I'll Be Fine.....

Posted on Fri Dec 14th, 2018 @ 2:49am by Captain Gary Taylor

Mission: MISSION 0 - History Speaks
Location: Gary's Quarters
Timeline: Current
663 words - 1.3 OF Standard Post Measure

OOC: Just before Christmas Ball


Gary was in his quarters, getting his Old Man Winter costume on and applying finishing touches with the blue contacts for his eyes as well as the
paint for his skin to be paler and his lips to be an arctic blue. As he did his mind drifted back to the Romulan prison on that jungle hell of a planet he had been in. It was his first Christmas being away from Catlin and besides missing her the living conditions were in a word ...terrible. his chest and back bore the scars from the Romulan electro whips that had been used to fillet his torso because of his continued defiance to his Romulan guards and their rules.


He remembered being lock in solitary confinement during Christmas. He had shaved his hair to keep from dealing with lice and other assorted bugs
in that hellhole of a prison. The Romulans had tried to break him with their torture and beatings but he remained unbowed. He was bloody to be sure but unbowed, He was able to stay strong because he drew on his love for Catlin and he knew he would one day be reunited with her, As he sat in the blistering hot box, with nothing but time on his hands to think, an old time song had come to him and when the guards let him out days later he was still singing it. They looked at him as if he had lost his mind.

Hey, maybe I'll grow some hair
Maybe I'll move somewhere
Maybe I'll get a car
Maybe I'll drive so far
That I'll lose track
Me, I'll bounce right back
Maybe I'll sleep real late
Maybe I'll lose some weight
Maybe I'll clear my junk
Maybe I'll just get drunk on apple wine
Me, I'll be just
Fine and dandy
Lord it's like a hard candy Christmas
I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won't let
Sorrow bring me way down
I'll be fine and dandy
Lord it's like a hard candy Christmas
I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won't let
Sorrow get me way down
Hey, maybe I'll learn to dance
Maybe I'll just lie low
Maybe I'll hit the bars
Maybe I'll count the stars until dawn
Me, I will go on
Maybe I'll settle down
Maybe I'll just leave town
Maybe I'll have some fun
Maybe I'll meet someone
And make her mine
Me, I'll be just
Fine and dandy
Lord it's like a hard candy Christmas
I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won't let
Sorrow bring me way down
I'll be fine and dandy
Lord it's like a hard candy Christmas
I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won't let
Sorrow bring me way down
I'll be fine and dandy
Lord it's like a hard candy Christmas
I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won't let
Sorrow bring me way down
'Cause I'll be fine
(I'll be fine)
Oh, I'll be fine


His mind snapped back to the present. Catlin was gone, taken from him far too soon. The emotional pain of her death had turned into an emotional scar. However he still found strength in the song. That no matter how bad things seemed or were or how low he felt, tomorrow was a new day and things were going to get better. He believed that with all his heart. He smiled, Lia dear sweet, feisty as hell Lia and made him see that. Got him to rejoin the human race and live again and he loved her more than she would ever know. He stood up, checked his appearance in the mirror and satisfied everything was in place and that he looked presentable he headed for the ball but not without a look heavenward and a word of thanks and a blown kiss to Catlin for being his inspiration both then and now.


Commander Gary Taylor
Executive Officer
USS Elysium

 

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