Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in side - sim: Honoring the Ardent

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Roman stood when Randy did, showing him out the door. Then he took a quick shower and got ready, and headed down to the lab. He wanted to avoid the last project, and he could. Randy had a point, there was no rush on the files. So he would bury himself in his other work. He reached the lab and sat at his desk - nearly an hour and a half late. Then he looked for his paperwork.

~ Roman

Roman’s paperwork sat on his desk waiting. Rand had been in the lab at her normal time and worked on compiling the notes as much as possible. Franks had asked her if he should do the reports, but she just grinned and shrugged, “It’s Cmdr Alden, he’s always at work.” Which Franks had to agree with. Though if it had been himself pulling those hours he would have taken the day or two off. He supervised Rand while she worked with Nibbles and then because she didn’t have Alden’s reports yet, he let her do a little work with Mushu.

Rand left because she had her morning meeting with Rogers, but was unable to return until a few minutes before lunch.

Rand

Roman had his paperwork done in record time, sitting on the edge of his desk waiting for her. He moved on to other work. Anything he could find that he’d been putting off. Paperwork, samples he didn’t particularly enjoy (there weren’t as many biologists as one would think that actually liked the excrement samples), reviewing projects, that kind of thing. When Rand returned just before lunch, he was working with Mushu, a task he’d been saving since that he liked to do.

~ Roman

Rand bit the inside of her lip to keep from smiling when she saw Roman working with Mushu. He looked better. Tired, but not exhausted, like his body had let out a huge sigh. She turned back to the computer to finish the reports as everyone left for lunch. When she finished and looked back, Mushu was stubbornly making his way up Roman’s arm. A tiny laugh escaped her before she could stop it. Roman used to let Mushu do that all the time. They very first time Roman had shown her Mushu he was on Roman’s arm. Rand always thought Mushu like the view because his eyes never stopped moving. “Did Scott finish that lure for him?”

Rand