Title:
Matchmaker, Matchmaker P2
Author: Cheryl Forbes
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Pairing: Chakotay/Tom Paris
Rating: NC 17
Series: 2 of ?
Email for feedback: forbesc@skyia.com Disclaimer: Voyager and her
crew are the property of Paramount and
not me. Whatever.
Summary: Tom gets caught.
"He was hot."
"He was sweaty."
"He means well."
"He has a mean right hook."
"Oh come on Har, there must be something
you like about the guy?"
Harry thought a moment. "He
does have a nice smile."
"Killer dimples, yeah I noticed."
"You did?" It wasn't the admission
that surprised him but the way
Tom said it. His eyelids were
at half-mast and his voice was soft.
"Shit Harry I've known the man for
eight years, how could I miss
them." The pilot replied defensively.
"Well I guess so." Tom had
known Chakotay for longer than he had, so
he supposed it made sense that he
would notice the sexy way the
commander smiled. However
Harry had known the first officer for
almost as long and he hadn't notice
before yesterday. Funny.
"So are you going out again?"
"Not that I call that blood bath
a date Paris, but yes we are,
tonight."
"So soon?"
Oh shit, now what? One moment
Tom was literally pushing the
commander on him and the next he
was shocked that Harry was actually
doing what he asked.
"What the hell's a matter with you?
I thought you wanted me to go
out with him."
"I do, I do. It's just that
I assumed you would take the
relationship a little slower seeing
as you've never been touched by a
man before."
Well that wasn't quite true.
Yesterday afternoon Gerron Tem had
touched him. It hadn't
been anything sexual, just a rub down, but
he had let the young Bajoran's fingers
go where no man's had gone
before. It had been nice.
"We're going to a recital not an
orgy Tom."
"Oh very funny. Here I am
looking out after your welfare and you're
making jokes." Tom sat back
in his messhall chair looking
spectacularly indignant.
Oh this was ridiculous. Harry
didn't need this headache. After all
the only reason he'd accepted Chakotay's
offer was because it would
make Tom happy.
"Look why I don't I just cancel."
"No!" His moody friend bolted
forward and grabbed his wrist.
"Shit Tom!" Harry yanked his
hand away.
"Sorry Har." He sat back again,
let out a breath and spoke with
quiet earnest. "I want you
to go out with him and I want you have a
good time. I want you to fall in
love."
"Great. Then why are you acting
so weird?"
"Am I?" Tom seemed totally
surprised at the revelation and stared at
him with big wide eyes.
"Yeah, you're about two steps away
from crazy." Harry laughed
lightly. "If I didn't know
better, I'd say you were jealous."
"Of Chakotay?" The stunned look
started to give way to an amused
one. "We're just friends Har,
I don't want to jump your bones."
"I wasn't talking about me."
And as Harry said the words, he
realized it was the first thing
that made sense in this whole messed
up conversation. Was Tom attracted
to the commander?
"I don't want Chakotay." The
pilot crossed his arms over his chest
and stared daggers at him.
"I don't want anybody right now."
"OK fine whatever. I'll go
to the concert with him."
"Fine." Tom rose to leave.
"Where are you going? You
haven't even finished your breakfast."
"I have to see a man about a Borg.
See ya Har."
The pilot didn't even wait for Harry
to reply back before he was gone
in a flash out the messhall doors.
Confused and concerned he sat
back in his chair almost wishing
that the gloomy Tom Paris would
return. At least he knew where
that man had been coming from, this
one he didn't have a clue.
Maybe Tem could help him figure
out his best friend when he saw him
later at lunch. The Bajoran
had a wisdom born of hardship that Harry
hoped would help him understand
the pilot's odd mood swings.
You wouldn't know from looking at
the placid young man but the ex-
Maquis had been through hell and
survived. Yesterday Tem had told
him about losing his family to the
Cardassians and how Chakotay had
saved him from suicide by bringing
him to Dorvan V.
Harry had been both fascinated and
appalled by Tem's life story. And
as the Bajoran's delicate hands
had performed magic on the aching
muscles of his back, he'd also been
intrigued. The Bajoran was the
same age as he was but had out lived
him tenfold. Tem could tell him
things that Harry's cloistered academic
upbringing had failed to
teach him and he looked forward
to the prospect of learning eagerly.
The physical part of the afternoon
had almost been as interesting.
