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Janeway/Seven Advent Calendar Story 2007
Janeway’s Odyssey
By Gun Brooke
15
The request was so unexpected; Seven was sure she had misunderstood. “Captain?” “Hold me?” Janeway asked, looking as if she was about to come undone. Seven didn’t answer; instead she tapped into the memory of how she sometimes held Naomi Wildman when the young girl was upset. She took a step closer to Janeway and slowly wrapped her arms around her. To her amazement, Janeway slid her arms up around her neck and clung to her.’ “Oh, Seven,” Janeway breathed against Seven’s neck, the hot gushes of air feeling most pleasurable. “Don’t let go. I feel as if I can be yanked away from this, to find myself alone and…” “You are here. This is reality.” Seven felt Janeway stagger in her arms and pulled her toward the foot of the bed to sit down. Once seated, she found that Janeway was half on her lap. “Are you comfortable?” Seven asked. “Yes.” Janeway moved away enough slide off Seven’s lap, and to her surprise, Seven wanted to pull Janeway closer again. Unsure how such an action would be interpreted, Seven merely held on to Janeway to keep her from retreating further. “I find I am reluctant to let go also,” Seven confessed. “It is a curious feeling, which I have no reference to.” “I know what you mean.” Janeway tipped her head back and gazed at Seven with narrowing eyes. “Holding on to you…it’s the most wonderful thing that’s happened to me in years. Four years, to be exact.” “Four years, 122 days, 10 hours, 44 minutes, and 32.89 seconds. To be exact.” Seven smiled in relief when Janeway burst out laughing._______________________________________________________________
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