Wish Upon A Star Chapter 1, an azur lane/碧蓝航线 fanfic

A/N: Well here we are at the start again, thanks in advance for coming along with this trip. This one is going to be from the POV of Intrepid and I think this one might be a M story just for mobility in what subjects get covered.

As a side note, holy cow! 4700+ views for "A Fresh Start", that is a new record for me. So thank you to everyone that gave me their attention, I greatly appreciate it.

Part One – Polaris

I loved this time of night, being out on a hill with a telescope and away from the lights of the base, the night sky was so pretty. I push one of my greyish-purple pigtails over my shoulder as I bend at my hips to look through the eyepiece of the telescope, a smile on the edge of my mouth, I can see it so clearly, the space station built by humans before the war, it's still there.

From beside me, I hear a page turn in a book as my sister Shangri-La says to me in a disinterested tone, "You know the odds of you actually finding a new stellar object is extremely low, right?"

I sigh before I respond, "I'm not trying too, I just like to look. There is just something so pretty about astronomy."

My brow twitches as I see that the escape craft is long gone, on some level I had hoped that it was still there, that maybe after all of this time that someone might have gone back up there. It'd been years since the war started and months since it ended. I sigh and say to my sister, "Lala, why did you come out here with me?"

I don't even have to look at Shangri-La to see her eyes roll; she hated me calling her that almost as much as I hated… "Because this activity of yours is often quiet and I can get some reading done, Decrepit." She said to me, I could almost feel the smirk on her face.

"You know I hate that name…" I say to her.

"I do. But have you seen anything interesting tonight?" she asks me.

I stand upright again and look at the stars as I say to her, "I found the space station Liberty."

My sister got up and came over to look through the eyepiece before she said, "Looks like it's still in good shape too."

When she stands back up, she checks her watch, frowns, and says to me, "I'm going to head back to the dorms; I have an early watch tomorrow, you coming?"

I shake my head as I tell her, "No, I'm going to stay a bit longer, maybe I'll see a shooting star or something."

A while after she's gone I hear some movement in the bushes, I spin quickly to see a man coming out of them with a telescope of his own, he's handsome, tall, fair skin, short black hair and I think that his hair also has a few silver strands in it based on how the moonlight is hitting it, but it is his blue eyes that draw me in, there is something about them. He looks surprised to see me standing there as he says, "Oh! Sorry, I didn't know this place was taken…"

I smile at him and shake my head as I tell him, "It's alright; this place is big enough for two."

I watch as he gets set up and he asks, "See anything interesting tonight?"

"Yeah, I saw Space Station Liberty." I say back, looking back through my telescope to watch the station, I'm not sure what I'm looking for really, but this gives me something else to look at, rather than my new company.

After a while I shiver a little, it's surprising how cold it can get at night here… I feel something heavy get put over my shoulders, taking my attention away from the images in space I look to see that he's not in his jacket anymore and that was when it registers, he put his jacket on me. I feel my cheeks get hot and I ask him, "Aren't you going to get cold?"

I see him shrug in the moonlight as he says, "I'll live."

I pull the coat tighter around me and I notice it smells like beach wood, it puts a smile on my face after a few moments more of looking at space my attention again returns to him, I can see him rubbing his arms. Stepping away from my telescope I reach out and touch his arm, causing him to jump slightly, I guess I surprised him, I smile at him and he smiles back, stepping a little closer I got on the balls of my feet and kissed his cheek as I say to him, "Thanks for the coat."

He relaxes and smiles at me, and I can see his cheeks are darker than they were a few moments ago, I look around quickly seeing it's just the two of us here and I figure why not, it's not like I'm going to see him again…

I lean in a little more and kiss him, it takes him a moment but he kisses back, the safety of the dark no doubt, we don't need to give names or ask about who or what we are. His lips are soft, slightly moist but oh my! It's like a shock to my system; I don't want this to stop. I start to let my hands wander around his back while I feel his hands slide under the coat and around to my back. The kiss starts getting deeper, more intense as one of his hands' brushes against my bust I made a noise I hadn't expected to make, but it felt too good not to make that noise. When his hand returned there to start to caress me, again I made that noise, I move closer to straddle one of his legs, our lips broke apart and he started to move them down my neck while I started to grind against his thigh, I wanted this so bad right now! I started to moan in his ear and then my alarm went off, we both stopped right then and there and he whispered to me, "Is that important?"

