From jacquez45@yahoo.com Sat Jul 25 02:00:05 1998 Path: news5.ispnews.com!news11.ispnews.com!news1.ispnews.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.217.77.43!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!nntp.earthlink.net!alexas From: laura jacquez valentine Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Subject: NEW: Tainted Love 1/1 (TNG, P/Q, PG) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:00:05 -0700 Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Lines: 142 Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pool020-max6.ds8-ca-us.dialup.earthlink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Xref: news5.ispnews.com alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:9583 Subject: NEW: Tainted Love 1/1 (TNG, P/Q, PG) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:14:39 -0700 (PDT) From: laura jacquez valentine To: ascem@earthlink.net CC: jacquez+@andrew.cmu.edu Author: Laura Jacquez Valentine Title: Tainted Love Series: TNG Codes: P/Q Rating: PG Summary: Q has been playing games with Picard's heart, and the captain is tired of it. Disclaimer: Star Trek and associated characters belong to Paramount/Viacom. Tainted Love was written by Edward Cobb and performed by Soft Cell. AFAIK, the lyrics to Young Offender (if you recognize them) belong to the Pet Shop Boys. I make no profit from this story. --- Tainted Love by Laura Jacquez Valentine //Sometimes I feel I've got to run away, I've got to get away >From the pain you drive into the heart of me. The love we share seems to go nowhere, And I've lost my life, For I toss and turn; I can't sleep at night.// Jean-Luc stared at the ceiling. The bedsheets were twisted around his legs, and he could feel his heart pounding. Q had been here earlier, curled behind him, whispering in his ear. But as always, when Jean-Luc tried to turn around, to reach out for more than whisperings, Q had withdrawn, shocked and offended. "Sex, Johnny? With a *human*?" As always. And yet Q kept coming back, kept wrapping his long body around Jean-Luc's smaller one and tracing the human's body with his hands. At first, Jean-Luc had been grateful. It had been too long since he had someone to sleep with at night; too long since he had been caressed so lovingly; too long since he had enjoyed the simple pleasure of another's warmth and touch and breath. But now, he wanted more. Wanted to give and take so much more. And Q, for all his snuggling, was unwilling to go further. //Once I ran to you, now I run from you. This tainted love you've given, I gave you all a boy could give you. Take my tears and that's not really all Tainted love, ohh, tainted love// Jean-Luc groaned and pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes. This was too much. He had to put an end to this. For a moment, he let himself imagine what Q's bare skin would feel like under his hands and against his body. "I love you, Johnny," Q had whispered earlier. Earlier. Before Jean-Luc pressed the issue, as he had to. As he had every night for the past six. And still Q came to him at night, willing and unwilling, loving and hating. //Now I know I've got to run away, I've got to get away. You don't really want any more from me. To make things right you need someone to hold you tight, And you think love is to pray, But I'm sorry I don't pray that way.// Perhaps I never respected him the way he wants me to, thought Jean-Luc. Perhaps if he felt I truly respected his power. He doesn't want to be a substitute or a toy. But that wasn't right, either. Q was many things, but not a liar. If Q had been upset at being treated like a toy, he would have said so. "Q?" And there was a flash of light, and Q was there, in bed with him. //Don't touch me please, I cannot stand the way you tease. I love you though you hurt me so. Now I'm gonna pack my things and go.// "This cannot continue, Q." "What cannot continue, mon capitaine?" "You cannot stay in my bed at night, unless you are willing to carry through with--" "Oh, please, Johnny. I'm willing, of course. Just not with *you*. You're *human*, after all." Q stood up and began to pace. "Really, Captain, did you think that I, Q, would *lower* myself to your animal level?" How graceful your movement, Jean-Luc thought. And how bitter your scorn. And I wonder how you would feel against me, naked. "Yes, Q, I did. But it's over now. I don't want to see you again until you're willing to carry through on your promises--implied or otherwise!" //Ohh, tainted love// Q stared at him, his lips set in a grim line. "Very well, mon capitaine. But I warn you: you will find the galaxy dull without *me*" A flash of light, and he was gone. //Tainted love// Jean-Luc slumped back on the bed. He could almost feel Q's body curled around his, as it had been earlier. My God, he thought, what if he never comes back? --- The End _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________________________________ Posting to ASCEM is easy--just send your messages to ascem@earthlink.net To subscribe or unsubscribe to the mirror list--and for all other list-related inquiries, write to asceml@aol.com