Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jessica Teller (XO) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

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Duncan rubbed his lip one more time and then looked at Lily as the children in front of them disappeared like they had suddenly turned into mist as recess wasn’t to be wasted, especially when the teacher had begun to turn the shade of red that they all knew the warning signs about. “Did you kiss me?” he asked her, then grinned a little. “Or at least, did you try to?”

“Nope. There was a bee in the room. I think he got me and then you,” she teased with a huge grin. “Did you see what I did there,” Lily asked with a huge grin hoping he caught onto her birds and the bees comment earlier as her response for now. “That bugger is fast. Let’s hope the lights don’t go out again. Who knows where he could land. Oh....oh,” Lily swatted about her head as if there were a bee flying around. “Dag nabbit I think he is back. Watch out, Duncan. He could be coming for you again,” she said a bit slower locking her eyes to his.

“The two of you!” The teacher said, turning to them and glaring at them while adjusting her glasses. Duncan was sure they had begun to fog over. “Into my office, now!” She turned and visibly stormed into her small, schoolroom dominating office that each and every child feared to be called into. Then she turned at the door and held it open, pointing in to the office and glaring at them as if they were about to have a lifetime worth of detention heading their way. “You know,” Duncan said quietly as he reached down and took Lily’s hand, “I think we might of had the wrong science experiment in mind.”

“So you do want to learn about biology,” she giggled. “It is far more fun than chemistry even though some forms of chemistry have their merits.”

“Run!” Duncan said to Lily quietly but urgently and then turned on his heels, pulling Lily with him and giving a her a grin.

Unfortunately, the door to the corridor did not automatically open and Duncan ran straight into it. Being a School door it opened only at the use of the control panel, ensuring the children couldn’t simply escape. “Blast it!” Duncan said as he bounced of the door, still holding Lily’s hand tight. Hitting the panel repeatedly the voice of the teacher came behind them. “Mr Rhodes! Get back here this instant!”

“Aren’t you some big wig on the base. Don’t you have override controls,” she waved her hands laughing. “Do something before I doubt your rank of Lt.”

The door opened and Duncan and Lily fell through, coming to a stop on the corridor wall opposite the door, Duncan holding her in his arms as the door closed on the approaching teacher. “I’m not sure about you, but I can think of a few much better places we could be right now.” He paused for a moment and smiled at her as he looked down into her large, beautiful eyes. He was much closer now than he had been before, close enough to feel the curves hidden beneath her clothing and warmth of her body against his.

“I don’t know. Maybe if you had been my science teacher I would have gotten an A or at least been the teacher’s pet. You make science interesting,” Lily pointed out in a tone that would be hard to know if she was teasing or being serious.

The door opened again, and Duncan laughed, pulling Lily with him as they escaped down the corridor. Duncan appeared to know where he was going as the took a number of turns and even an old fashioned maintenance stairway down to the next lowest level. Finally, Duncan paused outside one final door with a badly faded plaque on the outside that could no longer be read. “Do you think we lost her?” He said as he turned and pulled Lily closer to him, smiling down at her and curling a stray hair of hers behind one ear with his fingertips. “There was one more place I wanted to show you tonight, although it looks like we forgot our snacks and drink. Don’t make a single move towards that whistle either, Ms Locksley.”

Lt Rhodes, CSO

“Frontier folk honor,” she said holding up her three fingers to her brow in the official salute of the Federation Frontiers Folk. The salute as an amalgamation of the girl scouts and boy scouts with its own flair added. In the early twenty-first century, the scouts had a major overhaul forcing the male club to accept females but allowing the females scouting club to still exclude men. A hundred years later it was shown that this was not actually separate but equal because boys were not allowed to join the elitist female movement forcing both organizations to disband and create the Frontier folks. Lily had obviously been a member of the organization with the way she effortlessly popped off the club’s official greeting.

Lily

Duncan looked at Lily dubiously for a moment, while the Frontier Folk was a great organization for kids to hang out and have fun, and learn some very basic things about the outdoors, they had a reputation much bigger than their ability in most cases. The field trip was going to turn out so interesting if this Ms Locksley did indeed come along with him.

“Alright,” he said, cautiously and on the lookout of her hand went for the whistle, “let me show you where I really wanted to bring you tonight.” Duncan reached down and took her hand, then glanced her way with a dashing smile, and pressed the control for the door to open.

The double doors swished open without a sound, betraying how old and unused they looked. Beyond them was a large room, which was almost empty. It was made to look much, much bigger than it was by the floor to wall window that circled the entire room aside from the small area they entered from. Within the room itself were tables and a long bar on one side, and a large area with plush couches and seats, in good condition although also old. The room was dimly lit, with enough light to see by but wasn’t dak by any means and dark enough, that even in the doorway Lily and Duncan were framed by the light of Gamma Tiltium that shone through the windows at them, the planet huge and blue before them. Duncan stepped forwards with Lily and the doors slid closed behind him, leaving them alone in the silent, big room. “This is an old observation lounge,” Duncan explained quietly. “It hasn’t been used in a long time, not while the station has more important repairs and upgrades to do and most of the population is kept away from the lower levels.”

He slipped his arm around Lily’s waist and smiled down at her softly, then moved forward towards the large window on the opposite side of the room. The furniture they passed looked expensive, almost antique and the layout mimicked the officers lounge at the top of the station. This room had clearly been made to have much more atmosphere than the crew lounge, either that or Duncan had spent time himself making it like it was. “Shall we play a little Music?” Duncan said and as he passed a machine that looked much like a jukebox, ran his fingers over some of the old looking keys.

Lt Rhodes, CSO

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