Hark, the angel calls,
Dark, the angel falls,
One, pale princess screams,
Come, inside these dreams...

'She's watching me again. Those dark orbs make me think things that I should not think of a coworker, much less an attached woman. Why does she follow me with her eyes? Am I doing something to displease her? I am not in the way and I am not interfering with her productivity, so why is she observing me?' Seven chanced a full glance at B'Elanna, but looked quickly away when she confirmed that she was being tracked.

She hurried to the station she was working on and tried to ignore the tiny twitch in the middle of her back that let her know the dark beauty was still staring. 'Please, Lieutenant, stop tormenting me.' As if she heard Seven's plea, she looked away. Seven felt a strange sense of loss when the coffee eyes left her body.

They worked in an almost silent dance, just avoiding brushing bodies when they passed and B'Elanna wasn't looking when Seven reached her hand to the brunette tresses that seemed to reach back. The silver hand traced the air down from the top of the Klingon's head to her neck and took pleasure in the tiny tremor in the engineer's body.

She turned as B'Elanna did, appearing to have passed by without pause, but didn't miss the black eyes as they raked down her body. She grabbed the edge of the console for a moment, trying to regain her composure, but the throbbing of her body and the pounding of her heart merely become more pronounced.

The sensation crescendoed until she shuddered almost imperceptibly, feeling the dampness in her biosuit uncomfortably. She hoped that none leaked through this time and cursed duty for once again putting her in close proximity to the object of her desire.

hiss...click...phfzzz

Seven dropped the tool she had just picked up and put her hand to her temple. She took a moment to mentally instruct the inhibitor to shut down, as the doctor had instructed and a moment later, the sensation and sound stopped. She breathed a silent sigh of thanks to her holographic friend for designing the device that inhibited the emotional inhibitor and just wished that it worked for longer periods of time.

"Seven are you alright?" The ex-drone looked into the concerned eyes for a moment before nodding slightly.

"Headache," she lied, easily. It was the same excuse she gave to anyone who asked. It was much easier to say than, 'I lust for you so strongly my cortical array is shutting down.'

Her ice blue eyes matched her composure and she was overcome with the discomforting thought that B'Elanna could see right through her. But the Chief Engineer only nodded and smiled sympathetically, then took her overwhelming presence away from the trembling blonde.

Time passed in a flash and Seven was clocking out. She had managed to control herself the rest of the shift and put one foot in front of the other to carry her away from temptation. She was only twelve meters from Engineering when her mind cleared enough to let her know that there was a footfall behind her, soft but sure.

Seven didn't pause or even turn to look.

She knew who it was.

But she never expected the strong hands to clutch her shoulders and spin her into the wall. B'Elanna stalked up to Seven and stood a hairsbreadth from her, allowing her breasts to brush against Seven's ribs when she inhaled. The blue eyes traveled to the seductive, rising chest and took a deep breath of her own.

"State your intentions." B'Elanna's eyes narrowed at the command and the corners of her mouth turned up ever so slightly.

"You state them." Seven's mouth went dry and she tried to sidestep around the smaller woman, but B'Elanna was there, blocking her path. 'Please, I cannot handle this, you are not mine, you are not mine.' Seven's mind raced in circles, the same thoughts repeating like a broken recording, incoherent and desperate.

"What about Tom?" She managed to spit out.

"Do you care?" Seven's heart leapt into her throat. "It doesn't matter. What matters is right now and that I've decided that I'm tired of you wasting away behind your hidden smiles and sarcastic comments. If no one else is going to be intelligent enough to claim you, then I'm telling you right now that you're mine."

'I don't want it, I just need it...'

" 'To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive,' " Seven whispered and watched as B'Elanna's pupils dilated.

"What's that?" B'Elanna asked, leaning against Seven.

"Something Icheb used to listen to during his allotted time for 'fun.' "

"Is it your allotted time for fun?" B'Elanna asked, a gleam in her eye. Seven swallowed her heart and stared at B'Elanna defiantly.

