Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Pawl Batario (Chief Engineer) in 14:00 Meeting with Mr Batario

Posted by Lieutenant Kastarak (XO/Navigation Officer) in 14:00 Meeting with Mr Batario
Today was the day that Kastarak would have his first one-to-one meetings with the department heads. He would do them in order of seniority. Before lunch, he had met Mssrs Grey, Symar and Dawson. Now, after lunch, Kastarak would meet with Mr Batario.

Among all the relationships Kastarak would work on with the department heads, the one with Mr Batario would be the most complicated one. There had been intimacy – physical, emotional and sexual – between them. That could no longer continue. Kastarak wondered how that might affect their relationship, and moreover, how it would affect Mr Batario and his emotions and self-identity.

He waited for Mr Batario to enter.

– Lt Kastarak (First Officer)

Pawl calmly but with some apprehension wished something would happen to keep him from this meeting. He knew this meeting was not going to be an easy one or a comfortable one either. He knew that with the change of power on the ship that would change the nature of everything they had known and started to feel special to him. He sighed hard as he exited the lift and he moved towards the office of the xo. As he closed on the doors to the office. he calmly tapped the chime and waited as calmly as he could for a response.

Lt Jg Pawl Batario - Chief Engineer

Kastarak signalled for the doors to open.

“Good afternoon,” he said, inviting Pawl to enter. He had initially decided to say Good afternoon, Mr Batario to signal the now distance, but thought it unnecessarily cruel to do so before even talking. They were intimate with one another, after all. Similarly, he could not say good afternoon, Pawl, either.

“Please come in and sit down with me,” he said. “We have much to discuss.”

Kastarak sat on one side of the desk and signalled for Pawl to sit opposite.

– Lt Kastarak (First Officer)