Personal Log Eviess - Feels like home to me

Posted on 25 Sep 2016 @ 4:58pm by Petty Officer 1st Class Eviess

1,105 words; about a 6 minute read

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Eviess settled into her quarters. She’d had enough time now to unpack thanks to her flu and tomorrow she was due to get her medical and counseling appointment done so that she can start her duties. She really was looking forward to working. It was difficult to just sit around, nevertheless the time off was appreciated. She had been able to unpack, set up her quarters get some OPS work orders in to get a few things moved and she had yet to meet her new roommate. She hadn’t decorated the shared areas but her room was laid out the way she liked it.

Now, after her shower, she sat wrapped in a fluffy robe at her desk. She finished her writing and then clicked off the file.

She then opened a personal log and began recording as she sipped her tea. “Personal log Petty Officer Eviess, Daughter of Eyelaya. So this is my last day of official rest. Tomorrow I start with the tests. First medical, then counseling. I don’t know which one I’m dreading most.”

She sighed and took a sip of her hot coco before continuing. “I mean I know that the doctor will want to test me. They see my obvious Klingon attributes and then all of a sudden they think I’m bad tempered and will bite the patients….okay so my temper is a bit…interesting but I’ve never lost it with a patient. I don’t know what this new doctor is about but I heard good things about her although I think she’ll test me like my previous CMO.”

Finding her glass empty she refilled it and then continued her log, “So there are times when I don’t know why I went into Starfleet. I was happy with my ER work and my own practice, I had patients who loved me and a practice I loved. I guess I wanted the challenge and when the Admiral promised her help I jumped at it. It was a start over. Gods of Romulus know that I haven’t made many friends or seen many places so this was my chance.”

Eviess smiled, “Well I did make two good friends and to be honest having them both on the ship makes me feel better. Splendora is here. I had a chance to speak with her. Unlike me she tries to hide the fact that she is a Romance writer who is actually suffering from writer’s block at the moment. I feel like I want to help her but she’s just not receptive now. She has to find her way out of this on her own. Then there is Braxton. I haven’t seen him in years nor have I had the chance to talk with him much since I got here. I hope to rectify that now. I hear, since this ship is so small, that he had a crappy department meeting. I should really go check on him. Maybe after I finish this log.”

She paused the recording, changed into her outfit and then sat back down to finish. “Now, the counselling. That is my issue. They try to get in your head and pretend they understand but nothing could be further from the truth. I really don’t feel comfortable with counselors. I mean Splendora is a counselor but she said something about conflict of interest since we’re friends. I don’t even know. Anyway I’m seeing the Deputy Chief Counselor so should be interesting.”

Eviess spent a moment in silence thinking about things. When she was ready she continued, “Wouldn’t you know it all my relationship issues and all my past dealings with medical counselors has been transferred onto my file and I know the woman will poke and ask how I feel, honestly I don’t know how to feel anymore. I just get up, do my job, and what more is there? I’ve decided to give up on the whole relationship thing. I mean men lie, they use, they deceive, and when all this comes out into the open they turn it around on the woman. Sometimes I think that Atlantis Prime is the place for me where I won’t have to worry about men. A society run my women for women. Heaven.”

She laughed a bit before she continued, “So anyway I guess the last thing I really want to talk about is my father. He called the other day and we fought again. He doesn’t think that I’ve learned enough. Just because I called the Bat’leth a sub’leth he gets his panties in a knot. I mean seriously the Klingon side is not my main worry. I prefer the Romulan side but to be honest even that pales on the Vulcan upbringing. There are times I wish I was born a Vulcan. I read the texts of Surak and T’Pau, and T’Prel, a half Romulan like me, and I think wow. Just wow. I feel at home, I feel understood. I’d rather be meditating then doing the Klingon things my father wants. Do you know that he actually arraigned for me to meet Doreg, a Klingon who is a diplomat in Starfleet. He said his hope was that I would fall in love and give him Klingon grandbabies. Honestly! Honesty! I mean come on!” She yelled, and then growled.

Realizing her temper was flaring she took a few deep breaths to steady herself. “That is a whole story in itself. Not something I want to go in now or remember. Needless to say that Doreg is now no longer an issue. Anyway. I guess that’s all on my mind now. I heard from Sobol. He wrote to apologize for all those years ago. I didn’t return the message. I want to …. I don’t know I want to find myself and I think that my time here on the Galileo will help. This is my new start. I know I said that on the last ship but for some reason I think that this ….this little tiny ship feels like home and I can’t say why. Maybe having Splendora and Braxton here helps but…it’s more. Its home. When I figure it out you’ll be the first to know.”

She smiled. “Well that’s it for now. Time to start a new day. Who knows what it will bring. End log.”

Petty Officer Eviess (PNPC)
Medical Officer
USS Galileo
(PNPC Played by Braxton MacKenzie)

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