily visible that she was lost.
Cameron looked at Yuka for a few moments before saying "So I have a sister who's married which makes her wife my sister in law."
"... Where... How do I... Help me..." she seemed to whimper
"I don't know what's going on between the three of you but what I do know is that you shouldn't have to pick between two people that you love." he said simply as he leaned forward to look at her better. "My sister and her wife love each other, who gets to honestly say who can marry who?"
Cameron then thought about what he was going to say next for a couple of minutes before finally saying "Yuka..has anyone asked you or Emily what you two want?"
He then pointed at her and asked in a very warm and honest tone "Yuka..if you could marry both, would you?"
"Forget anything and everything else like promising to have kids or what the fuck ever..do they fill your soul with light?"
"... Aidan keeps saying that he wants me and only me... but then when I tried to get him to--- it's like he wants to punish me by him initiating something with her---" Yuka stopped and then Cameron asked if she would marry both of them. She didn't need to think about that at all she immediately responded. "Yes. I would." Cameron then continued and she thought for moment. "... when I'm with him I feel wonderful... complete... it was until Emily came back... when she was with me I felt a deep... happiness... and I wanted to show her that I was able to survive well she was gone... sure that she didn't worry about me... I think she took that as be gloating but it was because I didn't want her to worry anymore. Her sadness in her worrying about me... I don't deserve that... when both of them were together and I was telling him about her I wanted us to be a family all of us... now..." about halfway through the statement she started to cry again
"Let me ask this now. When you talked to Emily for the first time in years and she brought up that she wanted to marry you..did you hear her or were you more focused on how great Aidan was?" he asked honestly.
"... I actually didn't realize... I didn't... hear her..."
"And when her and Aidan had an issue later..did she suddenly start getting angry for you?"
"... I don't know... I was so caught up in like a train wreck of emotions that... I just..."
Cam then nodded slowly as his mind started to wrap up the situation. "Yuka..may I present a scenario for you to look at please?"
"... if I don't end up becoming a blubbering mess... and end up in the infirmary again..."
Cam leans back a little bit and puts his mind into order like he's about to present command with a battlefield operations plan. "Emily and you have a talk where she mentions that she was going to ask you to marry her before her disappearance but you don't hear her because you are afraid of how this will affect things with Aidan because you're afraid that he's going to leave you like Julian did before you and Emily got together."
He then held up a finger in a counting manner. "First you state your feelings and goals concerning Aiden which Emily takes in and she automatically assumes that you didn't care about how she felt and knowing her like I do, she starts to try and distance herself emotionally from you but she *CAN'T* because she's that much and deeply in love with you that she's willing to do what she can for you instead."
He holds up a second finger. "During the introductions of you to Aidan and Emily, he no doubt jumps to a convulsion of a conculsion that makes him start doing something that was passive-aggressive that in turns causes her to get angry ON YOUR BEHALF which causes the argument that landed you in sick bay and on the drugs that you mentioned being on later on at the bar."
Cam then holds up his other hand with one finger. "Furthermore to make matters more interesting you three must have made some kind of agreement that all will be okay at which point she and Aidan made peace with each other..then the next day you two had a period of special time together."
"... they only did that because I was emotionally broken and had a breakdown in Medical..."
He then adds another finger. "Enter the situation in the mess that Shiori witnessed where you ask Aidan to marry him and he makes his comments then forcibly drags you into a near by storage closet to talk that Emily witnesses and she goes into her dark place."
she says in a small way
Cam shakes his head. "Are you certain of that, Yuka?"
"... they felt guilty... he's too blinded by his "I only want to be with one of you" that he probably can't even realize what's right in front of him..." she said that in a very cold way.
He held up one finger and shook it at her. "No..of all the people in your triad, you don't get to be cold."
Cameron got up and squatted down before Yuka and took both of her hands into his while looking directly into her eyes. "You listen to me right now..you think that you're broken when you're not, Yuka Layton. I have it on good authority that if you could survive this far with everything that you've been through, then this is something that you can fix."
"Both of your lovers are broken in their own ways but I have faith that if you just think..you can handle all your problems with the flourish of a great painter." he said in a reassuring tone. "Don't ever ask what they see in you or what you see in them..love is hard to come by..look at how I feel for Sakura."
Cam realizes what he's just said and then allows himself a nervous look and a brief blush.
She just stares at him and even though it's a different puzzle parts of her other puzzle regarding her own self-worth start to fall into place. She really had been through a lot and going from being a blind, literally emotionally broken college student who is thinking about murdering herself to arriving in this future and somehow managing to not get herself killed in the first place... to conquering her former disability... becoming a pilot even in spite of that... and then impressing of all people the president enough to give her her own command after only six months of service. She was literally at the pinnacle of society and yet she believed that she was still worthless and not worth others time or mental energy and effort. She had earned that right by being worth people through her work and through her attempting to save others. She deserved love just as much as everyone else and for her to think otherwise and ill of herself because of that showed that she really did not see her own situation clearly.
"Now..can I offer you a piece of advice as a slight outsider to this whole situation?" he offered up
"Yes." Yuka offered
He then turns his right hand that's holding her right hand so that her palm is upwards when he pulls his hand away to reveal Emily's ring sitting neatly in the middle of it. "Talk to your AI..tell her that you need to see her and then actually *TALK* to her because I can assure that right now she's scared and quite possibly hurting" he said in a very kind and gentle tone.
"... Lumi won't budge... The bridge is worthless because finding intelligence personnel against intelligence personnel... it's lucky that Sakura was able to find her once... that leaves me with one option... do you think she would leave the ship?"
Cam shook his head slowly. "Emily wouldn't do that and especially not to you of all people and you know that."
Cam then looked thoughtful. "Lumi..I know that you're listening correct?"
Yuka asked is she messaged her Mech. "has anyone left the ship without authorization or even with some level of authorization?" "greetings... only patrol vessels have left. did you win your war?" "what war?" "you were locked in love battle with the Major... did you command victory?" "... yes..." "your response lax enthusiasm that means that war is still continuing... I wish you luck in your battle!!! You will destroy all targets captain I have faith in your abilities to eliminate all enemies." Yuka laughs to herself thinking "someone needs to give that AI something else to think about... his constant mentioning of war and battle is cute and retarded but sometimes it's just a little too retarded..." AI Lumi appears in the room.
Cam looks up at Lumi. "May I respectfully ask that you tell Yuka where Emily is please?" he asked the AI
"I will ask." AI Lumi connects with her other self who is still in the office. She had decided to just sit in there and wait for Yuka to return as she knew eventually she would.
