Naomi transported over to the Washington with a heavy heart. Not only was she leaving the ship she had been living on for two years, but she was losing her shore leave. Ahh well, she thought, when your life is in starfleet this is bound to happen.

"Welcome abored Lieutenant Wildman" said the commander in front of her, "My name is Commander Berlitz, head of Astrometrics."

"Nice to meet you" she said. She looked the Commander over, he was tall with blond hair and bright blue eyes that looked like the sky.

"I'll show you to your quarters,"he said, "But since you don't start till tomorrow I thought I could give you a quick showing of the ship, how does that sound?"

"That sounds fine Commander" Naomi said with a smile.

"Ohh please call me Tommy, everyone else does, on duty and off."

"All right, Tommy."

After Tommy had showed her to her quarters he gave Naomi a tour of the ship ending with the mess hall.

"And this is the Mess Hall, full of wonderful,(and if you see what our first officer eats) sometimes disgusting food!" said Tommy in a voice that made Naomi laugh. "What are you laughing at?" he asked in a "serious" voice.

"Nothing! Not you!" she replied making him laugh.

"You're very funny person," she smiled at him, "Now come on I'm hungry and there are some people who you should meet."

They went up the replicator where Tommy ordered pizza while Naomi ordered paraka wings.

"Do you know what those are?" asked Tommy

"Yup"

"Where are you from cause I only know one person who eats those."

"Why does it matter?" Naomi asked defensively, "Just because I eat the same thing as some other person does not mean that I came from the same place they did! I just saw that the computer had then and I like them! Very few databasses have this recipe so if you don't like them keep your mouth shut!"

"Sorry, I just thought you wanted to try something new and...well I jumped to conclusions, sorry.

"Yeah I shouldn't have gotten defensive either."

"Well why don't we sit down, I'll introduce you to some people from astrometrics."

"I'd like that" she smiled at him.

Tommy showed Naomi to a table where four people were sitting.

"Naomi this is Ensign Th'ropk." A young thallion woman nodded at her, "From left to right, Lieutenant Commander Christian Hutchinson, Commander Robert Krupa, and Lieutenant James Guerra." Three men stood up, Christian was tallish with strawberry (or was it apple?) blond hair, Robert, who worked in sickbay instead of astrometrics, was taller then Christian with brown hair and hazel eyes and James was tall, lanky, with white skin and jet black hair.

"Nice to meet you" all four said.

"Nice to meet you too,"said Naomi.

They had talked for while, about what her job would be like and what all the senior staff members were like. Naomi found that while the crew of the Washington thought that their first officer did a great job, he was just a little too closed off and proud.

"He use to run astrometrics, but now he's the first officer," said James, "He doesn't have a romantic relationship with anyone! No woman, no man, except every few weeks or so he gets a letter from someone and is overly happy for the rest of the day."

"Sounds like someone I know, we're very close" said Naomi.

"Ha! You close with someone like Commander Tight-Ass, that would be the day!" laughed Tommy.

"Shut up Tommy! Tight-Ass just walked through the door, and I think he's coming to sit with us!!" Whispered Th'ropk.

Naomi, who was sitting with her back towards the door, just stared strait ahead, not bothering to see the arrogant first officer yet.

True to Th'ropk's words Commander Tight-Ass came over to sit with his old astrometrics "buddies"

"Why Hello Commander," Tommy said in a sickly sweet voice. "I'd like you to meet our new crew member." he motioned for Naomi to get up. "Lieutenant Naomi Wildman, I'd like you to meet Commander Icheb."

Naomi's eyes got wide when she herd the name, and she quickly spun around to see him.

"Umm hi, I mean, hello Commander." she said holding out her hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you,"he said shaking her hand,"well I'd love to stay and chat but I have a lot of work I have to do. I hope you understand."

"Yes"

"Yes"

"Of course"

"It was a pleasure to meet you Naomi Wildman," he said with a smile and then turned and walked out of the mess hall.

"Ohh what a tight-ass he has." said Tommy.

"Yeah, he doesn't even have time to sit around with us anymore," Th'ropk said with annoyance.

"So what did you think of him Naomi?" asked Christian.

"Ohh I thought he was fine, but then again I only met him for thirty seconds." she said, "I hope you guys won't think I abandoned you if I leave now. It's just I have duty tomorrow, and I want to start unpacking, and-"she was cut off by Tommy raised hand.

"No we don't mind if you leave," he said,"you need rest before your first day."

"Thank you, I'll see you all tomorrow!" she said with a smile.

Her quarter doors had barely closed when Naomi felt a pair of arms rap around her.

"Took you long enough to get here."

"I'm sorry your "buddies" held me up." Naomi said turning to face Icheb, "How did you get into my quarters anyway?"

"I'm the first officer so I can do whatever I want," he said with a smirk, "Also when your code for your quarters is our wedding date, it's pretty easy to figure it out."

"Yeah yeah yeah, just shut up and kiss me!"