'What Are We Going To Do About Kevin?" Part 1/2

Posted on 12 Nov 2025 @ 1:24pm by Lieutenant JG Cajag Lagnas & Lieutenant Commander Raviran Dattek-Winters
Edited on on 14 Nov 2025 @ 2:29pm

2,860 words; about a 14 minute read

Mission: Shakedown
Location: CMO's quarters - USS Cygnus
Timeline: Current

Ravi and Caj were both completely soaked, their clothes and even their hair, dripping as they left the holosuite and attempted to make their way back to get tidied up.

"We should go to my quarters" Ravi said as she smiled awkwardly at a passing Ensign who stared at the dishevelled and dripping pair as he passed them coming out of the turbolift on Deck 11. He snapped his head and his gaze back to the open lift doors in front of him when he realised what he was doing.

"Preferably quickly" she added, blushing. "Before we flood the ship".

Caj, who was still in his uniform rather than a wet suit, was sopping wet and soaked through to the core, creating an unpleasant chill on the bones and a slight light blue tinge to his otherwise dark blue Trill spots. “Good idea” said Caj his teeth chattering together and his arms around himself. They began to move at an increased pace.

They arrived back at Ravi's quarters and she let them both in, grabbing towels, more to wrap around themselves than to actually dry them, seeing as their clothes were soaked and needed to be got rid of before the towels could even begin to be useful.

"You're colder than I am and I have to peel off this spray-on protective skin so why don't you take a shower first and warm up while I start prying myself free?" Ravi offered.

Caj smiled through chattering teeth. He was going to say something cheesy like helping her get free or joining him in the shower but he was shivering so much and wanted to have a certain level of decorum in someone else’s home. So he dragged himself to the shower with a smile, thumbs up and a shiver

Ravi set about removing the spray-on protective covering which was a slow job but a fairly easy one. It left her naked on the bed, looking around for a towelling robe to cover herself with until the shower became free.

She rummaged around in the storage for a second robe but could only find a silk one in red with jungle type colourful birds printed in the pattern. It was, if she said it herself, gaudy. She had bought it because it was something her former rat of a fiancee had liked and considering how much the real silk had cost her, she hadn't thrown it away although it hadn't been out since she packed it away. She threw it in the corner with the intention of recycling it now but just then Caj came out of the shower and she still hadn't found something to wear.

Fortunately for her blushes, he found the towelling robe on the hook by the shower as he emerged and that kept him busy enough for the time it took for her to grab the kimono-style robe and fling it over herself quickly.

"All okay?" she asked, trying to stay calm and casual as she approached Caj with the intention of passing him and going towards the shower he had just vacated for her own turn at cleaning and warming up.

It had only been a few minutes but having been only luke-warm when she began to get undressed, she was by now, quite chilly and it was her turn to be shivering.

“Urmmmmmm” said Caj as the two pressed together as they passed. Caj was a little lost for words as the shared a very small space and their bodies pressed together slightly. Instead he smiled his eyes sparkling a little.

"I hate this thing" Ravi said a little grumpily. "Sorry, I'm not grumpy with you, it's just it was something my ex wanted me to get and it was so gaudy and such a great reminder never to trust my heart to anyone ever again, that I kept it. I didn't ever want to wear it again but I couldn't find another second robe for the shower what with us both wet at the same time....." she trailed off. "Sorry again, you didn't need to be burdened with all that. Thank you for the compliment."

Caj was finding it very hard to pull his eyes off Ravi and struggled a little to keep eye contact as he was beholden to beauty that would rival the goddess venus. “urrrm how about when you get in the shower chuck it out. You take this one and I’ll put that one on. Then you are warm and more fashionable.” Said Caj rather distractedly.

~fashionable?~ Ravi stopped short, taken aback. She looked at Caj with more focus and sighed softly. Realising she was silently staring at him, which was making it awkward for them both, she nodded and rushed into the shower, throwing out the hateful garment - now she had even more reason to dislike it than she'd had before.

"It's okay" she replied from inside the shower, having to raise her voice over the sound of the sonic waves. "Could you just replicate me a new towelling bathrobe please? Then you don't have to give yours up" she called.

