Claimed by the Captain | [COMPLETE]

It's scary enough to hurtle through space at a speed faster than light, worse to be on a strange alien planet, and worse still to have the handsome and charming captain of my ship accidentally ingest pollen from a mysterious flower from the planet.

But when the captain, the only other person on this entire planet besides myself, has an extreme reaction within hours, I'm completely helpless.

Especially since his symptoms include a burning desire for me-the awkward, shy engineer who's long since assumed he'd never even look my way.

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"Let me out, Dr. Rosales," he said before anything else, catching me off-guard with the instant demand and the roughness of his low voice.

I pulled up his vitals and transferred the display onto the glass between us once more. "You know why I can't do that, Captain," I said while scrolling through the numbers to see how they'd been elevating throughout the past couple of hours.

"Doctor, let me out."

"You are medically compromised and unfit for-"

I jumped when he turned, rushed the glass, and slammed his hands against it, his deep blue eyes piercing through me like daggers. His voice was level again, but it was the kind of quiet that was dangerous, that was a warning that this was the last chance. "This is my ship. I'm the captain. Let me out, Thalia, or I'll break out. You're not gonna like what I do if it gets that far."