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You Can't Fight a Tidal Wave	By : madradena Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation Views: 1693 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Emma after her shift went straight to the holodeck. Data and Sonya were standing on the stage speaking and smiling, but just as they noticed Emma, their expressions changed. Data looked at her with devotion, Sonya with contempt. They said hello, and Sonya walked back to the table where they usually sat with Reg in the breaks.
Emma smiled at Data as he immediately took her hand. In the last week, she noticed that he gradually became a bit more daring in touching her after getting some encouragement that his touch was welcome.
"Where's Broccoli?" she asked looking around curious.
Instead of Data, Sonya answered "Lieutenant Barclay is at Engineering. He had some more work to do." she emphasized his name as much as she could and looked daggers at Emma for teasing him even behind his back.
"Okay..." Emma told her and looking back at Data rolled her eyes.
Data smiled at her almost challengingly "If you used the proper name of everybody, you could avoid having to roll your eyes so many times." he said as if he was explaining how to use a tricorder. Some of the social interactions that were basic for him, did actually seem to need some explanation for Emma.
She looked at him with a mock-frown "Was this an attempt at sarcasm, Deadpan? Because if so, it was a fairly good one!" she added chuckling.
He gave her a small smile, and she could swear he seemed a little smug "I have an excellent teacher." he remarked. Then his expression quickly changed to his usual deadpan "Where is Doctor Crusher?" They were all to meet at 1400, and it was already 1412.
"She had to stay at sickbay. Apparently, some baby decided he needs to be born today and not a day later." she grimaced then shrugged "She'll come as soon as she can."
After a moment of hesitation, Data looked at her and Sonya as well "Should we not try to use the time to--" he started, but his combadge went off.
"Picard to Data." they heard.
Data pressed his badge with a slightly surprised expression "Data here."
"Could you see me in my ready room, Commander?" the Captain's comvoice came through.
"On my way, Sir!" Data answered then closing the channel, he was about to turn to the door, but Emma frowned up at him.
"What could he want?" she wondered.
He shrugged and looked at her with a small smile "I hope he would be returning me to duty."
"Wha?" she gaped "And why would he do that all of a sudden?" she looked at him taken aback wide-eyed.
"Because according to Counsellor Troi, I am ready to return to work."
Emma gaped at him smiling a wide, happy smile "And you're not saying anything?!" she reached up and kissed him firmly on the lips. He just blinked surprised. When she let him go, he stood there dumbfounded. She giggled at his expression and forcefully turned him around toward the door (and he let her) "What are you standing here for? Go, Deadpan! Go!" she gave him a push laughing. He obeyed and gazing back from the doorway, he shook his head chuckling then stepped out into the corridor.
As the door closed, Emma realized that she remained alone with Sonya, and her heart sank. She didn't feel like enduring her resentful glances but had no inclination to make peace. Should she just leave? That would be cowardly... She turned back toward the stage and sighed. Bev and Data both wanted her to finally make peace with Sonya, and both of them assured her that the young woman was a nice person - if she was talking to anybody else but her.
She gave in and strode up to the table Sonya was sitting at. She stood in front of her for a moment, waiting for Sonya to finally acknowledge her presence, then turned a chair around and sat down on it. With the back of the chair against the table, she put her forearms on it and tried to catch the other woman's gaze.
"So, Sugar. It seems that it's only the two of us." she told her challengingly.
But Sonya simply stood up at the next moment "I guess I'll come back when everybody else is here too." she turned, but Emma called after her.
"Sonya, stop!" she said on a hard voice, and the young woman did stop in the motion but did not turn back to her "Please, sit down. I don't usually try to straighten my relationships, if no sex is involved as a payoff, so I'd appreciate it, if you appreciated it."
Sonya was embarrassed by Emma's bluntness, which she utterly hated in the older woman from the very beginning. But she slowly turned back and sat down. She gazed at her patronizingly "I don't care about your apology, cause you've hurt so many people so many times that there's no apology enough to make that right." she declared stubbornly.
A small smirk appeared on Emma's lips "Good. I'm horrible at apologizing, so I had no intention to do that."
Sonya snorted shaking her head with a resentment she had never felt for anybody before "Then what do you want?"
