Hello...again?

Posted on Sun Sep 11th, 2022 @ 7:43am by Lieutenant JG Deezell Vox & Ensign Diana Ravenbroke

921 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Episode 113 - No One Left Behind
Location: Corridor
Timeline: Current

"Yesh, can this place BE anymore confusing!?" Diana huffed, turning her map first one way, then the other and wishing for the HUNDRETH time she had accepted the offered escort to Securities crew quarters. "'No thank you, I'll be alright,' Yesh Diana! Don't you remember the first time you went the movies and couldn't find the bathroom? Or that that time you...YIKSE!" CRASH!" Diana had been so preoccupied with her inner fight that she had walked straight into someone, sending her bags and everything else scattering. "I am so so so sorry! I was talking to myself and I lost track of my surroundings and..." Diana had to stop and take several deep breaths at that point as she started to hyperventilate.

Deezell dusted herself off as she got up from the collision. She saw the person in front of her in a fluster with her bags everywhere.

"Hey, its not a problem. Take some deep breaths, in through the nose and then slowly release through the mouth. Once you are feeling better, tell me where you are headed. " She added.

"Thanks...Ensign. My name's Diana Ravenbroke, I'm an Ensign in Security, and I just got assigned here...and I think I'm rambling a little. What was you name again?" Diana giggled nervously as she unbraided and re-braided her long hair.

"Vox, Deezell Vox. I'm an ensign in engineering. " She replied

"Nice to meet you, Deezell. You're a Trill right? Are you joined?" Diana wanted to Gibbs Slap herself for sticking her foot in her mouth again.

"I am and yes. " She said with a smile.

"Cool! How long have you been on the station?" Diana asked as she started gathering her scattered belongings.


"Oh not long. Still getting my barings but not as much as I originally thought. You see, I ended up being joined to Vox who's previous host lived on Starbase 400 for 3 years so, before I got here, I already knew my way around, in a civilian sense as Raekwon Vox was a shop owner on the promenade." Deezell explained.

"Raekwon!? I knew him! He is...wait...he's dead?" Diana burst into tears, morning the loss of her friend. While she hadn't know...anyone very long, Raekwon had been an instantaneous friend. "I'm sorry. While I only knew him for a little while, he was super nice to me and the ten or so times I saw him, he somehow ALWAYS had a present for me," Diana sniffle as the happy memories filtered through her mind.

"Ooooh I am sorry. I am still getting use to being joined. I ended up being joined due to the deteriorating health of the symbiont on the way back to Trill after Raekwon died and I was the only Trill aboard the USS Rotorua. Ravenbrooke....oh yes now I remember. " Deezell replied. She then just instinctively gave Diana a hug, just like Raekwon use to.

Diana sniffled a little more, feeling both the familiarness of the hug, and the strangeness of it. "Wow, you didn't get any training? That had to be cray cray. Rae told, that's what he said I could call him, told me that it'd taken him a bit to get used to it too even WITH the training!" Diana giggled, wiping her eyes and taking a calming breath. "While I'm sorry for the circumstances, it's great to meet you, and see Rae again," Diana held out her hand.

Deezell took Diana's hand in her left hand and put her right hand on top. "Its good to meet you too but I am Deezell now but I have Rae's memories. " she said.

"You're absolutely right. I'm sorry. Deezell is who I see in front of me, and Deezell is who you are!" Diana blushed a little, then gave Deezell's hand a firm shake, sealing the new face and name in her mind and heart.

"It's absolutely fine. Not long after I arrived on the station, one of my first jobs as an engineer was to sort out the power conduits in one of the vacant shops on the promenade and install some new extra power points. What I didn't know was, the vacant shop, was once Rae's gallery where he bought and sold art and antiques. So you can imagine what that was like for me. "

Diana started to giggle. "I'm sorry, Deezell. I wasn't laughing at that. I was laughing because I was remembering the time Rae was painting and I tripped and knocked him into a big vat of PINK paint! It was..." Diana was laughing too hard by that point to say any more.

Deezell smirked. "It took several hours to tidy up that mess and you did ruin one of Rae's favourite shirts." she comments.

Diana blushed. "Yeah...that was pretty bad. I bought him like ten of those shirts to try and apologies!" Diana grinned at the memories.

"He did appreciate that. " Dee replied.

Diana breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm glad. You know, come to think of it, that actually ended up being the last time I saw him," Diana finished picking up her scattered belongings, and looked Deezell in the eye. "I'm looking forward to becoming great friends, Deezell," Diana held out her hand, excited to start a new adventure.

Taking her hand Deezell smiles "Yeah, just remember I am not quite as exciting as Rae who had his own ship." she remarks.

"Oh...I've got a feeling it's gonna get REALLY exciting before we're through," Diana giggled, winking mischievously.

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