AI Lumi replies "Emily had told her that she did not want to interact with neither the Captain nor the Major.." she explained.
Cam blinked and then slowly nodded but then held up a hand to stall Yuka from saying or thinking anything before he asked "How emotional was she?"
"entirely emotionless."
"The tears were coming it was as though she was trying to hide her emotions."
Cam nods with his eyes thoughtful. "Lumi..send a message to Emily because I can't reach her. Ask her if she's willing to meet with Yuka please."
AI Lumi messages Defender. He says to Emily "Your commander has requested that a message be delivered to you... would you like the message?"
Emily blinks and then nods. "What does Cam need?" she asks in a soft voice
Defender play the direct audio of what Cameron asked. (edited)
Emily blinked at the sound of Cam's voice for a moment and then said "only on two conditions..some place quiet and safe where Aidan can't find me and two..Yuka brings a med kit..and where is my ring?"
"I could arrange for her to meet you here. I also have a med kit directly under your seat. If you required medical attention you should have notified me." Defender replied
Emily tries to move the fingers of her right hand and finds that she can't at which point she finally allows herself to whimper deeply in pain. "I didn't want to be a bother...any more then I have been."
Defender has the lower storage container of the seat open itself and then the shelf of the container comes out of the container floating up into the air.
"this should provide assistance."
Defender immediately teleports Yuka into the gunner seat. She looks around seemingly not expecting to have just magically been brought into a room. ".. the fuck..."
she finally realizes where she is and who is below her in the actual pilot seat
Emily reached out with her good hand and took it, trying to open it one handed when suddenly she heard Yuka's voice. "hi.."
"... um... Hi..." Yuka said in a small tone. She then sees the floating tray and a medical kit on it seeming to realize that Emily is injured. Yuka is immediately concerned. She pulls her water gem out of the pocket of her dress and closes her eyes. A healing water comes out of the gem and goes to Emily's arm and the healing energy begins to heal the damage. (edited)
Once the healing power does it's work the water returns to its home and she puts it away.
"why didn't you tell someone you were hurt?" Yuka asked with concern
Emily doesn't say anything at first as she is trying to open the med kit. "Because I'm not important enough." she muttered
"you're not important enough... if anyone is not important enough it's me... Emily I didn't hear you... when you came and talk to me the first time I wanted to tell you what was going on in my life so that you didn't worry about me anymore... in my preoccupation with telling you how I was doing so you didn't worry I didn't hear what you had to say... i'm sorry..." Yuka pulled the ring out of her pocket "I love you... I... want to marry both of you if it's possible... my life is yours because if it weren't for you I wouldn't be here. I thought that I knew what you thought of me and I thought that you knew how much I felt for you... I didn't think I needed to say it... with him... I need to because he keeps thinking that the moment I think about someone else I don't love him anymore... he's an absolute idiot for thinking that... though I'm an idiot too for not thinking I needed to tell you... I love you." She climbed down from the gunner seat after defender lowered the tray back into the seat. Yuka is now on the inches from her. She actually barely avoided to stepping on her head on the way down
"... tell me what do you feel... right now... I didn't ask you before and I should have..."
Emily's eyes where very red from how badly she'd been crying as she looked up at her lover as her eyes threatened to tear up once more. "when you didn't even react to me saying that I was on my way to propose to you and kept going on about him and how you promised to be the mother of his children..it broke me because I thought that you didn't love me.." she said in a very soft tone, unsure of speaking any louder
"I knew that I had you... or at least I thought I did... though I knew he would throw a fit the moment I said even one word about someone else... I should have acknowledged how you feel then... I don't know if words can fix this." Yuka seemed to be at a loss for how she could fix the damage that she had caused to her
Yuka revealed the ring in her hand. "if I hurt you deeply..."
she seems to be trying to return the ring because she felt that she had broken something between them
Emily forced her broken hand to move as she slowly took the ring from Yuka before using both hands to keep her from moving away.
Emily took a very deep breath and then looked up into Yuka's eyes. "I refuse to allow this to go unsaid any longer." She said in as a clear voice as she could
Yuka noticed that will she was doing that she was still in pain. Did she not heal it completely?
Maybe her mind was too focused on other things after all she wasn't a gem specialist.
"Ever since that first moment that I saw you, I knew that nothing in my life would be the same because there hadn't been any light in it before you. I saw you through your darkest days of your life and I knew that where you walked, I wanted to walk with you." She said as she looked the other girl in the eyes.
"In my darkest days my thoughts of you kept my soul alight and just seeing you smile is something that I always will fight for because in one moment two thousand, five hundred years ago as is now I love you as much as I did then." She continued, her voice somehow was able to stay clean and firm. "Yuka Layton, I love you with every fiber in my body and would you the honor of being my wife?"
Yuka expected something like this but it was still unexpected. Especially the way that Emily sent it. She felt as though probably had said what Yuka I had thought in her mind a couple weeks ago when she recalled their time together and simply thought about her unrequited love in such a manner that she wished that the two of them would be together again. The thought reappeared in her mind at this moment
~ After Julian I never thought I could continue my life; that it would end right then and there… I fell into a deep dark depression but then you; my unrequited love came to me and gave me the strength to move on… We had so much fun together and your music was wonderful but… I never knew if you truly shared the eternal feelings I had for you… I never told anyone of my feelings for you but you… I hope one day we reunite… But for now the memories of our fateful meeting and our time together is enough for me… ~
Yuka stare into her eyes and wanted this so much. "Yes Emily Quartermaine... I'd be honored to be yours." It was only after she spoke her mind and recalled her memories that she considered that her decision would hurt Aidan. She had hoped that she could convince both of them to live together with her but more and more she started to feel like that wasn't possible.
Emily pulled Yuka into her lap the best that she could so that she could slide the ring onto her hand opposite the one where she had worn Aidan's before wrapping her arms around her Love's waist. "Now to find a way to have Aidan accept this and let him marry us.." she said to Yuka.
"It would be what I would desire I don't know if it's possible. At least we know how each other feel now and we're finally back together again." She kissed her all the while tears were coming out of her eyes. She had also wondered how the man she loved didn't understand the feelings that she had for Emily. She thought if anyone could understand the fact that she just wanted to be with her... sex or not... she wanted to be one with her eternal love.
Defender commented "combat operations have completed? I see mission was successful?"
"after a fashion yes.." Emily said as she just happily buried her face into Yuka's hair. "We will figure out how to do this together, Yuka..."
