Posted by Civilian Joe Milligan (Bartender) in Dragon Bar

Posted by Civilian D’Nesh (Bartender’s Assistant) in Dragon Bar

Posted by Civilian Joe Milligan (Bartender) in Dragon Bar
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Joe entered the Dragon and as he neared the middle of the bar, he could feel the hair on the back of his neck start to stand on end. Something seemed creepy. It was then that there came a sneeze from behind the bar. Joe walked over and looking beneath the bar saw D’Nesh crouching like a frightened child. ” Not like the dark Joe!” she said in a soft voice.
“Well get out from there child. ” Joe laughed. ” And for the love of Mike what are you doing in your pajamas?” After this distraction Joe started to get his bar and grill ready for traffic. With an away team hopefully returning and the people on the ship getting off of double and triple shifts someone would be hungry and thirsty. He got a pot full of water and set it to boiling so that he could start Cross’s Spaghetti Bolognese first.

Joe Milligan Barman

D’Nesh came out from under the bar ‘’ I was scared and ran to sickbay ‘’ she replied while rolling up her sleeves to help Joe prepare the food. They were alone and the ex Orion slave asked ‘’ Joe do you love the doctor and does the doctor loves you? ‘’ she asked in a rather childish manner.

D’Nesh.

Joe began to answer the question immediately without a thought. He had his mouth open and ready to speak before he stopped and wondered what sort of answer he should give D’Nesh. He didn’t want to confuse her but neither did he want to make her mad at anyone. ” Well hon.” he began. ” That’s a hard question to answer. The problem being that the whole thing involves male and female. Two genders with two different goals and two different ways of thinking. As for me well men are pretty simple minded. Or at least I am anyway. I love the doctor with no doubt in my mind whatsoever. Her on the other hand I think puts me on a scale every morning to make sure I weigh up to what she is expecting out of me. Most times I think I come out alright with her so I think she might be in love with me.”

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She bit on her lower lip and quietly went on with her chores .Taking a tray full of sweet pastry to Joe D’Nesh asked ‘’Do you think I shall find a man who loves me ? I have served many , danced and sang but their faces where irrelevant , having no significant meaning or purpose to me for I knew they were there purely to be entertained ‘’ taking a deep breath she went on ‘’I’m sorry about the commotion I caused when brought here ,nothing was familiar to me for I had been brought up in a much different environment ‘’.

D’Nesh

Joe considered the girl then. Thinking of her in that moment in a different light. He remembered his reaction to seeing her when she had arrived. Thinking that all her species were of the sort of female who wants to enslave men for their own use. But looking at her now. Having seen her so frightened and now with her asking such a question. The question carried with it a sound of loneliness. The sound of someone lost with no idea how to find their way home. Of not knowing even if there was something or someone anywhere in the universe that held anything for her other than hostility or endless hordes of people who never seemed to know you existed or even cared.

Joe found himself in an awkward position. For ever since the girl had been man handled in sick bay, he had taken a role of caretaker for her. He felt a fatherly kinship toward her. Because of this he gave the girl’s question careful consideration. For Joe was smart enough to know that he didn’t know everything. After giving great thought to the subject Joe replied finally saying. “A girl should not have to dance and serve to get a man’s attention my darling. If you want to find a man who loves you, simply be yourself. Just smile, be friendly adorable and curious. Be the person you are. And you will find love.”

Joe Milligan Barman

D’Nesh listened attentively ,she had come a long way since stepping on the ship . When Hunter took her to sickbay , she screamed and bitten him for the ex Orion slave only knew the way of life she previously had been subjected too.

’’ I sang and danced because I was made too not that I wanted’’ she replied ‘’ Here I have seen another way of life which I never knew existed ‘’ taking a deep breath D’Nesh continued ‘’You and others have been kind to me and maybe one day I shall find a man who shall love me for who I am ‘’ then she surprised him by wrapping her hands around his waist ‘’ Thank you Joe ,doctor Cross is lucky to have you ‘’.

D’Nesh