Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in side-sim: New Normal

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in side-sim: New Normal

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in side-sim: New Normal
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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“Now I’m supposed to be snogging your sister?” Roman said, his accent the less posh version that usually only Rand heard. “And who else would I be kissing? I haven’t kissed anyone besides her since I was an Ensign!” He glanced at the screen and pointed by lifting a finger off Rand. “Speaking of, that’s number… eighteen, I think. We’ve got a few to make up now!” He said, and then he looked up at Randy as if to say so get out.

~ Roman

Randy tapped a foot and then imitating Roman’s pointing finger, which he totally ignored the hint. “No you are not. You shouldn’t be snogging my sister, but since you seem to want to, you better not be snogging anyone else.” Randy waved his finger at Alden in a good imitation of a disapproving matron. Rand could not bring herself to look up.
No…oh nonono she was not making up missed kisses with Randy in the room. Her heart was racing and not in a pleasant way like it had been just a minute before, and she pressed closer into Roman. Yep, Rand was going to faint…she wouldn’t be lucky enough to die of embarrassment. She moaned anxiously, an endearing sound, rather than a concerning one. Randy waved that finger at both of them again. “Hear that, she’s not even enjoying it.” Which was quite the opposite, Randy knew, but Rand and Roman could both stand a little brotherly teasing. Rand muttered, all muffled, and Randy heard her voice but not the words, unlike Roman who was holding her “Oh gods.....Randy go away.....”

Rand

Rand moaned anxiously, but it was an endearing sound and Roman couldn’t help but smiled again, rubbing her back with small movements. “I’m quite certain no one who isn’t enjoying it kisses like that,” Roman scoffed at Randy’s words, his face giving away exactly what Roman though of Rand’s kissing. His behaviour, was again startlingly Jaylike, Randy really brought that out in him, the same way Jay used to. The thought caused a cold spike of sadness in his chest, so he put the thought aside, focusing instead on Rand’s head against his chest, her body leaned into him. He didn’t want to ruin the mood. He looked down at Rand as she spoke and smiled again, she wanted to go back to kissing, just not in front of her brother.

~ Roman

The small movements on her back were soothing, helping her relax. Rand decided she would just focus on that and Roman’s voice and breathing. Then she could pretend Randy wasn’t there teasing them and successfully embarrassing her. Then Roman commented on how much she liked kissing him. Did…did she do something wrong? Wasn’t she supposed to like kissing him? That made no sense if she wasn’t supposed to. No. No.no.no. And with each thought no, her heart tried to pound painfully. She’d done something wrong. But Roman’s hands kept up their small soothing movements keeping her from falling into an anxiety attack.

Roman didn’t know what she was thinking, but if he did, he’d say there was nothing wrong with anything she did. He’d rather Randy Go. Away. so he could keep on with the kissing marathon.

As much as Randy didn’t want to see Roman express his affection for his baby sister, teasing Roman was too much fun and it was good for Rand too....to be teased in a safe environment - to know situations could be awkward but she was safe. Also he could give Alden a hard time and Alden can’t do anything ‘official’ about it because it has NOTHING to do with work. It was good to see Alden come out of his shell as well. “You’re ‘quite certain’.” Mimicking Roman’s accent. “But you don’t know?????” Rand’s hands tightened around Roman. Randy could go, right now please, and she was absolutely not going to look at either of them.

Rand

“Oh I know. No one kisses like that unless they’re enjoying it.” The way Roman said it, it was obvious he enjoyed it too. And he didn’t look embarrassed about that at all. He liked teasing Randy. Sometimes he knew Randy was doing it as a distraction or something like that, sometimes he played right into Randy’s teasing. And sometimes, like it seemed to be now it was all just for fun on both sides. There wasn’t anything Roman could do about it either, this was entirely a personal thing. But it wasn’t like Roman wanted to do anything official about it. Roman hated using his rank for things like that. Unless it was relevant, like the discipline of an officer, or orders or something, no one’s rank mattered much to Roman.

~ Roman

Randy didn’t even try to hide the smirk on his face. He hadn’t missed the movement of Alden’s hand on his sister’s back, or the way she stayed close to him. As much as he was teasing them, it made Randy really happy to see Rand happy and content. Rand was ‘quite certain’ she’s going to die of embarrassment and a panic attack. She was about 2 seconds from running out of the room, but didn’t want Roman OR Randy to see her face so she stayed, not moving, held to Roman’s chest. Plus if she ran out they would only follow her and that wouldn’t make the anxiety stop. Whispered desperately into Roman’s chest “Randy go away.”

Rand

Roman looked up once again with a triumphant grin. They were like, ten kisses behind by now, Roman wasn’t sure just watching out the corner of his eye. “I’m quite certain that was a ‘Randy go away’.” He said, mimicking Rand’s accent for the three words she’d whispered into his chest. Except, when he said it, it was at his normal volume of speaking.

~ Roman