Nicole and Allison hopped a shuttle from Starbase 756 to First Corinthians for another day of conference meetings. Nicole drank a cup of coffee and warned Allison about another day of grandstanding by the Romulans. Nicole then read her new partner an edict written by the Romulan Praetor condemning the USS Vulcan Victory for engaging a Romulan Warbird near Vulcan.
"But they were just protecting the planet.", Allison naively observed.
"I understand that.", Nicole smiled, touching Allison on the knee. Allison liked how it felt.
Nicole and Allison walked into the conference room as Praetor T'Ros launched into a grand definition of marriage. She first launched into a tirade about marriage being a union of a man and woman and ino a religious diatribe that could have been written in the early 2010s and not in 2392. Nicole was almost embarrassed for the Romulan as she showed a prejudice that was more than 300 years old.
The fillabuster turned into a definition of marriage as it relates to consumation of the wedding vows with an act of merging the realities. She glared at Nicole and Allison as if knowing that they had created the ruse just to maintain control of the colony.
Nicole and Allison had to listen to this garbage for the whole day. Romulan Praetor T'Ros had brought in a preacher from the religious right of Earth to provide a human perspective on marriage and on the disgrace of same sex realities. Nicole literally had to grip the handrails on several occassions to keep from walking out.
The ladies wanted to return to Camelot but T'Ros requested a night session to allow her one more time to chastise the relationship between Nicole and Allison. Nicole and Allison went back to a hotel room on First Corinthians. Nicole plunked down on the bed.
"You don't need to worry about me, Nicole.", Allison looked at her human spouse.
"I know a thing or two about same sex realities.", she announced.
Nicole looked at Allison a little puzzled.
"As you know, the Caitians somehow got in their mind that the Loripadae were a strain on their resources and the first thing they did was outlaw marriage and unions for procreation amongst the Loripadae. My people are a caring and loving group and as the state began to break up existing unions including that of my parents, my father and his business partner soon moved in together. As I say, we are a caring and loving people. My father still had love to give and their union would neither be seen as a threat nor a risk of procreation. My two dads raised me through my teen years without any issues. I love them both dearly.", Allison explained.
Nicole looked at the picture and smiled, "You look happy."
"We were... are. I cannot wait to tell them about you.", Allison smiled, carefully rubbing the edges of the picture with her fingers.
Nicole smiled seeing the love in her eyes. Allison looked up at Nicole, "I know why you are the way you are. I have heard the stories. I know how ambitious you were but no one should have to endure what you went through with Admiral Bruce Montgomery. The fact that he strapped you to the desk and had sex with you is both disgusting and disgraceful. I would be turned off sex with males by that action as well."
Allison looked at Nicole, "I was taken by the Caitian Dreadnoughts to the Prison Moon orbiting Chlora. Things happened."
Nicole looked at the image of Allison Leo strapped and dressed in lingerie. She knew what the Dreadnoughts had done to her. She was disgusted by what had happened.
Nicole and Allison were walking back to hear more garbage from the Romulan and her entourage of disgrace. Nicole looked at Allison and slowly interlaced her fingers into Allison's.
Nicole and Allison listened to another sermon about the union and the power of consumation as a verification of that love. Allison knew what Praetor T'Ros and her preacher were getting at. If the marriage of Nicole and Allison was fraudulent, the lack of a consumation act would be demonstration enough.
Nicole and Allison left the sessions and headed back to their hotel room. Nicole needed a shower. She felt almost dirty having endured such filth. She came out of the shower and headed into the main bedroom.
"Lets put all this nonsense about non-consumation to bed... Our bed.", Allison wiggled her butt.
Nicole knew what she had to do.
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Ensign Allison Leo
First Lady of Camelot
Camelot
King's Fleet
