Zoltán
by
vanhunks
Codes: VOY [J/C]
Rating: [NC-17]
Disclaimer: Paramount owns Janeway and Chakotay. The OC is mine.
vanhunks
January 2008
SUMMARY (1)
TUVOK: Curious. I have never understood the human
compulsion to emotionally bond with inanimate objects. This vessel has done
nothing. It is an assemblage of bulkheads, conduits, tritanium, nothing more.
JANEWAY: Oh, you're wrong. It's much more than that. This ship has been our
home. It's kept us together. It's been part of our family. As illogical as this
might sound, I feel as close to Voyager as I do to any other member of my
crew. [From Year of Hell Part II]
SUMMARY (2)
A ship. A man. New Year Resolutions. Kathryn needs help. At least, that’s what Chakotay thinks.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES
1. Delta Story’s SS request for the 2007 VAMB Secret Santa went to a certain writer. She thought I might have written that story, but lo! I was innocent. However, the lady issued a challenge to me to write one using the same request and I accepted. Thank you, Delta!
2. Delta's SS Request: "As for my request, I'd prefer a story but if you're in a bind, anything will do. If it ends up a story, I'd like a J/C story (any rating) in which VOY is back in the Alpha Quadrant and it's New Year's. Janeway has made three New Year's resolutions -- what are they and how is she going to fare in accomplishing them? (No babyfic, please! But a triangle or even a threesome might prove to liven up things a bit! "
3. Title: The story evolved through three titles. At first I called it "chili verde", a reference by Delta S in the SS thread on VAMB's Mess Hall. Then I thought of Ms Streisand and decided on "Guilty Pleasures" before I finally decided on "Zoltán". You'll soon see who "Zoltán" is. I was trying out names online and was looking for a strong masculine name and thought "Zoltán" favoured by Hungarians fitted the bill.
Timeline: Set not long after “Workforce”
PREAMBLE
It was the second six-week shift cycle on Voyager. At 0200 Janeway exited the turbolift on Deck Six. Just as she had hoped, the corridor was isolated. She had gone undetected from her quarters on deck 2 to the turbolifts. The stillness was more a comforting cloak than something unsettling, such as anticipating the sudden appearance of crew. Two nights ago she had nodded sternly to Noah Lessing who had frowned at seeing her, but scurried off after greeting her. No doubt the Equinox Five at least, would know that she haunted Deck Six in the dead of night.
She was still in uniform, her boots marking the only sound as she approached the Holographic Research Laboratory. On an impulse she looked around, just to make sure there were no footsteps heading in her direction, or insomniac crewmembers like Lessing wandering the decks. She tried to temper her own growing anticipation by taking deep breaths, the tingling sensation lessening only marginally.
Standing rigidly at the door, she gave a sigh before keying in her codes. The doors slid open and she entered, ensuring a privacy lock on the doors before she made her way to the computer console near the middle of the holographic lab.
"Computer, access Janeway Beta 4-7-7".
"Accessing library computer data," responded the male voice of the computer.
"Computer, establish voice command for Janeway Beta 4-7-7."
A few beeps, and then a male voice:
"Acknowledged. How may I help you tonight, Kathryn?"
Kathryn smiled. Voyager's female voice had irritated her in the last year and for herself only, she had changed it to sound masculine - a strong, gravelly voice that could sound charming and coaxing at the same time. She loved his voice. She loved him. He sounded like a blend of Benjamin Sisko and old Earth twentieth century actor Ronald Colman. She named him Zoltán. A strong, two syllabled name. She liked the idea of a name sounding as masculine and hard like Zoltán, and then having him be tender… Kathryn sighed with pleasure just thinking about Zoltán's caressing tones, her fingers lightly touching the LCARS panel.
"You know what I'd like tonight, Zoltán?"
"I should keep my Kathryn company? Offer to read her a book?"
"Well, perhaps not."
Kathryn chuckled, feeling the heat of the room against her skin. Soon she'd have to remove her uniform jacket.
"Just by way of kidding you, Janeway. You visit me three out of seven nights. Do you want me to assume the same guise as before?" Zoltán's voice sounded more gravelly, his tone provocative.
"You know I don't like - "
"Human holograms. I know your needs, Kathryn, my love. I understand them. We're connected, you and I…from the beginning," Zoltán replied as she began removing her jacket, breathing a sigh of relief the moment she threw it on the floor.
Kathryn stared at the panels. She had only two replicas based on designs of the main computer core and the warp core. She liked them both. They each had a uniqueness as indispensable and critical Voyager systems, but tonight she wanted the main computer core positioned in the middle of the lab.
"I detect an increased heart rate, Kathryn. Your pulse and heartbeats are racing. And, my love, I also detect increased pheromone levels." Zoltán's voice became huskier. "You are ready. What do you want me to be?"
"Main computer core."
A second later a replica of the main computer core appeared in the middle of the lab. An opening, wide enough to walk through, broke the circular form. In the middle was the high backed padded silver armless chair she had programmed. Zoltán was right. She was ready for him. Her palms were sweaty, a thin film of perspiration already coated her face and arms and her own core was beginning to throb. She could feel how damp she was there. Zoltán smelled her.
Kathryn stepped round the computer console and stared at Zoltán, preparing to sit down on the chair Her lips were dry; she licked them, gratified when they became moist. She sat down on the chair. Slowly, the backrest reclined until she lay almost fully stretched out. She reached for a visor-like contraption she had secured on a bracket against one wall of the computer core with its blue illumination. The illumination pulsed from blue to white to soft yellow before returning to the blue. She felt the heat of the pulsing light against her bare arms and moaned with delight. The core whirred softly in compliance.
"Who am I, Kathryn?"
" Zoltán."
"And Zoltán is Voyager…"
"Zoltán is Voyager," she repeated after the Sisko-Colman voice.
"I am your lover. You love no other. You can love no other but Zoltán."
"Yes…"
"Come, Kathryn. Let me help you tonight…"
"Yes, Zoltán," she whispered as she put on the visor.
"All over, Kathryn? Like last night?"
"Everything, Zoltán. Make my body lust for you like never before…"
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END PREAMBLE