"You would not be able to keep up. Nor do I believe that you could fulfill your promise to claim me." Seven pushed passed the stunned brunette and made it almost to the turbolift when she was tackled. They went down, with B'Elanna on top and Seven tried to sit up, only to be pinned by the strong woman straddling her.

"I can smell that you want me."

"If that is what passes for romantic to a Klingon, then it is not surprising that you sustain so many injuries during copulation." B'Elanna growled and shut Seven up with her lips, giving in to the veiled command. Seven wound her fingers in B'Elanna's hair and crushed their mouths together hungrily.

B'Elanna worked her knee between the maroon clad legs of the younger woman, gently pressing against her centre, dragging a throaty moan from between their ravenous kisses. Suddenly, Seven shoved B'Elanna off her body and ducked into the turbolift, sending dark, lusty glances at the startled woman on the floor.

"If you want to take me, you'll have to do better than that. Deck four." B'Elanna just made it into the lift as the doors hissed closed. They circled each other for a moment, then B'Elanna lunged at Seven, who caught her and lifted her to push back against the wall. B'Elanna wrapped her legs around Seven's hips and moved against her lightly.

Seven pressed against B'Elanna, tormenting her the same way the half-Human woman had done to her earlier, reveling in the heat she could feel through her skin-tight biosuit. It didn't take but a moment for them to find each other's bruised lips again and melt into each other.

When the lift doors hissed open, B'Elanna pushed off the wall with her hands, taking them both to the floor. Seven scooted backwards and B'Elanna crawled with her, neither breaking the kiss as their tongues explored each other's mouths hungrily. Seven relaxed against the floor, attacking the fastening on B'Elanna's jacket, almost jerking it from the slim shoulders.

The mustard and black garment was forgotten in the corridor as B'Elanna stood, drawing Seven to her feet as the blonde untucked the grey tank top, running her hands over the flat expanse of soft skin she found underneath. B'Elanna opened the back of Seven's biosuit, trying to give the taller woman an idea of how she was making her dark lover-to-be feel.

But Seven let the rough material slide down her torso, revealing full, honey-coloured breasts. Seven wiggled her chest teasingly, then took off down the hall, in the direction of B'Elanna's quarters. B'Elanna laughed and followed, yanking off her own shirt to fling at Seven, who shot her a grin as she shook her hair down.

B'Elanna growled and chased Seven passed the threshold and into the bedroom, where she pounced into the open arms of the most beautiful woman she had ever seen.

They tumbled into the bed, hands roaming over exposed skin, savoring the feel of one another, and memorizing curves and textures. B'Elanna ran her hand across Seven's aching nipple and Seven gasped in pleasure, arching her back into the contact. B'Elanna massaged the breast gently, then took it into her mouth.

"B'Elanna," Seven gasped and B'Elanna chuckled, then captured Seven's lips with her own. She played with Seven's breast as they kissed and Seven felt as though she would burst from the pleasure. The thought of B'Elanna's caramel breasts in her own hands made Seven flip the happily growling Klingon onto her back.

Seven removed the bra impeding her from reaching her goal and then just stopped to admire the view. She caressed the dark nipple with tentative fingers, making B'Elanna twitch and whimper. Seven slowly lowered her mouth to the toned stomach and planted light kisses along the warm skin, to B'Elanna's hip, where she dug lightly in with her tongue, making B'Elanna jump.

She could smell B'Elanna's arousal from her position and she took a moment to breathe deeply before resuming her trail of kisses upward until she was just under the hot breasts. She flicked out her tongue and licked the salty skin, licking until she found the sweeter skin on the side and continued dragging her tongue to just inside the aereola. She traced the dark circle, listening, as B'Elanna's breathy moans became more vocal.

Strong hands directed her mouth to B'Elanna's nipple and she complied, taking the tip full into her mouth and sucked enthusiastically. B'Elanna cried out and Seven's head shot up, afraid that she has been too rough.

