By Avery Breaux
80128.16
After Preparations
--=Engineering: USS Alchemy; in her bay aboard the Sera=--
80128.16
After Preparations
--=Engineering: USS Alchemy; in her bay aboard the Sera=--
To say that the work in Engineering had been a grind, was an understatement. Many, many things had to be replaced, overhauled, and refitted. Far more than they had anticipated.
The two crews had worked non-stop and had attended to every request that Breaux or Kellyn had put to them.
Breaux had numerous padds strewn about the console in front of him, not to mention the countless coffee cups.
"Who keeps putting these damned cups here?" Breaux called out to no one in particular. None of the passing crew had the heart to tell him that they all belonged to him.
Avery was lost in his work and as he continued, crew passed dropping off padds on the left side of the console, which now officially served as the 'in basket', while the right side was the 'out basket'. Padds on the right side were retrieved and then taken to their next assignment.
Sleeves rolled up, Avery kept working and ciphering, offering suggestions where warranted. His work was occasionally interrupted by a trip to the core, or a wall console, not to mention the scattered trips underneath work consoles or traipsing about in Jeffries Tubes. There were moments when he stopped, looked up or about and listened to the hum of the work going on and took pleasure in the job getting done.
It was in one of the Jeffries Tubes where he thought of her.
As he was descending after fixing yet another faulty relay his thoughts had traveled to Alessa. He stopped climbing and stared first straight ahead and then upward. Finally, balancing himself on the ladder rungs, he allowed himself to rest his forehead on one of the upper rungs. Thoughts flashed through his mind, memories of the past...but he felt stronger this time, and wasn't going to succumb to any more thoughts of the past.
He righted himself and flew down the ladder quickly and entered Engineering once again. "Be back in five," he announced to the senior lead of the second crew.
Breaux made his way to his quarters and once inside headed straight for the desk.
He took the padd with the last of his medical exam work and tapped in the necessary codes to have it downloaded to Starfleet Medical...pressing the send button the screen flashed the appropriate Starfleet logo and then announced in script,
YOUR EXAM RESULTS WILL BE FORWARDED TO YOU IN 14 TERRAN DAYS
Breaux nodded and set the padd down. He stood for a moment looking out the view portal and then spun quickly to head back to Engineering aboard the Alchemy.
----------------------------
Lt SG Avery Breaux
Engineering
USS Serendipity NCC-2012
USS Alchemy NX-53099
Lt SG Avery Breaux
Engineering
USS Serendipity NCC-2012
USS Alchemy NX-53099