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When Life does a 180

Posted April 21, 2021, 9:41 a.m. by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Counselor / Diplomatic Officer) (Lucas Foxley)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Hannah Lori Asimina (Doctor) in When Life does a 180

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Counselor / Diplomatic Officer) in When Life does a 180

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It was a lot of information right off the bat, but Mika sat quietly and listened to Hannah’s story. Mika knew a little sign language, she wasn’t fluent or anything. She wanted to be. But she recognized what Hannah was doing with her hands right away. “Let’s start with this,” she said, at last. “Who’s Daniel?” She could probably read the old CNS’s files, but she’d rather get to know Hannah herself first, something her mentor aboard her previous ship had strongly believed in. Your own, unbiased perspective was too important to go around reading other people’s opinions on a case. And Mika had to agree. Once she had narrowed Hannah to one topic, they could go through and hit everything. Otherwise it was just a barrage of information, too much to go through all at once.

~ Lt Mika, CNS/DO

“Oh, right,” Hannah smiled sheepishly and little embarrassed. “DaVinci, Cmdr Colter. I forget that no one on board calls him Daniel but me.” Oh where to begin. “I met Daniel just over five years ago. We were together just a little over 6 months. We knew, it was easy, it was, not perfect, it was like we’d always been together. Then he had leave. He was sent away on a deep cover mission.” She reaches for his dog tag, a long habit, but she doesn’t have it anymore. She isn’t sure Dr Mika would know what a dog tag was anyway. “He gave me a necklace with something of his on it. He asked me to keep it till he came home. He was gone five years.” Hannah watches Mika. The counselor on her last ship didn’t like that she was waiting for Daniel and had talked to her repeatedly about it, but since it didn’t affect her work there wasn’t anything the counselor could do about it. “I didn’t know he was here when I transferred and he didn’t know I was on board. Not until he walked into sickbay with a busted knee.”
Lt jg Asimina, Doctor

Mika thought it was sweet. When she left the Challenger, Mika had been separated from her own girlfriend, and while they had meant to write to each other all the time, it hadn’t really happened and it had been months since she’d spoken to her. Perhaps she should have said the same thing, that waiting wasn’t healthy, but instead she said, “I’d have probably done the same thing.” She hadn’t met Commander Colter but she had heard about him. He seemed to be a well-respected officer. “After all this time, your relationship…?” After five years apart, she’d expect it to have change. Substantially.

~ Lt Mika, CNS/DO

Hannah sighed. Other than that one time on Starbase 12 there had never been an issue. It hadn’t affected her work or her performance or her friendships. She’d just wanted desperately to find him. “Thank you. Some people don’t understand.” After all this time, that was a question. “It’s, well it’s like he never left. But at the same time it’s a little bit like starting over. So much happened in between, but so much has stayed the same. We’ve talked about it, here and there, sometimes briefly, sometimes for a couple hours. I gave him back the necklace; we’re living together again.” She blushes slightly. Her personal life has always been that, personal and private, not something she just talks about. “I know that probably sounds crazy or ill advised. But we lost so much time. We don’t want to lose more.”
Lt jg Asimina, doctor

Mika nodded. “I understand. I’m happy for you,” she said. “What about your hobbies? You said you don’t really know what to do with your free time?” She asked. One from one topic to the next. Of course, it seemed that Commander Colter would probably be an important part of this topic, too.

~ Lt Mika, CNS/DO

“Well I love anything to do with nature. On my last ship we stopped at a lot of worlds, colonies, places we could go planet side. We don’t do a lot of that on Saracen, but there are holodecks…but I guess that’s another issue I need to talk about.” Hannah sighed and then returned to the topic. “I spent a lot of time over the last few years writing letters, documenting anything I thought Daniel wouldn’t want to miss. I mean I guess I could keep doing that, but I’d rather talk to him.” Hannah grinned. “I used to climb on the holodeck, but I don’t like to climb alone.” Her facial expression, more than her tone of voice, would tell Mika it wasn’t a matter of having a friend to do something with, but something deeper than that.
Lt jg Asimina, doctor

Well, yes. Writing letters was quite time consuming, of that, Mika was sure. Writing letters to Aili took up a significant portion of her free time. “Is there something you do like to do alone?” She asked at last.

~ Lt Mika, CNS/DO

“I like to nature journal, but,” Hannah shrugged, Saracen didn’t even have an arboretum. “I…I used to climb in the holodeck alone. There are so many safety protocols it’s safe. But,” Hannah pauses taking one of her implants off. Holding it in her palm she looks at if flipping it over a few times before putting it back on. “I had internal implants a few years ago. I was hiking in the holodeck, nothing dangerous or risky. My implants, malfunctioned and sent an electrical shock through me. I fell almost 30 feet before the protocols kicked in. The fall didn’t really hurt me but I was in sickbay for awhile because of the malfunction. I’ve tried a few times to go hiking or climbing, but…” Hannah raises her hands palm up in not quite a shrug, “I get scared and turn the program off.”
Lt jg Asimina, doctor

Mika nodded, listening intently. “Do you want to get back into climbing?” She asked. Anyone would be afraid after that, but Mika was certain it was workable, if Hannah wanted it to be. That was something she’d been taught. Any problem was fixable, as long as the person wanted the change. Was willing to work for it.

~ Lt Mika, CNS/DO


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