"Okay." She rested her head against Emily shoulder trusting that she would help her find a solution to her problem and that they would do it together. One of defenders panels showed a smiling face. Yuka smirked "Defender is so stupid it's actually kind of cute..." "I am not unintelligent."
"send us to my office." Defender teleports the two of them to her office as she asked. Lumi was still there. "Thank you Lumi." Yuka said to her. Lumi just nodded. "I assume that you want no one to know that you guys are here." Yuka nods "for now at least." Lumi nods. She turned around happy that the person that she considered her sister even though she actually didn't have a sister had finally found something to calm her self after this whole screwed up set of events. She hoped that Yuka would be able to fix the rest of it without putting herself down in the dumps again. Lumi sealed the door behind her self when she left.
Lumi had sealed the room for the two of them and left them in Yuka's private study sort of office like room that she used mainly when she was off duty or doing something after her shift was over. She like the screen because it was not like the actual ready room on the bridge in front of everyone where random personnel could just waltz in... having this separate room gave her a bit of privacy and it was something that she rather enjoyed. Gave her time to decompress from for shift... or in days like today A place where she could privately meet with someone without being in her quarters and without the burden of command literally staring directly at her because of the proximity to the bridge.
Emily looks around the room and sees the couch to which she leads Yuka over to it and then tugs at the other girl's top. "Okay..off with the jacket, shirt, bra and then sit on the floor between my legs but you can keep the bra on if you want." she said softly before quickly kissing Yuka on the lips and sitting down on the couch.
"you sure are pretty direct... and isn't it nice that I need a bra now... heh... before there was hardly a reason for me to even wear one" Yuka said winking is she removed the duty jacket, her dress and then her bra. All she had on was her panties as she had left her sandals by the door when Lumi left. She got down on her knees next to the couch and smirked "Oh master I've done as you asked..." she teased.
Emily watched as Yuka disrobed and felt her body tingle hard as just seeing her naked had always turned her on and now with her bigger bust...she was already becoming damp but she shook her head to clear it as she gently placed her hands onto Yuka's shoulders and moved her so that she was sitting on her butt on the ground at which point she slowly started to massage her lover's shoulders for a moment before stopping to shrug herself out of her uniform jacket and shirt to allow her more ease of motion before she went back to massaging Yuka.
"While I do love the boob job, I'm going to be honest with you and say that I miss your originals because they where the perfect handful and when I wrapped my mouth around them..I could love on your entire breast at one without having to decide which part to tease with my tongue first." Emily admitted softly as she worked, her nimble fingers finding every tense spot and slowly started to work it out despite the soreness in her right hand and fingers. "I missed doing this for you..simple things for one's lover."
Yuka smiled "oh! I thought you were being sexual... I haven't had this in a long time..."
she actually seemed happy
"I wanted to move back to my original size too... having B cups was a compromise"
"One of my past boyfriends wanted me to have bigger... I went to C's for him... Aidan what is disappointed that I wanted to go back to having a cups..."
Emily laughed softly, "Not everything about romance and love is about sex. Yes I enjoy it to no end but when I make love to you, it's like watching some form of angel descend when I watch you cum for one and if I was a painter, I swear that I could bring you to the cusp of orgasm just to see such a perfect sight." she explained as she continued her work. "But romance is more then just sex..it's about the little things too like cuddling in the afterglow and little things like this."
Emily listened in turn to what Yuka said and nodded quietly, trailing the nails of her left hand against the nape of her neck lightly. "He loves what he's come to know as you, not going to begrudge him for that..but have you two actually talked without sex happening?"
Emily then leaned forward and took Yuka's breasts lightly into her hands and started to caress them very slowly but not in a manner to get her worked up.
"I like them..they don't feel fake like a lot of boob jobs from our time, but if you come to me and ask if you should go back then you know my answer which is do what Yuka wants." Emily said as she gently kissed the back of her lover's neck before letting go of her breasts and starts to massage her again.
"... when I had a breakdown... then there's been a couple instances where we've had down time but a lot of it has been in bed..." Yuka could feel her body beginning to loosen up a little bit. She wasn't being touched in a way that would make her horny or around her but more in a manner that allowed her body to just feel the touch of another person and help to work out her tension and frustration. "I mean... when he and I met he was just the leader of the Marines... like a week or two later we ended up at the holodeck there and had a conversation... that conversation turned into drinking... we ended up in the lounge with Lumiere... he started displaying feelings for her and I got jealous.... they didn't realize that I was jealous until I walked out of the room... I walked around for a while and then went back to his quarters. Just to see if he was there and he was so I went and had a conversation with him explaining what I was feeling and that I was having relationship troubles with my boyfriend at the time. Aidan was still married and just gave me a dries it was a good conversation and then we danced... that was some of the most fun I've ever had with him... it was so romantic and so fun... even though there was arousal there... we didn't really care and then it got to where we moved onto kissing. He started taking off my dress and then... he felt he was being unfaithful to his wife and so we just laid there together. That's how our relationship went for like a week. We talked we had fun together and there was actually a genuine connection. He then found out that his wife was cheating on him and at that point he offered himself to me... I had just broken up with my boyfriend and... there was no strings attached to either of us... it was the next day that he asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend.
it was from that point that things started to become more sexual and then we went on the cabin trip... it was supposed to be about us getting to know each other and about us becoming connected in more than just sex... but two days into it and a failed robbery in between... we were recalled back to the ship due to an emergency call.
we had confessed our feelings to each other and because his divorce papers were being processed he offered for me to be his fiancé... you pretty much know the rest..."
she continue to think and then made an observation "I've only been around this guy like a month..."
she then stopped talking for a while to just take in the experience of being cared for like this. It reminded her of their previous time together.
Emily was enjoying the silence that they had lapsed into as she continued to work on her lover's body when she felt that she needed to tell her something. "Do you want me to tell you the story behind the ring?" she offered as she raised Yuka's right arm and started to work on her muscles around the shoulder and such there.
"Cameron told me a little bit but yes I would. He and I had a pretty nice discussion about you... he told me but you didn't want to tell me... what happened to you when you got here and that I am just like you were for me the only reason that you're here..."
Emily slowly nodded, "It took me a while to realize just how much I was in love with you, Yuka, and when I did I realized that while I had said it to someone once a lifetime ago that I never really knew what it had meant until I met you and the impact you had on my heart and soul." Emily started to say as she kneaded out the knots around her right shoulder blade that had apparently been there for just over a month maybe. "You remember when we went to the mall and that one right that you saw that you thought was really pretty?"
"... y- uh..." she couldn't talk anymore... The feeling of relief from her touch and focus was causing Yuka to get weak. It was extremely obvious that she had not been touched like this in a long time.
