The cage was quiet...

the loud thundering noise was the sound of her blood surging until it became a roar in her ears. She couldn't move and vaugly wondered if she'd been paralised by a drug or my the piercing gaze from obsiden black eyes...or both. Whatever it was held her immoble like a deer caught in the deadly gaze of a speeding vehicale; knowing death was emminate yet being held firmly in place by some creul invisible hand and made to watch as the gaze approached mercilessly.

It was pathetic how how easily science could be erradicated from the the mind in place of a submissive instinct, and that was exactly what was happening to Kathryn Janeway as she stared into the eyes of a man she'd first encountered as a enemy and then as a friend; and then as something much more, but she refused to aknowlegde.If she were honest with herself, the 'something' had long ago traveled beyound lover in all but physical consumation. Something he obviously intended to correct; right now!

"Chakotay," she stared to say as he stalked twords her and over her ankles, only to have him leap the rest of the way over her before his name fully left her lips. "No," he said firmly in the dam soft voice of his, "No more stalling Kathryn. Years, I've waited years and each time we almost achive what we both want, you talk me into backing off; each time I try to express myself you beat me to it with excuses! Do you think the need just goes away?! It doesn't! It just gets worse and worse till I think I'm being eaten from the inside out!" This last part infasized his elongated fangs, "No more talking, no we start doing." he growled as he breathed heavily threw his noise at the words. She tried to talk to him anyway, it had always been her best defense against feelings she couldn't allow herself to feel. "We both know we couldn't become lovers-" his harsh laugh cut her off, echoeing in the cave at a near defeaning pitch. "'Become lovers'," he laughed again, then his face turned into a stone mask with glowing eyes that promised a violitile reaction at her words "We've been lovers since the day we meet." his voice was still soft, which made it all the more dangerous. She tried again, "I don't-" her voice caought on a gasp; as one of his clawed but still beautiful hands clasped her throught in a soft embrace that he held to firmly, and allowed his nails to rasp lightly against the delecate skin. Kathryn knew it was a warning, just as they both knew he crush her windpipe in a blink of an eye...but she didn't think he would. Her breath quickened as his noise touched hers, "Don't. You. Dare." he whispered against her lips, letting his claws scrape more firmly on her throught; "Don't you dare pretend to feel nothing!" his voice was still a whisper, "I've stood by your side and agaanised not being able to touch you!" as those words, his grip tightened by a noticible fraction and he used his grip on her neck to push her firmly back onto her back and to hold her there as he moved to straddle her thighs. She watched still motionless as he ran his other hand down the front of her dress, shredding it in the middle and creating a gap from the collar to the waist. "You have no idea how much I've wanted to to do this, and for how long." he said calmly; then he pushed the cloth aside and latched onto her breast, and she was lost.

“It would seem we have made an excellent choice concerning specimens” “More than excellent,’ideal’! We’ve accomplished our goal-“ “They haven’t mated and reproduced-“ “They haven’t mated and reproduced ‘Yet’ Look at them, listen to them…this seems to have been a long time coming. He’ll have her, they’ll have offspring, and ‘we’ will have success!”