<div class="floatleft">(https://myanimelist.net/images/characters/4/34461.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lt Maxine "Max" Cosinara<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Phade<br/><strong>Date:</strong><em>Flashback</em>01 March 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Moon Base Aluce Hangar/Officers Mess--->Zilkin's Quarters<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lt Cdr Zilkin Kaverosky<br/><hr/><br/>Max laughed at Zil's characterization of his need for coffee.  "You have No idea.  My last base whenever we were on alert they couldn't keep the pot full."  Speaking of coffee reminded Max to enjoy the warm luscious drink sitting idly between her hands.  As she sipped her eyes stayed on Zil.  "I seem to remember a few of the instructors at the 5 training along with my CO at my last base attributing coffee consumption to my flying style."  She said with a wink as Zil sat next to her.<br/><br/>She noticed that his eyes seemed to have found their mark, which tended to be a change in perspective from the last time they'd seen each other.  They had always had the chemistry, but there was always that last link that needed to be made.  Apparently, it had been as he held her gaze for a long moment.<br/><br/>The suggestion that he took this assignment to put him in a place that she could always see him at least once a day actually made her blush.  She was sure her face was red, or at least a darker shade of pink as she lifted the cup up to her mouth to cover both her flushness and the emotion in her eyes.  Zil had never been much a poet, but the fact that he tossed that out with such ease made Max blink.<br/><br/>He was sitting so close now, almost touching her.  The intensity of their orbit around one another sent a warm wash along her skin.  His suggestion that there might possibly be another reason for her to come by his apartment other than coffee flared that warmth into a smoldering heat.  Of course there was something else, but was it what he really wanted.  He had his other lover, why now the change in focus.<br/><br/>Max set the cup of coffee cradled between her heel and her thigh, turning towards Zil.  "Oh Shin-"  She spoke in a low, alluring tone.  Her right hand reached out and touched his cheek, two fingers traced their backs along his cheek and jawbone until her thumb was close to his lips.  Her eyes flickered for a second to his lips as her thumb tenderly slid across the thin pink skin.  "you of all people should know I'm a woman of action, not words."<br/>