Harry hadn't felt weird or uncomfortable
at Tem's touch. It had
seemed almost natural for the Bajoran's
small hands to skim down his
body. Harry had been disappointed
when the massage was over.
As weird as he'd been acting, Tom
had been right about one thing.
Being close to a man could make
him feel good.
********
"Did you enjoy the match?"
"Yes but that's not the point."
"Are you going to play her again?"
"Yes," Kathryn felt her cheekbones
flush in a way that had nothing to
do with anger. "But again
that's…-"
"So what's the harm?" Chakotay
interrupted her as he sat back
casually on the lounge in her ready
room and sipped his tea.
"The harm is that he logged in with
an access code that was not his
own. It was a serious breach
of both security and privacy."
"Granted, but his heart was in the
right place."
"His heart?" Kathryn settled
down beside him on the couch. "What
makes you so sure? Maybe he
wanted B'Elanna and I in the same room
so we'd tear each other's throats
out."
"For what? Revenge?"
"Well they did have a messy break
up and I have been concerned about
his attitude of late."
"They're friends now, uneasy ones
but friends. B'Elanna told me so
herself the other night."
"Then what was he trying to accomplish
by getting his captain and ex-
lover to play tennis together?"
"Don't quote me on this but I think
he was trying to do you both a
favour. As to the why, why
does Tom Paris do anything?"
"You've got me there but me and
B'Elanna together? It's unthinkable."
"Why? You're both strong willed
women who thrive on adversity. From
where I'm sitting, you both seem
to have a lot in common besides the
fact that you're probably the only
one on Voyager that can handle
B'Elanna's volatile Klingon side.
I'd say you make a good match."
As much as she hated anyone screwing
around with her sex life, the
commander 'and' Tom were probably
right. Lately Michael just wasn't
doing it for her. As sophisticated
of a program as he was, he had
his limits. The holographic
bartender had become predicable,
something she was sure the chief
engineer could never be.
"You forgot beautiful Chakotay."
She said by way of forgiveness of
his not so outrageous explanation.
"I didn't." He gave her a full show
of his famous, much talked about
dimples. "It was implied."
"So you think I should just ignore
Tom's tampering?"
"No but I would ask that you refrain
from calling in Tuvok and making
it an official incident."
"Chakotay it doesn't matter how
altruistic the lieutenant's
intentions were. I have to
do something."
"Let me talk to him and I'll make
him aware of the seriousness of his
infraction. Off the record
of course."
He was letting her off the hook
and she knew it. If it turned out
that there was spark between her
and the feisty engineer, a public
inquiry would put a damper on their
romance. Despite what Chakotay
said about her and Tom now being
civil, B'Elanna would probably balk
at entering a relationship that
her ex had orchestrated.
"Fine, I'll leave the lieutenant
in your capable hands."
A curious smile formed on her first
officer's lips. "Thank you
Kathryn."
"Your welcome. Now go, I have a
breakfast date." Chakotay's eyebrows
rose in amusement. "With Tuvok."
"Tuvok?"
"Yes. He said something about
wanting to send a message in the next
data stream."
"Interesting."
"I believe the word is 'fascinating'.
Now go and give my chief pilot
a proper dressing down."
"Aye, aye Captain." There
was that odd smile again. It was almost
irritating and she'd had enough
of that today and it was only 0900
hours. After Chakotay had
left, Kathryn lay back on the lounge and
covered her eyes with her forearm
hoping to catch a moment's peace
before Tuvok arrived.
Vulcans and Klingons and matchmaking
pilots, oh my.
********
"Holograms don't yawn or stretch
Mr Paris."
"So what? It's not like it's
a real yawn anyway Doc. It's a just an
excuse to put your arm around her.
You've heard of the Picard
Maneuver, well this is the Paris
Maneuver."
"Seven won't be fooled."
"No of course not, no woman ever
is, but that shouldn't stop you from
trying it."
"I don't know. All I told
her was that I wanted to show her the view
of Earth from Mars."
"Oh come on Doc, what'll hurt?
Besides in a 57 chevy you almost have
to make a pass at the girl.
It's sort of tradition."
"Tradition? You're certain?"
"Oh yeah."
"Very well but if it doesn't work...-"
"I know, I know, I'll be recalibrating
bio-beds for a month. Trust
me Doc it'll work." The infuriating
lieutenant winked at him once
and then left Sickbay.
