Posted by Lieutenant Siennadye Nox (Counselor) in Arboretum - Sienna Comes Clean

Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Arboretum - Sienna Comes Clean

Posted by Lieutenant Siennadye Nox (Counselor) in Arboretum - Sienna Comes Clean
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It sort of hurt that he didn’t remember she was at the Luau. It had been the first time she had seen him with Vora in a social capacity and it had hurt a great deal. She pressed her lips together for a long moment before speaking candidly. “Perhaps it is a testament to my ability to hide my conflicts within that you do not remember me being there.”

Nox, CNS

Four-letter-word, he thought with guilt, as he realized before she started speaking by her reaction that she must have been there. Of course she was at the Luau, it was like her first week on the ship!

“I think it’s more likely that it’s a sign I might be coming down with dementia,” he said. Of course he was joking, but at the same time he was surprised at how little he remembered of that particular event. It was, after all, on the beach; nobody was in uniform and quite a few women were scantily clad. Men too, but those didn’t typically engage Johann’s memory. Then again, his memories of things he saw didn’t exactly feel the same way it did when he still had natural vision. But there were other senses…

She smiled a bit at his joke. It helped take the sting off a bit. Looking back with several years between then and now, she could feel a little less hurt. Time heals all wounds they say? Perhaps it was starting to work a bit.

“I had a fruity, sugary drink,” he recalled. “And you asked if the Captain was ever not really in charge. But our conversation started because I thought there was something between you and Jerricho.” It sounded and felt name strange for him to say that name like that, without a rank or surname someplace.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

The name rang through her mind and she sighed. So much had been kept from people who she had known in her other life. “I knew him in my other life. I was godmother to his children and in my universe, they and their mother were alive. I couldn’t tell him though. I think it would have destroyed him to know it. I was hoping to be able to help him through his grief over time.”

Johann’s face contorted into a grimace. He hadn’t actually talked with Range much about his home life, despite the fact that they had served together for many years. Part of that was because he knew that was an unpleasant topic of conversation that involved the Dominion’s occupation of Betazed during the war.

She smiled again. “He certainly did not like me poking at the festering wound. No not one bit!”

Nox, CNS

“I can imagine,” he said simply. “That’s actually really awful. Our universe sucks for you.”

Sienna laughed a bit and nodded with a look of chagrin on her face. “Yeah, a little bit.”

He had actually remembered more of that event, including Vora’s lovely hula dance number that succeeded at capturing his attention. He didn’t think he had descended into outright ogling, but they weren’t hiding the existence of their relationship at that point, and she had that nice strapless violet thing with the flowers going on that really worked rather well for her. It looked great on the floor later that evening too.

You had a floral thing too, he thought, not realizing that he was thinking “loudly,” and that his mind had wandered slightly away from the topic of how painful Sienna must have felt that evening, to what she had been wearing.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

“Midnight blue swimsuit cover dress with a hibiscus flower painted on it. I also had a massive floral clip in my hair. It weighed a ton but I thought it was so cute.” She grinned and ran her fingers through her hair absentmindedly. “That was also the day I met Vora. At first, she thought I was her Sienna. Apparently the two had been good friends. I was sorry to disabuse her of the notion. I flubbed the introduction a bit but she was kind nonetheless. She danced the Hula with me.”

Nox, CNS

“Yeah, I was just remembering that…” he said somewhat cautiously. He didn’t want to actually explain the intermediate step between the thought she picked up on and the more general recollections of that evening. It was pretty hot, he thought, before immediately wanting to have not thought it.

“Umm… but anyway, we should like… you know… have a thing.” Knocked off balance enough to not use proper nouns… would Sienna exploit that?

– Johann Dvorak, CO