It's time to take a breath.
It's been some time. I have been up to my ears in stuff and so it's probably been the longest (short of a conflict situation) that I've gone without an update in quite a while.
First off, I've been gradually trying to pick back up where I left off with the things I dropped on account of Therav. Getting back to my training schedule and soforth. I tried not to do the usual thing I do when there's a new lover: I drop everything and spend every moment in bed, and I'd like to think I've been successful at not dropping *half* of everything, and only spending every *other* moment in bed. But the other half that I've dropped has been a doozy, and I find myself playing righteously hellish amounts of catch-up. I don't have the luxury he has, of being able to get by on four hours of sleep.
I've been redoubling my efforts at having some sort of relationship with Arianna, such as I'm able to... though Joray doesn't seem to care to come to the comm channel when I or Arianna manage to call.
So, the past few weeks have been busy, but it's not a bad sort of busy.
The last few days, on the other hand... Lucas and I have been doing doubles for four days now, trying to hunt down this intermittent power fluctuation that was affecting the replicators in the aft half of deck 15. We got to the root of the problem, but not before being exhausted, harried and generally annoyed by the end of those four days. For four days I looked forward to sitting in a hot bath (there are advantages to having sex with senior officers) for an hour as soon as I got off. Which I managed to do, and I'm much the better for it.
Nonetheless, before Lucas and I found the problem, this meant four days of rushed lunches as well as missed sleep and four days sleeping alone in my own bed (with all that's implied by that). I was pushing pad thai around on my plate today and didn't see Therav come up to our table at first - he's never been a fan of the mess hall.
While I was talking to Diz and in the middle of a sentence, he came up behind me, put his arms around my shoulders, then lowered his face to my neck and bit, and growled something low that the translator didn't quite pick up... in what little Andorian I've managed to pick up, I caught "my little cabbage", and something about his quarters. I'm sure I blushed. "After we find that phantom fluctuation. I promise," I managed, between giggles.
He'd caught me off guard, and it's only some time later when left to think by myself that I wondered about the implications of PDA in the mess hall. We haven't really had that conversation.
Stace leaned over toward Diz. "s'e lef' 'er 'yperspanner in 'is arse," he muttered to Diz, causing her to giggle.
Therav set the hyperspanner down on the table... oh, right. The hyperspanner, I'd left it in his quarters the other day.
He looked up, grunted and nodded to all present then turned as if to leave me to my conversation... when Lucas said "Join us, s- er, Therav."
Therav eased himself into the empty seat next to me, and he and Spiegel went on to prattle on about the "crowd control device" they've been talking about on and off for over two months.
The look in Dizi's eyes could cut holes through the best shielding the Federation has to offer. I found myself looking back and forth between Therav and Lucas. I'd like to think I'm good at defusing situations, and I tried my best. I reached over and squeezed Therav's thigh and leaned over and said "Why don't we go for a walk?" but he and Lucas remained fixated on their conversation... both oblivious to my hints and to Diziara's death glare.
Diziara growled under her breath, and pointedly began talking in Klingon to Stace. Who knows what that was about. Diziara loathes Therav dearly, and Stace likes me only a little more.
You could cut the tension at that table with a knife. I told Therav I'd catch up with him later, and ended up excusing myself from the table and going back to Engineering early.
And I'm glad I did.
Because it's yours truly that found the loose circuit, while the boys were yakking away, and when Lucas caught up to me, I turned to him, gave him two thumbs up, and a big grin. And for the first shift in four days, we got to clock out at five o' clock sharp.
Sometimes you have to celebrate the smallest of victories.
First off, I've been gradually trying to pick back up where I left off with the things I dropped on account of Therav. Getting back to my training schedule and soforth. I tried not to do the usual thing I do when there's a new lover: I drop everything and spend every moment in bed, and I'd like to think I've been successful at not dropping *half* of everything, and only spending every *other* moment in bed. But the other half that I've dropped has been a doozy, and I find myself playing righteously hellish amounts of catch-up. I don't have the luxury he has, of being able to get by on four hours of sleep.
I've been redoubling my efforts at having some sort of relationship with Arianna, such as I'm able to... though Joray doesn't seem to care to come to the comm channel when I or Arianna manage to call.
So, the past few weeks have been busy, but it's not a bad sort of busy.
The last few days, on the other hand... Lucas and I have been doing doubles for four days now, trying to hunt down this intermittent power fluctuation that was affecting the replicators in the aft half of deck 15. We got to the root of the problem, but not before being exhausted, harried and generally annoyed by the end of those four days. For four days I looked forward to sitting in a hot bath (there are advantages to having sex with senior officers) for an hour as soon as I got off. Which I managed to do, and I'm much the better for it.
Nonetheless, before Lucas and I found the problem, this meant four days of rushed lunches as well as missed sleep and four days sleeping alone in my own bed (with all that's implied by that). I was pushing pad thai around on my plate today and didn't see Therav come up to our table at first - he's never been a fan of the mess hall.
While I was talking to Diz and in the middle of a sentence, he came up behind me, put his arms around my shoulders, then lowered his face to my neck and bit, and growled something low that the translator didn't quite pick up... in what little Andorian I've managed to pick up, I caught "my little cabbage", and something about his quarters. I'm sure I blushed. "After we find that phantom fluctuation. I promise," I managed, between giggles.
He'd caught me off guard, and it's only some time later when left to think by myself that I wondered about the implications of PDA in the mess hall. We haven't really had that conversation.
Stace leaned over toward Diz. "s'e lef' 'er 'yperspanner in 'is arse," he muttered to Diz, causing her to giggle.
Therav set the hyperspanner down on the table... oh, right. The hyperspanner, I'd left it in his quarters the other day.
He looked up, grunted and nodded to all present then turned as if to leave me to my conversation... when Lucas said "Join us, s- er, Therav."
Therav eased himself into the empty seat next to me, and he and Spiegel went on to prattle on about the "crowd control device" they've been talking about on and off for over two months.
The look in Dizi's eyes could cut holes through the best shielding the Federation has to offer. I found myself looking back and forth between Therav and Lucas. I'd like to think I'm good at defusing situations, and I tried my best. I reached over and squeezed Therav's thigh and leaned over and said "Why don't we go for a walk?" but he and Lucas remained fixated on their conversation... both oblivious to my hints and to Diziara's death glare.
Diziara growled under her breath, and pointedly began talking in Klingon to Stace. Who knows what that was about. Diziara loathes Therav dearly, and Stace likes me only a little more.
You could cut the tension at that table with a knife. I told Therav I'd catch up with him later, and ended up excusing myself from the table and going back to Engineering early.
And I'm glad I did.
Because it's yours truly that found the loose circuit, while the boys were yakking away, and when Lucas caught up to me, I turned to him, gave him two thumbs up, and a big grin. And for the first shift in four days, we got to clock out at five o' clock sharp.
Sometimes you have to celebrate the smallest of victories.