The doctor supposed he should be
annoyed at Mr Paris' assumption that
he wanted to more than experience
the Sol system with Seven. He
wanted to be, the irritating pilot
was easier to deal with that way
but unfortunately he wasn't because
Tom Paris had assumed right. He
did want to do more than look at
stars with Seven.
With what was he thought were his
dying breaths, he had told the
exceedingly correct blonde a month
ago he was in love with her. She
had not responded in kind and in
fact after his remarkable recovery,
neither of them had mentioned the
incident again. Things would have
probably continued on that way if
Mr Paris had not goaded him this
morning into asking her for a date.
Remarkably he had given into the
pilot's pestering and just as
remarkably Seven had accepted after
he had gotten up the courage to
call astrometrics. Walking
over to his console, he logged his
schedule into the computer to save
time in case he was needed in a
medical emergency all the while
running the Paris Maneuver through
his algorithms.
It had better work because Seven
was extremely intelligent as well as
extremely efficient and if she wanted
to, she could decompile his
program in minutes. The only
upside to her possible rejection of his
advances was that he'd have the
best running Sickbay in the quadrant.
Not that he'd be around to care.
********
Any minute now.
Chakotay gave all pretense of working,
he hadn't gotten a lick done
all day brooding over the young
lieutenant, and sat back in his chair
to wait for Tom to arrive in his
office.
For what the mischievous beauty
had done, some kind of punishment was
called for. The problem was
what. Chakotay had tied his own hands
when he asked the captain to keep
the infraction of the record. It
meant that official reprimands like
docking rations, suspending
holodeck privileges or the extreme
penalty of brig time were out. So
that meant getting creative and
that was another problem.
While he didn't see life in black
and white, he didn't exactly see it
in rainbows either. His above
average intelligence had the ability
to break down complex problems into
simple solutions and not the
other way around. Chakotay
saw no reason for posturing or hesitancy
when striving towards a goal, either
professional or personal. He
saw what he wanted, collected the
tools required to accomplish the
task, and proceeded full steam ahead.
Conviction and clarity of
vision were his strengths not imagination
and creativity. He
supposed that was why he was considered
stoic and not colourful as
Tom Paris was.
Beauty and light followed in the
young man's wake but looks alone did
not define him. His humour
and intelligence combined wonderfully
into playful wittiness, or depending
on his mood, biting sarcasm.
Writing the intricacies of a holonovel
came second nature to Tom, as
did his ability to spellbind his
peers with off coloured, but
imaginative tales in Sandrine's.
Chakotay chuckled to himself thinking
that if the tables were turned,
the lieutenant would have no problem
conjuring up a punishment for
his senior officer. He was
smiling broadly and staring out the only
view port in his office when the
door chime rang, causing his heart
to lurch.
"Come." He called, losing
his grin and replacing it with a stern
frown. Even if he didn't feel
that way he did have to keep up
appearances.
The doors slid open and allowed
access to his current conundrum.
"Commander." The pilot said
stiffly at full attention.
"Please sit Lieutenant." Chakotay
smiled softening his countenance
and hoping to put the young man
at ease.
Tom watched him warily as he folded
his long lanky body into the
chair across from his desk.
The pilot sat silently with his hands
pressed together between his thighs,
waiting for him to speak first.
"I thought you might interested
to know that the captain won the
match against B'Elanna."
"Match?"
"Yes, the one you came back to the
boxing program to arrange
yesterday."
At the mention of the holodeck Tom
blushed hotly and began to fidget
in his chair. Chakotay
wasn't certain if it was because his
tampering had been discovered or
the young blond was thinking of
their time in the locker room.
The commander in him wanted it to be
the former but the man in him desperately
hoped it was the latter.
"The captain has agreed to keep
the incident off the books and has
left your punishment in my hands
but I confess that I am at a loss as
to what to do with you." Chakotay
rose from his chair and rounded
his desk to sit on its edge in front
of the nervous lieutenant.
While drinking in the young man's
clean scent a thought struck
him. "Any suggestion?"
Blue eyes looked up at him in shock
amazement. "You want me to tell
you?"
"Well since the crime is unofficial
and I can't use any of the more
conventional means of punishment
at my disposal, I thought your more
unconventional thinking might help
me out."
Fast blinking his eyes, Tom digested
what he was saying. After a
moment his previous air of uncertainty
bled away into the surety of
arrogance. The pilot, Chakotay
knew had been in tight spots before
and used false bravado as a mode
of defense. Tom sat taller in his
chair and leered up at him.
