The BLTS Archive - Interlude by ILuvKate --- Kathryn Janeway strolled up the path to the little knoll, hands clasped behind her back, breathing deeply of the spicy scent wafting from the unusually colored flora lining the shell-strewn path. Her pace was leisurely and unhurried, for she was on shore leave, her first in more than two months, and she was more than ready for some R & R. This small planet, eerily like Earth sent a wave of homesickness through her. The ocean was a tranquil blue-green, reminding her of the Pacific back home. She reached the knoll and went over to lean pensively against a tree that reminded her of a Terran palm tree, and stared out over the calm waters of the sea before her, thinking of home. She didn't let herself go like this too often, for returning to the reality of the Delta Quadrant was hard afterward. But the Earth-like surroundings tugged at her heart and she let her mind dwell on home. She heard the scrape of a step behind her and turned her head to see B'Elanna Torres coming toward her. Her face lit up in a welcoming smile. She hadn't expected B'Elanna to beam down because of the work needing to be done in Engineering. As B'Elanna came up beside her, she slid an arm around her waist and gave her a hug. "I didn't expect to see you planetside, darling," she said happily. "What's going on?" She frowned. "Nothing's wrong is it?" "No, no," B'Elanna hastened to assure her, laughing. "And Tuvok could take care of it anyway. Relax." "So?" Kathryn asked. "You told me you had too much work to do for shore leave." "So," B'Elanna said mischievously, "I wanted to surprise you." She pecked Kathryn on the cheek. "One of the nice things about being Chief Engineer is that you can delegate tasks." "Very true," Kathryn grinned. "I knew there was some reason I made you Chief." B'Elanna stepped around in front of Kathryn, circling her with her arms, and drew her close. "For which I am eternally grateful," she said. "You gave my professional life purpose and meaning once more." She leaned into Kathryn, whose arms had come around her, and pressed her lips to the softly thudding pulse at the side of Kathryn's throat. "And then you gave my life meaning and purpose by falling in love with me." Kathryn's hands roamed her lover's strong muscular back, loving the sense of grace and power under the rippling muscles. "As you did mine, my dearest love," Kathryn said. "I can't imagine my life without you." B'Elanna raised her face for Kathryn's kiss and Kathryn kissed her deeply and tenderly. "If I have anything to say about it," B'Elanna said, when she could speak again, "you won't have to." Kathryn hugged her tightly, her heart overflowing with love and affection. "Have you decided what to do about Wilwhite?" Kathryn asked, referring to a crewman who had been grossly insubordinate to B'Elanna the day before, and whom she and Chakotay had decided B'Elanna could discipline as she saw fit since she was the Chief of the Department. "Aren't you proud of me for having the restraint not to punch him clear into the Mess Hall?" B'Elanna asked, toying with the zipper to Kathryn's uniform jacket. "Very," Kathryn replied, "but not surprised that you didn't. You've learned quite well to rein in your temper." "I don't know about reining it in," B'Elanna said drily, "but it did occur to me that cleaning his clock would not be setting a good example as a senior officer." She pulled the uniform zipper down about an inch and stopped. Kathryn tipped her face up and kissed her again. "You see?" she asked. B'Elanna unzipped the jacket all the way and slid a hand inside it to cup one of Kathryn's breasts through the gray turtleneck, smiling to hear Kathryn's breathing quicken. She thumbed a nipple, feeling it stiffen. "I think I might just set him to doing duty in Waste Reclamation for a month or two," B'Elanna said idly, squeezing Kathryn's breast and then letting it go, squeezing and letting it go. "That," Kathryn's voice was breathy. "That might be the best thing to do." She captured B'Elanna's mouth with hers again and they kissed with rising passion and delicious pleasure. "Let's sit down," she suggested, when they drew apart. They sat down, still wrapped in each other's arms and kissed again. B'Elanna pushed Kathryn's jacket off and slid her hands under the turtleneck to caress Kathryn's bare skin. Then she