Afterwards
Posted on 07 Nov 2021 @ 9:50pm by Lieutenant JG Rosaline Belikov
Mission:
Picking up the pieces
Location: Rose's Quarters
Timeline: After Enforced Dreamland
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Desmond fought to wake up and fell off the couch he had been on, hitting the floor. The slight pain of hitting his elbow certainly woke him up further. Shaking the cobwebs from his head, his first thought was. "Rose!" also feeling his mouth rather dry. He stumbled over to where Ziva's room was and saw that the little girl was in her bed and also seeing Rose where she had collapsed.
Desmond was on his knees, pulling Rose into his arms. "Rose, Rose wake up." he said urgently.
As Rose started to come around, she half opened one eye before closing it again, "meh, 5 more minutes Cameron...." she said, before drifting back to sleep for a moment before jerking awake, "Ziva!" she yelled, pushing off of Desmond to scramble to her feet and check on her daughter. Finding her safely asleep, Rose gave a sigh of relief before looking over at Desmond, "well, I guess that'd probably be the strangest date you've ever had"
"It was unusual but, I'm okay. Just what the heck happened? We've got a mystery on our hands. And did whatever happened, affect the whole ship?" Desmond asked, looking rather concerned. He got up from the floor and moved to the couch to get his boots back on. "Do you want me to still stay for the night?"
"however much I would like that, I think we better focus on our duties for now" Rose said as she noticed the red light coming from the lounge room. "and it looks like we're at red alert, you better get to engineering. I'll have to get to the bridge and find out what's happening" she said, before leaning forward and giving Desmond a kiss on his cheek, "thank you for a nice evening. Once things are settled, we'll have to figure something out. Maybe a visit to the holodeck"
"Would you like me to take Ziva to childcare?" looking at the little girl, “and I may need to go check on those in child care as well." Desmond's instincts kicking in, moving in to pick up Ziva. "I am not in a senior position so I can take care of this. " Desmond giving a bit of a firm nod.
“No!” Rose said forcefully, as she moved on instinct to grab Desmond’s wrist and hold onto it tight before he could reach Ziva. She didn’t intend on being so rough, but she still wasn’t sure about trusting him on that level just yet, “no, that’s alright, I’ll take her there” she said a little calmer this time. Slowly releasing his wrist, Rose got to her feet before leaning down to scoop up her daughter.
Desmond looked at Rose, giving a nod. "Okay you can check on them and I can come with you, we need to go look at that and then you can go to the bridge, while I go check on engineering." then he said. "Rose I wouldn't do anything to Ziva, I would die before anything happened to her."
“I’m sorry, but it’s going to take me some time to trust you alone with Ziva. She’s my only child and I’ve only known you a short time. Please don’t take it personally”
"Oh don't worry I am not taking it personally I do understand." Desmond giving a soft smile. "But lets get to business and find out what is going on." heading towards the door. "We maybe having an emergency that we don't know about."
"Either that or someone on the bridge has pushed the wrong button" Rose said, picking up Ziva and heading to join Desmond, "well, shall we find out which one it is?"
Desmond nodded, "Lets lock and load." the engineer getting his mind prepared to take care of business.
END
Ensign Desmond Porthos
Engineer
Lieutenant JG Rosaline Belikov
Chief of Intelligence
