Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Sleepless Indulgence

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Sleepless Indulgence

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Sleepless Indulgence
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Roman let her in. As usual, he was in no hurry to turn down any amount of extra time with her. “I hope you don’t have too hard of a day planned,” he said as he opened the thermos of tea to start drinking it. His uniform was perfectly neat as usual, his hair carefully combed. He usually preferred the uniform, but then again, he spent nearly all of his time working anyway, usually.

~ Roman

Rand opened her and took a sip. She liked it even if it wasn’t her drink of choice. “Not really. Just the same as every day. Randy said something about lunch. I think he feels like he has abandoned me since he transferred to medical. Then sometime after that, before evening reports I’m meeting with En ch’Sirhc. Then reports and hopefully I’ll be done for the day.”

Rand

“That sounds easy enough,” said Roman. He had his usual mountain of paperwork and reports (or at least, it always felt like a mountain) and then he had to visit the planetary science lab to check on what they were working on at the time, and he expected that to take multiple hours, and then he’d be back in his office in time for the rest of the day’s paperwork. “I’ll see you in the lab at the normal time?” He asked hopefully. Her extra visits to play with Ni… work with the mouse, always made his day better.

~ Roman

“I hope we figure out who’s behind these pranks. And our next supply shipment arrives on time. My uniforms are not as crisp as they should be,” she mused aloud. She was down to two that weren’t damaged, and Randy’s were all blue now. She smiled, here just the two of them he sounded like he was looking forward to seeing her. “Aye, at 0700 and again at lunch.” It was easily the best part of her day, even without Nibbles. She closed her thermos and then she hugged him. “You know it’s a good thing I have Nibbles as an excuse, Roman, or I wouldn’t get to come at lunch.” She was teasing but she also wanted him to know that even though she enjoyed the animals it was him she wanted to spend time with.

Rand

“Last I heard, it’s on schedule,” Roman commented with a shrug. He smiled hearing her visits were planned as usual, gave him something to really look forward to. Then she hugged him, and he hugged her back, careful not to spill his own opened thermos. “I could always find more excuses,” he said, a playful smile on his face. He got her meaning, and he’d be quite happy himself to make more reasons to see her, though he was partially joking.

~ Roman

The idea that Roman would find more reasons to have her be around gave her butterflies. She liked his smile, it made him look relaxed and like, for a moment, he didn’t have so much weighing on him. “I wouldn’t mind if you did,” she sounded shy but she was smiling at him. She stayed hugging him for as long as she could, but eventually the clock struck 0600 and she had to get going even though she didn’t want to.

Rand

“Maybe I will, then,” he said, still wearing that playful look, hugging her as long as she would stay. But 0600 had to come around, and she had to get a move on. He found he didn’t want to either, but they both had work to do. “I’m headed down to the lab. See you later.”

~ Roman