I sigh, oh god I wish it wasn't but sadly it marked the time I needed to return to base to be able to get up with at least a few hours of sleep. I place my hands on the sides of his head, my cheeks are flushed and I whisper back, "Yeah, I need to get to bed, but this was fun…"

He winks at me and teases by pressing his thigh harder against me as says, "Maybe next time we can meet up sooner."

My cheeks get so very hot as I mumbled out, "Maybe."

I hand him back his coat, gather my stuff, and head back to the dorms, as I leave I look back to see him packing up his own stuff and head away in a different direction. Once I'm halfway back to the dorm I slap my own forehead and groan out, "How am I going to get in contact with him, I don't know his name or his number…"

Needless to say, I had a very pleasant night's sleep.

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My wake up alarm went way sooner than I would've liked, I roll onto my belly and bury my face in my pillow, my make-out session last night coming to mind and I sigh, pushing myself out of bed and head off to grab a quick shower before I get started on doing my hair and getting my uniform on.

Once I'm dressed I head down to the mess hall and find my sisters Essex, Bunker Hill, and Shangri-La all seated around a table, they seemed to be discussing something, when I get over there with my tray I ask, "What's going on?"

Essex runs a hand through her purple hair before she tells me, "I heard we're getting a new CO."

Bunker Hill poked away at her food, her owl sitting on her shoulder as she sighed out, "If we are, do you think he'll let us leave the port or the town?"

I look down at the scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and orange juice on my tray, at least this is more American than what we were given yesterday. I yawn a little as Shangri-La nudges me and asks, "What time did you get in last night Intrepid?"

Picking up my spoon I check to make sure that I covered the bags under my blue eyes as I sigh out, "Way later than I should have… but the sky was just so pretty and clear last night."

Just as I put the first fork full of scrambled eggs in my mouth Essex checks her watch and sighs before she looks at me and says, "Hurry up, we've got a meeting with the new Commander soon."

I wolf down my food and I start to wonder what the new commander would be like…. Not that Commander Janet Soros had been a bad Commander; she had actually afforded the kansen a ton of autonomy, even allowed us to head into the human town that was just off base… I hope the new Commander will let us do the same.

It doesn't take us long to get to the office, sitting at the secretarial desk I see Reno with her nose buried in a copy of Invincible Iron Man. I see her look up and smile at us as she says, "Head on in, he's waiting for ya."

He? No… I doubt it; I very much doubt it… that guy last night must've been from the town, I'm sure of it.

Essex leads the way into the Commander's office, Shangri-La on her right, Bunker Hill on her left, and me on Bunker Hill's left. As soon as we entered the office I saw him sitting at his desk and I felt sick to my stomach. In the light he was even more handsome, the scruff on his face was salt and peppered, I'd put him in his thirties, I could see the odd grey strand in his hair, but when he looked up and saw me, I saw his blue eyes go wide for a second. Guess seeing me must be a surprise for him too… we really should've exchanged names last night.

He gets up from behind his desk as Essex extends her hand to him, putting one hand on her right him as she introduces us, "I am the name ship of the Essex-class carriers, behind me going from left to right are my sisters, Intrepid, Bunker Hill and Shangri-La."

I see him give us a salute, but my eyes are locked on the left side of his chest, I see a pair of gold navy wings, but it's what is in the center of them that has my attention, a shooting star that means he's an astronaut…

I'm brought back as I hear his voice speak, this time with more authority to it, but still as deep and dark as it was last night, "Commander Austin Fletcher, It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

Shangri-La pushed her glasses up with her right index finger and asked a question I wanted, but right now, I just wanted to hide behind Bunker Hill, "So Commander, may we enquire about your last few postings so that we might be able to judge the kind of officer you'll be?"

He tilted his head to the side; I guess that question took him by surprise. The kansen were an open secret, but we were an ethical and philosophical question. Are we weapons or are we people, if you go one way, is it ethical to keep us confined to a few areas like we are just weapons or are why we were given the ability to reason and feel… honestly I don't envy The Commander right now.

He clears his throat and turns to look out over the port before saying, "This is my first assignment with kansen if that I what you're asking about. For now, I see no problem with continuing to let the privileges that Commander Soros had allowed."

Okay, that's not too bad, but he did avoid answering the question, kind of… or maybe he saw right through it. I shift a little behind Bunker Hill as he turns around and asks, "Is there anything else you'd like to ask?"

Essex and Shangri-La look at one another and shrug before Essex answers him, "Not at the moment sir, you cut right to it…"

He nodded and sat back behind his desk as he said, "Alright then, dismissed."

