Posted June 25, 2022, 7:27 a.m. by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) (Calé Reilly)
Posted by Commander Brad Walker (Chief Of Staff/Second Officer) in Side sim: Taylor’s quarters
Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Taylor’s quarters
Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Taylor’s quarters
The duty shift finished Willow smiled and nodded her way through the corridors to her quarters. It had been a long boring day. Once through the door she pulled her boots off, dropped her uniform jacket on top and padded in her socks to her room where she flopped face first into the bed and sighed happily.It was a few moments later that the crunch of cereal alerted her to the presence of her room mate. She didn’t turn her head. “Cereal is not dinner.” She said into the mattress.
“Duh it’s like before dinner snack.” Cai Taylor said causing her to tense ready for the inevitable yelling match. “talking of which…I thought we could maybe like replicate pizza and watch one of those old cheesy sci-fi films. Maybe the one with the skeleton guy.”
Hearing this, Willow did turn her head, frowning as if she was trying to work out the catch. Her brother stood leaning on the door frame, black ripped jeans and tshirt and bling electric blue hair over his left Eye. He needed a hair cut. The more she watched him the more he turned red.
“What?!” He flared. “It’s not a big deal it’s just pizza.”
Pushing herself up she crossed the short space.
“What are you doing…”
She pulled him into a tight hug and he tensed a second before relaxing into it. The moment was short lived but welcome, she closed her eyes and smiled happily.
“right hey get off.” He pushed at her and tried to hide the grin he was too cool for. “And could you like shower before pizza…I mean god Will.”
She ruffled his hair and he ducked under her back into the quarters while she went to find something comfortable to change into, she had half a thought of what Brad was going to say if she told him she had yet another late night but decided that on this occasion he would probably forgive her.
Willow and Cai
Sometime later, dressed in fluffy purple socks, sky blue baggy pj bottoms with fluffy sheep dancing all over them and an xtra large, worn, baggy starfleet academy athletics T-shirt Willow sat cross legged on the sofa a slice of pepperoni pizza in hand. This was their second film (and second pizza, however given that she had only gotten one slice from the first she didn’t think that counted). They watched as the film began to draw to its conclusion.
On the screen a dark robes man, skeletal, clutching a staff was yelling.
“People of Eternia! I stand before the Great Eye of the galaxy. Chosen by destiny to receive the powers of Greyskull!..”
“Don’t you think he looks like Dr Black?” Cai asked from the floor, tilting his head up to look at Willow and waving a slice of garlic bread at the hill screen.
“I hadn’t thought about it…” willow said honestly, but a small knit appeared in between her eyebrows.
*”Now. I, Skeletor, am Master of the Universe! Yes! Yes… I feel it, the power… fills me. Yes, I feel the universe within me! I am… I am a part of the cosmos! Its energy flows… flows through me. Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people - They are nothing to me - the universe is power, pure, unstoppable power - and I am that force, I am that power!”
“If he was really all that power what is he doing standing there yelling about it for? I mean come on that not logic, smash the half naked bodybuilder dude.”
Willow shhhhed him again and then grinned “bodybuilder guy? You mean He-man? “
“Kneel before your master… [He-Man refuses]… for you are no longer my equal, I am more than man, more than life! I am a god!”
“Yeah,” the teen frowned, shook his head and then with a mouth full of Garlic bread said “he’s monologuing look at that. He’s got everything power and everything and he can literally vaporise him.”
”Now. You… will… kneel! Kneel!”
“Not likely! Honestly.”
Willow laughed. “You’ve seen this movie like a dozen times.”
The boy shrugged grabbing a handful of popcorn and what looked like M&ms mixed in and stuffing that into his mouth after the garlic bread. They watched in a comfortable silence until the movie ended.
Stretching willow rubbed her bleary eyes.
=^= GALEN ambient light level please. =^= she said and groaned as something in her neck twinged causing a small stab of pain in her skull.
Cai stayed on the floor watching her. “Do you think it’s a real place?”
“Hmm?” Willow asked looking at him.
“Eternia, do you think it’s a real place? Like it’s a planet some alien arrived on earth from and wrote a story about their history and it became a fantasy because well it was earth back in the dark ages.”
“I don’t know.” She started to say she found it unlikely but stopped, thinking of her conversation with Alexis and seeing the excitement of the potential mystery in his face. Even if it was unlikely, it didn’t matter. It was fun to ponder. Instead she said “you’d have to research and see what you can figure out.”
Cai rolled his eyes and threw popcorn at her. “I’m not six Will.”
She stuck her tongue out at him. “No when you were six you had no piercings, blonde hair and the voice of an angel.” She clapped her hands and batted her eyelids.
He responded by hooking his ankle around hers and sending her back down onto the sofa with a small thud.
“Haha smart ass, shouldn’t you be going to bed now? Before you turn into a pumpkin” He asked, getting up to sit on her.
Shoving him off into the sofa beside her willow looked around for a time piece. “What time even is it?”
“Nearly 1:30am” he said sounding not a slight bit concerned and munched more food while she rubbed her face in dispare. He grinned “ohhh you’re gunna be in so much trouble. You even look tired, pale, dark circles the whole thing.”
She shoved him off the back of the sofa where he laughed from the floor in a way very reminiscent of The villain from the film.
Willow & Cai
The door to Willow’s quarters slid open and Brad stalked in, an unhappy look on his face and with an obvious case of bedhead, wearing an old blue uniform under-shirt and lurid green scrub pants.
“Does anyone want to explain why the ship’s AI just woke me up at zero one- thirty in the relative morning to tell me that the one person on this ship who’s actually registered as my patient is disobeying medical orders again?” he asked.
Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Sleep-Deprived Chief of Staff
Cai, who had just pulled himself up to the back of the sofa, took in Brad’s appearance and burst out laughing again, he pulled himself together long enough to excuse himself from the room.
Willow, captain of the ship and the authority of the place, made a sound that sounded like “eeep!” On Brads dramatic entry. She ran her hands though hair hair leaving it sticking up at odd angles, not exactly helping her general appearance. A sheepish look and she began babbling.
“Not disobeying…We were just…movie night…you know i’m in charge around here right? you can’t just walk in here…we just had pizza…and ok two films…but it’s fine…I’m fine…I just…” she looked him up and down and despite herself she stifled a laugh.
“What do you look like?” She asked giggling.
Willow Taylor
In trouble
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