A Brand New Day
Posted on Mon Oct 28th, 2024 @ 2:41pm by Lieutenant Fang Lee & Lieutenant JG Zai
Edited on on Mon Oct 28th, 2024 @ 2:42pm
1,280 words; about a 6 minute read
Mission:
Stars Around the Well
Location: Starbase 2 | Sabastian Walker's Quarters
ON:
The morning brought with it a wave of clarity. Zai awoke with the smell of fresh brewed coffee. He threw aside the covers and padded bare foot and bare chested into Livingroom. He smiled seeing Sabastian standing there holding a steaming cup of coffee.
“Good morning.”
Sabastian smiled. “Good morning, Darling.”
Zai raised both eyebrows. His face turned a cherry red. Pet names had always been a weakness of his although nothing Fang called him affected him this way.
Sabastian laughed. “I think the red on your face brings out the lavender in your eyes.”
“I would throw a pillow at you but you’re holding coffee and I’d rather not waste the elixir of life.”
Sab chuckled walking over and handing him the coffee. “Strong coffee Crème Brule flavoured two milks no sugar.”
“Gods how do you remember all this.”
“I have been blessed with a good memory.” He motioned to the sofa. “Sit. I’ll get my coffee and we can maybe talk?”
Zai gave a nod.
He curled up on the sofa letting the warmth of the mug seep into his hands. It wasn’t cold, Sabastian’s half Vulcan side liked hot so he always kept his quarters warmer then anywhere else. Soon Sabastian joined him resting his arm over Zai’s legs where they were on the sofa.
“Did you sleep well?”
How to respond. Zai decided truth was the best. “No. I didn’t. I tossed and turned.”
Sabastian smiled. “I know, I sensed it. It was like a waterfall of different emotions.”
“Oh Gods Sab I’m sorry. I should have had my guards up. I'm not used to being around other empaths.”
He shook his head. “No, it’s alright. I would have come to see you but… I didn’t trust myself. While I did the noble thing and sent you away to a separate room the 'where the night will take us' comment you made haunted me.”
Zai blushed. “Gods! That’s another thing we have to talk about but is it too early is it…” Zai was interrupted by an incessant ringing of the door chime.
“Who in…”
Sabastian sighed. “Fang. He’s spoiling for a fight.”
“I’ll answer then.”
“Zai…”
“No. Can you… give us a minute?”
Sabastian nodded and headed to his room.
Zai put his coffee on the table and stood he opened the door.
Fang who’d been, indeed, spoiling to fight Sabastian froze. He looked at Zai standing there in nothing but boxers, his hair loose down his back but pushed back with a claw clip.
“Z..wa..gh…ziii”
Zai crossed his hands over his chest. “How eloquent. Good morning. Lee Fang, how can I help you?”
“You’re here.” Fang seemed to find his voice.
“Yes. You wanted to see me?”
“No I came…”
“To fight with Sabastian? Not happening. What do you want?”
“YY…You’re naked!”
“I’m in boxer shorts, I just woke up. As for naked the day is still young.”
Sabastian, who could hear all from the room bit his lip to stop from chuckling. Go Zai He gave a little fist pump in the air.
“I…y…giii.”
Zai rolled his eyes. “Lee Fang what do you want?”
Fang was silent. “Come back with me to the ship this instant.”
Sabastian was ready to rush out when Zai’s voice carried calm and cool.
“No, I will not. I am where I want to be. I know you do not like him but if all goes well and we like one another he will be my boyfriend and as my friend I expect you to get on well with him.”
“Get on with him? Get, on, with, him? You’re starting to sound like him. I swear I could hear that condescending accent of his….”
“Lee FANG! Enough.”
Fang stopped and stared. This wasn’t his Zai. “Zai…”
“Alright you wish me to lay it on the table. Here it is. I have been in love with you, or rather I thought I was in love with you for a long time. Every time we got close, every time I was ready to tell you how I felt you pulled away. You would begin a relationship with someone on the ship and distance yourself from me. I would be…shattered. Then you would come back and our closeness would be stronger. Skinship, you know I love skinship as an empath so you would cuddle with me, hold me, talk to me, stay by my side for days and I would forget how hurt I was and convince myself that things were the same.
“Meanwhile I thought that was it, that this was what it was like but then I spent one day with Sabastian and I saw what real love is like. I felt what it was like to be really loved an to really love. I was confused as to my feelings. But last night when Sab and I danced and when he kissed me…I knew, I knew that what I had felt with him was more precious then all the money in the universe.”
“How can you say that! Wait what you kissed him?”
“Yes. I did spend the night.” He didn’t say that they slept in separate rooms.
Back in the bedroom Sabastian listened eyes wide. Zai had found his voice.
“Now, Lee Fang I can honestly say that when you held me I lived for those moments but I would always feel drained and tired. In Sabastian’s arms I feel safe, at peace, calm. I am going to give it a try. What that means for our friendship we will have to discuss. My feelings, or what I think are my feelings will have to be discussed too with Counselor Alexander of course. But I will not miss the chance to be with Sabastian. I need to sort out my feelings for him and sort through how I feel for you but Sabastian loves me enough to give me time and not to push me beyond what I am ready to give.”
“Well you can start sorting and we can start talking tonight.”
“No. I’m staying here.”
“Curfew.”
“Commander Kerrigan personally approved an extra day leave for me.”
“Soo…. Soo you plan to stay here?”
“Yes,” Zai said.
“With him?”
“Yes.”
“With clothing on I presume.”
“That is none of your business. He is half Betazoid and I understand nakedness is a tradition of theirs I may honour it. Good day Lee Fang.” The door hissed closed.
Zai turned to find Sabastian standing right behind him. “God Zai…I…you are amazing.”
He smiled. “The naked part was more to piss him off.”
Sabastian laughed. “Oh I know, Darling. He’s…rather pissed. I can sense it.”
“Yeah me too. Too bad for him. Now let’s have our coffee and we should talk too. I said a lot of things to him that I’m guessing you heard and we have to talk about a lot of it.”
“No, we really don’t. I focused on the boyfriend part and that was all I needed. We are now boyfriends in my mind.”
Zai laughed. “How do you always do that, you lift all my clouds.” He cupped Sabastian’s face. “You make me want to smile, to laugh, to wake up.”
Sabastian covered Zai’s hands. “Coffee Darling?”
“Coffee first then we take over the world.”
Sabastian smiled. “Have you been watching that old Earth cartoon again?”
“Indeed I have.”
Sabastian laughed. “Alright. Coffee.” They headed back to the sofa.
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