SUMMARY: Late night chatter.

CODES: VOY, J/C, a short mention of P/T

RATING: R

DISCAIMER: Not mine.

NOTES: A short follow-up to One Little Question. Though you don't have to read that to understand this one, but it does help. And J&C are a couple here, but no one knows.

"Sexy"
by Liz VanZandt

Chakotay's chest shook with laughter. "Have you read the latest copy of Neelix's Between Decks Gazette?"

Next to him, Kathryn Janeway looked up from the PADD she was reading. "I assume you're referring to the new Relationship Corner." At his nod, she shook her head. "I haven't had a chance yet. Why? Any good?"

"Well, there's my suitably ambiguous comments on spirit guides and compatibility."

Setting her PADD down on the nightstand, she stretched herself out along his side, one hand on his chest. "I'm sure your comments are quite interesting, but somehow I doubt spirit guides are what's causing all the ruckus about the column."

He chuckled. "I doubt it too. No, Neelix went around and asked several members of the crew what part of their lover they find sexiest."

"He actually got people to answer that?!" she picked her head up and looked at him in surprise.

"Apparently so. Listen to this: 'The sexiest thing about Adam is that look of promise in his eyes when he first spots me in a room.' Or how about, 'Her gorgeous, endless legs.'"

She grabbed the PADD out of his hand. "My crew actually said things like that?" She scrolled down through the list of responses. She stopped when she got to the bottom. "Did you read Tom's yet?"

"No, what does it say?"

"Her amazing brain. That's the sexiest part of any woman, after all," she read.

Chakotay reached down and grabbed the PADD back from her. "He actually said that about B'Elanna?"

"I think he was concerned about how she would react if he said something like 'her gorgeous, endless legs.'"

"What would you do if I said something like that about you?"

"What, that I have gorgeous, endless legs?"

"No, that the sexiest thing about you was your brain."

"I'd be flattered, but it certainly wouldn't turn me on like saying my legs are gorgeous."

"But I thought women didn't like to be seen as objects of affection, only good because of how they look."

"Not necessarily," she shook her head. "Just because we don't like to be known just for our bodies doesn't mean we don't like to hear how sexy we look now and then."

"Well you are, sexy I mean."

"Thank you." She paused, just enjoying the feel of his body next to hers. "So what part do you find sexiest?"

He thought for a moment, pulling her body on top of his, the now forgotten PADD falling to the ground next to the bed. "It's a tie," he said, "between your hair and your voice." She raised an eyebrow but didn't comment. "For as much as I loved your hair long, I've grown to like it short almost as much. The way you whip it around as you're turning, especially when you're in a hurry, and how it always smells like strawberries.

"But at the same time, just listening to you talk sends shivers down my back. The way it gets all throaty and deep, almost like a whisper, and your intonation when you say my name. It's almost as if you're caressing it, claiming it as your own."

She smiled, dropping her voice down low. "So you like it when I whisper, do you?"

"You cannot imagine how much that turns me on."

"Show me."

And he did.

A long while later, they laid cuddled up together, arms around each other and legs twining. "I guess you really do find my voice sexy," Kathryn said, breaking the silence that had engulfed them.

"Kathryn, everything about you is sexy."

"You're not too bad yourself, Chakotay."

"Oh yeah?" She nodded. "Then at the risk of sounding conceited, what's the sexiest thing about me?"

"Your eyes," she replied without hesitation. "The way they roam all over my body whenever we're in a room together, undressing me in your mind. And the way I can look into them and see the real you looking back at me."

"And here I thought you were going to say my tattoo."

"Oh, that's sexy too, but I think of that more as distinctive than anything."

"Distinctive, hmm?"

"In a good way," she assured him. "Then there are those cute little dimples of yours." She brought a hand up to trace around his lips. "Those are damn sexy and very attractive."

"Really? I had no idea."

"Of course, there are a lot of things about you I find sexy."

"Care to elaborate on that a little?"

"Well, it could take quite a while seeing as there are so many."

"I don't seem to have any pressing engagements at the moment."

"If you insist," she grinned, leaning up to kiss his forehead. "I'll just start at the top and work my way down .."

The End

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