finished undressing Kathryn until she lay naked. Kathryn pulled at B'Elanna's clothing and B'Elanna undressed with her help. B'Elanna kissed Kathryn's mouth, eyes, face, ears. She kissed just under her ears and down the side of her throat, once again resting her lips against the pulse that pounded now, and then moving down to the hollow at the base of her throat. She brushed her lips across sensitive skin, inflaming Kathryn's desire, moving up to kiss her deeply, savoring the taste and feel of her tongue against her own. Then she moved to Kathryn's breasts, rolling the nipple of one between her fingers while taking the other in her mouth and sucking it, swirling her tongue around the stiff point of flesh, hearing Kathryn gasp and catch her breath. She alternated from breast to breast, never leaving off her caresses. Kathryn's hands moved over her back and up to tangle her fingers in her dark hair. B'Elanna continued to mouth Kathryn's breasts while her hand moved down to stroke the inside of Kathryn's thigh. She ran the flat of her hand from the knee to top of the thigh and Kathryn whimpered. She moved up to kiss Kathryn again, parting the lips of her mouth with her tongue, and the lips of her sex with her fingers, sliding into the hot slick shaft. She stroked, feeling Kathryn's hips rise in counterpoint to her stroking finger. She pushed deeper into Kathryn's wetness and found the enlarged clitoris and put her thumb inside to begin massaging the hard nub of flesh. " 'Lanna! God!" Kathryn gasped. "Don't stop!" "Not a chance, love," B'Elanna purred, and bent to kiss her again. Kathryn thrust her tongue against B'Elanna's and B'Elanna thrust back. Their tongues battled and quested with gentle violence, B'Elanna's fingers moving faster inside Kathryn. B'Elanna raised her head to watch the pleasure wash across Kathryn's features as she approached climax, rewarded shortly with the violent rush of blood to Kathryn's face as she went over the edge, moaning B'Elanna's name over and over. As the last surge of pleasure rippled down her body, she sagged limply, spent. She opened her eyes to see B'Elanna, head propped on one elbow, watching her, her other hand still now, resting on her stomach. Kathryn sat up and put B'Elanna on her back, kissing her until they were both gasping, her hands finding B'Elanna's breasts and kneading them vigorously. Then she moved her mouth, hungry and seeking to B'Elanna's breasts, taking as much of one into her mouth as she could get and then drawing back until she had only the nipple between her lips. She nipped it gently with her teeth and sucked it, then moving to the other breast did the same. B'Elanna's breath was rasping sharply as she panted with desire, her hands roving over Kathryn's skin. Kathryn moved between B'Elanna's thighs, spreading them so that her sex was wide open. She kissed up and down the inside of one thigh and then the other, making B'Elanna growl helplessly. Then Kathryn stretched up to kiss her again, and B'Elanna's thighs clamped around her hips. Kathryn kissed her way from B'Elanna's mouth, down her throat, chest, torso, and stomach, and then sat once again between B'Elanna's spread thighs and slid just her thumb inside B'Elanna's throbbing heat. "Kathryn, you're killing me!" B'Elanna gasped, raising her hips to get closer to that torturing thumb. Kathryn found the hard, erect clit and attacked it with her thumb, while with the finger of her other hand, she drove deeply into B'Elanna. B'Elanna's body shuddered under the impact, her hips rocking wildly. Kathryn, as B'Elanna had earlier, watched her lover's face, seeing the blood rush to her face, her head thrown back, as the violent orgasm blasted through her, leaving her still and panting as the last spasm rippled away. They lay, wrapped in each other's arms, on a bed of their discarded clothing, and watched the emerald-azure water of the sea lap against the sand of the shore below the knoll. "I'm so glad you came down," Kathryn murmured against B'Elanna's tousled hair. "I wasn't looking "I intended to come down all along," B'Elanna said. "I just wanted to surprise you." Kathryn gave a sigh of contentment. "You're a devious woman, B'Elanna Torres," she said lazily. "Devious." B'Elanna reached up to kiss her. "You know you love it," she said."You know you do." --- Copyright 1997 ILuvKate --- The End