Posted March 20, 2022, 7:49 p.m. by Commander Brad Walker (Chief Of Staff/Second Officer) (Brandon Irvine)
Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Chief of Staff’s Office -Lunch time
Posted by Commander Brad Walker (Chief Of Staff/Second Officer) in Side sim: Chief of Staff’s Office -Lunch time
Posted by Commander Brad Walker (Chief Of Staff/Second Officer) in Side sim: Chief of Staff’s Office -Lunch time
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Carefully she drank and looked around again. “You could use some art work or a plant don’t you think?”Willow Taylor
CO“You know, I have been thinking about that,” Brad said, pointing to a particularly empty corner of the office near the door. “I was thinking about building a hydroponic herb garden back there. Maybe a bonsai, too.”
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff“That sounds like a plan. Just not one of those Andarian singing bonsai… The eerie music from those still give me the creeps.” She shuddered slightly at some memory of the plant in question. After another few moment of eating she said with some effort. “I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s time I sent Doug his ring back…”
Willow Taylor
CO“I’m honestly amazed you’ve kept it this long,” Brad said. “It’s been what, three years? How many times have you even talked since that big argument?”
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of StaffShe hung her head slightly. “Twice…he still won’t answer my calls. He speaks to Cai but logs off whenever I’m around.” She sighed. “I dunno…i just thought maybe if I held on to it…maybe he’d change his mind? He won’t break things off officially. Neither will I, I. guess for that matter.”
For a moment she was silent, pensive while her hands twisted around her eating utensils. “Do you think that makes me weak?” She asked finally.
Willow Taylor
COBrad cocked his head. “The opposite, surely. How is it weakness to cling on to something so fragile for so long, practically daring it to snap and cast you adrift? Incredibly stubborn, on par with a particularly recalcitrant mountain goat, but not weak.”
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of StaffWillow gave a small chuckle feeling her eyes well slightly. “You did not just imply your commanding officer was a stubborn goat.” She said a weak smile appearing. She sighed and played with the cooling food “what would you do?”
Willow Taylor
CO“Depends on the day and my mood,” Brad said. “The sensible thing would be to just ship the thing back via courier the next time we hit up a Starbase. If you were feeling particularly vindictive or mercurial, you could include a holo-recording of you cosplaying a Hobbit and throwing it in Mount Doom, or you doing karaoke to an early 21st-century breakup song.”
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff
(ALEXA play “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together”)bump
She laughed then. “I’m not sure he would get something like a lord of the rings link. He’s not one for fantasy stories.” She gave a sort of half huff and half sigh.
“The other, more scary question is…do I date again? Or buy a lot of tribbles…”
Willow Taylor
(tribble lady)“Hard no on the tribbles,” Brad said. “Not even the ones that are supposedly genetically modified to be sterile, because they had to come from somewhere. This ship’s brand new, I don’t think your career could survive the Board of Inquiry if we had to blow it up to get rid of a tribble infestation.”
Ruefully Willow nodded. Her career had been under the shadow of the sword of Damocles too many times for anyones liking. Trimble-gate would not help.
He took a sip from the flask. “You’re not even forty yet, barely a third of the way through your life, barring any serious accidents. You’ve got plenty of time to play the field yet, and find someone who you can stand and will also stand with you through your career ambitions.”
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Doing Unlicensed Therapybump
She gave a sigh the a small smile. “Thanks Brad.” She was quiet a moment then pushed the palm of her hand roughly against her eyes and gave a laugh “Handsome, funny…a Doctor and a therapist to boot? Remind me again why we don’t set you up with any of those people battering your door down?”
Willow Taylor
CO
“So Dr. Bonner doesn’t kill me for pushing even more of my work onto her?” Brad replied with a wry grin. “All the bright young things with dreams and ambitions of command don’t realize it’s not all seducing hot green women and dramatic posing, 80 percent of our jobs on the best days is paperwork.”
He pointed to the small mountain of PaDDs on one corner of his desk. “Case in point, my afternoon. Mostly reviewing charts of all the onboarding physicals, but there are a couple of active viral cases we’ve got among the newbies that came in on the same shuttle that I’m getting regular updates on, plus a couple of the new doctors are in a mentoring program with Medical that I’ve been drafted into supervising, so there’s a bunch of letters going back and forth between them, me, and San Francisco.”
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff
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