The Start of a New Adventure

Posted on 18 Feb 2012 @ 12:55pm by Lieutenant JG Drusilla McCarthy
Edited on on 18 Feb 2012 @ 12:58pm

809 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: Episode 00 - Pre-Deployment
Location: San Francisco Bay
Timeline: MD2 1000hours

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Dru sat on a boulder at the edge of San Francisco bay as she read the PADD in her hands, which contained details of her new orders. She was being relieved of duty off of the USS Gladiator and being reassigned to the USS Galileo. As Dru raised one hand to tuck a strand of loose hair behind her ear, she tried to figure out how she felt about all of this. The counsellor smiled slightly as the old saying came to mind, 'who is going to counsel the counsellor?'

Drusilla had always found it easier to pick apart another person's mind then she did her own. She found that she could never find a balance inside of herself, but she never allowed this to effect the job she was there to do. She enjoyed listening to people and helping them sort through their own issues, she felt it gave her life meaning.

Dru's thoughts flicked back over the past 6years she had spent on the USS Gladiator. The friends she'd made, the friends she had lost, the relationships which were never meant to be. The ship's mission had been of deep space exploration, the crew she had was small in numbers and thus they'd had to adapt to depending on eachother. It meant that people were close, making her job a little easier, but in some sense her job had been much more difficult also. She had made friends herself and had relationships but being the only counsellor onboard meant she had to try be counsellor to these people also. How does one separate work from relationships and friendship was a question she asked herself alot. Over the years Dru struggled with this the most.

Part of Dru was relieved to be finally leaving the ship. It allowed her a brand new start, a chance to start afresh. But part of her still pulled back, felt scared. She would be leaving the people who knew her the best, the people she felt most comfortable with who she had served with since leaving the academy.

As Dru set the PADD aside, she picked up a small box and opened the lid. Lying inside was a hollowed out pip, her indication of her new promotion from Ensign to JG Lieutenant. There had been no big fan fair or hullabaloo over the promotion. When her Captain had handed her the PADD with her new orders, he had placed the box ontop of it and just told her it was all outlined in the PADD. With a quick word of congratulations and a nod of his head he had just dismissed her, wanting to move on with getting the ship ready for her new mission.

Dru smiled sadly as she recalled the encounter. She had always thought the Captain a friend, a person for her to lean on when she had nobody but his dismissal of her only went to show, he did what every Captain needed to do, be there as as support for his crew, alongside his Commander, and nothing further. It's something, if she was to be truthful to herself, had shown up during their routine counselling session. He preferred to distance himself. He understood the crew needed his support on a deep space mission but there was apart of himself that he always refused to hand over, this refusely meant in some senses he maintained his distance.

Dru run her finger over the pip finding it difficult to attach to her collar. She had grown used to her rank of Ensign, she'd had to for 6years and was afraid to loose the identify it gave her.Dru smiled as she realised the recommendation she would give anyone else in her position would be to recognise what they were being given. A chance of moving on within Starfleet. It wouldn't be a loss of identity, it was a new chapter. Dru wondered if she would ever be able to start taking her own advise at some stage.

Dru closed the lid over on the box, not yet ready to place the pip in her collar. As she collects up the PADD and moves to stand, Dru looks out at the bay stretched out infront of her. She watched the water softly lapping against the surrounding boulders as if it was slowly but surely trying to beat back the boulders holding it in. The young counselling smiled softly realising she really needed to stop seeing counselling analigises in everything she saw.

Dru swung her bag over her shoulder and set off back to grab a shuttle back up to the USS Gladiator in order to pack up her belongings for transport to her new home, the USS Galileo.


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Lieutenant JG Drusilla McCarthy
Chief Counsellor
USS Galileo

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