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Deanna felt the expectations of her crewmates around the corner
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of her mind, like a pleading, anxious moan. The Enterprise was in
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danger, and it was Deanna they had turned to--it was Deanna whom they
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expected to save them.
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They were depending on her because the problem was emotion. For
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the past several days, powerful emotional outbursts had possessed random
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members of the crew--up to a dozen, by now--in which buried, repressed
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desire bubbled up the surface and overflowed like a cup of boiling
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water. One crewmember began passionately kissing a woman he had secretly
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loved for years. Another woman assaulted an ex-lover and left him
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severely wounded. It wasn't coincidence; something out there was causing
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it. And because of Deanna's empathic powers, they were all depending on
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her to find out exactly what.
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Was it coincidence, also, that Deanna's personal life was acting
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up at the same time as these strange incidents? At this exact moment,
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her lover, Worf, was glaring at her with intense, dark eyes, his features
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furrowed into a frown even more intense than his normal scowl. He was
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demanding things of her, accusing her...she tried to put the unresolvable
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dilemma of the Enterprise out of her mind, so she could focus, just for
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now, on the quarrel that had strangely errupted between them.
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"You are quite used to having things your way," Worf growled at
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her. "When you were Riker's lover, you were always in control. But if
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we are going to make this work, things need to change."
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Deanna was really quite struck at the palpable aggression her
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emphathic powers sensed from him; waves of anger beat against her like
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drops of rain. She brushed back a strand of long hair, and her dark,
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glittering eyes--as gleaming and mysterious as a pair of black
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stars--studied Worf intently. Was Worf acting like himself? Or was this
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all part of the puzzle, the one that somehow, she had been given the
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responsibility to solve?
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"I don't understand what you mean, Worf," she said gently,
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reaching her hand to brush across the slope of his forehead, the texture
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of his dark skin. "If there's something you want from me, something that
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I'm not giving, you have only to ask."
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At this concession, Worf suddenly seized up and let forth a deep
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snarl. Deanna moved back startled--she suddenly realized he seemed to be
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fighting with himself.
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He snapped at her, his voice low and fiery. "Klingons do not
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mate the same as humans. We are violent...brutual. We enjoy giving and
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receiving pain as part of the mating ritual."
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Deanna averted her eyes, feeling a slow sense of shame begin to
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creep over her and envelop her. She knew this...but she had never
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broached the subject.
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Worf continued, "I have been restraining myself in my relations
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with you. I knew you would not be able to fulfill the role of a Klingon
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woman, and I have not asked that of you."
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She raised her eyes to him. "Then what are you asking me now?"
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He gave out a gutteral sound that seemed to rattle in his
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throat. "I am asking...for fairness. I want to mate as Klingon, not a
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Betazoid. I want...."
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Deanna perceived his mood change, a move from gray, metallic
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anger to a bright, multi-colored prism that she understood as sexual
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arousal. In his mind, images and pictures were flashing before him, and
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they were being translated into need. Almost without thinking, she
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grabbed his hand.
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"What do you want, Worf? I am your friend, and your lover. I
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will give you want you want. But you have to tell me."
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He flung her hand away from him. "The last thing I want is your
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Betazoid empathy. I want something real, direct, not your practiced
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bedside manner."
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This was a slap in the face. Her gorgeous dark eyes grew wide
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and uncomprehending: something was definitely wrong here. She opened her
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mouth to speak.
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But then a sharp cry pierced the air, followed by a number of
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slapping sounds. It was the sound of flesh being struck, and it was
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quickly followed by a woman's muffled sobbing.
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Whatever was possessing Worf, he seemed to shake its influence.
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He barked a gruff "Come on" to Deanna, before he was down the corridor in
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search of the origin of the sounds. His speed belied his bulk; he was
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not only strong, but could move amazingly fast. Deanna had to hurry to
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keep up with him.
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They rounded a corridor, and stopped short at an astounding
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sight. A young male ensign, with sandy-brown hair and dark blue eyes,
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was sitting on the floor with his back to the wall. Across his lap was
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another ensign--a lovely young woman with tumbling red hair--her
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starfleet uniform in tatters on the floor, her young backside upturned
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into the air. It was rosy red; the sound had been that of a spanking.
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The woman was crying softly.
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So was the young man. His face wore an anguished expression, and
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he turned to Worf and Deanna pleadingly. "I...I'm sorry," he managed.
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"I don't--I don't know what came over me. Arissa and I were going off
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duty, and we were going to have a drink at 10-Forward, when I had this
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desire to...to..." He suddenly realized that Arissa was still placed
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across his lap, for he suddenly looked at her and tried to help her to
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her feet.
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Deanna turned to look at Worf. "It's that thing again. And it's
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getting worse."
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Worf nodded, his eyes dark, intense pinpoints of black light. He
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tapped his combadge and snapped, "I need a security team to the fourth
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level, section 7-G." Addressing the ensigns, he said, "You will be
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escorted to sickbay. You will both be given a full psychiatric and
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physical examination by Dr. Crusher."
