<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/42/Valdore_%28Admiral%29.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Lieutenant Commander Havuk, Chief of Operations<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Observation Lounge, then Junior Officers' Quarters<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Day 1<br/><br/><strong>"I see.  So you... spoke with others about me?  Hmm.  I thought we discussed that we should try to keep our relationship discrete.  However, her being half-Betazoid, I imagine she was able to discern the reality.  She must have accosted you about it.  Still, I find her trustworthy, and her advice to you was accurate, although I fear you may have taken it... literally."</strong><br/><br/>Havuk saw that she needed some reassuring, so he pulled her in for a hug, then sat with her on the edge of her bed, their sides touching, one arm around her while the other reached for her hand.  He let her rest her head on his shoulder.<br/><br/><strong>"Looking into my eyes, laughing, smiling... these are all good things to do when you are interested in someone.  Touching them - perhaps she could have been more specific, but there is an unspoken procedure about physical contact, and you seemed to skip many steps.  As for chasing you, she did not mean for you to run away from me so that I would run after you.  While that may work with members of the animal kingdom, our species have evolved more subtle ways of doing that.  It's a matter of leaving the other person wanting more but cutting short the time spent together, the purpose of which is to create a yearning for one another."</strong><br/><br/>He lifted her chin up to face him, then stroked her hair out of her eyes.<br/><br/><strong>"I now understand your actions for tonight, Leta, and I accept your apology.  I hope we can move forward from this, and look back on it and laugh together about it.  And while I feel, in a sense, that I should leave now, I still want to spend more time with you."</strong><br/><br/>Havuk leaned in and pressed his lips against hers.  Slowly, he moved his body and took hers with him so that they were lying on her bed together, pulling each other closer in a warm embrace.  His hands roamed her back as his muscular thigh slipped between her knees, as if to maximize the physical contact they had against other.<br/><br/>