Simulation R&R Thread

[Paikea Apirana]

The Scavenger was finally home, but there was still much work for it's science officer. The last mission, which was the first under the command of Commander Luke Drago was now finished. There was so much information in the Scavenger's computer banks. There was still things that he didn't know about the last mission, but he was now sure he wanted it that way.

Most of the crew was now out in about on Assailant. Normally Paikea would be jealous, but he knew that most of his friends, the senior staff were still hard at works getting there reports ready. The first thing that Paikea had done was inform Semia that he would not be contacting Admiral Lin about the commander and he told her that he hoped she didn't either.

The commander was still a conundrum to most of the crew, but he had proven himself, just like Paikea thought he would. He did miss the more calm nature of his former commanding officer, T'Mar, but he found that change could be good.

"Computer how long has the Scavenger been at dock?" he asked.

"One hour and fifteen minutes."

It was strange to Pai that so little time had actually passed. It seemed like the practice of evacuating the ship had taught the rest of the ship how to clear it in record time. In the time he had been working, he had only seen two people and they just happened to be work engineers from Assailant.

After a few more hours of tedious work, Paikea finished and headed towards his quarters. There he ate, changed into civilian clothes, and headed towards Assailant. He wanted to spend some time with his friends, and Katie, but first he needed to go shopping. He had promised himself that he would buy the senior staff something, though he would find it more difficult now that a human was captain. It was so much easier getting a Vulcan a present, but a human was so much more trickier.

Tag everyone

[tintagel]

Illito actually managed to leave sickbay and pass control over to Lt. Avel only a little bit after the Scavenger docked at Starbase Assailant. She didn't go to her quarters though, instead walking to holodeck 3, which had been declared closed to anyone who wasn't authorized.

Illito carefully engaged the secondary security net before entering the holodeck.

“You don't have to do that,” came the voice of a holographic image of teenage boy. “I promise not to try to escape.”

Illito smiled at Samus, and saw that he'd been fiddling around with the background. “Actually the security net is because we might have picked up excess energy fluctuations from the nebula we where in. And I'm not sure how they would affect your pattern.”

Samus nodded, and gestured for Illito to take a seat, both instances of body language telling Illito that he had read up the material on humanoid protocol and politesse that she had given him. Illito glanced around the scene in the holodeck before taking a seat where Samus had indicated.

“It's the bridge,” Samus proudly announced, and Illito glanced around again, quickly, not quite seeing what he was talking about it. “That there is the Captain's chair, and this is the main viewscreen,” Samus elaborated, and suddenly Illito recognized the bridge. But it wasn't quite the Scavenger's bridge as Illito had seen, which made sense when Illito remembered the way Samus had seen the bridge, through the ship's sensors.

“Try comparing the bridge you made to the one in the holographic records,” Illito suggested.

Samus spoke the words to the computer, and the holographic record of the Scavenger bridge appeared hovering in the air above the bridge Samus had made. It created a disorienting effect for Illito, and she had to keep from covering her head, but it seemed to be helping Samus.

“The computer bridge is lacking parts.”

“Yes,” Illito agreed. “That's because it has restricted what is displayed visually to what the bridge would actually normally be.”

“So my bridge is not the more accurate of the portrayals?” Samus asked.

“Technically not,” Illito agreed.

“Oh,” said Samus. “You have a new Captain, yes?”

Illito nodded, ready to add more if Samus didn't pick up on the head movement, but he apparently did.

“Can you ask him if when I'll be able to start helping the crew?”

“I'll ask him about it,” Illito promised. She didn't plan to immediately do it though because she knew Captain Drago would either be still mired in paperwork or enjoying his shoreleave, and either way she didn't think he'd really want to discuss the status of a being that had previously been classified as a virus at the moment. “But until I see you again I'm going to give you another challenge.”

“I'm ready,” Samus replied.

“Try restricting all your consciousness into the holographic body you have. It's basically what's being done with the holodeck except more so.”