Emma grimaced uncomfortably "To tell you that I never meant to hurt you." Sonya looked at her with suspicion in her eyes, and Emma went on "I was a jerk with you, but it wasn't because I don't think that you're a good actress. You're quite okay, you also have a nice singing voice, and you were right that keeping up with Data is a HUGE challenge."
Sonya still eyed her with suspicion "Then what was it about?"
Emma clasped her fingers on the table in front of her and shrugged "Well, if we are speaking so frankly, here you go, Sugar. You and Broccoli were acting like too mindless teens every time anybody dared touch either of you. And it was ruining the play. When I danced with him, you were literally spitting jealousy all over the stage, and it was plain that you just couldn't concentrate because of that. He on the other hand was so embarrassed and worried what you might be thinking if he had to take my hand that he was not able to concentrate either. I told him to have some balls and hook up with you already--" she couldn't finish.
Sonya sprang to her feet outraged "How dare you?!" she shouted "How dare you interfere with our business?! With our emotions? Who gave you the right?!" and her voice broke. Emma was surprised but tried to conceal it and let the other woman get a grip before answering. Sonya glared into her eyes, and instead of calming down, she went on a rampage "You're the most horrible, most ill-willed person I've ever known! You hurt everybody around you. You have no respect for anyone! Or anything! How can Commander Data tolerate being with you more than it is absolutely necessary is beyond me!"
Emma just gazed into her eyes with her usual smug expression then shrugged "He certainly has his stimulus-threshold very high up." she remarked dryly.
"You don't deserve him! You don't deserve the friendship of Doctor Crusher either! You don't deserve to be surrounded with people at all!" she swirled around and started for the door.
Emma sprang to her feet "And that's because I was the only freaking person who cared enough to do SOMETHING, while all the others, people you call friends, just stood by and probably had a very good time watching the two of you keep screwing AROUND each other instead of doing it WITH each other!" her voice was harsh and almost cruel. It made Sonya stop at the door. Emma walked up to her and stood a few steps behind her "For how long, Sugar? Weeks? Certainly, I've witnessed that much. Months? Possibly. Or even years, Sonya?"
Sonya's tears began to flow, and she quickly wiped them away, but they just kept coming. Suddenly, she felt Emma's hands on her arms and let herself be turned around. "I suppose you're happy now..." she moaned desperately trying to get a grip.
Emma rolled her eyes "Sure, that's what I do for a hobby. Make gals in love cry a river... My-my! Let's stop this!" she told her softly and reached up to Sonya's face, and to the younger woman's utter shock, gently wiped her tears away with her thumb. She waited until Sonya was ready to listen to her again "Broccoli is a hard nut." she went on "No matter how contradictory that may sound..." she added grimacing at the pun. Sonya was not amused, just gazed away with a sullen expression. Emma eyed her for a moment longer then asked the one question that was on her mind from day one "Must you be with HIM? I mean, darling, you ARE an eye-catcher! And he's just such an..." 'annoying prick' she wanted to finish, but Sonya cut in.
"He is kind and sweet! He is a gentleman! So polite and so nice! And he is just so incredibly smart! You don't know him the way I do! He is always there! Whenever I need him, whatever I want! He would be there and would try anything to fulfill my wishes!"
"Except if your wish is to finally get laid by him." Emma taunted with a wry smile. She didn't even want to picture the possible performance such a guy could give in bed... Sonya again glared at her completely shocked, even mortified, and Emma held her hands up "Alright, I take it back! I meant to say, he's not open to the obvious. Better?"
Sonya gazed away uncomfortably. Yes, it was true. But she would never be able to use such words. Her look made Emma revise her earlier thoughts: if Broccoli was not able to perform in bed, no one would even notice given that Sonya was sharing most of his inhibitions. But they were here, talking about the one topic, Emma would bet Spot's fur on that Sonya had never spoken to anyone. So she kinda felt obliged to help. "Look." she started again "I suggest a direct approach. Waiting for him to make the move is like waiting for Godot. Never gonna happen. Trust me on this!"
Sonya shook her head "You're talking as if you were sure about his feelings!"
"Are you not?!" Emma gaped.
