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Pushing Us Together II

Author - vero3110 | Genre - Romance | Main Story | P | Rating - G
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Pushing Us Together II

By: vero3110
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Star Trek: Enterprise and associated characters are property of Paramount Pictures. I mean no copyright infringement; this story is for entertainment purposes only
Genre: Trip/T'Pol Romance
Summary: The next morning and some more talk between Trip and T’Pol.

Author's note: This story is supposed to take place following my story, Pushing us together

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She felt Trip’s sorrow surround her as she remembered their daughter. Sleep would come to her any moment now so she decided to relax and enjoy his presence. After a while she realized that Trip had fallen asleep; his breathing steady and soundless.

His profile was clear to her even in semi-darkness, there had been very few occasions when she had been able to watch him like this; just the two of them and Trip unaware of her doing so.

When she decided to come to Trip’s quarters, her intentions were to help him relax and sleep again. She hadn’t envisioned that he would open up to her as he did; it had happened only once before. His demeanor lately made her think that he wasn’t comfortable with the bond they shared and this upset her.

His feelings and emotions were clear to her – for the most part anyway -- but apparently Trip didn’t know what she wanted. Would she be able to tell him? She wasn’t certain.

In a few hours when they woke up, both of them would probably feel awkward and he’d tell her it was nothing. He will tell me it was no big deal, what he said to me, she thought. Suddenly she remembered Trip telling her about his family being lost – our family she corrected herself – and his hurt and longing came to her again.

Maybe I should stay until he wakes up, she thought just before falling asleep.

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When he woke up the next morning, he was on his back, relaxed and well rested. At first, thoughts of being alone crossed his mind, but then he realized he wasn’t. Alone. He could feel T’Pol’s warm hand next to his upper-arm. Turning his head to the right he looked at her; she was already awake and watching him intently.

“Did you sleep well?” she asked him. He nodded.

“How long have you been awake?”

“About half an hour” she told him.

Trip couldn’t help it so he gave her an extremely amused smile, “That long? Enjoying the view?” He teased her.

When she heard him she knew that it would be very difficult to talk to Trip again this morning. Most of the time, he used his teasing to avoid serious issues. He is back to being himself again, she thought.

“I stayed because I wanted to know if you’re feeling better. You were very tired last night” T’Pol told him without moving a muscle of her serious expression.

Trip turned completely and was lying on his side facing her now. He didn’t answer immediately but she could feel his emotions. He was rested and calm even though his sorrow was still there, as was hers.

“I’m fine…You?” he told her.

She nodded. “I should go now” she told him.

He didn’t want her to leave, so he moved his left hand to her waist so she could not get up and out of his bunk. Her only response was to look him in the eyes, but then one of her hands went to his elbow. He thought she was going to move his arm away from her so he released her, but he couldn’t move his arm back, she didn’t let him. “Your shoulder… are you in pain?” she said.

Trip didn’t notice that he had tensed up, so he relaxed again and left his hand at her waist. “Not really…” he told her. He could feel her concern and he teased her again.

“It’s kind of nice to have someone who’ll take care of me” he told her.

“Do you need a caretaker?” She asked him back.

He wasn’t sure if she was serious or not. But he decided to answer her with the truth.

“Sometimes…” Trip said quietly.

She didn’t say anything, just kept looking at him. But Trip could sense hesitation coming from her.

“What is it?” he asked her.

Her expression changed slightly before she spoke. He had seen her like this a couple of times before. Here it comes…the push off speech, Trip thought. But then she moved; her hand – the one that was keeping his arm steady – went to his face, just like last night before falling asleep. Her fingers tips touched his cheek softly and her thumb caressed the side of his mouth.

“We lost Elizabeth, but you haven’t lost your family Trip” her voice was low and soft.

Trip didn’t expect this. His eyes filled with tears, but he didn’t want to cry anymore. He was afraid that if he spoke up he would loose it right there. So he didn’t say anything, just leaned into her hand and embraced her closer to him.

She could clearly sense Trip’s emotions. Tenderness, caring, joy, warmth and possessiveness were engulfing her.

Trip was thrilled; but he still felt apprehension coming from her. He wasn’t sure what caused it but he had been thinking about her a lot for a very long time and he just needed to tell her.