Samus didn't reply, but the bridge he had created abruptly vanished, which Illito took as a sign Samus was already working on what she had said. Illito just hoped her suggestion was worth working on, but she didn't know of any research she could turn to on how to help a newly created, and, in a way, quite childlike, creature adjust to the life he had chosen to live. Illito didn't even know why Samus had chosen to try to join the Scavenger crew rather than just promising to leave them alone.

After going back to her quarters and changing into civilian clothing she started to walk towards Assailant. She thought suddenly, and tapped her commbadge before she could think better of the idea. =/\=Illito to Desert Pride. If you're available, and interested, I thought maybe...=/\= Illito realized she was trailing off and quickly steeled her voice and continued. =/\=We could have lunch together on Assailant.=/\= She then waited for him to say yes, or, the pessimistic part of her insisted he would say, no.

<Tag Pride>

[desertpride]

Pride: Was happy to be off it had taken some time for him and Commander Drago to get the navigation systems back on line. It had appeared the to pride the commander drago was a pilot at heart. Still they were back safe and sound the rest of the crew was on shore leave and he didn't really have anything to do. when his com badge went off it shocked him a little.

=/\=Illito to Desert Pride. If you're available, and interested, I thought maybe...=/\= Illito realized she was trailing off and quickly steeled her voice and continued. =/\=We could have lunch together on Assailant.=/\=


Pride: Didn't know what to say he was shocked his brain was still trying to take it in. "Pride here I would love to have lunch with you Illito where would you like me to meet you?" <Tag Illito>

Thinking to himself I hope I don't look stupid but every time I'm around here I get lost and loose my train of thought she's just got that something. She smart, direct strong and very beautiful. I really need to pull myself together if I don't want to look stupid. Waiting for a response he changed his clothes to something casual and flexible.

[tintagel]

Illito smiled when Pride said he would want to have lunch. She wanted to spend more time with him, but a part of her was afraid he would say no. But when he asked where they should meet Illito had to think quickly. She hadn't quite thought about that ahead of time, she had just made up a list of restaurants and figured out which ones would be good for a casual lunch, then looked at the reviews of people had eaten there and come up with a list of three suggestions.

“Depends,” she said lightly, before the silence over the commbadge became long. “Do you want Bolian, Terran, or Vulcan food? Or do you just want to meet by the connection between the Scavenger and Assailant?”

<Tag Pride>

[bubblesdelight]

Katie had found her way off the ship as soon as she could. The stress of the last mission was becoming too much to bear and what she needed more than anything was a nice cold ice cream. Katie waited as long as she could for Paikea to get finished with his work but it seemed he was even more busy than she was.

Katie was hoping that Paikea had gotten her message about where she was going. It didn't take her long to reach the ice cream shop so she sat down and waited just in case Paikea managed to get off early.

<Tag Paikea>

[desertpride]

Pride: Was still in shock when Illito responded

“Depends,” she said lightly, before the silence over the comm badge became long. “Do you want Bolian, Terran, or Vulcan food? Or do you just want to meet by the connection between the Scavenger and Assailant?”

Pride: Trying to calm down and keep his voice calm was not easy when responding "Well I guess I'm up for anything I'll tell you what why dont we meet and if its okay will you can we stop by the shuttle bay?. I have to make arrangements for a fighter to be transfered aboard. You might even get a kick out of it. This one is mine and its a collector's it doesn't have the modern equipment still runs on liquid fuel. Anyway I just need to get aboard. Then we could go to lunch if thats okay with you"<Tag Illito> His voiced cracked alittle.

I can't believe this I can fly a starship into battle with out nav systems and not flinch but I talk to illito and my voice cracks my pulse shoots up and my stomach feels like the first day of flight school Gods of Teac how does she have this effect on me. Waiting for a reply computer gather all information on Commander Illito summerise what her favorite flower is and replicate no wait tell me where I can pick live one's please. I think thats what your suppose to do when you have been asked out. Still thinking Computer cancel request. He went through the things be bought from home and found a book on medical treatments from home. Some of the things in the book were quite common but there were some treatments that weren't widely know in the federation and thought she might enjoy that more.

[Paikea Apirana]

Paikea was not an advent shopper, in fact he usually hated buying things, but he had promised himself. He had already found a gift for every member of the senior staff and Areyn. He hadn't responded to her yet, but he would make it up with her. Hopefully there friendship could be salvaged.