Caj coughed as he heard the shower came on. He went to the replicator and replicated another drying robe. Well Not exactly, deciding to try and show off a little, Caj’s fingers began to replicate type on the touch screen LCARS display. He smiled to himself as his creation, which looked like some sort of bizarre, red, black, fluffy and futuristic dressing gown materialised on the replicator disk. It had all the bells and whistles. Self heating to keep you warm, an internal blow dry mode, the collar had a light built in it so you could apply make up in the dark. It even had massage pads built into the back to relax you as you slept. Caj smiled again as he opened the door slightly and chucked it in. The problem was in his effort to make a fantastical robe he hadn’t realised he made it five sizes too big.

Ravi received the gift while the shower was still running but as it was ultrasonic waves, it didn't make the gown wet, so much as an odd kind of mildly melted look around some of the material but not all. The effect was nearly as quirky as the original garment had begun and wouldn't have really been so noticable other than the fact that the electronics set off the blow-dry feature and there was first the sound of the CMO instructing the shower to cease a little prematurely.

It was then that the sound of pressurised air blowing was heard and a squeak that Ravi hadn't been quick enough to stifle as she received a blast of air in an unexpected manner and from an unexpected direction from within the brightly coloured, fluffy, huge, self-heating dressing gown. It then tried to blind her with sudden light as she tried to turn it upside down to see where the top was and as if the person-trap hadn't been satisfied with all these shocks and surprises, it eventually began to vibrate before she had it sussed that it was coming from the shoulders once she had it finally the correct way round.

"By the Prophets Caj, Ravi spluttered as she fought her way into the dressing gown trying not to get electricuted, burned, blown away or massaged into an injury. She emerged from the shower-enclosure in a great deal of disarray with all the gadgets working at once and a startled look on her face.

A moment or two passed and she saw Caj's face display a whole array of emotions before she saw the funny side and fell sideways onto the bed in a fit of uncontrollable laughter, made all the more hysterical by the intermittent buzz, flash, blow and heat of each of the assault-gizmos in the garment that was wrapped around her.

“Sorry” said Caj holding his hands up in surrender whilst pursing his lips together to stifle a laugh. “I’m really sorry….its my own design all in one relaxation and self-dry robe…..the light even emits uv rays for tanning. Urrrrmmmm I clearly haven’t worked out all the bugs…” Caj began to laugh too. He pressed a button on the collar to de-activate all the ‘extras’'.

"U/V rays??" She spluttered. "What unprotected? Straight into my eyes? Do you have a licence for this lethal contraption" She laughed, still trying to disentangle her arms from the over-sized, gadget ridden towelling invention even though it had stopped attempting to electrocute, pummel. blast and sunburn her all at the same time.

"Ingenious!" she had to admit at last, once she stopped still and allowed Caj to help free her. They were still both laughing between trying to talk and sort themselves out. Once she kept still however, it didn't take too long for Caj to untangle her. She lay there, still where she had landed on the bed, but now without the robe or the kimono or anything at all on. Blushing as soon as she realised this, Ravi pulled the sheet up and over herself.

"Don't be too despondent" she told Caj, still grinning at him after all the laughter. "I never blow my hair dry, I like to let it dry naturally, so it doesn't matter if that bit doesn't work any more. I don't sunbathe, I'm too Celtic in complexion and you can give my shoulders a nice massage yourself if you want? To thank me for saving your Organ...... what do you call it? I like Kevin as a name.... what do you think?" she asked, wondering how to ask him to make some tea without being too pushy but so that she didn't have to get up with only a sheet to wear.

Caj, who still giggling, but also trying not to be to obvious that he was looking at everything on display when it came to the partial nudity looked up and pretended he was now concentrating on the ceiling after diverting his eyes away way to late. He smiled to himself
“sure…..Kevin’s a great name. Urrrrmmmm how about we swap?” He picked up the techno robe turned his back on Ravi then took off his robe, put the the techno robe on. Without turning his back and with his eyes cast away tossed his rob at Ravi. Promptly hitting her in the face.

Ravi grunted as she got the heavy towelling full-length robe in the face, reacting by reflex to grab it, roll it tightly and launch it back, getting Caj in the middle of his back, setting off his own hybrid murder-robe right in its control panel. It had been a fluke hit but it was 100 percent effective as it began blowing at his hair, massaging his shoulders, heating up his back and shining brightly from it's almost blinding u/v rays all at once.

The CMO's first reaction was to rush forward to see if he was hurt but she was entangled in the sheet she'd donned and fell forwards, landing across the bedside shelf, sending this morning's left over tea flying and giving herself a bloody nose.

