Posted by Lieutenant Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Side sim: Try Not to Sleep on Duty

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Rand looked over at him, “I didn’t say it was my job, Cmdr.” It wasn’t, so why was she going out of her way to help? “We are all part of the same crew. We’re supposed to help each other, that’s what friends do.” Even awkward ones that…Oh lords…she didn’t actually say that did she?? Presuming an awful lot wasn’t she. Command officers weren’t friends with low ranking yeoman. Oh Randy was going to have a field day with this one. Before she could embarrass herself further she disappeared into her office with a mumbled assurance she’d have the reports finished before his lunch hour was up.

Yeoman Rand

Roman was speechless by that comment, in a good way. It made him inexplicably happy that she thought of him as a friend, not just a superior or a crewmate. Before he could come up with a response, she had disappeared once again.

One shockingly cold shower later (who knew water could be so cold?) he headed back to the biology lab, looking as neat as ever. He still felt tired, like a nap would be nice, but the shower definitely helped. Now, instead of toothpick eyes and sluggish, heavy limbs, he at least felt half human again as he re-entered the lab to get back to work.

~ Lt Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

Rand was already in the lab when he returned. She considered having him compare the reports he filled out to the ones she input. So he would know that the lack of sleep was affecting his work, but she wasn’t sure how to go about doing that. She didn’t want him to think she was being disrespectful and now with others in the lab she wouldn’t dream of it. “Finished reports for your approval Cmdr. And more tea.” More of the iced tea. He looked more awake and like he felt better. She couldn’t really say why she thought that, but she did. Probably just familiarity after working around him so long.

Yeoman Rand

“Ah, fantastic.” He sounded more like himself as he sat to sign off the finished reports. He accepted the tea and took a sip. Still didn’t satisfy like his normal black tea but it would do. Some of the reports he didn’t remember finishing quite the way they were done, but to his knowledge, they were correct. He must have been mistaken. He only spent an extra moment looking before he signed off.

~ Lt Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

Rand bit back a grin, ah she’d missed that sarcastic ‘fantastic’ at the sight of her reports. It made her day complete to hear it....wait…what??? Well of course, he’d been out of sorts all day and she was concerned about him. Messed up reports, falling asleep at his desk, not yelling at her about her inattention earlier, allowing Mr Wyvern to scare her like that. Rand didn’t like it when people acted out of sorts, that’s all it was. She kept waiting for him to question her about the reports. They were correct, she knew they were because she double checked them against the lab notes, but they were not how he wrote them. But he never asked, and that wasn’t like him. It only made Rand more concerned.

Mid afternoon Rand popped her head into the lab to see how he was faring, “Cmdr Alden? Quarter Master needs to see you. Apparently some of the food stuffs for the animals came labelled correctly but the label doesn’t match what’s inside the containers.” Now Rand, or the Quarter Master, could have brought a crate down with samples of each for Alden to check, but this allowed him to get up and move, and wake up a little.

Yeoman Rand