Becoming legendary

Posted on Wed May 10th, 2023 @ 7:46pm by Major Samantha Snyder & Lieutenant Bianca Donati

3,722 words; about a 19 minute read

Mission: Ethics, Morals & The Prime Directive.
Location: MXO's quarters

Sam ached, ached so much that walking hurt. She ached in muscles that shouldn't, in places where muscles just shouldn't. A bath was needed, something that would soak up the aches and pains of the day and bring to her a measure of ease and relaxation. She walked into her quarters and leaned against the table where her console and chair resided and looking at it she wondered, would she? it was hardly a medical emergency, but she did offer. Sam slipped off her jacket and it took two goes to do it and pull one arm out of her sleeve. Sam didn't want to be a bother to Bianca who had generously offered to help her relax, settle in and sort out her eating habits. "Major Snyder to Lt Donati, Bianca, do you have some time?" She didn't want to be a bother, to take away Bianca's free time but Sam had really pushed herself far today and additional help would be required.

"I have time, as I'm off duty today. Do I need to bring a med kit, or just myself?" there was a rustle of cloth over the comm link as she tossed off the blanket she had over her. Something in her voice had Bianca a little bit worried, and she'd called her by her first name.

"No no, just you." Sam didn't consider how that sounded but suggested that no medical kit was needed.

"Good. I'll be up in a few minutes" Bianca said ending the connection with those words. She braided back her long black hair, and secured it with a beaded clasp. Glancing at herself in the mirror, she smiled it was good enough to see to a friend. Her pants were the softest cotton, and they ended at her ankles with a pattern of blue and green scales. The tank top she wore was patterned overall with the same scales, edged with silver and gold. She pressed the chime when she arrived at Sam's quarters.

Relief washed through Sam upon hearing the chime, salvation had arrived. Normally she would have opted to enjoy a bath, soak for a good long while but least of all allow herself to be touched but Bianca offered any help and maybe it was time she accepted some. "Come." She called out standing in her uniform minus the jacket and looking rough around the edges. "Hey. Thanks for coming." Words didn't need to be said because her appearance said it all, long and rough day, saving was required.

Bianca stepped forward into the doorway, and stood for a moment, more than a little surprised about her appearance. "By the rings....you look awful, what happened?" Allowing the door to close behind her, she was glad that she'd grabbed her little bag of relaxation things on the way out of the bathroom.

"Training. I ran it 3 times with different groups. I wanted to see how they were since we were new to each other." Sam replied. She knew shed pushed herself but word would spread that she ran the routine 3 times, with different groups. She had nothing to prove but she wanted to show each group that she supported them and was with them regardless of having run the routine already.

"That's brutal, bordering on stupid" she commented, setting her small bag down on the couch next to her, and taking in the look of Sam, hair unkempt and looking like she was on the edge of breaking down completely. "I bet you're a legend among the babies now."

"That, or stupid like you said." Sam spoke though the smile was faintly there. "So, what would you suggest, my fallback plan was a long soak in the bath."

"That's a great start actually. Did you eat or hydrate while you were pushing yourself to the breaking point?"

"Yes, I did, as ordered." Sam replied. Knowing that if she didn't then Bianca would come at her for violating medical advice. Something Sam wouldn't stand up to in her current state.

A smile warmed her face and she nodded "Good. What did you eat?"

Ohhhh, Sam knew she might get caught out here. It was all high energy foods, very little health value, typical marine food in otherwords. So Sam explained what she ate, when and how much or little to be more accurate. Sam ran her fingers through her hair feeling the heat trapped within on them, a bath would sort that.

"Fair enough, better that than nothing." she answered after a minute, and sighed gently. "Go run a bath, I'll be in in a minute with something."

Sam was far from in the mood or state to argue. Walking into the bathroom she ran the bath listening to the water as it began to fill. She sat on the edge of the tub thinking about Annabelle, she could guess and wonder all she liked about why she did what she did but ultimately it was done. Sam was alone once again and she'd fallen back into what she knew best, being a marine. She knew this would happen to hide in the familiar, to a known entity, the safe bet. She expected to cop more flak from Bianca for not eating properly but it was nice of her not to.

