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Mulder whispers sweet Betazoid nothings in Scully's ear.
RATING: PG-13
CLASSIFICATION: V, MSR
SPOILERS: nope
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; they belong to CC, FOX, etc. Star Trek
belongs to Gene Roddenberry and his disciples.
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Scully stirred awake as she felt something brush against her
neck. More precisely, it was her partner, and now lover,
nuzzling her from his position spooned up behind her. She
realized that she had been dozing since he last left her sated,
but apparently he was still awake.
She reached down to stroke the arm that was wound around her
waist and linked their fingers together as her hand met his. He
snuggled closer to her and hummed in pleasure into the back of
her neck, and she answered with a contented sigh.
"Scully?"
"Hmmm?" She was alert enough to respond to him but quickly
drowsing again.
"Do you ever watch Star Trek?"
This non sequitur brought her back to consciousness. "What?"
"You know, Star Trek. But not the original one. The first
spin-off. With Data and Picard and Worf."
She wasn't sure where he was going with this, but she was
willing to follow him along until he reached his point. "Yeah,
I've watched it a few times."
He hesitated for a moment and she waited patiently for him to
continue, now fully alert. "Have you ever heard the word
'Imzadi'?"
"It's Betazoid, isn't it? Something that Riker and Troi call
each other."
She felt him lift up his head, and she turned to meet his gaze
as he raised up to look at her. His expression was a mixture of
amusement and surprise. "I thought you said you'd only watched
it a few times."
She turned her head away but couldn't hide the smile tugging at
the corners of her mouth. "Well, I guess I just saw the right
episodes."
Mulder smiled brightly before sinking his own head back onto the
pillow that they shared. He suspected that he had a closet
Trekkie here, but he'd return to that point later. "So, do you
know what it means?"
"Mmm, I think it's some term of endearment. I don't remember if
I ever heard them explain it."
"It means 'beloved', but it also means much more than that.
When it's used between lovers, it can mean 'the first', but not
necessarily in the way we would mean it. It refers not just to
physical love, but something much deeper. It's the first person
to really touch your soul."
Scully now saw where he was going with this and involuntarily
held her breath as she waited for him to complete his thought.
His voice dropped to a whisper, spoken directly into her ear as
though sharing an intimate secret. "That's what you are to me.
You're my Imzadi, Scully. You're my first. No one's ever
touched me on the level that you have. No one's ever touched my
soul before. Being with you is like...making love for the very
first time. It's knowing a pleasure that I've never known
before. You're my Imzadi. My beloved. My first. And I hope
you'll be my last."
As he finished speaking, Scully let out a shaky breath. Her
silence caused him to worry, and he began to wonder if he had
said too much. But when she turned in his arms to face him and
he saw the unshed tears glistening her eyes, he realized that
her quietness was due to her struggle with the emotions clogging
her throat.
Looking into his eyes, and once again seeing through to his
soul, she was no longer able to stymie the tears pooling in her
eyes. Eventually she squeaked out the words, "Oh, Mulder...,"
but got no further. She buried her head in his chest and held
on to him tightly as the love flowing between them was almost
palpable. He stroked her hair and her back as she regained her
composure, knowing how important it was to her at all times to
maintain that feeling of control.
After a long moment of quiet between them, he heard her small
sniffle and felt her damp cheek brush against his as she moved
her lips toward his ear. Just as intimately as he had whispered
to her, she spoke in return only one word: "Imzadi." And then
she moved those lips to his mouth and let her actions speak
louder than her words.
When she pulled back from the extended kiss to look Mulder in
the eyes, she found them clouded with emotions and arousal. A
smile of mirth and contentment slowly broke out over his face.
"How come you never told me you were a Trekkie, Scully? Just
can't admit you believe in aliens?"
As much as she needed the tight rein over her emotions, she knew
that Mulder needed humor to diffuse intense moments. These were
defense mechanisms that they both used and accepted about each
other. She'd play along.
"The term is 'Trekker', Mulder, and just because I watch a
fictional show that includes aliens does not mean I believe they
really exist."
He only beamed more broadly at her in response. Leaning toward
her, he rolled her onto her back and pinned her to the mattress
with his greater bulk. He ducked his head to her neck and began
nuzzling again, working his way to her ear. Through the haze of
pleasure that was beginning to build, she heard him whisper,
"It's okay, Scully, your secret's safe with me."
Her snicker soon evolved into a moan as he set about once again
prospecting for the depths of her soul. In the way that he
loved her, this man had become to her what no one before had
ever been.
Her partner. Her beloved.
Her Imzadi.
THE END
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Author's notes: Who knew that Star Trek could be so romantic?
Riker and Troi are one of my favorite couples next to Mulder and
Scully, and I always felt that the term "Imzadi" applied quite
nicely to our dynamic duo, so I had to write this little piece
of fluff about it.
While the term is used frequently in ST:TNG, I don't believe
that the full explanation is ever given there. That I found in
the novel written by Peter David, entitled _Imzadi_, which
explains the back story between Riker and Troi. In chapter 26
they, shall we say, become Imzadi (i.e. do the wild thing--in
the wild, no less), and Deanna explains to Will the meaning of
this word that he heard her project into his mind while they
were making love.
I have to admit that although the last Star Trek movie
("Nemesis") left some things to be desired, I was very happy
that Riker and Troi were finally allowed to get married, and I
think that CC could learn a few things about giving the heroes a
happy ending...(after 3 or 4 movies, of course).