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The First Day Of Forever

Posted March 17, 2023, 12:17 p.m. by Civilian Jason Reilly (Assistant Director - Colonial Intelligence) (James Sinclair)

Posted by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Asst. Chief Medical Officer) in The First Day Of Forever

Posted by Civilian Jason Reilly (Assistant Director - Colonial Intelligence) in The First Day Of Forever

Posted by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Asst. Chief Medical Officer) in The First Day Of Forever
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Hannah didn’t ask and didn’t want to know how he was going to manage that when he wasn’t active Star Fleet any more and working for Colonial Intelligence. “I love you too, Jason.” She looked at him, and some of that earlier anguish had returned. “I wish the lie was true. I wish I had met you years ago.” She was absolutely certain he would have made her forget Daniel. Then things would be how they should be. She took his hand in both of hers, quietly beginning to massage his palm, “How are you? At the hospital yu said you were ugly jealous. What can I do to make that better?”

Hannah

He looked at her for a moment and then smiled. “Do you remember when we first met?” He put his arm around her and pulled her close. “I remember it like it was yesterday… or the day before.” and he winked. “The Fearless was stopped at… that outpost… and you were part of the team that was assisting. I remember you came into the conference room. Do you remember?”

Jason

His arm around her felt good, warm and steady. She grinned when he winked at her. The grin turned to a warm genuine smile when she realized what he was doing. She settled against him, head back against his shoulder, her back pressed against his side. She closed her eyes and nodded. “Theta Kizvik near the Breen boarder. I remember. I was arguing with Lt Cmdr Fitzpatrick.” That was believable. She and the security chief always fought. “I was upset…over his plan…and I signed something wholly disrespectful and you laughed…do you remember?”

Hannah

He chuckled. “Of course. I was amazed a sign that vulgar came from a such a vision. And when Fitzpatrick asked me what I was laughing at, I told him I had just remembered a great joke. And he stormed out… and then you asked me to dinner.”

Jason

“I can’t stand that man,” Hannah’s shoulders shook just a little with silent laughter. “I didn’t see you until you laughed. I love your laugh,” she turned her head and kissed the side of his neck. “I couldn’t believe you understood what I signed. I remember you winked at me and then pointed at the chair next to you. I was so nervous about dinner too. I couldn’t believe I did that. Dinner didn’t quite turn out how we expected.”

Hannah

“No it did not!” and he laughed. He looked at her and said “I honestly thought that night would be our first night together… and then that crowd of nurses showed up and turned the whole commissary tent into a karaoke bar.” and he shook his head. “Completely ruined the mood.” He looked at her and said “I always had a suspicion they did that on purpose to keep us from going back to my place that night.”

Jason

Hannah thought back, who would do that? Jarrisa. She would have. “Oh that was all Jarrisa’s doing.” She turned her head to look at him, eyes dancing, “She said you had a ‘reputation’. It was for my own good. She was the Orion nurse that you didn’t look at once the whole time. Her feelings were hurt.” Hannah found his other hand and pulled his other arm around her too. “We rescheduled for the next night, and then that cave in happened.”

Hannah

He nodded. “Right. You were trying to get the secondary rescue team up to the ventilation shafts on that face face of rhe mountain; and I was digging through comm logs trying to figure out exactly how many were trapped inside. Figured that out right when you were tying off and sending the drones in.” He shook his head andooked at her and smiled. “We made a good team… and an even better one a few nights later.”

Jason

“We did.” She grinned and squeezed his hands, “We make a better one now.” She could see it as he described it. She had performed dozens of rescues. What most people didn’t realize was the secondary teams had the harder more dangerous jobs. They were put together with those who had very specific skills and experience for the more dangerous jobs. They went in with the safer and more direct routes became non-viable. “Science had figured out that the interference in the comms was from the increased seismic activity, but you were the one that figured out the pattern was me sending Morse code. We were trapped on the other side of that fissure that suddenly opened.”

Hannah

He smiled at her and said “I remember that vividly. And I remember waiting to see the rescue shuttle set down and for you to step out. Seemed like it took forever, but then you came out. Gods but you were filthy… and I remember I kissed you. Right then and there in front of everybody.”

