Chloe sat on the transport tapping her foot. It had taken several days to get to the station and now she was finally here. She had her duffle bags next to her on the ground, and she was growing impatient. She hadn't seen her lover in weeks now, and she was also somewhat nervous for her new assignment.
Finally the transport docked at the station, but with the crowd of people getting up to get off, she was toward the back and one of the last to be able to move off.
Richard was waiting by the exit to airlock eight, where the latest transport had docked. Aboard this craft was the love of his life, Chloe, and he was eager with anticipation at seeing her again… taking her in his arms and holding her… feeling her soft lips against his own…
After getting past all the pushing and shoving of all the passengers getting off, and arriving aboard the docking port, Chloe was able to easily find Richard. He was standing close to the exit. Finding herself in his arms she had dropped her duffle bags on the ground softly kissing him. "You seem happy." She said with a smile after pulling a little away from him.
Richard smiled. “Of course I’m happy, I’m with you.” He said, simply.
Looking him over, Chloe had come to expect Richard to almost always wear his uniform, and now she also noticed something differnt about it. "You didn't tell me about this..." She said with a pleased smile on her lips as she touched the pips on his uniform.
“Well, its only a recent addition to my uniform.” He said. “I wanted to surprise you.”
"Im definitely surprised." She said warmly in his arms. As a few people walked by the most likely saw the age difference between them like most others did, but it wasn't an issue to them. "I just might have a surprise for you later too then."
Richard chuckled. “You know full well I don’t like suprises.” He said, as he picked up her duffle bag and walked down the promenade. “Would you like your own quarters whilst aboard, or do you plan on sharing mine? Only I’d need to let the QM know if he needs to assign you a berth.”
She raised an eyebrow when he asked the question. "You remeber how often I used my quarters before you left the
“No, I’d prefer to have you in my quarters, but I do recall times when you did like having your own space.” He said. “But I think I’ve solved that with my new quarters. There’s a second bedroom in there, so if you need privacy for whatever reason, you can use that.”
"So our quarters then." She said with a pleased smile on her lips as he lead the way down the promiade. She was taking notice of some shops she would like to visit later.
“Yes, our quarters.” He beamed. “You should know that we’ll be deploying in 48 hours, so that doesn’t give us much time to get you settled in.”
"That's plenty of time." That was plenty of time for all her intentive purposes she thought with an inward smile. "That's even more time then I expected to have."
“You’ll need to report in to Colonel Alexia Longhorn in the morning.” He said. “Her air group is coming with me to Passada station, and as you’ll be part of that group, you’ll be coming too.”
"Alright, in the morning." She agreed when she walked into the turbolift, waiting for him to tell the computer where to go.
“Task Force Living Quarters” He commanded of the lift, and the car started to move. Richard took a moment to take in Chloe’s appearance and smiled. “Any special reason you’re wearing a uniform a size smaller than you are?”
"Im not, I just don't like loose fitting uniforms. They get caught on things in the cockpit. You know that." She said defensivly before she realized he was teasing her.
“mmhmm… and you catch people’s attention in passing…” He said, teasing her more. The turbolift arrived at the correct floor, and Richard lead Chloe out of the lift and down the very nicely decored corridor.
"You know that doesn't matter if I catch peoples attention... Im yours and you know it." She said fully aware now that he was teasing her. "I only want your attention." In their time away from each other she had many others try to get her attention, but she ignored them all. She knew who she wanted.
They reached a door which had on the stenciling “MGEN. RICHARD SHARPE – MEF CO”. He tapped the control and the door opened into a vast room, ten times bigger than his quarters on the
She raised any eyebrow at the size of the room. "Big enough?" She said with a soft chuckle. "I think we can manage." She liked how big his... their quarters were. That they were plenty of room for them both... and perhaps even anthor.
“You know, it probably isn’t big enough for you, me and my ego.” He smirked.
"Your ego can tough it then." She said, her turn to tease him.
Richard moved towards her, and in the privacy of their quarters, he drew her close to him, wrapping his arms around her waist, and looked down into her beautiful blue eyes. “Only if I can satisfy it.” He smiled, and leaning in, kissed her with a passion that had been longing to escape for weeks.
She went into his arms with ease, missing his presence greatly as she wrapped his neck kissing him with just the same amount of passion. The fact that she had stayed true to Richard when they were separated meant that she was completely serious about him, that their relationship wasn’t about lust or just a physical relation, she truly loved him. That was obvious when she touched him.
He drew away from her after a few moments, and smiled. “Perhaps we should catch up on lost time?” He said, a mischievous sparkle in his eyes.
"I do think we have a lot of catching up to do." She knew he wanted the exact same thing she did as her hands started to undo his uniform as her lips met his again.
=/\= End Log =/\=
Major General Richard Sharpe
Officer Commanding
1st Marine Expeditionary Force
1st Task Force
2nd Lieutenant Chloe Merau
Pilot
1st Marine Expeditionary Force
