Just for Tonight
Who: Peter & Alandra
Where: Parrott's Bar
When: A Few Hours ShlaterrrÂ…
After their awkward meeting outside of the Shuttle Bay, Alandra & Peter quickly abandoned Kevn at the bookstore, Lord knows what he wanted to do in a Bookstore at Two in the Morning, so they headed off to Parrotts on the simple mission of getting stone-blind drunk.
After a few festive hours of partying (one of the engineers was getting married, so they were having a stag do.) which had culminated in a very drunken Engineer getting up on to the Pool Table and singing a slurred, but surprisingly accurate, rendition of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I am the very model of a Modern Major-General" before being escorted back to his cabin by one of the nurses, at least, she was dressed like a nurse.
By now all the people in Parrott's were drunk, asleep or both. Alandra cradled herself in Peter's arms, smiling and half asleep. Peter was completely sloshed and almost paralytic too.
"ya know, I've had a fantastic night with you" slurred Alandra, poking Peter in the ribs drunkenly.
"You aint been too bad a company yourself" Peter slurred back.
"You're the only person who really, really, really understands me"
"really?" laughed Peter
"Yeah, and you know what? I love you." Alandra smiled, resting her head on Peter's shoulder.
"Come on you, we'd better get you home" Peter said to the sleeping beauty on his shoulder. Together, they managed to get up and stagger to the door and out onto the deserted Promenade. Peter, even in his altered state of mind, was ever the gentleman and escorted Alandra back to her quarters.
"Well, looks like your stop" giggled Peter.
"Yeah, who woulda thought it?" Alandra laughed back.
Without any warning Alandra pulled Peter into a deep embrace, which he returned, their bodies alight with love and passion. After what had seemed like all time and no time at all, but couldn't have been more than 30 seconds, they pulled apart smiling.
"Stay with me Peter, for tonight" she whispered
"Ok, for tonight I will" he took her by the hand and they entered her appartment, the door sliding shut behind them in the darkness.
"Alandra?"
"Yes?"
"I love you too"
<tag Alandra for "the morning after">