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Plaza Exchange - A Night On The Town

Posted Dec. 7, 2022, 6:10 p.m. by Civilian Yavia Crockett (Nurse - Sacred Heart Hospital) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Major General Charles Tenkiller (Vice-Commander, Colonial Customs and Defense Agency) in Plaza Exchange - A Night On The Town

Posted by Civilian Yavia Crockett (Nurse - Sacred Heart Hospital) in Plaza Exchange - A Night On The Town

Posted by Major General Charles Tenkiller (Vice-Commander, Colonial Customs and Defense Agency) in Plaza Exchange - A Night On The Town
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Yavia waved to the guard at the desk and they took the lift to her floor and stopped at her door. She grinned at him and opened the door but didn’t go in. She reached in, grabbed a canvas bag and closed the door. She took his hand and led him to a back lift and down to the ground floor. They slipped out a back entrance. They stepped into a back alley between buildings, and she led him through a veritable maze of passageways. There wasn’t quiet enough light, but she moved unerringly. She’d gone this way many times.

The space opened up suddenly to a meadow. An honest natural meadow. It was faced with the backs of buildings on all sides, but no access roads or drives. None of the lights of Oed City proper reached here. It was pitch black except for starlight. Trees had been planted and were now a couple of feet taller than an average human. In daylight the evidence of planned flower beds and trails could be seen, but in the dark it was just untamed and wild. The grass was high and there was evidence of flowers all about. “As best I can tell this was another planned green space, but it was forgotten about. It’s grown wild.” She led him out toward the middle. She let go of his hand and reached into the bag, unfurling a blanket and put it on the ground. She grabbed his hand and pulled him down next to her and then stretched out on her back. “It is the only place in the colony I have found where the light pollution doesn’t touch.” The sky above them was vast and dark, but full of stars.

Yavia

Tenkiller laid back and looked, but part of his head was working. Without knowing it, he was both with V and plotting-slash-planning. Nothing romantic… work plotting. His brain by its nature was geared to protect and plan, so it was working through the route and taking in what stars and traffic could be seen above them. So while his conscious brain was smelling her and the trees, feeling her body against his… his subconcious was working on how to make this place a dead-drop for his CI’s to leave messages… until suddenly he just stopped and was wholly in the moment with her.

“This is pretty amazing.” was all he said.

Tenkiller

She stared up at the stars while he thought about whatever it was going through his head. She breathed in the night air, the soap or aftershave he used, the trees and the grass. Mostly the silence. The sound of the city was blocked by the buildings and there wasn’t much in the way of a breeze here either. It was dark and hard to see until the eyes adjusted to the light given by the stars, and then everything was cast in a soft silver tinged shadow.

“It’s what I miss most about Delta. We have no real religion but we celebrate the rhythms of nature in an almost religious like manner. Everything flows with the natural shapes and land around us. We would never consider something that would stop us from gazing at the stars. I read records of the first time Deltans went to other planets. Across worlds it was always the same, how strange it was to not see the stars when they looked up. This is my favorite spot in the whole colony.”

Yavia

Tenkiller nodded and then looked at her and smiled. “I’m thinkin’ that right here might be my favorite spot, too.” he said as he took her hand in his and gave it a soft squeeze.

Tenkiller

Yavia really liked how he held her hand and didn’t balk about it. Didn’t have the sick giddy feeling some people got when they got near her simply because she was Deltan. He was just genuine. Her fingers wrapped around his hand and they stayed like that for awhile, in the dark in the middle of what felt like no where.

Yavia

It was a long time before he spoke. “This has been one of the best nights I can remember having in… well… a really long time.” and he turned his head to look at her and smiled. “I’d like to see you again. And again. As often as you’d like.”

Tenkiller

Yavia turned her head to look at him and squeezed his hand. “I would like that very much, to have many more nights like this with you.” Then she grinned, “That is easily arranged, General. You have complete access to my schedule.” Technically he had co.plete access to everyone’s schedule who worked the security ward. “You can come by whenever you want.”

Yavia

He grinned and said “Well I wouldn’t wanna cause a riot on the ward showing up dressed for a night out. I mean, I saw those looks those nurses gave me. Thirsty bunch ain’t they?” and he laughed.

Yavia laughed, it filled the silence. “You have no idea. Though the general consensus is you couldn’t possibly look better in anything than the way you do in your working uniform.” She rolled to her side and grinned at him. “Well you know my schedule and you know where I live. I think you can figure something out.”

“Besides, I kinda like having ya to myself.” and he slid over some and gave her a kiss.

Tenkiller

She breathed him in slowly, his scent, the feel of his lips, the sound of his breath, the warmth of his presence. There was absolutely no rush.

