Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in side - sim: Paying for Our Sins

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in side - sim: Paying for Our Sins
It had been several days since Rand had discovered the lies of omission. She was still upset and her anxiety seemed was worse than usual. She focused on her work, but there wasn’t enough to do. Elbbirt still refused to put her back on full duty, and so she had hours every day to just dwell on it. Randy was depressed. Rand wouldn’t talk to him, at all. Not even for work. She was really angry at him and she was making him pay. He didn’t think she was being vindictive, Rand just avoided, expertly, anything that made her nervous and anxious and upset. And Randy had done that in spades.

So it was that he appeared in the gym on Roman’s regular day and time. If it would get Rand to talk to him again he’d do whatever. Even stand there and let Roman use him as a punching bag if he had to.

Randy

Roman was struggling, like always lately, but like Rand promised, upset or no she was there for him. And he had promised, so he’d have to teach Randy, no matter how much he didn’t want to. But he had not yet organized a time. When Randy showed up to the gym, at Roman’s usual time, he was there already, in his exercise clothes, giving Mr Dummy a beatdown for the ages, not sport style, but as if Mr Dummy were an enemy attacker.

It was when he stopped for a rest period, breathing hard, that he looked up and saw Randy. “Decided to get it started already?” It would take more than one session to teach him anything meaningful. He’d worked with Rand for weeks before he was satisfied and he still would make her practice, once she was healed.

~ Roman

Randy was slumped shouldered, wearing workout clothes. “She refuses to talk to me, to even be in the same room with me. She’s there and then she disappears. If I have to stand here and take the target dummy’s place then so be it. It’s horrible.”

Randy