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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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 Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:30 pm
She laughed, "Angelic is probably not the word I would use. More like scary knocked out scientist. With my luck I'd pass out ungracefully with my hair sticking up and my mouth open." A shake of her head, "Or worse, I'd crack my head on the way down and have my brains spilling out one side of my head."
Lillia hadn't laughed this much in a long time and she found she was enjoying her time with Erik. "Binary code...that is scary." She shivered, she'd hated doing tha tin college, had taken great pains to stave it off for as long as she could. Of cousre she'd had to take a specialty course in it for her degree but she hadn't done it until the last possible semester.
"So when you're not getting into trouble, what do you do around her for fun Erik?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:33 pm
"I sleep. That's my idea of fun. After all, when I'm not working for Trevy, I have FS to attened to. Hopefully now that James has scard the life back into them they'll be a bit more dutiful and compliant. Not that I don't care to take them to task myself...it's just hard stretching between Jelena and Radience. Part of the reason you've got a job here really."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:36 pm
"Believe me I knew that the first day I got up here. You were her main assistant, I just came to take the other work. And I think my enthusiasm shone through during the interview. I don't know, sometimes I think of myself as just like her but she's a lot braver than I am."
Sleep? That's what he did for fun? Oh no, that was going to change. She'd heard there was a bar on Radiance with decent drinks and not so bad of an atmosphere either. Plus there were a few restaurants that were fun to go to as well. She'd get him out and have some fun.
Though that enthusiasm and personality came bac and she grinned, "Come to dinner with me, Erik. I'll show you a good time."
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:42 pm
"She's also a lot crazier and eccentric than you are. You should see her drunk, now that is funny. You know for a woman who has Russian blood, she doesn't handle her alcohol too well." A slight chukle at that before he watched her a moment.
"What delivtry do you have brewing in your head." Though hey, Erik Donner was always up for a good time now wasn't he. "Alright, but we can't stay up too late. I have to be in early to take Trevy's place since she goes to Board in the morning. And if you're going with her then you need to be up too. I"m sure they wouldn't apprciate a partied out source."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:51 pm
Crap, Lillia had completely forgotten about Board tomorrow. She shook ehr ehad, "You're right. Raincheck Erik. We'll go out to celebrate this Board thing being over with and everything back the way it's supposed t be."
She stood up and walked back to her desk, picking up her computer. "But I have some things I need to do before the Board meeting. I'll see you later, Erik, don't work too hard alright." A friendly pat on his shoulder and she took her laptop and left the office.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:14 am
James verifiably growled.
"And what does it matter if I am?"
He finished off the second half of the drink, and while the bartender was pouring the screwdriver for Sunshine with wings, he asked for another of his drinks as well.
"Mr. Moria...I think you may have had enough.."
James metal hand slammed on the bartop, putting a slight dent in it, not to noticable, but probably enough to claim that stool for life.
"You are not paid to think, your paid to get drinks,,get my drink!"
Then back to brooding.
"How can she ask that. Why do I care, she's a god damned bioengineer and does kow why I care?!"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:54 pm
"Actually he isn't even paid really." He took his drink with a smile and a thank you before looking back to James. Oh wasn't the look of the sound of metal catchign metal a fun one to watch. Anyway more important things at hand no weren't there? Though it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who he was talking about.
"Problems in dating land then?" Okay...he was happyiness incarnate and leave it to him to be able to pick up on situations and offer words even if he was out of the loop. That's just how people of his...deamnor...worked really. Some called them the 'happy police'.
"Maybe she mean 'why' as in another way? I mean...the woman isn't very social has a strict mindset when it comes to things can sometimes be overly personably cold and doesn't have very good people skills if she's not ordering you to do something." Okay...so he hung around her a lot and knew these things. What with him bothering Echo and what not. "Personal show of affection from someone who's not family may be forgein to her."
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:11 pm
"Comments like that last one make me want to grab the back of your head and put your face into the bartop. how the hell can she not know about 'personal shows of affection' for christ's sakes we slept together."
A slight growl again.
"I mean I understand the depression, and I understand the medication about it, but when someone offers thier hand to help you, someone you've shared time with adn slept with and be together with, and you question why? what the hell?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:21 pm
A bright happy smile. "Yeah but you won't because I might bleed to death on you." Despite the brush off attitude he really was trying to be sympatheic with him on the situation. "Okay I mean emotional shows of personal affection. Not to be mean...but you and a lot of other people know about her track record with men. They were always emotionally uninvolved...maybe that is what she's used to and hasn't realized you're different yet. The woman's an eccentric scientis...who knows what goes on in that head of hers."
Another sip from his drink as he watched James go about being drunk, mean, and generally abusing surfaces. "And you know...simply sleeping with someone doesn't mean you've pushed the magic 'open up emotionally' button. You probably confuse the hell out of her just as mush as she does you."
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:40 pm
"What's to be confused over. I want to help her get through her trials, both emotional and physical. I wanted to celebrate her birthday. We made an echo together, slept together, I'm studying bioengineerign and anthropology for degrees so I can work with her mor eoften and not have Radiance assholes breathign down her neck."
Okay a little on teh slurred speech side now, for halfway through drink number three.
"I don't see Lilliah or erick complaining about me wanting to help with thier works or security. but she gets upset and asks me why when i want to help herr."
Bioware hand gripped a bit too hard, and shattered the glass he was drinking out of.
"damn it..I need a new glass."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:56 pm
He blinked as James broke his glass. OKay he thought it was time to cut him off now. "You don't listen well when you're half drunk do you know that?" He sighed...talking to drunk people always made him a bit subdeued. They were jsut hard to get to listen really.