"I borrowed what money I could from my parents and sibs, I sold what I could to get the rest of the money..you remember that cello that I had since I was a kid and that story I told you about how my parents had taken it to get it cleaned up?" she asked simply before leaning forward and kissing the back of Yuka's neck again. "I never regretted my decision that day since it allowed me to go and get the ring that very same day, my love."
"... You sold... I loved your cello... Awh... why did you have to sell it..." The fact that Emily sold something so dear to her for Yuka meant a lot to her but it also made her feel sad. Yuka also felt her body sort of starting to fill up with the release of tension.
(I don't know if you've actually had a really good massage like that but I had one where a massage therapist basically wanted to use me to re-up his certification so he didn't charge me for it but he spent like an hour... The feeling was so goddamn divine... afterwords when he left... well let's just say with all that release you get aroused...)
"I sold it because it was for a good cause which now sits on your finger, Yuka." Emily said as she stopped her massage and wraped her arms around her shoulders and just held her. "I can feel you being sad you know..it's in how your muscles are moving or in this case LACK of moving and you have no reason to be sad right now." Emily said as she then took her right hand to tilt Yuka's face up so that they could look in each other's eyes. "I want you to realize something, I proposed to you because you are worth it and there is nothing you can do to change that fact."
Emily then gently kissed Yuka for the first time in a very certain way that wasn't an attempt to be reassuring or passionate but this was simply a kiss that let Yuka understand just how much the dark haired woman loved her, valued her, wanted her, and showed her just how much Yuka *DESERVED* *HER*!
Emily then broke the kiss and looked into Yuka's eyes with her own half-lidded and said "don't ever question why you are loved, yuka. i have loved you since the first moment that i saw you and if i'm willing to share you with aidan alone should show you how much i value you, beloved."
Yuka ignored the mention of Aidan. This moment was about them. Yuka kissed her putting her arms around her for a moment and then said "you're not done yet" she smirked
"... and we would've felt the way we feel about each other either way without a ring... it's more of a public display and you loved that cello... oh well it's gone now so that it doesn't matter anymore... You didn't have to sell it isn all I'm saying... don't get me wrong I'm not ungrateful... I love you for it but I'd love you the same anyway... material possessions have nothing to do with our feelings..."
Emily reached down and entwined her hand with Yuka's that has Emily's ring on it and raises it up. "Yes, but call me old fashioned for wanting to do that but I wanted you to look at that ring for the rest of your life and know that no matter what, I love you and would stand by you." she said softly before kissing Yuka again tenderly on the lips. "One of these days though, I want to have a whole night with you and when I mean by that is I want a quiet private dinner, wine, soft music, candlelight..and you in nothing more then light blue lingerie." she said as she kissed Yuka again tenderly. "I want to make love to you in a bed, I want to hear you whimper softly as I play across your body as you clench sheets and not carpet or deck plating."
She then bent over and kissed the finger that her ring sat upon. "And I want to see that ring glint off your hand..I want my future bride to finger me deeply with that ring oh so accidentally slipping inside of me."
Emily then looked back into her eyes. "that's how much I love you, my dear."
"that actually sounds incredibly kinky... well everything past the dinner anyway... everything before that sounds like divinity..." she said smiling.
"if you don't want anyone to accidentally walk in and disturb us we could always go to your quarters... if you're wanting something with a bed that is... so you want me to use the ring on you you little perv... only if you use a strap on me." She said winking and Emily. Yuka hoped also that she would continue this divine massage. She will need to be screaming Emily's name and demanding that she destroy her and take her with your wildest fantasy's by the time Emily was done with her.
Emily couldn't help but smile as she once more kissed Yuka tenderly on the lips but she held it this time with her left hand reaching and finding its way into her hair before she started to slowly kiss her more and more with her tongue gently tracing over Yuka's lips before she broke the kiss. "What is it about you that's always made me so fucking wet, Yuka?" she mused as she looked deeply into her future wife's eyes. "That first day when you called me your queen and told me to mold you, I was so wet that I almost forced you to lick me dry right then and there..."
"would you rather me call you on my empress or my mistress?" She teased
Emily then moved like she was going to kiss Yuka again but actually had to fight herself for control. "I want to have that dinner with you..I want to see you in lingre...I want us to have a wedding where you wear a proper white wedding dress and have everything with you.." she said in a hushed whisper, her eyes searching Yuka's deeply. "But right now, I want to be in my quarters with my wife to be...*NOW*!"
"... at least let me put my dress back on..." she grinned
"I'll permit that..because it's coming off once we're in my quarters." Emily growled with a sudden passion that she herself didn't know that she had.
"... I want you to massage the fuck out of me though...". She whined apparently enjoying their experience while putting her dress back on
"Hence why it comes back off." Emily said as she reached over and pulled Yuka in close to her. "Don't be surprised if you get what you want, my wife to be.." she added with a smile before kissing her.
"Okay my wifely-mistress." She took Emily's hand and then after the kiss was over she pulled her out the door while hurriedly slipping her sandals back on. She started heading for Emily's quarters already knowing where they were.
Emily followed Yuka after slipping her departmental shirt back on and slinging her jacket over her left shoulder. "Have I mentioned that I miss your old school uniform?" she said softly to Yuka as she walked close to her but not too close on their way to her quarters.
"I still have it here now... my backpack to..."
"in fact there is a nice little present I have for you... Will have to wait until we get inside though" she said winking again with a sort of provocative way about it
Emily actually had to raise an eyebrow at that and once they got to her quarters, Emily stepped into them for the very first time since arriving on the ship and noticed that everything had been unpacked and put away how she liked it. "Is it possible to give Shiori a promotion for setting up everything without me even having stepped into my quarters?"
"is it possible for us to turn AI Lumi into a dog and pet her a little pretty self for all eternity?" She replied wittingly
Once she arrived in the room though she waited for the door to close and then she had the system seal the door. Then she said "so you have a thing for school uniforms in lingerie do you..." she smirked as her dress turned into a set of baby doll lingerie. "how about that school girl blouse, skirt and stockings set..." her clothes and turn into said clothes. "Aidan said it freaked him out the first couple times I did it and actually I only figured out it worked when I was drunk... Lumi can change her hair and eye color too... I have an asked for that little VX upgrade yet... besides I think the nano probes alter your DNA doing that I'm not exactly very keen on that idea yet even though we are 2500 years in the future I... well I'm still getting used to... that... I also read in some extremely perverted manual somewhere I think it was written by some ITC doctor or something... they apparently have Nanoprobes that they can use to induce orgasms... Technology just gets more and more fucked up... it's almost like you don't even need sex toys anymore..." she seemed depressed with such a statement
"you wanna see me in this don't you..." she appears in a two-piece bikini
Emily smiled as she took her lover by her hips and pulled her in closer. "Remember, I don't freak that easily and besides.." she started to say before she pulled Yuka into another kiss just like the one before that was full of everything that she felt for her but this time she didn't hold anything back in the kiss but she broke it as she took another look at her in the bikini. "Yes I do..especially with those lovely breasts of your's hanging out of the top as I use a strap on on you." she purred hotly.