Bianca knew better than to argue with progress, she knew that it was probably difficult for Sam to even force herself to eat at all when she was pushing herself to such extremes. She walked up to the replicator and ordered "Smoothie, berry with Donati electrolyte additive #3."

A bright pink glass appeared in the replicator, with a straw. It was garnished with a strawberry that was drizzled in chocolate. She tapped on the bathroom door and asked quietly "Are you already in the tub?"

"No." Sam replied, part of her wondering why was she so comfortable with someone she'd only recently met standing in her quarters while she ran a bath. Why would Sam ask for her help? Even through the aches Sam tried to ignore the one that nagged her most, her heart. Annabelle was her first serious relationship since her teenage years but more so, was someone that showed her that women were as equally capable lovers. So why then did it hurt so much? "Why, what's up?" Sam said looking up from her clasped hands in her lap up to the door.

Bianca entered on silent bare feet, and handed her the smoothie she'd built for her. "You don't mind strawberries do you?" Once she'd handed off the drink she bent over the tub of steaming water and poured a vial similar to the one she'd given her previous into the tub. A delicate hiss began as the salts began to dissolve in the water, and colored it a faint purple. The hint of oil made the bubbles at the top glitter with iridescence. "There, now...in you get."

Sam had considered just slipping in uniform and all, it wouldn't have been a first in her life. She managed to sample the drink two or three times before she handed it back, without so much as thinking to what words came to mind she spoke. "You going to step out or watch?" She wasn't sure why she said it, perhaps it was just something that was 'normal' but was Sam normal? There were days that she wondered that very question.

"I want to see if you've done yourself damage" Bianca said softly "I can step out if you're body shy."

Sam couldn't exactly argue that kind of logic, muscles ached but she didn't feel damaged but then being a marine damage really meant anything that stopped you from being combat effective. Which she still was, more or less. She stood up and unzipped the grey undershirt which as she pulled it off it was obvious she was a little tinder in spots by some slower than usual arm movements and twists. Sam sat on the edge of the bath and pulled off her boots each thudding to the floor to be kicked aside afterwards. She stood up again to push her uniform pants down her legs, her knees were a little red from all the crawling and climbing that she had to do but was happy that she managed to do it. Standing clad in only underwear she stood looking at Bianca. "Check away."

Bianca was quiet for a long moment, and she walked around her taking inventory, her hand stretched out to gently touch the muscles of her back. She was so tight right now, that it wouldn't take much more than a startle response to send her into painful spasms.

"See, no damage, just aches and pains from physical action." Sam spoke as she let the Doctor do her medical thing. At least if she got checked out and there was a problem it would be detected early and dealth with promptly.

"Your muscles are tight enough to keep you from sleeping just by themselves. " Bianca commented softly and smiled "I brought some massage oil. Why don't you soak till you're warm and then I'll work on relaxing those muscles."

"Alright, but I've not had much time to decorate, so what you see is what you got to work with." Sam spoke as she turned around, stripped off and stepped into the water filled bath. Sam didn't know what Bianca was going to do but her orders were to soak and warm up, the rest could be decided and planned out later on.

"Want me to wash your back?" she asked with a hint of amusement in her voice as she watched the other woman settle into a hot bath. The oils would help moisturize her body and there was a hydrating compound in there as well.

"Sure." Sam spoke as she shuffled forward and leaned a little to make some space. The water was doing its thing of pulling out the aches and pains, the soothing embrace of hot water, the sigh of relief that escaped her lips as she sat there. It was moments like this that she was thankful she had her own quarters and didn't have to bunk with the others, several to a room and no chance of peace.

She'd replicated an oil warmer and had put the oils she'd brought with her on the small table in the middle of her livingroom. She would use the bed, with her permission of course. The response surprised the doctor slightly, and she came back in to wash her back. Bianca poared body wash into a puff, and gently scrubbed Sam's back.

Sam let her head drop and just let it happen. Sometimes it was nice to be pampered, others just nice not be alone and let the mind wonder to places its better not to. Even as the seconds turned to minutes she stayed put, letting the Doctor work, letting the water sooth and the aches drift away into the tub.

