Posted by Commander Daniel “DaVinci” Colter (Executive Officer) in Colter’s old quarters (tag Dr. Asimina)

Hannah’s belongings had arrived and fortunately, before she had a chance to unpack, DaVinci had been offered the XO position and the XO’s quarters to go along with it. So, without informing her of the good news yet, he had all her gear forwarded to THEIR new quarters.

When he asked Hannah to move in with him, DaVinci had jokingly suggested knocking out a wall to give them more space. Little did he know, that extra space was going to be offered along with a promotion. While he waited for her to return, he began packing up his own belongings, excited to tell her the news. . . .

Colter (XO/CIO)

Hannah’s shift was finally over. She’d stayed longer to make sure she answered all the questions the doctors on the next shift had about the officers involved in the airlock accident. So rounds took longer than normal since sickbay was full. Claire, to her credit waited until their shift was over to ask her what the captain wanted to talk to her about. Claire of course didn’t miss the shiny new solid pip on her collar. “We should go celebrate! Come on Hannah! We’ll go to The Cloaked Targs Debt club.” Hannah looked at her, “The what?” Claire tugged on her arm, “You haven’t seen it yet? Then let’s go.” Hannah shook her head, “Some other time. Claire, I just want silence. I’m going home.” Claire waggled her eyes at her, “Uh huh. You just want to go find Cmdr Colter. ‘Course if I could go home to him, I would too.” And Claire walked off in the opposite direction, laughing. Hannah grinned and turned toward the turbolift and took it to deck 3.

A few minutes later, Hannah walked through the door, already reaching to remove her implants, at least for a few minutes. She paused inside the door, noticing two things right away. First, Daniel was here and they were here together, and he was packing. Second, her stuff hadn’t arrived. Oh well, she’d track it down in a bit. She smiled at him, walked over and kissed him. “Hey you. What’s all this?” she asked waving at the crates. “You don’t have to pack your stuff up, Daniel. We’ll make it fit.”

Asimina, Med

DaVinci returned the kiss and wrapped his arms around her. “Well, you know I’m kind of a big deal on the ship, right. I got some pull, I’ve got some stroke.”

Hannah moved closer, pulled in as his arms wrapped around her. Her fingers laced together behind his neck and she leaned back to look up at him and grinned, “What did you do, Mr. I’m-a-big-deal?”

“So, as a man of importance, I went to the captain and asked. . . no, demanded bigger quarters for me and my lady. My quarters aren’t big enough for a princess and Hanna needs something like that. . . . I told him I want the XO’s quarters for us, or we’re gone, both of us!!!” His grin was widening as he told the story. . . .

Hannah continued to grin at him, he really said the sweetest things. Gone, both of them? Yeah…okay…but she was waiting, totally on the hook of his tale.

Looking at her, he noticed something different at her collar. “That’s TWO gold pips. They weren’t like that this morning. . . .you got a promotion to full Lt.!!!”

Colter (XO/CIO)

Hannah nodded. Promotions didn’t seem like such a big deal to Hannah, but the way he said it, reminded her that it was, just a little bit, a big deal. “I did. Cpt Knight called me to his ready room earlier today in the middle of my shift. He said he and Dr Knight were pleased with my diligence and dedication. Never mind all that, though. What did Cpt Knight say when you demanded the XOs quarters and threatened to abandon your post to get them? You know you can’t have them, right Daniel? You aren’t the XO.” She laughed softly, there had to be an amazing end to this story he was weaving.

Lt Asimina, doctor

Still holding her tight, he laughed and explained. “Okay, it didn’t exactly go like that. Skipper stopped by as I was rearranging your stuff and mentioned things might get a little tight, but we’d be able to make it work. He then offered me, us, the XO’s quarters, as long as I accepted the XO position.”

Hannah’s eyes opened wide. Her hands dropped down, which was a little awkward over his arms, and pushed her open hands out and then raised them to head height and repeated the motion. Sign for ‘amazing’. “Daniel! That’s amazing!” Hannah kissed him, quick firm, and then hugged him. She looked up at him, “I’m really proud of you. Are you happy? Excited to be XO?”

“Thank you, sweetheart. Yes, to both questions, but, I have to admit, I am a bit apprehensive. The last time I was in command of the whole crew of a ship I ended up the lone survivor of a 400 year nap and it was all for nought. Khan was taken care of by the time I woke up. Then again, the best thing to come out of that situation is that I met and fell in love with you. . . .”

Hannah kissed him softly then, and then wrapped her arms tightly around him. There really wasn’t anything else she could do other than stay with him while he remembered. She couldn’t hope to understand the multifaceted losses and gains that had happened to him, but she could be there with him at that moment. “I love you too, Daniel.”

“So, it all worked out great. You get promoted, I get promoted. This definitely calls for a celebration. We can do either a go-out and celebrate, ooooooor a stay-in and celebrate. What do you feel like?”

Colter (XO/CIO)

Hannah grinned. She knew Daniel would be amazing as the XO. But she really wanted him all to herself for the moment. “Hmmm…well since it hasn’t been announced yet let’s stay-in and celebrate. We’ll have to go-out later when everyone else finds out. But stay-in where? Here or there?”

Lt Asimina

“I think we should go an check out OUR new quarters. Some of you stuff has been delivered. It’ll give us a chance to break the bed in. I hear it’s king-size.”

Colter (XO/CIO)

Hannah laughed and shook her head, “We don’t need a bigger bed. Won’t use it, I like being close to you.” Hannah looked around at what he’d been packing. “Do you need to bring anything?”

Lt Asimina