So after a while, he took a deep breath, looked at her smiling and told her “I don’t want you to change…not a bit…I want you all Vulcan…with all that this means…I want us, sure I do… but if this would make you loose yourself…that’s not” he couldn’t go on; her fingers shut him up.

He did know her better that she thought. She looked him in the eyes and asked him “Are you certain that this is what you want? Do you believe we’ll be able to make it work? “

Trip kept looking at her during the whole conversation. “I…I’m sure that I want you…and that I’m willing to do whatever I have to…and that as far as we keep talking we have good chances…and there is this bond of ours…”

T’Pol was just looking at him, still touching his face, so he kept going “I also know that right now we’re both sad and distressed…so if you want we can wait until we’re both feeling better”

She didn’t answer him immediately. Instead she looked at him and caressed his cheek for a whole minute before saying, “I believe we are going to feel better sooner if we help each other with our grief”. One more time she managed to surprise him.

Trip nodded and then she kissed him with the sweetest kiss, soft and loving.

When she moved away from him, he was smiling at her warmly. “You’re always kissing me…” he complained; teasing her again.

“As I recall a few times is far from always” she told him seriously.

“Hmm…it isn’t a Vulcan custom, isn’t it? He asked her.

“No, it isn’t”

“About what I was telling you before…you don’t have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable…” he said

“I’m not uncomfortable…and as I recall you encouraged me to do what I wanted to, regardless of Vulcan traditions” she told him back, confused.

“I remember but…I know you don’t like touching others and kissing is touching” Trip said.

T’Pol’s look was of surprise and a little amusement. “I suppose I should clarify this topic…Vulcans avoid touching others because it increases our ability to sense others emotions, as you know”

He nodded.

“Because of our bond I’m allowed to sense your emotions without physical contact, so continuing with the avoidance of touch between us is illogical” she explained.

He looked at her thoughtfully while getting closer to her.

She moved back and stopped his advance. “Touching between couples is considered very intimate…it has an erotic meaning to us…and because of this it’s avoided in front of others”.

“OK, I got that. No touching in public” he said beginning to smile again.

When his smile got to his eyes, he hugged her closer to him and buried his face between her head and the pillow. Being this close, she felt him laugh and the movement his laughter caused rippled through her. So alien and so Trip, she thought.

Fin

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A whole mess of folks have made comments

o cool i'm first! i liked the first & this is great too! i love the way you wrote T'pol's character here. i really enjoyed it. so sweet!

I love it, I love it....great , please continue soon.

I really liked both parts of your story. You handled their bond nicely. I would have like to see things happen like this. TnT are very believable in this.

I would love to see more of this storyline - please, please.

i loved it more please more

A good start! I'd like to see you continue this.

I love this! Please keep writing this!! I love it when T'Pol acknowledges her feelings for Trip. And well written too!

I love this too! Please keep going, I am loving this. Although it is a kind of cute short one, I wold love it to be longer. More touching!

Very nice....please expand on it. I like the way this is going......T

Lovely, touching fic! I agree with the others . . continue!

Thanks for continuing from first part. Very nicely done! I hope you continue the story!

I liked it! I hope there's more! :)

Lovely.

Thanks so much for the feedback. I've never written fanfic before up until a month ago or so. The series cancellation got me very frustrated and the series finale extremely dissapointed and angry, to say the least. The writing it's been therapeutic for me but very hard as well.

Thank you so much for the feedback. I've never written fanfic before, up until a month ago or so. The series cancellation got me very frustrated and the series finale extremely dissapointed and angry, to say the least. The writing has been therapeutic for me but very hard as well.

This is excellent! I particularly liked the parallels in the two stories -- Trip lying awake, T'Pol lying awake, both of them watching each other and thinking about all the times they had watched each other before, hoping the other wouldn't notice. Very well done. I'm looking forward to reading more of your work.

Really Wonderful story.
Hoping for more.

This is wonderful. I really hope there will be more.

Great stuff.

Have really enjoyed all 3 of your stories, do please think about writing some more, you have a very pleasing style and excellent understanding of how to interpret the characters.

Dunno how I missed reviewing this - excellent job. You really capture both of their characters nicely and I like your take on T'Pol. Caring yet still Vulcan. Good job.