Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in VIP Quarters- ‘Missing’ Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Cassidy Abrams (Chief of Security) in VIP Quarters- ‘Missing’ Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in VIP Quarters- ‘Missing’ Side Sim
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Norene actually laughed aloud. “It’s a good add,” she agreed with a chuckle.

Under normal circumstances, Cass would have made a quip about herself making an excellent queen, but that would lead to other comments and assumptions that she didn’t dare invoke right now. It was one thing to be comfortable with the status quo of ones relationship, especially after having experienced not being together, but they had not had that conversation yet and she most definitely didn’t want to have it with her mother at the table. “You should make sure that if it happens, you take precautions so someone doesn’t toss a plague at you too,” she teased before digging into her beef stew.

“How are things with the department?” Norene asked her daughter.

Cass nodded slowly. “Pretty smooth right now. The usual hitches. It’s a smaller ship, and given our ship’s history I really want to make sure everyone knows each other fairly well. Maybe that’s a little bit of me missing the camaraderie of the science labs, but there’s something to be said for it.”

~The Abramses

“She was in my department a little while ago.” He glanced over with a slightly seductive smile. He couldn’t turn it fully off and he cursed himself for that. “She transferred over to security for the advancement opportunity, since I intend to live forever.”

Cass laughed. That wasn’t the reason at all and her mother knew that, but it was still funny.

He turned to Norene and opened his mouth then closed it suddenly. He was getting too comfortable and that would just get him trouble. “Honestly, science feels her loss desperately. I can’t seem to get anything done without her. She was both my right and left hand and sometimes, half my brain too.”

Marsh

“Hmm,” Norene murmured as she sipped her drink. It wasn’t entirely obvious what she was thinking, at least to those that didn’t know her. But Cass did and she shot her mother a Don’t you dare look, to which Norene ever so slightly smirked at. “Well, Cassidy was always good at whatever she put her mind to. Always very determined.”

“You mean exceptionally stubborn,” Cass quipped.

“You said it.” Marsh couldn’t help himself.

“Eh, that too,” Norene said with a grin. “But in the best possible way.”

Cass spread her hands out to the side. “Hey, I can admit my flaws. I’m not a perfect person. But with that stubbornness comes a great deal of persistence, and there are good things to that too,” she said.

OOC: We can reconnect with the Sickbay thread at anytime. Did you want to keep this going a while longer before we move to Sickbay, go now, or do both at the same time? I’m good with any, but want to give us the opportunity for character development if wanted.

~The Abramses

OOC: We can do both, is there something going to happen here?

OOC: Both is good with me. I will bring us into the Sickbay thread and we will reach that point here in this thread in a little bit through some magical tying together. No goal in this thread per say, other than to give you and I a chance to have Cass and Steven interacting more because we haven’t been able to do that as much for awhile. And then we can see how Norene shakes that up. Or not. lol.

“In all honesty its a rare person who can leave one department and be ready to be a chief in another in such short time.”

Marsh

Alright, this was wonderful and awkward all at the same time and Cass felt her cheeks warming. She took a sip of her water guessing that neither Steven or her mother would miss it entirely. “Well, being chief wasn’t the goal, but…”-she set the glass down, her expression pensive-“Range believed in me. Whether he was cultivating me outright or not, I do believe that he looked for ways to push me, and to get me to push myself. When Dvorak gave me the role, I actively didn’t try to step into his shoes. I’ve just been trying to find my own way and remember what he as my Mentor taught me. That and I’ve had other examples to work from too,” she said, shooting Steven a warm look. He was the epitome of ‘work smarter, not harder’ and there was a lot to be said for having fun and keeping the team from getting bogged down in seriousness everyday all day. Balance was key, and while he didn’t always show it, she had always seen that what he chose to put effort into, he enjoyed.

Norene couldn’t handle too much fo the stew, as lovely as it tasted and she had pushed it away. During her daughter’s little speech, she found herself bracing her elbow on the table and resting her chin on her hand. “You’ve changed,” she said softly, hoping it wouldn’t be taken badly. Small observances though had told her the greater story and she was suddenly aware that maybe she didn’t know her daughter as well as she thought she did.

Cass shrugged. “I grew up. It happens,” she deadpanned before she shifted in a smirk.

“Yes it does,” Norene agreed.

~The Abramses