DEFYING GRAVITY – JEN/ZOE

Love the One You’re With

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Title: Love the One You’re With

Disclaimer: Defying Gravity and its characters are the property of ABC, BBC, Fox Television Studios, Omni Film Productions, CTV and Space (have I missed anyone?). For entertainment purposes only, no infringement intended.

Fandom: Defying Gravity

Pairing: Jen/Zoe

Rating: G

Words: 682

A/N: Written for Ralst’s August Challenge – Explore a new fandom. Not just a new to me fandom, it’s a new show called Defying Gravity. Jen Crane is played by Christina Cox (Nora from Nikki and Nora) and Zoe Barnes is played by Laura Harris (Jill on WMC), stuck in cold dark space together for six years. They’re calling it Greys Anatomy in space. Well, we’ll see. In the meantime let the subtext begin!

Love the One You’re With

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“Do you hear that?” Zoe Barnes cocked her white blonde head, and grew still.

Jen Crane looked up from her Petri dish experiment and listened for anything unusual bouncing off the Antares bulkheads. She could easily hear the automatic hiss of the air vents, the vibrating hum from the onboard generators, the beeps and pings of various computer equipment and even the distant clank of a hatch closing. However there was nothing out of the ordinary.

“Hear what?” Jen looked over at her friend, concerned. Ever since Zoe had been accidentally jettisoned into space, Jen had become even more protective of the geologist. Putting her eyedropper back into its slot she pulled her arms out of the protective gloves and moved away from her experiment booth thinking that perhaps she could hear something over at Zoe’s work station instead.

Zoe meanwhile had wandered towards the corner of the science compartment, turning to lean back against the bank of computer servers and miscellaneous equipment stored there. Jen smiled, suddenly realizing that the security cameras didn’t capture that corner of the room completely, giving them some semblance of privacy. Following her friend, Jen stopped and listened closely, closing her eyes to help focus her concentration.

Zoe slowly lifted her hand, watching as Jen leaned forward, moving still closer the desire to touch this beautiful woman hitting her like a wave. It had been so long. She couldn’t stop herself from raking her fingers slowly through Jen’s thick hair, brushing it gently from her forehead.

“Can’t you hear my heart beating faster?” Zoe breathed, running a fingertip along a delicately arched brow, thrilled to see a soft smile grace the other woman’s face.

“This isn’t a good idea.” Jen opened her eyes only to get lost in the sea green ones in front of her.

“Maybe.” Zoe looked away for a moment, lost in the memory of being slowly yanked back into the ship, her suit’s air pressure dropping and the sure knowledge that there was so much more she still wanted to do. She’d got lucky this time and she knew it.

“But we just had a sharp reminder that life’s too short Jen. And if you can’t be with the one you love…” Zoe stared back hard trying to gauge the other woman’s reactions, hoping she wasn’t making a huge mistake, knowing she had to at least try to reach Jen again.

“Then love the one you’re with. Zoe, I – I don’t know…” Jen glanced out into the inky darkness of space, needing the time to think. They had been together before, several times over the last five years, found comfort in each other’s arms, driven away burning desires and needs, worked off stress and sated curiosity in the easy give and take of their complicated relationship.

It wasn’t until Jen had started wanting more than a quick roll in the sack that she got scared, deciding to pull physically away from the brilliant woman. Their friendship had remained strong, something she was grateful for now that they were finally under way and her husband suddenly pulled from the mission and sent back to Earth.

Her mind shifted guiltily to Rollie and she remembered how easy it had been to turn to him, using him to hide her true feelings, eventually marrying him. Jen had done what was expected of her as Zoe had fallen further and further from her reach. But now Rollie was gone and Zoe was here on the Antares, warm and inviting, softly touching her.

Sighing, Jen came to a decision. After all, it’s hard to run away in space.

“Do you hear that?” Jen cocked her head and smirked, pressing closer.

“No, what?” Zoe smiled too as Jen raised an eyebrow and stared at her lips. She remembered this Jen very well.

“It’s your heart, beating faster.” Jen whispered against Zoe’s full lips. “We’ll have to do something about that.”

Their two worlds joined together once more, claimed with a tender kiss as the Antares rumbled on through the darkness.

Deep in Pod Four, Beta shifted, content.

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