Posted by Colonel Calvin Harris (Commanding Officer) in Ready Room: Reporting for Duty

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Elaine Janvier (Chief Medical Officer) in Ready Room: Reporting for Duty
As soon as the last of her items was unpacked and tidly put away. Elaine Janvier flopped down on her new bed and stared in thought at the ceiling. “A new position and a new ship,” she muttered quietly to herself, “Cheif Medical Officer…” she trailed off, the words still new and unfamiliar to her. Thanks to her resiliant efforts aboard her last posting, Star-fleet had offered her a promotion and a new role aboard the Dresden. It seemed like a dream come true, and even now, as she lay in her new room, it still seemed so surreal to her. “What do you think Enj?” She asked, addressing her dog and near constant companion, who paused his excited exploration of this new enviroment at the mention of his name, but dropped it again, when he saw there was no treat involved. “Do you reckon we can pull it off?”

The room of course remained silent, as Enj continued his exploration, and she continued to stare pensivly at the ceiling. As time passed, her eyes began to drift shut of their own accord. It had been a long trip she’d had to take to intersect with the Dresden and after spending a fair portion of the morning unpacking her body was natrually taking the time to rest. Almost as if sensing her drifting off, Enj whined and jumped up onto the bed and landing half on her. Being a small dog, he wasn’t heavy at all and normally his being on her wouldn’t bother her, but as she was in the drifting state between conscioussness and sleep, and becuase she hadn’t been expecting him to she gasped, as she became fully awake and bolted upright. As she moved, Enj lost his precarious position half on her chest, and she ended up half scooping him in her arms, in order to stop him from fully falling off of the bed. “Don’t do that!” she exclaimed her heart pounding “You should know by now that you can’t come onto the bed without being first invited. It’s rude.” Enj in typical dog response, gave his tail a small wag and tilted his head up to lick her chin.

Elaine laughed at her dogs antics, the pounding in her chest, subsiding although it was still noticably there. “You’re right though, there are still things that need to be done before I can rest yet.” She spoke as she gently put the dog down on the floor and began to change out of her civilian clothes into her Uniform, “How does a trip around the ship sound to you? Lets see if we can’t find the CO or XO to report to.”

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Although Elaine had said that she was going to seek out either the CO or XO, she didn’t report in straight away. Instead she opted to take the long way around the ship, giving her and Enj the chance to get to know the ship in their process. In a very unhurried manner the two of them wandered around the ship until they eventually found the bridge, and by extention the ready room. Almost without hesitation, she rang the buzzer on the ready room but as she stepped back and let the computer announce her arrival she stepped slightly closer to Enj as she waited for a response.

Lt. (j.g.) Janvier & Enj the dog
CMO

Without a word, the door before her opened to a small waiting room with a young female Marine at a desk. “You here to see the Ol’man?” The woman’s thick New Jersey ascent rolled from her. With a nod over her head to the other door, the young woman motioned the new CMO to the office door leading from the room. Tapping a comm box, the Marine said flatly. =A= Got a guest Boss… she’s out here.=A=

An oddity in the Fleet, a Marine currently in command of the Capital Ship, the USS Dresden’s Commanding Officer Colonel Calvin Harris glanced up from the stack of PaDDs he had been reviewing and sighed reservedly. “It’s open” Harris barked as he disengaged the lock on the door and it hissed open revealing a trophy-filled office with walls covered in plaques from a lifetime spent in a cockpit. Glancing toward the young CMO, Harris huffed softly “Don’t just stand there Lieutenant, come in.”

Harris, CO

“Yes sir,” Elaine said, briskly walking into the office door, with Enj trotting at her heels. She allowed her eyes to breifly travel around the room and take in the trophies feeling mildly impressed at the sheer number that of awards her new Captain had accomplished already. Having taken in her surroundings her eyes quickly snapped back to the CO and she stood to attention. Enj, sat primly at her feet. “Lieutenant Janvier reporting for duty, sir.”

Lt. (j.g) Janvier & Enj the dog
CMO