First night party - Part 1

Posted on 30 Jun 2019 @ 5:44pm by Captain Jonathan Reynolds & Commander Amelia Fox & Lieutenant Mitchell Graham & Lieutenant Commander Aidan Datari & Lieutenant Commander True Keading & Lieutenant JG Lilura Karakalakss & Lieutenant JG Naiya Hope Dr & Lieutenant Emmony Safford & Lieutenant Jeremy Ezio

Mission: Mission 1 - In the pale moonlight ...
Location: Medusas head
Timeline: MD1 20:00
1805 words - 3.6 OF Standard Post Measure

ON:

Jon walked in to the lounge accompanied by his teenage son who had put up some very exhaustive arguments for the last couple of hours why he had to come with him. Jon suspected it was more Amelia Fox shaped than momentous pride in the ship and celebrating its maiden voyage.

"Captain," a oldish human bar tended said. "Everything's ready for you. Shall we get you gentlemen some drinks?" he asked.

"A beer," Jon said.

"Me too .... " Eddie tried it on.

"Root beer," Jon said amused at his son's attempt.

"Daaad, Im not a k ......." the teenagers mouth dropped as his eyes zoomed to the door way where the XO had just walked in.

Amelia had dug out her little black dress that was cut very low and slit provocatively high. It had helped her in several poker games as the other players tended to have their minds on something other than their cards. She walked over to the Captain and his son. "Evening Sir." She addressed Reynolds before turning to Eddie. "My, my don't we look handsome this evening. I hope you're going to save a dance for me later?"

The young blond flushed and grinned at the same time. "Oh you have two." He leaned forward his arm on the bar in an attempt to look cool. "Can I get you a dri ......" Eddie leaned too far and toppled down to the floor.

Jon sighed, picked up his son who immediately informed him, "Im cool, Im fine."

"Good," Jon said, "Why don't you go find us a table."

Eddie was looking at Amelia drooling practically. "Yes," he caught himself. "I go get us the best table." And with that he was off.

"Nice dress Lieutenant. Who are you trying to impress?" Jon asked curious. "Other than my boy. Its a tad formal that what I thought we were going for and a woman doesn't break out that kind of dress for no reason. So spill. Who is it?"

Amelia just smiled "Now Captain, you don't expect me to show all my cards at once do you?" She turned to the bartender "Good evening Malone. The usual please."

Malone ducked behind the bar and returned with a bottle of Bloodwine and a traditional Klingon tankard.

Amelia motion over to the table Eddie had picked out "Shall we?" As they walked she seemed to be scanning the room looking for someone.

Jon followed her and keep his eyes peeled for whoever she was trying to impress.

If True could have come in her uniform without standing out, she would have. She had no desire to attract any attention tonight. She wanted to celebrate but her heart was not in it. She was still healing and had been all her life it seemed. She sighed and tried to put a smile on her face, that was expected of a counselor. Always in control. Instead she'd opted for a soft blue silk dress that brushed her knees. It was pretty but not an attention grabber and hopefully it would allow her to bleed into the background and just enjoy everyone else having fun.

Lilura strode into the Medusa Head with exuberance. She enjoyed parties as this was her chance to see and interact with people outside of duty constraints. While she always was who she was, she had found many others seemed to be of a duplicitous nature, had learned to stay away from them, and that gatherings were the best way to find it of such was the case with others. She was wearing a light blue tunic, a dark blue cape, leather breech pants, typical casual wear for her race, and her typical green gem and earrings. Upon her feet were her custom shoes as she was still breaking them in, as normally she would go barefoot as that was the best way to feel out a new environment.

First she went to the bar to get a drink. She saw the Captain engaged in talking with the XO, who was dressed to 'kill' for this evening affair. She snorted in light humor before ordering a double double shot of bourbon, neat strongest stuff they had. After receiving it in a mixer glass, she picked it up and it looked like a large shot glass in her hand. She turned to look around the room to look for somebody to interact with. First, she would wait a bit to see if anybody approached, and then if not, she would head out and look for anybody trying to remain 'unfound' as they would have the most interesting stories to tell.

"TRUE!" the shrill little voice called out across the as-of-yet-still-sparse lounge as young Carlie Cross entered ahead of her Vulcan guardian, Haulval. The girl speed-raced toward the familiar counselor and wrapped her arms around the woman's hips tightly. "I missed Dusan and you sooooo much! I like your dress, it's really pretty, and I already know that Dusan isn't here because he had to go with Gavin."

"Indeed, we talked about that," Haulval added as he caught up with the girl. "And we talked about personal space." Haulval was dressed in his standard duty uniform, though he had in fact put on a fresh one at least.

