Living out one's fantasies."Computer," She said, again tapping hercom-badge. "Location of Cadet Wesley Crusher?" Cadet Crusher is in main engineering....." said the artificial female voice."Good, he'll be down there for hours." Beverly said to herself as she ran her fingers acrossthe module. "Maybe it time I used this."It had been the return of her son, Welsey, onleave from Starfleet Academy, that had triggered thereturn of the dreams. She had created the holodeckfantasy soon after he had left. “Can pets talk?”She laughed. “Pets can talk. If they want to.” She said pets need good food.I thought about that. “Are noodles and pizza good food? You can’t eat steak every day.”She said she liked noodles and pizza. She said pets do what they want. They don’t clean up. You have to wash them.I said I would like to give her baths. I said I did not mind cleaning up.I shook my finger at her. “But you can’t make messes. I don’t want to clean that much.”She frowned at me. “Sometimes pets knock. Imgur.com/sQzMZfs.jpgIt didn’t leave much to the imagination but covered critical areas so I thought it would be appropriate for the striptease.After all the teenage boys arrived, Steve put on a 30-minute soft-porn video and, in spite of their ages, Steve gave strawberry daiquiris to Jason and his friends. By the time I made my entrance, several teens were already feeling the effects of the alcohol. However, not nearly enough to be drunk since the teens only had one strawberry daiquiri.. She wanted to lash out at him, to make him suffer what she'd known after his disappearance, but she kept her voice soft, chose to be honest with her words. "I never stopped loving you, Niko. I just had to learn to live without my heart."Her whispered confession caught him by surprise. His grip relaxed as his fingers crawled over her arms and around her back. He pulled her into a gentle embrace, held her against his warmth, her head cradled on his shoulder."No woman lives without her heart,.