Melanie Strand (c) 2004
It was quiet in the wash room. The steamy air billowed around me softly like a warm summer�s day at my aunt�s place outside Caprica City. All that gone now, in a nuclear holocaust. No one had the chance to say goodbye to loved ones, or former loved ones. That was all in the past now though, I spent a week shedding so many tears. Tears for family, friends and even those I�d never met. No one was left unaffected, we were a race of orphans held together by bonds of friendship and a hope that we might one day reach a lost sister world called earth. I felt weepy again but I tried to hold them back, no use crying for something I couldn�t change.
My mind snapped back to the present when she walked into the room. She was like a goddess, so radiant and pretty. My heart skipped a beat, several in fact. �Hello, s�sir.� I muttered, as she was my superior officer. I was a lowly ensign but she was a lieutenant. I felt myself lost in her soft hazel eyes. They invited me in to their depths. She broke my loving, longing gaze.
�Erm, Ensign Strand isn�t it? Melanie?�
I was elated, she knew my name, she knew who I was, that I existed. �Y�yes.� I replied quickly. �My friends call me Sapphos. That�s my call sign, or at least it could be. I�m hoping to be a viper pilot one day. I�ve put my name down for training. It seems the only interesting thing to do around here. I used to have my own shuttle, until it was impounded for military use. I helped out with my parents shipping company see. I was returning from my first interplanetary run when it happened. Everything I ever had was gone in one second.�
�Uh, huh.�
I hoped she didn�t think I was incapable. I would be crushed if she didn�t think I was up to the task, devastated beyond belief. Her opinion meant everything to me, she was one of the instructors and I was just an ensign pressed into service with dreams of being near to her.
�Call me Starbuck.�
�Yes s�sir. I mean S�Starbuck.� I felt queasy now. She was talking to me like a real person. I couldn�t stand around chatting all day like I was a love struck school grrrl, even though the single ray of brightness was standing next to me, taking her clothes off. I ran the cooling water over my arms again, pretending to scrub them.
�I really need a shower. Damn water preservation orders. I only have one cubit left.�
This was my big chance. �Uh, I�ve got a spare cubit.� I quickly fished it out of my wash bag. �You can pay me back anytime.�
�Seems a shame to waste some perfectly good water on just one person.� She took my hand. �Get the soap, you can do my back.�
She smiled at me and it was like my whole body was tingling. I quickly removed my clothes until I was as nude as she was. She took hold of my hand and led me into the cubicle. �It�s been a while since I was with another womyn.� I admitted my lack of experience, it had been a year since my break up with Hannah and I was now nervous and excited and scared and so content. The hot water rained down on us and she put her hands on my cheeks and gently kissed me. It was like a spark of electricity surged through me and I put my hands around her waist and I returned the kiss, sinking deeply and passionately into it and it was like everything else went away, there was just here and now and the kiss seemed to last forever. Finally we separated and she turned her back to me.
�You do my back first, and then I�ll do yours.�
I couldn�t help but wonder what this meant. Did she like me? I was crazy about her. Did she want to see me again? I wanted to spend eternity in her arms. Did she enjoy the kiss as much as I did? My head raced with speculation and wonder as we bathed together. I hoped it was a beginning. I wanted to take her back to my room and do all sorts of things with her. I wanted to talk with her, get to know her, learn what made her laugh, what made her cry, what her favourite colour was and what part of her body was the most ticklish. I had never felt this way about any womyn before. I think I was falling in love with her. All I could think about was how pretty she was and how much it made me feel like throwing up when I imagined making love with her. I was so happy I could throw up, that was one of the classic signs wasn�t it?
�Hey, stop day dreamin' and turn around Sapphos.�
I turned around and she began to slowly soap my back down. �Mmmm, that feels great.� I couldn�t help but groan with both physical release as she worked on the stiffened muscles in my back and also sexual release as the softness of her touch on my bare back taught the ticklish areas above my kidneys. �That tickles.� I giggled, hoping that she didn�t think I was getting seriously turned on by her gentle caress.
�Good.� She began to tickle me outright.
I couldn�t help but giggle more until I turned around to try and stop her and she kissed me again. This time it was intense, this was a serious kiss and she mean it. So did I. I rubbed her ass and waist with my hands, I felt alive with lustful thoughts and bliss. Her hands worked my ass over too, finding all the right places. �Oh god.� I gasped as she worked her fingers slowly into me.
�Mmmm, yeah.� She gasped as I inserted a finger inside of her, gently probing around the soft and yielding cleft of her body.
Then the water stopped but I didn�t notice at first. �Oh, oh, yes, yes.� I was caught in the throes of passion when the shower door opened.
�I�m sorry.� Captain Lee Adama said and closed the door again.
I felt so ashamed all of a sudden. Our lovemaking had been interrupted all of a sudden and by my new lover�s best friend too. �I, uh, I should go. Somewhere. My room. I�ll go to my room. I think.�
Starbuck kissed me. �It�s ok Ensign. We should have been more discreet.�
�Uh, Captain Adama is your best friend.� Now I felt like I had caused some sort of upset between these two long time friends.
�Apollo is a sweetheart. He�s seen me in worse situations.�
�I�m still here.� Captain Adama said.
�Oh god, he saw me naked.�
Starbuck wandered out of the shower cubicle and returned with two large towels. �Put this on.�
�Thanks.� I quickly wrapped one around myself, tying it in a knot above my boobs so that it covered my�dignity. Then I got out of the cubicle.
�Ensign Strand.� Captain Adama nodded at me.
I said nothing as I hurridly picked up my scattered clothing.
�You always liked them young.� Captain Adama said to Starbuck, as if I wasn�t there.
�She�s feisty.� Starbuck replied. �She�s going to be a viper pilot, if she passes basic training.�
�I�m going now, sirs.� I got out of there as quickly as possible. I felt elated and devastated at being with the womyn of my dreams and being caught making love to her by a superior officer. Relationships of any kind weren�t looked down upon, indeed they were encouraged to boost morale. However, as a female I was expected to help rebuild the species. However as I had orientation objection status some of the other womyn looked down upon me. Six of my neighbours were already pregnant and they always stopped talking when I entered a room or walked by. Now news of my relationship disaster would spread around the ship and I�d be the focus of gossip for the next eternity at least. I got back to my room and began to dry myself down. Then the door chime sounded. �Who is it?�
�It�s me.� Starbuck�s voice replied.
�Uh, come in.� I said and the door opened.
Starbuck walked in wearing just her towel and smoking one of her cigars. �Apollo won�t mention anything.� She put the cigar down on my small table, next to the pictures of my dearly departed cats. Then she removed her towel. �Now let�s finish what we started, that�s an order Ensign.�
�Yes sir.� I grinned and fell into her arms. My friends might think they were lucky to be knocked up but I was the luckiest womyn on this ship, well second luckiest as Starbuck was about to find out as I kissed her.