"Hey! This is your first new year's on the ship, right?!" North yelled over the loud party music in the ship's bar.

"Yeah!" Newbie agreed. "Hey!"

"What?" North replied.

"Mistletoe." Newbie pointed up and North followed her gaze.

He turned back around and New Hampshire's face was inches from his. She grinned and said, "now we have to play by the rules."

She took hold of his face and pressed her lips against his. It wasn't like she'd imagined. She thought it'd just be plain, simple and brief. Of course it was anything but. He kissed her back. He enjoyed the kiss just as much as she did.

"Huh?" Newbie questioned as North pulled away looking horrible.

"I should know better. You're just a kid. I'm sorry."

"Just a kid? I am most certainly am not, just a kid. I'm eighteen now not to mention you're only four years older than me. And by the way you kissed me back I can tell you like me just as much as I like you."

"Newbie, let it go. I'm sorry I kissed you but you're still a kid and I'm not going to do that to you."

"But," She never got to finish her sentence before North patted her head and walked away.

Newbie burst into tears and ran out of the bar. She ran out the doors and into the hallway. Amazing for someone wearing heels and a short black cocktail dress with a poofie tutu skirt. She covered her face with her hands and cried knowing she could do as much as she wanted because it was waterproof.

Wyoming and a few soldiers she didn't recognise strolled past. He stopped put his hand n her elbow and said, "Whatever it is love, it can wait till another day. It's New Year's Eve go and enjoy the night." And walked away.

To say she was confused was the understatement of the century. She just stared at the spot he no longer stood and her eyes dried. Took her a moment but she realised he was right.

"Hey Newbie." Wash cheerily greeted by the bar table.

"Hiya Wash!" She said grinning at him. She got three shots of tequila and a beer. She downed the shots and then took a sip of the beer.

"Wanna dance?" She asked now buzzed.

"Sure" He replied a little surprised. They moved into the middle of the dance floor and he bobbed to the music while she swung her hips.

The middle was pushed out to the side of the dance floor and Newbie found herself surrounded by people she didn't know while she did the grind with Wash. A group of Male soldiers shoved Newbie and she fell into Wash. He caught her and she looked up at him. She smiled. "Thanks." Newbie leant up to kiss him on the cheek but he turned his head and caught her lips. She pulled back to look at him.

Newbie shrugged and took another swig of her beer before pushing up against him squishing his lips with hers. Wash massaged her neck with his fingers as she kissed him and her legs slowly turned to jelly. She had one hand holding on to his shoulder the other arm resting on the other side gripping the neck of a half full beer.

Newbie breathed in his sent. He smelled of a sweat but masculine aftershave and deodorant that smoothly mixed with it. Wash also had the smell of alcohol on his breath and the taste of it on his lips.

When her knees gave out from the neck massage he scooped her up in his arms and shoved her up against the wall. Her hips straddled his and she had a knee either side of him.

"Ten! Nine!" Newbie and Wash pulled their mouths away from each other for a moment joining in the count down.

"Eight, seven! Six! Five! Four, three, two! ONE! HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Everyone cried and Wash and Newbie gazed into each others eyes for a moment.

"Happy New Year Diana."

"Happy New Year David." And then they resumed sucking face.

"Ugh." York groaned rubbing his eyes. Somehow everyone had ended up in New Hampshire and Tex's room. North was lying on Newbie's bed with her head resting his chest with Wash on the other side of the double with a wide(ish) gap between them. Newbie had a high heeled foot resting on his leg but that was about the only interaction she had not involving North.

Tex was lying on her bed with CT, South and Wyoming all spooning each other. Carolina had her head in his lap and Maine was sprawled out on the spare bed with a girl he didn't recognise latched onto him.

"So you're awake?" York said grinning at North. "You know I saw you and Newbie under the mistletoe last night. Can I say, well done! You scored a hottie." It was just him and North awake and North looked around noticing Newbie asleep on his chest.

"No. It's not like that. We, I stopped. She's too young. She's just a kid."

"Right. You do know she's only like four and a half years younger than you, and of consenting age?"

"That's not the point." North wriggled out from underneath New Hampshire and stood up minding the random strangers lying in the middle of the floor. "I've gotta go." And he ran out of the room.

"Morning everyone!" the girl attached to Maine said feeling chipper. Everyone except Newbie groaned and sat up glaring angrily at her. Newbie however continued to sleep

"Hey, it's been like five days, don't you wanna get up or something?" CT said arms folder across her chest glaring at the sleeping New Hampshire.

"Newbie, come on, get up." Carolina cooed. Still no response.

"Maybe she's dead." South said with a smirk. "Or just comatose." She added when they both turned round to glare at her.