February 5, 2361

Mara showed up two days ago and after I got out of class, she made me pack some clothes and stuff, then took me away for the weekend. She brought me to an orion space station, and after we checked into the hotel we would be staying at she took me to a tattoo parlor.

She suggested we get matching tattoos as a bonding experience and I looked up at the wall full of designs before nodding my head. We scrolled through what must have been the whole selection of “stock” designs. We couldn't find anything we liked, so we started to play with the scratch pad they left out for customers. We eventually agreed on something simple. It's sort of like a sun design. Circular uncolored in the center except for a dot in the middle, the rays are sort of flame like, and there's a colored in circle in the very middle.

We took the design into the tattoo artist and after he cleaned up our rough sketch, we had him do it in black on the upper part of our right arms. After Mara paid for it, we wandered around looking for somewhere to eat.

I had worn a tank top, so I was showing off my new tattoo already. Mara was wearing a long sleeved cat suit, so no one could see hers. I kept getting calls from older men like “What's an angel like you doing with a tattoo?” and “Hey baby, nice tattoo, wanna fuck?” The first couple times I would look around for who said it, but Mara told me that looking only encourages them and I should just ignore it.

We finally sat down to eat in a little Ferengi run place, luckily their prices didn't gouge. We sat at the bar to eat, and while we did flirt a little with some of the men around us, none of them had been worth a second shot.

We looked around for a while and ignored many people commenting on my tattoo. We scoped out a couple of human males with tight asses, tan skin and blond hair. One had it somewhat short, but long enough it partially hide his grey eyes. The other had it shoulder length and pulled into a sloppy pony tail. We commented back and forth about their athletic builds in Klingon for a while as we followed them at a discrete distance.

When we'd decided to try to talk to them, they met up with a couple of human woman, one red headed, the other black haired, both with pale complexions. They weren't wearing star fleet uniforms, but they had the communicator pins on their clothing. We gave up on those two at that point.

We soon saw a Klingon and a red headed human, long hair queued, walking together and joking in a mix of Klingon and English. Mara and I exchanged looks with a smile and caught up with them. We came up on the side of the human and said hello in Klingon. They looked us over and returned the greeting with a smile. The human had only a hint of an accent.

With a grin the human spoke to his friend in English, offering to take me if he wanted Mara. Mara shook her head with a grin, grabbed his ass then walked past him to the Klingon with a comment in English about how she didn't believe he could handle her anyways and that he better not hurt me.

The Klingon chuckled as the human turned red, and admonished his friend while slipping an arm around my cousin's waist. I gave the human another look from head to toe, and met eyes with him as he finished doing the same to me. I smiled as I tried to decide if it was fear or excitement that played in his eyes.

Mara introduced us, and they introduced themselves. The Klingon was named Korth, the human Tobias. They admitted they were on the way to one of the better bars on the station, and asked if we wanted some bloodwine. I kept quiet, having not tried any before, but Mara was enthusiastic for it.

I was hesitant at first, not sure what I thought of it, but the more I drank the more I liked it. Everyone else finished their first round before I was halfway done with mine, so they ordered more for themselves. We spent a few hours in the bar talking. Korth and Toby (he asked me to call him that) work for a freighter company. Toby as navigator/emergency engineer, Korth as security. The company specializes in rare and expensive cargo. They were on a break between runs.

I mentioned I'd be interested in a job like that when I graduated from my flight school, and asked if their company would be hiring in a little over a year. Korth and Toby laughed and Mara and I exchanged a look across the table. Toby raised an eyebrow catching the look, and cleared his throat causing Korth to bite back his deep laugh. They grilled me to confirm I knew about the high fatality rate in companies like the one they worked for, and Toby expressed a desire for me to take any other safer job out there, listing off things that would in any other situation have been complements. He even actually had the gall to suggest I go join star fleet.

After firmly explaining why star fleet was evil and never getting my time, and emphasising that I was well aware of the risks involved and was still interested, Korth and Toby exchanged a conversation across the table as if Mara and I were not there, but eventually agreed that if I was any good, their boss would be rather dismayed to know they'd discouraged me and sent me to the competition. Toby handed over a data crystal with information he said would help me out.

It took a little time before the feathers ruffled from that conversation settled, but when it did, Korth and Mara were laughing and leaning together intimately and Toby and I were left to our own devices. He put a hand on my knee, and as I tried to make small talk, I started to suspect he'd had a little too much bloodwine. I'd heard humans couldn't hold their alcohol very well.

Soon Mara and Korth decided it was time to leave the bar. As we left, Mara fell back and got me alone. Korth had an arm around Toby's shoulder as they walked ahead of us and talked. Mara asked me if I was okay with where this was going, and once I had confirmed it was indeed sex, I said I was. She gave me a squeeze around the shoulder then moved ahead to slip between Korth and Toby. She punched Toby in the shoulder and he laughed before stepping back to join me.

I smiled shyly at him, and he grinned back at me reassuringly as Korth and Mara ducked into a room. He seemed to have sobered up a little, and led me to the next room down the hall. Settling on the couch under the window, he pulled me into his lap. All night he'd been on my left side so he hadn't seen my tattoo yet, but he noticed it when I sat down. He touched it gently and it stung a little still so I hissed softly. He asked me if it was new and I nodded.

He asked me if I was going for the tough girl look. I grinned and laughed as I told him that came with the forehead. He nodded smiling and wrapped his arms around my waist to pull me closer.

He explained to me his goal for the night was to see that we both had the best night we'd ever had, and he asked me to tell him what I was enjoying and what I wasn't as we went. I told him that I'd never talked during sex before, that my ex and I had just been quiet. He asked if we had talked afterwards, and I shook my head. He frowned and said he'd see if he could make up for Jarzen's short comings.

We started slow, just kissing at first, but we worked our way up. At first I was nervous whenever I'd say something, but as he would always change his approach based upon what I said, I started to get more comfortable with it. He also offered feedback and suggestions to me, and as I tried my best to follow, he made it clear that he was quite enjoying himself. When I bit at his lips, he encouraged me to try biting other areas, and even bit me back so I found out I enjoyed being bit as much as I enjoying biting.

Toby was probably four inches taller than me, not as tall as my brothers but certainly close. I found I liked this much better as my body fit against his more comfortably and I liked having someone bigger, and at least as strong as I was, holding me.

We slept wrapped together that night, and it seems Mara stayed with Korth the whole night also. In the morning, we all got breakfast together. I noticed that Korth and Mara both had bite marks on their face. I think Toby noticed too, but neither of us said anything about it.

Korth and Toby were due to leave soon after that, so Mara and I walked them to the port their ship was docked at. I can only assume that Mara and Korth exchanged contact information, but Toby gave me his and told me to give him a call whenever I wanted. Their pilot, a bajorian female, was waiting already. Toby and I parted with a short kiss. Mara and Korth took long enough that Toby felt the need to threaten to kidnap Mara and bring her along if they didn't wrap it up.

After they left, Mara and I window shopped a while, then treated ourselves to a massage. The rest of the weekend was pretty dull, but relaxing. Mara and I bought ourselves random indulgent things, and I was pretty much over Jarzen by the time Mara dropped me back off by the station tonight.