Posted by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Asst. Chief Medical Officer) in Seeing Ghosts

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Counselor) in Seeing Ghosts

Posted by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Asst. Chief Medical Officer) in Seeing Ghosts
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Sharah dismissed them from the staff meeting. It was routine and nothing new. They were all Star Fleet officers and this was old hat stuff. They all just didn’t see each other often because of the size of the contentment on Oed. Everyone got up and filed out of the mess and either went to sickbay or their quarters because they weren’t on duty yet. She stared at him as he got up and headed out. It couldn’t be…could it? The name, the face, now that she saw him the familiarity of the presence of her unknown bidder was so clear.

Ilena stood up and rushed after him. She reached out her hand, afraid he was insubstantial. ‘Ada???‘

Ilena Rox

Lieutenant Fayth had dismissed the meeting. When everyone else began to stand to leave, Adaril did too, and started heading out of the room. They were going to be on the Centurion for a while and it seemed like Ilena may not be ready to talk to him. She’d spent the entire meeting staring at him like he shouldn’t exist. But as he was heading out the door he felt a hand brush his back and then someone calling his name… Not someone, Ilena. He’d never forget that voice. He turned around to face her and smiled. “Ilena.”

~ Adaril Aveli

Confusion, disbelief, longing, Hope all swirled and flowed and rushed off her like a cascading waterfall. She stood there, shock, soul changing shock. Her voice didn’t seem to want to work, but he heard her clearly anyway. ‘H…how? We, we thought you were dead.’

Ilena

Adaril wished she had been there when he had realized she was alive. He’d felt much the same. But now, a calm familiarity washed over and off him, followed by hope and longing of his own. ‘I thought the same of you.’

He looked around and the ushered her out of the doorway into the side of the meeting room. ‘Let’s move out of the way.’ Talking to her telepathically was like second nature to him, even after all this time. Despite having been in Starfleet for some time, hearing her voice in his head coaxed it right out of him.

~ Adaril

Ilena followed him automatically. Her brain not having yet processed the fact he really was alive. She stood still for half a moment before throwing herself at him, arms around his neck, hugging him tightly, eyes squeezed shut, even as tears leaked out. A rush if released shock and grief and the need to know he was really there. ‘Ada, I’ve missed you SO much.’

Ilena

Adaril let out a soft ‘oof’ when she threw herself at him. He smiled and hugged her back, squeezing her tight. ‘I’ve missed you too. I… I thought you died. What happened?’ He was crying now too, tears coming down his face and landing on her shoulder. ‘I saw you at the charity auction but… I couldn’t win you… And then I just…’ And he shrugged.

~ Adaril

‘Why did you leave? I looked for you. I mean I didn’t realize it was you. I mean I…’ She had recognized the feeling but she just thought it was wishful thinking. That she had mistaken the person for Ada. ‘You didn’t have to win me.’ Ilena hugged him. It was unreal, but it wasn’t. ‘The Loneel Mountains…the caves from the resistance. There was a lot of work being done to fortify it. In case…’ Ilena shrugged, ‘But the fault line under them became active again. There was a massive earthquake....villages fell into fissures, canyons formed, there was even some volcanic activity. It…Ada it took them so long to find us because of the fistrium. It blocked the sensors so they couldn’t just beam us out.’

Ilena

‘I don’t know.’ Adaril shook his head and sighed. ‘I knew you recognized me. How could you not? But I could tell you were confused.’ He hugged her again, just because it felt good to hug her. ‘I know. I heard about the volcanoes and… Well, hundreds of people died in the eruptions and the earthquake.’ he started to tear up again, ‘My parents… And I just figured that you… That you were gone, too.’

~ Adaril