Drunk in the holosuites again

Rai had selected the Hidden Rainforests of Risa, which featured a pristine grotto, with crystal water, and lined with jewel-toned mosses and delicate ferns. Iridescent birds flitted from branch to branch and animals called to each other in underbrush.
Rai spread his arms out in drunken delight. "This is what I want the station to look like!" he exclaimed.

"Birds and all?" T'Pren wondered, distracted by what she was pretty sure was a nest in the tree right above her head. She was trying to decide if she'd rather be naked or climb the tree. Or maybe both?

Thinking was taking too much time, so Pren did the thing that was easiest in that moment...and began to scale the massive oldgrowth tree with perhaps slightly less dexterity than she might like, but competently nonetheless.

"Maybe not the birds, but everything else," he said. He sat down on a root and looked up at Pren. "Be careful up there!" he blurted. "You might fall."

By then, T'Pren was already at a particularly large crotch in the tree's sizable limbs. She pulled herself up and stood, throwing her arms out to the sides and tilting her face up to the sky. "I might fly!"

But she did grab another branch when it came time to slowly walk out to where the bird's nest was, since she was a little wobbly and balance wasn't the easiest thing at the moment. "Empty," she harumphed.

"Suit yourself, I'm going swimming," he slurred, and began to squirm out of his uniform.

Oh, right, swimming! T'Pren dropped down to straddle the branch she was on and wriggled her way toward the thinner end of it, which leafed out over the water. The pale, slender half-Vulcan pulled her tunic over her head with only a small struggle when it got over her face. She balled it up and threw it at Rai. And then she couldn't figure out how to take her leggings off.

"I didn't think this through," she admitted cheerfully. "Oh well." And then she let herself fall off the branch and splash clumsily into the pool.

Rai swam to her side and encircled Pren's waist tenderly, letting his lips graze the point of her ear. "Pren" he said plaintively, pressing his forehead to her temple.

Seconds before, T'Pren had been swimming to the surface and thinking about how difficult it was to get her leggings off now that they were soaked. She pushed her hair back from her face right as Rai slipped his arms around her bare stomach.

The half-Vulcan pulled in a breath at the touch, treading water as best she could without pushing the Captain away. Her chin tucked down a little at the feel of his lips on her ear and her torso filled with very warm, very pleasant drunken desire.

"This isn't swimming," she pointed out without any actual protest, turning her head just enough to kiss his lower lip. Her hands travelled his sides and chest up to his shoulders...and then she devilishly pushed down, dunking him underwater.

Pren started to swim away, just fast enough for the fun of the chase but slow enough that she wouldn't be too hard to catch. Especially because at some point she started twisting around ineptly, trying to pull off her clinging leggings.

Rai gave mock pursuit until Pren started thrashing about ridiculously. He burst into laughter.
"Are you okay?"

"Don't laugh!" T'Pren exclaimed, laughing a little herself. "It's not funny! My pants are very wet and they won't..."

"Do you... need help out of them?" he asked, treading water.

The question turned T'Pren's cheeks faintly green, but she leveled a lopsided, flirtatious smile at Rai anyway. "We might just need to have them beamed into space. I think they're fused." She swam a little closer, just in case he felt chivalrous.

Rai swam nearer, nuzzling her neck as he looped his thumbs into the waistband of her waterlogged leggings. With a few deft tugs, and Pren swimming in the opposite direction, they were off. He slung them unceremoniously on the bank.
"Where were we, then?"

Regardless of her earlier protests to the contrary, T'Pren spent most of their struggle with her leggings laughing, both because it was entirely ridiculous and because Rai was tickling her neck. "Better!" she announced as she pedaled her newly bare legs under the water.

Rai's question brought a playful shrug, as though she just could not remember what they'd been doing. "You know, I really cannot recall."

"I remember now," he said. "I was splashing you," he said, and sent a wave of water in her direction.

T'Pren let out a squeal and sank underwater to avoid more of the splash. She dove straight for Rai's feet and pulled down with her substantial Vulcan strength.

Rai dipped below the surface and grabbed Pren's waist, pulling her below, only to press his lips to hers, and release her.

T'Pren grinned under the water and swam back up to the surface. She cleared her eyes and pushed her dripping ringlets behind her ears and out of her face so that when Rai finally joined her in the air, his second breath would find her mouth on his, slightly open but barely touching, so that the kiss was almost entirely the energy passing between them.

Rai ran his fingers through the dark curls of hair and let the sparks of shared thought pass between them, every inch of their touching skin sharing a thought and a memory. The intensity was overwhelming. Pren's memories and miseries passed to him like water. He kissed her bottom lip, pulling away slowly.

T'Pren's breathing deepened as she walked her fingers from Rai's hips to the upper part of his buttocks, smiling into his kiss like the Mona Lisa. As he pulled away, she pressed forward, brushing her lips against the line of his jaw, dusting a kiss just below his ear, and another, more solidly, further down his neck.

Rai arched against her needfully at the silken touch of her lips. "Do you want to go to your quarters?" he asked, nipping at her neck teasingly.

Pren breathed out a laugh, tilting her head to give Rai more access to her neck and pulling their bodies closer together. One of her legs gave up pedaling in the water to slide a foot up his calf. "Do you think we can make it all the way there?" Her voice was, yet again, husky and soft.

"We can try, can't we?" he said, bright flushes of her emotions passing through him as he nudged her gently towards the ledge.

"Mmhmm," agreed the half-Vulcan, but even as she said it, she was opening her mouth against his. She let herself be nudged. In fact, she stopped bothering to swim all together, curling herself more closely against his body and shifting hungrily against him. "We can try."

He swam to the edge and pushed himself out before extending a hand to her.
"Let's leave," he said.