Mess Hall / Commissary

[Oranos]

<<Same place>>

Robert flashed Julia an encouraging smile. "I'll be heading out before too long, and I have to prepare for that, but when I get back, I'll check up on you and see how you're doing. How does that sound?" Not that he was really planning to take no for an answer.

He was standing now. "Come on. You have somewhere to be? I'll walk you there." He held out his hand for her.

((I think I'd forgotten what it was like to write a shorter post like this. ))

[Re1ndeer]

<<From Quarters>>

Markus walks into the mess hall and gets his food. He takes his tray to a empty table and he sits down. 'The food actually looks good today.'

He begins to eat his food as he watches what everyone else is doing.

[Northern Girl]

< In the corner, outside the elevators >

Julia looked up at the man with a raised brow, “You want to check on me? Okaay,” and gave him a small smile and a shrug, “I'll think about it. Where are you going?”
She shook her head towards the offered hand, “Fractured ribs, remember. I'll do it on my own. Hang on a minute.”
Julia slowly turned towards her right, cradling her left side with her arm and with a grunt and a few suppressed curses behind tight lips, she eased her up by using her legs and steadying her with her right hand against the wall.
“That must have been the most stupid thing I've done in a long time,” she mumbled, “sitting on the floor like that...”
She looked back at Robert, “Sorry about that. You said you wanted to escort me? Then off to the infirmary then,” she held up a hand to stop any objections and grinned, “I won't turn you in, I'm off duty... I've got a pre-mission check up to pass. I'm leaving for Iberia tonight.”



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[Re1ndeer]

Markus finishes his food and takes his tray to the designated cleaning area. He grabs a cup of coffee to take back with him. 'Better get back to learning Ancient.'

He looks around the mess hall for a final time and then walks to his quarters with his cup of coffee.

<<to Quarters>>

[Oranos]

<<Same. Damn. Place. >>

He blushed and retracted his hand.

'Calerneum,' he wanted to say in response. 'No. Baelestrom,' Robert shook his head. 'No. That wasn't right either.'

"Just a couple of planets. Undercover, apparently," he replied at last.

What felt like only a second or two later, his mouth must have hit the floor. He frowned, more than a little surprised, and immediately concerned. "You're going off world in this condition? That doesn't seem like such a good idea."

[Northern Girl]

Julia smiled at him, “Under cover, uh? Sounds like you're the one who's more likely to end up in trouble than me, regardless of my current condition,” and then walked over towards the elevator and slid the card through the reader, 'He's kind of cute. He really sounds as if he actually cares about me.'
She looked back at Robert and shrugged, “Iberia is probably as low action as it can get. We're going to there to try and negotiate for some kind of medical treaty or exchange of services, so we'll probably end up sitting around a table and talk... and talk... and talk. In my condition I'll definitely make more use off world than I'd do here on the base. Try not to worry ok?”
That last remark was accompanied with a small wink and a grin.




>> to the Infirmary >>

[Oranos]

<<For the last time. Same. Place.>>

He snorted, turning a deep shade of red. "I am not..."

'What? Worried? Yeah, that's a damn lie. You just tried to help her cope with her demons. Obviously you care. You can do better than that, Hughes. A lot better.'

Robert tried again. "I was expressing..."

'What? My feelings? Yeah, I think we'll skip over that one. For obvious reasons.'

By the time he had come to the third explanation, he already knew he was screwed. "It was a..."

'What? Perfectly legitimate concern? Yeah, that just sounds like you don't give a damn. We'll skip that one too.'

He narrowed his eyes. "Are you enjoying yourself?" If she wasn't giggling uncontrollably, she soon would be. Zero for three? There was no way he'd just gone zero for three. It had to have been a bad dream.

<<To Infirmary, After Julia>>

((EDIT: Just to clear up any confusion. When he thinks feelings, he means caring for a friend. He just realizes how it would sound and stops himself from saying it.))

