Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last conversation. You were all wonderful. Now let's see if Jim got off that crazy planet.
Day 78: Good news
From: Spock's_cuddlebunny
To: Number_one_Pike
Time arrived: 05/9/2260 00:00:01
Subject: Good news, I found you a teacher
So, thanks to the Federation education system still under paying teachers, I managed to get someone. Her name is Gina Reyes and she has four years of teaching experience and is currently training to be a counselor. She's also the best friend of Commander Susan Ling Chen. Apparently, anything that she may have heard about the Enterprise kids has not scared her off. I am personally surprised. However, Starfleet is going to pay her triple her current salary, so she agreed to do it. Although maybe Sue held back the real details of what's going on. I don't know, but you're getting a teacher. She will be meeting you at Yorktown in June. So, all is good.
I am leaving in half an hour for the official remembrance ceremony, so I expect that you probably will be reading this weeks after the fact. How did things go on ship? Did you do anything to commemorate? How is the husband doing?
The first anniversary of my parents' death was hard. Freak accident. The second one wasn't much better. Honestly it didn't start really getting better until anniversary five and I think that's because I had Chris at that point. This year was hard, but I still had good friends to help me get through it. Spock has you.
Anyway, Ms. Reyes's CV is attached. Even if you hate her, she's still coming on board because it's May, and I doubt that I'm going to find anyone else more qualified. More importantly, I don't think I'm going to find anyone else who is willing. I even talked to a few teachers who have spouses aboard Enterprise and they flat out told me hell no. Your teenagers have made quite an impression.
From: Spock's_cuddlebunny
To: Number_one_Pike
Time sent: 05/09/2260 20:02:01
Subject: Re: Good news, I found you a teacher
I'm not even surprised. I am just happy to get some good news after the last week. Also, congratulations, it only took about eight days for this to get here. That's fine because I just escaped sickbay and now have PADD privileges again. I don't know why Bones made me spend so much time there because nothing's wrong with me. I didn't even get a scratch. Maybe he just wants to make sure I didn't pick up any weird spores. It wouldn't surprise me, after the last few days
So, our boring little far out exploratory mission to a random planet kind of went badly in grand Starfleet tradition. Good news, we only lost one member of operations. Lt Chambers will be missed.
Although, does it make me a bad person that I'm happy Spock is the one writing the condolence email and not me? That's one part of being a captain that I do not miss. The ones I had to write after theVengeance Incident were awful. Spock bear did the initial ones, but once I was well and conscious, I did my own because the families deserve that much from me. I think that's when I realized that I needed to take a step back from being a Captain for a while, for my own mental health.
So, we discovered the planet evil has an atmosphere that can totally fuck up transporter capabilities. None of our earlier scans showed that because it was already screwing up with our equipment. We learned none of this until we beamed down. That's how we lost Chambers. Thankfully the rest of us in the party survived.
Even though I'm now back safely I'm probably going to have to give Spock bear a blowjob for this. Probably several of them.
Because of the transporter fuck up, we had to wait for a shuttle except the shuttle couldn't pick us up for the next five days because gravity storms. Also, something that the initial scans did not detect because the atmosphere again screwed up the equipment. I can't wait to write a report about that. Being stranded on the planet for five days was not how I wanted to explore the place.
Good news, they have an excellent cave system, and unlike Delta Vega no giant creatures that want to eat me. Sad news instead of being stuck in the cave waiting for rescue with my husband, I was stuck in the cave waiting for rescue with Sanchez, Chekov, and Stamets. Hey, at least we had a deck of cards and Spock bear made me bring an entire survival kit because my husband is paranoid, but the good type of paranoid. Although is it paranoia if this sort of thing does happen?
So, because my husband wasn't there, the only two that had hot cave sex were Dr. Sanchez and Chekov. Her niece is going to be so pissed because she totally has a crush on him. And we are totally not going to think of the fact that her niece is only four years younger than the guy Sanchez had 'we're all going to die so we should totally fuck before we go' sex.
I know that's what they did because we heard them. They were loud. We pretended to play cards because Spock bear had the good sense to put a pack of playing cards in the survival kit, but you can only ignore loud sex sounds for so long.
Then again Ashley 3 has all sorts of other reasons to be upset. That kind of exploded when we arrived back after a successful extraction yesterday. I managed to get a thank God you're not dead kiss on the bridge in front of everybody. Dr. Sanchez managed to get yelled at by her niece in front of everybody and cried on.
So maybe going missing for nearly 5 days after the anniversary of the death of both of her parents was not a good thing. I probably should've brought Dr. Cutler instead of Dr. Sanchez, but I was kind of expecting to get chased down by animals and not deal with gravity storms and getting trapped in a cave. Also, someone probably still would've been having inappropriate cave sex. But I can excuse the married couple.
Although good news, we have scans and soil samples. We did get some work done when other members of the team were having loud sex. Apparently, they have lots of goodies that I'm sure the Federation is going to want to procure for their selves, because of course.
In other good news, Ashley 3 finally acknowledged why she has been acting like a brat 90% of the time since we left Earth in February. She didn't want her aunt to go back into Starfleet because she was afraid that she was going to lose the only family she had left, and her aunt being trapped on the planet for four days kind of brought up all her fears to the surface. I think I am going to have to look for a new doctor which is sad because I like Sanchez. I think I like her because she's willing to do what Winona never did which was put us kids first.
I'm not going to fight you on Ms. Reyes. I read her CV and I'm impressed. I guess she will only have to deal with five kids unless we get a replacement for Ashley 3 or Sanchez decides to stick around a little bit longer. Margarita is dealing with them in family counseling. You know I think I'm going to need another doctor anyway. We need another therapist. Badly. It's nice that Ms. Reyes is studying the field of psychology, but I wish she already had her certification. As you said though, no one wants to come here. Seriously, even those who already had spouses on board said no? That is not good.
So, the hubby is good now and he was good the day of the anniversary of Amanda's death, but the time in between not so much. I'm surprised Sulu did not resign, considering Spock kept him up worrying so much over the last five days. I am pretty sure Nyota and Sulu were like 30 seconds from tranquilizing him and taking over. I'm pretty sure of it so I am kind of glad I didn't bring either of them on the away mission.
Although I've already had thank God you're not dead sex so it's okay. Bones is mad at us because we kind of did that in his Sickbay, but he'll get over it, maybe.
Anyway, look out for the official report. I should probably write that before I write Kevin. He does know I'm okay, right? I am so worried about the rumor mill already knowing about this even though we're in deep space because the rumor mill knows and reads things. There are like no secrets in Starfleet, just lies and misrepresentations of the truth.