anniversary

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When; Friday, March 8th
Rating; PG-13
Characters; Uhura, Penny, the NPC Karaoke Adam, Zelgardis, and anyone else who wants to crash
Summary; Uhura realizes she's been in the City for six months. She decides to celebrate/mourn this by going drinking with her coworkers.
Log; Uhura downs a shot of whiskey, resisting the urge to peek at her device. She already knows what it says.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY!

She likes to think she's adaptable, the kind of person who can take things in stride, but the City has seriously been testing her calm. Six months away from her home, her family, her friends, her life. Six months of curses and nightmares.

She doesn't normally try to drink away her problems, but ice cream and old movies aren't going to get the memory of Spock's rotting corpse out of her mind. But she did learn something from the incident four months ago. As much as she loves Chekov, she doesn't invite him along. Instead, she's brought her coworkers Penny and Adam to keep her out of trouble so she doesn't have to worry about it.

"Are you sure I can't get you guys anything?" she asks them.

Comments

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"Enough to do my job," Uhura says, sidestepping the question. "You're pretty amazing yourself, Penny. Not many people would bother running a Welcome Center in a place like this, or put nearly the amount of love and dedication into it that you do."

[anunluckypenny]

"Well, thank you." There's no point in denying any of that, although Penny certainly doesn't think that there's anything exceptional about what she does. "So... how many drinks have you had?"

[universaltranslator]

Uhura takes a moment to think about this. "Uh....about one more than my ability to count right now."