Posted by Ensign Ashlyn Trenton (Security Officer) in pre-sim Hard Work Pays Off

Posted by Ensign Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in pre-sim Hard Work Pays Off

Posted by Ensign Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in pre-sim Hard Work Pays Off
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻
(snip)
Ashlyn chuckled softly remembering most of the staff that was on the Challenger back in their cadet flight days. “I keep in touch with NEnsign Bough, he’s still the third shift lead for security, I can get most of anything to go through him and let him know you’re trying to sneak up on Rainns. He’ll help you out secuirty side at least. You’ll have to reach out to your doctor and nurse friends though, I don’t know them as well. I’m sure between the three of them, he’ll be very distracted. Ooo, I could reach out to Tandra, she might be okay for helping!” Ashlyn thought about it some more and remembered the incident where the engineering team was playing with the sensors and driving security nuts. “Okay, so I know someone in every office that could really make things hard for Rainns to notice you even showed up. I bet I could get McMorran to help too.” Ashlyn was quite surprised she still knew so many people still on the Challenger.

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa

“I’ll get in touch with Mika, Nurse, and Doctor. I’ll see what they can do.” She hopped down again moved over to her computer console. “Do you think you can contact the rest?” After making several calls and the snickers of the med staff on Challenger, Sharah had her part set up. She turned to Ashlyn and saw she was still on the comm. She moved to the replicator and made dinner for them. She set the food on the table and got them both something to drink. Usually they would eat perched up on a tube or platform, but they were both busy at the computer.
En. Fayth, Doctor

Ashlyn didn’t wait long, as soon as she had the opportunity, she sent off messages to NEnsign Bough and Lieutenant McMorran about Sharah planning to surprise Lieutenant Rainns. Ensign Bough was the first to respond. “That shouldn’t be a problem, we have a couple of cadets that don’t get along and keep trying to show each other up. It’ll be easy to get them caught up in an incident that’ll keep Rainns busy all day. Might result in someone headed to sickbay though, they really do get that bad. It’ll be fine though, nothing Rainns hasn’t done before. Then of course there are all the reports and checks that we can hand in. We’ll just say we’re having an off day and decided not to compile them all into a single report like usual. I’ve even got a good medical chems going missing mystery he can work on. Got a few addicts on board that had already ended up in the brig, but it was missed that they had a problem and were stealing from sickbay.” Ashlyn felt bad about the craziness that was still going on during the night shift but was glad he could participate.

The next day Sharah got a message from Challenger, but not from Joseph. It was from NE Nurse “Hey Sharah! So I’ll be working Alpha and Bravo shift when you come in. NE Doc will be here for Alpha. We’ve got the schedule worked so you can hang out in one of the private patient room for a couple hours. NCrewman, you remember you worked with him on Gamma shift. He’s on board too, so if you get really delayed or get here early. And don’t worry, NO CADETS know about this. Even the ones you worked with who haven’t graduated yet. They can’t keep a secret.” NE Nurse claps her hands rapidly, and in a conspiratorial tone, “I am so excited! Rainns is such a good officer, but he just hasn’t been the same since you left.” From the background Sharah can hear NE Doctor. He sighs loudly in frustration, “Oh stop with the gossip! You wouldn’t know one way or the other woman. You don’t ever see him except in passing. And if Sharah is coming to surprise him I’m sure they’ve kept in touch. She’ll know how much he does or does not miss her. Stop filling her head with pointless gossip!” NE Nurse pouts, “Okay so he’s right, I don’t know. I’m a hopeless romantic, I can’t help it.” Sharah laughs as the transmission ends. Joseph is never going to forget this if she manages to pull it off. He’ll get his payback and it will be much more spectacular than anything she’s managing. She’d been very careful not to tell him anything about her research or her trip.

The night before she was leaving she sat down, took a deep breath and calmed her excitement. She looked tired, and she was, she’d been trying to get everything ready for her departure and finish the work she had in sickbay and the arboretum. “So we’ve been slow as far as medical goes, and that’s always good. As my usual need to stay busy I started cleaning the labs and auxiliary sickbays and everything is out of date or not working. So I may not get to message you the next few days. We’re going to be very busy. We can’t leave this to get done. Some of the medications are out of date too. There really isn’t much else to tell you tonight. I miss you and I hate that I probably won’t get to write to you, but it’s doubles for at least a week to get all the work done. I love you, Imzadi.” Sharah ended the transmission and made sure it sent. She turned to Ashlyn and grinned. She won’t be able to send any messages on her way, because the metadata won’t say Europa it will be the names of her different transports and that would give it away. “Think he’ll buy it?”

En Fayth, Doctor

Ashlyn wasn’t saying much, she was finally feeling the impact of her friend leaving and had been a little distant trying to get used to the idea. Ashlyn shook her head at her friend’s inquiry, “We’ve got scheduled exercises with the Genisis and Merrimack, let him know that will keep you busy. If he gets suspicious and looks it up, you’ll at least have an actual event to back it up. Oh, and I didn’t tell you about it because it’s supposed to be command crew only, I just happen to notice the PaDD on Abrams’s desk and she forgot or doesn’t know I’m pretty observant. Make sure you encrypt your message and mark it with verification code RX71, it’ll be a bit misleading for Rainns, but it’ll keep the usual eyes out of it.” Ashlyn waits a moment for the inquisitive expression to really settle in before giving Sharah an explanation. “RX71 is a comms insider notation to identify ‘private’ conversations between SOs. So make sure you attach a photo of some plants or something, otherwise, the file size will be suspicious. Instead of reading the message, they’ll run an algorithm that will look at the message for them so you can have your privacy. As long as you don’t mention mission numbers or command names, the algorithm won’t key on your message. As long as you don’t send more than one of those a month, that’s how you can keep your conversations private. Otherwise, there is someone reading them.”

• Ensign Ashlyn Trenton
  Security, USS Europa

Sharah blushed, but she wasn’t sure she was ready to need RX71, but it was sweet the Ashlyn gave it to her. And so Ashlyn to try and embarrass her. But she knew her friend was sad and Sharah was too. “I’ll keep that in mind, for when I need it.” She got up from her desk where she’d been sending her message and climbed up to her favorite perch. “Hey,” she said looking at Ashlyn. “You know it’s not that long. It’s going to be a crazy fast 4 months. It won’t be bad. And you’ve got that paper to write on all this craziness you’ve been contemplating to help me. It will be good for your application file. And keep practicing with Zarath so you can keep Nox out during your sessions. And you can call me any time you need to. I know I’ll be on double shifts the whole time I’m there, but I’ll answer as fast as I can, okay?” She was full of excited energy for the coming months. “So you want to go run some parkour or do something else?” She had time. She left early the next morning, but she was already packed and all her projects on board were wrapped up as well.
En Fayth, Doctor