A new face, a new place

Posted on Mon Dec 16th, 2019 @ 4:37am by Lieutenant Commander Alicia Kelea-Salik

Mission: Casperia Prime - A lesson in relaxation
Location: Various
Timeline: MD2
635 words - 1.3 OF Standard Post Measure

~ Transport enroute to Casperia Prime ~

Alicia sat in her cabin to reading and re-reading her orders, she'd spent the last two years incommunicado at her home on Trill. The cabin in the woods that Kal had bought them when they were together. She looked at the scars on her wrists that she'd elected to keep to remind her just how precious life really was. She'd made the mistake of trying to end her life when she lost both Kal and her baby within a short space of time of each other.

She sighed and put down the PADD, there was only so much second guessing her decision she could do. It was time she returned to the universe instead of hiding herself away, it wouldn't be what Kal wanted for her and she knew it. The doctors had confirmed her miscarriage was due to the emotional trauma of losing her soul mate, there was no reason she couldn't have another baby in the future if she wanted one.

It wouldn't be long before she'd be arriving at Casperia Prime and her new home the USS Elysium, she didn't know whether that made her feel nervous or not. She stood up and walked over to the replicator to get herself a drink and something to snack on, got now it was all she could think of to do.

~ One hour later ~

Alicia stepped onto the transporter PADD with her hand luggage, she was finally about to board her new home for the foreseeable future. She took a deep breath and nodded to the transporter chief, a few moments later she rematerialised aboard the Elysium. Nodding her thanks to the transporter chief she made her first stop to check in with security and get her cabin assignment.

Handing over her orders to the security officer she smiled warmly as she received her cabin number and a deck plan of the ship, something she always tended to ask for as nothing was more embarrassing than losing your way and having to ask where you were going.

Finding her quarters with relative ease, Alicia was soon getting herself organised, unpacking a fresh uniform she laid it out on the bed before heading for the shower. Stepping inside she let the sonic shower do its job, she missed not having running water but sonic would have to do as there was no other choice aboard a starship.

As she showered she recalled the day she received the news about Kal, they'd only spoken a few hours earlier as they had plans to get together next shoreleave so they could go baby shopping. Then he'd had to go as he had away team duty, that was the last conversation they'd had. It seemed he'd been trapped in a massive rock fall on an exploration of a new planetoid, of all the ways to go she hadn't expected that to be the way she'd lose him.

Hours later she was in Sickbay with the news she'd had a miscarriage, life had gone down hill pretty rapidly from there. She could see no way out and had taken the only route she could see before realising her mistake. Thankfully she'd managed to call for help before passing out. Since then she'd been through Counselling and Psychological assessments galore before she'd finally felt up to facing life again. Now she was ready to take on her duties as Chief Counsellor and she wasn't going to let her fears get in the way.

Stepping out of the shower she wrapped herself in a towel and walked into the bedroom, putting on her clean clothes she brushed her hair then straightened her uniform. Standing looking in the mirror she smiled, it was time to make her arrival official.

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Lieutenant Alicia Kelea
Chief Counsellor
USS Elysium