Posted by Lieutenant Marlaa (Chief Counseling Officer) in Side Sim: Counsellors Office: Ensign Buckingham reporting for Psyc Eval

Posted by Ensign Thomas Buckingham (Medical Officer) in Side Sim: Counsellors Office: Ensign Buckingham reporting for Psyc Eval

Posted by Lieutenant Marlaa (Chief Counseling Officer) in Side Sim: Counsellors Office: Ensign Buckingham reporting for Psyc Eval

Making his way to his next check-in Buckingham moved quickly through his new ship. The corridors of the Starship felt warm and familiar yet at the same time cold and distant. Instead of feeling excited and buoyant about being posted on a Starship - like he once did, he now felt nervous and uneasy. He tried to quell these feelings, telling himself that they are jitters that would pass in time as he grew more comfortable in his new posting, just like they did last time. But he wasn’t sure how much he believed it. This wasn’t last time and things were different now. He was different now.

Eventually he arrived outside the door to the Counsellors Office. He closed his eyes for a moment and breathed in deeply through his nose and exhaled heavily from his mouth… nope still nervous, just as before. He opened his eyes again, straightened his posture, tugged his uniform tunic down and rang the door chime.

Ensign Thomas Buckingham - Medical

“Come!”

When the door opened, the young man would see a woman with long, dark hair bent over with the upper half of her body inside a moving crate against the far wall behind her desk.

As the door swooshed shut behind him, her voice would bounce around the crate before coming out. “Hang on, grabbing this last piece…” She stood up and looked at him with a flushed face and a smile. “Sorry… Come on in. Got a little carried away trying to unpack.” She reached a hand to brush errant hair from her face as she looked at him.

Marlaa
CNS

“No need to apologise” Thomas smiled as he entered the room. “Ensign Buckingham reporting, Ma’am” As he stood there he wondered if he ought to Salute or not. It felt a little too formal so he opted to keep his hands rested behind his back.
“I didn’t mean to interrupt. If now isn’t a good time I can come back later?” He said politely.

Ensign Thomas Buckingham - Medical

Mar smiled. “No need to apologize, Ensign. We are informal in here. This is a place of safety and security.” She smiled and set the crush wrapped fist size item on the edge of her desk and motioned to the couch and chair by the window. “Please… come on in and tell me a bit about yourself. What brings you out into the deep, dark black?” She waited for him then sat across from him.

Marlaa
CNS

“Thank you” Buckingham smiled as he took a seat on the couch.
“I figured it was time to get back out into Space” He tried to sound jovial as he explained. “It’s been sometime since I was last out here and I’ve decided it’s time to get back out and start making something of myself. I want to take back some control of my life and start making myself useful again. When I was a younger man all I wanted to do was help people - and lately I just haven’t been doing that, I owe it to that younger man to change that.”
As he stopped speaking he realised that his tone had changed unintentionally to a serious one. He tried to quickly to change that…
“Or something like that…” He chuckled clumsily.

Ensign Thomas Buckingham - Medical