Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jarred Alindor (Chief Engineer) in Alindor’s Quarters - Meeting Elizabeth Alindor

Posted by Ensign Kalani Kāne (Scientist) in Alindor’s Quarters - Meeting Elizabeth Alindor
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Alindor’s quarters

The Alindor’s walked and chatted about mundane things on the way to Jarred’s quarters. The weather, travel conditions, lack of peanuts and cold beverages on shuttles were the adult-dominated topics as the family took several hallways and turbo heading towards their destination. Their pace was substantially slower than needed due to Elizabeth’s dawdling the entire way. The little girl’s eyes were large and she clung onto Jarred’s hand like it was a lifeline. Many of the passing crew gave the chief odd looks or lingering nods as they watched him stride down the halls with the little girl in tow. For Elizabeth’s part, she tended to looked around and then down as the people passing looked at them. She was not shy in the least. Her grandpa joked that if you looked up the definition of adventurous and outgoing there would be a picture of Elizabeth Alindor. It was just a lot was going on today and as excited as she was to live with her Daddy on the new ship, Elizabeth was a little sad to be leaving her home, school, and friends. She just hoped people would not stop them right now. She wanted to see more of the ship with her Daddy: not talk and be polite to strangers. Each time someone passed, Elizabeth tightened her grip on Jarred’s hand until they were safely at his quarters.

Jarred looked over at Kalani and whispered in her ear. He wanted to surprise Elizabeth with something but Kalani would need to grab it first.

“Okay, be back in a second,” she said happily but in a low tone. Kalani gave Jarred a quick kiss on the cheek before she left and worked hard not to actually run to her quarters. For hours last night she and Jarred debated insane minutia about what to do today. This was one of them. They didn’t want to overwhelm her but they knew Elizabeth would probably love it.

As she walked in, Elizabeth smiled widely and ran across the room jumping up on the couch. “It looks like home Nana only I can’t see the lights from the city.” After pressing her face to the window, she looked back at Jarred. “Can we take a drive around the ship? PaPa used to take Nana and me all around Tycho on Sunday afternoons. We would get ice cream and sometimes go to the park. Can we do that Daddy?”

“A drive… well… sure. We can’t drive around the ship but we can always go to the holodeck and drive… well anywhere really. You name a location and we can go for a spin, I might even go go-kart racing with you see what you can do.” he said with a small wink at Elizabeth.

“You have a go-cart track on the ship. No way,” Lizzie said jumping up and down with excitement. “I love go-carts. My feet don’t reach the pedals but PaPa has brough pillows before. Do you have pillows I can use?”

“Elizabeth, no jumping on the furniture please,” Samantha said softly. This garnered a groan as she jumped up once more to land on her bottom. Using the cushions like a trampoline to propel her up again, Elizabeth was on her feet again looking around.

“Do you have a dog?” Her tone was super excited and Elizabeth dropped to her knees slapping her legs and calling out ‘here puppy puppy’.

“I think she likes your quarters,” Samantha whispered to her son. She was thrilled that Elizabeth seemed to be happy with Jarred’s home. Samantha was just happy that it was this clean. She debated on how much of that was due to Kalani living there and cleaning up or her son wanting to impress Kalani so he cleaned up.

“That is Ralph’s bed… Ralph is Kalani’s pet fox, when she comes he often comes too and we like to give him a place to stay. In fact that’s why Kalani left, she will be here soon to let you meet Ralph and maybe a few of her other animals. Until then I do have a suprise for you little one. Would you like to see your room?” he asked her as he offered his hand to his daughter, pointing his head at the door across the living space.

“Yes,” she said jumping up and looking around the room. There were several doors and she had no idea which one was going to be hers.

Family quarters had a bit of more room, his room had his own bathroom, then there was a bathroom for guests, living space, office area, and dining area as well as the second bedroom. It was a perk of having Elizabeth that he always had the family quarters for just in case she ever came to visit. Now that she was living with him, he was very thrilled he had a chance to finally put her room to good use.

“I hope you like the room, I spent a lot time making it perfect. Last time we talked you told me all your favorite colors and activities, I hope I did well in making this the perfect room sweetie.” he said as he waited for her to open the door first.

Elizabeth palmed the door open and slowly stuck her head in as if she were sneaking into the room. Looking to the left and then right she slowly entered the room. “You made it pink,” she said grinning wider than she had since she arrived. “It is the same color as my bedroom back home. When wake up I won’t know where I am,” she let out a deep kid giggle. “I love it, Daddy.” Elizabeth ran over wrapping her arms around Jarred’s middle before running over to the shelves lining the walls. “I love the soccer balls and you have all my trophies. I love that my bed is under the window so I can look out and see the stars at night and that you have all my toys” she rambled until she stopped. “How did you get all of my stuff?” Elizabeth looked around and began to open some doors to the various dressers and closets. Her face fell a little seeing so many of her clothes already in the closets.

“Remember we talked about packing up your stuff and sending it to Daddy so that he had everything you needed when you came to live with him,” Samantha said.

“Yes but what will be left in my room back home,” Elizabeth asked sitting on the bed. “I wanna live with daddy but what will I have when I come home to see you?”

Jonathan came up behind Jarred as he placed a hand on his shoulder, just briefly before moving aside. It was hard in many ways to try and find his rhythm with Jarred, they seemed to have been in conflict since he was born. Still, Jonathan loved Jarred, even if Jarred didn’t feel that was true.

Alindor, CE

The slightly quiet moment was soon broken not by adult conversations but loud yips. “Ralphie,” Elizabeth squealed running out of the bedroom pushing past her PaPa and Daddy. The small fox came barreling into the room running immediately to the couch and looking around. It only took him a second to notice someone new in the room and this person was just the right size. In fact, she appeared to be the perfect size. Ralph walked up to her and sniffed twice then immediately dropped his head and stuck his butt in the air wagging his tail.

Kalani walked up to Jarred and linked an arm around his waist. “So how is it going,” she whispered into Jarred’s ear.

“Daddy why is your dog so small,” Elizabeth asked and then was sent into a fit of giggles as Ralph began to jump up and nip at her ready to play. Ralph had learned how hard to bite these two-legged animals. When you bit it had to be just enough to cause them to laugh but not hard enough to make them say words loudly.

“I hate to do this but we should probably get something to eat soon. It is about 7 and she hasn’t eaten since lunch. She also got up this morning early and it was a very busy day,” Samantha said softly to her son.

Elizabeth Alindor