Now that all the shopping was done, Paikea made his way towards a transport site. He would of walked into the Scavenger, but he wanted the gifts to be a surprise. The only two that he kept were Areyn's and Katie's, he wanted to give them their gifts personally.

It didn't take long for the gifts to reach their destination and so Paikea headed towards the promenade where Katie was currently eating ice cream. When he arrived at the store he immediately saw Katie. Even in her uniform, Pai could always tell her apart.

As Paikea approached her he made sure to make no noise. He was mere inches behind her when he said "Boo." This caused Katie to jump a bit and spit some of the ice cream she was eating. She immediately turned around to see a laughing Paikea.

"That's not funny you know," Katie said as she hit Paikea in the arm. It took him a minute to recover but he did stop laughing.

"Sorry couldn't help myself," Paikea said as his hand moved towards her ice cream. She promptly slapped his hand away.

"That's mine," Katie said as she took another scoopful of her ice cream. Paikea gave her a smirk and quickly ordered his ice cream, cookies and cream.

"Before we continue, I have something for you," Paikea said as he took out two boxes from the bag he had brought with him. The big box was full with special flowers that he had ordered long ago from his homeland and the other one held a charm bracelet which held a ruby as it's centerpiece.

"I hope you like them," Paikea said.

<Tag Katie>

[ambassadorrela]

Rez had been working hard for the last hour, and noticed team leaders work coming toward her. She put them to work the minute she could, and had all the teams working on repairs before they got to the station.

Rez had had enough of repairs, and looked at the time realizing the last time she ate something. Suddenly the base staff showed up ready to take over. She groaned, hoping the doctor wouldn't be coming out of a nearest console to yell at her. She left the base staff to take care of it, and remembered that she didn't completely trust them. She took Alpha's team leader aside and gave instructions to watch the base staff carefully, then left for some down time.

It didn't take long for Rez to get to a restaurant. She picked someting from a menu, and took it to a table near a window. She was tired and wished to eat. Rez wasn't sure what was holding her up at that point. ~Have I ever worked this hard before?~

Rez had finished not long after she started on the meal, and not really caring much about her surroundings, she put her head in her hands. ~Why am I alone? I should seek out the crew.~ She thought but didn't move from her spot.

[aparis]

Angel had a long flight from Conqueror determined to surprise Pride. She wasn't so sure how this would work out, but she didn't want to give up.

Angel stepped off the transport, and there he was. She walked over to him.

"Wow, I didn't expect you to be here when I arrived. I was hoping to surprise you," she said and noticed he wasn't alone. ~No way! Why is he with Illito?~ She thought her curiosity starting to grow.

"We can spend time later though, I see you are busy," she said as she shouldered her bag and started to leave.

[tintagel]

=/\=Yes, sounds great,=/\= Illito replied. While she was talking to Pride her feet took her back to in front of the mirror. =/\=I'll meet you then.=/\= The comm channel was closed and Illito took a deep steadying breath. She straightened her shirt, and briefly contemplated changing into something else, but then decided against it. Instead she ran a comb through her hair, then decided to leave her quarters before she could find something else wrong with her.

Illito wanted to make a good impression on Pride, she rather liked him, and hoped this, well, date, went well, so they could do it again. But she was sure she was somehow going to mess up completely. She made an inner promise to herself to just do her best to stay calm, no matter what came up.

Illito met up with Pride, and the two walked towards the shuttle bay. She noticed he was carrying something, but didn't say anything about it. Until he stopped, near the shuttle bay and handed it to her, explaining that it was a book of medical treatments from Teac. “Wow. Thank you,” she said, not quite sure she could really express how much she appreciated it. Illito glanced briefly at it, but found it easy to put the book away and look back at Pride. They both stood there for a slightly awkward moment, before the walking resumed and they entered the main shuttlebay.

Pride was explaining the shuttle to Illito as he was working on making the arrangements for transferring it aboard, and Illito found the details quite interesting. She hadn't been on many shuttles besides the basic Starfleet type, but she found the description of the shuttle amazing in that the shuttle didn't fall apart. Illito also was enjoying watching Pride as he talked, she found him very good-looking.

