Dr. Lang was sitting in Admiral Gloval's office when the phone rang and the Admiral's administrative assistant let him know that Commander Hayes and Lt. Commander Hunter were there to see him.
Wondering what those two could want and wondering if there was some dispute between the two of them that needed mediation, the Admiral granted them access and was surprised to find Lt. Commander Hunter taking the lead.
After greeting the two men, Rick cleared his throat and said, "Admiral Gloval sir, I'm requesting permission to be allowed to start a relationship with Commander Hayes. I know that this is unusual request but we'd like your blessing, if we may, sir. "
Admiral Gloval was amused, this is not at all what he expected when those two entered his room and looked at Commander Hayes, who was uncharacteristically quiet.
Addressing the woman that he saw as more of a daughter than a subordinate, he addressed her informally, "Well this is a surprise to be sure, Lisa are you sure you want to involve yourself with this hot headed, arrogant , pig headed flyboy? If not, I can send him to the brig to cool down if you'd prefer."
Blushing at the words that the Admiral used to describe Rick as she had used these terms many times herself during their TacNet arguments, Lisa just laughed and taking Rick's hand into hers, smiled and said,"I'm sure, thank you sir, for looking after me so well."
The Admiral smiled, happy to see that Rick and Lisa finally saw that they belonged together.
"Permission granted, however, if you two drag your personal problems onto this base, I'll throw you both in the brig."
Rick and Lisa both responded with the "Yes, sir" before being excused by Admiral.
As they started to leave the room, Rick took the files that had been in Lisa's hands and put them on the desk. Addressing both the Admiral and Dr. Lang , "I'm going to return these files to you sirs, unfortunately the Commander will be unable to participate in the Program. I hope you understand."
Admiral Gloval and Dr. Lang waited a few minutes to make sure Rick and Lisa had left for good and then they both stared at the unsealed profiles that Dr. Lang had given to Lisa a few weeks back. Looking at one another and then looking at the files again, both men started laughing. Gloval picked up the folders and handed them back to the doctor and said, " Congratulations Lang, it looks like your program has it's first successful match. I think after they have their firstborn we should let them know that your data analysis had selected Hunter as her top candidate, although I don't know how we could have gotten him to agree to participate."
Lang just laughed and said, "He would have participated. His competitive nature and natural attraction to Commander Hayes would have forced him to into it, once he found out there were others willing to participate. It's one of the data points that was used to match them together."
Sharing a final chuckle, the two men continued their earlier conversation.
-Finis
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