Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Rovan Moor (Engineer/Pilot) in Rovan Moor: Arrival to the Athena

Posted by Civilian Allison Fleet (Civilian) in Rovan Moor: Arrival to the Athena

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Rovan Moor (Engineer/Pilot) in Rovan Moor: Arrival to the Athena

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Allison returned to her quarters from a long day of re-training and assessment. She flopped down on her bed and nearly fell asleep without even taking off her shoes, but then she remembered the fact that she got a message from Rovan that morning. Immediately, she bolted up into a sitting position and half jumped half fell off her bed and almost ran over to her desk. “Computer, check for new messages!!” she exclaimed, leaning forward. There was one new message, and she hastily opened it, letting his words play.

When the message was finished, she was nearly jumping in her seat as she scanned her eyes over the schedule he had sent her. From what she could tell, he was a couple hours behind her, which meant it would probably be a few hours before he was home. Shit. She couldn’t wait up for him to be awake so they could talk!! She got up, aggravated. Seriously, so close and yet… They still couldn’t talk. It was 4 hours till he would be finished his shift! It drove her crazy all day and her superiors had been somewhat aggravated with her for her lack of attention the whole day, but she had been so busy remembering and thinking. “Computer, play back Rovan’s message from earlier,” she instructed the console, and she played through the entire other message, picking up on small details her mind had missed in the absolute reeling fit of shock it had been entrenched in the first time she listened.

She paced for a bit. “Computer, begin recording,” she turned to the console and slid into the seat, leaning forward. “Hey, Rovan!! I miss you like crazy! You wouldn’t believe how crazy this re-certification stuff is. Oh, man, there’s so much I want to tell you, so much I want to ask!” she pulled back slightly, taking a breath. “I miss you…” she muttered, annoyed by the whole situation. She had so much energy, suddenly, and there was a visible tension in her posture. “You made me late this morning,” she finally settled, releasing a long breath. “I’ve looked at your roster, and I’m afraid there’s not much I can say. On all the days up til my final assessment and assignment, you’re got evening duty that crosses over with me getting home… and I’m already in enough trouble for being distracted today I don’t think it’d go well if I was exhausted from staying up for a comm call. I’m afraid we’re going to have to stick to these until…” she trailed off, sighing lightly.

“Is there an arboretum on the Athena? I’ve heard it’s a pretty big ship. Here’s to hoping their arboretum has some moon-blossoms. Or a slightly too-small bench,” she chuckled lightly, a reminiscent smile coming over her face. She pulled up the last message he had sent her and gazed into his yellow eyes. She remembered waking up beside him on the couch several times, and the smile became slightly warmer. “How are you settling in onto the Athena? You mentioned the XO was from Galdor in your first message. I kinda didn’t absorb that the first time through. Honestly that’s… pretty awesome. Have you met her yet?”

She got up and paced for a few moments, then sat down again. She fan her hand through her hair from front to back, tousling it a bit. “About what you said about us…” she let out a long breath. “I’m honestly not sure what you said, but I think I got the gist,” she said as she leaned forward so that her eyes would be clearer in the visual footage. “I want there to be an us. I don’t know if it will be right away if I get onto the Athena. But who knows what will happen when we see one another’s faces once more… I know I keep saying it out loud, but I miss you terribly. I wish I didn’t have all this bloody training and I could take a magical transporter that took me all the way to the Athena, and especially right all the way to you. I love you, Rovan… I knew in my heart that I loved you before I got injured, but I know in my head now. And it hurts to be so far away…”

Allison leaned back and closed her eyes for a few moments. “I love you, Rovan. And I want to see you soon. Allison out.” She sent the message, then got undressed and crawled into bed, exhausted but elated.

Allison Fleet

After his own shift had ended, Rovan had been invited to the ships lounge for a drink in celebration of a fellow officer’s birthday. Being fairly new Rovan had at first declined, but after a few more invites from his team he had finally relented and agreed to a drink. Of course when asked why he was so set on only having one drink, he hadn’t told them he was restless to return to his quarters so that he could see if Allie had messaged him. Instead, he feigned fatigue from the busy day they had just had, as well as catching up on sleep from his trip to the Athena. The invites and camaraderie were appreciated, truly. Rovan had felt alone himself the last several months and he knew it as taking him time to get back into the groove of being in Starfleet. Being free, as he was on the mission, had been tempting and intoxicating. But it was a dangerous freedom.

The one drink and toast completed, the doors to his quarters opened to Rovan entering, already undoing his tunic to shower and change. A day working in the depths of a ship like the Mythology wasn’t always clean work and he knew that after a quick shower and change, he would feel much more awake. Glancing at his desk as he walked by, he grinned to see the light blinking that a message was waiting for him. “Hey you,” he told the console, “I’ll be right there.” Being after midnight for Allie, and knowing how busy she was at Starfleet, Rovan didn’t rush to answer it. He would be able to take it in much more when he didn’t have other things to attend to.

