Test Drive #7 - Ten Forward and Captain's Yacht

[ten_fwd_mods]

Option 01. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprise's off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...





Option 02. The Captain's Yacht: Oooh, you sneaky stowaway! You've found yourself in a very exclusive part of the ship: Captain Picard's personal craft, used for short jaunts when a shuttle just won't do. (One must retain some decorum, after all.) It may not be as large as the Enterprise itself, but there are sure to be some surprises aboard once people start snooping.


[OOC: The Captain's Yacht is located at the very base of the Enterprise's saucer portion, so if you put someone in there you can also play them trying to get back to somewhere they know!]

Comments

[true_colors]

"No," he deadpans. "I'm Colin Powell disguised as an 18 year old brother from Harlem." Even though the mask shields his eyes she can see the eyeroll. Somehow, he can do that with his whole body.

He glances around. "What do you think? Kree?"

:D

[tryit]

Her eyebrows raise in return. If that's who she really suspects it is, then seeing a girl with a bow in a purple spandex costume really shouldn't be such a shocker. Or really something all that new. They've met before, even if she had been in a different costume at the time. But, c'mon, unless Clint's had a sex change while she was gone, there's only one female Hawkeye out there.

"Magneto," she greets, walking over with complete self-assurance in her step. "I'd say Billy says hi, but I'm pretty certain that he has no idea that you're here. Is this some sort of X-Men thing? Or Brotherhood?"

[tryit]

Yeah, that's definitely Eli. And for a second there, Kate's tempted to give him a hug. It's good to see him again. The real him and not that creep who'd been using his codename and costume lately.

But he's all business right now and habits die hard. If he thinks he's in charge of this impromptu... whatever it is, he has another thing coming.

"No, not Kree." At least she can confirm that. "Noh's ship looked nothing like this."

[true_colors]

What is this think he's in charge business?

"Any sign of Hulking or Wiccan? They'd have a better idea." Since "fanboy-ism" should be listed on their power set. "Or for that matter, anyone else?"

[the_blood]

"You are one of the less distasteful males," she said primly, with a sniff.

[notsoheartless]

"What?" She moved to stand up when he did, her smile quickly fading into a glare. The more he spoke, the more angry she became.

She didn't know what kind of trickery this was, but she was going to have Gold's head for this. "Henry? I don't know what Gold has done to you, but I'm sorry. I promise we'll fix it. There has to be a way to break this spell." She wondered if Gold was here with them. "You're my son!"

[goldencobra]

"It's not a spell. And you're crazier than I thought if you think so."

He took a step back, not that interested in her any more.

"But why don't you go ask him for yourself?"

[notsoheartless]

"Of course I think so. Why would I think you're not my son?" She frowned, feeling so hurt as she watched him move away from her. Each step he took back was like a punch to her gut.

Her eyes widened at his admission. "He's here too? You bet I'll ask him. How dare he do this?" She growled the words out, hurt, questioning just what Gold had done to her Henry.

[goldencobra]

Henry pointed to one of the doors out of Ten Forward. "Out the door, down the corridor to the double doors. It's a turbolift. Tell it to go to Deck 10 and find room 0732. That's Gold's room."

He'd let Gold explain the situation. Might be funny to let him have a bit of wrath.

"And if you're extra curious, ask him what I did before I got pulled here."

And he turned to walk away.

[darkestbeliever]

Henry hadn't been here that long but he was settling into a routine. Seeing his mother however almost made him stumble backwards. It had been so long and what if she didn't recognise him? Gold hadn't.

Summoning his courage, he sat down beside her and ordered a hot cocoa with cinnamon, waiting to see if that sparked a conversation or not.

[deadmanbusiness]

Theo laughs. It's not a mocking laugh, it's a genuinely amused laugh.

"Oh, I wish Adrienne were here. I'd love to introduce the two of you." Adrienne would probably find Aiylisha quite adorable and take her under her wing.

