Ashlyn hadn’t been avoiding the doctor, it just lucked out that the schedule she had been assigned kept her off the Doctor’s schedule for a few weeks. When the schedule changed to something more advantageous for both of them, Ashlyn was quick to seek out the Doctor. Trenton, in all her unpredictable wisdom, decided it would be best to catch him just as he’s leaving his quarters. Ambushing him with a thermos of fresh tea seemed to be the most prudent decision to at least get on his schedule if nothing else. Ashlyn went with a lemon and ginger tea unfortunately lacking in any real knowledge on the subject, she found the scent to be most satisfying for herself and guessed it may be sharper for the Andorian doctor.

While waiting, she was getting nervous and began to doubt her decision to ambush the doctor. The conference was in turmoil deciding if she should go get more, stay with what she had, or just leaving and trying again during the lunch hours. Maybe it would seem less aggressive if she approached him at lunch instead of first thing in the morning. Then again, maybe the aggressive desire to learn would appeal to the doctor and he would welcome the overly intrusive approach? Or perhaps he would be offended to know that this junior officer had been stalking his habits enough to know when he left his room in the morning. Trenton suddenly began feeling like this was a terrible idea and she should leave while she had the chance, which of course was no longer true as the doors opened to present Doctor Zarath.

There was a seven-second period of silence as Trenton desperately argued within herself to do something, anything to make this significantly less awkward. She held out the thermos and offered it to the Doctor. “Good morning Doctor Zarath, lemon ginger tea. I was hoping to discuss the lessons you had mentioned during my onboarding physical.”

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa