Posted by Lieutenant Séan Iven (Counselor) in Side sim: Morning Jog

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Mental Health Officer) in Side sim: Morning Jog

Posted by Lieutenant Séan Iven (Counselor) in Side sim: Morning Jog
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Mika had to get up earlier than usual to make it to the agreed upon meet up with Séan. She’d been meaning to go to bed earlier to make it easier to get up, and, well… That hadn’t happened. At 5:30, dressed in her jogging outfit, Mika made her way to the front entrance of the Starfleet complex, looking groggy and tired.

~ Mika, CNS

Séan arrived right after Mika while stifling a big yawn. “He—llo.” He said with another yawn that elongated his greeting. This was why he drank coffee in the mornings but never during runs. It was better to be tired and not have to pee three times before he even finished the outing.

Counselor Iven

“Morning,” Mika said in a somewhat forced cheerful tone. “Don’t worry about me keeping up, I’ll be fine. Just do whatever you usually do,” She said. “As for routes…” She looked both ways and shrugged. “Unless you have something planned, I guess we just go?”

~ Mika, CNS

“Right but before that I do remember something of a challenge.” Séan smiled at Mika as he gave a quick look around to make sure they were alone. He stepped up next to her, bent his knees to even out their height, then put his arm around her waist and stood back up holding her.

Counselor Iven

“Hey! Hey! Whoa!” Mika said, but she was laughing, clearly not upset. “Okay, okay, you win that one! Set me down, will you?” She laughed, struggling playfully in his arm.

~ Mika, CNS

Séan gave Mika a mischievous look and contemplated spinning in a circle or something but in the end just chuckled and carefully put her back down. He didn’t want to push his luck even if she was a good sport about this. “I’ve been using my morning jogs to explore the area so I don’t have any planned routes. Let’s just go, like you said.” With the fun out of the way, he’d been planning to call her bluff since the playful challenge, he picked a random direction and started off at an easy pace.

Counselor Iven

Mika stretched as soon as she was let down. “I’ll remember that.” How to get him back… Was a problem for another time. She took off after him, easily keeping up with his pace. It had been a while since her last jog… Since before she left her last ship. She hadn’t jogged outside since Earth.

~ Mika, CNS

Séan only grinned at Mika’s statement. He enjoyed a good prank or joke as long as it was in in good fun and he didn’t expect her to get mean with it. “Penny for your thoughts?” He asked after they had been jogging for a couple of minutes.

Counselor Iven

“It’s been a long time since I jogged outside,” Mika replied, deciding to just state what it was she’d been thinking. “Last time I jogged at all was on my last ship assignment.”

~ Mika, CNS

“The Academy ship?” Séan asked. “Did you jog in the corridors or in the holodeck?” He decided to take some longers strides and speed up their pace a notch.

Counselor Iven

“No, not the Academy ship, that was…” She counted on her fingers, “six assignments ago? Maybe five…” She shook her head, “I don’t remember. It was a battleship I was on last. I liked to run in the corridors mostly.” She had to pick up her pace to keep up with his longer strides.

~ Mika

“I’ve never been on a battleship. That must have a completely different atmosphere, though I’m assuming that it wasn’t in actual battle a lot.” Séan said as he noticed that Mika was keeping up with the pace just fine. She seemed used to it even if she was unpracticed.

Counselor Iven

“Not in the regular day-to-day… Well, maybe a bit more morbid humor.” Mika commented. “No, it wasn’t. Not a lot of battles out there right now. But on battleships we often have Intelligence officers, that can be interesting.” She was keeping up but any faster and she’d likely have trouble. For her this was a good pace.

~ Mika, CNS