Encounter

Story by LeiLani on SoFurry

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#4 of Romantic Rendezvous

Lei-Lani has been in several times, settings, and eras, but when I was asked to write a space story, it occurred to me that I knew less than zero about space travel. So, I made up quite a bit, thanks to the myriad space TV series and movies I've seen in the past.

Anyway, enjoy this tale of a close and very sensual encounter in the deepest regions of space. And perhaps a little interstellar mystery has been solved at long last. ^^

Love indeed does wondrous things, readers.

Tequiua is a character owned by Tequiua on FurAffinity.

Lei-Lani is, of course, my special girl. <3


Tequiua Sunis took a moment to record a few readings at the console, tapping a paw impatiently against one of the glass spheres and watching the gauge level off to an acceptable level. A little something for maintenance to look at when they got back, he thought, and jotted down a note on his Pad. It wasn't so much that the jaguar took pleasure in reporting anything amiss way out here, but he felt the Tech-Team back on Earth needed to feel useful somehow. But the sad truth was, the KX-450 practically operated itself, and no mechanical or automated team in the world could make her run smoother.

He slipped the Pad into a compartment and switched off the overhead before undoing the straps holding him in place in his seat, and he rose up slowly, floating across the panel and pushing off to the other chair, staying horizontal as he checked the next set of vitals for the ship. He glanced up to starboard, gazing at myriad winks of color filling the entire window, a void of deep velvet hues and colorful splashes of reds and greens that made up the Crab Nebula. From so close, even with an untrained eye, the planets beyond looked so warm and inviting. He longed to start the next phase of their journey, though it would take another few Earth days to get to the next destination, in the north quadrant of one of the "claws", Geeto, named for the 23rd century artist who had spotted it after a routine mission to Aba.

Tequiua became so lost in the view, he didn't notice movement from behind and to the left of him, until he felt a gentle paw touch his tail near the base, and he turned to grin at the only other celestial body in close range, that of his co-pilot, Lei-Lani Perriere.

"Enjoying the view, Doctor?" she smiled, floating down beside him and following his gaze, webbed paws gripping the top of her chair.

"Every bit of it." The jaguar breathed, and his tail playfully batted against her thicker one. "Crew almost prepared?" He felt funny calling it a crew, really. Other than he and the otteress, there were no other life-forms aboard.

She nodded, still looking out the large window. "A few more checks. Waiting on a report from the reactor scheduled in about an hour, then we should be set for the jump. I already calculated our arrival time...um..." She turned away from him, and floated towards the other side of the ship, kicking brown legs briefly. Tequiua turned his attention to his lovely companion, watching her glide over to the reactor panel in nothing but a white pullover shirt and panties. A swell of desire started in his own undergarments, and the big cat suddenly wished he'd second-guessed himself and gone with the briefs.

Having been cooped up together for so long, nearly an Earth year, had given the jaguar and otteress ample time to get to know one another more. They'd met during training at Cape Canaveral, aced the preliminary exams, and with an extreme amount of luck - both being reserve personnel - had been offered to pilot the Crab Nebula exploration, flight KX-001, for a period of three Earth years. It was hoped they would be done by 2414, but a re-calculation had shown at least seven new planets in the Crab's outermost "claw", and the mission was re-aligned to continue for another two more years.

Looking at Lei-Lani now, the jaguar couldn't help but smile inwardly. She was every bit as good a pilot as he, and he imagined the doctor would find herself becoming captain of her own KX-450 one day soon. He watched the girl fondly as she read over a few instruments, then glanced back over her shoulder, deep-sea green eyes looking into his, her long black tresses dancing behind her.

"Hmm, that's odd..."

"What's that, 'Lani?" He was still a little lost in her eyes, and shook his head a bit, pushing off of the edge of the chair and floating over to her, pressed up against her side. He felt the warmth of her short fur against his shorts, and the swelling inside seemed to pulse. Gods, why hadn't he worn the briefs?