"Oh, god, Seven, don't stop!" B'Elanna cried, running her fingers up Seven's back, causing a tremor of pleasure to rack the younger body. Seven repositioned herself to move to the other breast, while running her palm up and down over the first.

B'Elanna's agitated fingers accidentally scratched up Seven's back, but the blonde didn't notice anything beyond the sounds her partner was making. Seven's right hand slowly trailed down B'Elanna's body until it found the waistband of the Starfleet pants.

B'Elanna arched her back as Seven tugged, allowing her to remove the last bits of her clothing. In return, B'Elanna tugged at the biosuit until it joined her pants. They giggled and wrestled with the clothes until it all ended up on the floor and Seven's nose bumped the fluff between B'Elanna's legs. Immediately both froze and B'Elanna looked down her body at Seven, who smirked.

Then she ran her Borg hand along B'Elanna's thigh, tickling and massaging. B'Elanna mirrored the movements from her position of her head resting on Seven's creamy thigh. Seven carefully slid her right hand between B'Elanna's legs, which parted eagerly for her.

She ran her fingers through the coarse hair, enjoying the way that the texture made her fingers tingle, then slid one finger between the slick folds of B'Elanna's hot, throbbing sex. B'Elanna lost her composure for a moment and she arched backwards, while giving a shout she tried to muffle with her hands.

Seven ran her fingers over the sensitive ridges of B'Elanna's clit, fascinated by the Klingon design and wanting to touch every part. B'Elanna twitched and spasmed as Seven explored her and when Seven slipped her fingers inside B'Elanna, the Klingon woman rocked forward, hugging Seven's thighs and buried her face between them.

Seven smiled as B'Elanna moaned and she used two fingers to sensitively explore inside B'Elanna, her mouth lowered into the folds to taste her victory. She hungrily treated the nerves to a tongue massage while she moved her fingers in and out with the rhythm B'Elanna's hips were eagerly supplying.

Suddenly B'Elanna began to lose her rhythm and Seven felt the muscles clench around her fingers and she quickly darted her tongue around until B'Elanna screamed in ecstasy. Seven didn't stop until she felt B'Elanna relax and then she withdrew and laid her head on B'Elanna's burning thigh.

They lay there in silence for a while, abandoned to the afterglow until B'Elanna crawled to lay next to Seven and began teasing the full, heavy breasts with fingers and teeth and mouth. Seven felt as though she was about to explode and she wrapped one long leg around B'Elanna, pressing her wet need against the Klingon's hip, trying to relieve some of the pressure.

B'Elanna understood and pressed Seven back against the bed, rubbing her hip lightly against Seven's centre, but saw that it wasn't going to take much to push the blonde beauty over the edge, so she licked and nipped down to the warm mound, where she buried her nose and teased Seven, who moaned and tangled her fingers in B'Elanna's hair as her body built and the blood filled her pulsing vulva.

B'Elanna slipped her fingers around the sides and centre of Seven's sex, feeling the velvety softness and carefully slid a finger inside her. Seven's abdomen jerked and when B'Elanna's tongue touched her desperate nub, she thought her head was going to explode with sensation. But she was still building, still on the edge as B'Elanna teased her and circled her.

B'Elanna removed her finger and filled Seven with her tongue, then stroked upwards and Seven came. For a moment, Seven thought something was wrong as she felt a silence fill her head, then she started to relax and another wave hit even stronger than the first and Seven screamed B'Elanna's name.

After the full climax, Seven felt a few more waves pass gently over her, but none were like that one and she was just comforted as all her frustration and pressure was finally released in the arms of the woman she had wanted since she first saw the fiery passions she contained.

Seven realized that B'Elanna was curled around her body and she hugged her lover tightly to herself, never wanting to let go. They lay in each other's arms, drifting happily to sleep.

"B'Elanna--"

"I know, Seven. Me, too..." B'Elanna murmured and Seven smiled. Then she closed her eyes and fell into the best sleep of her life, content and satisfied.