Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Solomon Kane (Chief Science Officer/Research & Development) in Guest Quarters - Family Woes Part II

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Guest Quarters - Family Woes Part II

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Solomon Kane (Chief Science Officer/Research & Development) in Guest Quarters - Family Woes Part II
With Alexis’s obvious hurt tone and swearing in Mandarin, Kane knew something was wrong. He pulled the micro-PaDD from his pocket and saw her leaving the Guest Quarters where her parents were staying. “Oh, of course. Great.” and he stood up from the desk in his office and stomped out the door and to the turbolift.

A few scant moments later, he was standing in front of the door to Alexis’s parents quarters, hair over half his face and a glafre that threatened to melt the very door he was looking at. He reached for the chime, stopped himself, pulled out the micro-PaDD and tapped a few commands. The door slid open and Kane stepped into the room and said with an edge only Kane could manage “What the f^<k did you say to Lex? Why is she spiraling?” to whomever was in the room.

Kane, Ticked-Off Fiancé

Allison was sitting on the couch, a PaDD in hand flipping through something with a wistful and pained expression on her face. When the door opened she assumed it was Anthony, but the force and sharpness with which the unfamiliar voice exploded into the room made the woman actually squeak. The PaDD dropped to the floor, her other hand came up and covered her mouth and then dropped over her heart as she stood and backed up against the arm of the couch. “Kane? What? Alexis?” She spluttered and then gave him a quizzical look as his questions solidified in her head. He sounded like he was accusing her of something. “What do you mean, what did I say to her? We were discussing your wedding, or I was attempting to.” Spiraling? Alexis didn’t spiral, she didn’t get emotional enough to spiral over anything. Not even an extremely difficult research experiment that didn’t go her way.

Allison

“Bulls#!t. What did you say? Exactly. The words, lady. What words did you use?” he demanded. “Because Alexis doesn’t misuse tenses in curse words… no matter how new the language is. So she is upset, and its because of what ever you said. So?” and he waited for a moment before making a ‘Come on’ motion with his hand. “What was it?”

Kane

“Alexis doesn’t curse.” Allison was not Alexis and wouldn’t, with out a lot of effort, repeat verbatim what she had said just because he demanded it. Her memory didn’t work that way. She also didn’t feel she owed this man an explanation of a conversation she had in private with her daughter. “I told her she should be more excited about all this. I had to explain to her that a proposal is not something a person does on a whim.” She moved and sat back on the couch and waved toward it with a hand, a silent invitation to sit as well. There was no doubt in her mind that he loved her daughter, but understanding and living with Alexis was…well, different to be nice about it. “It’s a big deal, not a fleeting conversation or a social experiment. It is a long term commitment that will change her life.”

Allison