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The young man nodded, still shaking. "Y-yes sir." The young
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woman, clutching the remains of her outfit around her, also managed to nod.
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Deanna and Worf remained until the security team arrived, then
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they slowly made their way back to Worf's quarters. Deanna's mind was a
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furious blur of activity. There was something about this particular
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incident that seemed to make the pieces fit together...she had picked up
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on the young man's sexual arousal; clearly, he had, on some level,
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enjoyed administering the spanking. The young woman had also enjoyed it;
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she, too, had radiated sexual arousal so powerful that Deanna had to
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block it in order to maintain her concentration. But she sensed that
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the woman's arousal was largely negated by surprise and shock at the
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unexpected punishment.
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Could the entity be experimenting with various forms of
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deep-seated emotion, and its effect on those who possessed it? Or was
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there more to this than simply an experiment?
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Her reverie was interupted by Worf. She hadn't even realized
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that they were back inside his quarters. Worf turned to her and grabbed
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her shoulder.
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"What we witnessed was a human form of giving pain," he snarled
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at her. "And you are too frail to even withstand that. You are no mate
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for a Klingon."
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"Worf!" she returned. "This is no time for discussing our
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personal problems. We have to--"
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"Falling back on duty again," Worf interupted. "That is very
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important to you, Deanna. Perhaps more so than even me."
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"Worf, you are being absurd."
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"And you are being willful and stubborn."
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It only vaguely occurred to Deanna that she was quite possibly in
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trouble. She had no doubt now that Worf was partially under the control
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of the entity--he was saying and doing things that he may only have
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thought on a subconscious level--and there was no reason to believe he
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would not act on his feelings, just as the other victims had.
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At that moment, something seemed to alter inside her. Like a
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kaleidoscope, her desires shifted from one color to another. Instead of
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the smoothly professional, calm starfleet counselor, Deanna was now
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something else. She sensed Worf's intentions, and was possessed by a
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desire to goad him, to encourage him.
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"Yes, I am willful and stubborn," she told him playfully. "And
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you, like all Klingons, are nothing but talk."
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"What?" he demanded, his face turning from rage to surprise.
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"You heard me. You Klingons growl a good fight, but you're more
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like a bunch of nattering old Ferengi. No wonder you were forced to sign
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a peace treaty with the Federation--you found you couldn't just talk your
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enemies to death."
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Deanna thought: THIS ISN'T ME TALKING. IT'S THE ENTITY--I'M
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UNDER IT'S CONTROL. But that realization was no consolation. She began
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to say something else, but then she looked at Worf, and sucked in her breath.
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He was furious. Rage seemed to radiate around his brown head
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like fumes. With a single fluid motion, his hand shot forward and
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grasped her arm. At almost the same instant, his other hand reached
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behind her to undo the catch of her uniform, a light-blue turquoise
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jumpsuit that he proceeded to peel away from her skin. She soon dangled
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naked in his grasp: her dark-tipped nipples, which had grown
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unaccountably stiff, and that dark patch of hair between her legs.
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She stared at him, unabashed in her nudity; after all, they had
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been naked together many times. She tried to remain calm, but she felt
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that presence in her head, drawing on a part of her personality she had
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never dared to express. "I take back everything I said," Deanna
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returned. "You know how to take off my clothes; that definitely proves
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your worth as a warrior."
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With a cry of frustration and rage, Worf lifted her in the
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air--and then he sat down on the plush couch and flopped her over his
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lap. For a moment, Deanna was too shocked to speak--he couldn't possibly
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be thinking of imitating that barbaric human ritual they had witnessed
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earlier in the corridor. The sudden flush of humiliation resulting from
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the position--that of dangling over her lover's lap, totally naked,
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bottom thrust in the air--allowed her to momentarily regain control of
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her own tongue. She shrieked, "Worf, put me down this instant! This is
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no time for foolishness!"
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"That would not be a good idea," Worf snapped. "You are too
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frail to withstand a Klingon punishment, so let us see how you handle a
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human one." With that, he brought his heavy hand down hard upon her
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backside.
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CRACK! Worf was, of course, quite strong, and it didn't feel
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like he had checked the momentum of his blow at all. Deanna felt a
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moment of shock, as the intense pain spread through her bottom, and then
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she gave a short cry.
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"I thought as much," Worf scolded. "Very frail." He spanked her
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again, the blow landing only slightly to the right of the first. Deanna
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kicked and bucked, instinctively trying to squirm out of his grasp, but
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she realized that he was holding her fast; she was absolutely unable to
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escape.
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A third painful spank landed hard on the very curve of her
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buttocks. "OWW!!" she cried, unable to keep quiet. "Worf, I'm sorry!
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I...I don't know what..."
