Posted by Lieutenant Commander Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in When Pieces Fall Into Place (Tag Kane)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Solomon Kane (Chief Science Officer/Research & Development) in When Pieces Fall Into Place (Tag Kane)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in When Pieces Fall Into Place (Tag Kane)
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Several days had passed. Alexis had spent a lot of time with her dad, and he had joined them at least 3 times for meals. Alexis had also given him access to her quarters (she never used them anyway) because Allison was insistent that she wanted a divorce and that meant her father was not sharing quarters with her. That had been…a bit embarrassing for her father when her mother tried to draw security into it. Allison had tried to speak with Alexis several times, but a simple request to GALEN to keep all non-medical personnel away from her office was an easy fix. Or Alexis spent time down in the R&D lab working on some of her projects. Some of them she even shared with her father. Allison became less of a problem when she discovered the ship’s mess. There wasn’t a kitchen, but making use of some of Anthony’s replicator credits she made due. The crew at least was benefiting from her baking expertise.

Her father was going to be spending the night shift in the arboretum. Apparently there was a new night blooming plant, a Horsetail Nightshade, that he couldn’t wait to observe. He didn’t bother to ask Alexis to join him, knowing how much it would bother her. That night promised to be quiet and Alexis decided to cook. It had been awhile since she’d made burgers, and tonight she added fries and milkshakes. Lucy was already queued on the screen with the food ready to come out about the time she expected Kane to get back.

Bonner

Kane walked in and took a sniff of the air. “You cooked? Smells great.” and he walked in and began taking off his uniform, pausing long enough to kiss Alexis as she prepared everything. “Let me change and I can help if you want.” He winked at her and walked into the bedroom.

A few minutes later a freshly sonic showered Kane, wearing a pair of shorts and a red t shirt that said “We Bargain Collectively Or We Beg Alone” on the front and “Union Strong” on the back in black lettering walked into the room and said “So how goes it? Talk to your dad at all? Your mom tried to come to the lab again. I think I may have to send out a quarantine notice on her.”

Kane

Alexis had just finished cutting potatoes into French fries. She turned to him and held out a long handled spider strainer and a pitcher. “Do you want to deep fry potatoes or make the milk shakes?” Everything was set out and ready to be thrown together. She turned back to flip the burgers. “I saw him at 1422 when I brought Frigga back after her last appointment. He is going to be spending the night in the arboretum.” Frigga, hearing her name padded over and sat, tongue lolling and sniffing the air around the table.

“Milkshakes.” Kane replied and began to assemble the ingredients. “What is he doing in the arboretum?”

Alexis scooped the fries into the basket of the large spoon and lowered them I to the hot oil. They made a satisfying sizzle and pop as the potatoes began to turn into an unhealthy fried delicacy.

“Apparently, there is a Horsetail Nightshade in the arboretum and it’s going to bloom tonight. He’s excited.” Alexis was glad he had found something to do that he enjoyed. “It’s the closest he’s come to field work in years.” She set two plates on the counter and then a bun on each. “Today was decent. I guess my mother put all her effort into the science labs rather than medical today. As tempting as that is, we’d then have to explain to Dr Walker and then probably Cpt Taylor.” Alexis shrugged, “Of course she thinks because she’s a ‘scientist’s wife’ that she knows as much as he does. Leave out a vile of pretty colored, sweet aromatic perfume made from a hallucinogenic plant…let her ‘accidently’ get in the lab and she’ll pick it right up and inhale.”

Bonner

“Yeah… ‘cause we wouldn’t have to explain that to Walker or Taylor.” Kane said with a chuckle. “Although your mom high would be hysterical I bet. Between the hallucinations and the paranoia?” and he laughed as he started blending blueberries and ice cream together for him, strawberries and chocolate for Alexis.

Kane

“She has had run ins enough with security I don’t think anyone would blink at knowing she tried to sneak into the labs to find one of us. She does anything else psychiatry is going to be called for a mental health check.”

She looked up, staring into the middle distance in thought. Then as she started adding toppings to the burgers she looked at him and laughed. “That would be…interesting. Might be worth it.” Another few minutes and the fries were done. She strained them and then put them on a paper towel to remove the excess oil before putting them on the plate.

