Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Lounge- Mentoring in All Forms

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Counter-Intelligence Officer) in Lounge- Mentoring in All Forms

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Faye chuckled too. “Yeah, well, this is Shara we’re talking about. Two peas in pod those two. Look, I don’t know Micah like you do, but I can tell you this. Mom grew up with a bitter father who turned to alcohol to soothe his wounded pride and then took out his anger on the universe on those he claimed to love. She ran away from home when she was sixteen, Alex! And I know a thing or two about running, so I get it. She wanted freedom and safety. But life has been unkind to her. I still have to stop and remember that while I was on Orion with him, she was in the Delta Quadrant desperate to get home to her husband and child. And then she learned that everyone was killed and she didn’t know I was alive for years after. And then she has spent the majority of her life undercover, with an alias.” Faye shook her head. “Now you go ahead and tell me that she’d accept someone who tried to bully their way into her life…”

~Faye

Alex waved her off and calmed down a bit. “On no no no… not what I’m saying at all. Pikelsimer is just… well… he’s an acquired taste. Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy. And I trust him. And for how he is built, he is surprisingly not a bull-in-a-china-shop kinda guy… unless he has to be. It’s just… I dunno… I always saw him as him. Never as part of something else. I mean hell, that’s why he is so good at his job. He works so well off on his own. The idea of him married… it’s just a wholly foreign concept. But I am honestly and sincerely happy for them. I really am.” and he shook his head and sipped his coffee. He then grinned and said “Micah Pikelsimer is your dad now, Faye. Has that occured to you?” and he grinned.

Alex

She sipped on her own coffee. “Somewhere in the back of my brain the connection was made, but no, not really. I don’t know what that means yet. I mean, let’s be real, I don’t need a dad really. I’m all grown up. But having been on my own for so log, I’m not going to say no to good people being family, you know?”

Faye eyed the ring on her left hand and gave a lopsided smirk. “Speaking of family, I did want to ask you something. We’re not sure when, but when we do, Dag and I would like for you to marry us. If you’re up for it?”

~Faye