Illito heard someone approaching, but didn't look up, she figured they were probably just getting off a ship and heading on their way. As the footsteps continued to draw closer she looked up, and was very surprised to see who was there. Illito hadn't seen Angel since their graduation, which was over a year ago. And while the two hadn't left as arch-enemies, seeing Angel now was, well, a little awkward. Still, Angel seemed to know Pride, and want to talk to him. Illito glanced from Pride to Angel, wondering if Pride would ask Angel to stay and accepting that, if that was what Pride wanted, Illito could be happy with it.

<Tag Pride, Angel>

[desertpride]

Pride: Walked to the shuttle with Illito talking about general things until he remembered the book he was caring. Just before they entered the shuttle bay they stoped and he handed her the book." I wasn't quite sure what to get you but thought you might like this book its a book on medical treatments from my world somethings are common knowledge but you might find a couple new ideas for differnt things" As he handed her the book she seemed to like it. They stared at each other for a few mins he liked looking into her eyes wondering what mysteries were hiddend there. After what seemed like for ever they entered the shuttle bay and walked over to the only thing that seem out of place. A fighter from his home world one that appeared to be very old and wouldn't fly but he knew better looks are just that.

Pride: As they walked around it and he started to explain things hoping he wasn't boring Illito and the dock master was making arrangements to transfer to the Scanvenger Looking back over at Illito he suddenly felt something. It was a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time someone was close someone very special to him shaking the feeling and looking at Illito still in a little shock that he was her with this amazing women. When all of a sudden the feeling became over powering Looking over at the inbound ship and seeing who was exiting.

Pride: He couldnt beleave it Angel she walked over to him" Wow, I didn't expect you to be here when I arrived. I was hoping to surprise you,"

Still in shock he hugged her. " You might find it hard to do that after all you must have picked up on me the minute you came aboard as I did you" Looking back at Illito he didn't know what to say he didn't want her to get the wrong impression.

Illito seemed to know Angel he couldn't tell if this was a good thing or not she was very hard to read that was part of his attraction for her. Think this would be a good time to say something " Illito I would like to introduce you to my Sister not by birth but she's my sister just the same" <Tag Illito>

Looking back at Angel he was getting the impression she already knew Illito he couldn't tell anymore then that because she was blocking him from her feelings like he had showed her.

"We can spend time later though, I see you are busy,"

she said as she shouldered her bag and started to leave. Thinking for a moment and looking at Illito " Would you mind to much if she joined us I promise to make it up to you later maybe if you let me I could make you dinner tonight peraphs in the holodeck just the two of us if thats okay with you " <Tag Illito>

Pride: Waiting for Illito to make up her mind he closed his eyes and sent a message " Angel Please wait a minute " <Tag Angel> he could tell angel got the message and held up for a minute pretending to adjust her bag.

[tintagel]

“Illito I would like to introduce you to my Sister not by birth but she's my sister just the same.”

Illito didn't laugh. The idea of Angel being Pride's sister was funny, but she didn't laugh. She didn't want to offend either Angel or Pride, and she was sure she could easily manage that. “Angel and I were cadets aboard the Hanson together,” Illito said, thinking it only fair to explain how she knew Angel. But the truth was, Illito wasn't quite sure what to think of Angel. Illito hadn't gotten the best impression of her from their training mission, but that training mission had been hell. Compared with having the captain defect to the Maquis, Illito being tied up by her 'friend' who had also defected to the Maquis, the Hanson's first officer dying, twice, and Illito's instructor stepping in front of a phaser, so the Maquis member who was going to shoot would kill him instead, Illito's interactions with Angel had almost been pleasant. And they had both been under a lot of stress.

Illito decided to just give a simple smile at the moment in Angel's general direction. " Would you mind to much if she joined us I promise to make it up to you later maybe if you let me I could make you dinner tonight peraphs in the holodeck just the two of us if thats okay with you” Pride asked.

Illito smiled at him. “That dinner sounds great,” she said. “But are you sure you want me along. You two probably have a ton to catch up on.”

