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thassalia and my demonic pal, Kernie ~
Their first meeting ends poorly and she does not forget. She does not forget when she greets his shuttle on the deck of her carrier, nor when she extends a gracious invitation to continue his research aboard her ship.
It's a game for two: Scorpius is just as gracious when he accepts her offer and as carefully punctillious about protocol and rendering all appropriate courtesies and for a weeken that stretches into a monen, then near to two, they continue together under a veneer of perfect comity while waiting for further directions from the High Command.
She is perfectly aware that he's trying to establish a power base on her carrier, establish a back channel to High Command in order to have her carrier group seconded to his wormhole project. There's just enough slack in the rope she gives him to hang himself and she makes sure that she has recordings of all his seditious, mutinous communications. Scorpius is highly intelligent, perhaps even the genius he considers himself to be, but he believes that he is indispensible and that is his great weakness. Compared to that, his compulsive sexual attraction to Peacekeeper females is nothing more than a convenient handle, one that allows her to get close enough to snare him. Even so, he's fastidious in his habits and it takes weekens to induce the intimacy that allows the gentle brush of fingertips across his lips.
His system is already so compromised that a single touch is enough to control him. Intercourse is, in fact, entirely unnecessary but she takes him anyway because she can. Afterwards, she savours the information that spills from him about his every last dark, sordid secret, every bribe he has made and favour he has given, enough information to see him executed on a dozen different charges, with far greater pleasure than their coupling. It's a small matter, so much so that she is genuinely surprised when the medtech announces the presence of Scarran DNA in the embryo and needs a moment to recall who the father could possibly be...
thassalia and my demonic pal, Kernie ~Their first meeting ends poorly and she does not forget. She does not forget when she greets his shuttle on the deck of her carrier, nor when she extends a gracious invitation to continue his research aboard her ship.
It's a game for two: Scorpius is just as gracious when he accepts her offer and as carefully punctillious about protocol and rendering all appropriate courtesies and for a weeken that stretches into a monen, then near to two, they continue together under a veneer of perfect comity while waiting for further directions from the High Command.
She is perfectly aware that he's trying to establish a power base on her carrier, establish a back channel to High Command in order to have her carrier group seconded to his wormhole project. There's just enough slack in the rope she gives him to hang himself and she makes sure that she has recordings of all his seditious, mutinous communications. Scorpius is highly intelligent, perhaps even the genius he considers himself to be, but he believes that he is indispensible and that is his great weakness. Compared to that, his compulsive sexual attraction to Peacekeeper females is nothing more than a convenient handle, one that allows her to get close enough to snare him. Even so, he's fastidious in his habits and it takes weekens to induce the intimacy that allows the gentle brush of fingertips across his lips.
His system is already so compromised that a single touch is enough to control him. Intercourse is, in fact, entirely unnecessary but she takes him anyway because she can. Afterwards, she savours the information that spills from him about his every last dark, sordid secret, every bribe he has made and favour he has given, enough information to see him executed on a dozen different charges, with far greater pleasure than their coupling. It's a small matter, so much so that she is genuinely surprised when the medtech announces the presence of Scarran DNA in the embryo and needs a moment to recall who the father could possibly be...
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