SD241903.23 || Duty/Personal Log || "Something New, Something Old"

Posted on 23 Mar 2019 @ 5:49pm by Captain Mallory Thorne

362 words; about a 2 minute read

=/\= Begin Log =/\=

Although she was sure that none of them would ever admit it, she was also sure that every captain had done it...at least once.

Mallory Thorne, newly-promoted captain and commander of the USS Odin, sat behind her desk in her ready room and slid her hands along the edge of the composite-metal material until her cheek touched the cool, smooth surface, almost like she was hugging her desk. Perhaps in some way, it wasn't too far from the truth. She was embracing her new position and her new home, giddy in ways that she was trying very hard to suppress beneath a professional exterior.

It was her first command, and it was beaut.

She was just inhaling that new-ship smell and contemplating what her very first order from her replicator would be...

...when her console chirped.

Mal scrunched up her nose, because she knew it was a call...and she knew who it was from. She squinted one eye and then the other while she debated what to do about the beeping noise, which was repeating now. She contemplated if she could get away with ignoring it. After all, she was the captain and this was her ship...but this person didn't really care about that. At least, they didn't care about it if she ignored them.

Sighing, she straightened up and answered the call.

"Mother..." she said with clear exasperation.

"I'm just checking in!" Commander Jennifer Thorne said with a bright smile.

Mal tilted her head and met her mother's gaze with a dry expression. "This if the fifth time you've "checked in" today. You realize that I'm an adult, yes? I'm all grown up and I've been out on my own, serving on starships and starbases and colonies for nearly twenty years now. Just because I have a fourth pip on my collar doesn't suddenly mean I don't know what I'm doing."

Her mother laughed, a fairly unflappable woman. "I know, dear, but I'm excited for you. Live with it."

"Do I have a choice?"

"Not really."

"Then I guess I will."

=/\= End Log =/\=

Captain Mallory Thorne
Commanding Officer, USS Odin

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