Interesting Welcomes

Posted on Friday, 7 May 2021 - 12:07pm by Commander Soral & Lieutenant JG Maximus Mackenzie & Ensign Oriana Skye Sety & Lieutenant JG Hayashi Hamura & Lieutenant Scarlet Rogers

Mission: Operation: Neu Reich
Location: Various | USS Standing Bear
Timeline: 2394 MD 08

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Soral stood inside the holodeck with Mackenzie at his side. They waited for the new crew. Some had shuffled in and others had yet to come. Thusly the room was bare but for a podium and a few chairs. There were not many new crew just under ten but this was as good a place as any to start.

Scarlet kept her head down, not really a fan of this style of setting. She quietly took a seat next to Oriana and smiled, "hi."

Oriana grinned. "Well hello! Nice to see another familiar face."

Scarlet chuckled, whispering, "that it is. I have so much to tell you!"

"I'd say lets sneak away but they'd notice...there is so few of us."

Scarlet bit her lips trying not to laugh, "straight after. I promise."

Just as then Hamura entered and took a seat up near the front with another two people in Engineering gold." Oriana's gaze was drawn to Hamura instantly.

Scarlet saw the focus, "seems you may have something to say too."

Oriana blushed. "He's...my roommate."

Scarlet nodded, teasing a little, "just a roommate."

She blushed further. "Yes..."

Scarlet chuckled, "I'm teasing, don't worry."

Oriana smiled. "I know but truth is …" Before she could say anything Soral's voice broke in and they found he was standing behind them. "Are we interrupting a conversation?"

Scarlet jumped out of her skin. She blushed and looked to the floor, timidly and cautiously replied, "no, sir, sorry."

"Excellent." Soral walked back to the podium. "As I was saying. We shall begin our orientation with a run down of everything that will have to happen. You have all gone through Medical, counseling, and now you will get a tour. You will then book time with Lieutenant Mackenzie to requalify for phaser use and you will have to go through tactical review. It is a small ship and everyone will need to know how to defend it and one another."

He looked at Scarlet and Oriana. "You two will be first on the list."

Scarlet cussed internally, that was the one thing she barely scraped by to begin with. It was clear on her face that she was nervous. Scarlet simply nodded.

"Good. With that let us begin the tour." They stood as a group and started from the holodeck heading up to the bridge and working their way down. They chatted, asked questions were showed what was expected and Oriana at least, found the tour very dry and boring. When it finally ended back at the holodeck there was a new table there with drinks and food.

Soral stood back at the podium. "Now you may refresh yourselves and when you are ready return to every day life. I have arranged it that each of you have another day off and tomorrow you will all get your shifts. Please find your duty PaDDs over in that corner and do not forget to see Lieutenant Mackenzie before you leave the holodeck." With that he left.

Hamura was the first to head to see Mac. Engineering would not wait.

Scarlet looked to Oriana, "I better get the marksmanship out the way." She groaned and followed Hamura to see Mac.

Hamura had just finished making an appointment when Scarlet walked up. Giving her a nod Hamura stepped aside.

Mac smiled. "Welcome. You are?"

The woman nervously replied, "Scarlet Rogers, and I barely passed last time. I'm not comfortable with violence, really, in any capacity and I'm only here doing research, technically a guest."

"You will still need to make sure you are up to day. Nothing to worry about. We can provide training." He looked at the schedule. "Tomorrow Evening 1730 hours?"

Scarlet checked her PaDD a moment, "seems OK." She nodded.

"See you then." He smiled, "Welcome."

On the other side of the room Oriana gave a nod and waved as Hamura left. She sighed and blushed a little.

Scarlet stepped up next to her, "so...?"

"Right! Let's go to lunch." She said as she laughed. "Seems about time."

Scarlet smiled, "lead the way."

***

The pair arrived at the mess hall and grabbed food. Between bites of her salad, Scarlet asked, "so... Talk to me."

Oriana smiled, "So you were the one to say you had a lot to tell me." She chuckled. "I'm all ears! How has settling in been, how has the handsome doctor been?"

Scarlet blushed, "the night before I boarded, she showed up at mine. Safe to say it was a wonderful reunion. Like-- we'd continued dating in person, kind of meet. It was passionate and--" she paused, it was unlike her to give much away. She then continued, "anyway, then there was an issue in the med bay. I went to fix it. Long story short, Ryan got upset about something. So, that night, I went to his. I brought food, you know, to try and help. He asked me to stay for a movie night and he basically told me that he loved me. Not exactly, but it was implied."

"Well that's a great start! That's wonderful!" Oriana was genuinely pleased for her new friend.

"So...," Scarlet smiled, wanting to change topic to Oriana, "you...?"

She grinned. "I've been settling in slowly. I unpacked, met my new roommate." She shrugged. "Pretty routine."

Scarlet frowned a little, "you could keep your eyes off of Hamura. Has he set boundaries of only being roommates?"

"We haven't talked about it..." She shrugged. "Besides have you seen Hamura? Is it possible for someone to be both beautiful and handsome? I'm getting head of myself you know. There are better options out there for Hamura then me." She shrugged. "Oh well."

"You're selling yourself short," Scarlet replied, honestly, "you won't know unless you try. For all you know they are secretly a weird person who enjoys wiping between their toes with their grim sock, on the coffee table."

She laughed. "What an unappetizing image." Grinning she said, "We found out we were roommates in an odd way."

"If Hamura is a sock cleaner, there's an odd amount of people on board and no ones been assigned to the other room in my quarters," Scarlet looked intrigued, "how did it happen? Also, I thought department heads had their own quarters. Maybe I misheard Ryan."

"They do but Hamura is only Temporary CEO... so if they fill the post that person will get the quarters if they keep Hamura well it will be move out day." She wasn't happy about that.

"Now back to your question. I was told my roommate would check in the next day in the evening so I knew I had the quarters to myself for at least another day. I slept like usual got up showered. I figure well there is nobody there so I might as well let my skin air dry before moisturizing so I went to get coffee and breakfast in my under clothing." She shook her head.

"Well Hamura checked in the night before, I didn't know it but there Hamura was standing in the dinning area drinking coffee and reviewing a PaDD for work, and there I went in my under clothing out into the dining area." She turned beet red.

Scarlet winced, feeling a level of empathy, "assuming he noticed."

"Oh...yes." She sighed. "I ran back into the room and of course about a half hour later I got enough courage to poke my head out. Hamura was gone, there was breakfast and hot coffee waiting for me and a note that said," she blushed even more, "What a wonderful way to start my day, best roommate welcome ever."

"Oh gawd," Scarlet put her hand over her mouth in shock, "Oh gawd, oh gawd."

She laughed. "Well it is what it is. I guess I'm lucky I hit the gym regularly." She sighed. "Ever since then I've not been able to stop blushing around Hamura, and that was quite a few days ago. Each morning I find a purple rose, my favourite by the way, and a note saying 'sorry I missed you, kitten, have an amazing day’,” she laughed. "The undergarments I was wearing when I ran into Hamura that morning had cats on them."

"Oh gawd!" Scarlet repeated before trying to be positive, though it sounded more like a question, "I mean, on a plus side, if you two ever do get together, you have nothing to be embarrassed about when getting undressed."

She laughed, "You are an optimist!"

Scarlet chuckled and shrugged, "I try."

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