As the four of us go to leave, he looks up and adds, "Intrepid, could you stay behind for a moment?"

Shit.

I pause at the open door and shut it in front of me. I take a deep breath before I turn around I take a moment to adjust the ribbons in my hair that are holding my pigtails in place. As I turn I put on a smile as I say to him, "Commander, who do you plan on sortieing today? Would you like me to offer you some suggestions?"

He shakes his head as he looks at me with those deep blue eyes of his, I can feel my heart starting to pound in my chest and ears. I feel so sick to my stomach, I made out with The Commander last night… and if my alarm hadn't gone, I might've… oh god.

He sits back in his chair and rubs his lower jaw with his right hand as he closes his eyes. I can see him trying not to yawn before he says, "So, about last night…"

Oh, come on!

I shift in my spot as I say, "Nothing happened last night. I went up to look at the night sky like I do on clear nights, that is all that happened."

Please, please take the hint… I don't know if I can keep my embarrassment in check here.

He nods and I feel relief for a moment before he says, "So long as we understand each other then."

I bite my lower lip, I want to say something, but I'm stopping myself. Why can't I get myself to leave? My mouth opens and no words come, I close it again and take another breath before I say, "If something happened last night, I think it would have been enjoyable."

His cheeks turn bright red, so he understood me, good? I see him clear his throat again before he says, "I'm sure it would have."

I fidget around in the spot again and ask, "Is there anything else Sir?"

He shakes his head no and just as I get my hand on the door handle he says, "Liberty."

I freeze and turn slightly to look at him and ask, "Liberty?"

"I was stationed on it at the start of the war." He says to me.

I gulp, I had heard that the Sirens had attacked there first, that only a handful of the crew had managed to get off before the station got exposed to vacuum. I look back at the door, my hand still on the handle, I wanted to ask him questions about it but he stopped me before I could ask by telling me, "It's not something I talk about a lot… but I wanted to mention it since we were looking at it last night."

I feel my cheeks get hot when he references last night, it was bad enough that I had done what I did, even worse what I did when I got back to my room when you take into account he's my commanding officer… I center myself and ask, "Will that be all Sir?"

After a moment I can hear it in his voice, he sounds a little defeated as he dismisses me. Once I'm on the other side of the door, I lean against it and look up just as Reno pipes up, "I got it!"

I blink a couple of times and turn my attention to her and ask, "Got what?"

Reno jumps out of her chair, her comic book in hand, and comes up to me and points to a panel as she says, "Commander Fletcher, he looks like Tony Stark…. If you know he had more hair, mustache, and goatee."

She pulls the book back and I guess asks herself, "I wonder if I could get him to cosplay with me?"

I laugh and shake my head before I head off to go and find someone to talk to, preferably someone discreet, I needed some advice.

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After grabbing some lunch I managed to track down Bremerton, she was lying about on a bench in the sun, her phone in her hands and she was typing away, likely working on her unofficial help desk she ran out of it on Juustagram. I make my way over to her and sit down on the end of the bench, making a big show of doing so with an over the top sigh as I moan out, "Bremmy I need help!"

That did it, she put her phone down and propped herself up on her elbows, tilt her head to the side she asked, "Intrepid, you rarely ask for help, what's up?"

I sigh and look down as I ask, "Can I trust that you'll not breathe a word of this to anyone?"

She sits up and hugs me as she says, "Of course you can; this must be big."

I nod and fill her in about last night, and me making out with the new base commander. Once I'm done filling her in she whistles and tells me, "Wow… so what do you need?"

I shake my head and moan out, "I don't know."

Bremerton starts to kick her legs in and out before asking, "Was he good?"

I nod and sigh out, "Yeah…"

"So… maybe get yourself into rotation with the secretary pool? Get to know him, see if he is someone to do more make-outs with?" she suggested to me.

I turn bright red, like more red than her hair, before I stumble out, "I… I can't do that!"

"Why not?" she asked me right back, her head tilted to the side and a smirk on her lips.

I didn't really have anything to say back to that, and I think she knew it. I started to blush more as she bumped shoulders with me and added with a wink, "But sleep on it, not him, and think about it tomorrow."

I laugh, I can't help it and I bump my shoulder back against hers as I say, "Thanks for listening."

She smiles at me and takes out her phone as she tells me, "No problem, but sometimes it's good to have a record, so try DM'ing me next time."

I sigh and hang my head as I say to her, "I'll try."

Pushing myself off of the bench and starting to head off Bremerton calls over to me, "You going to be at baseball later?"