There was a silence that followed the initial curses of pain from them both. The mess and spillage was a situation that hung in the air between them when suddenly in the moment of that frozen-in-time pause, the rogue robe began to cough back into its routine and blew air in all directions, alternating from warm to cold, from some untried program to protect hair from too much heat when drying.

The whir of the dryer coming on and the blast of air that jolted both Ravi and Caj out of their stunned few seconds of impasse was so unexpected and out of the blue that Ravi just fell back onto the deep bedroom rug beneath her, sheet still tangled, nose still bleeding and cracked up with a new peal of deep laughter.

"Wad in de 'Versh dush happedd" she said, her nose pinched closed and her neck and head tipped backwards in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

This strange muffled speech seemed only to make her more amused than ever and she lay there - giggling.

Caj had thrown off the electronic monstrosity on the floor and was stamping on it to get it to stop blowing, lighting and vibrating whilst using both hands to cover his naked modesty. “You know this explains a lot! If we are like this sober no wonder my quarters were a wreck when we were a drunk. We are clearly a hazard to each other!” Caj picked up the one remaining fluffy gown a twinkle in his eye. He then dropped it to the floor. "Looks like neither of us need one then right?"

Ravi, realising that her nose actually did hurt and the blood was making no attempt to clot and stop, got up from the rug where she had landed and fetched her med-kit to begin regenerating the broken blood vessels in her nose. She gave herself an analgesic as well and offered one to Caj in case he too was hurt.

All this done sitting on the side of the bed, she put her medkit on the side and lay back on the bed, a wet-wipe in her hand to cool and also clean her blood-stained face.

Caj jumped on the bed and sat on his knees next to Ravi who was laying on the bed. He softly applied his hands to rub her back "After all look at all this hard work you did to get me into your bed right...even going so far as to bleed everywhere?"

"Oh yes, OF COURSE THAT WAS WHAT THIS WAS ALL ABOUT she rolled her eyes but turned over to accept the proffered massage of her back. "I mean, I'm that desperate that I made Kevin sick to get you all wet and needing to come back to my quarters to get dry as well" she went on in an over dramatic manner. And yes, if we can do this much harm together when we're not drunk, it's no wonder I was so determined to trick you back here for a rematch! I've even replicated new crayons for you to put equations on my wall again....... oooh, that's so nice..... down a bit..... to the left.........that's it......... you're really good at this. Have you been professional at it for long?" she teased, pretending to be going along completely with the exaggerations and the joke.

Because it WAS a joke, wasn't it. Clearly! Bloody cheek, that she was going to the trouble of getting herself assaulted, injured and ........ and naked........... just to get the cute Trill into bed..... right?

"Don't be silly" she answered her own unspoken question but this time out loud by mistake.

“Who you calling silly” said Caj turning his massage into a tickle. Caj then stopped as he noticed Ravi still had a little bit of blood on her cheek he wiped it away gently with the tip of his finger. “Don’t you want me to kiss your nose better?”

"Woh!" Ravi squeaked when her lovely massage turned suddenly into a tickle. She squirmed free and sat up, turning to face him. "I wasn't talking to you" she said, trying to pull the sheet up again but he was sitting on it so she had to give up.

"But if the cap fits, wear it! Or so they say, allegedly" She grinned at him cheekily and put her fingers to where he was wiping her cheek gently. "and under NO circumstances get near my poor nose! OKAY?" she glared at him as fiercely as she could manage, considering the circumstances but entwined her fingers with his as he finished wiping her cheek free of blood and then leaned in against his chest as he let go.

"Can I count your beautiful spots?" she asked suddenly, out of the blue. "I expect everyone asks you that, are you sick of it? They're SO fascinating though..." she touched one softly and her expression became the gentlest he would have ever seen it.

Caj gave a wry lopped sided smile, still holding her hand he lay back on the bed. “They do go from tip to toe you know that’s a lot of counting.”

"Hmmm" she pondered. "It might take a long time then?" she asked, feigning innocence. "Are they ALL blue?" she went on, her hands still both in his preventing any physical counting just yet, if such a thing was really going to happen. They both looked at each other mischievously and began to laugh again.

Laughing he pulled Ravi close and held her in his arms. He kissed her gently on the lips. “As a doctor I’m pretty sure your supposed to know that.”

"Never hurts to check?" she replied with a wink and began at his toes. "one..... "

tbc....



A JP by:

Lt. (Jg) Cajag Lagnas
Science Officer
USS Cygnus

and

Lt. Commander Raviren Dattek-Winters
Chief Medical Officer
USS Cygnus

 

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