Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Vora Zorell (Scientist) in Black Rock- A Reunion of Friends

Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Black Rock- A Reunion of Friends

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Vora Zorell (Scientist) in Black Rock- A Reunion of Friends

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She gave him an amused sort of grin. “That supposes I’d take your name.” And here they were with another interesting issue to discuss. NOw or later, ti didn’t matter, but it would have to be discussed at some point before they actually got married.

“You can keep yours as long as you promise not to do the hyphen thing,” he said simply.

“How so?” she asked. She understood by context what he meant, but it wasn’t something that was really done on Tenra.

“I never liked the hyphen. It just creates names that are awkward to say, because it’s two names but you feel like you have to say it as one. You have to race to pronounce it all in a single breath, lest people think it’s your middle name and that you’re being pretentious by insisting that people call you by your full name everywhere, as if you’re famous.”

Vora smirked.

He adopted a different voice, one that sounded snooty: “Ah, yes, I am Victor Charles Willamson. No, the author of those cheap holonovels is Victor Meade Willamson. I am a classicist.“

That made her chuckle.

“So you avoid that by rushing it. Which is a real problem for us in particular considering how many exotic consonants would all get jammed together.”

“There is that.”

They walked a bit farther.

“We’ll have to tell Avik, also,” Johann observed. “I mean, everyone who didn’t already figure it out is going to know, but we should tell her first. I’m sure there’s some procedural thing she might have to do here.”

– Johann Dvorak, CO

Vora tried really hard not to frown, but she managed at least not to make too much of a face. Of course he had to do so. It made sense. “There’s a form that has to be filled out to formally state the relationship. Though I don’t think it has to be specifically her. You could do it yourself. Just so long as one of the command officers files it,” she summarized from her memory.

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“Yeah but it would be sort of impolite not to include her on it,” he said. “Not that we’re always good at politeness.” Though he had to admit, the two of them had been doing better recently. The trick seemed to be to keep Avik busy and focused on problems that they could work on together.

I wonder what she does when she isn’t working… he thought idly. He didn’t typically intrude in the personal lives of people under his command, but he had just considered inventing crises as a way to connect better with his first officer, which seemed like a very bad idea.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

“Okay,” Vora said simply, feeling it best to let Johann deal with it. Regardless of her feelings about the first officer, she knew that this was another thing that simply had to happen one way or another and she didn’t need to complicate it further needless objections.

Soon enough, the reached the docking section where the Europa was berthed. Vora slowed down and came to a stop. “So, who do we tell first. My feeling is Jerrin, but it may not matter so long as it hears it from me and not someone else.” Once they left the relative quiet of the base they would be under the microscope so to speak. Once work got out, everyone would quickly know. Such was the life of a starship crew. Vora actually didn’t mind, but she knew it was going to be a massive transition for Jerrin and she was taking it whether he approved or not. On the other hand, if they blended their lives, Jerrin had to feel at least a little okay with the idea or else this would blow up in their faces.

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“Jerrin should definitely be told first,” Johann agreed. “And if he’s not on board with it for some reason, I think we need to consider very carefully how we go about proceeding.” Marrying someone with children of their own had never been something that Johann had planned on –well, until very recently, anyway– and he wasn’t sure how to go about that. Usually it was something that would create problems. Fortunately Jerrin’s father was already dead and not really in his life to begin with…

– Johann Dvorak, CO

“Yes. So let’s do that then. He should be either in one of a couple places,” she said as they approached the ship. Squeezing his hands, Vora smiled. “I know there’s a lot to work out, but just so you know, I’m really happy, Johann. And I love you.”

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