She wished in that instant that she was a telepath like the rest of her species, so that she could know what was causing her to droop like that. She filled a cup of the bathwater and poured it over her neck, then said quietly. "When you're ready, I have the massage kit set up, your bedroom was the only place with enough space for you to lay down properly."

Sam nodded though didn't lift her head to do it, just let it bounce a little. "I'll be right out." By the time Sam lifted her head she saw the towels hanging ready for her that she put there earlier. When Sam was left alone she got out and dried herself off with one of the large towels, and it was large and soft. The best kind of towel. She slipped on some panties and wrapped the towel around her making her way to the bedroom where Bianca seemed to be waiting for her. Sam was not worried about the sheets getting oiled as they could be changed later. "So, face down, up?" She asked seeing that Bianca was ready to administer her massage efforts to help her relax.

Bianca had laid down an overlay on the bed, to absorb the oils and the topsheet lay overtop of it. "Face down, arms at your sides on the pad that I laid down. " She walked to the replicator and spoke "Blanket, throw sized, weighted to 15 pounds warmed, massage standard heat." A moment later a blanket appeared and Bianca laid it over Sam's body.

Sam had laid where instructed, face down with her hans to her sides. The blanket was warm, soothing. She let out a sigh as she let herself relax a little more, more than she had in the bath at least. Her eyes closed as her breathing became steady, calm, relaxed.

Bianca watched the tension leave her and then started with the long golden hair. She unbound it, slowly and having pilfered Sam's brush from the bathroom, began to brush the knots out of it. Her fingers would massage her scalp here and there, just to relax her further.

One of Sam's best features, her hair. She was proud of it, took care of it as best she could given her duties and wasn't afraid to dirty it if the need arose. Brushing her hair was pretty normal for her but someone else doing it was something else. Feeling the brushes bristles glide over the scalp was incredibly relaxing, she even liked having her hair played with but it didn't feel the same running her own fingers through it.

She brushed it till it was a golden halo around her head, before she lay the brush aside and rubbed the oil she'd chosen between her hands. It bore the scent of cinnamon, clove and a soft almondy base. She warmed it between her palms, and turned down the blanket on Sam's upper back and shoulders.

Sam just lay there, lay there and let the work be performed on her. She was basking in the soothing embrace of a warm blanket, a wonderfully calming scalp scratch from the brush as well as her hair feeling like silk from the lack of knot tugs she felt. She could hear a liquid between hands, Bianca was just about to start her massage.

Hands traced down her spine, lightly then more firmly allowing her to be coated with the oil that she had in her palms. She traced the muscle groupings, easing along each one finding where precisely the woman was knotted up.

The touch almost tickled in a way, like little feathers as they stepped down her body with equally gentle steps. Right at this moment Sam had few cares in the world, her body soaking up the works performed upon it as she let it happen. It didn't bother her that her thong panties were on show, face down, almost bare-assed to Bianca because she'd already walked around her in her bra and panties to check for damage already, so why be phased by it now?

The other woman was appreciating the flesh beneath her hands probably more than she aught, but there was a rush to taking someone's pain and tension away. The caress of fingertips turned into a firmer touch of thumb and heel of hand as she purposefully eased the tension in her back.

The turn earned a moan or two, or more. Painful knots and tightness unwillingly surrendering to Bianca's touch and yet Sam had to pay the price for it. Still though, it felt much better after it was done and she wasn't going to complain how good she'd feel later after this and a good nights sleep.

"Is it too hard?" she asked softly, her breath caressing her back as she bent over to speak in her ear "It should not be painful at any point. "

"No, it's fine, feels good." Her voice slightly muffled from the side of her face against the bed and not wanting to lift it to speak properly.

Bianca was enjoying the feel of her tight muscles trembling before they relaxed under her hands. She imagined that Sam was enjoying it too. Her fingers lightened to caresses occasionally, teasing her.

Surprisingly, most of all to Sam she found herself actually liking Bianca's touch. It was a massage true but it was gentle, tender, light, it was very relaxing. There were moments where her body shifted just a little to get comfortable again but it tried to ignore her mind wondering that she was being touched, by another woman, mostly naked, in her bedroom....tried.