"How about a spanking and then sending
me to bed without any dinner?"
"Maybe another time, but right now
I think we should talk about how
you should make up for your mistake."
Chakotay countered, surprised
and pleased at his own wit.
With some of the wind taken from
his sails, the lieutenant sat back
in his seat with his long legs sprawled
opened. Being only human,
Chakotay traced the length of the
slender limbs to where they met in
a vee with his eyes. The black
material swelled low where it cradled
the pilot's balls and gathered loosely
across his hips where it
covered the weeping beauty Chakotay
had held in his hands less than
twenty-four hours ago.
"Commander?"
Quickly he averted his eyes, but
it was too late. Tom caught his
gaze and moved forward in his chair
placing his hands on Chakotay's
upper thighs.
"Do you want me to blow you?"
Tom's voice was silky as he began to
massage his legs in circles coming
close to but not touching his
growing erection. "Would that
make up for what I've done?"
The boundary between duty and desire
were becoming blurred as the man
of his fantasies talent hands reached
up and undid the clasp on his
trousers. Closing his eyes,
Chakotay listened to the combined sound
of their quickening breaths and
the clicking of his zipper as the tab
was brought down. It
wasn't until his cock was fully exposed to the
harsh lighting and cool air of his
office did he regain his
professionalism.
"No."
Tom looked up at him with dark azure
eyes, his fingers teasing the
wiry hair at base of his erection.
Chakotay had only stopped him
verbally and had not restrained
his hands. "Why not? You told me to
choose my punishment and this is
what I choose."
"I didn't say that."
"No maybe not exactly but that's
what it amounts to."
"I don't want coerce you sexually
Tom."
The man between his knees laughed.
"Yeah like that could happen."
Tom bit back his mirth and sobered.
"Look Commander I want you and
knowing you're not for me makes
it a kind of punishment. So as I see
it, if I suck you off, we're squared.
OK?"
"It's not OK. This isn't what
I want." As the words left his lips,
a bead of precum formed on the tip
of his penis and glistened his out
his lie.
Oh how he wanted to say yes and
grab the young man by the ears and
fuck his mouth raw but it wasn't
right. Besides the obvious abuse of
power, Chakotay had promised he
would only come after the pilot after
Harry had rejected him. Although
he was sure it would because the
ensign needed someone less rigid
to break into his untried heart, it
hadn't happened as of yet.
So somehow in some screw up way, he felt
like he was cheating on his boyfriend
with Tom.
"Beep! Time's up Commander."
After giving him a bright smile,
Tom buried his head in groin and
swallowed his cock whole.
Blinding white lights exploded behind his
lids as his eyes fell instantly
shut in reflex to the intense
pleasure. If Chakotay could
have spoken he would have told the pilot
to stop but the warm moistness at
his center disabled his vocal cords
to point where they could only utter
grunts of encouragement. And
with what little he had left of
his hearing, Chakotay heard Tom leave
his chair and fall to his knees
between his legs.
Sucking hard and fast, Tom bobbed
his head up and down using his lips
and tongue to bring him to orgasm.
No longer able to control any
part of his body, Chakotay raised
his hands and placed them on either
side of the pilot's face and pumped
into his mouth. It only took a
few long strokes before he was erupting
and shooting his seed deep
into his lover's throat.
When he had nothing more left to
give, Tom released him, pressed his
cheek into his hip and locked his
long arms around his waist.
"Oh gods, oh gods, oh, oh…-"
It in his post coital stupor it
took a few moments to understand that
the young man was claming his own
orgasm. Chakotay threaded his
fingers through the golden hair
at his waist as Tom came without the
aid of physical stimulation.
When the crisis passed, Chakotay lifted
him by his shoulders and placed
him back in the chair. Tom leaned
his head back and closed his eyes.
"Oh fuck Commander. How do
you do that?"
Chakotay drank in everything about
the man he helped to bring to
completion. The tousled blond
hair, the flushed cheeks, the relaxed
sprawl and even the dark stain across
his slim hips touched his
heart. This was fast becoming
more than infatuation.
"Do what Poocuh?" He closed
his trousers and then reached for the
pilot's hand. At the contact,
Tom bolted up in his chair and opened
his eyes.
