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Homecoming

Posted Sept. 2, 2021, 12:06 a.m. by Lieutenant Commander JT Robinson (XO) (Jeff VanZilen)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Danora Allance (Chief Engineer/Artificial Intelligence Expert) in Homecoming

Posted by Lieutenant Commander JT Robinson (XO) in Homecoming

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Danora Allance (Chief Engineer/Artificial Intelligence Expert) in Homecoming
Posted by… suppressed (2) by the Post Ghost! 👻

SNIP

Frowning slightly, Danora shook her head. “Something’s not right. Supervisor reports, debriefs, or whatever, can wait. I’m taking you to sickbay.” A thought occurred to her then, and she frowned. Reaching to touch his arm in concern, she cocked her head curiously. “How bad was life support on the shuttle? Be honest, please. Something tells me you’re feeling luckier to be here than you should.” She could have asked ALI, the ship’s AI program. But she wanted JT to trust her. Shewanted more. But she’s settle for trust, first, if she had to.

Danora
AI Specialist
Engineer

“Ill be okay. Ive got some bumps and bruises from the ride home, but my real injuries have already been tended to” he responded, not wanting to let on to the shoddy work done when it came to the healing of those injuries. He would tell her more when the time was right but the middle of the shuttle bay was not the right place.

“I thought I had the shuttles systems working again before I set course to the memorial but I’m a pilot, not an engineer. Hit some subspace turbulence about halfway home and it took out my patch job. Gravity is gone, Life support is at about 4 percent and the replicators haven’t worked in months.” then thinking he added “Ill make my way to sickbay to check in later, what I really need is a shower and a meal that isn’t just protein nubs.” It was at that moment that his face turned a bit red when realized he hadn’t showered in.. a while. he can only imagine how he smelled. Sponge baths and deodorant only go so far. at least he had the foresight to keep the uniform he was currently wearing packed away and clean till he got home. “Care to show me to my cabin?” I’m sure they re-assigned my old one.”

XO

Danora gasped. “Wait, what? Months? Ok, how long were you in the shuttle?” They had entered the corridor and were heading towards the Jr Officers’ quarters. Her hand was on his arm to halt him as the bay doors closed behind them.
OOC It was a Runabout

IC

“Basically since I left in it. Its the same one I took that night I left” JT responded I got resupplied from time to time and put in for repairs when I could, but it was not a great few months. And I want anywhere that I could just request a new ship. Had to make due. “

Realizing she had her fingers gripping his bicep, she let go. “How could they give you shuttle to come back in that was in such horrible condition? What if we had been delayed!?” Her voice was full of rage and disbelief. And she has traded squeezing his bicep to squeezing her hands into fists. Her mind filled with a million things she’d do to the engineer who had given JT that …death trap. She half growled under her breath. The Captain needs to know about this or I’ll find that damned engineer and give him hell of a lesson in survival!”

“Don’t get too mad at them. My orders to come home came over subspace..” he said hoping to calm her. Though she was cute when she was fired up he caught himself thinking.
I

Danora caught her reflection in the nearby comm screen and realized she’d done it again. Her temper had escaped and she plotting horrible things on a person she didn’t even know. Biting her lip and looking at JT beside her, she flexed her fingers wide to relieve the tension from being fisted. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to explode.” She looked at her hand a moment then turned to head to his old section of the ship. The AI Specialist had no idea her friend’s room had been given away for reasons completely different than his mere absence.

Danora
(oops.... Was that my outside voice?)

JT realized that Danora was leading him back to his old Quarters and while she had seen his shiny new PIPS on his collar, she clearly hadn’t realized WHY they were there. time to subtly tell her..

“The important thing right now is that I DID make it home. What kind of pilot would I be if I let some broken down runabout stop me from reporting in to the Captain? What good to her is a dead Number 1?” he quipped as he fought himself to hold back a smile and laugh while he waited for the gears in the Engineers head to turn and realize what he had just admitted/implied.

XO

Danora stopped and turned. He had paused in the middle of the corridor and was looking at her with a strange grin. “Well, of course you don’t want to leave her…” she paused. Number 1.... Number 1

A heartbeat later, her eyes lit up in realization. “Wait… You’re the new XO?” Her voice almost cracked as she realized how she had been treating him. How she had been ‘thinking’ of him. “I’m… oh gods… Sir. I didn’t know. I mean,” she motioned to the color and collar of his uniform. “I mean, I should have known. I cant believe....” She found herself at a loss for words that astounded even her. She turned her back to him to stare down the hall realizing she hadn’t been heading to the Command Quarters like she should have been. Murmuring under her breath, she closed her eyes and shook her head. Her fists tightened slightly into balls once more as she berated herself. “Leave it to you, Dani, to mangle the return of the XO! For an intellect, you are so stupid.”

She took a deep breath and didn’t turn around, scared of what she would see in his eyes at her incompetence. “I’m sorry, Sir. I feel stupid now. I’ll show you to the right quarters. I’m sure your stuff was moved there.” She waited a moment before stepping forward to continue to the far end of the hall where the turbo lift was. Her rant about the runabout, now completely forgotten.

Danora
(Da’dummy)

JT couldn’t help but smile at her. She wouldn’t agree, but there was a level of adorableness by the the whole thing. Then JT gently wrapped an arm around her shoulder to comfort her. “It’s okay, there was no way you could or should have known. The Captain doesn’t even know yet. That should be fun..” he trailed off before looking down at her ” Though I gotta admit, you are cute when you get flustered”

XO

His arm around her felt good. Too good. She was an engineer. A grease monkey for all intense and purposes. And he was Second in Command of the vessel. It would never work. It shouldn’t…

At his comment about her being cute when flustered, she did relax a touch and smile. “If this is cute, you should see me when I’m gorgeous.” She laughed and shook her head. “How can the Captain not know?” She wanted nothing more than to continue down the corridor in the crook of his arm. But he was THE XO! She reluctantly pulled away to face him, a slight frown on her face. “If she doesn’t know, then your stuff wouldn’t have been moved. It would have been an instant what the hell, I’m sure.”

“She knows I was coming back. And that I had gotten a rank increase and would be a senior officer. She just wasn’t told how senior I would be.”

She took her thoughts of him and buried them deep enough to maintain her composure. He was officially relegated to her dreams and nothing more. For the first time, she wasn’t happy one of her friends had been promoted.

Danora
Engineer

JT tried again to embrace her a bit and calm her with a hand placed on her back hoping she wouldn’t pull away again. He know she was worried about the rank situation, but if the CO could make it work.... She had been all he had thought about the last few months. She was the LAST person he wanted ‘having to salute’ him. “Come on,” he said as he motioned with his head down the corridor “help me find my new cabin. I could use a nice sonic shower, a well replicated meal and an actual person to talk to…” he trailed off a bit, not wanting to overstep “If you have time, and want to that is. I know its late.” All three of those things were true and not just and excuse to spend a little time with her. He hadn’t had any of them in at least a month and he was going a bit stir crazy.

XO


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