A New Skin

Posted on Wed Oct 14th, 2015 @ 1:56pm by Samanthia Akiashiro & Colonel S'er'in'e

Mission: By Dawn's Early Light
Location: Quarters

S'er'in'e returned to Samanthia's Quarters but when he arrived he found Samanthia was out, he was not sure where exactly but figured perhaps she had gone to entertain the First Wife with tales of the Homeworld or perhaps gone to work to catch up on things. He wasted no time in replicating a new uniform, rank and spares for storage. He groomed, some light trims of the fur followed by a shower. Now that he would be once again in uniform he had to make sure he was presentable and up to scratch.

He stood before the mirror to make any final adjustments, making sure everything was in it's place. Unexpectedly the door opened...

Samanthia stood there looking at S'er'in'e in his Marine Uniform, looking sharp. She gave a low whistle of appreciation. "When did this happen?" Moving to take a better look at him. "I thought you resigned from Fleet Marines?" This was one of the rare times she had seen him in uniform. She reached up and brushed a few fur strands from his uniform. Then she leaned against the counter to look him over.

"I had, Captain Von had delayed submitting my resignation and instead offered me a promotion and a new position." He looked at her leaning against the counter. "I am now the CAG of this base." There was no hiding the pride he felt from his new role on board, and showing off to the Mate never hurt too. "Did you enjoy your outing?" He asked not sure where exactly she went.

"I had to check up on the 'The Dive' and Warp-12. Then ran into Tamarue who wanted to go shopping." She smiled at the boldness S'er'in'e was showing. "Then a bunch of hooligans came running through the main concourse, bumpin into people. They knocked Tamarue down along with some of her entourage." Samanthia spoke softly with a bit of anger in her tone. "I was shoved to the side, losing one of my packages in the process."

His fur contorted slightly in displeasure at what happened, little he could do about it now however but still. "Did the First Wife inform you of the invitation to dinner with the family? I even have permission to carry you should you resist." His frown changed to a grin and his mind swirled about with devious thoughts.

"She did make mention of it. Will you be free later this evening to attend?" Samanthia stood up and moved out of his way to allow him to leave for duty. She moved over to the closet and opened it up to look for a clean outfit to wear. "This used to be a quiet Starbase, according to Tamarue. Ever sense Fleet had shown interest in the Starbase and moved in. All sorts of shenanigans been taking pace. Mainly the war of Civilians verses Fleeters." Pulling out a nice blouse, pleated skirt outfit from the closet and laying out on their new bed, one that Stiener had made for S'er'in'e. It was big enough for the two of them to sleep comfortable on.

"I will be, I will contact you prior to leaving the Hanger Bay." Once set he walked into the Bedroom to see her just putting the outfit on the bed. He hugged her from behind gently but with some grip to it. "I will see you later today my Mate." A deep inhale at her neck and a rub of the cheek before standing up again and letting her free from his embrace.

Samanthia smiled when he embraced her. She leaned against him till he released her. "mmmmmmm" softly in imitation of a soft purr. "Have fun. I do expect a tour of your new command." She smiled, yet there was traces of worry in her expression as she turned back to what she was doing.

"When ever you so wish my Mate." He kissed her hand as gentlemen of old and some of current did before leaving, he was keen to see his new domain, see the pilots of skill, the advanced crafts they flew but most of all getting to know them and feeling apart of the team again.

Samanthia quickly changed after S'er'in'e had left the apartment to his new assignment. She sighed softly as she knew she couldn't stand in his way and his happiness of being useful in a grander scheme of things. She was once just as idealistic when she joined Starfleet. Out to save the universe, blah blah blah... She sighed at her loss of Ideals and moved onto a new path when she had lost her family. Would things be different with S'er'in'e?

She moved into the common room of the apartment and looked at the pictures of her now deceased family as she gathered them up to be stored along with the rest of her stuff from Starbase 12 in the extra room where she stored her extra stuff, She looked at the Fleet Medical Uniform she used to wear and the pips of a Lt. Commander at the age of 30. She had done her parents proud in following their footsteps in the Medical Field. Even though she resigned from Fleet and took a new path, she still found herself dealing with Fleet in another manner. Once again married to another fleet officer.

Samanthia shut the lid to the packing crate and hoping that she wouldn't lose another mate. She thought of the Caitian Culture where she had the ultimate decision to order her mate to resign totally from Starfleet. Yet on the other hand, she could see it would demean the big Cat by keeping him imprisoned to satisfy her selfishness wants. She had seen the lightness in his steps and the extra pizzaz sweep of his tail when he stood looking at himself in the mirror. The way he grabbed her for the embrace from behind. She smiled as life had returned to him.

Hanger Bay

S'er'in'e walked into the Hanger Bay for the first time and was surprised at the sheer volume of space afforded to such a department, neatly lined in rows were the various fighter types, a maintenence section to one side, armoured secure weapons storage for fighter based munitions. To his right appeared to be offices, more storage sections and an open doorway which appeared to be a rec-room by what he could see through the doorway. As expected his presence there didn't go unnoticed for long.

"Excuse me sir are you lost?"

S'er'in'e turned to see what was clearly an engineer going by the dirty overalls and tools about his person.

"Major S'er'in'e. I am the new CAG." S'er'in'e replied.

"Ah right, we were wondering what was going on, Lt Mason is out on patrol at the moment, she's been filling in for the time being until I guess you arrived. I'll give you the tour."

S'er'in'e was shown the various sections, told about the many areas similar to this but on different facings of the station, fighter compliments and pilot figures all of which he was told he could find out more information on at his office. His office was large, spacious and filled with monitors and displays which already streamed information. "Thank you, please inform Lt. Mason I'd like to meet her as soon as she lands."

"Yes Major."

Left alone now in his office S'er'in'e took stock at what was available to him. The department had a complete loadout of craft, munitions were nearly at max capacity and the pilots all had above standard ratings and performance evaluations. The former CAG was very detailed in his reports and Lt.Mason in the interim maintained everything with equal measure.

First thing was first however, he had to read up on this Lt. Mason and see what he could gleam about his Executive Officer.

Apartment and elsewhere

Samanthia looked at the bare shelf, just cleared of family pictures. Just her parents remained and herself alone. She would have to get pictures of S'er'in'e's Parents pictures made and a few of them two together. She smiled as the apartment felt more like home as she left her apartment on the Akiashiro Deck and made her way up to her lounge Warp-12.