Carlie let go of True slowly, but smiled to her as she twirled her own little silver glittery dress back and forth. She really liked True, cat or not.

"Hi Carlie," True said, slightly blushing at Carlie's enthusiastic response. "Oh she's okay. I'm really glad to see someone I know. And yes, he did stay with Gavin, he was after all, Gavin's rescue. You look beautiful," True smiled down at her.

Aidan stepped in just in time to see the spectacle and he smiled. His smile widened however as he turned his head towards the woman at his side. "Ready?" He asked her.

Emme smiled and nodded. "I'm the more outgoing one, remember?" She teased, remembering how nervous Aidan had been at previous parties. "We're just making new friends, what could go wrong?" The thought about what could actually go wrong made her giggle a little bit.

"Sherlock deciding to come in and misbehave?" He offered her his arm and started to lead her towards the captain, who had seated himself by now. "Captain Reynolds?" He apologized, "I'd like you to meet my wife...Emmony Safford."

She nodded in approval of Aidan's thoughts on what could happen, gave him a little smile and let herself be led over to the first person. "Captain," she said very respectfully, the smile all but wiped from her face by the time she got there.

Jon stood up again as was respectful when meeting a woman at a party, on his planet at least. He held his hand out to shake hers. "A pleasure Mrs Safford. So you are my Science chiefs wife. I hear you married recently. May I offer my congratulations."

"Thank you sir. Congratulations on obtaining such a beautiful ship. Galaxy class have always been a favorite of mine. They're so large and luxurious compared to some other models. One can't feel claustrophobic in them and they provide everything one needs to explore the universe."

"She is indeed a beauty," Jon said. "I consider myself very lucky. Here have a seat," Jon said vacating his. "Eddie come help me grab a few more and pull them round. This is my son," he indicated the teenager. Eddies mouth dropped similar to when he had met the XO. Jon laughed inwardly. Yes she was very pretty. He was evidently going to have to teach his son to be a little more discreet.

"Yes of course, pleasure to meet you," he said quickly and went beet red again and started to zoom off. Jon caught him as he spotted the Counselor in her rather pleasant powder blue dress and turned him the other way.

Amelia sighed, "And here I was thinking he only had eyes for me."

Jon sighed, "They say the teenage years is the most awkward. Not only is he grappling with both Human and Betazoid hormones but his betazoid gifts are going to manifest soon. Perhaps I should get the doctor to look him over and the counselor to have chat. Some time when shes not in a dress perhaps," Jon stated. He looked to Emmony and Aidan. "I do apologise. Hes at an awkward age."

"Haven't we all been at that age at some point?" Aidan asked pleasantly, "how old is he now?"

"He is almost 12," Jon answered.

"Ahh, almost old enough to decide what he wants then. At his age, I accompanied my sister to the academy to be her interpreter. It's what made me go into linguistics."

"It's fine," Emme said smiling. "I can hardly think what I was doing at that age but I'm sure it was getting into more trouble than he is."

Amelia smiled ruefully "I'm sure I was getting up to no good somewhere, then blaming my brothers for it."

Mitchell Graham walked in with a gaggle of fellow party-goers. He didn't know any of them. They had simply ended up sharing the same turbolift. This was the second time he had come in here, and as with the first time, he stopped at the entryway for a moment to take it all in. The place was filling up quickly. It was a sea of faces. Not knowing where to start first he went to the bar. There he found Lilura Karakalakss scanning the crowd.

He sidled up next to her. "Lieutenant, how's it going? I'm Graham. Helmsman."

Lilura had sensed him moving up beside her as she enjoyed watching the incoming participants for tonight's gala. She turned to look at him, happy that the 6'2" very strong auric signature Terran was only 4 inches shorter than her. She responded, "Hey Graham, doing better, now that you're here." She turned to look at him with sparkling Green eyes and continued, "Your nerve structure is slightly different than a Terran, as well as you have a very strong aura. I like it."

TBC

●●● Commander Jonathan Reynolds
Commanding Officer
USS Andromeda


●● Lieutenant Aidan Datari
Chief Science Officer
USS Andromeda

●● Lieutenant True Keading
Chief Counselor
USS Andromeda


●○ Lieutenant JG Lilura Siana Karakalakss
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Andromeda

●○ Lieutenant JG Naiya Hope
Chief Medical Officer
USS Andromeda

●● Lieutenant Amelia Fox
Executive Officer
USS Andromeda


●● Lieutenant Mitchell Graham
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Andromeda


○● Lieutenant JG J Haulval
Chief Security / Tactical Officer / Intelligence Officer
USS Andromeda