636: Better Ideas

by Rada Dengar
81101.2200
Not Long After To Sleep and Always Be Still

-=County Cork, Ireland=-


Rada was utterly exhausted. It had been a long couple of days. His uniform was a mess. On the bright side the bags under his eyes were so large now that there was no chance of the Angosian being mistaken for human. On the very not bright side, his sustaining hopes of finally being done had been shattered by the seven simple words: “We’ll have to dismantle this, you know?”

He could have cried as he realised that everything they’d built would have to be taken down. He was far too tired for that, even standing was a bit much for him at the moment. He and Kellyn were even too tired to argue anymore tonight about which of them had won. They’d have to argue about it in the morning.

Just as he was about to say to himself that that was it for tonight and to beam up to the ship for some sleep he noticed Wren approaching. She looked lovely. She had chosen a simple yet elegant dark blue dress with swished as she walked. Her dress was understated because tonight was not a night that she’d want to pull focus. She was smiling sympathetically at what she could see was a very tired Rada.

“The fireworks were wonderful,” she said.

“Thankyou,” said Rada although he was so tired that his words were quite slurred “I don’t personally understand the appeal.”

“I know,” she laughed softly, knowing that really there were few things Rada liked less in life than flashing lights and very loud bangs “but to those of us strange people who do enjoy this type of thing it was very nice.”

She placed her arms around Rada’s neck and kissed him. Rada could barely lift his head but managed to just get it high enough to meet her lips with his. As she drew her lips away from him he did something that no woman likes to see a man do after she’s just kissed him; he began to yawn.

“Hey!” She said, as she cheekily slapped his arm.

Rada replied with a very meek “Sorry,” as his eye lids began to close.

“I think that it’s time we took you back to your quarters.” she said as she placed her arms back around his neck.

“That is an excellent idea,” he replied as he began patting himself repeatedly on the chest.

“You do realise that you’re not wearing your communicator?” she said with a smile as Rada realised that she was correct. He considered contacting the ship to ask them where it was for a good few seconds before realising he’d need a communicator for that.

“That would be a problem,” he admitted.

“Yes it would,” she confirmed.

“I’m far too tired to be thinking for myself at the moment,” Rada added with a laugh as his head began to droop.

“Well, that’s what girlfriends are for.” she replied with that sweet smile of hers as he rested his head on her shoulder. “It’s been a lovely night, hasn’t it?”

“Yes, it has,” he confirmed, very grateful that she was here to support his weight but even more grateful that she was here.

“During the wedding I sort of started to think…” she added as Rada jumped back into full consciousness with thoughts of what she could have been thinking about.

“No no no, not about that.” She replied quickly as she realised that Rada may have thought she was talking about getting married.

“Okay,” said Rada as he rested his head back on her shoulder before realising that she hadn’t actually said what she was thinking about and looking back up at her “About what then?”

“I’ve been thinking about my quarters,” she said with a voice which said that she found herself in a bit of a predicament.

“What about them?” he asked as he rested his head back on her shoulder.

“They’re a bit big, aren’t they?” she asked, giving nothing away yet.

“I’ll talk to someone about having them fixed in the morning,” he replied. He couldn’t understand why Wren would be worried about her quarters being too big but if she would be happier with smaller ones then he would help her get them.

“Your quarters are a bit big too,” she commented in that same ‘it’s an annoying problem’ tone.

“I’ll talk to someone about having them fixed in the morning too,” he confirmed. He couldn’t grasp why she would care about his quarters being too big but was too tired to think about it.

“Oh, let’s not bother anyone else…” she said, wondering how long he was going to take to get the hint.

“You want me to do something about them myself?” he said looking up at her confused “I really don’t have any authority over room allocation. I guess I could put up some extra walls to shrink your current quarters down a bit” in his sleep deprived state this made perfect sense.

“Extra walls?” she asked rhetorically, pretending to take some time to consider this “Well…I guess we could do that…extra walls may fix the problem…but I may have a better idea.”

“What’s that?” asked Rada although he was half way into a dream already.

“My quarters are a bit big for two people but not for the three of us.”

“That’s true,” said Rada, he was about to point out that this would still not solve the problem of his quarters as if it was too big for one then it was definitely too big for none when he realised what she was saying and snapped back up. “You want me to move in with you?”

“Don’t you want to move in with me?” she asked acting shocked at the thought that he was rejecting her.

“Of course I do!” Rada blurted out.

“Are you sure? Because I was thinking that perhaps it’s a little too soon…” she teased as she let go of him and turned away to hide her smile.

“Absolutely not!” said Rada his voice was wide awake now although his body clearly wasn’t as he stumbled around to look at her “I’m going to beam up right now and start moving my stuff,” he said as he began patting his chest again. Eventually he remembered that his communicator wasn’t there.

“Perhaps you should wait until morning,” she suggested as she looked sweetly in his eyes. Rada was about to object that he didn’t want to wait until morning when he had a better idea. He leant in and kissed her slowly and he kept kissing her. As he reluctantly released her lips she considered teasing him a little with an overly dramatised yawn but decided she had a better idea too; she kissed him again.

Lt. SG Rada Dengar
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Serendipity NCC-2012