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

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in side - sim: Head Case

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

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Roman kept her tightly in his arms, sighing softly. He knew that feeling, it was why when his nightmares got bad he often stopped eating. He had to think a moment to come up with a way to convince her to eat. “Don’t you always make me at least try? Can you try, for me?”

~ Roman

If Roman had put it any other way, Rand would have dug her heels in. Not to be difficult, but just because right then her stomach didn’t hurt, wasn’t rebelling and she didn’t want it to start. He was right though, she always got him to try. He couldn’t go days without eating. She hadn’t though, she’d eaten last night…not much but she had. She was pretty sure that argument wouldn’t work with Roman though. She sighed and curled into him. She’d do anything so he didn’t worry. “I’ll try,” but she didn’t make any effort to move or get up. The way he was holding her made her feel better and making her relax, that in turn was making her sleepy. She would have to try to eat so maybe he wouldn’t notice she was purposely trying not to sleep too.

Rand

Roman hadn’t noticed she was trying not to sleep. If he knew, he’d have stayed there until she fell asleep. But instead, carefully and gently, he moved away and got up. “I’ll get something from the galley and then we can eat up here. Okay?”

~ Roman

Rand pouted slightly as he started to get up and mumbled into his neck before he got up, “Can’t we just kissing?” She sighed, resigned, leaning back into the pillows. “Okay.” At least she didn’t have to walk back down to the Galley. She sat there, petting Pipkin when he left, and started to doze off. She was tired enough that she twitched and jerked a little as she started to fall asleep. That woke her up and she sat up and reached for her PaDD and started reading reports again to stay awake.

Rand

Roman chuckled, he’d like nothing more than that, but this time he had to be responsible one so he shook his head. He was back several minutes later with a tray of food. He set it down on the little table in the room, put their plates on the bedside table and then sat next to her. “Gorshin made one of your favourites.” He said, trying to coax her into eating.

~ Roman

Rand took the plate and tried to smile. Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, and baked apples. She had to wonder how Gorshin always managed to fix their favorites when they needed it, and how did he know she needed it? This wasn’t something he made in the last 10 minutes. She picked up her fork and moved the food around a bit. It smelled wonderful. There was gravy and potatoes on the tips of the fork’s tines, just enough to sample the flavor. Her stomach growled loudly at the taste, giving away that she might not want to be hungry, but she was. It was good. However, she didn’t want to eat, but she took another tiny bite of the food for him.

Rand