Posted by Lieutenant Helena Laursen (Helm/Nagivation Officer) in Side sim: Bringing The Team Together - The Pilot

Posted by Captain Marceau Renault (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Bringing The Team Together - The Pilot

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He didn’t want to think about that, though. Not now. He wanted to enjoy the moment, to celebrate with someone who’d been his close friend for a long time. So he told his brain to shut up, looked down at Helena and smiled, “I agree. Not so slow as to make it… awkward. Just the right amount of flirty.” His accent made itself known on each of the ‘r’ sounds in his statement.

~ Captain Renault

Helena laughed softly and looked up at him shaking her head slightly, “Marceau I swear if you don’t stop dropping that French accent, I’m going to get malaður by the other women in this bar, and a few of the men too.” If he could drop that accent she could too, and she slipped in the word for mauled in Icelandic. Just because she could. Of course after all these years they were both used to the other slipping in words or phrases from their native languages.

Lt Laursen

Marceau had to smile at her comment, playing up his accent playfully to mess with her. “The men, too, hmm? How funny that would be.” She was using her own Icelandic accent, and she’d slipped an Icelandic word into her own statement. He was used to that, they both were. The words of one’s native language tended to come easier than those of one that was learned. “Surely I am not the only French person they’ve ever heard speak?” he said playfully, raising his eyebrows at her.

~ Captain Renault

Her eyes widened slightly as he teased her. He must be in a good mood. He had reason to be. “You have no idea do you?” She just laughed, “No, probably not the first, but up close and personal? Maybe. But you’re also a star ship captain now, about to leave on a great adventure,” she batted her eyes slightly for effect, “when will they ever see you again? Their poor hearts might swoon from it all.”

Marceau shrugged as if it were all the same and grinned again when she batted her eyes at him. “Hmm, then it is a good thing you don’t need to swoon, non? Because you are going away on that adventure with me.” He was in a good mood, a great one, and with good reason.

The song ended with them rather close together, his hands on her waist, hers around his shoulders. Helena stepped quickly back. “Come on,” she slid a couple bills across the bar as they passed and pulled him out the door. The weather has turned, just like she had warned earlier. The wind wasn’t as bad as when she arrived at Smuggler’s Cove but the rain was picking up now. “Not afraid of a little wind and rain are you?” She teased.

Lt Laursen

Marceau followed her willingly outside. It was getting later, there was a bit of wind, and it was rainy enough his hair started to get weighted down with the water as they stood outside. “Afraid of it? Non, not at all. A little rain can be the perfect weather! It can’t always be sunshine.” He smiled at her again and looked both ways up and down the street they were on. “Where are we going?”

~ Captain Renault