Chapter 28 - Teaser! (Patreon)

Sisko's Office. Deep Space Nine.

The commander of the station took a firm grip on his iconic baseball, rotating it in his hands, as he spied the tall and well built General Gothic climbing up the steps to his office, while keeping his seat and waiting for the man to enter. He had to fight to keep his expression from changing as he fought down that instinctive fear that he often felt when seeing the man for the first time after a long absence. He was secure enough in himself to admit that it was fear, the same kind of fear, he reasoned, that his species had probably instinctively had for any kind of physically superior predator species that had evolved on Earth. This wasn’t a lion or a tiger or a bear, though, this was another sentient human which made him all the more dangerous.

Jennifer, much to his chagrin and acute annoyance, had had a very different reaction to the Augment and it certainly wasn’t one of fear. She had not even met the man formally yet, only having seen him from far across the room when they’d eaten in Quark’s together. He had been unintentionally watching her when she spotted the man and the General had waved and smiled a polite smile at the two of them. It wasn’t even a smile meant to entice, but he had been married to his wife for far too long to not recognize the signs of her arousal and interest.

She probably hadn’t even consciously realized just how many consecutive seconds she’d intently stared at the General, her nostrils flaring, the far more coy than polite smile she sent the General’s way, the way she’d unconsciously pressed her medium-sized breasts forward to draw attention to her assets, the way she’d looked embarrassed and demure while playing with her hair…or how her thighs had rubbed together under the table.