<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><span id="ydp4344b9d7docs-internal-guid-dca5372d-7fff-32c4-a907-b0ad0ab87e4f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mission: Space Was Cool Before It Mattered</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day: 2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stardate: 2446.04.26</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div></span></div><span><span id="ydp1b9b8f4edocs-internal-guid-718bbd17-7fff-4006-c936-b083c4107477"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Exeter – Personal Quarters - Lieutenant Ire Williams/ Lieutenant (jg) Greta Smith - 0132)</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span><div><span id="ydpc4ba0537docs-internal-guid-b5efce08-7fff-99f1-2a3d-8b30549b3f72"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The scream continued as his nightmare blink away and reality was left in its place. He paused for a moment as he realised that he was in the real world and not in his dream before he looked over at Greta and realised that the scream had come from her. He pushed the remnants of his recurring nightmare and spoke to her.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Greta, it's okay you are safe.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sitting up suddenly, bolt upright, Greta realised that the sound that she had heard was her. Forcing her eyes open, she knew she was trembling and couldn't help it. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Ire… oh I… did I wake you?"</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It's okay. I was going to wake up soon anyway.” Knowing that the nightmare would conclude in its normal fashion. He looked at her with concern.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“More importantly are you okay?”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She closed her eyes for a moment and then gently shook her head. "It's happened before… since the vulcan but not since Starfleet Medical. I… Ire, I'm sorry." She replied, pulling the duvet around her a little and not looking at him. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He gently rolled her over so that he was looking into her eyes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You don’t have to apologise. Not to me. You were there for me after Wolf and I will be here for you.” </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She sighed, "It's… just the things he showed me… the things I saw… most of the time I know they're not real but sometimes…"</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ire nodded. “I can understand that.” </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She curled into him, taking comfort in the warmth of the man she loved. "I just… when I'm asleep, it's hard to shake them."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He wrapped his arms around her.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“That makes sense.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sighing, "I remember you, the nights they shook you after… you dealt with them so well and me…"</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I could not have done it without you. I would have never got back into a cockpit if you had not been there let alone still be in starfleet. Just knowing that you were there keeping me safe as I worked it all out in my head made all the difference.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smiling softly, Greta looked at him, "You don’t mind… if it takes time."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He gave her a gentle smile. “It will take time. Nothing is a quick fix but I will be there for you as you were for me.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Even if I wake you every night and not in a good way?"</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Of course.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sighing heavily, Greta closed her eyes as she lay her head on his shoulder, "Ire… I’m scared sometimes. It's been a good while since it happened and I haven't been back to the bar.."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Of course you are. no sane person would not be. You will get back there eventually but don’t rush it if you don’t want to.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It's not that I don’t want to… it's more of… I'm scared. I know I have to at some point. Can't avoid it forever."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We have time. There are other places on the ship that we can go to. We will go when you are ready.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"We? You'll come with me?"</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Of course I will go wherever and whenever you want.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Right now I would settle for sleep. Curled up with you."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“That sounds like a good plan. We definitely do that.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greta closed her eyes, and, as she began to fall back asleep, mumbled, "Don’t leave me…"</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I will never leave you.” He smiled at her as she drifted to sleep. He waited for a bit knowing what he would be returning to when he fell asleep but he knew that he needed his sleep as much as she did. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Love you. Sleep well.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He closed his eyes and drifted back to more troubled times.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Reply None)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Posted by Jackie and Robbie)</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></body></html>