Posted by Ensign Ashlyn Trenton (Security Officer) in side-sim A Day Off Trenton/Fayth Quarters

Posted by Ensign Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in side-sim A Day Off Trenton/Fayth Quarters

Posted by Ensign Ashlyn Trenton (Security Officer) in side-sim A Day Off Trenton/Fayth Quarters
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Hearing her name called with such urgency, Ashlyn dove into the room with a small phaser in hand. Hitting the ground and rolling behind a tube, she aimed the small phase device scanning for the intruder only to see none. Considering the urgency, there wasn’t a lot of time to make herself decent and clearly didn’t expect there to not be an emergency. “You know…if you really wanted to see me you only had to ask.” When she finished her statement about the murder, Ashlyn gave her a fairly blank expression for a long moment. “Okay, so seeing as how we’re not under attack or being intruded upon, can I have my garments from the bathroom? Then we can talk about this murder.”

Despite the seriousness of the news Sharah would have spit out her drink if she had been drinking anything. “Oh Ashlyn, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you.” God Ashlyn had good reflexes. Joseph could probably use her help about now.

Once decent, Ashlyn stretched herself out and sat on top of one of the tubes near Sharah. “So, someone lost their minds and killed someone on the Challenger.” Ashlyn seemed to be expressing this as a matter of fact. “How is Rainns holding up? Have they suspended operations or found a suspect yet?”

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa

Sharah passed the food and drinks up to Ashlyn. Then she bounds up a couple of storage boxes to sit on top of a fake jeffries tube. “I don’t know. Joseph only said that some young En was murdered in the XO’s hot tub. I just can’t see Harkness doing that. And I saw he got promoted to CO as we were leaving. So it’s someone new.” Sharah thought about it. “He looked horrible, to be honest. He said it happened 2 days ago. He looks like he hasn’t slept. Two days and no leads yet. And ALL NEW cadets.” Sharah shakes her head. “It must be a nightmare. We have so many friends still back there.” Maybe not friends but people they had worked closely with, and Sharah being Sharah she was worried about all of them.

En Fayth, Doctor

Ashlyn looked at the sandwich curiously for a long moment, plying the bread apart to see the inside and sniffing at it. The conference seemed confused and locked on the single phrase of ‘peanut butter sandwich’, echoing it over and over again. Distracted by her thoughts, Ashlyn closed the sandwich and took a slow bite of it. Her eyes grow wide and she looks overwhelmed with sensation. “This is amazing!” Ashlyn was so lost in the sandwich, she seemed to have lost the conversation that was going on. That is until the one that usually calls for the Peanut Butter sandwich gets the attention of the rest. ‘Oi! Murder! Challenger! Friend!’ Ashlyn stops after eating most of the sandwich and puts it down. “Sorry about that, I know you care deeply for him, but there isn’t anything we can do for him from here. We can offer words of encouragement, advice, and cheer him on, but that’s about it honestly.”

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa

Sharah grins at Ashlyn’s response to the sandwich. She was glad that Ashlyn liked it. She started eating her own grilled cheese. It was still hot so the cheese was still melty. She was just about done when Ashlyn started talking again. Sharah tilted her head to the side slightly with an absolutely “DUH” look on her face. “I know that. What if it was Mika? I mean I have no idea. He didn’t say and really he can’t tell us anything. I just hope everyone back on Challenger is safe.” Sharah takes a sip of her drink. “On to other things. Like you say, there is nothing we can do to help Challenger.” Admittedly Sharah was worried about Joseph, but she was sure he would be okay, but how many people could get hurt before everything was taken care of.

Ashlyn placed her hands on Sharah’s shoulders, “Hey hey, none of that. Look, just tell him based on my analysis of everyone I knew on that ship, none of them are capable of murder. They don’t have the instinct for it. So his suspect pool should be limited to anyone new.” Ashlyn may not have the same level of care for Rainns, but the last thing she wanted was for her friend to worry.