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"Silence!" he ordered, and began a series of sharp, blistering
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spanks, that rained down on her left and her right buttocks alike.
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SMACK! SMACK! SMAACK!! "Ohhhh! Worf, please, can't we--OWW!!! Talk
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about this--OH!! Stop this at once!!!"
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It was unbearable; her bottom couldn't take one more spank, and
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yet they continued harder and faster with each new impact. She squirmed
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to the side, trying to avoid the blows, but this only provoked Worf to
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spank her more vigorously, so that her bottom stung with a fierce,
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lancing pain.
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She also began to be aware of her sex. It had grown quite wet,
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almost hungry--and although the primary thought in her mind was how much
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she hurt, how much she wanted the awful, painful spanking to be over, she
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was also aware of how much she wanted Worf inside her--maybe more than
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she ever had.
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After he had spanked her several dozen times, her threshold was
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nearly crossed, and she began to cry. This was, perhaps, the final
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humiliation---the professional counselor of emotions unable to control
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even her own. At this, Worf stopped the spanking, his hand raised high
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in the air.
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"You seem to have learned your lesson," he observed.
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"I...I have, Worf. Please let me go...please!"
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"I will," he said softly. "AFTER another six blows." With that,
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he delievered six final blistering spanks, each one bringing a fresh
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burst of tears out of Deanna's eyes, and a new plea for leniency.
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Finally, at the end, she lay sobbing over his lap, unable even to get to
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her feet. Her bottom was a deep, dark red and scored by dozens of tiny
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welts; Worf's hard, heavy hand had had abraded her skin to some degree.
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Finally, Worf helped her to her feet. She finished crying--as
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much from the humilation as the pain--and she her hand held behind her,
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as though the gentle pressure of her own fingers could cool the burning
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pain in her backside. Then they stared at each other.
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She suddenly noticed how hard Worf was; his erection bulged out
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his uniform. She took a cautious step towards him, but suddenly they
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were entangled together; his hands pinching her breasts, his hard cock
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almost puncturing his unform as it pushed against her leg, their mouths
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fusing together hotly.
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But before Worf could remove his uniform, they heard a familiar
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electronic chirping. It was Deanna's combadge, still on her uniform,
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which lay in a clump on the floor. Captain Picard's familiar voice,
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tinged with an edge of urgency, followed: "Counselor, we need you on the
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bridge immediately."
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Deanna and Worf allowed themselves a moment to share a look--a
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promise, of sorts--before she darted to retrieve her uniform. "On my
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way, Captain," she said huskily.
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Getting on her uniform was bad enough, but walking to the bridge
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was definitely difficult, considering the spanking she had gotten. Each
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step produced a new twinge of pain; did Worf have to be so thorough? Not
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to mention that she had to fight down her own sexual arousal, which
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seemed to flare through her--and at a moment when she needed to be
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professional and detached.
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Entering the bridge was worse. First she wiped the final tears
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out of her eyes and sniffled, hoping she didn't look as if she had been
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crying. Then she left the turbolift. All eyes greeted her arrival; it
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was as though they could all read her expression. *Your counselor Troi
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was just taken over her lover's knee and spanked, and they would have had
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sex if duty hadn't called.*
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But Picard merely looked at her curiously and said, "It seems a
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friend has dropped in to pay you a visit."
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Troi didn't understand what he meant, until she looked at the
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viewscreen--and realized that the Enterprise wasn't alone. A soft,
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pulsating mass of light floated in space with them. Troi also realized
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that there was a telepathic presence filling the bridge, that was
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communicating to every person there. It was saying her name.
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She opened her thoughts. <I'm here. I'm Troi.>
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The entity opened a channel to receive her thouhts and return its
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own responses. No one else could hear them; they communicated privately.
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<I have needed a new way to love. My mate has not responded to
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traditional means. I probed your crewmates, encouraging them to act upon
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their desires, in order to learn from them, so I may reproduce. E was
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interested in...> It fumbled to express the concept. <...being happy yet
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not happy at the same time. I did not think it would work...until you
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and your mate have shown me that it *can* be done, in a way which
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is...satisfying.>
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Troi grew beet-red, to her own total and abject humilation.
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<I have what I needed. Thank you.>
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The entity abruptly dissipated and vanished from view. Picard
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swiveled around in his chair to stare at Deanna. Riker spoke up,
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sounding annoyed: "Do you mind telling us what *that* was all about?"
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All she wanted was to return to Worf, to satiate the desire
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threatening to soak through the thick fabric of her uniform. But she
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forced herself to look calm and composed; she answered Riker measuredly:
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"You can read my report, Commander. As for now, I'm afraid I
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have...business to attend to."
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If it were possible to make a smooth, dignified exit into the
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turbolift with a sore, stinging backside, Deanna managed to do it...and
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although she and Worf were back in their right minds, she suspected that
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the scene they had been compelled to enact might have many repeat
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performances in the future....
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