Disclaimer: Paramount owns all that is star trek. I just thought I'd help them work off the frustration of dealing with TPTB.

Written: July 24, 1999 3:50 p.m.

Rating: NC-17
Code: J/C

Authors Note: This little vignette was inspired by a story by Jennifer Ferris called "A Real Hot Coffee Night "

Heat & Insomnia
By Saffron

Kathryn stared at him. Despite the heat, he had no trouble getting to sleep. But as a chronic insomniac, Kathryn's habit of not sleeping was not different. And the heat just made it worse.

She sat up in the bed and looked at his sleeping form. The covers had been discarded and had fallen to the floor. Chakotay, lying on his back, wore only a pair of navy blue shorts. His skin glistened with beads of perspiration.

Kathryn felt the fire within her begin to smolder. Her eyes searched the darkness for the replicator. She swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood up. Wearing only a tank top and shorts, she walked barefoot to the replicator and requested a glass of water - lots of ice.

By the time she made it back to the bed, Kathryn had drunk all the water. It had not satiated her ever-growing desire. She gingerly sat down on the bed and put the glass down on the night stand. She fished a piece of ice from the glass and placed in her mouth, closing her lips over her finger as it withdrew. She leaned back and closed her eyes, letting the cold liquid melt in her mouth and slide down her throat.

All Kathryn could hear was Chakotay's steady breathing.

The ice cube was half melted when she opened her eyes again. She looked down at Chakotay's midriff. The slight bulge was all she could see.

Kathryn looked at Chakotay's peaceful face and decided that it was not fair that only one of them should be awake.

She put another ice cube in her mouth then slid her hand into the opening in Chakotay's shorts and grasped the unaroused flesh and brought it out to where she could see it.

She moved her hand over every inch of his penis, willing it to rise. As she did this, Chakotay hardly stirred, but she could hear his breathing become a bit more labored. She could feel the blood pulsing through the shaft as she leaned down and began to plant icy cold kisses on it, strategically avoiding the sensitive tip. When the ice cube finally melted, she took the whole of him in her mouth.

A huge gasp filled the room as Chakotay was hastened to consciousness. "Kath... what... Oh gods..." He tried to raise himself onto his elbows but the sudden awareness of his arousal coupled with that point of no return,and he could only reach out and clutch her hair as his pelvis moved in rhythm with her mouth. As his orgasm reached its pinnacle, his stomach muscles contracted, forcing him to raise his torso off the bed and let out a long, low moan as he expelled the evidence of his pleasure. With one final spasm, he fell back on the bed, his breathing labored, as though he had just run a marathon.

Kathryn moved to snuggle up to him and rested her head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat slow down.

She looked up into his questioning eyes and shrugged. "I couldn't sleep."

With a smile, he pulled her closer to him and they drifted off to sleep.

FINIS