Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Lily and Duncan - First Night

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Duncan rubbed his lip one more time and then looked at Lily as the children in front of them disappeared like they had suddenly turned into mist as recess wasn’t to be wasted, especially when the teacher had begun to turn the shade of red that they all knew the warning signs about. “Did you kiss me?” he asked her, then grinned a little. “Or at least, did you try to?”

“Nope. There was a bee in the room. I think he got me and then you,” she teased with a huge grin. “Did you see what I did there,” Lily asked with a huge grin hoping he caught onto her birds and the bees comment earlier as her response for now. “That bugger is fast. Let’s hope the lights don’t go out again. Who knows where he could land. Oh....oh,” Lily swatted about her head as if there were a bee flying around. “Dag nabbit I think he is back. Watch out, Duncan. He could be coming for you again,” she said a bit slower locking her eyes to his.

“The two of you!” The teacher said, turning to them and glaring at them while adjusting her glasses. Duncan was sure they had begun to fog over. “Into my office, now!” She turned and visibly stormed into her small, schoolroom dominating office that each and every child feared to be called into. Then she turned at the door and held it open, pointing in to the office and glaring at them as if they were about to have a lifetime worth of detention heading their way. “You know,” Duncan said quietly as he reached down and took Lily’s hand, “I think we might of had the wrong science experiment in mind.”

“So you do want to learn about biology,” she giggled. “It is far more fun than chemistry even though some forms of chemistry have their merits.”

“Run!” Duncan said to Lily quietly but urgently and then turned on his heels, pulling Lily with him and giving a her a grin.

Unfortunately, the door to the corridor did not automatically open and Duncan ran straight into it. Being a School door it opened only at the use of the control panel, ensuring the children couldn’t simply escape. “Blast it!” Duncan said as he bounced of the door, still holding Lily’s hand tight. Hitting the panel repeatedly the voice of the teacher came behind them. “Mr Rhodes! Get back here this instant!”

“Aren’t you some big wig on the base. Don’t you have override controls,” she waved her hands laughing. “Do something before I doubt your rank of Lt.”

The door opened and Duncan and Lily fell through, coming to a stop on the corridor wall opposite the door, Duncan holding her in his arms as the door closed on the approaching teacher. “I’m not sure about you, but I can think of a few much better places we could be right now.” He paused for a moment and smiled at her as he looked down into her large, beautiful eyes. He was much closer now than he had been before, close enough to feel the curves hidden beneath her clothing and warmth of her body against his.

“I don’t know. Maybe if you had been my science teacher I would have gotten an A or at least been the teacher’s pet. You make science interesting,” Lily pointed out in a tone that would be hard to know if she was teasing or being serious.

The door opened again, and Duncan laughed, pulling Lily with him as they escaped down the corridor. Duncan appeared to know where he was going as the took a number of turns and even an old fashioned maintenance stairway down to the next lowest level. Finally, Duncan paused outside one final door with a badly faded plaque on the outside that could no longer be read. “Do you think we lost her?” He said as he turned and pulled Lily closer to him, smiling down at her and curling a stray hair of hers behind one ear with his fingertips. “There was one more place I wanted to show you tonight, although it looks like we forgot our snacks and drink. Don’t make a single move towards that whistle either, Ms Locksley.”

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“Frontier folk honor,” she said holding up her three fingers to her brow in the official salute of the Federation Frontiers Folk. The salute as an amalgamation of the girl scouts and boy scouts with its own flair added. In the early twenty-first century, the scouts had a major overhaul forcing the male club to accept females but allowing the females scouting club to still exclude men. A hundred years later it was shown that this was not actually separate but equal because boys were not allowed to join the elitist female movement forcing both organizations to disband and create the Frontier folks. Lily had obviously been a member of the organization with the way she effortlessly popped off the club’s official greeting.

