Your Fault

Posted on Tue Oct 17th, 2023 @ 10:14am by Lieutenant Commander Steve Ryan

Mission: Home Sweet home.
Location: USS Montana

Deborah was deep into her thought while strolling along the hallway headed for her quarters. She just got the news that the Montana was to become space worthy and wait for new orders.

One of the doors slid open and Steve came through it fixing his uniform.

“Ah, here you are” she said, “Is this all some sort of your machination to avoid hitting the seaside?” she asked, with a serious tone.

“Uhm” Steve turned trying to understand what was going on

“It’s all your fault, right?” Debora closed in pointing her index to him “You spoke to someone and got us stranded here “waiting for orders”” she mimicked some quotation marks midair.

“Woo woo, wait” Steve tried to calm her down “Calm down, I’m mister nobody here. How could I get an Admiral to strand us here?” he started rising his voice “and, for God’s sake, I wanted some holidays too” he concluded widening his eyes trying to understand what was going on.

“You got those pins up there” she pointed to his rank “they are worth more than mine for sure”.
She crossed her arms “You didn’t want to go to the seaside and now…go figure…we’re not going. We might just pass our holidays in here without getting to touch sand or water. How fortunate huh?” and said so she left walking fast and gesticulating, headed towards her initial direction.

Steve turned left and right, hoping some other crewmember assisted to that outburst. No-one was there, he just watched her leave before finally head towards his duties with a perplexed face.

Lt. Steve Ryan
Chief Comm Officer - USS Montana

Ens. Deborah O’Donnel
Engineer – USS Montana