Scene 1 – First Re-Meeting
I felt a set of unfamiliar boots walking down my hallways. They were small boots, but they had a stride about them; a stride of authority, and they were graceful in the way they moved. Grace in the form of a woman, I noted, when I finally saw the striking blonde that owned said boots in the reflection of a mirror.
I could feel the large boots of another person I knew all too well, walking in the direction of the small woman's. Both sets of boots came closer, before the larger pair rounded the corner and knocked into the smaller ones, sending them tumbling towards the floor.
"Are you okay?" came the surprised voice of large boots.
I could feel small boots picking herself up off the floor, and holding onto the railing on my walls.
"Kate?" said large boots, shock resounding in the tone of his voice.
"Mike?" The same shocked facial expression was repeated on small boots' face, or as I now knew her as, Kate. I preferred small boots.
I could sense the tension between the two, and oh boy... there was something between them that was slightly amiss.
"Ahh, look Kate, I never got a chance to speak with you... privately... since you joined us." Mike started.
"No," replied small boots.
"When we last met on the course, I never expected that we'd end up on the same ship, you being a large ship sort of person, me being wedded to patrol boats."
"Yes you're right, I am... a big ship sort of person," small boots said thoughtfully, a wooden smile on her face.
"Yes," Mike said, smiling.
"As for anything else... that might have happened between us, I'm sure that two professionals can work together..." small boots said, looking at Mike, adding a curt "Sir." to the end of her sentence as an afterthought.
"Yes, I'm sure," Mike replied, a slight waver in his voice.
I felt small boots walk away from large boots towards her cabin as large boots set off towards the bridge.
I felt the vibration of small boots as she flopped onto her rack and sighed into her hands.
"Why me?" A sigh.
"Why him?" A groan.
"Why this ship?" Another groan.
"Bloody hell," she cursed.
At that moment I felt Nikki, or Nav as everyone called her, walk into the cabin that she was now sharing with small boots.
"Bad day?" Nav joked, walking over to where small boots was.
A groan was all that Nav got out of her as I felt small boots' boots hit the floor with a thud.
"Oookay..." Nav said as she left the cabin, leaving small boots to sulk.
tbc...
