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Runabout to Athena

Posted May 2, 2019, 7:58 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Rovan Moor (Engineer/Pilot) (David Shotton)

Posted by Ensign Allison Fleet (Scientist) in Runabout to Athena

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Rovan Moor (Engineer/Pilot) in Runabout to Athena

Posted by Ensign Allison Fleet (Scientist) in Runabout to Athena
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He lay before her and looked up at her framed by the rings of the Planet and the stars bright in the light of a world unsullied by civilization, her eyes looking back at him bright in the light of the moons above and light glimmering from the lake behind him. For a moment he didn’t speak. He just smiled at her as he watched her and ran his fingers gently over her knee closest to him, wanting to touch her.

She placed her hand near his hand on her knee, brushing her fingers against his. Her eyes glowed with a strange hopefulness. She felt like she should be sure of what he would say, but there was always some uncertainty with people, you never knew exactly how they would react to anything.

“During my time away I returned to Ktaria,” he told her, speaking softly as if he didn’t want to disturb the breeze itself. “I didn’t grow up there, you know that already and you know that my parents are gone. I was lost, apart from you and everything I knew like I was in a world that had no place for me. I fought to make a place for me, or what I was and I realized that it was no world for me. Ktaria wasn’t my home, Allie, it never was. I had Starfleet but that wasn’t a home, then you came back to me. Whatever deity of whatever species that heard my quiet tears answered them and brought you back to me and I realized, that even more than before, I had no place I belonged and no future to dream of with you.”

Allison nodded quietly. She understood the feeling of feeling lost or adrift in a place that you think should be home. “Life is like an ocean, and the people we love are like a safe harbour. I feel as though the two of us were adrift without any harbour before we found one another,” she said with a soft whisper, almost too quiet to hear.

Rovan looked up at the stars, the rings and the moons that stood out in the sky so differently to both Ktaria and Earth and gently traced patterns over her knee as he spoke. “I learned that everyone needs a future to dream of. Everyone needs a home or they lose themselves in a place bigger than what’s out there,” he said, eyes moving to the stars and then back to Allie. She had been ripped from her own time and dropped in his, and he had fallen in love with her. She loved him, an alien of a species who once she had never even known had existed when she had begun to explore the stars. Her home wasn’t how she had left it, and his was gone completely.

Their eyes met, Allison looking at him with a quiet smile on her face.

“I want my future to be with you, Allison,” he told her and smiled again as he took her hand. “I want a house, a porch swing on the veranda while we relax all grey and wrinkled while we dance in the evening moonlight and watch the sunset over the lake, and drink tea in the glow of a forest of moon-blossoms that grow from this one we planted here tonight. There is no jest, this patch of land, this hill and the land down to the lake is where I am going to build a home where I can dream of a future with you. It’s my land, our land, signed and agreed and there is enough for anything we want to do including having our own orchard where I can chase kids that steal my apples but always let them get away with it. I love you Allie, so much more than I ever realized and I want you beside me for the rest of my life. I want a home with you that we can dream of together, a future with you as my wife.”

She was a little choked up at the moment, blinking back the tears that seemed to be welling up in her eyes, unbidden. She tried to say something witty, but couldn’t think of anything to say. She hadn’t expected this moment when she got on that runabout this morning, hadn’t expected it when he had unceremoniously kidnapped her from said runabout. She hadn’t expected this when they had landed on this little planet in the middle of nowhere, or when he had laid out their still untouched meal. She blinked a few times, trying to clear away the moisture.

He brought her soil covered fingers to his lips and kissed them gently, both of them in the glow of the moon-blossom beside them and the moons above. “Will you dream with me about our home and future, Allie? Will you be my wife?”

Lt j.g. Rovan Moor
Engineer / Pilot

Allison couldn’t do much more than nod for a few moments. “Yes,” she finally spoke, turning her hand in his and holding on as if letting go would mean he would vanish from her sight. She nodded again. “Yes. I’ll share that dream with you. I… I’ll be your wife.” She laughed with joy, pulling her hand away so she could place her hands on her heart. “I want you to be my future, and I want to be yours.”

