Posted by Captain Kelly Shultz (Commanding Officer) in Captain’s Quarters- Purposeful Procrastination

Posted by Commander Relann Fell-Drayke (Executive Officer) in Captain’s Quarters- Purposeful Procrastination

Posted by Captain Kelly Shultz (Commanding Officer) in Captain’s Quarters- Purposeful Procrastination
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“Rutherford Hill,” Relann replied with a deep smile as she accepted a glass. “It’s sort of become a tradition that when I’m visiting, that we go up there. Anita brings an incredible picnic and after sampling some wines we sit up on the hill with out lunch and enjoy the incredible views. We did that quite a bit when I was at the Academy, even though they lived so close in Martinez. The landscape reminds me quite a bit of my childhood home, though it’s a bit more dry, and I grew up right by the water.”

Fell-Drayke, XO

“I was born with sea legs,” Kelly laughed. “In Annapolis you start sailing before you can walk. My family had a large boat we took out just about every weekend. While most teens worked to get four wheels, I saved all my money to buy a beauty with an anchor and rudder. I can take you and your family out sometime. There is nothing like actually sailing on the open water. I rarely do it in the holodeck but prefer when I can to get out on real water. I love the feel of the waves below you and reading the ocean. Sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time. I think Ian debated how much he actually liked me the first few nights he stayed over. I typically play ocean sounds to sleep at night. The first night Ian told me he was up all night. The second night he swore he woke up seasick.” Kelly could not stop laughing. She knew Ian was just teasing. “It is one of the few growing pains we have been going through but if having to deal with white noise choices for bed is the biggest bump we ever have to weather then I am good with that,” Kelly held up her glass in a toast.

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Relann lifted her glass and tapped it gently against Kelly’s. “I’ll save my traditional toast for a more serious occasion,” she said with a grin before taking a sip. “And I think it would be great to go sailing with you. Jacen and Sowyn would love it. I’ve never been myself, but we had a type of canoe that we’d take down the river to the coast. We couldn’t venture too far, but the cove was usually enough to thrill us.” Her memories were all childhood ones, so they were different than that of the adults of her village.

“So.. Ian....”-Relann lifted her brows and smirked slightly. “Are you going to fill me in? I’m not exactly ignorant about you two, but I don’t exactly know what the situation fully is either.”

OOC: I swear they haven’t had a conversation about it yet, but I could be entirely wrong and have forgotten.

Fell-Drayke, XO

OCC: No Kelly hasn’t told anyone but you officially until this moment.

“So Ian,” Kelly repeated slowly matching the tone and cadence of Relann’s voice as she polished off her drink. “The situation is never go to a spiritual spa resort with a Cajun.” Kelly stopped speaking immediately and reached for the bottle of wine. Picking up a PaDD, she activated one of the files that needed to be reviewed but kept the main focus of her attention on Relann and the topic still on Ian. “He and I met the day I got the Atlantis. He and Nash were in Admiral Perkins office. At that time I did not know they were going to be part of my crew. Nash was silent and brooding whereas Ian was flirting with Perkin’s secretary or at least that is what I initially thought. After my meeting with Perkins Ian caught up to me as I left headquarters. I guess it would have been weird to come up and introduce yourself as my yeoman before I knew I was getting a ship. Either way,” set the bottle down after pouring enough liquid into the glass to make a wine connoisseur cringe in horror, “from that moment on he was with me pretty much non-stop until now. I can’t deny that there was an instant attraction on y part but he was my yeoman and I was recently separated. We kept it professional for about three months. After three months the lines began to blur. He may be laid back 90% of the time but when crap needs to get done he is relentless. It started with lunch pretty much every day and then bled into dinners. What sealed the deal was getting my official separation papers. I always thought Rick and I would go the distance but,” Kelly downed a large swallow of her drink, “life has a funny way of throwing you a curve ball and opening up a window when a door gets closed. I never saw Ian coming but I can’t imagine being without him. We laugh and talk for hours on every topic in the universe.” Kelly got quiet for a moment. It wasn’t as if she and Rick were on bad terms. It also wasn’t as if she and Rick were getting back together. Kelly was firmly with Ian but there were so many people that barely knew of her and Rick splitting up. Maybe that is why it was so hard to talk about this topic. How could Kelly even talk about being head over heels for Ian when the ink wasn’t dry on the separation or divorce papers.

“Any who Ian thought we needed some downtime away from work and the rest of life. In his defense and mine, I don’t think either of us thought that weekend at the Turquoise Mountain Resort would end up the way it did. It was supposed to be a weekend for yoga and turned out to be a crash course on the Karma Sutra. Relann,” Kelly leaned in like she was about to tell a huge secret, “it was like we were teenagers. Knowing the way the weekend ended it later made sense. We just did things backwards with the honeymoon first and the marriage at the end.” A smile slowly spread across her face and Kelly’s cheeks got a bit red as she remembered the details of those three days. Pulling herself from memory lane, Kelly let out a small laugh and took another large sip of wine. “Am I sharing too much,” Kelly asked. She wasn’t sure how much Relann cared to know. Apparently, she and Ian were not as discrete as they might have believed. Relann was the second person to comment about her and the yeoman but Kelly felt far more comfortable having this conversation with Relann than she did with Mardusk.

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