12-17-2023, 01:49 AM
Truth be told, Beka was more than a little nervous as she made her way to the cargo bay where the party was taking place. Last time she’d gone to a crew party with someone, she’d been tried in the court of public opinion and convicted of being a skank inside 10 minutes, and then dumped within 20 minutes. She’d rallied and gotten on with her life, but the redhead felt much less confident about herself since the injury and wasn’t sure she’d be as resilient now as she was then.
If that happens again, I’d probably have the transfer request filed before the door closed behind my sorry arse…
Still. Beka was Beka, and she had spent some time picking and tailoring her outfit after deciding to put her own spin on a tuxedo. The formal white shirt was unbuttoned from the top down to a couple of buttons above the right side of decency. She was wearing a fashionably untied tie and cummerbund in matching emerald green, the cummerbund doing a perfect job of hiding her synaptic enhancer. She’d gone with a short skirt and fitted jacket in the same deep black fabric, with the faintest diamond pattern in an off-white woven in. Her legs were daringly bare all the way down to an elegant pair of open-toed heels, her nails painted pastel green and her fiery ginger hair woven into an elegant mermaid braid.
It made the doctor feel good to have put some real effort into looking her best, as opposed to uniform or hiding away in joggers and a hoodie. There was no getting away from the fact that Beka was noticeably less muscular than she had been when she joined the crew, an unavoidable side effect of her spinal injury putting real limitations on the exercise she could do, but there was still enough tone to her long-limbed frame that she also looked nothing like the skinny runt she’d been growing up.
That at least I’m glad about. I’m not ready to deal with a barrage of skinny jokes. I miss being hench as f*ck but I’m OK with this lighter body too. When it works, at least.
As she caught up to where Aeryn waited, Beka couldn’t help but sneak a real proper head-to-toe look at her date. Their relationship was still new and shiny, and this was their first time out together. It meant the doctor could really appreciate every inch of her fellow redhead’s form as she approached, and then held out an arm for Aeryn to take.
“Milady. May I have the pleasure of your company?” Beka purred with a mischievous smile on her lips. “You look gorgeous, Miss Claus.”
"Are you ready to have some fun?" came the reply.
“Oh yes. We’re due, I think,” Beka said, her grin that little bit wider as the two stepped through the door.
As she looked around the party, a not particularly quiet ‘holy sh*t’ escaped Sydesh’s lips. This… This was a lot. She had been expecting a few tables, maybe a bit of music. Not a full-on carnival devoted to the Artemis crew and the ship’s reputation. She laughed as she took in the different zones, and how people seemed to be enjoying them.
“Sheesh… If I’d known there’d be all this, I might have dressed down a little,” she confessed to Aeryn.
Someone waving caught Beka’s eye, and she soon realised it was Robin.
"Hey, you two. Merry Christmas!" came the call.
“Ready to go be couple-y at someone?” Beka whispered, before leading the way over.
As she got there, she swept her best friend Robin up in a huge hug.
“Hey you. Merry Christmas!” the redhead replied. “I gotta admit, I feel like I got my present already,” she said, hooking arms with Aeryn again. “Makes a very pleasant change from getting binned off,” she added with a roguish grin.
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If that happens again, I’d probably have the transfer request filed before the door closed behind my sorry arse…
Still. Beka was Beka, and she had spent some time picking and tailoring her outfit after deciding to put her own spin on a tuxedo. The formal white shirt was unbuttoned from the top down to a couple of buttons above the right side of decency. She was wearing a fashionably untied tie and cummerbund in matching emerald green, the cummerbund doing a perfect job of hiding her synaptic enhancer. She’d gone with a short skirt and fitted jacket in the same deep black fabric, with the faintest diamond pattern in an off-white woven in. Her legs were daringly bare all the way down to an elegant pair of open-toed heels, her nails painted pastel green and her fiery ginger hair woven into an elegant mermaid braid.
It made the doctor feel good to have put some real effort into looking her best, as opposed to uniform or hiding away in joggers and a hoodie. There was no getting away from the fact that Beka was noticeably less muscular than she had been when she joined the crew, an unavoidable side effect of her spinal injury putting real limitations on the exercise she could do, but there was still enough tone to her long-limbed frame that she also looked nothing like the skinny runt she’d been growing up.
That at least I’m glad about. I’m not ready to deal with a barrage of skinny jokes. I miss being hench as f*ck but I’m OK with this lighter body too. When it works, at least.
As she caught up to where Aeryn waited, Beka couldn’t help but sneak a real proper head-to-toe look at her date. Their relationship was still new and shiny, and this was their first time out together. It meant the doctor could really appreciate every inch of her fellow redhead’s form as she approached, and then held out an arm for Aeryn to take.
“Milady. May I have the pleasure of your company?” Beka purred with a mischievous smile on her lips. “You look gorgeous, Miss Claus.”
"Are you ready to have some fun?" came the reply.
“Oh yes. We’re due, I think,” Beka said, her grin that little bit wider as the two stepped through the door.
As she looked around the party, a not particularly quiet ‘holy sh*t’ escaped Sydesh’s lips. This… This was a lot. She had been expecting a few tables, maybe a bit of music. Not a full-on carnival devoted to the Artemis crew and the ship’s reputation. She laughed as she took in the different zones, and how people seemed to be enjoying them.
“Sheesh… If I’d known there’d be all this, I might have dressed down a little,” she confessed to Aeryn.
Someone waving caught Beka’s eye, and she soon realised it was Robin.
"Hey, you two. Merry Christmas!" came the call.
“Ready to go be couple-y at someone?” Beka whispered, before leading the way over.
As she got there, she swept her best friend Robin up in a huge hug.
“Hey you. Merry Christmas!” the redhead replied. “I gotta admit, I feel like I got my present already,” she said, hooking arms with Aeryn again. “Makes a very pleasant change from getting binned off,” she added with a roguish grin.
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