Posted by Ensign Luna (Security Officer) in Side Sim: Harringtons quarters - Reminiscing

Posted by Ensign David Harrington (Doctor) in Side Sim: Harringtons quarters - Reminiscing
It felt lonely in Harringtons quarters. Perhaps it was because he had just come off an extra long shift in Sickbay, and too tired to complete the research in front of him. Or perhaps it was because of the holo picture of his family at Harry’s graduation that was sitting on his desk. For a Starfleet Graduate she didn’t look that impressed, but the younger version of David was beaming enough for the two of them. It was just another pathetic reminder of the distance that had grown between his sister. A reminder of everything he had lost. Not just when she disappeared, but long before that. When she went missing, he hadn’t just lost her but he’d lost his chance of repairing his relationship with her…

But he couldn’t just get rid of all her pictures either. Not when the ones - like the one on his desk - served in memory of everything she’d done that had made her older brother proud. She might not have thought much of her graduating the Acadamy, but David had. In fact he still did. He knew that her path hadn’t been laid as smoothly as his had. Yet, when the going got tough she knuckled down and she got it done. Which was much more than what David could say he had done. He had been on the Viking for months now and he was no closer to finding her. His only leads were an Ensign Loki and a Reira Akaba, but he hadn’t been able to bring himself to talk to either of them. Too scared they would agree with his parents that his sister was dead. Harry wouldn’t have let that kind of fear stop her. But David just couldn’t. She had soared where he had failed and she didn’t even know it.

The Golden Child had become Disgraced, and the Disgraced Child had become Beloved.

“Computer run video Harrington Hotel Alpha Romeo Romeo Yankee Three” David ordered, pushing himself away from the desk and walking over to where his screen was.
*An image of a young boy, no more than 11 years old appeared. His eyes had the trademark Harrington green in them that gave away his identity as he backed away from the camera. “Bree get over here!” Young David yelled, “I think I’ve got it working!” In the background there was the patter of little feet, and the young boy was joined by a girl no more than 7 or 8. Her hair was tied up in a ponytail but it was more out of it than in it. “Ohhh yay!” She jumped enthusiastically, nearly falling into the young boy.. “What are you going to film first Davie?”

The little boy looked thoughtful and solomn for a moment, “Us!” he said brightly, after a few moments, “So then we can show our kids what we were like,”

The little girl who would one day grow up to be Harry giggled, “Then they will know that you are the bestest big brother in the whole galaxy,” she proclaimed proudly, waving her arms around excitedly as if to demonstrate just how big the expanse of her brothers greatness was. “And when we grow up we are both going to be Starfleet Captains and we will save the universe together,”

“Yes,” young David agreed, a smirk spreading across his face, that young Harry couldn’t see, “But you’ll have to save yourself first,” he said as he launched himself at his younger sibling.

The girl shrieked as she went down, “Davvviieee,” she whined between giggles as Davids fingers met their target. She squirmed, “No fair!” -*

• “Computer pause video.” David ordered. Instantly the two playing figures froze on screen. Both children wore matching happy smiles. They looked so carefree and innocent in a way that made his chest ache. His eyes suddenly felt heavy, and as he reached up to rub them, he was shocked to find his cheeks moist. In a few weeks it would be 3 years since his baby sister had gone missing.

A piece of him was jealous of the two children on the screen. They had no idea of what pain the future had in store for them. They were just two children who dreamed of the great acomplishments they would make together when they grew up. Both of them longing to follow in their parents footsteps. Certain that they would achieve just as much as Picard, Kirk, Janeway, Sisko, Archer, their parents… and so many others. Neither knowing of the distance that would make its way between them, pushing them further and further apart.

“Where did you go Bree?” He whispered into the room. It was nearly 3 years since she’d disappeared and this was the closest he’d been to her since they were children.

Harrington
Doctor

OOC: glad to see you are back. Also this post is awesome I am very much enjoying learning more about Ensign Harrington.
Christina

OOC: Thank you. The LOA took longer than I would have liked, but I’m back now! :)

IC: Some few hours later David opened his eyes. He’d fallen asleep and now his quarters were dark. The happy image of him and Harry was gone from the screen in front of him, but something had woken him up. Sitting up he completed a visual scan of the room, but nothing was disturbed. All was quiet. It must have been my imagination he thought to himself, lying back down again and closing his eyes.

“Go away.”

Harrington sat up. “Who’s there?” he called out into the darkness. Silence was his only reply. Eventually deciding that he must have imagined it again, he settled back down to fall asleep. He was drifting asleep again when he heard it again…

“Leave me alone,”

This time, with a more alert brain, the voice almost sounded familiar. “Who are you?” he demanded, standing up this time. “What are you doing in MY quarters?” Predictably, he was again met with silence. “Computer identify intruder” he ordered. There was an unhealthy cackle from the computer =^= Unable to locate. The only person in Ensign Harringtons quarters is Captain Harrington =^= “Right,” he muttered to himself rubbing at his temples, maybe he really was going crazy. “Wait! Computer did you just say Captain Harrington?”

“Come to rub it in my face that you are Captain and I’m not? Or do our darling parents bidding and convince me to leave the Viking so I don’t bring more shame to the family? Well go screw yourself David,” The voice piped up again, clearly agitated, and unmistakably Harry.

David’s jaw dropped. He was used to the ship randomly changing the temperature of his quarters, or playing Klingon opera when he was trying to sleep, but waking up to his missing sister accusing him of deliberatly insulting her was new. It was the last ever conversation he’d had with her, and the computer was rubbing it in his face. Then as if to make it worse, he heard his own voice as clear as day responding throwing harsh words back…

“I was trying to be nice!” Davids voice argued, “Are you so self-obsessed that you think that everything is out to get you? I just wanted to congratulate my little sister. Not be accused of… of…”

“Computer shut it off.” Modern day David ordered, a lovely white colour decorating his features.

But his younger self’s voice continued… “Just because you can’t handle the fact that there are people out there that care about you and the train - wreck that you are. Doesn’t mean that we don’t! All I’ve ever done is look after you and all you’ve done is thrown it back in my face like I’d done it to hurt you.”

“Don’t call me that. I go by Harry now. You don’t have the right anymore. Not when it’s clear I’m nothing more than a pain in your side!”

The silence that David had tried to order finally fell, but the man hardly noticed. Not when he’d just had his biggest regret thrown in his face. His last conversation with her, nothing more than a petty arguement. He’d let her cut him off, had figured he’d give her a chance to cool down before he tried to connect with her again. Except he never had. Whether because of his demanding duties as Captain or because he was still liking his wounds and being rebuffed he never reached out to her again. Then she’d gone missing and he never got the chance to.

Harrington
Doctor