Luck Be A Lady Tonight? Part 1

Posted on Mon Jun 8th, 2026 @ 9:36am by Lieutenant Aurania (Rani) Anderson MD & Staff Warrant Officer Seona Davar

Mission: WHAT IF?
Location: Holosuite 4
Timeline: (Backpost)
617 words - 1.2 OF Standard Post Measure

Rani was grieving. She had been ever since Ket had been killed during the battle with the Consortium. She mooned over an 'Andorian Sunrise' and wondered as she watched it swirling and changing, what she was going to do with her newly carved and frankly unwelcome, future chapters.

She wondered if, just IF, he had come back? What if he had just crashed on a nearby planetoid.... which was coincidentally hospitable to vulcan biology..... and human as well, of course!

Downing the Sunrise she didn't feel the usual burn as it went down her throat. Perhaps her throat was getting as numb as her shattered heart. Liking the idea of 'numb' she ordered another drink. "Shame again please" she heard her own voice coming from somewhere in the room. She heard the 'nagging' as she saw it, of the bar-person about how many she'd already had and how this was going to be the last for tonight.

Rani saw the pity in those eyes and the judgement - again, as she saw it, although it was probably her imagination - or the drink - talking.

Finishing 'the last one' - Rani moved on to the holosuites, her intention that she would program in a holoimage of Ket and hope that might ease her pain. He had been so very special, perhaps having "him" or as close to him as she could get now, might make her feel less empty and bereft.

What if she set up a program in the holosuite where she went out in a runabout and found him, on that Planetoid she had imagined two Sunrises ago? She started to work on the controls and thought hard about what she'd need to allow for. The concentration seemed to sober her up a little bit and it wasn't too long before she had a 'first draft' ready to run. She was now beginning to feel the excess alcohol catching up with her and she decided she needed to revisit this in the morning after she got over the hangover! When she would check out the technicalities and safeties.

Looking forward to that (well, apart from the hangover part!) she stumbled back to her quarters to collapse, the saved holosuite draft program in her pocket and a new light of something that wasn't deep, dark pain as far as the horizon in every direction.

Sadly for Rani, on her way back she managed to 'bump' almost literally but not quite, into Seona Davar. Her arch rival for Kett's attention. Dreading whatever wise-crack or nasty remark she was expecting to get from the Staff Warrant Officer, Rani looked up at the approaching enemy, feeling vulnerable in her present state of inebriation and also in her deep-seated grief. Expecting to see gloating or unpleasantness in Davar's face - as was usual from her - Rani was a little shocked to see a pale faced, sad woman with what looked like tear stains that she was defensively scrubbing away from her cheeks, appearing to be hoping for Rani not to see.

Both women seemed keen not to make eye contact with one another and both hurried past without any of their usual sparring with words or rivalry. Rani couldn't work out this change in Seona but at first she was wary of it being a trick or some mockery as was the enemy's usual approach towards her.

With her bed beckoning all the more insistently, Rani let this strange and unusual incident pass but the following morning she couldn't help but wonder what had been going on and IF she had imagined it or been too drunk to have been seeing straight?

TBC