Shaky Relationship Start

Posted on Sat Feb 6th, 2016 @ 8:40am by Lieutenant Mara Cross

606 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Point of View
Location: USS Calypso - Cross Quarters
Timeline: Before the Ball

Mara looked down the long corridor. There were a set of doors on each side of the corridor all the way down. They were spaced fairly from each other. She smiled to herself knowing that at the end of that long corridor were her quarters. It was like a light at the end of the tunnel.

Her day was finally going to come to an end. She had the privilege of meeting with Commodore York. They had a pleasant conversation at least Mara thought it was. She found the Commodore to be a likely individual, who seemed to have all her ducks in a row. Mara was most proud of making the Commodore York smile.

After her meeting with Commodore York, she met the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Victoria Drani. She liked her personality. Right from the beginning Mara felt that the two of them could someday become good friends. However, she had been wrong in the past, and only time would tell.

She had finally made it to her door. She input several commands into the panel next to her door and the door opened in front of her. It was dark.

“Computer, lights.” She said as she stepped inside the door. The computer followed her command turning the lights to the full level. It was extremely blinding. “Really…” She said with an irritated sigh.

“Computer, dim the lights by 50%...” The computer once again followed her orders dimming the lights to her preference. “Computer, set this as the default preference.” Computer responded to her stating that the lights at their current level were her new preference. “Thank you.” She responded then looked around her quarters.

They were much bigger than she had was use too. As soon as you step inside her quarters was the living room area, to the right was a dining room, with a personal office. On the left side was her bedroom along with the bathroom. She walked from one side to another examining her quarters.

She was impressed with the size, and the layout. Furniture was okay, but then she had a certain taste she liked. It would do. She thought to herself as she made her way to the bedroom.

She undressed, throwing the clothes she had just taken off on the bed and stepped inside the shower. She took decently long showers as it was expected for those of her gender.

As she was nearing being done.

“Computer, water off.” Nothing happened. She repeated the command at the computer and this time the computer decided that instead of turning off the water it would take it from her preference to really cold. It was a shock to her system. She let out a scream and jumped out of the shower. She quickly grabbed a towel wrapping herself in it.

“Computer, water off.” This time it followed the command it turned the water off however at the same time it did that it also turned up the lights all the way again blinding her yet again.

She closed her eyes as she started to dry off the cold water. “Computer….dim the lights to preference.” The computer complied with her command dimming the lights again.

“Thank you!” She stated. She was extremely irritated at this point. “This is not a good way to start our relationship…” She was talking to the computer.

She finished drying herself, and go dressed in comfortable clothing without any order incidents. She decided to have some dinner, and unpack as tomorrow would be a long day. She was going to officially take over her department.

----------
Lt. Mara Cross
Chief Operations Officer
USS Calypso

 

RSS Feed