<USS Avalon> "A Warm Welcome" by Sussanna Jameson
- From: Elizabeth Bethell <ejbethell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Avalon <avalon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:54:52 +0000 (GMT)
A Warm Welcome
By Ensign Sussanna Jameson
Sussanna Jameson materialised on the transporter pad, the dizzy, sick feeling
from transporting making her head spin a little. She hated riding the air, no
one ever believed it could give her travel sickness, but it always did.
Hauling her pack higher onto her shoulder, Sussanna, the new Ensign Jameson and
newest member of the medical and covert ops teams sauntered out of the
transporter room and down the corridor. She slipped a PADD from her belt and
made a quick note of the location of her new quarters. She had to report to
the Chief Medical Officer and the Head of Covert Ops, fun, fun. Hmm, I?ve
never reported to anyone before, this could be either really fun and or really
not.
The ship seemed to come designed by an ancient labyrinth designer and even
using her PADD, she was soon quite lost. People passed her as she searched,
but her twisted pride refused to allow her to ask anyone for help. Bloody
covert ops and I can?t even read a map. Finally she found a turbolift and
asked it for her floor. The doors swooshed open to reveal yet another corridor
exactly the same as the one she had just left. Bloody brilliant, she grimaced.
Fortunately when she checked her PADD again it said she was just a few turns
away from her quarters.
She was sharing with a Lil Collins, an ensign in Engineering, but when she
entered the room it was empty. The quarters were fairly small, a shared common
room with two chairs and a table and two bedrooms with ensuits. A few prints
of Monet?s water lilies were on the walls, Lil?s she assumed, but other than
that it was bare. A small brown teddy bear sat forlornly on the bed in the
right bedroom, with a crisply folded nightdress. I?m on the left then, she
thought.
Sussanna threw her pack onto the bed, raked through it and pulled out a small
photo of Sydney Opera House with her parents standing in front of it looking
happy. She reverently placed this on the wall beside her bed and stood back.
?What do you think of your little girl now, Mum? All grown up and an Ensign!
Oh God, I wish I could really know what you think of me.? She sighed and sank
down into the only chair. Glancing up into a mirror, Sussanna looked into her
iron-grey eyes and grimaced. Her platinum blonde hair was cut short and
plastered to her head using as much gel as she could. Reaching her hand up to
touch it, it crunched under her fingers. ?Ah vanity, all is vanity,? she said
and grinned at her own silly wit. ?You?re not really that funny, you know.?
Suddenly the door to the quarters behind her opened and she shot to her feet.
A minute woman with short brown and blue eyes was framed in the doorway. Her
head was buried in a book and she completely ignored Sussanna?s presence.
?Hello, I?m your new roomy,? she said as she held out her hand.
?Hmm? Oh yes, hello. I?m Lil, welcome aboard I suppose.? She didn?t even
look up from the book and her handshake was as limp and a fish and slightly
sweaty. ?You?re in the left room.? With that, Lil tossed herself onto her bed
and rolled to face the wall.
?Well, I?m going to take a shower and then report to the Covert Ops Chief. Um,
bye then.?
Her roommate said nothing. Not a very happy bunny, she thought as she slipped
into the shower, but then neither am I. Next stop, Covert Ops.
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