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Runnabout - Vacation

Posted Nov. 27, 2018, 10:31 p.m. by Lieutenant Kate O'Neill (Chief of Security) (Kate O'Neill)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Shaun Grecken (Doctor) in Runnabout - Vacation

Posted by Lieutenant Kate O’Neill (Chief of Security) in Runnabout - Vacation
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https://www.star-fleet.com/core/stf5/odin/notes/15757/ Link to orignial post -Lets keep this off the record

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Twelve hours later......

Kate lay in Shaun’s arms not caring if they ever reached Ireland. The small runabout the Captain had loaned them to go on their shore leave was not spacious but it was perfect for two people. “God I love auto pilot,” she said sleepily nuzzling his chest and shifting the leg across his body. Ten minutes after they entered the shuttle and set its course, she and Shaun had not left the bedroom.

The words had no sooner left her mouth before they were replaced with a steady beep…beep…beep from the cockpit indicating a message was coming through subspace. Rolling on top of him she sat up pressing his shoulders to the mattress. “Do not answer that,” she warned. “You and I both know Danny told my mother or your mother we were coming back to Earth. I don’t want to spend our vacation like we are back in middle school with comm calls under the blankets. “Let it ring,” she stated firmly looking in Shaun’s eyes.

Lt. Kate O’Neill COS

“We can’t do that.” he said as he kissed her brow. “I will answer you sit and look pretty I will be back soon. ” he said as he got up and made his way to the com desk. Hitting the button he waited to see who was trying to contact them. He looked around as he got ready to answer putting on a shirt over him to look more proper for the view screen.

Grecken, Doctor

Looking at the console of the ship, Shaun would see that the message coming in was a distress”Shaun,” A woman said

“Yes… this is Shaun, and you?” he said as he looked at her, unsure of who was calling at first, though the face began to look familiar. “Wait… Candice?” he said softly as the person came back to him in a blast. “What… what are you doing calling here?”

Grecken, Doctor

Candance’s face relaxed slightly in relief. It was the look of someone desperate but now had a glimmer of hope. The ease on her face was fleeting, however as she cast a glance behind her at the terminal before looking back at him. Leaning in she dropped her voice some. “Shaun I need your help. Persies has been quarantined. It came in a cargo pah,” she said and then was drowned out by heavy thumping on the door behind her. Candance quickly turned her head to the door and then back to the screen.

As the door broke open she spoke as quickly as she could and still be intelligible. “Shaun they are leaving us to die and let the virus burn out. They isolated us but it spreads too fast. We need your heh,” Candance tried to speak as quickly as she could before a hand reached over and ended the call.

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Persis Colony

“The door banging was a bit much,” Candance said to the man who took a seat next to her. Her face held a scowl and she crossed her arms over her chest.

“Well, you said to make sure he felt a need to show. I wasn’t sure your relationship with him was going to be enough for Grecken to drop everything and fly here based on one message. “

“Shows how little you knew of him. We did not have a relationship. He was pining over some chick the entire year he was here. Those nights he came to the pub,” Candance rolled her eyes with a hint of disgust to her voice, “he did not stop talking about he ex. That being said Shaun might have been an annoying boy scout at times but he is honorable. His Hippocratic oath would be in full swing the second I told him people were dying. Nothing would have stopped him from coming. We didn’t need the Gestapo act.” Candance brought up the monitors and looked at the perimeter of the complex. It would hold but for how long was the question.

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SHUTTLE

Kate came up from behind Shaun and wrapped one arm around him giving him a bottle of Dr. Pepper. She felt the silly smile fill her face as she remembered the first time she saw him drinking one. They were still young kids then and when she asked why he was drinking that Shaun promptly replied ‘because it is what doctors drink’. From that moment forward she would never look at the carbonated beverage as anything but the go-to drink for anyone with a medical tricorder.

“So who was that,” Kate said kissing his neck. It was then she noticed he was bringing up the star charts for their parsec. “And what are you doing?”

Lt. Kate O’Neill, COS


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