Jason

Hannah closed her eyes again, picturing it, piecing together pieces of her experiences to recreate the story in her memory. It had only been two days since Jason had kissed her for the first time, and she could recall that feeling perfectly. “I remember. No one ever kissed me like that. I remember thinking there was another quake.” She raised his hand to her lips and kissed his knuckles. “Your face and uniform were covered in soot from me. I was so scared down in that cave, and after you kissed me I started to cry. You were talking, but I don’t know what you said, I hadn’t been able to reset my implants yet.”

Hannah

He held her close and said “I said I never wanted to lose you and I don’t know what I would have done if something had happened to you. I walked you back to the debrief. Stood with you while you did your preliminary report, and then I took you to my pre-fab module… undressed you… put you in the shower and washed you… and then put you in my Academy Crew t-shirt and in my bed. I held you close to me and we stayed like that till morning.”

Jason

Hannah’s hands tightened around his, and she shuddered like she was going to cry. The story was going to come to an end, and he was going to leave. Even in her fantasies she was left waiting, until he was supposed to reappear on Saracen. She didn’t want that to be their story. She made herself breath deeply and slowly. It was just a story, it didn’t happen, but oh it mattered to her. She wished it was true.

“That assignment was one calamity after another. The next morning I was ordered to the medical tent because of toxic gas exposure where the fissure opened. I was okay but I spent 3 solid days there for precautionary treatment and treating others. The quakes kept getting worse, and the foundation of main building completely cracked. The emergency generators went out, it didn’t seem to stop.”

Hannah

He kissed her cheek. We end up here, so the story has a happy ending. “Yeah. And I kept sneaking you those little plastic bottles of fruit juice. We had the fusion lantern and I threw that colored gauze around it and we pretended we were in a bar on Earth, sitting at a table flirting on our first date.” and he chuckled. “I ordered the steak and the imaginary waiter brought me spaghetti.” and he laughed.

Jason

Hannah breathed deeply, he could feel it as her chest rose and fell under his arms. I know. “I asked you why you kept bringing me the juice. You said ‘whatever my lady wants, my lady gets’.” Another truth, another element of reality. “I forgot the steak and spaghetti. You made me laugh…I never laugh…” She grinned up at him, “After 3 days of ration bars, accidental spaghetti instead of steak would have been a miracle.”

Hannah reached for her water. “You remember, oh I don’t know how many days, they all ran together, I snuck out those two MREs? We went into the woods, you took a blanket, and we had a picnic. We fell asleep in that clearing. The patrol found us the next morning.”

Hannah

He chuckled. “Yeah… and man were they pissed. Thought we’d gone off to try and join the survey teams., and there we were under a blanket, dead asleep.” He took a drink. “But then the seismic activity tapered off, and we had those two great months together…”

Jason

Hannah was quiet, but her stomach muscles contracted under their hands with laughter. “I was in so much trouble with Cavanaugh, my DH, and Fitzpatrick. It was worth it.” Two months…how could she have let him go after two months? It had been…3 days? And Hannah couldn’t imagine him being gone. “They were an amazing two months. I was happy. You made me happy. I hadn’t been in a long time. ” Hannah clenched her jaw and forced a harsh deep breath. I hate being emotional like this. It’s not me.

Hannah

Jason squeezed her. “But then your ship was moved. And I was called back to Earth. And then I had to go on that assignment.” and he shook his head. “Long-distance relationships are just impossible. We didn’t have enough time to build a foundation.”

Jason

“Two months is such a short time, but it didn’t feel like it then, until it was over.” She had absolutely no trouble imagining what it was like when the letters stopped. When the work filled the empty hours and attending ship functions was a necessity to break up the hours, until suddenly you weren’t quite so lonely, you didn’t miss them to the point of aching. Life took on a different, but duller routine. Until suddenly something happened, and you were reminded. But the ache was so much worse that time. Sitting at the computer simultaneously talking herself out of trying to contact him and to not. That too much time had passed and it hadn’t worked.

She could imagine the guilt she would have felt about Daniel afterwards, after the ache for Jason was hidden in the work and routine. When routine was returning to waiting for Daniel to come back. (That didn’t last though, real or fantasy. He hadn’t waited for her, had he.) She realized waiting for Daniel would have become an act, a routine with no substance to hide how much she would have missed Jason.

She turned in the booth, turned towards him, head on his chest, still holding his hand. Her voice was incredibly quiet, makingbit more muffled than usual. “I missed you, a lot.”

Hannah

He kissed the top of her head. “I missed you too, Hannah… every single day.” He pulled away slightly so he could look at her. “But we are here now, right? The past is the past… let’s focus on the future.”

Jason


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