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Calloway / Hammor Quarters - Guess Who?

Posted May 30, 2023, 5:19 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) (Lindsay B)

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Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Calloway / Hammor Quarters - Guess Who?
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The door slid open and the first thing through was a large tray with a silver dome. Her husband followed it (as he was the one carrying it), and he smiled at her. “Hello, wife. I have hunted and gathered…gathereded?…and I return triumphant.” He carried the tray over to the table in front of the couch and set it down. “Now before I show off my trophies of my time in the wilds… did you get it?” he asked with an excited little clap.

Daggum

She eyed him with amusement. “Oh, a ‘I’ll show you mine if you sow me yours’ situation. Got it!” Faye reached into the cloth bag and pulled out a 500 ml mason jar with a clear liquid inside. “Being Piklesimer’s daughter does have its advantages.” She frowned and eyed him. “Well, in this case more for you than me, but the taste is very nostalgic. How are we drinking this? You want to feel it or not?”

~Faye

Daggum grinned and said “Depends on how you react to this. If you like it, drop the rock in the jar and we will enjoy the taste. Hate this, and let me drink myself into a stupor.” and he laughed as he took the lid off of the platter. On the plate were Spicy Mantruvian Oranges, Denobulian Mussels in White Wine, Bajoran Beef Tips and Wild Mushroom Gravy, and chocolate cake - all the things she had for dinner on her first and their first date on the station in the Delta Quadrant. Daggum smiled at her. “Remember that night, Faye?”

Daggum

Her mouth dropped as her eyes widened. “How could I forget?” she whispered, her shock coming off almost more startled than anything. Faye closed the small distance between them and all but threw herself at him, her lips finding his. In her kiss was all the heat and devotion present that moment at the starbase when she had stepped into his hotel room and they had finally had their first kiss. Alex had been right, they really had done everything ass backwards, but in many ways it just seemed more true to her than anything.

~Faye

He kissed her back for a long moment and then pulled back. “I want you… need you to know something. Just because we are together… married… living in our own space… my love for you hasn’t faded or dimmed. I love you as much as I did that night… and ten times over. And I still hold that promise to you, Faye. No matter what happens, no matter what the universe throws at us-” and he glanced at the comms terminal and back and shook his head with a slight grin, “- it will always be you and I together. And as long as we have that, I know nothing will ever stop us.”

Daggum

Her eyes brimmed with tears. “To the stars and back, my mushroom boy.” Faye was all in, in a way that few could understand, certainly only those closest to her. That she and Dag had found each other amongst all the stars of the galaxy, amongst the trillions of people in the Federation alone, was a testament to some form of Fate that Faye’s rational brain had a hard time understanding. But she knew when she had stopped trying so hard to figure it out, everything fell into place. Dag and her were everything they ever needed and never knew they both wanted.

She kissed him on the cheek and stepped away, crossing their quarters to retrieve the special box that held one of her most prized possessions: The Stone of Kvaar’ton. She had analyzed it under many, many different scans and had yet to figure out how it work. As far as she knew it was magic. Nonsensical though it was. But much like her and Dag, she embraced this stone that rendered the alcohol null and posed no risk to her. She was, after all, sober and intending to stay that way. Would there be a time when she could imbibe and it not be dangerous for her well being? Perhaps. But she was still dealing with all these changes in her life and now was a terrible time.

Grabbing two rocks glasses, Faye carefully dropped the stone into the jar and watched it fizz. “That never ceases to thrill me.,” she commented as she poured a bit of the potent brew into each glass and handed him one. Faye held hers up. “To us and our unique way of loving and living.”

~Faye

“To us and the future.” he said and took a drink. He looked at the glass quizzically. “Ok, that’s weird. This s#!t is like ninety-nine percent alcohol, and it tastes exactly the same after the rock takes all the alcohol out. What… how in all the worlds is that possible? And where did Cochrane get something like that?”

Daggum

Faye’s eyes lit up. “I know, right?! It’s been driving me, well, more crazy then otherwise, because I can’t figure it out. But apparently the stone came from some mystical Klingons who are all about this Kvaar’ton who was some disputed important figure and whose relic was also disputed until House Duroc found it and was able to prove another House did them wrong. Honestly, it’s a very Klingon story,” she said with a laugh. “All I know for sure, is that Alex won’t tell me how he came across not just the one he has, but this one he gifted me, and either he doesn’t know how it works or won’t tell me.” A damn puzzle she wanted to figure out, but couldn’t. Or could she? Hmmm....

~Faye

Daggum stared at the reddish-black rock for a moment and then said “Have you scanned it? Maybe ran it through the geological sample index at Science Command? I know someone there that would give you a hand.”… because of course he did.

Daggum

She gave her husband a withering look. “Have I scanned it? Really?” Faye grinned. He knew her far better than that. One did not present Faye Calloway with a mystery and not expect her to throw every bit of her intellect and resources at it. “No match to any known substance. And while I am curious and want to figure it out, I’m not inclined to turn it over to anyone and risk losing or destroying the stone. I can live without it, but it makes being sober socially easier. And that for me is worth more than solving the mystery.” And that was saying something.

~Faye

“Leave it to Cochrane to give a puzzle even you can’t solve.” Daggum said with a chuckle. “At least now I know how to distract you if you get stuck in a loop. Well… now another way.” and he grinned and gave ger a wink.

Daggum

She grinned at him. “Yes, our usual way is one of my favourites. Very few things get me to stop thinking. That one works every time.”

Faye moved to sit at the table. “Come on, let’s not let this amazing food go to waste.” Which a comical thing to say to her giant of an Orion husband and why it was so funny. She immediately went for the spiced oranges that were the appetizer. “Mmm, almost as good as I remember, and it’s only because the setting then was hard to beat.”

~Faye

Daggum smiled and speared two oranges himself. “Yeah… I seriously don’t know how we can top that one dinner.” and he ate the oranges and smiled. “But I do know I am looking forward to spending the rest of our lives trying to.” he said around the mouthful.

Daggum

Faye dug into her food with a goofy grin, not dissimilar to the one she had walked into Alex’s ready room wearing the morning after her and Dag confessed their feelings and made plans to meet. “You know, I’ve been thinking back to that moment when the wormhole opened and I had that mind dump. Do you remember how it didn’t hurt and it felt familiar? There’s something about it that’s pricking in the back of my mind lately and i jut can’t place my finger on it.”

~Faye


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