'Meat' 'n Greet

[meatbabies]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home

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[nothefarragut]

There was nothing to tug, nothing to straighten, nothing but the oddly pulsing plantsuit that covered her like a second skin.  Walking into the observation deck, she had to stop for a moment to take it all in.  Her eyes were riveted to the view of the Bleed for a long while despite the noise of people greeting other people, the blend of voices a hum.  She could pick voices out selectively, and listened with all the intensity she put to her own job, hoping for another familiar voice besides that of McCoy.

Family and loved ones were supposed to be here, weren't they?  Or maybe not here but back in that endless cavern of pods that had yet to wake from stasis.  The rising panic of it all tried to surface again and Uhura pushed it down.  All the what ifs and oh Gods and the frightening wave upon wave of uncertainty.  She stopped where she was and stood there, breathing in the slightly humid air, isolating sounds (there was a high whistling sound of air blowing, a rumble that might have been the engines--she assumed they were engines, a

[nothefarragut]

"Yes. I'm from another Enterprise," she said, wondering about the other Uhura for a moment. "In my timeline, a Romulan known as Nero altered time by attacking and destroying the USS Kelvin. That completely derailed the normal timeline from that moment forward, so, I am from an alternate universe from the original."