<Tag Pride, Angel>

[aparis]

Angel chuckled. "Yes, I did sense you, but I was hoping I'd have blocked you from sensing me. I guess I will have to work on that for next time." She was about to leave when she got his message, and stayed to pretend to fix the strap on her bag.

Angel heard what was going on. She saw the smile from Illito and realized it was polite. She also felt Pride's feelings for Illito.

"Sorry, but that doesn't work for me though. I am pretty tired from my flight over, flying was easy but staying awake that long isn't. I would like some time to regroup, maybe we can get together tomorrow brother. I plan on being here for awhile, so time isn't an issue. Illito, I hope we can get together as well. Good night," she said quickly. Angel gave Pride a hug, and nodded to Illito.

Be good brother, and don't stay out too long. Enjoy your evening. Angel sent the message to him through their special link.

[desertpride]

Pride: Before anybody could say anything his sister chimed in "Sorry, but that doesn't work for me though. I am pretty tired from my flight over, flying was easy but staying awake that long isn't. I would like some time to regroup, maybe we can get together tomorrow brother. I plan on being here for awhile, so time isn't an issue. Illito, I hope we can get together as well. Good night,"

Pride: Looking back at Illito and smiling " Well that solves it I will see her tomorrow and now I get the chance to cook for you as well as have lunch, It would seem to me I beleave the term is I made out like a bandit. Unless of course you have changed your mind" Looking into Illito eyes he couldn't help but smile and turn a little red hoping she wouldn't say no or laugh at him.

As Angel walke off she sent a message to him "Be good brother, and don't stay out too long. Enjoy your evening." think back to her " I will be but your going to have to explain a few things not to mention why your not wearing starfleet medical blue" <Tag Angel>

Pride: Looking back at his ship and Illito " I hope that you didn't feel uncomfortable that is the last thing I want to do" hoping that she didn't see the worry in his face " Now where are we going to eat?" <Tag Illito>

[tintagel]

Angel made her excuses to leave, and Illito looked Angel curiously over while she was talking. Angel's whole posture was different, more confident somehow, but came off as less arrogant. “Illito, I hope we can get together as well,” Angel said, in the middle of everything else she had said, and Illito waited until Angel had finished talking before replying.

Illito smiled genuinely at Angel then, and nodded. “I hope so too,” she said, then Angel was off.

" Well that solves it I will see her tomorrow and now I get the chance to cook for you as well as have lunch, It would seem to me I beleave the term is I made out like a bandit. Unless of course you have changed your mind"

“Why would I change my mind?” Illito asked. She just hoped Pride didn't suddenly discover he hated her somewhere in the middle of all the things planned. Apart from the possibility of that happening Illito would be spending more time with Pride, which was, in her eyes, a great thing.

When Pride asked if she had felt uncomfortable talking to Angel she assured him she hadn't. But he still seemed concerned, so Illito smiled at him slightly, and her face reddened slightly, before she looked away and willed her face to return its normal color.

" Now where are we going to eat?" Pride asked.

“I was thinking Bolian food sounded good,” Illito said. “In which case we could go to Hishars Fine Bolian Eatery. Unless you'd prefer something else?”

<Tag Pride>

[desertpride]

Pride: Smiled the biggest smile in his life she was going to be spending more time with him, He couldn't beleave it. When she suggested Bolian food he smiled some more. " It sounds great I have never had Bolian, Please lead the way" as they walked out of the shuttle bay he stopped to look at his ship one more time. " You know if you want you can store your book on the ship its going to be on the Scavenger tonight that way you dont have to carrey it" <Tag Illito>

Pride: tryed not to stair into her eyes to much while she made up her mind wondering what mysteirs waited there. " Maybe if we have time and you want to I can take you out in my ship sometime. Its quite differn't looking at the stars from a glass cock pit if you want you could even fly her something tells me that you rise to any challenge" <Tag Illito>

[tintagel]

Illito nodded at the suggestion to put her book in the shuttle. “Sure,” she said, and she and Pride returned to the shuttle. “And I want to say again, I really like the book. It looks very interesting.”