I turn around and keep walking away as I call back to her, "You be…"

I didn't finish those words; rather I walked into the rim of the fountain and went backwards into it the water. For the heartbeat I was underwater, I was thankful that it was only Bremerton to see it… I have the worst luck; I trip, stub my toes or just have bouts of clumsiness. Almost immediately I see a hand get shoved into the water, I reach out and take it, breaking through the top of the water and sitting up in it I feel my cheeks get so hot, I'm looking into those blue eyes again and I hear that deep dark voice ask, "Intrepid, are you okay?"

Why oh why did he have to be here?!

When I don't answer right away he asks, "Did you hit your head?"

I shake my head, my soaked pigtails swinging back and forth, getting a little water on him, I see visible relief pass over his face, that was when I noticed he was standing in the fountain and I trip over my own tongue as I ask, "Wh.. what are you doing here Sir?"

He shrugs as he gets out of the fountain, and extends a hand to me once he's on dry land, and says, "I was on my way back from lunch and I saw you fall backwards into the water…"

My cheeks got even hotter. Great, so now I completely embarrassed myself today. Behind him I can see Bremerton doing her best not to laugh, I sigh and take hold of his wrist and let him pull me up. I see his blue eyes travel down my frame and I see him blush, I look down to see what made him do that and I see my already tight-fitting uniform was now stuck to my skin, showing everything. I let go of him and pull my cloak tightly around me to try and have some sense of modesty at the moment… not that he didn't already know what my curves were like. The two of us stood like that for a moment before he turned at asked Bremerton, "Sorry, I haven't had a chance to learn your name yet, but could you make sure that Intrepid gets checked out at the sickbay?"

Bremerton nodded as she said, "You can count on me, Bremerton, to make sure that Intrepid gets checked out."

Commander Fletcher seemed to relax a little more before heading back off to his office or maybe find a change of clothes. Once he was out of sight, Bremerton put a hand on my shoulder as she teased, "I could get wet for that."

I sigh and give her a friendly shove as I call out, "Bremmy!"

She laughs and hangs an arm around my shoulders as she asks, "Seriously though, are you okay?"

I nod as I confirm to her, "Yeah, I didn't hit my head or anything, just landed on my stern. I'm mostly just embarrassed."

Bremerton smiles at me as she nods and starts to lead me to sickbay as she says, "Good, but he's a nice specimen, making out with that must've been fun."

I blush again and shutter a little as I tell her, "It was, but how am I going to work with him now Bremmy?"

She shrugs and bumps a hip against mine as she continues teasing me, "You could always try working under him."

I groan and run a wet gloved hand down my face as I ask, "Are you ever going to let this go?"

XXXX

I blink a couple of times as the light is taken out of my eyes while Vestal tells me, "Everything looks fine."

"Thanks, Vestal, I told the Commander I was fine, but he insisted I get checked out." I offered up again as I kicked my legs in and out as I sat on the exam table.

Vestal furrowed her brow at me as she leaned a little closer and inspected me closely with her blue eyes as she asked, "Are you getting enough sleep?"

Looking down I nod as I tell her, "Mostly, but last night I stayed up way too late to stargaze."

To my surprise, she leaned back out of my space and smiled at me as she said, "Good! I'm always glad to hear when one of us has a hobby; it makes me less worried about our mental health. What about eating?"

Again I nod and she asks, "Relationships?"

That caught me off guard and I trip over my own tongue as I get out, a little louder than I probably should've, "Wh... What do you mean by that?"

I felt my cheeks get hot as she tilted her head up and off to the side and gazed at me through half-open eyelids as she asked, "Friendships or other."

My mouth opened and nothing came out I closed it and tried again as I said, "I'm good friends with my sisters and Bremerton. Reno is fun to talk to too."

She nodded her head at me and asked, "And?"

I blushed brighter and she went on at me, "Intrepid, if you are going to be intimate with someone would you like me to explain things?"

I shake my head dumbly from side to side, I remember how… graphic Vestal got last time she gave me that explanation when I went asking why my body would do… strange things sometimes. I watch as she picks up her clipboard and scribbles on it before handing me the note as she tells me, "You're cleared of anything medical, maybe just get some sleep?"

I nod and head off to my room in the dorm flat I share with my sisters to just make this day go away, maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

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A/N: Chapter One, done. So far I'm liking how this one is starting out, even if it is a little cliché with making out unknowingly with your boss before you find out they are your boss, but I think it is going to allow for some fun exploration and character development.