Quinn Sebastian:
(*A knock at the door brings a subway map, two M-16s, a spare clip for each one, and an extra clip for Headshot's two weapons.*)
All right, is there anything else you need? If not, this sailor will take you to your motorboat.
While the others are finishing up Case pushes up from his briefing chair. His demeanor shifts with a smile as he heads to the hatch. "
Hiya Jimmy." The teen greets the recently arrived sailor as he steps out into the passageway. "
Guess you know I'm headed back to Tarzan Land so Gevero and Cole don't have to hotrack anymore. And maybe the Chiefs will stop giving you grief about 'the Incident'."
Case winced internally about the trouble he landed his guide while onboard the Reagan in the first weeks. He liked to explore and it was hard to do that with Seaman Cream attached to the hip assigned to the task of keeping one the Gipper's 'special guests' out of trouble. It was a big busy ship though so he'd give Jimmy the slip on occasion. Once away he just had to steal a clipboard and some papers and just walk like he had someplace to be. Again it was a big ship with lots of people who normally wouldn't be aboard her so that part was simple. Unfortunately that also made it easy to get lost.
His grandmother used to say boredom was the Devil's tool, but he never thought washing some disgustingly dirty coffee cups would cause so much trouble. They were just sitting there in a rack, white cups stained nearly brown to black. Like they've never been washed and put back on the rack dirty to dry out. He didn't see anybody else in the empty lounge and Case had nothing better to do. Focusing on a simple task helped take his mind off other things so he could sleep and it really took a lot of scrubbing to get rid of all those successive 'rings' of dried coffee stains out of the cups. They never looked better by the time he was done and it didn't take too long for him to steal his way back to the berthing he was supposed to stay in.
When Jimmy took him to breakfast that morning before the next round of tests, the only thing everyone was talking about was that someone had cleaned all the coffee cups in the 'Goat Locker'. Case didn't see any goats but he did know about clean cups and told Jimmy's shippies he cleaned them. They laughed like he told the funniest joke imaginable while Jim looked like he'd just been murdered.
Case had to lie a little to the psychologist about how unhappy he was that Seaman Cream was replaced as his guide and it was because of the others that just 'disappeared'. Not that it wasn't a little true, but he knew they weren't going to hurt Jimmy. Case just felt guilty that he got Jim in so much trouble for something he did. When the gambit worked, Case couldn't apologize enough and promised he wouldn't cause any more trouble.
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Uh...anyway thanks for putting up with me," Case continues a little awkwardly, "
And...um...good luck with everything. I had a good time hanging out with you guys."
This message was last edited by the player at 20:06, Thu 23 Sept 2021.