Sharah shakes her head with a grin. “I already did. I’m sure he already knows that too. But anyway. There isn’t much we can do about it now.” Sharah changed the subject with Ashlyn, but Sharah knew she wouldn’t be okay with it until she heard from Joseph again, knowing he was okay, as well as the their other friends. Sharah moved those thoughts to another part of her mind to keep processing while she and Ashlyn had dinner. Shara would probably stay up to see if Joseph responded later.

“I tell you what, today in auxiliary sickbay was something else. I really like working with Dr. Zarath. He really knows a lot. How are you doing with the CSO? I haven’t met her before today,” Sharah asks.
En Fayth, Doctor

Ashlyn blushes and picks up a pillow to cover her face so she could scream into it. “Good gods and goddesses, a beautiful Valkarie that stood before me and I can’t have her.” Ashlyn dropped the pillow to lift her arms to shake her fists angrily at nothing in particular. “Starfleet Reg-u-lations!” Ashlyn dropped her hands in a mock defeated gesture and deflates a bit. “If only she turned out to also be poly, I’d totally just…” Ashlyn made some grabbing gestures before shaking her head, “Do some really creative things with her. You probably don’t want to hear about it.” This, unfortunately, didn’t stop the conference from describing everything in great detail. Enough to make even the saintliest of chaplains blush in embarrassment. Ashlyn can be really creative when motivated, she looked up and watched Sharah’s expression. “Oh come on, I know it’s not the first time you’ve heard that. I’m sure you’ve even heard it when I thought the same things about you.”

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa

Sharah was perched near their ‘hanging’ couch and grabbed a pillow and threw it at Ashlyn. “Just because I hear it doesn’t mean that I pay attention. And it doesn’t mean I understand what you are thinking.” Sharah remembered growing up picking up the feelings of the adults around her. She was too young to understand them and they always made her uncomfortable. Listening to Ashlyn at times made her feel that way sometimes, but the difference was Ashlyn tried really hard to keep it to herself. “A Nordic beauty huh?” She heard the comments and determined that the COS was pretty serious with someone else. “That would make it a little hard for work if you did. And I have to agree about regulations. Hey maybe we should get a paper copy and just for fun rip it up? It might make us feel better? As long as no one catches us!” It was a totally juvenile idea, but the tension on Europa had jumped exponentially in the last day with everything going on. Some safe destruction might be tension releasing. “Did engineering say when we would be able to go to Trenton Park? We are both off tomorrow.”
En. Fayth, Doctor

Ashlyn laughed while shaking her head. The idea was ludicrous to just take a volume of Starfleet Regulations in paperback form just to destroy it seemed like a waste. Even as far as doing something that would get them in trouble wasn’t worth it. “Honestly, if we want to do something we could get in trouble for that will be worth it, we should stalk the Jefferies Tubes to startle people.” Ashlyn giggles mischievously which ends in a smirk. “Besides, you know me. I’m still going to flirt with her just in case she is poly and doesn’t care about regs.”

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton

“Hey it was worth a thought.” Sharah shakes her head, “You can go scare them. Last time we did something like that, I scared myself.” she laughs remembering her own behavior. “Oh by all means go for it. If you find something that makes you happy I’m all for it. As for right now. How about sleep and then maybe we can hit the gym or holodeck in the morning for something to do?”

En. Fayth, Doctor

Ashlyn gets up and disposes of the dishes back to the recycler before climbing into the tubes to sleep. “Sounds like a plan, we’ll hit the holodeck and use version one Trenton Park so we can take care of that Parkour itch, maybe even get Cassidy to join us with her ‘partner’ and friend.” The Ensign settled into her nest of blankets and pillows lodged into her space of the network of small Jeffereies tubes that were installed into the room.

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa

“That sounds like a marvelous idea.” Sharah was willing to hang out in the air, but she still preferred her bed. Sharah climbed down, showing more confidence than she had when they first changed the room. She went into her area and closed the door. She read and sat up for awhile, waiting to see if Joseph would message her back that night. Ashlyn was right. There wasn’t anything they could do about it from here, but that didn’t stop her from worrying about Jospeh and the idea of a killer on board with their friends.

En Fayth, Doctor