[Vagabond Serpent]

<<From Quarters>>

Ovcharenko reached the mess hall, now concerned only about feeding herself.

She spent almost ten minutes, trying to figure out most edible meals in her opinion, eventually filling a big tray with food.

'Maybe that'd be a bit heavy lunch, but I don't want to die from starving. I ate last time two days ago!' - Lena mumbled inside of herself, figuring out which drinks do they offer today. Being not very fond of soft drinks and hating coffee completely, she decided to make herself a big cup of sweet tea, just like she liked it. Then occupied an empty table in the corner of the mess hall. Old habits die hard - she couldn't rid of necessity to keep an eye on the place she was in, no matter where she was actually.

Scorpio started to eat first course, but suddenly stopped on halfway.

'These meals are great and very tasty today, but I'd give my right hand to taste something from Russian cuisine again...' - thought she and glanced upon her hand - big scorpion was joyfully moving it's claws when she was playing with hand's muscles. - 'Anyway, they taste much more better than raw frogs and worms that my instructor made me eating fifteen years ago on our first survival class! So, let's swallow it!'

And Elena continued with her lunch, now much more enthusiastically.

[Re1ndeer]

Markus entered the mess hall. He went staight to the coffee container and filled his cup up. When he was done, He looked around the room and spotted someone eating there food enthusiastically. For some reason, he got the urge to got talk to her. 'I guess I can take a break from practice.

Markus began to walk over to Lena.

[Vagabond Serpent]

Elena almost finished with her lunch, when she noticed a civilian, who rushed inside and made a cup of coffee for himself. He was about to leave, but hesitated for a moment because of some reason, looking around. When he noticed Scorpio, he slowly started approaching her, obviously having something on his mind.

So, Lena swallowed last bit of her food and sat more comfortably in the chair, waiting when that civilian will come up to her.

'Why I suddenly became so popular today?' - thought she, focusing her attention on that man.

[Re1ndeer]

Markus gets to lena's table and takes a seat across from her. He looks at the table nervously once he realized that he had nothing important to stay. 'Maybe I should of thought of something to stay. Quick, think of something.'

"Is the food really that good today?" He asked and then winced once he heard how weird that sounded.

[Vagabond Serpent]

'Nervous... Ok, why everyone who I met today looks nervous? Maybe little chatting will be good for both of us...' - thought Scorpio, when the man sat down across from her.

"Hmm... Not really that good, but better than usually. Besides, I'm very hungry plus just remembered how raw frog tastes, so these should be real reasons behind my so enthusiastically lunch." - Ovcharenko smiled to the civilian.

'Who's that guy anyway?' - Mental question followed her responce.

"I'm sorry... Had we ever met before, Mr...?" asked him Lena, desperately trying to remember same thing.

[Re1ndeer]

Markus takes a sip of his coffee as he listens to Lena's responce and when she asks about his name, for some reason he forgot his name for a moment. 'Come on, why can't you remember your own name?

"Markus Redd, I'm a scientist that is stationed here." Markus said and then he took another sip of his coffee.

[Northern Girl]

((OOC: VS and R1, Please put up links to your char's biographies in your posts If your unsure of how to make the links, just PM or ask in the OOC. ))

[Vagabond Serpent]

((OOC: I was working on it Also was thinking about asking someone about sig picture for me...))

"1st Lieutenant Elena Ovcharenko. Or Elena. Or Lena. Or Scorpio. Whatever you like. And I was assigned with position of SG-7 XO about half-an-hour ago."

Scorpio paused to take a sip of her tea. Thoughts quickly passed via her mind.

'A scientist? What he said his name was? Marcus Redd?'

She recalled five names that Tallon pointed out to her. No, he wasn't one of them. What about the whole list? She closed her eyes for a second, taking another sip of tea and recalling complete candidates list. Nope. He wasn't on it.

'Well, if there's something that I learnt throughout these years that's not to waste an opportunity when it falls into your hands. Let's check that Marcus...'

"So. You're a scientist there. And what's your position exactly?"