"How could I be?!" Sonya asked back bewildered. Then spread her arms frustrated "I tried everything. I gave him the signs, I invited him over for dinner. I even cooked for him his favourite dish! I wore the prettiest outfit that the replicator could produce. I tried to give him the opportunity to... And I did those things many times! He always left my quarters with us still only friends. I really can't think of anything else to do. Because he..." she slightly shook her head and raised her shoulders.
"Are you sure he's straight?" Emma butted in squinting in suspicion.
Sonya gave her another mortified look but strangely enough actually answered "Yes. He told me about a girlfriend he had at the Academy." she said almost on a whisper.
"Okay, I see... Well... You did your job, and he pretended he's deaf and blind. Listen, such guys need to be conquered. You can't wait for him to make the move, because he has too many inhibitions. When I was talking about the two of you to him, he was practically petrified for long minutes only by hearing that you actually would want anything from him. He doesn't even consider that as an option, he thinks he misunderstands all the signs a regular guy would otherwise take as a bang on the head with a baseball bat. If you really want him, you need to go up to him, and simply kiss him. That's that."
"What?!"
"He wouldn't have a chance to misunderstand THAT." Emma shrugged.
"But that's just..." Sonya winced, her face now completely red.
"Why not? He is at Engineering, right?" Emma asked and taking her by the arm pulled her towards the door "We go there, you do it, and the rest is history."
"No!" Sonya pulled away.
"Don't be such a chicken! It's not that you should do a strip-tease, it's just a peck, come on!"
"No!" Sonya declared stubbornly "Even you wouldn't do that, if you were in my shoes, so no! I'm not humiliating myself like that!"
Emma threw her hands up "Of course I would do it! Okay, not with Barclay!" she said his name correctly this time because of a slip of the tongue. "But with Data, certainly." she shrugged.
"You are already a couple. What would be such a big deal about THAT?"
Emma rolled her eyes impatiently to get to the bottom of this "Okay, Sugar! Then it's your call! Tell me what you think I wouldn't dare to do. If I do it, you go up to Broccoli and smooch with him at Engineering! Deal?" she asked holding out her hand.
Sonya frowned surprised. Emma seemed so smugly sure of herself that she was ready to make the bet BEFORE knowing what she would have to do. The younger woman looked at her frowning for a moment then grabbed her hand and shook it "You know what? Deal!"
Emma let her hand go and motioned for her to go on "So what's it gonna be?"
Sonya showed her the first smile - well, ever since they have known each other, though it was rather a smirk "You go up to the Bridge, and you kiss Data with the Captain watching!"
A laugh blurted out of Emma's mouth "That's IT? And you call this a challenge? Now, come on, Sugar!" she waved and started for the door.
Sonya stopped her "Have you EVER met Captain Picard?!"
Emma shrugged "Bev likes him. Whatever could be wrong there?"
Sonya looked at her now gaping "He is the most intimidating person on this very ship! I would say that in the whole quadrant."
"Pff... Come on, I grew up with an Admiral as my old man. Do you think I get goosebumps from some Captain?"
Sonya stopped her by the arm with a desperate expression "Emma, wait. I take it back. And not because I doubt that you would do it. But if you do this, you could get into trouble."
Emma laughed out loud "So what do you care? You officially hate me!" she taunted then looked at her challengingly "Does that mean that you'd do as I told you?"
"No! I gave you this challenge BECAUSE I don't want to do as you told me!"
Emma frowned now irritated "Oh, yeah, you WILL do it! Now get moving, Sugar!" she pushed her out of the door to a turbolift.
"Emma, no! Stop it! I'm not!" Sonya pleaded in a panic and was utterly shocked, when Emma called for the Bridge instead of Engineering. They made a deal. Emma was keeping herself to it. She swallowed in fear: she should never have started to talk to this lunatic in the first place!
When they got to the Bridge, Will Riker stood up from the Captain's chair and gave them a kind smile "Ladies, is there anything I can do for you?"
"No, you can't." Emma shook her head "I need Data and the Captain. In the same room preferably."
"Oh, they're in the ready room, but I suppose it'd be better if you waited for them."
"Sure!" Emma turned to Sonya with a small smile "That's what we're gonna do!"
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