"Lots of things upset women. Maybe when she's calmed down then she'll be able to reason and listen better." What she was all up in arms about he hadn't the slightest clue really but hey the advice would work. "Though I wouldn't tonight. You're half drunk and schedulign says she's got Board in the morning. I thought you were going?" But to him it looked like he was just busy getting drunk.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:08 pm
Lillia sat at her desk in her room, searching through the Fleet site. From what she found, there wasn't a whole lot of description used in the article, which meant she hand't given the site info to DJ. But that meant he'd gotten the information from somewhere else. She rubbed a hand over her face and took another sip of her coffee. The answer was here, right in front of her face, she could feel it.
She went through all the information she'd found over the last month and a half since the article came out and began scanning looking for something, anything, that would unlock the secret. How had DJ gotten all the information he had? Sh ehadn't given him the secrets so who had? Jelena strongly beleived that Lillia wasn't the link and she began to think she was right.
Everything wrapped up too nicely. Lillia had just happened to be romantically involved with the man who wrote the most revealing story that had ever come out? Not likely. She felt like she had been set up, almost knew that she had been set up, even from that first time when DJ had approaced her in the bar. And for that matter, why had her mother gotten on her case those first two nights and then not said another word? She'd shrugged it off as a stroke of good fortune at the time but now it just wasn't adding up.
Meanwhile back on Earth, Jacklyn searched through the Fleet site, thanks to her daughter's password and a small link she' dhad installed in her laptop when she was in college to monitor what she was doing. Thank the dear Lord the child hadn't gone and gotten a new one after she graduated. But then Lillia was a lot like her father, use it till it's unusable or gone and then buy a slightly older one instead of brand new. It drove Jacklyn nuts since she liked everything nice and new and shiny. Her equipment couldn't be old and as a result she spent millions of dollars of grant money to buy new every few years. But she searched around and then found exactly what she was looking for. Jelena Trevale, meeting with the Board thursday morning at eight am. Thursday morning? That was tomorrow. Time moved a little differently between Earth and Space because of the inconsinstencies of the sun and a small change in orbit that put them off by a few minutes each day. It all made sense when it was mathemetically calclulated. So Jacklyn figured she had time.
She picked up the phone and called in a favor, getting a phone conference with Michael Noris, the current President of the Board. If she played her cards right, she could convince them to shut down Echo and send Lillia back home. The question was, would she play her cards right?
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:23 pm
"I am going. I will be there at her side like I am supposed to be. that's my place now."
Defensive tone to that.
"and it doesn't matter if I can barely stand or can't speak a word. I will be there."
Well..the tender apparently agreed with with mr sunshine, as he hadn't gotten a new glass or drink. well hell with the both on it then. So Jamse shoved himself up with a bit of a stumble. Ooo...look at all the pretty colors..before falling flat on his back and completely out cold.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:28 pm
He blinked and cringed as James met his date with the floor. "Sure you will Moira...sure you will." He was sure Board would absolutely love that one. With a sigh he finished off his drink before he went to James, pulling him up off the floor with the help of another Meta tech that happened tobe passing by. What luck.
Between the two of them they got James back to his room...though fussed out by Jessica about him being out. Well it wasn't his fault that James went and drank himself stupid. Oh well...who else to bother now?
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:30 pm
Sevreal channel and switches later the call was transferred up to the cruiser. Though he scoffed at his phone...he was doing important things. The phone had been picked up with quite the gruff tone to it. Fleet Captain Noris wasn't a patient man.
Jacklyn Nickko. Wasn't that the mother of Dr. Trevale's newest little assistant. Though anything doing with that woman irritated him right now. He had to get up early for a damn board meeting. Wel he planned to tear her apart this time.
But for now he had to be polite, which really irritated him but be he'd go with it. World famous scientists had to be respected somewhat, right? And she was probably just calling to complain about the shame it had brough upon her family and her good name. So sighing, he picked up the phone, "Fleet Captain Noris speaking. How can I help you Dr. Nickko?"
He listened to the rich feminine voice on the other end of the phone for a moment as she basically told him why she was callinng. Just as he suspected, to tell him that she wasn't happy with the black mark this was putting on her daughter's reputation. "I understand that Dr. but you do understand that it was your daughter who gave out the quotes and as for the information we're trying to get to the bottom of that."
Another pause as she spoke and he rolled his eyes. Mothers could be so overprotective sometimes. But then she said something that caught his attention and he began to listen much more closely. She had a point there. "Mmmhmm, you know I don't believer we ever considered that." A tap of his fingers on his desk and he began to scribble notes. Oh this was good stuff. He had his own agenda of complaints to address against Dr. Trevale in the morning but this was even more ammunition to use against her.
The conversation went on for a good hour and he found out quite a bit that he hadn't previously known about. Apparentely there was a lot that went on the Envision. A lot of things that thanks to Dr. Nickko were now documented. Oh yes, if Dr. Trevale wasn't careful she could soon find herself out of a job and then he would have Project Echo removed entirely from his list of headaches. When that day came, Captain Noris fully intended to celebrate.
"Well thank you very much for calling, Dr. Nickko. I'll have someone look into everything we discussed and I'll certainly get back to you after the meeting. Alright then, you have a good day Jacklyn. Yes, speak to you soon." He hung up the phone and with a cruel smile circled a few things on his list. Little Dr. Jelena Trevale was in for a rude awakening tomorrow and he was just the man to give it to her.
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