In Between Missions – Return to Bellicose

[Michael Aarons]

Having become a tickle fiend, Aarons goosed the doctor one last time. He just loved making her jump. Unfortunately he could not foresee her next move for she countered and before he knew it she had him in a headlock.

"Now let's see what I do to you." Liz began to ball up her knuckles and put them to his head when...

"I don't suppose there's anything I can do to get out of this is there?"

Aarons meticulously massaged the doctor's feet. She laid back enjoying the attention.

"You're good. I haven't felt this great in a while. Perhaps I should get off my feet more often. Oh right there!"

"How much longer?" His question wasn't greeted with an answer because the doctor was enjoying the moment too much to see it end. Aarons however stopped for a reason. The rapture for Liz was broken. "We're here." He pulled her up. There out the window was Haven.

[lizjaneway]

"I enjoyed that. But you forgot one thing... I'm a doctor, a darn good one," she said teasing him a little on the massage he gave her. They got their belongings and headed to see what fun they could have on this planet after they got settled in a bit.

Some guy walked up to them and smiled seeming to recognize Michael. Both Mike and Liz started to walk away. He caught up to them and was quizzing Mike to see if Mike remembered him.

"Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you," he said making Liz wonder a bit.

"Not a chance," Mike replied as he kept on going. The guy just walked with them.
"Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?" He asked as they stopped to see where to go for a place to spend the night while they were around. Liz noticed he had taken charge of the whole situation and just kept on smiling.

"Ned Ryerson?" He said still seeming not to recognize the guy. Liz wasn't sure what was going on, but went with it.
"Bing," was the reply the guy gave, which was starting to get on her nerves.
"Bing," Mike said as he punched Ned in the nose and then walked away with a very shocked Liz beside him.

"Who was that?" Liz asked and Mike just shrugged. They walked up to a tent near the beach.

"Surely you can't be serious," Liz said wondering what he was doing.
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley," Mike responded making Liz smile and put her things inside.

The next day they went on a hike with a pic nic basket. They somehow ended up in the woods. Liz wasn't happy.
"Great. I've been kidnapped by the village idiot," she said wondering where they were going next since Mike wasn't stopping.
"Who's the bigger idiot? The idiot, or the idiot who gets kidnapped by the idiot?" He called back and she sighed shaking her head following him.

Mike had disappeared ahead of her with the speed he was going. Liz kept on right behind him when he suddenly stopped, but she could't see him. Suddenly there he was bigger than life when she stopped two seconds from bumping into him and knocking him down. She sighed and covered her eyes. He turned around shouting her name startling her.

"That was close. Whoa, time to switch to decaf, Liz," he said smiling. She just shook her head not saying anything.

[Michael Aarons]

OFF: Let's see... Groundhog Day, Airplane! (which I thought you hate), Antz, and Star Wars.

ON: "What were you doing!? I almost ran right in to you. And why were you running off?" She said pushing him.

"What!? I'm just walking along. It's not like I nearly bumped into anybody." He rested in that spot and they sat everything out.

The two of them shared a good time with each other, they talked, and above all their spirits were lifted. Michael laid back in a patch of moss relaxing. Where they were at was not unlike the Black Forest of Germany. He had been there once but that was another story.

As he lay there, the doctor hovered over him and he smiled at her. She just merely looked back at him.

"Whatcha' thinking?"

[lizjaneway]

OOC: Almost, but no cigar. I don't like Airplane!, but I know you do. I didn't use Star Wars, and you missed the first line which was another movie, although I had to change the line a little. The first line was CSI Miami, and the last thing Liz said was from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nice try though. Round two, bing, don't hit me though... LOL!

IC:

Suddenly they both hear an announcer dude. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's just gibberish. Gibberish of an insane person." Liz shakes her head and groans.

"What'cha thinking?" She asked and he looked up at her.

"You know what I keep thinkin' of?" He said knowing he didn't answer her question.
"What?" she asked not liking where this might be going remembering what she heard in the counselor's office.
"How fine you must've looked in a bikini," he answered, and she sat down next to him blushing.

Liz remembered seeing several buildings and great works of architecture, and she marvelled considering what she read about the inhabitance of Haven.

"Mike, how do a bunch of people with hand tools build all this?" Liz asked wondering a bit.
"The same way the built the pyramids, and the Great Wall of China," he said and smiled a little making her wonder what was next.
"Yeah... the aliens helped them," he finished.

*Back On The MAJESTY*

Trish sighed and wished the good doctor hadn't gone away. A man came into sickbay, and suddenly she knew what was going on. He had come in every day.

"Headaches still?" Trish asked and he just nodded. She sighed and gave him another hypospray.

"The medicine I gave you to administer to yourself should have worked," she said wondering why he kept imagining his headaches like this.

"They aren't working," he said and explained how he administered them. Trish was a bit shocked and then groaned.

"This is the reason why your headache didn't go away: That's actually pronounced analgesic, not anal-gesic. Sir, the pills go in your mouth," Trish explained, and the man went red.

[Michael Aarons]

OFF: Well I thought it was Star Wars because it sounded like you were making fun of Obi Wan Kenobi's line "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" Also I don't watch CSI.

ON: "We did not!" She said playfully mussing up his hair. He sat up.

"There are other aliens. Maybe Jamey or Hawk built them." He looked into her eyes as she stared back at him making bad jokes. "Speaking of our extra-crispy crewman, d'you ever get over your little personal dilemma during that tumultuous search with the Vesuvius?" She became a little worried as she began to look away.

