All By Myself - Part 7 - (BACKPOST)

Posted on 29 Jul 2025 @ 6:06am by Lieutenant Commander Raviran Dattek-Winters & Lieutenant JG Cajag Lagnas

1,021 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: The Festival of Unity
Location: Cag's Temporary Quarters - Starbase 375
Timeline: (Backpost)

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"But it's Sunday" was all Ravi could think of to say in response to all that.

Continued:

Caj reached over to a nearby pile of clothes and pulled his trousers towards him. He rummaged through the trouser pockets and pulled out an ornate silver pocket watch. He flicked it open and read it thoughtfully "Hmmmmmm.....yes we seem to of lost around twenty four hours

"Lost them?" Ravi was confused again and she hated feeling this way, it was so disorienting and it hurt her head even more. "But yesterday was Saturday wasn't it? Didn't we go to the Colour of Magic Bar? So today SHOULD be Sunday...... or did we go there Friday night, after our shifts were over?" She struggled to remember more clearly.

"Wait, what if I find us some distilled water and some medical oxygen to try to clear our minds?" she asked.

Caj scratched his beard. "I would not recommend that unless you were a medical professional. Perhaps a glass with three raw eggs, tabasco sauce and some salt instead? I remember using that as a hangover cure when i was in the academy....WAIT!" he suddenly shouted to himself and snapping his fingers. "I just figured where we are. These are my temporary quarters." His smiled broadened. "You know I had only just dropped my bag off here before bumping into you."

Ravi looked at the Trill in front of her for a few seconds before she said to him slowly.

"Oh so you're new, that might explain a few items that weren't making sense. Well..... firstly I AM a medical professional, in fact I am the CHIEF Medical Officer on the USS Cygnus." stating this fact helped her to clear the start of a path through the fog in her head.

"And you are..... or you will be, whom, Einstein-Llama?" she asked, now very curious. "A gold trim from Science I would hazard a guess?"

Caj smiled "Science is blue collar Ma'am." said the Trill with a little mock salute. "Ensign Cajag Lagnas reporting for sponge bath Ma'am."

"Blue?" she shook her head. "Teal? Sponge bath? I'll have you know, I run a reputable, respectable Sickbay on this ship!" she huffed.

"And...." she went on after a short pause "No Llamas in my biobeds - nor sponges for that matter... and they don't speak much either, but they DO drink water.......... apparently."

Caj smiled, if Ravi ran the ships sick bay, when it was fixed, it was not a huge leap to assume that Ravie was his superior officer and a doctor at that. In his brain this certainly ticked a few boxes with him. "Well then. rather than sit here and feel sorry for our selves. Why don't you have shower. i'll start tiding up, then we can deal with the Llama....and.." He clicked his fingers. "Got it!...." he grinned as he figured out the Llama question "Computer end holographic program." The Llama then disappeared. "It certainly raises more questions on why we got drunk and decided a Llama in my quarters was a good idea."

Ravi's eye's opened wide. "A hologram" she said with a deep breath of almost disbelief. "Why didn't I think of that?" she shook her head. Getting up from the sofa that she'd been sheltering on, she wrapped herself more tightly in her covers and obediently went to get a shower as it seemed to make sense but she was fully inside and in the middle of washing before it occurred to her that she shouldn't be following orders from some new, blue-collared, Scientist that she barely knew and yet had spent the night in his quarters under the influence of some presumably toxic, possibly damaging concoction that had to have been intoxicating and probably a strong alcohol of some sort.

Even though no-one could see her, Ravi blushed furiously and shuddered at the thought of what was going to happen when word of this got out.

She finished her sonic shower and switched the controls to water - cold water. It gave her a bit of a shock and was very unpleasant but she felt she deserved it for this incident and her upcoming 'walk of shame' back to her own quarters which was seeming to be imminent.


Caj stumbled up to his feet, quickly rushing to his bedroom to pull on some track suite bottoms and a T-Shirt. He then found Ravi's clothes. Though oddly these seemed to be drying in the small oven in his kitchen, he checked the size of the uniform and then made a new one in the replicator. With even more haste he folded up the uniform and the clothes in the doorway to his bathroom for Ravi. Caj then began to tidy as best he could by programming the repilcator into recycling mode. It made a strained whirring noise as its anti-matter pad worked overtime. Caj then began work on making them both some breakfast.

Ravi finished her shower and self-inflicted punishment of the cold. She emerged to find her uniform folded just outside the shower with a towel nearby where she had left it. She dried herself off and began to dress, glad there was no sign of Caj or any of his creatures. She found a nearby mirror and finger combed her long hair into something that resembled a pony tail and wrapped it around with a hair tie that might have been hers - well hopefully - it was lying redundant and abandoned on the floor which gave her reason to believe she could take it, so she did.

After fixing - if you could call it that - her hair and with her face and body washed and clothed, she somewhat timidly emerged into the unknown - or at least unremembered quarters that were apparently temporary to the Trill.

"erm.... was it Caj? I'm sorry I've forgotten, I think......" she asked as she rounded the doorway and emerged.

TBC

A JP by :



Ensign Cajag Lagnas
Science Officer-USS Cygnus


and

Lieutenant Raviren Dattek-Winters
Chief Medical Officer - USS Cygnus

 

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