Proposals & Propositions

Posted on Mon Jan 4th, 2016 @ 4:19am by Captain Charybdis MacGregor & Captain Patrick O'Connor

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Mission: Taking Chances
Location: USS Bonne Chance, Deck Five, Turbolift
Timeline: 2265
Tags: 1stlove

As the Captain left the Bridge, Charybdis hustled after him to catch him in the turbolift. Since he had given the order that the Commander had the conn, that meant that his duty shift was over, and she still had her science department proposals to submit to him for approval. Her team had worked hard on them, and she wanted to see some of them come to fruition. She would have submitted them during the staff meeting, but the Captain had been in a hurry, and had just wanted the debriefing for the Zaryx 4 situation handled apparently.

She managed to slide into the lift just as the doors closed and nearly collided with the Captain, who smiled genially at seeing her. It was a nice change of pace from both of them making one another horribly awkward, she thought... then she promptly forgot why she had gotten in the turbolift with him until it stopped on Deck Five and he made to exit.

"Sir! Captain... I have a few propositions that I wanted to submit to you before you get busy..." she said as she followed him into the corridor.

Externally a smile froze on her face while internally she pounded her head against the bulkhead. So much for a lack of awkwardness.

Patrick smiled and decided to try to ease the tension a bit by making light of things. "Propositioning me right here, just as I get off the turbolift? And here I thought Orion girls were bold." He gave a light chuckle to signal the fact he was indeed just having a bit of fun.

She blushed, her cheeks tinging sage at the joke, then she gave as good as she got. "Well, sir, I'm a motivated officer. If I'm going to get what I'm after I cannot just wait for it to come to me now, can I?"

"All good things come to those who wait, Lieutenant. After all, patience is a virtue." He smiled at her, then started back to business, "So, what can I do for you?" He immediately realized how open ended such a question was and readied himself for what he was certain would be a playful retort.

Surprisingly, she did not choose to taunt him with an innuendo. "My department has come up with a series of experiments that they would like to attempt sir. I have given summary overviews for you to review, having done an in-depth review of the processes and potentialities myself, and I would like to recommend these three for the Bonne Chance to attempt while we are en route to our next assignment, should you approve." She handed him a data card.

"At your leisure, of course, Captain." She smiled genially at him, feeling better about having comported herself like an officer for an entire exchange with her superior.

Patrick looked at her, keeping a professional look about himself, but internally thanking God she hadn't come back with more innuendo for a change. "I don't think this will be a problem. Just make whatever arrangement you might need to make with Lt McCray in Engineering."

"Absolutely. Thank you, sir!" With that she turned on her heel to head back to the turbolift.

Patrick put his hand at the entrance of the turbolift to keep it from closing. 'Lieutenant..." he began. "Charybdis. I did have something I have been meaning to ask you." He was nervous, and his guts were twisting inside him. "I was wondering if you might be interested in going out with me some time?" There, he had put it out there, and now the ball was in her court.

"Going... out? Sir?" She paused at that and cocked her head to the side. "You mean... like a date?"

Patrick gave a nervous smile. "Certainly, a date. Would you be agreeable to such a thing?"

She smiled, a bit of a bemused smile and it was clear that there were a number of thoughts running through her head. She looked at him through half-lidded eyes and very slowly closed the distance between them, deliberately invading his personal space. He could smell her scent quite clearly, and it had the same effect that it had on him it had for the past few days since he'd come aboard his new command. When she was practically inches from his face, she opened them fully and locked eyes with him.

"I would like that, Captain. I would like that very much," she said softly, and her smile was neither bemused nor teasing, but rather demure if anything. She was being sincere, even if there was still a twinkle of mischief in her eyes that never really seemed to go away.

He smiled at her, resisting the urge to kiss her. "Great! So I will, uh, I will pick you up at say, 1900 hours this evening." Finally he gave in to his urges and gave her a quick but tender kiss. He broke the kiss and took a step back, allowing for the moment to really take hold.

She blinked at him for several seconds, as that feeling just below her tummy started fluttering and she slowly felt her synapses begin firing again. "Yes... yes sir. 1900 hours would be fine, Captain." She recovered her senses sufficiently to smile at him while her cheeks turned a particular shade of mint green and she stepped back into the turbolift, the doors closing on his grinning face.

She rode the lift all the way back to the Bridge before she realized that she needed to go to Engineering.

Patrick watched the doors close and moments after the did he thrust his hands upward in victory, as if he had just completed a Herculean feat. He turned and strode towards the mess hall, a certain "Joe Cool" swagger about him suddenly.

 

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