dried me. My limbs were stiff and pulling the jumpsuit on sapped the last of my strength. I'd had a little vitae and bread and that was it. I curled up in a ball on the mattress, pulling my ruined dress over me, hoping to generate a little warmth.
The room grew colder and I could see my breath. My shivering stopped and I knew it wasn't because I was warm. It was a bad sign, dangerous, but I couldn't do anything to warm up. I felt myself slipping towards torpor. It would be so easy to just close my eyes and pull inward. I relaxed into the hard mattress, even as my mind fought against giving up, giving in; my body was pushed past its endurance.
I suddenly thought I could feel a body wrapping around me, warming me. I smiled and thought, "What a lovely final memory! I can pretend he was warming me, saving me." Before I could give in to that and let myself slip away, I heard a metallic shuddering and the room shook.
"What the everlasting fuck is going on here?" My eyelids fluttered open, and only the towering rage I felt through the bond kept me from torpor. All I could do was stare.
He plucked me from the ground as if I weighed no more than a feather and held me close to his chest. He strode out of the room into a dark hallway. I lost track of where we were going, focusing only on the warmth of his chest pressed against my face.
I was past noticing anything else when we entered a much warmer room and I warmed enough to start shivering. "Protocol Z451." He faced the wall with his body when a shower erupted around us. The water matched my body temperature and slowly began rising.
After a few moments, he stripped the sodden suit off of me and walked me into a pool of water. At first it was like being plunged into boiling water and I couldn't help but scream in pain. It was agony having my body temperature raised so quickly, and I sobbed.
After what seemed like an eternity, I opened my eyes. We were in a room very similar to the bathing rooms on my brother's ship. We floated in the pool, and he started rubbing his hands up and down my body, trying to banish the pain.
Until the pain turned to pleasure, and I realized I was completely naked and in his arms. His hands froze for a moment, then spun me around so I was facing him. He crushed me against his chest as one of his hands tangled in my hair and pulled my head back.
His mouth claimed mine, roughly. I was still too weak to seize him but I melted in his arms. He was sitting on a bench on the pools and my legs wrapped around his waist. He plundered my mouth and our tongues lashed together. With one hand still in my hair, he slid the other hand down my back and grabbed a globe of my ass, pulling me tight against him.
I could feel the thickness of his cock pressed against me, and I was lost. I writhed against him. He rose suddenly out of the water and laid me down on the edge. He stood between my legs and stared at me for an endless moment. His hands gentled and he slipped back down into the pool, hooking my knees over his shoulders.
Before I could think past my desire for him, he dropped a kiss across my mound, nibbling down past my clit. His fingers danced around my labia, gently stroking me until my hands grabbed his head. His tongue flicked at my engorged nub, and he slid one of his fingers into my waiting opening.
It stung, but his lips wrapped around my nub and he suckled as his finger eased into my tight opening. I was pinned down by his touch unable to do anything but feel him touching me until I finally exploded against him. I collapsed as lassitude swept over me. He stood, his hand at his waist undoing his pants.
I had to tell him. I looked up at him, the lust in his eyes. I didn't want to break the moment, but I was scared he would hurt me.
"Please be gentle." It was all I could get out. He paused, and I finally said, "I've never. I mean...please be gentle." His eyes dropped to my bound wrists, and he