Bianca could only smile at the little movements, and pressed gently along the area that was most tense, between her shoulder blades. She was unaware that her breath was caressing Sam's neck and ear.

Sam turned her head to the other side to get a better view of Bianca through the locks of hair that masked her face. She didn't actually mind it, it was calming, she could see from the corner of her eye how close she was and feel her breath on her skin. She tried not to think about it too much, this was a massage, sure she was enjoying it, but that was beside the point.

Her fingers worked slowly from her neck down her spine to disappear from sight under the blanket. She turned the blanket back up and folded it up so she could work up from her feet.

There was that unspoken thrill feeling Bianca's fingers dip under the blanket slightly. Her hands we working wonders and Sam wouldn't deny that as she tried to gaze upon Bianca from through her golden locks. Given her posture leaning forward a little Sam would be guilty of maybe letting her eyes wonder a little. Only fair since Bianca checked her out in her underwear.

She was very curvy and the heavy breasts were clearly visible in her tank top. She was unmatched in many ways because of her meticulous care of herself. Her fingertips touched the sole of her left foot, lifting it from the bed.

Sam took in the view of incredible cleavage contained within the top surprised that while using oils Bianca remained so dressed instead of changing or something. It was because of Annabelle that Sam was taking notice of things like that, curves on women, assets and features and in turn, the resulting body reactions.

Bianca had an hourglass that she didn't even remotely try to hide. She was of the opinion that Sam shouldn't hide herself either. A beautiful woman under my hands and I can't act on it.. She oiled Sam's leg first lightly before starting her massage at the ball of her foot.

It was almost torture in a way, such gentle hands on her and even as she stole glances at Bianca down at her legs she could only hope to hide the little nibble on her lips she made. Part of her told her to behave herself, it was a massage and that was all...but those hands....

Those hands slid up her calves and gently kneaded the major muscle groups, in the side of her leg. There was a spot, that it was clear to Bianca at least that she got major leg cramps.

It was not the only thing Sam was getting even as she tried to hide it. She could already feel her nipples rub against the mat she was laying on and she could only hope to the stars that the red thong she was wearing didn't turn a dark crimson instead. She didn't understand how she could be getting aroused by this, and while that bothered her just a little bit, the flip side of the coin was she was enjoying it. To enjoy a soothing massage and get aroused while not an ideal pair was a pleasurable one.

Her fingertips teased the inside of her knees with a few strokes, before working up the outside of her thighs. Her eyes were watching Sam's whole body, not just where she was working, and she liked what she saw.

Every inch that Sam felt those fingers raise up her leg was another moment that Sam had to try and keep her composure. Was Bianca doing this deliberately? Was she playing with her? Was she even aware of what she was doing to her? All questions that were racing through Sam's mind as she struggled to lay there. Her hands flexed fingers, covers catching between each threatened by the fists that lay beyond.

Samantha was trembling under her hands, she probably was unaware she was doing so, but the feeling was a delight to Bianca. Her last lover had been cheating on his fiancee with her, and she'd been burned badly. This was something more pure. Oh, she wanted to relax her, but it seemed she was doing something else to her as well. Lovely

"Do I need to roll over?" Sam asked and only just managing to do that. Not being able to see was one things but the safety of being hidden behind her hair was another. it was almost like being blindfolded, deprived on a sense and then having the others teased.

Sam lay there, the hand on her back almost like a restraint to keep her in place while work was done upon her.

She shifted on the bed to get better access to her other leg, and her thigh settled in against Sam's thigh, before she switched her attention to the foot she'd not yet touched.

Sam had not been this way with anyone since the break up with Annabelle, she was still exploring that side of the relationship before it all ended and it seemed Bianca was pulling out some stops and tricks to manipulate Sam's body. She felt the shift in position and didn't move, letting Bianca work on her foot and leg.

Bianca was enjoying the little quivering breaths she would get occasionally as she massaged the tension out of Sam's body. She exhaled softly across her foot, not hard enough to be seen as being purposeful.

Bianca had to know, how could she not. Sam was almost naked in front of her, oiled hands on her body, she had to......

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