Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Back in the Borrowed Science Labs
Achilleas was at one of the lab tables reading a PaDD and generally being fidgety. He had the picnic basket and chilled food stuff from the last holodeck outing on the table next to him. He had been waiting for Ria’s arrival to her shift to give it back. He had been getting looks from some of the various NE’s and would just give them a grin and a shrug. He had no idea how to explain it or the underlying complications behind it. While he knew her shift hadn’t even started yet, he kept checking the time and felt jittery.

CSO Petrakos

Considering that Riani always arrived a few minutes early for her shift, it wasn’t long till the scientist walked into the lab. While she was usually fairly calm while on duty and definitely a lot less anxious than most any other time, it would probably be pretty obvious that that was not the case today. While walking into the lab , she was twisting the end of her long braid around her fingers behind her back. And she was chewing on her lower lip.

Spotting Achilleas, Ria couldn’t help but smile shyly and tenderly at him before she noticed the basket and her expression turned confused and even slightly worried. All the way to the lab she had been wondering how she should greet him and had almost decided upon a simple ‘hello’. But the sight of him (and that basket) wiped her mind blank and all she managed to say was, “Sir.” Her voice was a little stiff and feeling the blood rush to her face, she quickly looked down and hurried over to her work station. Only to instantly have a bad conscience. She could kick herself. Yet with all those NEs in the room she didn’t know how to rectify the situation.

~Ensign Iyun, Scientist