Lei-Lani was still looking at the panel, making no attempt, the jaguar was pleased to notice, to pull away from him. They'd been close to one another before; brushing up against each other, sometimes bumping heads. No matter how much they tried, this was nonetheless their first flight together, and the weightlessness was still something hard to get used to.

"This reading here," her webbed fingers touched a crystal track-ball, and a window appeared on the screen, showing data from the main reactor. "It's nominal, but there's a roughly five-point-two percent increase in the topaz structure."

"Did they increase to account for our trajectory modifications maybe?"

The otteress shook her head. "We didn't get a report for it."

The jaguar looked to the side towards the nebula and shrugged. "Well, we're closer to this baby than ever before. Could be some extra energy, some kind of radiation that the ship's trapping. " He felt the otter-girl turn her body around just then to face him, and his erection, mercifully clad in cotton shorts, brushed along her bare thigh.

"Doctor, you're guessing again. I dislike it when you guess."

Tequiua gave her his most disarming smile. He loved how serious she would get sometimes. Everything had to be by the book with her, and yet, for the hardened, military-like exterior she showed to he and the others, there was a soft, gentle kindness about her that had kept him awake some nights in the sleep capsule, pawing at his sheath until an arousal as big as life would throb between his legs.

Lei-Lani was saying something else just then and the jaguar missed it completely, still looking in her eyes. "What? I'm sorry...just thinking about what...could be causing this is all..." he finished lamely.

The otteress frowned. "Teek, what is with you lately? Ever since we got to this quadrant you've been really, well pardon the pun, spaced out a little."

The jaguar apologized. "I don't know. Maybe it's just the excitement of getting to Geeto soon. You have to admit, this is totally something new to us both. It's been on my mind a lot, what we might find, or...meet..." He touched her arm. "Can't you feel it too? That...need to know?"

Lei-Lani considered the jaguar's face thoughtfully. She was excited, certainly, but she hadn't given much thought to the personal feelings she had. She had been so hard-pressed to learn the routines and procedures back on Earth, the wondrous giddiness spawned from pure innocence had left her. She offered him a smile however. Lei-Lani was very fond of Dr. Sunis, with whom she'd spent the better part of her late teens and mid-20s, through hard work, rigorous training and simulations, and had come to enjoy the time together.

"Of course I'm excited," she finally answered with a sigh. "But I think I'm going to run one more reactor check anyway." Leaning over, she touched a few more crystals on the panel and watched intently, frowning again after a moment. "It's still five-point-two percent. I don't like this. What could be causing the influx?" Lei-Lani thumbed a receiver. "KX Proto one-five-nine, systems on, run self-start and proceed to reactor chamber. Full report needed. Thank you."

"I really don't think this is a problem. You're deviating from schedule. The folks back on Earth are going to link-up any second to ask what's wrong."

"Well, let's see what the droid comes back with for us. It's not an alarming amount, but if something is being pulled in from the outside, we need to make sure it's not giving too much to the topaz. I don't relish us becoming a nuclear explosion..."

She pushed away from the panel and glided past Tequiua again, her tail touching his legs. "I think I'm going to take a shower, Doctor. Alert me when one-five-nine is ready, would you?" The jaguar watched his companion navigate around the chairs and float towards the back portal, touching a crystal and gliding through the circular opening. He caught another glance of white panties tightly sculpting tanned buttcheeks and swallowed. "Oh, sure...of course..."

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Lei-Lani pushed a button to the bath-sphere and stepped inside, slipping off her pullover and letting ripe, tanned breasts free. She waited for the water bubble to form in the chamber next to her and slipped out of her panties next, stuffing them and her shirt into a catch basin to the side to keep them from floating away. The bubble grew exponentially to about three gallons large before popping free from the chamber and floating up to her. The otteress smiled, churrring softly to herself, and lifted the water towards her, pushing it over her face and submerging her head inside of it. She blew a few bubbles, listening to the gentle sounds of her air trickling from her lips, and thought about her training in the pool back at the space center.