" Maybe if we have time and you want to I can take you out in my ship sometime. Its quite differn't looking at the stars from a glass cock pit if you want you could even fly her something tells me that you rise to any challenge" Pride suggested.

“I don't think I'm up to that challenge,” Illito said, her eyes twinkling slightly with the amusement of the idea of her piloting an antique shuttle. Somehow it didn't strike her as a good idea. At Pride's quizzical glance she explained. “I can't pilot. At least, not remotely well. But I would love to be in there at some point when you're piloting.” At this point Illito had finished stowing the book in Pride's shuttle, and the two were once again heading towards lunch at the Bolian restaurant.

<Tag Pride>

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Lt. Aeryn Gray found herself stuck in engineering, apparently to babysit the base staff while they fixed the problems the Scavenger had run into. Aeryn didn't understand why she had to stay when she wasn't the one that had trust issues, that would be Ensign Rezula. Personally Aeryn thought the base staff were quite well qualified for their job, and, judging from other people's reactions to Aeryn, probably much better at their jobs than Aeryn was at hers.

Oh well, it wasn't like she had anything better to do. Since her sister had left Assailant recently, and wouldn't have wanted to talk to Aeryn even if she was still around, Aeryn guessed maybe it was for the better that she didn't have to figure out how to spend her leisure time. But still, this was unbearably dull, since she didn't even know when she would be able to leave.

[bubblesdelight]

Katie watches as Paikea pulled out a large box and a smaller one. Katie could see the flowers through the small window in the box. Katie immediately recognized the pink roses but she found herself wondering what the other one was.

Katie opened the box as quickly as she could. Letting the beautiful aroma spread through out the small ice cream shop. Katie pulled a single pink rose from the box and broke the step off close to the rose so she could place it in her hair.

"They're beautiful!" Katie said.

“Well you deserve beautiful things,” Paikea said as he took the charm,” may I?”

Katie stuck her tongue out a little, softly biting the end of it with her teeth.

"Yes." Katie said.

Pai carefully took the charm and placed it on her wrist. The color of charm was a complete contrast to her beautiful skin, but it looked great on her. “There,” he said making sure to stick his tongue out a little as well.

Katie took a second to look at the beautiful charm on her wrist. She could tell that Paikea was smiling at his wonderful gift idea. Looking up from the charm Katie smiled a big smile and then moved in close to Paikea. Katie's eyes never left Paikea's as she continued to move closer to his lips.

"Thank you." Katie said very softly with her lips only inches away from Paikea's lips.

Moving away slowly Katie placed a small spoonful of ice cream in her mouth. Paikea noticed the change of flavor and looked down to his cup and notices the missing spoonful.

Paikea was thinking of just kissing her anyways, but when he noticed his missing spoon, he got another idea. He quickly snatched her ice cream and grabbed the spoon. He got a spoonful and aimed it at Katie. “Two options my dear Katie. 1. Ice cream 2. A kiss. Your choice.”

"Alright Mr. Smartypants. How about option three." Katie said with a hint of defiance.

"And what might that be?" Paikea replied.

Katie winked and slowly placed her hand up as a shield to block the possible ice cream assault. Once her hand was close enough to reach the spoon she placed her fingers on the spoon and pulled slowly until Paikea let go of the spoon.

Once Katie had the spoon in her power she quickly took action and ate the ice cream in one fast action. This amused Katie and she started to laugh. Then she quickly whipped the back side of the spoon on Paikea's nose and rushed out of the ice cream shop laughing.

<Tag Paikea. Catch me if you can!>

[Paikea Apirana]

It took Pai a second or two to realize that he had ice cream on his nose. The noise that Katie had made caused everyone's eyes to look his way, which caused another chorus of laughter. Paikea wiped off the ice cream and ran after Katie with the flowers in hand.

He could easily pick her out of a group, so it wasn't problem catching up for her. "Katie, I'm going to catch you." This caused her to laugh once again and made him want to catch her even more.

Paikea quickly noticed that she was just running from him. She wasn't running towards any certain location, which made the chase a bit harder. In the end he decided to hand a couple the flowers, which allowed him to speed up.