"that sounds like a good compromise..." she said winking as she lifted up her top grinning at her wildly
"oh dear look my breasts are exposed..." she said innocently
Emily growled hotly as she leaned her head down and took Yuka's left nipple into her mouth and starts to slowly lick and nip at it as she slips her hand into the back of her bottoms and slowly starts to stroke her ass lovingly. She stops her efforts on Yuka's nipple long enough to say "Lumi..does Yuka have a strap on hidden in her quarters?" she mused outloud.
when she post to such a question a box of sex toys appears
"... I guess I should tell you one of my hidden desires... underwater sex... breath holding stuff... near suffocation stuff... obviously anal... watching myself... double... and holding/being held... I don't know if it's possible but having everything stimulated it once... you know sort of like what you did in the room but my breasts and ass too... though at that point I'll probably have an overload... it sounds so hot though..."
"any strange things you want to try?"
"On me?
Emily could only smile as she moves away from Yuka long enough to go through the "toy box" until she finds something and then turns to look at Yuka and she motions for Yuka to follow her into her bedroom.
Yuka does as she is told not really seeing anything in response night just continuing to be a good sub plaything for Emily. It actually intrigued her to see with the girl had in mind
"Lumi, please lock my quarters..and can you pick something nice and soft to play, your choice." Emily asked nicely as she turned to look at Yuka before tossing what she had found onto her bed and looked at her wife to be in the eyes. "Yuka, I want to show you what changes have happened to me.." she said in a light tone, her blush was so powerful that it went all the way down into the collar of her shirt. "I want you to strip me..take your time, beloved...I want you to show me how you've missed me starting that way."
"Um... Okay..." Yuka came back over to her and undid her uniform top removing it then The undershirt if she was wearing one. She then stops and moves slowly down to her pants making a very slow motion to undo them and then took both sides in her hands and slowly lowered them down in a sensual erotic manner. Once they were down she came back up and grabbed one of Emily's arms and hold the arm through her bra strap slowly again and then do the same with the other arm then turning the bra around and she undid the strap. Once she was done with it she just stared at her and started to fiddle with the waistband of her panties.
Well she was fiddling with the waistband she started to move down a little bit of kissing her chest and eventually moving to one of her breasts sucking on the nipple attacking it with her tongue .
She then moved to Emilys other breast slowly crossing the space between them but doing so in a manner that it was torturous because of the time between play. She then grabbed both ends of the waistband and dropped her panties
Emily fought very hard not to touch Yuka as she went about her work but with every inch of her clothing was removed it showed that the slightly soft body that the half-Japanese girl remembered was a little bit more defined and because of it and the changes done to her during her "time" with Section Six, she now had a heavy A cup as opposed to a mid-range one a lifetime ago and she had quite a few scars scattered here and there across her body including the one that Cameron had mentioned next to her breast.
When Yuka started to work her magic on her nipple, Emily couldn't hold back any longer and wrapped her arms gently around Yuka's head and encouraged her to continue her efforts. "Goddess..you have been waiting for this haven't you..you missed me that much?" she asked, her voice full of trembling desire and heartfelt warmth.
when Emily asked if she had been waiting for this she responded by gliding her teeth widely against one of her nipples while punishing it with her tongue
She then very lightly nipped at the skin around Emily's nipple and continue to attack the nipple with her tongue
After a few moments she torturously moved back to her other breast and did the same thing. Her eyes finally moved out and stared up at Emily as if asking if that was enough of a response.
Emily had to fight to remain standing from the sensations of pure, raw love that was going through her body at that moment but once she saw Yuka's eyes and had her answer, Emily gently forced Yuka away from her now extremely painfully hard nipples. "I want to call you my wife so badly right now it's not even a funny thing..I've waited two thousand and five hundred years to propose and all I can think of it now is to have you strap that strap on to me so that I can have proper congress with you.." she said, her voice full of love and longing.
Turning to Sakura, Aidan said, "stay there for a few. With a little luck I can relieve you and resume my shift." He kept moving and entered the ready room. Emotions flooding him with the memory and he wasn't sure but thought he could even smell her perfume. He shook his head to clear it, sat behind the desk and started working.
Lumi entered the bridge considering that she would likely find Aidan here. She pressed the call button.
"Enter."
She entered the ready room. "Afternoon Major... I just wanted to inform you that Lt. Quartermaine was located."
"Good. Any chance of her coming to the ready room?" He asked, inwardly relieved.
"I'll notify her and see if she will come. She was pretty broken up when she was found."
"After that if you need don't anything else I'm going to actually go to bed... The commander called me to help search."
"Thanks Lumi. I appreciate you more than you know." Aidan said genuinely. "Good night, as it were."
She nods then salutes. "permission to be dismissed."
"I thought that was implied, but I guess my head isn't on straight today." He smiled at her. "Dismissed."
"protocol major protocol..." she grinned and left. She headed to Emily's quarters and pressed the call button.
Emily was finishing putting on something a little bit more comfortable which was a pair of blue jeans, a white tank top and a black zip-up hoodie with the phrase "A7" on the right breast when she heard the door chime and said "Yes?"
"Major Thornton would like to see you in the ready room." Lumi said entering. Yuka was sitting on Emily's couch. "I'm glad we had our talk." Yuka said then seeing is Emily was being requested by Aidan Yuka took her leave. Lumi then turned and just stood by the door as if making sure Emily left the room.
"Yeah, just sorry about having to leave during it to grab a shower. Sometimes after using that cloak I just have to get the feeling of what they did to me off you know?" she replied with a smile and wink before she slowly started to make her way out of her quarters. "We'll talk more later, right?"
Yuka smiled and nodded. "Yeah. See ya later." She gave her light kiss on the cheek then left. Lumi seeing that Emily was leaving Took her leave as well and returned her quarters to go crash after being awake for extra hours she didn't assume she was going to be awake for.
Emily smiled and nodded as she grabbed her com-badge, holo-tag, and a small box which she hooked onto her and then headed for the bridge. When she got there, she headed for the ready room and used the chime.
