Burning the Midnight Oil

Posted on Sun Oct 4th, 2009 @ 8:50pm by Lieutenant JG Lucas Jameson

Mission: Into a Devil's Heart
Location: Main Engineering
Timeline: MD05 2255 Hours

Lucas sat at his desk in his office. T'Lara, his assistant chief engineer who he'd brought over with him from the Enceladus, sat opposite him. The pair had been working for the past half an hour, trying to assign repair teams to provide any help the colony might need.

"God, I'm exhausted." He said "It's times like this I envy you, 'Lara. Your whole half Vulcan thing means you can go, for, what, 28 hours without sleep."
"Yeah, maybe they should've given me your job." She joked "I wouldn't be falling asleep while assigning teams."
"Hey, I didn't fall asleep." He retorted "I just, uh, decided to rest my eyes while deep in thought."
"Uh-huh." She said, giving him a look as if to say 'just admit it, you fell asleep'.
"I was resting my eyes!" He said defensively.

She sat there for a minute before giving him a grin.

"Right, like you did that time on Risa when we'd just-" She began
"Yeah, we don't need to go into that." He said quickly, cutting her off "We were both there."
"Yes, we were." She said "Anyway, do you think the teams are OK?"
"They'll do." He said, getting up and moving to the door, before turning and saying "Besides, we need to hit the hay. No point in going off on a mission while we're fighting our own fatigue. Lock the door when you leave. Night."
"Night." She said as she saw him walk away, before returning to the PADD in front of her to finalise the lists.