Posted June 14, 2022, 3:56 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Eulailia Dacascos (Chief Operations Officer) (Mika Jackson)
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Deck 5- Hiding Out
Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Deck 5- Hiding Out
Posted by Lieutenant Miranda Martel (Chief Engineer) in Deck 5- Hiding Out
Posted by… suppressed (5) by the Post Ghost! 👻(snip)
Shara barked a laugh. “Oh, if we’re playing this game, then I am definitely playing it backwards. Normally the goal is to get everyone else drunk and be the last one standing. I don’t intend to be sober by the end of this. I’m warning you all because I can hold my liquor. Just be careful there”-she gestured to the jar as she looked at Dacascos-“One whole jar and I woke up married without any memory of how it happened,” she said with a wink taking the jar.
“Ugh”, said Eulailia, “Waking up married, with no memory of it?”, then she laughed and said, “Hopefully he was at least decent looking. My mother says that looks don’t matter nowadays, but I beg to differ. I am not going to marry someone who looks like a Ferengi or a Lurian.” She shook her head.
Shara couldn’t help but grin. “The thing about getting older is that your tastes can change,” she said, thinking about that intense first meeting on the Manhattan with a certain Federation Security Officer. Instant undeniable attraction and a recognition of a life led off the average record. So far, the Captain, XO and Gadi were the only ones who knew the identity of her husband and given their assignment, it was safer that way unless the need arose to share it. For the moment, she could keep that secret.
She was Shara here and Shara she would remain until the point she left this room, or woke up elsewhere and would be subsumed by her alter-ego for this mission. Gadi had joked about ‘Never Have I Ever’, but if the kids wanted to play, she was game. She had shared the edges of her stories with everyone on that bridge nightshift, and she it had all been the truth, but it still was just a handful of anecdotes. If they were going to share here, she would do right by the stories and share. She grabbed the jar and took a swig before putting it back for the others. “Never have I ever run away from home.” It had taken her a long time to realize that she had been running for a really long time, even when she had felt like she was standing still, restless, anxious. But she had stopped running and that’s why everything had been catching up with her.
Commander Calloway, CIO
“Ha!” said Eulailia smiling at Shara but speaking to all three of them, “You all think I never ran away. But I did…even if it was only for an hour, but I did. I attempted to take a shuttle off-planet to fly to the ship where my father was stationed because my mother was being very....annoying. Of course, I didn’t get far. Her security detail tracked me down and brought me back to her. That’s when I found out she had implanted a tracking device in my foot right after I was born!” Eulailia shook her head, frowning, angry. “I of course had it removed immediately when I turned the legal age to do so. Apparently, it’s perfectly legal and expensive to implant tracking devices in your children.”
Shara snorted. “Gods I’d have loved to see you running about Tracken.” The thought made her chuckle.
Bethany chuckled, “Or the wilds of the Appalachian mountains. Not the part they show tourists but the still wild untamed parts.”
“Okay so one for Dacascos…” she took a pull. Ferengi shine was a lot worse. “And another for Shara.” She took another pull, what the heck a little blunt honesty, “And I’m still running,” and passed the jar. “Alright, you left yourself open for it and you said you wanna get drunk. Never have I ever gotten married and have no memory of it.” Bethany laughed, it was a cheap shot, but they needed a bit of levity. “One day I have to hear that story.”
Gadi, CoS
Shara turned her head and leaned back ever so slightly to gaze at Gadi. “Bethy, dear, if you’re going to play dirty, be prepared for retribution,” she said before lifting the jar and taking another swig.
Bethany held out her hand palm up and curved all her fingers up and couple times in quick succession, “Bring it, Mama. I’m not scare of you.” She actually giggled, “Though not being scared is very much a reflection of young Ego than your skill.”
“Wait are we playing in reverse? Does this mean I have to drink?”
“We’re playing to get drunk, Laila. So yeah, we’re talking truths here and if you take down the others with you, the more the merrier,” Shara said.
Miranda held up a finger. “I’ve made shine just about like this. So…” She shook her head. “Do you mean serious running away from home, or like vanishing for a couple days and coming back?” She took another sip though. “Never been married… probably will never happen,” she mused. Nobody wanted somebody like her. Damaged goods in all sorts of ways.
“Never have I ever lied to a law enforcement officer of any kind.”
Randi
Eulailia looked at Randi confused. She obviously possessed favorable features, would have no trouble finding a husband and was smart. “Why do you think you will never be married? Do you plan to work for Starfleet as an engineer for the rest of your life and think you won’t have the time?”
Dacascos, COO
Miranda tilted her head. The idea that the ordeal she’d just been speaking about didn’t even seem to factor in to Laila’s equation was actually kind of sweet. She reached up to the hem of her top which showed off her midriff already some. Pulling it up just to under her breasts she showed a roadmap of scars that looked somewhere between old, healed and white and fresh and angrier red. The latter had been from a little cosmetic reworking back on the station. “Damaged goods in all sorts of ways. There aren’t too many people out there, if any, that would … want.. this. And… There are some other big hurdles too.” Her gaze dropped, her face burning in a mixture of guilt, shame and more. There was no part of the game for that, but she reached out and took a big drink. It made her cough and her nose burn, and her eyes water. After a moment she blinked her vision clear, or tried to.
Randi, mincemeat
Gadi nudged her with an elbow. “You aren’t damaged,” it came out with a forceful protective tint to it. “You are unique and stood against the odds when most would have broken. If a person can’t see the beauty and strength in your soul then blow ‘em out an airlock. If all they can see is the physical and not understand what it means they don’t deserve to breath the same air as you. There are pleasure houses for people that shallow. There is someone out there who see you for who you are, and those scars will only make them love you more.” Bethany grinned, teasing at her now, “In fact, if rumor is right, they’re on the Asimov.”
OOC: Not sure what happened here. Was trying to edit and it looks like I did a double post.
Eulailia agreed, “Bethany is right, you are not. Your scars show your resilience and it proves you are a survivor. If we have to do Blue’s mission” she smiled adn there were tears in her eyes, “…well I feel good knowing that you three are on my team. You are all survivors. And if anything bad ever happens to me, I hope I have the strength that you have had to pull through it.”
“Don’t give up yet, Martel. My husband has his own scars, some a lot more obvious,” Shara said softly. “We’ve only been married less than a year. My thought if is we can find something good in this crazy universe, anyone can. And that includes you.”
Shara thought back to that time between Alpha C and Arkelis after she had done the hardest thing she thought she’d ever have to do (she wasn’t far off the mark on that one). Calloway took another drink and shook her head. “Playing the innocent lost girl was really easy and the officer was, quite honestly, a little clueless. Not up to the law enforcement life I think.”
Bethany started counting on her fingers, “All the time during the Academy and the local LEOs. Okay so one for each time? That makes 6 drinks.”
“Never have I ever had a crush on a higher ranking officer,” Shara said, fixing her gaze directly on Gadi. Payback and all that.
OOC: Oops, forgot it was her turn, lol.
Commander Calloway, CIOEulailia quietly drunk her shot.
Bethany snorted, some of those 6 drinks coming out of her nose, burning and making her eyes water. She barely got the jar sat down without spilling and coughed for quite a bit. She wiped her eyes and tried to breathe. “I’ll totally take that one.” She picked the jar back up and took a good swig of it. She got it down but the coughing resumed. “Oh, that stuff is going to burn my insides out.”
“Alright back to you Lailia.”
Gadi, CoS
It was hard to think of something good to say with these three, Laila thought for a moment then she smiled, “Never have I…gone streaking down the Academy halls.”
Dacascos, COO
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