"Enter."
Emily entered, still moving slightly slowly before coming up to attention smartly and saying "You requested my presence, Major Thornton?" in a professional tone as the door closed behind her.
"At ease." He said, then said, 'Sit down." Even he heard the exasperation in his own voice, changed his tone and added, "please".
Yuka was called by Dr. Shindler at this point to follow up on the nights events and to discuss her current mental situation. Based on his assessment that would determine when she would return to duty.
Emily went to a parade rest for a moment before wincing and then giving him a polite nod before slowly sitting down in the chair in front of the desk.
Aidan started. "Clearly this isn't working for any of us. Or at least for me. I don't have any of the answers. The more I do, the less I get accomplished.." He paused for a moment. "My last marriage ended due to my ex-wife's lack of fidelity. It occurs to me that I may be projecting more of that relationship on this one than I realize or want. I owe you an apology. I'm sorry."
Emily nodded slowly in reply but didn't say anything at first but she did have a thoughtful expression on her face for a couple of moments before saying "If you can look past the obvious pain that you are still in, Major..Aidan..then you will see that you have a set of options that not many people have."
Emily's eyes then narrowed slightly, "That is if you're up for the challenge of thinking outside of the box?"
"I am actually open to suggestion. Because everything I do is blowing up in my face. The only other thought in my tiny brain is a bad one. Alcohol and I do not mix." He left it there. "Would you care for anything?" Aidan got up and headed for the replicator.
Emily nodded, "Just normal cold water please and thank you. But before I present you with you any options, I want to explain something to you that should help you understand where I am in all of this." she said in a calm and respectful manner as she shifted her weight off of her right side a little. "In all of this I think that my part and my feelings towards Yuka may have been viewed as a simple misunderstanding since you're being honest."
Emily then spread her hands out open in front of her. "I'm offering to do something to you, a complete and total stranger that you probably would love to hear which is the truth and I'm offering mine to you as a gesture of respect and trust."
"At this point, I have little to lose. Computer, one extra large half sweet tea and a glass of cold water." Aidan said. Grabbing the beverages, Aidan handed the water to Emily and sat in the open chair beside her.
Emily accepted the water and took a sip before setting it down on the desk and then stiffly turned to face Aidan, wincing slightly. "I'm going to start at the beginning, Yuka and I met during an extremely low time in our lives as Julian's leaving was fairly recent and my..relationship if you want to call it that with India ended, putting me in a sad state. I was alone in a room playing my cello and not wanting to focus on how much I was hurting when she showed up, having been drawn there by my playing."
Emily chuckled, "Hard to believe that a trained killer like me could play the cello huh.." she mused before shaking her head and continuing with "We kind of hooked up shortly after that meeting and I was scared because for the first time in my life I had found someone that actually wanted me for *ME* and nothing else..we just clicked and..and it scared me because I didn't realize what had happened before I had almost ran from it but in the end we wound up dating for the better part of a year before I realized that I couldn't breathe without her and I sold my cello and worked my ass off till I got enough funds to buy her an engagement ring that she had seen in a display case at a local mall."
Emily reaches into her tank top's collar and pulls out her holo-tag with the ring on the chain. "You of all people can understand the depth of what I was wanting to do, this wasn't just some passionate thing like you read in those trashy holo-novels, I was willing to risk physical harm because back then two women getting married but in very few places was akin to a war crime in the eyes of the public."
Emily then looked at the ring for a moment before shoving it back into her shirt and shaking her head. "Sorry..its what happens next that's hard for me because where Yuka got to wake up and probably got the nice treatment..mine was a little bit more harsh."
Emily then looked at Aidan for a moment, studying his features. "Before I do, any questions thus far?"
Aidan didn't really want to hear any of the this, but if he had any chance with Yuka, he needed to at least understand what he was up against and get to know Emily. Know thine enemy, but as he was listening, his attitude was changing towards her. "Please continue. I will also admit that my initial perceptions were...flawed about the two of you".
Emily nodded, her eyes studying every inch of his face. "I think that you do and you don't if I may?"
"He nodded in reply."
Emily then took a breath. "When I came too, Aidan..I was in hell. Emily's face actually took on a very troubled expression. "I didn't know who I was for a few seconds, felt groggy and disjointed but then I remembered that I was on my way to see Yuka with the ring in my pocket and then nothing..but when I woke up there were people in lab coats studying me and then I did the first sensible thing and I asked where I was...then one of them stopped, looked at me and told me that I had been asleep for over two thousand years and that no one would miss me."
"This ship seems to be a nexus for those people so affected I have seen. Not to belittle your situation. I can't imagine being ripped from one's existence. Yuka's told me a few things." He said.
Emily looked down for a moment, "Yeah..I went from a cello playing chemistry major in complete love to a freaking science experiment with a long since dead family.." she said in cold voice before raising her head again, her eyes slightly shiny. "They poked, prodded, and experimented on me..took everything that I had but they were kind enough to let me keep the ring like it was a joke...like they were being kind." she explained, her voice coming closer to the dead sounding one from earlier. "Eventually I was rescued by amusingly enough an intelligence fire team."
"Our mutual ground. I did black ops for 8 years." Aidan commented.
Emily nodded at Aidan's words, "Hold on to that thought, Aidan, because I will come back to that." she said, a little bit of warmth coming back into her voice. "Yes..our common ground. It turned out that I was actually a non-entity at that time because someone had found me and sold me to a branch of EarthGov intelligence..but then I was free, Aidan. I was a thousand years out of my time with a woman that I had sworn never to leave like Julian had two thousand years dead...so I threw myself into a new life, the fire team got me off world and took me to a colony called Asgard and I decided that the new Emily Quartermaine needed to not be a victim, so I went to the Corbulo Academy of Military Science and found out something that scared me, Aidan."
Emily reached out, her right hand shaking as she took Aidan's closest hand. "If I show you this..you can't tell Yuka till I'm ready because I'm scared that she'll run, alright?"
"Please promise me"
"As a fellow warrior, I promise. Plus you know my intention would never be to cause pain to her, or by extension you." He added honestly. "I truly don't hate you. Just not the relationship I thought I was getting into." He smiled some.
Emily nodded, "Wait till the end..and I might be able to help with that." she said simply, her tone very nervous as she removed her hand from Aidan's and then simply disappeared from sight.
"What the.... some kind of cloak?" He asked, wondering if she teleported.
Emily then appeared on the other side of Aidan, looking very uncomfortable. "Yes and no, the scientists that bought me decided to test a theory that's been around for years which is could other races unique traits be melded to a human's." she explained as she slowly went back to her seat. "I spent just over a year as their...guest."
