Everything is New Except You

Posted on Wed Nov 9th, 2022 @ 6:01pm by Ensign Theo Cauthon

Mission: New Horizons
Location: Starbase Haven Quaters
Timeline: Current

It had been sometime since Theo Idris Cauthon had any trouble sleeping, the ride from the USS Franklin to Haven Starbase was a long and arduous. The franklin had been his last assignment on his final year of the academy, He had been up most of the night, there was a padd that lay next to his bed. The bed he had called home for the last 4 days after. The starbase was like a mase at times and he knew he would need more time before shipping out to get used to it.

He rubbed his hands over his eyes as he looked at the clock a stark 2 am buzzed in bright red as swung his legs across the bed “Tea Hot two sugars” he spoke to the replicator in his room, as he stood and stretched, finding his glasses on his bedside table. On his padd he had been reading the “Poetic Edda” a collection of old norse poems and prose.

The replicator had made his drink and he grabbed his padd, and sat at the small desk in his quarters. He changed the padd over to another book as sipped from the hot beverage. This would be his first real assignment, to be chosen for such a prestigious ship was elating, the liberty had long held a prestigious name among the fleet.

His head was swimming with so many emotions, elation, fear, excitement all of these things that a brand new ensign felt up on completion of there academy days. He had all of is stuff packed from the franklin and soon enough he would take up his first chief position upon the liberty.

The cup of Sugary war tea clung to his bones, space was cold at times but was even colder was the vastness of space between him and grandparents. They were on earth and he was here awaiting his assignment. The tea was a welocme break from his distant thoughts “Computer play the film Silence of the Lambs” he fixed his chair so that he could face the screen on his wall, grabbed his little quilt and wrapped it around his form as drank from his cup of tea, hoping the film would illicit his brain into sleep.

Alas his brain dident but the film was a welcome enough reprieve from his thoughts even if they did linger on earth and all those the young ensign had left behind, including one Ensign Loki Strong, Before Theo had even had a chance to tell the young man how he felt his assignment had come through and he had been whisked off the franklin and sent straight to haven starbase all the way out by betazed, the irony is that Loki himself was half betazoid.

Wrapping his arms around him tighter, The last time he had seen Loki was on his departure of the luna class. Waving good bye as he stepped on the platform to enter the the runabout that would take him to where he was right now.

He dident even know if Loki even had the same feelings towards him, that was all to sad to think about, some part of Theo hoped and prayed that by some sheer miracle Loki would end up being transferred from the Franklin over to The liberty hoping that the young Security officer would get a promotion to chief of Security and he would find him stood at the tactical station the bridge.

The thought of that somewhat filled the young ensign with some joy just enough to warm his heart and send his eyes fluttering as he placed his tea on the table and curled up in the chair falling asleep almost instantly.