Much Needed Downtime

Posted on Tue May 1st, 2018 @ 10:41am by Major Alexandria Somers & Captain Jeff Smith & 1st Lieutenant Jasmine Allen & Lieutenant Paul Sharpe

Mission: A Day in the Life
Location: The Retro Bar and Club/Various
Timeline: Current

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- Somers' Quarters -

While her quarters were not exactly set up for two people, her boyfriend Paul Sharpe had been staying there a lot, which made living on a huge starbase bearable. He had returned to his quarters to change into retro clothes and was now back in her quarters wearing a 60's style T-Shirt, jeans and boots along with a letterman's jacket, his comm badge hidden under his jacket. He walked in to be greeted by his girlfriend in a brightly patterned mini-dress and rather high go-go boots, white to match her cheery colour dress. She had her make-up appropriate for the style and her hair a Beehive as it was long and with appropriate tacky plastic jewellery. Well, he thought the bangles and big earrings were so, but otherwise, she looked great. Paul even gave her a wolf-whistle.

"You look, great lass, not seen you dressed like that for a long time!" Sharpe said.

"Why thank you, Hun. You're not looking too bad yourself. Shall we?" Somers asked picking up her bag which held her comm badge. "It is so nice to not be wearing a uniform," she added.

Sharpe noted a familiar shape on the back of her belt that was around her waist, unless you knew what you were looking for it would not be noticed, with all done they left her quarters and headed down to The Retro Bar and Club, each week they accommodated the different era, this week it was the 60s. so after a long walk and turbo lift ride they arrived on the required promenade and walked into the bar.

- The Retro Bar and Club -

Both of the lovebirds had found a seat that was equal distance from the bar and dance floor when settled Paul got up and went to get them drinks and returned a few minutes later with two lagers, the real stuff not synthehol. They sat and watched with some amusement a Bolian trying to dance to a sixties song.

As she took a hearty sip of her lager she noticed someone was standing by their table, she looked up. "Hello, who do I have the honour of addressing?" Somers asked. She had unknowingly fallen into a polite non-committal greeting pattern that her diplomat parents had drilled into her as she was growing up.

It was Lieutenant Jasmine Allen her Company's third in Command, she seemed to be on her own but like Alex, she too was dressed up in the 60s style outfit, like Alex, she was very attractive and the era style outfit she was wearing only served to enhance her beauty.

"Jas, come join us," Alex said, and the young marine Officer looked over and waved with a smile and came over to join them, she looked at her CO and then to the man sitting next to here.

"My Alex, he looks hot out of uniform, the style suits him," Allen said indicating Sharpe's outfit.

Paul looked at her with a raised eyebrow "numpty say what!" He said.

"What!" Allen said all innocently and wondered why both of them were laughing, Alex harder than her partner, she looked at them both in turn and both watched the look of comprehension appear on her face, first it was shock, then mild anger and a dirty look at Sharpe, then she also broke out in laughter, managing to hold back his humour Sharpe ordered Allen a larger, the waitress nodded and left to get their orders.

They remained quiet until the waitress brought their drinks to them, all the while Allen was giving Sharpe flirty winks and glances, this did not go unnoticed by Alex, who rounded on her subordinate "Jasmine, stop that or I will let you do a solo in my combat simulation, the one where you have wave after wave of hostiles coming at you with only a finite number of ammunition and some blades" Somers said.

Allen looked surprised "Is it that program, where gas propelled weapons, is required?" she asked.

Somers simply nodded

"I also assume that you would make sure that the difficulty is increased, yes?" Allen asked.

Somers again nodded but had an evil smile on her face.

Allen lapsed into a grizzled silence, she knew her boss was crazy enough to go through with it.

"Oh, Alex did you hear your Sister and Kildare are stationed at Starbase 51, that place is still not fully completed yet," Sharpe said out of the blue.

Looking at her boyfriend "yes, I did, well she wanted something out of the way, I guess you have to be careful what you wish for then" Alex responded.

Perking up "who is your Sister Alex?" Allen asked "I did not know you had one" she added.

"I have two Sisters and one brother actually, my Sister who is at Starbase 51 is a Chief Warrant Officer, here is a picture of her" Alex said showing an image of her and her sister at a function.

Allen looked at it "I see the resemblance" then the image changed over to one of the sisters and some dark-haired guy, Jasmine Allen perked up even more "ooh! who is that hunk?" she asked.

Alex smiled "that is my Sisters friend Chris Kildare, he is also in the 95th Rifles and stationed at the same base" Somers answered.

"Are they an Item?" Allen asked

"Nope, he is single, she is married to a nice girl called Jennifer, so he is free, you thinking of paying him a visit on your next lengthy shore leaves?" Somers asked.

"Mmm... Maybe" Allen answered distracted.

"Forget it, that Starbase is classified, knowing about it is one thing knowing where in the Mira Sector it is, now that is another story, no one knows where in the Mira Sector that Starbase is located, but I know it is linked to the USS Tomcat" Sharpe spoke up as he finished his drink.

"My Cousin command that ship and my friend is a marine officer on it, they have some interesting missions from what I hear," Alex said and took a sip of her drink.

"Do you have a picture of this Kildare?" Allen asked.

Both looked at her, Sharpe raised an eyebrow, Alex did the same, Allen thought it funny and hid her amusement oO do these guys know how in sync they are Oo she thought to herself.

"You can look up his service jacket it is on file, I do not have a Padd with me at this moment in time," Somers said and Allen's face became sorrowful. oO Damn this woman, has some libido Oo, in reality, she was boy mad, she was young for someone of her rank, so her attitude was not unexpected.

Just then the Company's adjutant entered and walked up to Alex "hey boss, we have some new intelligence on some shenanigans going on in the outer sectors" Smith said.

Alex sighed, "okay let's go," she said finishing her drink leaving Allen alone as she, Smith and Sharpe headed to the Security centre to see what is going on, on the way out Alex paid for her and Paul's drink as they left the club.

Allen watched them leave and sighed, she looked around the club and found that the targets were few, so she finished up her drink paid the barkeep for hers and left the club and returned to her quarters.

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Major Alexandria Somers
G Company Commander (Omega)
14th Marine Btn SFMC
Starbase 332

Marine Captain Jeff Smith
G Company Adjudant (Omega)
14th Marine Btn SFMC
Starbase 332

1st Lieutenant Jasmine Allen [P: Somers]
G Company Officer (Omega)
14th Marine Btn SFMC
Starbase 332