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Duncan looked at Lily dubiously for a moment, while the Frontier Folk was a great organization for kids to hang out and have fun, and learn some very basic things about the outdoors, they had a reputation much bigger than their ability in most cases. The field trip was going to turn out so interesting if this Ms Locksley did indeed come along with him.

“Alright,” he said, cautiously and on the lookout of her hand went for the whistle, “let me show you where I really wanted to bring you tonight.” Duncan reached down and took her hand, then glanced her way with a dashing smile, and pressed the control for the door to open.

The double doors swished open without a sound, betraying how old and unused they looked. Beyond them was a large room, which was almost empty. It was made to look much, much bigger than it was by the floor to wall window that circled the entire room aside from the small area they entered from. Within the room itself were tables and a long bar on one side, and a large area with plush couches and seats, in good condition although also old. The room was dimly lit, with enough light to see by but wasn’t dak by any means and dark enough, that even in the doorway Lily and Duncan were framed by the light of Gamma Tiltium that shone through the windows at them, the planet huge and blue before them. Duncan stepped forwards with Lily and the doors slid closed behind him, leaving them alone in the silent, big room. “This is an old observation lounge,” Duncan explained quietly. “It hasn’t been used in a long time, not while the station has more important repairs and upgrades to do and most of the population is kept away from the lower levels.”

“So no one comes down here,” she asked already formulating a plan in her mind.

He slipped his arm around Lily’s waist and smiled down at her softly, then moved forward towards the large window on the opposite side of the room. The furniture they passed looked expensive, almost antique and the layout mimicked the officers lounge at the top of the station. This room had clearly been made to have much more atmosphere than the crew lounge, either that or Duncan had spent time himself making it like it was. “Shall we play a little Music?” Duncan said and as he passed a machine that looked much like a jukebox, ran his fingers over some of the old looking keys.

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“Yeah yeah yeah,” Lily said pulling away from him and moving closer to the large window. She stood so close to the window her nose almost touched it. Reaching out she let her fingertips rest on the glass. A deep contented sigh escaped her body making her shoulders rise and fall as if she was in a yoga class and not on an impromptu date. “God it is beautiful,” she said in a low tone. It was the quietest Duncan would have heard ever come from her mouth.

“I never tire of looking at it. The planet or any planet for that matter in space. It all looks so peaceful and beautiful yet chaotic and dangerous. I mean that storm,” she pointed to a swirl of clouds in the lower hemisphere, “is a hurricane right?” The question was rhetorical but she still asked it all the same.

“Down there people are preparing for a disaster. They are huddled together and bunkered down waiting for it to pass. The winds are howling and sheets of rain are pounding roofs and windows. Up here, however, we are safe and enjoying the wonder of it’s beauty.” Turning around she leaned her back against the glass and looked at Duncan. “But are we,” she said in a low tone that was soft and inviting. “Are we safe up here or is this room chaotic and dangerous in its own way?” Lily bit her lip as her gaze never left the eyes of the handsome science chief. There was no doubt that she and Rhodes had a mutual attraction for one another. She could tell by the way he looked at her yet Lily had no idea what this attraction really meant. It caused her heart to beat faster at times but that could be just because of his accent. He had a great accent. Simple words they both used sounded different because of this. It also gave him an air of refinement when he spoke.

Turning around she looked back out the window. “You are a Taurus or Virgo or Capricorn,” Lily said in a questioning tone but sounding self-assured even if she didn’t know the answer. “I say that because you are grounded and down to earth even if you semi-rigid posture belies a more formal upbringing. You seem to be conservative yet realistic. You keep your emotions in check until you can’t and then you blow but only when you feel passionate about a subject. You are practical and loyal and stable. Anyone in your circle knows that they are safe with you. How far off am I,” Lily asked letting a long pause of silence fill the air between them as she looked at the storm? Clearly, she was waiting for an answer this time. There was so much to learn about Duncan Rhodes and for the first time tonight they were alone. She would use this time to find out more about the man that made hours seem to pass like minutes when she was in his presence.

Lily