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[dancingmd]

Who: Beverly Crusher and you
Broadcast: Network - Video
Action: Blue Fish
When: September 1

[There's a strangely familiar cold that has settled in her bones, a dreadful chill that disorients her in the first few moments that she's awake. Her first thought is that something went wrong - very wrong - as they passed through the temporal distortion, but then... as she sits up and takes in her surroundings, the memories all come back in a flood. Atroma has brought Beverly back, a little older, a little blonder, and with a new Starfleet uniform.

Or maybe I never left, she thinks. This is not the Marsiva, these are her quarters aboard the Blue Fish, and none of her things look as if they've been moved. Though admittedly, her memories of Drift Fleet seem distant. By her reckoning, it's been three years since she's seen this room.

Not that "time" really means much, considering what's happened in the past few days.

The communicator rests where she left it on the bedside table. When she picks it up, she finds it's full of unread messages, crewmates and friends wondering where she is, each message sounding more alarmed than the last. With a sinking feeling in her stomach, she checks today's date: September first.]

Damn!

[Immediately, she sends a message to the network, via video:]

This is Dr. Crusher of the... SS Blue Fish. It seems our gracious captors sent me home for a while. I'm back now, and I'm safe, and I'm sorry to everyone who was trying to contact me this month. I'll be on the Blue Fish if you need me.

[There's a pause, as if she's about to say something else, but then she simply gives them a small smile, one that doesn't quite reach her eyes.]

Thank you.

[The feed cuts off and after a moment, she decides to head for the kitchen. Not that she's particularly hungry but - there's a good chance that's where she'll find at least a few of her crewmates.]

Comments

video

[outstandingbalance]

I'll be very disappointed if I ever make it to the future.

Re: video

[dancingmd]

Well it’s not all bad. No protein cubes, for one.

[outstandingbalance]

That's one point in your favor.

What are you eating on those space ships, then? Can't be enough room to pack that many supplies.

[dancingmd]

We have some emergency stores, but most of our food is replicated by energy-matter converters.

[outstandingbalance]

Now that does sound like the future.

[dancingmd]

[Beverly smiles.]

Never really gave them much thought until I didn't have them.

[outstandingbalance]

That's usually how it works.

Easy to miss the food back home when you're here.

[dancingmd]

Probably the only thing we can all agree on.

[outstandingbalance]

There had to be something that brought us all together.

[dancingmd]

Might as well be food.

[outstandingbalance]

Usually is. Everyone has to eat.

[dancingmd]

True. Though, really, I ought to not complain - Sokka and Allen always make sure we have a fully stocked kitchen.

[outstandingbalance]

There's only so much we can do between planets, though. I've noticed the mad dash to get supplies when we're somewhere with resources.

[dancingmd]

[She nods]

Sometimes we've gone a few months in between stops and you never know what Atroma has planned for us or if we might get attacked again, so even if we don't need the supplies at the moment, we always try to stock up.

[outstandingbalance]

And sometimes when you do stop, it's a poison world. So there's that.

[Natasha shakes her head.]

[dancingmd]

[To be honest, Beverly has a bit of a soft spot for the polluted moon - if only because it's the last place she and Daneel were together.]

They still had a good amount of medical and maintenance supplies, even if the food was... Not so great.

[outstandingbalance]

Valuable, but not where you want to stalk up on produce.

[dancingmd]

True enough. But that's why Ino and I started the gardens.

[outstandingbalance]

All the conveniences. I've seen the garden. Some folks from home seem to be fans.

[dancingmd]

You mean Vision? We talk quite a lot about gardening.

[outstandingbalance]

I was thinking of him. Him and Wanda both, if I hear right.

[dancingmd]

That's right. [She smiles.] They're both good friends of mine.

[outstandingbalance]

That doesn't really surprise me. The fleet's only so big.

[dancingmd]

I suppose - you'd be surprised how many people I have yet to meet still.

[outstandingbalance]

Maybe not. I've been here a few months, and sometimes it only seems like I've only met a fraction of people here.