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Janeway/Seven Advent Calendar Story 2007
Janeway’s Odyssey
By Gun Brooke
11
Seven unlocked the room they had rented at the inn. It contained mainly a large bed, which made her blush, and she wasn’t entirely sure why. Stopping by the foot of the bed, Seven clasped her hands behind her back and waited for Janeway to speak. “You look exactly the same.” Janeway’s voice was low and husky. “Or perhaps not.” She stepped closer. “Your eyes are more brilliant blue than I remember.” Seven could not stop looking at Janeway. Her auburn hair had grown, nearly down to her waist. Janeway kept it in a long braid and Seven tried to imagine it loose around her shoulders. She realized she was it imagining around Janeway’s naked shoulders and felt her cheek warm. Seven had always remembered Janeway’s eyes as warm and blue-gray whenever she looked at Seven. Unless she was furious, of course; that’s when they turned slate gray. Right now, they were the darkest blue Seven had ever seen them, and she had no idea how to interpret that. “I’ve thought about you a lot,” Janeway said in a low voice. “Every night, or whenever I’ve gone to bed, the last thing I saw before I closed my eyes, were you. How you fought me that first year, and how you surpassed my expectations of you, on after another.” She shrugged, looking sad. “And if you only knew how many times I regretted not being honest with you…” “Honest? Elaborate,” Seven said, swallowing hard._______________________________________________________________
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