"I, I don't know." The pilot
swallowed and he watched the play of
his Adam's apple as it moved the
length of his pale throat. Near the
gray collar of his tunic, Chakotay
saw bruises. He let go of Tom's
hand and leaned forward so he could
touch them with his fingertips.
"Mine." He said not knowing
if he was claiming ownership of the
small traumas or the body they were
on.
"No Commander." Tom pushed
his hand away. "They're mine."
"But I put them there."
"That's only a detail. They're
on my body, so they belong to me."
"Poocuh…-"
The pilot bolted up from the chair
forcing him backwards on the
desk. "How many times do I
have to fucking tell you!? My name is
Tom!"
"I'm sorry."
Tom looked around the office his
blue eyes dazed. "I have to go."
He regained his focus and centered
on him. "We're done here right?"
"Yes." Chakotay replied sadly.
"Yes." The pilot echoed back
in kind and then turned, knocking the
chair over in his rush to leave.
When the doors of his office slid
shut, he righted the over turned
chair and slumped down into it.
They just had their first fight
and it was of all things over who
owned the hickies on Tom's neck.
It was to Chakotay as ridiculous as
it was sweet. He threw his
feet up on his desk and contemplated was
else had happened in the last few
minutes.
Tom had sucked him off to make up
for illegally accessing B'Elanna's
personal code or at least that's
what it would look like if he put it
down in his log, which by the way
he had no intention of doing. In
truth, the pilot had just gotten
off scott free because what had just
happened had nothing to do with
reparation. It had more to do with
physical attraction and maybe even
love.
Love. Oh spirits that was
not what he was expecting. Not on his
part or Tom's. He wanted the
beautiful young pilot but this all-
encompassing need was more than
simple lust and he wasn't the only
one feeling it. Chakotay was
sure that the man who left his office
in a daze felt the same way but
for some reason fought it tooth and
nail.
Tom wanted him to be with Harry.
********
"It worked!"
"I'm sorry Doc did you say something?"
"Did I say something? I've
been saying the most important things of
my photonic life for last five minutes.
Haven't you been listening?"
Tom uncrossed and crossed his legs
on the blanket and gave his full
attention to the doctor.
"Mostly."
"Mostly? I would have thought
you would have been all ears since it
was your idea for me to take Seven
to Mars."
"I know and I think it's great that
it went well."
"You could look more enthused."
"I am, really. It's just that
another project I'm working on isn't
going so well and I guess I'm sort
of distracted."
"Well I suppose not all couples
are as well matched as Seven and I,
so you're forgiven."
"Thanks Doc."
"Yes well, if you excuse me Seven
is waiting for me over by the band
shell. Have a good evening
Mr Paris."
"You too."
Through Central Park's twilight,
Tom watched the doctor head across
the open field for the stage where
his new cybernetic love awaited
him. Around him on their own
blankets were various members of the
crew eating, drinking, waiting for
dusk to fall and the recital to
begin. Some were on dates
and some were in companionable groups. He
was the only one that sat by himself,
preferring to watch the concert
alone. The only company he
wouldn't have minded was keeping company
with his best friend.
Tom lifted his head and searched
through the crowd for them. He saw
lots of couples sharing blankets
and wine, the captain and B'Elanna
among them but no Harry and Chakotay.
Grabbing a beer from the small
cooler at his side he cursed and
thanked the fates at the same time.
As much as he needed to see Chakotay,
he wasn't sure if he could
handle seeing him with Harry.
Oh he'd supposed he have to come to
grips with it at some point but
not in the same day he'd realized
that he was probably in love with
the first officer. Well it was
either that or he had finally taken
leave of his senses. Maybe it
was a little of both.
From the moment he'd walked into
Chakotay's office, it was the locker
room all over again. Nothing
had gone the way he'd planned. He
wasn't cool. He wasn't smooth.
If anything he'd been down right
desperate.
Fuck, he'd all but begged the big
man for the privilege of sucking
his cock and afterwards had creamed
his pants from the turn on of
feeling Chakotay shooting down his
throat alone. That had never
happened to him before so it must
be love or something pretty damn
near it. All he knew was that
there wasn't a better place in the
world than at Chakotay's feet, with
the taste of his come in his
mouth and the man's fingers running
through his hair. It had been
his kind of heaven.
Unfortunately heaven wasn't a place
reserved for the male members of
the Paris family. For them,
another, warmer place held their name
cards.