Ensign Lhandon Joseph Nilsen - A new friend?…no!

[Thomas Sanderson]

(OOC: This is my first time using the email instead of going to the group, I will never do this again)

(( A Corridor, Deck 7, USS ‘Oumuamua ))

Lhandon was super excited. A person from the same backwater planet as himself, and he had found Toxin. Awesome. Friend. Salo had said he needed to make new friends.

Nilsen: Mate…I just remembered something, we’re both founding families. Our great great great pa’s would have served together on the colony ship. and now we meet here. How awesome is that?

O’Reilly: :: his demeanor shifting ever slightly to distant :: Yea (beat) awesome. (beat) So you two are roomates?

Arlill: Yeah this guy was assigned to my quarters and we’ve been attached at the hip since.

Lhandon saw the look that came from O'Reilly, but maybe he just misinterpreted it. He dismissed the thought. But if he were to look back, this would have been the first of many signs that the two were not going to be broroomys.

O’Reilly: :: obviously lost in thought ::

Nilsen: Ha something like that. You remember that time in holodeck where you found that…

O’Reilly: :: cutting off Lhandon :: :: To Arlill :: You grew up on Earth, where were you born though?

Lhandon can talk for any planet, if there was federation wide Olympics for talking he'd win it, but normally people wait for the sentence to end before intrupting. Lhandon’s expression was one of surprise 

Arlill: Umm, (beat) :: looking at Lhandon, then back towards Teddy as they walked :: From San Fransisco most of my life, but born in Worcester City in Olde Massachusetts on Earth.

Nilsen: It’s certinally more exciting then Gault right?

Lhandon ended that sentence on a positive note, maybe he had just caught this O'Reilly on a bad day. The O'Reillys might have had a reputation that Lhandon didn't really remember, but surely that was just hearsay and conjecture.

You know what? It was going to be Lhandon's mission to at least be on good terms with O'Reilly.

O’Reilly: Well, we can’t all be from somewhere special I suppose. (beat) Sometimes families just keep on the move.

Okay, a comment that confused Lhandon, sometimes families just kept on the move? What did O'Reilly mean by that?

Was that a jab at him? At the Nilsen's?

Arlill: So Teddy :: looking at Lhandon again :: You said you did some flight training in the marine operations division?

O’Reilly: Yeah some, I kinda washed out after an incident with my C/O and not being a fan of my :: with air quotes :: fly boy attitude. So I went to Sniper school instead.

Flyboy, that's a term that was used as slander against Lhandon by others in his past. To be called flyboy by your peers in flight school was not a compliment. It meant you had too much ego and spent too much time in the holodeck on the Top Gun program.

The only person who could get away with calling Lhandon "flyboy" was Toxin. Tox knew what had happened in the academy, knew that Lhandon had that nickname. Yet Lhandon had been happy for Tox to use it. When he used it, it was used with love, with affection for his broroomy, and as a way to patch up the past.

Maybe, though, Lhandon was just overthinking this?

But did O'Reilly know about that nickname?

Surely not?

Nah, it was just a coincidence... right?

But he had just looked at Lhandon as he said that.

Lhandon pushed the thought aside and asked about O'Reilly's training.

Nilsen: Sniper school? That sounds pretty cool.

Lhandon again, giving all the energy he could, taking an interest as they found their way into 7-Forward 

(7-Forward, USS Oumuamua)

O’Reilly/Arlill: Response 

O'Reilly answered, but the answer was not to Lhandon, it was to Toxin. As if Lhandon hadn't been there. 

But Lhandon had been right there, how could you miss the great big galoot?

Then the conversation moved to O'Reilly's Commander, 2nd Lieutenant Arturo Maxwell. 

Lhandon had met Max during his last mission, and the two had gotten along well. Lhandon had looked up to Max, and there had even been talk about them forming a rugby team. And of course, how could he have forgotten the planning of a certain JOPA operation?

Nilsen: Max is the best, its sooo good to cook for someone who has the same appetite as me. 

Then O'Reilly butted in with a comment that Toxin would have seen as the first outward sign that something had gotten to Lhandon. 

O'Reilly/Arlill: Response 

TBC / Tags!

Ensign Lhandon Joseph Nilsen 

HCO

USS Oumuamua

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