It's been weeks since her and Laura had a proper conversation. Ever since their argument over children. Rae's news, though she was completely delighted for her friend, had only made her own feelings worse. It's not been anything more than a polite greeting and meaningless small talk. Katie had always worn her heart on her sleeve, it was her ( Read more... )

She lay cuddled up naked with Laura, both of them thoroughly satiated. One of her hands rests lightly on Laura's breast, the other is tangled up in her beautiful strawberry blonde hair ( Read more... )

Katie walked from her lab to the meeting room, for the weekly biology meeting. They were supposed to be a way of keeping in touch with everyone's research and a forum for generating new ideas They were inevitably dull affairs with everyone talking at once, no-one listening and nothing ever being accomplished ( Read more... )

Katie was just standing idly under the shower. It'd been a long day and she was far to tired to actually move. But the spray was turned on full and she let the hot stream work out the aches in the muscles of her shoulders and back, as well as wash away the yellow and red gunge that had splattered all over her ( Read more... )

Katie walked back in the to the infirmary only a couple of hours after Dr. Beckett had chased her away telling her to get sleep and food. But he'd also promised she could take Laura home today. Unable to wait anymore she thought she'd try her luck a little earlier ( Read more... )

Reluctantly, she walks into the lab, late in the morning. David is still here, or maybe here again. He's looking slightly better than the last time she guiltily glanced at him. Maybe someone finally managed to convince him to eat and sleep. She knew that was supposed to be her job, he was her best friend but she'd been so wrapped up in her own ( Read more... )

Katie was puffing and gasping for breath, her cheeks red with exertion as she tried to rearrange the furniture in her quarters. There was no reason except for she was lonely and pissed off and wanting to do something to take her mind off the fact that no-one had remembered her birthday ( Read more... )

The worst part of science was the mindless tedium of most days. A universal fact, holding through even in the Pegasus galaxy. The difference was here, they'd find something of note far more often than in any research lab back on Earth. That did not make days like this go any faster though ( Read more... )

Katie wanders around the room, fixing a few little details, making sure she's got everything set up - finger food on the table, dessert by the bed, lights adjusted right ( Read more... )

*collapses back against pillows, picks up paper journal and pen and writes ( Read more... )