"Why am I getting the feeling I'm not going to like this."
Emily chuckled, "I'm the one who has to worry about Yuka's reaction to me being a freak, Aidan." she said before shaking her head slowly. "I graduated with my unit commander, Cameron Ward, and eventually we wound up in intelligence and the war."
The skin around her eyes hardened just a little bit. "I think we can skip over that part right?" she asked.
Aidan nodded."I don't think you're a freak." He said honestly.
Emily's face then relaxed a little. "I am..but thank you."
Emily then reached out to try and take a hold of her glass of water but saw that her hand was shaking and quickly withdrew it. "Eventually the war ended and my squad got sent to the locations in the federation that needed a special touch until we got the call to come here...and then Cam went to go report into the commanding officer who then came back and stopped right in front of me..."
Emily tried to laugh at that. "I..I was scared, Aidan. There she was right in front of me and all I could think of was running."
She took a breath and then continued, "She ordered me to report to her office later and I did, we talked and when she mentioned things with you..I thought that she didn't love me anymore so I just shelved how I felt and made my decision to make sure that she was happy and to fight for her happiness like I did back then."
When she chuckled again, it was a little bit more real. "That's why I got angry at you during our first meeting by the way, I was so intent on my purpose that when you did the whole thing with your engagement ring I was fighting for her happiness at the cost of my own because you also made her happy and whole."
"Okay. One heck of a story. I can see more why this all blew up. Now a touch of the flip side. Hopefully nothing she hasn't already told you. You already know about Julian. But she also married a lizard, and has been....very...promiscuous. That bothered me, but nothing I really cared about. We all have pasts. Big freaking deal. Move on. "
"Fast forward to our nearly one night stand where I ended it as I didn't want to cheat on my own wife. Then my marriage imploded. Yuka was there. We both seemed to want each other, despite our obvious age differences. We have had several....long drawn out discussions or arguments over her wanting to bring in other people. To the point of nearly propositioning her then bodyguard. Something she reluctantly said she was over and we were going to devote ourselves to each other. Everything was settled....until now. Realize I am not blaming you....just explaining my point of view. You two have an enviable history and it makes me question ours. I don't disbelieve Yuka....but I also find it harder to swallow. My own failing and nothing to do with you or her actions. So you can understand more of WHY I acted like I did. "
Emily nodded, "I told you about my past to help you understand something Aidan ..because I want you to understand that what I'm about to offer is a set of choices that you're probably not used to hearing because I'm kind of an outsider to you. Are you ready?"
"As ready as I can be." He offered.
"First off, we both love Yuka without question and hesistation and she needs the both of us but not like this, Aidan. Right now both people that she considers apart of her very being is not fitting right for the lack of a better term." she explained before holding up her left hand.
Aidan started comment then stopped with Emily's gesture.
"Option one..time share, but I really don't see that working because then it becomes who gets her on Tuesday around noon or Sunday after tea." Emily explains in a light tone before becoming serious again. "Seriously, our first option is that we continue in the direction that we were going and pray we don't fuck it up."
She then holds up her right hand, "In this hand you and I do something that Yuka won't be expecting but would give you a form of closure on a painful matter and could make everyone happy." Emily looked Aidan directly in the eyes with a soft look. "Want to hear option B?"
He was thinking "I REALLY don't like where this is going," and started to say something before changing his mind. "Please go on."
"Yuka told me about how you two had an argument about that lead to how the one that I witnessed in your quarters was about. We had a very long, emotional talk about that and it helped me to make a decision because unlike some people, I try and think things out before I do them." Emily said, her tone honest.
Aidan stuck his tongue out in mock reply, his emotional state needing the release valve. "Everyone has off days, and now you know I wasn't thinking, I was hurt and angry, for what I beleived to be the end of my relationship with Yuka. Thrown out like French fries after they've gone cold and no longer wanted. I now know better."
Emily closed her eyes and took a deep breath and when she spoke again, her accent was there and there naturally. "Yes, but right now I'm being extremely open and honest with you Aidan, and understand that I'm doing this in complete seriousness but I'm offering the both of you me."
She then held up her hand, "Not as some tarted up lover on the side just so she can keep me."
"That's....a very large step Emily. I can see it in your eyes, that it's not one that comes lightly. I think we are more alike than either of us want or would be willing to admit to in the light of day, but there it is."
She looked Aidan in the eyes, "No nookie on the side but someone that you can honestly say that you know won't try to take Yuka or get her to break up with you..I'll marry you even to prove how serious I am, Aidan."
She then winced at her choice of words, "Oi..what I meant is that *I* won't be a nookie on the side, I'm willing to be fully in but I ask only three things in return and they're something that I think you can understand and relate to."
Aidan's head was reeling. "What might that be?" He asked still trying to take it all in.
"First off if I'm going to do this, I want to get to know you first Aidan..so no quick jumping into bed for a shag, alright?" Emily said in a warm tone as she reached out and took Aidan's closest hand and squeezed it. "Yes, I'm willing to marry you in order to prove how serious I am for this thing to work but I want to get to know the man and not the marine. Fair?"
"I wouldn't have it any other way." Aidan said, feeling the warmth in her hand.
She then grew a little bit serious in her tone and expression but her eyes were still warm and kind as she said "The second thing is please..let me say something to Yuka that I've waited to say to her because if you spring the news on her that you're willing to do this and then I say what I need to then her mind will be in the right place and she'll be able to focus like how we both know that she can."
"My lips are sealed." Aidan replied, also looking at Emily like he was just seeing her for the first time.
Emily then looked at Aidan and then shook her head slowly with a faint smile before she tapped her right index finger against her chin. "No..I don't think that I've made my point yet..."
Emily then got up and despite the pain that she felt she walked over and took Aidan's face into both of her hands while looking him directly into the eyes. "I am serious about this, Aidan...I am willing to do things that I have never done before in order to make this work because I care about you both."
Emily gave Aidan a warm smile, "When she first told me about you, she couldn't stop saying great things..I trust her without question, Aidan."
"I'm not that bad below the crust." He quipped. "To be honest, you haven't really caught me at my best." Emily started to say something. He held up his hand. "My turn to talk."
Emily nods and then gently let's go of his face and goes to sit back down.
"I appreciate the honesty and the courage it took to get there. I can't say I'm happy with any of this, but I do love Yuka more than I could ever have imagined. She clearly is more than smitten with you as well. I assumed it was lust. I was wrong. Apparently very wrong." He took a long pull on his tea before continuing.