[notsoheartless]

Regina blinked, turning to the man and raising an eyebrow. The drink was an order she never expected to hear from anyone except her son. Her lips quirk up in a smile and it's a struggle to keep her thoughts to herself.

But who would want to hear someone rambling about a drink her son likes?

Slowly, she glanced over at him, taking a deep breath before speaking. "My son loves that. Cocoa with cinnamon. I never thought I'd hear someone else order it?"

[darkestbeliever]

Henry smiled and gladly accepted the drink from the bartender. "Your son has good taste. How old is he?"

He feels a little bad not explaining it was him from the start but he didn't want to freak her out. So he'd ease her into it.

[loiseau_ou_la_cage]

Elizabeth was drinking a glass of wine and trying to wrap her head around her new reality when someone manifested in the room, disappeared, and returned before sitting down to work on some kind of. . . flat thing with a typewriter on it.

She glanced at her glass of wine, as though she was torn between finishing it and talking to the fellow newcomer. After a moment she decided to put her glass down, surrendering it as an offering to the god of friendship, or so she thought to amuse herself as she approached the (handsome) young man. "Are you lost?"

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[the_blood]

"I wish she were too, I'd like to meet the witch sensiable enough to have a halfway decent mate."

"Form her, that's high praise indeed," Theiorn said dryly.

[notsoheartless]

"I..." She paused, looking over at him. "I'm not sure. I mean... I remember how old he was when I left. But here? I... Is this the future?" She knew that they were in space, but little else. Biting her bottom lip, she glanced down at the drink in front of her.

She held the glass firmly in her palms, but didn't actually drink it.

"He... He was thirteen then. And still is, if he's there? I... This is all confusing."

[darkestbeliever]

Henry sighed softly, one hand moving to place over Regina's.

"Maybe he's closer than you think." Older but closer. He continued to smile, hoping she'd figure it out. From his point of view, it had been way too long.

[notsoheartless]

"But that's impossible. This isn't Storybrooke. And he..."

Her voice trails off as she turns to look at him. It was the eyes that really pulled her in. Something about the way he was looking at her. A shiver ran through her as she flicked her gaze back and forth between his face and the hand that was covering hers.

"H... Henry?"

[darkestbeliever]

He smiles wider and nods. "Hi Mom."

[notsoheartless]

"No. That can't be. You... You're..."

She turns and wraps her arms around him, hugging him tight. Her face buries into his neck as she clings to him. She has so many questions but it all fades at the moment. Somehow her son is there, as an adult, but there. She knows she should be wary, but she's on a spaceship. Everything was fair game at that point.

[darkestbeliever]

He hugs her tightly in response, not realising how much he'd missed her until this point.

"I'm a little older than you expected but that's okay. Grandpa didn't recognise me either. Seems as though you're all from my teen years which was a long time ago for me."

He turns to drink some more of his cocoa before the cream melts. "So what's the last big thing that had happened to you before coming here?"

[notsoheartless]

"Grandpa?" She pulls back, frowning at him. "Gold is here too?" Her lip curls and there's a hint of anger in her look but it's not directed at him. Not exactly. She still faults Gold for knowing about Zelena and not telling her.

She wonders how things might have been different if he had just been open about her long ago.

"You're alive. Marian comes back with Hook and Emma." She sighs. "Everyone gets their happily ever after." Except her.

[rayterrill]

Ray glanced up at her, and nodded, eying the hot lady and wondering what was going on here. He was not used to being approached so, but he smiled. "Yes. By at least a hundred lightyears. Possibly by some years, also."

He sighed, rubbing his face. He was so tired of being kidnapped.

[darkestbeliever]

Henry nodded. "He got here before me. Back from when we were in Neverland. I've been trying to keep his future from him. Not fair telling him he's going to die and being controlled and everything else."

He grabs her both her hands in his at that last line. "You do get your happy ending. I won't tell you how, but you do. I promise."

No worries.

[deadmanbusiness]

"Only halfway?" Theo's grinning still, very amused. To Theiorn he adds, "I figured."