Don't Leave While I Sleep
Posted on Sun Jul 6th, 2025 @ 2:00pm by Ensign Millicent Ambrose & Sergeant Tyrigus Fry
Edited on on Sun Jul 6th, 2025 @ 4:43pm
1,504 words; about a 8 minute read
Mission:
Episode 16 - Silent Cries
Location: The Quarters of Sergeant Tyrigus Fry - Deck 4 - USS Pioneer
Timeline: MD010 0400 hrs
Bits and pieces of forgotten dreams tumbled through Millie's slumber, some bad some good. Those were blasted away by something else, was it a dream? Was it reality? It was something warm, comforting, exciting, passionate.
Her hand reached out towards a spot next to her, as if searching for something for... someone, searching for--Tyr. Her eyes flashed open Millie's mind snapping awake, where was Tyr? Millie sat up, the cover falling from around her shoulders down to her waist. Her hair all awry, she brushed the strands of magenta locks away from her face. She looked around getting her vision to focus. "Tyr?" oh gosh did he already leave for the drop?
Tyr stepped out of the fresher, towel over his head and paused. He'd seen her stir, turn then sit up and now he viewed her with unabashed...not awe.
No. It was admiration.
She really was a knockout.
"I could get used to a view like that," he told her, his voice half muffled from beneath his towel.
Hearing his voice, relief and delight chased across Millie's face, and reflected in her eyes.
"Oh good, you're still here!" Millie untangling herself from the covers and scrambling out of bed. Moving towards Tyr. When she reached him in those few steps, Millie gave Tyr a heartfelt embrace, and kiss in greeting.
"And I could get used to seeing you as well." Millie whispered in answer, feeling her cheeks warm up. He certainly was someone she wouldn't mind waking up to.
"Hey ya beautiful," he said letting his towel fall around his shoulders as he returned her embrace and put the animal part of his mind to reciting buzzball stats from the past years series. "Thank you for probably the best rest I've had in a month. Even if it was only an hour. How you doin?"
"I'm doing great." Millie giving a grin, before giving Tyr a kiss. She held on tightly for a few long moments before she reluctantly pulled away.
"Its about that time, before you head down to the planet, and I'm not going to say, promise me that you'll come back, as that's not fair for me to do so. I would love for you to come back, I want to continue to explore what's developing between us. Whatever it turns out to be. I want to get to know you more." a small smile appearing once more.
Tyr's heart skipped a little as she spoke and he caught up one of her hands and kissed her fingers before turning to pull out his body glove and began slipping into it, still half thinking about buzzball. "I want to know more about you too, Millie," he said as he squirmed into the pants.
Pants, he figured, was a good start.
"Um," he said as he sat to pull on the booties. "I do plan on coming back. Spending time with you is special. But, just in case..." He gestured to a actual paper envelope, addressed to her and tucked into Betty's strings. "Just a few notes in there. Wrote it up yesterday. If anything happens. Well... open it for me?"
Millie felt like melting when Tyr kissed her fingers, but he was getting ready and she needed to get dressed herself.
"Just in case, yes I'll take care of things." her voice cracked slightly. "S-sorry. Its hitting me slightly." slipping on her underwear after gathering them from where she had just tossed it on the way to the shower earlier.
Millie turned once she had her underwear on, and set to slide on her uniform.
Tyr stood to pull on the the top and caught site of Millie dressing. That paused him again. It was NEARLY as intoxicating as watching her undress. Then he shook his head again and pulled the suit around until all of the seams matched up. Touching the control band at the throat, he felt the material all constrict and he spent a few seconds shifting things around further. The display on his sleeve lit up, flickering to green almost instantly.
Turning he found her eyes on him. He moved to wrap his arms around her and said, "It's all going to be good. You alright?"
"I will be, just that this is my first time being with a marine, who is getting ready to go out and help someone who is needing it. Going into danger. I know its part of what all of you do, and I am not regretting it either, getting to know you. I feel that it takes someone special to be a marine. That is how I feel about it and that is how I feel about you." Millie enjoying the warmth and feel of Tyr's arms around her, the solidness of his body. He just made her feel wonderful.
Millie gave Tyr a tender kiss. "I can't keep distracting you, as much as I'd like to." giving a teasing smile as she looked deeply into Tyr's eyes. "And I don't want Captain Merrick to sic his Merry Maids on me for making you late." giving a wicked grin, Millie gave a playful swat on Tyr's behind.
Smiling, his forehead against hers, Tyr said. "Ahh the Merry Maids. I think the Colonel is funny, but that all might bite him at some point." Chuckling, he ran the back of his thumb over her derriere, tracing the curve and said, "There's new bobble heads in the gift shop too. All of the department heads this time, not just the command staff. " Peering into her eyes, he said, "You know, this all seems like a dream. A woman like you actually being interested in me. It's one I really don't want to wake up from."
"The Colonel is the perpetrator of Merrick's Merry Maids?" The thought astounded her. She did like Tremble, he was kind to her when she was having a slight panic attack.
Millie's cheeks turned pink, at Tyr's compliment, stars in her eyes. "I-I-" she struggled to put her feelings in words but her mouth and brain weren't working in synch. She drew in a breath, "Words are failing me, just know this, I liked you from the first moment we met. Just something about you, sang to me. And I am amazed that you like me, you--rock my world in so many ways"
She felt time was drawing short, Tyr had to leave, Millie couldn't make him linger any longer. "I have a request when we do sleep together. Don't leave while I sleep? And I won't leave when you are asleep either."
Smiling broadly, Tyr leaned in and kissed Millie, letting his hand trail up her back to her neck. After letting it linger for a many fast heartbeats, he reluctantly pulled away and slowly began to fade toward the hatch. "Well," he said, getting his breath. "I do like the sound of that, Millie. Not sleeping when we're in bed."
Then he sobered, "I get it. And I get you. I like you too. So," As the hatch cycled he said, "I'll see you when I see you?"
"I'll see you when I see you." Millie echoed Tyr's words blowing a kiss towards him before the hatch closed. She stood there awkwardly looking around his room, then decided to make his bed.
Tyr's heart rate started to normalize and he let his brain start focusing on the upcoming mission. But he couldn't resist one last bit of theatrics. Stepping into the lift and turning to face the door, he said. "Computer, access my quarters and play disco effects three, along with Remix song one from Dirty Disco Radio."
Inside his quarters, a holo disco ball formed near the ceiling and music began thrumming with the song She's a Lady as holo confetti sifted through the air.
Millie had just finished making Tyr's bed and reached for the letter, when the music started to play. She squealed with surprise the letter flying up in the air when the music blared out. Then Millie laughed, as she went to pick up the letter. Can't be sad with the music that Tyr sent out.
Getting a bit of an impish grin, Millie pulled out her PADD and decided to record herself dancing around Tyr's room and picking up his towel, using it as a veil, then a scarf. Swinging it around over her head, laughing. She shimmied it up and down in front of her, just having a good old time and playing with the confetti. Once the song was finished she pressed send to Tyr, and left his quarters, humming the tune, as she danced a little bit down the corridor, grinning ear to ear.
A Joint Post By
Ensign Millicent Ambrose
Engineering Officer, USS Pioneer
Sergeant Tyrigus Fry
Rifleman, Team 1, The Cure
USS Pioneer
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