She'd swam almost every day, diving into the huge 100-foot basin and touching the bottom, just to feel the water gripping around her lithe form like a tightly-fitting glove. She'd grown up around the islands of the South Seas, exploring and playing in the ocean's depths for much of her childhood before signing on to civilian service. There she'd met many others like her; young, inexperienced recruits eager to take to the skies and continue the ongoing explorations of nearby galaxies and countless planets within them. Strange, she thought, remembering the times she had floated on her back in the ocean, and gazed up at the bright stars above her. They seemed so beautiful, mysterious, filling her with curiosity and wonder. Now they were reduced to data on a mini-screen, nothing more than balls of gas not unlike Earth's sun.

The otteress blew a few more bubbles and held her breath a bit longer, enjoying the little slice of serenity she had captured for herself here. She found she didn't care if the Tech-Team linked up to them. Tequiua would handle them, just as he always did. Lei-Lani thought of the handsome jaguar, his deep brown eyes, his smile, the way he always tried to get close to her, and smiled.

She'd enjoyed the times they were together, and he was the only recruit she had met that had treated her well. Everyone else saw an uprooted sea-otter with hardly any English skills as nothing more than a burden. But Tequiua had helped her prepare notes, study for exams, even guided her through her first vomiting spell when experiencing free-fall in the weightless simulation.

He had always been there for her, and she couldn't have been happier to learn that they, two physicists, would be asked to lead the first mission to the Crab Nebula to record some of the strongest electromagnetic waves ever. It was indeed more exciting to learn that faint planets had been detected within the nebula itself, and their journey would be extended. She thought about another two years with the jaguar and churrred again, closing her eyes. She'd had feelings for him in the past; had even thought of asking him out sometime, perhaps to swim with her at the pool. But they were forbidden by rules and regulations.

She thought of him again now, as she continued to stay submerged, her wet tresses tangling about her neck and shoulders. She'd felt his warmth, his full arousal touching her leg just now. The heat was tremendous, like the sun itself. How badly she had wanted to rub herself against him, to feel him.

She had seen him once like that not too long ago into the mission. He was lying next to her in their respective sleep-capsules, a paw down his shorts, moving his digits around his groin. She'd watched wide-eyed as the jaguar released his full erection, gripping it and slowly pulling at it. The otteress had never seen him so big, so full, and she had unknowingly pawed over her own sex, feeling warmth and wetness spread through her panties.

The otteress had masturbated with him, intently watching him unseen as a jut of his seed suddenly spurted from the swollen tip and spattered against his belly amidst a soundless moan. She remembered cumming into her panties hard, trying to keep her legs squeezed together as she climaxed over and over, her body writhing back and forth.

Lei-Lani shook her head a little, the warmth of their self-intimacies still lingering on her sub-conscious, and realized she was still in the bubble - and her lungs were starting to protest. She quickly pushed off of the sphere wall and jerked free of the water, panting hard. Her body felt strange, tingling all over, perspiration beading and starting to pull away from her fur in droplets. She cried out in disgust and quickly grabbed the water bubble, spreading it over her arms and her legs, washing away the strong scent.

What in the hell was wrong with her? The otteress dragged the bubble over her feet, bending down and playing it across the toe pads, and along her heels. She had never felt such strong feelings before this. After the last incident, she was more determined than ever to stay official, and to look upon her companion as her partner in a very important inter-stellar mission. She had managed not to think about their secret pleasures until just this moment. But why suddenly now?

She was just finishing up her bath when a timid knock came from the sphere door, and the otteress quickly jerked her head up. "W-what is it, Captain?"

"Um, you asked me to let you know when the report came back from the reactor." Tequiua's voice seemed muffled, distant, and she glided over to the door, opening it partway so she could talk. The jaguar immediately dropped his gaze, looking down at her feet, the most beautiful bare feet he'd ever seen, and swallowed hard. "Systems all nominal. The energy anomaly is holding at five-point-two." Absently, he rubbed a paw across his crotch and realized he was in full arousal, disobeying the weightless environment once more. "I...that's all I have..."