"What do you mean?"

"Well it's kinda' hard to miss a doctor trying to off herself. I'm just glad the Commodore interfered!"

"You are?" She seemed puzzled, mostly by his praise of a woman he so defiantly opposed.

"Yeah! It's probably the best thing she's ever done in my opinion. How else would I have ended up with you? You're like a little petal in the breeze, deftly defiant of the ground and bees."

"Before you begin quoting more Grix'gorian poetry, you should probably know that it's not enough to say a bunch of nice things to win a girl's heart but to do something as well." She smoothed back his hair as he lay there and gazed into his eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"You were quoting The Mother by Grix'gory: How thy Nature, I sit beneath your trees, watching your petals fluttering in the breeze, deftly defiant of the ground and bees. A poem often cited around the galaxy by men trying to woo women."

"Well who do you think he really was?" He said very evasively.

"Michael, he wrote it in 2208."

"...Liz I've been meaning to tell you I'm older than I look."

"More like you look older than you are."

"Well that's not very... Hey, are you calling me childish!?" She smiled coyly and playfully touched his nose before sitting back.

[Deleted]

TEG awoke again, to the sound of the station's energy generator. He was in one of the cargo bays. Something clicked in his head, and he knew what to do.

He ran through the corridors of the station, up Jefferies' Tubes, to the airlock with the Majesty. The doors opened and he ran for the ship. When he got there, he called for the computer, "Computer, locate Captain Cornette." He could sense that she was gone.

Captain Kalyana Cornette is not on board the Majesty

"What were her last known whereabouts?"

Twenty-Two Hundred Thirty Hours, in her quarters.

All Decks, security alert. Security forensics to the Captain's quarters.

[lizjaneway]

Liz was happy to hear his words and smiled. She wanted to put the Vesuvius mission and everything bad that happened with her behind her now. She liked how things were going, and hoped the bad didn't crop back up any time soon. She smiled.

"The time of the Vesuvius mission I did want to end my life, but things are going a lot better now. I have had help in getting back to a little bit of normal, well if I was ever normal at all. I want to enjoy life instead of have it end so quickly. I need to remember to stop and smell the roses more often, and vacations like this help do just that," she said still smiling. She had teased him a few moments before when she touched his nose and wondered if he was going to respond to that.

"You say you are older than what you appear, how much older are we talking here?" Liz asked intrigued by the fact she could be dating an older man. She had heard rumors of older guys behaving like kids because that is how it worked with guys, and realized those rumors were a bit more true now that she was with Mike.

[Deleted]

"Security Forensics to the Captains Quarters" This line bolted Nik into action. It was very rarely that his Forensic Skills were needed.

As a trained security officer and a scientist the natural progression for Nik was to signup as a Forensic Officer. But what was more alarming was the fact that his team was being called to the Captains quarters.

"Nik to Teg, whats this about you calling a security alert and a forensics team? I'm on my way but most of the team are on shore leave so it may be just me, you and whoever the Cheif of Security can rustle up. I've emergency bleeped everyone but they may be a while."

After grabbing his gear, forgetting completely about the science mainframe. Although he did just have a horrid thought.

Tag TEG

ooc:
Im still around. Hope you dont mind me interjecting.

[Jamey Gaz]

Everyone was just about gone from the ship save just a small crew to keep the ship on its repair schedule. Jamey was held up in his office writing his paper on some psychology topic for the Academy Review, a article based publication. In fact he didn't even know that he hadn't left his office in several days. With the job done, he returned to his quarters and cleaned up ... pulled out a new uniform then was going to see who was left onbaord.

The ship seemed like a ghost ship as he walked around. Normally he would have already bumped into someone by now.

"Security Forensics to the Captains Quarters"

This got his attention quickly and changed his path to go to the Captain's Quarters. Arriving, he saw Nik approaching from the other direction.

"What is going on? do you need any help?" Jamey asked Nik

[Deleted]

"Yeah my head a mess at that moment but that another matter." Nik said noticing the smile on Jamey's face.

They continued to walk towards the Captains quarters. Nik also noticed the eerieness of the moment. Their was no-one around. Although he knew it was because of the granted shore leave, it still just felt a little wrong. Nik also felt a pang of guilt, he was only just thinking how he wanted a new challenge.

"Looks like we made need your skills as a Forensic Pyschologist, brush off those old skills you never thought you'd use."

"Right we're here" Jamey said matter of factly.

[Deleted]

TEG was running down the corridor toward the Captain's Quarters. He saw that Nik and Jamey were already there.

"Good morning gentlemen." Before either could respond, TEG had overrode the lock on the Captain's Quarters. As he entered, he began to recount what happened on the station...

"I was in D'Vorax Bar, when I thought I saw someone I knew. I followed her out of the bar, when I was incapacitated. I awoke sometime later in a dark room, not onboard the station. There were people in black clothes at the edge of my vision. I was strapped to a table, and there were probes on my arms and on my head. I could not hear what they were saying, but I got this feeling about the Captain and some symbol. The noticed I was conscious and sedated me. I awoke on the station, in Cargo Bay 13 and ran to the ship to check on the Captain. When I arrived, the computer told me she has been gone since 22:30 yesterday, that was about 3 hours after I left the bar and 12 hours ago."

<Tag Nik: about you trying to see her in her Ready Room>

"Exactly. We need to find out what kind of transporter took her, and maybe we can trace it to a ship that has been near the station at 22:30."

<Tag Jamey, finding phaser Residue>

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