Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in CNS Offices - Sometimes… It’s just A LOT (Tag Kingston)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Janna Kingston (CNS) in CNS Offices - Sometimes… It’s just A LOT (Tag Kingston)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in CNS Offices - Sometimes… It’s just A LOT (Tag Kingston)
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Janna struggled to follow just a little bit because there was clearly a great deal in the unsaid, in the spaces between highlighted events. yes, she was missing a ton of info, but whether it was crucial information yet she didn’t know. “You’re overwhelmed, clearly. And you’re about to get married, which is a major life changing event. Since Faye isn’t here, and from what you’ve told me you’ve not spent a great deal of time together, that dealing with a long distance relationship alone is a lot. There are some unique challenges. How have you two been handling the distance?”

~Janna Kingston, CNS

Daggum smiled slightly and said “As best as we can. We have our scheduled calls, of course. But we also have a code set up… a duress word or phrase that we can send to the other that means ‘I need to talk right now, it’s important.’. That can be anything from a big issue to a simple bad day and just need that connection, you know? And we keep our thoughts recorded and share those sometimes. Especially with the wedding plans. Tying to stay on the same page and such. It’s not ideal… and it’s really hard… but we are managing the best we can. Fortunately for us, distance isn’t really an issue. We’ve spent most of our lives far from those we care most about… this isn’t even that hard because we know it’s temporary.”

Daggum

His last remark answered one of the questions that had come to mind and so Janna nodded. “What’s the plan for after the wedding?” With two careers operating in tandem she was immensely curious how the couple planned to deal with that. Starfleet didn’t always allow couples o serve together, not because they disliked it, but often because there were only so many positions on ships and if you had couples were both people were very ambitious, it could make it awkward and sometimes impossible to stay together on assignment. But he hadn’t told her much about Faye yet, so she didn’t yet know if this was an issue or not.

~Janna Kingston, CNS

Daggum smiled, his pride in his fiance showing through. “Well, Faye is really good at what she does, so we are hoping… and I think it will probably work out… that she comes aboard the Athena. She has a very unique skill set, so she is demand quite a bit. Makes it easier to go where she wants. It also helps that she is owed more than a few favors, and neither of us is averse to calling in a marker if it gets us where we want to be.” and he grinned and laughed a bit.

Daggum

Janna matched his grin. “Okay, so presuming that all works in your favour, she’ll be joining you here. And it sounds like Faye is dealing with a whirlwind of her own events that naturally involve you because you love you and you care about her wellbeing. Now, let me say that anything you tell me here is confidential, with the usual exceptions of my legal duty to reveal if there is harm possible to a person themselves or to others, and in a person’s ability to do their job which may require me to discuss it with others in the chain of command. I won’t pry unless I feel I need to, but I might need a bit more context, more details to properly assess the situation you’re dealing with. You said you felt immediately weighted down after you ended the call with her where she dropped what sounds like a major bomb that she herself she had dropped on her. Tell me more about what that was like for you once you two had hung up.”

~Janna Kingston, CNS