Lei-Lani's green eyes flickered as Tequiua finally lifted his gaze up to meet them. "Thanks for letting me check at least, Doctor." She offered a warm smile. "I know it pains you to keep me happy sometimes..."

The jaguar shook his head, still drinking in her eyes. "Not in the slightest, Lani...I...enjoy making you happy...very much..."

The otteress blushed, leaning against the door more, and it suddenly opened a bit farther than she intended it to. Her paw quickly darted out to grab onto the side and she laughed, floating naked and helplessly up against him, pressing them together. The water bubble bobbled and shimmered from around her legs and the jaguar quickly caught it with a foot, pushing it back into the sphere.

"Careful Lani! If that water bubble gets out, I've no idea what it'll do to the controls." But he was laughing too, grabbing the otter-girl firmly around her wrist and helping her before she floated out of the sphere as well. He was almost nose to nose with her now, the two still giggling softly. Finally he stopped and caressed her cheek with his nose. "You look so beautiful..." he whispered, and kissed her cheek, his heart pounding.

Lei-Lani smiled, and her paws came up to slip around his neck loosely. Without a word, she pressed her mouth to his, the gentle kiss slowly becoming deeper as their tongues sought one another's, melding, becoming a sensual dance. A gentle whimper escaped from her after their mouths finally parted, and she looked down, seeing his enormous erection peeking up from over the waistband of his shorts. She sighed and pushed herself up harder against him with a single tail-wave. The swollen knob of the large cat's thick shaft pushed against the otteress' belly in sudden urgent need, aching for her warmth.

Her paws dropped down and she smiled, wordlessly tugging at Tequiua's tented shorts, sliding the waistband around his hips and fighting the weightlessness in her attempt to pull them down his legs. He grinned as his erection leaped from his shorts, feeling as large and as swollen as he could remember, and Lei-Lani churrred slowly up at him, brushing her nose around his length. A wave of euphoria swept through the jaguar as he felt his sex poked and prodded delicately, and then eagerly licked.

He floated into the bath-sphere with her as she pulled back up to kiss him, exploring his mouth again with her tongue as her paws continued to stroke and pull at him, at least nine-inches of pumping arousal alive within her grasp. He moaned softly and let his head drop down to nuzzle and kiss along her full breasts, the black nipples becoming swollen, hard points against his lips. As they kissed longer, he suddenly felt the water covering his length and let out a gasp of pleasure against the otteress' mouth, looking down, watching her small paws start to bathe him, the silky water adding to his excitement, and causing him to throb all the more.

Lei-Lani realized suddenly how hot he was, and continued to paw at him until a trickle of his seed beaded and then pulled away from the tiny slit in his sex. The jaguar moaned out again and she joined him in another long kiss, stepping up the speed of her strokes.

"Lani...I...I...can't...oh..."

"You can..." she whispered, and swallowed his taste in another kiss, her paw firming up, gripping his sex close to the tip, bobbing her fist up and down quickly inside the water bubble. The jaguar's orgasm that followed was relentless; spurting tendril after tendril of his heat as he shuddered and jerked against her wildly. His seed floated around trapped inside the water, and Lei-Lani carefully brought the shimmering globe up again to her head. Still smiling, she pushed herself into it, coming up to Tequiua's head and welcoming him into her watery space, kissing him hard and intently. Tequiua had never kissed underwater like this, and was amazed to find how long he could hold his breath while the otteress occasionally fed him a bit of her stored air between kisses.

Too soon, the need for air got the better of him and he pulled away from the bubble, badly out of breath. Lei-Lani smiled, pushing playfully away from her new lover, kicking her legs and floating over to the compartment tray with the bubble in her paws, emptying it into its proper container. She looked over her shoulder at her companion, giving him a sensuous churrr, and her legs floated apart.

