sparks that ring and bullets fly

damara avinon | betazoid/human weapons specialist aboard the uss calypso.

[calypso-darren]

Darren could tell she didn’t like him. Everything about her said it. And that made him only want to talk to her more. 

Then why say you’ve lost it? If you really need one right now I can whip something up for you. Or I’m sure I’ve got some laying around.

Darren gave her a half smile. 

Yeah. I dabble in my free time. You’d be surprised at what I can make.

He hadn’t planned on it beforehand but when he got on board he got right to work. Guns, communication systems, security locks, PADDs, and other mechanics or technology that could be run somehow by codes and electronics, which he always made sure they did, where his speciality. 

[calypso-damara]

It's not a phaser, actually. It's an antique.

[Which raised enough questions she was not really allowed to answer. "I'm lending it to the Captain" raised enough questions.]

I'm a weapons specialist, I've got plenty. Don't worry about it. Are you?

[calypso-darren]

Well sorry to disappoint but I’m not most people. The names Darren. Darren Presley. I’d be devastated if I lost a couple of things I own that are special to me also. So what do you say we look for this gun of yours? 

I don’t think it could have wandered very far. I haven’t invented a gun that can get up and walk itself away from its owner yet so it must be somewhere you’ve been. How about we start with that? 

[calypso-damara]

I know where it is. Someone's just borrowing it on the away team. 

[She didn't like this guy, how close he stood and the foolhardiness he radiated, which she tried to make exceedingly clear. She wouldn't introduce herself.] 

You invent guns?

[calypso-darren]

You say that like it’s the end of the world. 

[calypso-damara]

It kinda is. 

Most people don't get it. 

[calypso-damara]

Okay, I figured it out.

I'm never going to see my gun again. 

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[thursday]

[petra-batori-deactivated2014091]

[Mira walked down the corridor, exhausted. She had been on the bridge all day with no breaks, a little unusual for the Chief, as she normally got small breaks in between. But today, she had just worked more than she normally would, with no real reason behind it. Obviously, it had been a mistake, as she was so tired, she could barely walk straight.

As Mira made her way down the the hallway, almost to her room, she accidentally bumped into someone (her closing eyes were to blame), and she nearly feel backwards.]

Ah, fuck, sorry. 

[calypso-damara]

[The fact the Captain had visited her made her feel like she was in some kind of secret, and she felt both anxious and proud. However, the combination of those two things made it feel like she was keeping a secret, and she'd never gotten the hang of those. 

So she must have overreacted a little when she bumped into the other woman, stumbling a little and checking frantically to make sure nothing had gotten too jumbled in her last box of equipment--she'd finally be done moving everything in for her weapons locker revisions, and then she planned to hole herself up in her quarters for however long it would take. But first there was this.] 

It's fine. [Command, then. She frowned, feeling that languidness of exhaustion in the air--she couldn't blame her, the whole bridge seemed to radiate it.] Tired? 

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[calypso-damara]

3, 4, 12, 16, 18, 22, 23

3. The kind that you wouldn't like.

4. I like to have a lot. I brought two extra. 

12. Nah. 

16. I guess I miss my sisters, but don't tell them I said so. 

18. I think Captain Porter is really cool. But don't tell her I said so. 

22. I need to clean up some stuff in my office. I really should have before the Admiral showed up, but he knows me, so whatever. 

23. Chocolate. I shouldn't get into the habit. (Betazoid get fucked up on chocolate, for the uninformed.)

[calypso-jude]

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[calypso-damara]

Damara had made use of the elliptical in the gym in the lower decks as soon as she transferred aboard; at first, it was closed from the damage, but it seemed to be one of the first things restored to order (probably by the demand of the crew.) So much that one morning some hours before her shift, she rose early and headed down, earphones in, and started to actually christen the routine. 

There was something calming about it; particularly, exercising with the knowledge she wasn't being nagged into it. It brought a new meaning to it. So long as she kept building up her tolerance, she could apply it to her work--you could only fire a gun for so long before your lack of conditioning caught up to you. 

[calypso-alan-blog]

Wonderful. [He started walking around the space, delicately stepping over sheets of paper and loose bullets he found scattered across the floor. Damara seemed polite enough, but the place was notably quite…disorganized. How she made sense of things, he had no idea. He made a mental note to add that to his notes on her.]

[Tentatively, he bent down, picked up a tiny nail and set it on a shelf next to him. It smelled of steel and sawdust—absolutely repugnant, he thought.]

Quite a place you’ve got here. Anything in particular you’d like me to know?

[calypso-damara]

It is. [She could tell that was some sort of veiled criticism, but she decided to not let on that she'd been paying much attention in the first place. And there he was, going through her stuff, and she couldn't say a thing about it. It was his job, after all.

Just because he and her mom had hung out should have at least put her a peg up, somewhere between being treated like the rest of the crew and him being Uncle Alan.]

I'm redesigning the weapons locker so it's more like what we have on the starbase. [That counted as productive, didn't it?]

[calypso-damara]

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[calypso-damara]

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[calypso-porter]

[Don watched her roll back, her posture relaxing slightly. But when she returned with an elegant, beautiful revolver, she blinked, and straightened before taking it and brushing her fingers over it.]

Real? [Goddamn. She could tell there was more behind the reason she held the revolver so close. And she was no fool. The captain recognized a good weapon when she saw one.] You know I’m gonna keep this safe, yeah?

[calypso-damara]

[She was close to protesting as soon as her Captain had it in her hands, but held her tongue. The whole thing still felt so illicit--not that she was opposed to that, exactly, but she didn't expect it from Don herself. Instead, she cast a glance down at the revolver, admiring it as she always did, and then looked back up to her.]

Cross your heart?

[calypso-damara]

Did you really make Céleste a sexy vaporwave mixtape?

Guilty as charged.