Stripping off as he went, he made his way bare chested to the bathroom and dropped his tunic over the back of a chair, scratching absently at the hairless and scale like skin on his chest, rubbing the muscles underneath. Only moments later his trousers had joined the tunic, and he was in the shower humming some odd tune to himself that he had heard the lounge band playing, he didn’t know it, but it was an ancient earth tune, played on a tenor saxophone and composed by Henry Mancini with the rest of the band playing a soft accompaniment in the background. It was very catchy.

“Computer, play message,” he said a short while later as he slid into the chair at his desk, a bowl of Ktarian eggs with dill weed beside him. Taking a spoonful of the dish, he watched and listen as the message played, his yellow eyes shifting side to side as he watched Allie’s movements, his mouth curling to a grin as she spoke. Then, finishing the bowl and drinking a large glass of water, he pushed it to one side and watched it again, eager for every glimpse of her, every twitch of her lips and face as she spoke. Once his second viewing was done, Rovan wiped his mouth with his fingers and adjusted his loose, open necked shirt slightly. It was loose enough to show the scales like skin on his chest. “Computer, begin recording a message.”

“Hey, Allie!! I miss you like crazy too. You have no idea how much time I spent today thinking about you. Well, maybe you do going on your message. You make sure you pay attention though, I can’t have you thrown out to the farm again for daydreaming like some bookworm! So, today I was a little late home from shift. One of the team, NE Wallowitz had a birthday today and they wouldn’t accept that I was a bit tired so, they dragged me to the lounge then held me down and forced me to drink something nasty. Wallowitz seemed to like it, he called it Grappa I think. It was terrible stuff and if we ever get offered it, we are not having it, trust me.” Rovan paused her and looked at the camera, and smiled suddenly.

“Do you know how good it is to do this? To make this video for you and know that when you wake up, it’ll be there for you? It’s about, 2am in the morning for you now so just a little bit longer and you’ll be awake. I understand what you mean about the messages, you have important things to get done so you can come back to me, and you will, I just know it. Sometimes you just have to trust in these things, you know? I checked out the ships specs, and yeah, she has three arboretum’s in fact. There is one large one on the saucer section, and two smaller in the engineering hull. I haven’t visited any yet but I’m going to check with the groundsman for a few things. Just wait until you are here, I’m not going to say any more. ” Here Rovan paused and reached to the side, taking a drink for a moment before putting it down again out of shot.

“I want there to be an us as well, I know what you mean. About what you felt in your heart before you knew it in your head. I was thinking, those nights we fell asleep on the couch watching shows? I used to wake early, make sure you weren’t having nightmares. I know now that I felt it too. I miss you Allie, I keep saying it too, because I do. You will see me soon, it won’t be long and you’ll be stepping off the transporter pad onto the Athena, I know it,” he tapped his chest, not where the human heart would be, but lower down and on the opposite side slightly. “Right here in my heart. Goodnight Allie, sleep tight. I love you.”

With that Rovan switched off the recording function, and sent the message. Moving to the replicator he made himself a Ktarian chocolate pudding with hokey pokey ice cream, then relaxed on the couch and brought up a show on the view screen. One show, and he would take himself to bed and bring himself a little closer to another message from Allie.

Lt j.g. Rovan Moor
Engineer/Pilot

Allie woke up once more to the blare of her alarm going off, and drowsily got up. “Why’s it so early…?” she grumbled at the clock before she noticed the blinking light on her console. Of course! She had set her alarm a little earlier just so that she could take the time to send Rovan a decent message this morning and take the time to really listen to his message. “Computer, play message,” she said as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes, starting to get dressed while she listened to the audio of his words.

Allison laughed at the beginning of his message and sighed happily at the end, quietly sitting down at her console and listening to the last couple sentences. “Computer, start recording a message for Rovan Moor. Hey, Rovan. Good morning! I hope you had a great sleep, and I hope that Grappa doesn’t give you a hangover,” she chuckled. “I’m going to be doing some combat testing today, according to my schedule. It’s only three days till my final assessment, so we’ll see how that goes. I’m so glad to hear that the Athena has arboretums, that makes me really happy. I can’t wait to see them all and explore every inch.”

Allison leaned back slightly. “Something that has helped my assessment is my strange memory. I’m not sure if you remember, but those aliens did something to my brain when they made me live for way longer than a human should be able to live, and I can’t really forget anything I learn. So, all the tests that have had to do with my ability to know things about the current galaxy have been cakewalks for me. I’ve passed my health assessments with flying colours as well, and the physical skill tests haven’t been super easy, but so far I’ve managed pretty well. I think the thing I’m most worried about is my psychological profile. You know how much I have nightmares about all the people I used to know and love. I’m glad the nightmares of you are gone, now that I know you’re still alive!” she chuckled lightly.

“I miss you loads. I love you too. I wish I could talk more, but it’s time for me to go,” she said, glancing at the time. She was already dressed in her uniform, although something that was notable was the lack of rank pins. Right now, she was not an officer, so she had no rank. When she got back into the program, they would give her back her ensign rank, but until then she was still a civilian. “Love you, Rovan. Have a great day at work,” she smiled, then ended the message.

Allison Fleet