The BLTS Archive - Ship Tales: Dreams by Acidqueen --- Author's Note: For Stephen in Cait's "Ship Tales" challenge. Thanks to Drusilla for the beta - all remaining errors are mine! Disclaimer: Others own Star Trek. My only profit is fun time. Archive: My own website , ASCEM, all others ask, please. --- He has made love to Christine a thousand times, but he would never tell anyone. Not only because it was improper that a Vulcan had erotic dreams, a clear sign of how his controls have been corroded by living among humans. What was more irritating were the contents of the dreams, how every single sexual scene in them ended with her in tears. Was it his memory of her standing at his door and crying for him, and all they could be together? Or was it the outcome he expected, once she would know the true amount of his needs when in the throes of pon farr? Analysis should have brought him closer to understanding the dreams, but it never did. And then there was Leila, another woman shedding tears for him and herself, and all he did again was standing there, at a loss for words, the tangible pain of another washing off his mental shields like rain. He could see fingertips touching the teardrops, but it was not really him doing it. As if watching himself from outside, he followed the movements but felt nothing. Maybe the tears in his dreams were only ever his own. --- The End