===== Shane's quarters, USS Chimera ===== Having the last free hour before leading one of the away teams bask to the station, Shane sat in his chair doing some of the annoying XO paper work. He was reviewing personal records. To be honest ... they were very different. On the one side the ship had quite a number of combat or field experienced officers and NCO's that were decorated with ribbons and medals and on the other side there were a majority of young recruits ... fresh from the academy or NCO training camps ... Shane could very well remember his own times as a fresh academy ensign and the problems and troubles a 'greenhorn' has on the ship. He remembered how hard he tried ... how hard he worked, the many double shifts he took to make a good appearance in his superior eye's ... and the LITTLE effect it had ... What a young officer needed ... was a chance ... a chance to prove himself or herself. Like an important task ... a big job ... or an away team. That was an interesting thought. He was about to lead an away team ... a quite important and hazardous away team ... upon success ... anyone involved would get quite a credit ... something a young 'greenhorn' was in need for! Shane tapped several buttons on his console and let the computer to list him several names ... names of young officers that were already some time on board ... who 'surely' were waiting for their chance ... like Cdt. MaiKai Quiocho for example. Shane looked at her picture for a minute and then flew over her personal record. {interesting!} he thought. MaiKai was sure no 'greenhorn' by this time ... she served for good two years in space ... first SB Aurora and now here. The funny thing was that she was still a cadet ... After two years ... after a time where most of the officers were LtJg+ already. Shane smiled ... she was the right person for a chance ... +TAPS+ Guzman to cadet Quiocho. Please report to my quarters immediately. =/\= MaiKai's Quarters =/\= Mai laid in bed dreaming of white fluffy clouds and pink little bunnies when... ERRR! went the sound of the alarm clock sitting on the nightstand. She slams her hand on the snooze button as she puts her pillow over her head. About twenty minutes later right before she falls back asleep, what could be worse, her comm badge goes off saying,"Guzman to Cadet Quiocho. Please report to my quarters immediately." She groans and answers back: +TAPS+ I'll be right there. Cadet Quiocho out. She slips out of bed, takes a quick shower, and then gets dressed. She takes her time walking out of her room and getting to Guzman's quarters. She walks in and takes a seat. "You called me sir?", she asks as she sights his 'good morning' smile. As the young woman came into his quarters Shane had to smile slightly. Her 'croaky' response over the comm and her somewhat sleepy appearance revealed that he had woken her up. Its funny ... bosses and senior officers never think about day hours ... and if their subordinates aren't maybe sleeping after a hard day ... Shane nodded towards the cadet: "Yes I did miss Quiocho. I have there an open issue and figured you might help me with that" he said going straight to the business. Well, ... if he would be single and know for his affairs with woman it might have sounded quite 'interesting' ... he realized. {Geeez! I am single and rumour about Athena and me spread with warp speed}. "Erm ... " he coughed shortly and looked at Mai. "And what is this issue you need help with?" She thought if she answered him back maybe she would wake up some more and then head to sickbay after here. "Well, all right miss Quiocho" Shane said wanting to bring the conversation into the right way. {The last thing I need now are rumours about me seducing a cadet!} "you maybe know that two away teams are going back to the station" he said. Taking a PADD from the table he stretched his hand to hand it over to Mai. "Here you will see the objectives of the 2nd away team which I will lead" he continued, "Our mission is to find out what the aliens are doing with the station's torpedoes and disarm them all." He looked up at Mai to see what is she thinking about it. "Sounds like a plan sir, the sooner we get this done the better. That way this whole thing including the 'escorting' can be done with," she tried to say more sweetly to answer him back. MaiKai was never a morning person and now she knew that he could kind of tell my the 'creakiness' in her voice. Even when she was little she wasn't ready to get up. She would always ask her mother for a few more minutes to finish her favorite dreams. As she reached for the PADD their fingers met unintentionally and Shane jerked a bit back. {Don't be a fool Shane} he thought {she is not interested in you ... how many times have you both met? 10-15 times in a year?} He coughed again: " Well, I will need a doctor in that team ... and that's why I have called you. You think you are up for such a business?" "I sure am, gives me something to do and help out away from the ship," she said with a wink while trying to break the tension of the whole 'exchanging the PADD" coincident some may call it. Mai always loved going away from places she was originally placed. Like at school she would always want to run notes to other teachers instead of do work like the other kids. Resemblance to here: Going from the sickbay on the ship to going on a team. Shane nodded glad that MaiKai seemed so eager for the mission: "Agreed then cadet. Please make your medical equipment and leave space for a firearm that Lieutenant Acheson will distribute before leaving the ship." He smiled at the young woman: "Dismissed" She carries on out of his quarters and precedes to the turbolift to head off to Sickbay to get some supplies and maybe check in on some patients before she heads off for the away team. =/\= End Log =/\= LtCmdr. Shane Guzman XO USS Chimera & Cadet MaiKai Quiocho AMO USS Chimera