Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Wedding Bells- An End and a Beginning

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Counter-Intelligence Officer) in Wedding Bells- An End and a Beginning

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Faye shook her head. “Dag can do whatever he likes, but I like my name and, well, it was my father’s and I like carrying a piece of him with me. No name change for me.” She looked at Alex. “Just say Daggum and Faye, Husband and Faye.”

~Faye

Cochrane looked out on streaks of light before them and smiled. “Faye, half of you is your father. You carry more of him with you than just his name. But trust me… you’ll want Dag’s opinion on this. Might not be a big deal for you, but it might for him. Or it might not, who knows? I mean, its not like he’s holding onto some great family history or anything.” He turned and looked at her. “You know… if someone told me when I first met you that not only would you turn out to be one of the most important people in my life, but that I would be marrying you off to some Orion logistics expert who also happened to be an escaped pit fighter after you had built a forest on my ship… I probably would have laughed… a lot. But somehow… it all seems very natural in dealing with you, Faye.” and he smiled and turned back forward.

She snorted. The weird comment about not caring about patriarchal norms floating out of her head unsaid.

“Don’t lose that, Faye. Your affinity for the unexpected is a good thing. It really, really is…”

Cochrane

“Duuude, as if,” Faye said, eyes still on the console. “If the Romulans couldn’t torture it out of me, life can’t. It could try, but I’ve got nine lives baby. Well, I think I’m down four now, so five left. Plenty left to give whomever needs it the middle finger,” she said, flicking her gaze to Alex.

Awhile later, the sensors beeped. “We’ve got the Harbringer Dawn on short-range sensors. ETA is fifteen.” Was she nervous? Yes. Faye had no idea what all this was about and Alex and Dag had been far too good at keeping secrets. Had she done her work as the Intelligence Officer she was, she could have figured it out, but that was the whole point. She didn’t want to. She wanted the surprise. Goodness, she had changed, hadn’t she? But it was a good change. She was more adaptable, able to flow with the situation better. But that was in this place where the Manhattan was her home. Moving to the Athena? Well, that was entirely different game and try as she might to figure out all the permutations of that change, she knew it wouldn’t matter until she had boots on the deck.

She let Alex do whatever it was he needed to do, but a thought came to mind and she smirked. “I’m trying to decide if it’s a good thing that I’m here and not on the Manhattan when the rest of the family arrives. Mom’s too good at her job to create drama on my wedding day, but it’s amusing to think that she might have to treat the event like an op. For all our sakes,” she added with a wink

~Faye