"I will also admit that the idea of you is very attractive. We have had much of the same experiences duty-wise and your demeanor is polished....Yuka's is more.....freelance. Not a failing, just different. You and I are just getting to know each other. I never thought about a relationship like this. It's just not something I ever would have thought about. My parents are going to go nuts."
I got up and pulled her to her feet. "One last thing Lieutenant." he leaned in close and whispered. "Be careful what you wish for." Then winked where she would see it.
Emily smiled and nodded, "That's the thing about parents though, Aidan. As long as their children are happy then they don't care honestly."
Aidan laughed out loud. "You obviously haven't met many American Indian mothers. She's less a mother than a force of nature." He held out his arms for a hug.
Emily slowly stepped into the offered hug, her body still sore and hurting.
Aidan noticed the wincing and assumed it was training soreness. Something he was intimately familiar with, so he enfolded her gently, wrapping himself around her like he was used to doing with Yuka, Ayasha and even Carol. She was more muscular and thinner, it was different, but something he could get used to.
"Now...let me do the my job here Emily. We can iron out anything else later. Another miracle. You can add that to the things you tell to Yuka. She'll understand. Dismissed Lieutenant."
AI Lumi sees that this sort of... Emily offering herself to Aidan after she and Yuka just made up. She immediately appears in Yuka's room and tells her what's going on in the other room. Yuka stops what she's doing confused. She rolls her eyes like it is some sort of joke. Lumi remains serious. After the progress and her talk with Shindler; things seemed too good to be true. It seemed like they now were... She stared at the AI and she stared back. She then headed for the bridge. Before anyone could say anything Lumi opened the door for her and she walked in. She saw them in each other's arms. The ring Emily gave her was still on her finger. Emily had told her she would fix things but what was this... Lumi said they were offering each other to... each other. She needed an explanation and NOW.
Aidan offered, "go ahead Emily. You wanted to explain." He walked around the desk and sat back. Picking up his tea he half drained it.
"Actually... how about you explain... you preach to me about not being with other people... at least I'm remaining faithful to a relationship in my past!"
Yuka seemed angry. "I didn't even touch her until I talked to you..."
Now it was Aidan's turn to get pissed. "You wanted all of us to be happy together? Yes or no." His face turning red from the emotional and pressure rise of his again agitated emotional state.
Yuka shows him the ring clearly on her finger from Emily. "she's only doing this because she wants all of us to be together just like I do... Yes,that's all I wanted from the start... I thought I even made that clear in the mess hall today."
"So Emily and I were TALKING. About how you two got together, how you and I did, and what we both needed to make this work between is as we BOTH love the crap out of you. Or would you like the official recording?" He added. "So yeah, I gave her a hug after we think we came to a solution we can ALL live with. What the hell?!" Aidan said, throwing his arms up in mock surrender.
"So you're not just going to take her and leave me?" Yuka asked seemingly less angry when Aidan got mad
Aidan looked at her for a second and burst out laughing. He eyes closed and it was so forceful, he was holding his stomach, then fell off the chair behind the desk.
Emily blinked at Yuka and then turned away.
"...what's... funn... I don't...."
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It took a few seconds for him to gather himself enough to get up, his breathing ragged and intake was choppy. He staggered over and embraced Yuka. "Never, pain in my ass. You can't be rid of me that easily." He kissed her on the forehead, squeezing a buttcheek as well.
"... But you... I..." she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "it sounded like I was being cheated on and duped... I apologize.... I jumped to the wrong conclusion..."
"Seems to be going around." He quipped.
"
You mean... she told you..."
"Lots of things."
"Uh... So we both are idiots... we immediately assumed the same thing..." she looked down. She had immediately defaulted to the same thing he did in her room when she went in to tell him about Emily. Why though... was she really that shallow to believe The two of them would turn their back on her. "... I try and act like I'm so much different... but I'm just like you..." she said to Aidan "I wanted so badly to be with both of you that I thought when you both went off and were together without me that you were trying to get together without me..... stupid..." she yells as herself.
"Lot of that going around as well." he added.
Emily was still facing away from Yuka, her shoulders where moving slightly.
Yuka looked over at Emily; she realized that she had really hurt her by not trusting that she knew what she was doing. Yuka felt like she was being stabbed with a knife when she came to that realization.
"Emily..." Yuka said sorrowfully, then added, "...I'm... a fool please forgive me... I didn't... oh... I did it again..." she sighs deeply
Emily slowly turned to face Yuka, her eyes where very red and her face was wet with tears and just looks at Yuka.
"... I..." the look on Emily's face just breaks Yuka's heart into pieces
Yuka takes Aidan's hands away softly and she walks over to Emily putting her hands on her shoulders.
"...I... don't know what I can say..."
Emily just buries her face into Yuka's shoulder. "just remember who i am...please..."
"... You're my fiancé... I... should have trusted you..." she rests her own head against Emily's and tears. She may have said something that she shouldn't have but at this point she didn't care she just wanted them both to know that she was sorry.
Yuka slowly and gently moves her and her self over to Aidan
So the three of them can be together
"i am now..he agreed I think." Emily said raising her eyes a little bit. "that is if you'll have me?"
"We can try. I mean it this time." He puts his arms arms around the both of them. Something he'd never thought he could do. He kissed Emily on the forehead.
"... what does this mean..."
Emily actually smiles and buries her face slightly.
"It means we pulled off another miracle, babe." he said to Yuka. Winking where she could see it.
"... three people getting married... how does that even work... never mind it's probably too complicated to think about... and I'm such a blockhead I'd probably stumble over the idea and fall down a flight of steps looking like an idiot..." she says chastising herself
"Stop rushing me. I just met her. Plus YOU gave your ring back" he joked .
"...but... that doesn't count I was mentally unstable!" She whines
Aidan countered. "Yet I love you anyway." He kissed her for a second when she lifted her head at the comment.
Emily slaps Yuka on the ass just hard enough to get her attention as the girl from East England raises her head to look at Yuka. "No more insulting yourself, Yuka..I won't let my wife do that." she said with a pointed look.
"... i'd like to use one of my challenges... c'mon referees!" Yuka whined.
Emily then gives a slightly sheepish look. "And yes I know we're not married yet..but still, I can't help it."
"... and I want to insult myself I deserve it..."
She lightly taps Emily's ass in retaliation
"I'll demean you later. " Aidan tells Yuka.
"Er... Yeah that's right you have work don't you?" She said looking at him blinking repeatedly
Yuka drags Emily away with her so that he can get some work done before the shift ends.