Tequiua swallowed hard, pushing off from the sphere wall and clamping his body atop of her back. His strong arms wrapped around her belly, anchoring himself against her, and he cupped both his paws over her breasts to squeeze and massage, kissing the back of her neck, along her ears, and across her shoulders.

Lei-Lani began to moan and whimper softly, struggling to keep her hold on the compartment bar as the jaguar continued to play with her breasts and kiss her. Tequiua glided down her body slowly, licking and kissing her deep brown fur with all the gentleness of a feather-touch. As his mouth reached one of her buttcheeks, she gave him another moan of need, lifting her thick tail straight up. The jaguar didn't need any further coaxing. With a lusty growl, he started to lick the otteress' tailhole, nestling his tongue inside briefly. The otteress cried out and kicked her legs slowly, spreading them out even more, her sex sculpted with pink, swollen folds, and a button of flesh pushing up between them.

For some moments, the jaguar bathed and licked her, until she could scarcely contain herself. As his tongue thrust deep into her sex one last time, the otteress bit back a cry of pleasure and had her first orgasm, a mixture of honey and perspiration, practically permeated with her scent.

Tequiua growled softly, taking every bit of her reward against his tongue, licking her and then suckling from her clit as more and more of her trickling, hot juices escaped.

The lovemaking that followed was intense; every squeeze from the otteress' folds teased and pleasured the jaguar to ecstacy until his seed burst inside of her, hot splashes of his juices wetting her, filling her over and over.

Presently the two floated wrapped together, spent, purring and churrring in pleasure as they explored one another's mouths once more in a deep, longing kiss.

"Why..." Tequiua swallowed hard, gazing into Lei-Lani's eyes, "Why didn't we ever...do this before?"

Her fingers came up to stroke along his lips and she smiled, rubbing noses. "I...don't know, Teek...it's...gods, I've wanted you so much lately, I can't understand it...can't explain it..."

"Me neither, 'Lani..." His brown eyes focused on hers again. "All I know is that...I love you, 'Lani...I've been in love with you since the day we met in training and..."

"Shhhh..." the otteress blushed, and nuzzled his nose. "I...love you too, Teek..."

The two started to kiss deeply again, paws beginning to explore, when a load whine from the link-in sounded from outside the bath-sphere. The couple gasped and scrambled to the sphere-door, pulling themselves out and floating naked into the control room.

Tequiua snatched up the link-in receiver as Lei-Lani giggled and clung to his back.

"KX One, do you read? KX One? Dr. Sunis?"

"We're here, TT," the jaguar breathed heavily, "I'm sorry, you caught us in the shower...over."

"Very funny." the deep male voice responded with a growl. "We saw that there was a report generated for the reactor compartment. Something about an anomaly in the Topaz? Over."

"Well, we were not sure," Lei-Lani chimed in, still caressing her lover's belly, drawing his hardening sex up to bump along her fingers. "Um...I thought it was something that should be reported, and so I asked one-fine-nine to make a full reading report. The strange energy burst isn't any larger, and it is stable. That's...that's all I have." She giggled softly as the jaguar turned around beneath her, and started kissing her hungrily, starting anew her lust and needs. "Um...over."

"Right, okay then. So I am to understand you have no further data on what might be causing the electromagnetic disturbances in the nebula? Over."

They looked at one another just then, their eyes sparkling. "I think we may actually have an idea what it is," he said softly, still gazing at her, his firm paws clenching the otteress' buttcheeks.

"Captain, you're breaking up, I didn't quite read you, over..."

He nuzzled against the otteress, taking her paw into his, pushing her, smiling, onto her back and into the sleep capsule with him.

"Love..." she whispered to him, and churrred deeply as he entered into her once more, her arms locking about his shoulders while she kissed him eagerly.

"C-captain...? Ma'am...? You guys okay...? Over...?"

The universe said nothing.

END