Posted June 27, 2020, 12:07 a.m. by Ensign Iyun Riani (Scientist) (Silke Fahl)
Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Back in the Borrowed Science Labs
Posted by Ensign Iyun Riani (Scientist) in Side Sim: Back in the Borrowed Science Labs
Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Back in the Borrowed Science Labs
Achilleas was at one of the lab tables reading a PaDD and generally being fidgety. He had the picnic basket and chilled food stuff from the last holodeck outing on the table next to him. He had been waiting for Ria’s arrival to her shift to give it back. He had been getting looks from some of the various NE’s and would just give them a grin and a shrug. He had no idea how to explain it or the underlying complications behind it. While he knew her shift hadn’t even started yet, he kept checking the time and felt jittery.CSO Petrakos
Considering that Riani always arrived a few minutes early for her shift, it wasn’t long till the scientist walked into the lab. While she was usually fairly calm while on duty and definitely a lot less anxious than most any other time, it would probably be pretty obvious that that was not the case today. While walking into the lab , she was twisting the end of her long braid around her fingers behind her back. And she was chewing on her lower lip.
Spotting Achilleas, Ria couldn’t help but smile shyly and tenderly at him before she noticed the basket and her expression turned confused and even slightly worried. All the way to the lab she had been wondering how she should greet him and had almost decided upon a simple ‘hello’. But the sight of him (and that basket) wiped her mind blank and all she managed to say was, “Sir.” Her voice was a little stiff and feeling the blood rush to her face, she quickly looked down and hurried over to her work station. Only to instantly have a bad conscience. She could kick herself. Yet with all those NEs in the room she didn’t know how to rectify the situation.
~Ensign Iyun, Scientist
Achilleas was frozen on the spot and not sure in any way of how to proceed. Did he walk over and talk to her? Should he bring the basket over and give it back? Would it be wise to wait for the end of shift and catch her on the way out? What would be the best approach? Steeling his resolve he stood up and grabbed the basket before walking over to Riani’s work station. He set the basket down by her seat before he said, “Ensign, thank you for letting me borrow your picnic basket. I really enjoyed having the use of it and included some chilled food with it. Do please be sure to not let it go bad.”
Ria looked briefly up and tried to convey with her eyes how sorry she was for not saying more when she had entered the lab. She then looked down at the basket and said, “You’re welcome, Sir. And thank you.”
He walked back to his spot a little awkwardly. He wanted to say so many things beyond what he did. So many thoughts and feelings wanted to come out of him, but what was appropriate to say and what wasn’t? Where was the line? Until they had a chance to see the Captain and ask for permission to be together they had to be careful and professional. This was doubly so while they were working.
CSO Petrakos
After Achilleas had returned to his work station, RIa tried to focus on her work. But all the while she felt her mind drifting, which resulted in a few mistakes during the simplest tasks. Something that wouldn’t happen under normal circumstances. It weren’t mistakes that would cause any problems and she managed to catch them on her own, but it made her feel upset that she couldn’t focus. Wasn’t that the evidence that relationships with someone you worked with weren’t a good idea? Or was she just so scatterbrained because no one could know that they liked each other?
It was quite a while later that she rose from her desk and walked over to Achilleas under the pretense of wanting to show him something. After clearing her throat softly so she wouldn’t startle him in case he hadn’t seen her coming, Ria asked, “Could you have a look at this, Sir? Maybe we could go through it together? Something doesn’t quite seem to right.” She knew exactly what was wrong with her calculations, though, as she had put a deliberate mistake in it towards the end to have a reason to talk to him. And maybe - if she was brave enough - sneak a private word into the conversation as well.
~Ensign Iyun, Scientist
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