She set both plates on the table and a third on the floor for Frigga. Then curled into her spot on the couch.

Bonner

Kane flopped down next to her and said “Ok… before we begin. Let’s get any of the day’s drama out and then once we are done, we watch Lucy and eat these fine burgers and then go to bed. Deal?” he asked and popped a fry in his mouth.

Kane

“Deal. None for me today. Mom didn’t attempt to see me, or if she did I am unaware. There is something making the nurses and techs overly chatty, but it didn’t affect their work, so,” she shrugged. It drove her nuts, but she couldn’t expect everyone to work the way she did. She also suspected it had something to do with her, since it started after her dad came and spent lunch with her. She wasn’t sure what was so interesting about that, but her mom had caused enough of a ruckus to draw attention. “What about the labs?”

Bonner

“My resident knucklehead tried to micro-transporter weld a nickle-sulphide metal framework around a marginalized crystalline cohesive matrix. So after the small explosion, people freaking out, and him babbling apologies, I got to write up yet another Incident Report. But, on the plus side, your mom didn’t show today there either.”Kane said and shook his head with a soft laugh. “I’d think she learned… but I’m pretty sure she’s just saving her energy for a single epic meltdown.”

Kane

“Well he will be gone in just over a week. Dad will make sure he is set straight. If not he’ll take care of that too. Honestly I can’t figure out how all those incident reports don’t red flag him.” A certain amount of miscalculations and even accidents were expected in a y lab, but Borcheck crossed that line several times a week. It was baffling. Alexis picked up her milkshake and stirred it with the straw. “I wish you weren’t correct.” She took a sip of the milkshake thoughtfully. Then she suddenly reached over and traced a tattoo on his forearm, opposite the eagle on the other arm. “What’s this one?”

Bonner

Kane didn’t need to look down to see which one she was touching. It was a pair of fire axes crossed mid-haft to form a kind of ‘X’. in each of the four sections were initials. on the left, ‘S.K.’. On the right, ‘D.G.’. On top, ‘L.N.’, and on bottom was ‘H.L.’. All of the initials save the one on the left had a red line through them that seemed to be newer that the initials themselves.

“Graduation from the Fire Academy. The initials are mine and my ladder teammates. We all got the same one the night we graduated.” he said as he ate some fries.

Kane

Alexis didn’t need to ask what the red lines meant - she understood. She traced the initials gently, respect for the people who meant something to him, his family. Unlike hers that was simply....bonkers. That was the best term for her mother. Pushing that thought aside she watched the axes move as his muscles stretched and contracted. His story was written in pictographic form all over him. A hard story, but his, and it fascinated her. Each one representing some significant moment along the story line or meaning. Maybe it was time for her to get another one. He said his art was inside of him, but she thought she might like to have his art on her. “I want you to design it.”

“Design what?” he asked around some fries.

Design…oh she could do that, maybe. She’d never done something like that. She could ask Borcheck. Wouldn’t that be ironic, but he should know the basics enough for her to pick it up. But what to do with it? That would require some planning. She could ask Solomon, he would know. He was a modern day MacGyver. But then where was the surprise? She grinned at him, “My next tattoo, Mac.”

Kane grinned and said “I’d love to. You want something specific? Or do I get ‘creative license’?” and he chuckled.

Her hand slipped under his shirt and splayed over his left side just under his ribs. “What about this one? Not the bigger one but the small one inside? The style, the technique looks different, but they also seem to fit together.”

Bonner

He thought for a moment and said “That was where I got stabbed. Covered it with a lotus blossom. But the kid that did it was new, raw. So it came out more sharp than delicate. The surrounding piece was done by him a few years later. Ran into him on a station out by the Gamma Quadrant. Had a little shop set up and was doing ok.”

Kane

Another covered up scar. Another lotus flower. Isn’t that what Solomon had said, a lotus flower on her shoulder with a trailing vine of cherry blossoms? Her fingers trailed over it gently before quietly slipping away. Cmdr D’palq did tattoos. Alexis sat up and grabbed her plate. “Is that all the drama or are we ready for Lucy?”

Bonner

Kane started chanting ‘LUCY! LUCY!” loudly and then he laughed. “I’m all drama-ed out. Mind numbing would be most welcome.”

Kane