Rovans smile grew wide and he laughed with her, his yellow eyes gleaming in the moonlight as he pushed himself up on his elbow and reached forwards, his fingers caressing her cheek. “We will build it together Allie, side by side and I’m not leaving you again.”

Allie didn’t feel as though there was much else she had to say at that point, as if everything that needed to be said had been said. There were things that had to be discussed, but not now. Not in this moment. She put her hand against Rovan’s chest so as to feel his heartbeat, smiling quietly.

Allison Fleet, sci

His heart beat strongly under her touch, not the beat that was expected from a humanoid but the pulsing vibration of his people. It didn’t matter how it beat, it still held the same love that one person could have for another and he reached forward and pulled her down to the blanket with him to lie beside him in his arms looking up at the moons, stars and rings above them. First, he kissed her. It was long and gentle, soft and tender and all of his love and dreams for the two of them to be together were in it as his lips caressed hers.

As their lips parted, he lay is forehead against hers and his smile was gentle as he laughed again, almost in a whisper. “I love you,” was all he said, all he needed to say in that moment under the stars and the future that was theirs. His hand had slid secretly to the pocket in his jacket after he kissed her and now he brought it up in front of them as they lay on the blanket. Between his fingers was a ring, two bands of different precious metals woven around each other like a vine, alone they were vulnerable and prone to bending in the wrong direction but when intertwined together, they were stronger and had purpose. Beautiful and meant to be together, they were a valuable and rare pair of metals from Ktaria but normally used for different purposes, rings were not common on Rovan’s planet.

Allison took the ring gingerly between her fingers, staring at it quietly. “It’s beautiful,” she murmured softly, her voice naught but a whisper. She looked up at him, smiling. “I love you too,” she leaned forward and briefly touched her lips to the tip of his nose in a quick kiss. “And I would have said that even without the pretty ring,” she grinned slightly.

“On Earth, rings are a symbol of an engagement I read,” Rovan explained, “We don’t wear them on Ktaria, we don’t display a marriage or engagement but I wanted them for you and I. Ktarian precious metals for a ring to give you.” On the inside of the ring in small writing was an engraving. I Only Want Two Things In This World. I Want You, And I Want Us.

Lt J.G. Rovan Moore
Engineer/Pilot

Allison read the engraving and smiled again, closing her eyes for half a second before sliding the ring onto her finger. “There’s something you should know,” she spoke softly. “Things we’ve found out about what was done to me on the planetoid. I started calling it Purgatory when I was there, for obvious reasons. But, there are some lasting effects. I don’t know how long my lifespan is. It could be really long… I’m not aging at the rate I should be, and I’m not sure how long it will be before I actually start aging like a normal person. So that dream of growing old together… If this doesn’t fade, I won’t be old in body.”

She glanced away, sighing lightly. “I hope, I feel as though it doesn’t change anything, I just wanted to let you know before, you know… ten years pass and I haven’t aged as much as you have in the same timespan.” She looked out at the lake again. “I’ll start reading up on how to build a house from scratch. What do you want to build it from?”

Allison Fleet, Sci

“You mean I get to be with a gorgeous woman that I love that might just take a little longer to age beautifully, while you get a guy that’s going to wrinkle earlier than you? I’m sure I should be the one hoping it doesn’t change anything.” Rovan grinned, and then leaned in to kiss her again. “I love you, Allison Fleet. The whole you and you as you are and will be. It changes nothing for me.”

He turned his head to look out over the lake with Allie beside him and ran his fingers through her hair. “Arda has a requirement that all buildings are made to blend with the local environment, not destroy it. We’ll use normal exterior materials to make it last but I’d like the inside to be wood in many places, and make it a home we can spend our lives in.” He looked back to her and smiled again, “we can build it when we have leave. I have some savings put aside from my parents and such, it’s going to be our home, together.

Lt j.g. Moor
Eng/Pilot


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