Pai didn't know that Katie could run so much, and by the time he was closing in on her he was tired.

"Tired already," Katie laughed as she went across a corner.

Paikea couldn't help but laugh because the corridor that she has just entered was a dead end. Paikea quickly went after her and caught up.

"Well, well, it seems that I have caught you," Paikea said closing in on Katie.

<Tag Katie>

[bubblesdelight]

"Well, well, it seems that I have caught you," Paikea said closing in on Katie.

Katie looked back down the hall and to her dismay it was still a dead end. She loved the thrill of the chase and wished she could continue it some more.

"I give up. You win." Katie said raising her hands up.

She walked slowly to Paikea with a large smile on her face. She couldn't help but laugh at how out of breath Paikea was.

"So I get my kiss now?" Paikea asked.

"Well of course." Katie replied.

Katie was now in kissing range when she noticed the flowers were missing. Her eyes opened up wide in surprise that he would have forgotten the pretty flowers back at the table.

"Where are the flowers?" Katie asked.

<Tag Paikea. BUSTED!>

[Paikea Apirana]

"Well it seems that in your rush to run away, you forgot the flowers," Paikea said," I took them and began chasing you."

"And?" Katie asked.

"And I didn't want to destroy them so I gave them to a couple I saw as I was chasing you."

Paikea had the distinct feeling that he was going to be in trouble for this, but of course he had a plan for that. In his quarters were the same flowers that he had given her. He had learned to prepare for the worse, but would he let her know that.

"Your not mad at me are you?" Pai asked.

<Tag Katie>

[bubblesdelight]

"Your not mad at me are you?" Pai asked.

"Not at all." Katie said.

Katie jumped into Paikea's arms and finally gave up the kiss that he had fought so hard to get.

"So you won...does that mean I have to buy you a new ice cream?" Katie asked.

<Tag Paikea>

[Paikea Apirana]

"Your not mad at me are you?" Pai asked.

"Not at all." Katie said.

Katie jumped into Paikea's arms and finally gave up the kiss that he had fought so hard to get. The kiss was short, but it was definately worth it.

"So you won...does that mean I have to buy you a new ice cream?" Katie asked.

"No, I don't require more ice cream," Pai said," we wouldn't want another incident now would we." His remarks caused her elbow to meet his side. "I was kidding."

"No you weren't," Katie said as she took his hand. It had been a very long time since they had done this. It just seemed that life was keeping them busy, but he was grateful that they had this time to themselves.

They both walked hand in hand back to the promanade where they were met by a couple of Scavenger crewmembers. Paikea and Katie both gave themselves a look and kept holding hands. If they didn't know that they were dating it was about time they did. After a rushed hello, the crewmembers walked on, but not before they both heard one of them say.

'There so cute together'

They couldn't help, but laugh at the comment as they headed towards the recreation deck. Pai was full of energy and he would have to get rid of it.

"Wanna go for a swim, hike, or rafting?" Paikea asked," or do you want to play some baseball?"

"Baseball of course," Katie responded. Paikea had never been a fan of the old earth sport until Katie had introduced it to him.

"Giant's stadium I suppose," Paikea said keying in the program.

"Did you really have to ask?" Katie asked as she stepped in and picked up a bat.

[desertpride]

Pride: Walked with Illito to the restraunt after she stored the book. He was enjoying her company alot and found her to be a very intersting woman. As they approached the there destination. " So tell me Illito what do you do for fun, What does the chief medical officer of a star ship do for fun"<Tag Illito> Hoping to get to know her better he waited for a response think to him self that he was very lucky right now. " As you can tell I enjoy restoring old ships and a couple other things that I might tell you" Looking at Illito with a smile

[tintagel]

“Well, I don't know what chief medical officers in general do for fun,” Illito replied, “But personally I enjoy reading non-fiction or playing cards. I've also been known to garden, but it's not like there's a lot of soil up here in space,” Illito finished, smiling at Pride.

There was a short gap in their conversation as the two of them entered the restaurant, shown to a table, and handed menus. “So, what do you enjoy doing other than restoring old ships?” Illito asked, since Pride had hinted at other hobbies while waiting for Illito to answer.

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