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

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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

:D! omg, thank you! So is your Clark, I am all smiles over here.

[holds_her_own]

Smooth? No.

But Maria can imagine he's broken a few hearts in his time. There's not many men who can pull off that kind of fumbling shyness and squared jaw at the same time, not to mention that smile.

"So you keep to yourself? That's too bad," she says. "It must get lonely."

OK, maybe she's trying to figure out just how red she can turn him. Call it a hobby.

She gets up and saunters over to his table, not in her standard-issue SHIELD catsuit but still in clothes that hug her curves, can easily go before a senate hearing and still look professional, but allow enough give if she has to kick someone's ass.

Don't ask where she's hiding her gun.

Awesome! This is fun!

[growingupsuper]

Clark just imagined his cheeks might catch fire sometime soon, really. They feel hot. It wasn't like he should be embarrassed. He was a free man, and he'd been around the bend, and had known women even bolder than her. But, ah, wow. She definitely had his eyes trying to stray. Hard.

That iron will of his managed to keep his eyes on hers... mostly. Almost all the time. That sure was a nice outfit, though! He blew out a breath, the heat on his face not abating, and nodded to her. "Maybe some. But I can see and hear better than most, ma'am. So, even when I'm alone, I tend not to be."

He heard a person swear and for a moment, his eyes went distant. His cheeks cleared as a look of someone looking and listening far away came to his face, and he glanced downward, toward the deck, and beyond it.

A calibration hangs in the balance of going wrong, but is easily righted by a... ah, a crewman taking a test, some decks below, okay. He could hear it all. The voices, the breaths, the engine, and the stars outside. He reminded himself that he was not needed, here and now, and refocused those eyes on hers, and smiled at her, a warm smile again and nodded.

But she had managed to come much closer, and he was caught in looking at her as she came to his table, and he swallowed, and oh, well, there went his cheeks again! "Er, join me for a drink?" His smile was still warm, even if he felt his heart hammering.

IT IS. I love it when Maria gets the opportunity to be shameless. ;)

[holds_her_own]

She leans her hip against his table, crossing her arms and ankles and looking for all the world like the most relaxed woman in the room.

"That is impressive. Sorry if I embarrassed you."

If he won't let his eyes wander, then she'll have to do enough wandering for the both of them. If she had less restraint, she might even whistle.

But it's the sudden look on his face that catches her eye this time.

Great, another superhero. She knows that look, she's familiar with the self-effacing sweetness and readied muscles, the way they're always focused on every potential threat. Not to mention the Adonis bodies.

Is there some sort of guidebook out there she doesn't know about?

"I'd love to, if you're sure you're not busy."

Heh. And Clark needs someone Shameless to really get him out of his self-imposed corner or shyness

[growingupsuper]

Clark smiled at her, his cheeks still red, and he could see her eyes wander, and he did his best not to blush any more than he already was. Wow. He hadn't met anyone this forthright since Lois! And it was a very different time, he knew.

If there was a guidebook, it had probably been written about him, once upon a day.

He smiled again and waved a hand at the chair across from him, rising politely. "Not at all. The crewmembers of this ship are delightfully self-sufficient. Clark hasn't felt this little needed to save the day since he was born. It was... nice.

He waved a hand at a server circulating around and raised an eyebrow at her. "What can I get you, ma'am?"