When she eventually pulled back, her eyes seemed very bright, but held softness. “I like having each other to ourselves. I would really like the privilege to spend more time with you, to know all the pieces of you.”

Yavia

“I think I like that idea quite a bit.” he said and smiled at her. “As long as the ‘knowing goes both ways.” He kissed her again, softly, and then looked back up at the sky. “So do ya think you are gonna make Oed your home? Or are you more of a wandering spirit?”

Tenkiller

She smiled, agreeing wholeheartedly with that arrangement. He kissed her then was watching the sky, she was watching him. “I have always wandered to where I can be of use, where I am needed. Oed needs nurses though, and needs people who love it. I love Oed, the people and the community. I love my work and the family at Sacred Heart. I don’t have any plans to leave. I feel at home here.”

Yavia

Tenkiller smiled and said “I’m glad ta hear that. ‘Cause I got no plans to leave anytime soon, and I’m pushing my family to make the trip out to see the place. They’ve never left Oklahoma, so I think they’d be pretty amazed at all ‘a this.” He took a deep breath and then asked “You close to your family?”

Tenkiller

Yavia rocked her head back and forth. “We do better in short periods. I am very close to my grandmother, and I was with my great-grandmother before she passed. Like most Deltans I am very close to my mother, but she doesn’t understand why I left, and why I refuse to take the vow of celibacy while off planet. I exchange letters with my dad and his family, but since Deltan relationships are fluid and change I didn’t grow up with them for long. The family mostly says my grandmother and I have too much human heritage in our blood.” Yavia grinned, “Gives me an excuse to rebel. I think you would like my grandmother. She is probably the only one that would come visit.”

Yavia

He chuckled. “Sounds like your Grandma and my Ma would get along like gang busters. My Ma’s always been the driving force of the family. My dad is all ‘Tradition tradition tradition.’, which I really do love a lot. But my Ma was the one who told me to leave and go find a life that compliments my role in the tribe… not let myself get swallowed up in it.”

Tenkiller

Yavia nodded, “That was my grandmother. Go do what makes me happy. My mom and my father and his family are very much about holding to our culture. To hold to the traditions. My grandmother and I are tge inky two who have traveled away from home. They have never left Delta and feel no need to do so. Which is fine, they just have a hard time understanding why I don’t want that.”

Yavia

He shrugged and said “Lotta people out there that think they have a lock on happiness. That nothin’ can be better than where they are at, so why leave? My Pa, he’s a bit different in his refusal to leave. For him it’s not about not feelin’ the need to leave… just that keeping the traditions alive is necessary. And you can’t do that traveling all over the galaxy. Some things you gotta have the tribe for. But out here, I can at least expose other people to my tribe. That generates interest, and that means the tribe does better. So…” and he took a deep breath and smiled. “Here I am. Layin’ onna blanket with a girl from another planet, one planet neither of us are from, staring at stars that my folks couldn’t see with the best telescope in the entire Federation.”

Tenkiller

“I think I envy your father a little. We celebrate our families but they are fluid and traditions change with the wind. There are some things that traverse our whole planet, but I never felt like there were things unique to our family that we carried from year to year, person to person. That is my experience though. It doesn’t mean everyone feels that way.” She stared up at the stars, “The series of circumstances that brought us here is…marvelous I think.” She looked back at him, “Do you miss being with your tribe. Will you go home one day?”

Yavia

Without taking his eyes off the stars, he smiled and said “My tribe is here…” and he put his free hand on his heart, “… always. I sometimes miss the community, but the tribe is always with me. My family, my friends, my ancestors… always with me.” He thought for a moment and said “I would like to, one day. But not to stay. I’ve seen too much and known too many people from other species and cultures. Can’t put the genie back in once ya opened the bottle.” and he laughed.

Tenkiller

He felt good, peaceful, strong, and larger than himself when he talked about his tribe. He knew his place and was content with it. He liked it and himself. “No, I suppose you can’t. At least not unless you wish him back in.” His laughter danced over her skin and she found it contagious, laughing with him. “There are things I miss about Delta, that I would like to see again. Things I would want to share with others, but visitors are only allowed on the moons, so…” she shrugged. “I am excited to see how Oed changes, and the beauty it will have as it grows.”

Yavia

“Its gonna be somethin’ to watch, thats for sure.” Tenkiller replied with a smile. “Maybe if you and I haven’t grown sick of each other by then, we can go see the oceans when they get up and running. No oceans back home, but I do love the water.”

Tenkiller

“I would love to see them, and the forests. Just…a lot more green. But if you can stand it, maybe I will take you to to the private pool at the hospital. Staff and guests only.”

Yavia


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