Posted by Captain Dante Knight (Commanding Officer) in Starfleet Academy - Daye’s Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term

Posted by Captain Dante Knight (Commanding Officer) in Starfleet Academy - Daye’s Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term Posted by Captain Dante Knight (CO) in Starfleet Academy - Daye's Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term on USS Saracen : Posted by Captain Dante Knight (CO) in Starfleet Academy - Daye's Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term on USS Saracen : : Posted by Lieutenant Natasha Daye (Doctor) in Starfleet Academy - Daye's Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term on USS Saracen : : : Posted by Captain Dante Knight (CO) in Starfleet Academy - Daye's Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term on USS Saracen : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Natasha Daye (Doctor) in Starfleet Academy - Daye's Fourth Class Flashback - Spring Term on USS Saracen

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: : : : : In the academy gym
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: : : : : Daye made sure she was in the front row and had eyes locked on Dante. She was giving him a distinct stink eye with arms crossed over her chest to boot. Everything about her demeanor showed Natasha Daye was on about something as her father used to say. Hornsby’s words droned on in her ear. She wasn’t paying attention to the words. Herman Hornsby was blathering on about the same stuff just in a different manner. She was going to be a doctor for gods sake. This class was pretty pointless. She could take down ten men with a hypo full of sedatives. 
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: : : : Waiting on the mat, Dante watched Natasha as she glared at him, his hands behind his back in the standard at ease posture. Now and then his eyes travelled over the gathered recruits but always back to Natasha. To say he was slightly confused was like saying the sun was hot, her whole attitude had changed from almost the moment she had kissed him. 
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: : : : : “So who wants to,” 
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: : : : : “I do,” Daye said immediately stepping forward and forgoing the hand raising. 
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: : : : In response, Dante’s eyebrow rose in surprise at her interruption. 
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: : : : : “Jeepers jumping up crackers on a biscuit,” Hornsby strode over yelling at her. “Do you have any idea what I was going to ask Cadet Daye? I could have been ready to ask who wants to be the next one to volunteer for KP duty.”
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: : : : : “But you weren’t,” Daye finally took her gaze off of Dante for the first time. “You were going to say use blank blank move to try and take down him,” she gestured with a head nod in Dante’s direction. “I just saved you the effort.”
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: : : : : Hornsby looked Daye up and down before making a sweeping gesture towards the sparring mat. Following her to the mat, he then continuted to Dante’s side. “Son what did you do to her,” he said keeping a neutral expression with his eyes forward. 
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: : : : : Cadet Daye.
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: : : : Looking at Hornsby sideways for a moment, Dante lowered his voice just for the instructor and then shrugged slightly. “She kissed me” he said to the man, “while she was telling me to make things up with Ashley, I guess they do things differently in Russia because now she seems like she wants to eat a can of spinach and rip my arms off.” 
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: : : “What did I tell you about women Cadet Cassanova,” Herman said still staring forward. “They are bat-snot crazy and a career killer. They are needy, emotional vampires. Do not let her kick you in the arse,” Hornsby warned.
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: : : : Dante shrugged slightly and then stepped back, falling into the standard Starfleet Hand to Hand posture. “Remember your footwork Cadet Daye” he said to her, “this move requires timing, and I have reach, while you have flexibility. Remember to use that to your advantage, if you can. Did you really have nothing to gain?”
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: : : : Cadet Knight
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: : : “Oh honey you had your chance to touch this,” Daye said standing in front of him. She did not have a defensive stance at all. In fact, she would have appeared rather calm except for the firey look in her eyes. “See the thing is I am a risk taker. I don’t ever play it safe. Playing it safe never scored the winning run or came up with the next big idea. Everything in life is worth taking chances on which I did so did I have something to gain....I guess not,” she shrugged.”
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: : : “Are you two going to talk each other to death,” Hornsby bellowed. 
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: : : Cadet Daye
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: : “It’s your move Natasha” he told her, “you initiate the contact, I counter and then you counter my strike and pin me, right?”
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: : Stepping closer to Natasha, Dante motioned for her to come at him. “We’re you actually telling me to fix things with Ash?” He asked her quietly, “because when you kissed me, I couldn’t help but think you meant something else Tasia.”
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: : Cadet Knight
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“Oh I meant something alright but it went right over your head,” Natasha said attempting to leg swipe him. “You know Dante for being as smart as people claim you are you are pretty dumb.” Frustration with herself, Dante, and the entire situation was making her forget her training. Natasha took a swing at Dante not caring about blocks or any of the training she had learned. The punch was supposed to make her feel better. Men were so blind. They couldn’t even follow the horse that you were leading to water even if they were strapped to it.

“What are you talking about?” Dante said, simply stepping back from the leg swipe and almost half heatedly slapping away the swing she took at him, but then suddenly moving almost lighting fast, grabbing hold of her wrist as he slapped it down with the other hand and pulling her towards him. She was off balance, and with a tug and a spin he had her with her back to him, his arms wrapped around her against pinning her arms to her side and holding her right into his chest, so close he could feel her heart beat and almost feel the frustration she had bottled inside.

“Why are you so enthralled by her. She is beautiful. I can see that but everything else is a mystery.”

Cadet Daye

Dante looked at Nat for a moment and softened a little, he still held her firm but it was no longer the hold of a man pinning someone in a melee. Simply holding her to his chest as thought of what had happened earlier. The hold had subtly changed from that of a controlling pin, to more of a secure hug “Because I love her, and she loves me” he said to Nat, “She’s fun, many people don’t get to see that side of her, and yes she’s beautiful, intelligent and the two of us have been together for years now, we clicked.”

Despite the words he was saying, something about Dante’s tone didn’t sound quite so confident. A few months ago and nothing could have shaken his belief that they were meant to be, but now, things seemed to have changed and Dante was finding himself confused, and it wasn’t a place he liked to be. Ashley now seemed to keep secrets and plan things without him, where at one stage the two had been inseparable and where one was, everybody at the Academy knew the other wasn’t far behind. Dante found himself wondering if it had all been worth it, or if he had in fact wasted those years on someone he thought he loved but was turning out to be shallow and manipulative.

Cadet Knight

Whether she was ever going to be the future Mrs. Ex-Dante Knight did not matter right now. The fact that Ashley was a dork was the conversation on the table. “Did you know that redheads come from a gene called MC1R. It is considered a mutation because it is only found in less than 5% of the population. Besides giving a person red hair it has been discovered that mutations in MC1R can increase pain perception. It also causes people to tan poorly. So if pasty pale whiny girls are your thing than she is your girl,” Daye said driving her heel into the top of his foot.

Cadet Daye