JP Between Alota & White Wolf - "Your husband may have turned down
Where: Jay's & Alota's living quarter
When: 26:00 hours.
Who: White Wolf & Alota
The six foot, one inch hamster was briskly striding down the corridor on his way to the Chrysler's quarters when he quickly turned a corner and nearly tripped over a scutter zooming along in the opposite direction. "Sorry, sorry - my fault, wasn't watching where I was going...." Politely apologized White Wolf, as the squat little scutter abruptly stopped and made several hand gestures in his direction as he walked onward toward the living quarters area.
"Corridor 27, Section a... b.... c..." Commented the huge hamster mentally reading off the signs to himself as he passed by them while humming a happy sounding tune out loud.
"Ah, here's the Chrysler residence." Said the large hamster quietly while stopping & pushing the door announce button, and waiting politely.
Alota answered the door within a few moments, and said with a slightly flustered voice, "Oh my... What a surprise! Please, excuse the mess Captain, I wasn't expecting anyone today. Um... won't you come in and have a seat?"
"Why Thank You, Alota." replied the rotund hamster entering, while quickly glancing around and taking a seat at their couch, "Hey, I like your couch - I used to have one of these exact same models to sleep on when I was back in the academy."
"Thanks." Said Alota smiling slightly, "Can I get you anything to drink, sir?"
"Oh - there's no need Alota, I'm fine. I just came here to talk to you." replied White Wolf.
"Jay didn't do anything wrong, did he?" Asked Alota.
"Oh no, he didn't do anything wrong. But, your right, he is the reason why I'm here - I met with him a little while ago, and he recommended you for the position of First Officer." Replied the amplitudinous hamster, "So, I'm here to interview you for the post, that is if you don't mind, of course..."
It was quite unusual to have the captain in her quarters, so Alota just did not know how to react so she stuck to the usual 'what the hell have I done wrong now' mood. But when the Captain said that she nearly fainted, dropping the stuff she was picking up, well having 5000 or so jays inhabiting the place would create that sort of mess, she turned around to face the giant hamster.
"Erm sure sir" she said, still not quite believing it. She walked over to a chair that was facing the couch, and she sat down waiting for the initial 'grilling' of questions to commence.
"I'm glad to hear that, Alota." says the jumbo hamster, while pulling out a pen & small pad of paper from his vest pocket to take notes with, "Now, the first question I wanted to asked you is - What's the extent of your military training? Particularly, what weapon systems your certified on, your specialties & area's of expertise."
"Well to put it quite simply if it fires then I've got training on it, according to my husband I’m a 'gun wielding psychopathic maniac' although the psychopathic maniac bit has yet to be proven. Saying that my specialties are with anything that makes a damn big hole and my expertise are in the same area." she smiled briefly waiting for the next question
"Ah huh - and do you think you would need any additional training if your given the XO post?"
Thinking for a decent answer she clasped her hands "Besides the usual XO training that you have to go through once every so often, whenever the JMC decide that you aren't performing to their standards I don't believe so." she coughs slightly a little nervous.
"That's all very good, Alota." Says the overgrown hamster, while scribbling some quick notes on his pad, "And what would be the first thing you'd do as XO, Alota?"
"Besides get my husband back into his right mind? Oh yes, I've heard about that." Alota says to White Wolfs quirked eyebrow, "I’ll try to get some sort of better working relationship going on around here and get us back into proper working order." she coughed again, "Also give the scutters some decent language programming, you trip up over them and they whoosh off on a swearing and finger gesturing duck fit.".
"Mmmm.... Hmm. That's very interesting." Remarks the enormous hamster while scribbling some more notes, "How do you think being married to Jay will affect your performance as First officer? And how do your having more authority & responsibility than Jay will affect your relationship with him?"
"There are possibilities that we won't get to spend as much time together as we once have, but he's got his new responsibilities as well, that's a fact" she pauses smirking "As for the last question...it shows you haven’t been married before sir, and with all due respect, may I warn you, the woman is always right." she chuckles slightly.
"I see… And you don't think your judgment as XO would be affected, even if you possibly had to assign him to a suicide mission?" Asked the vast hamster, while gesturing with his pen.
"Assign him to a suicide mission? Jay *is* is a suicide mission, any mission that he would be sent on he'll always come back from, even if it is a suicide mission, he's got this nasty habit, which has it's good points I might add, no matter how many times you flush it won't go away."
"Since I will be the commanding officer, and with this Hamsterish condition of mine, I assume there will be quite a few times the XO will be called upon to represent me instead, and in some cases, carry out my wishes that may conflict with his or her own wishes. Do you have any problems with that?"
"As your job as Captain makes you have to take every scenario into aspect before judging and making your decision, I trust your judgment and won't have any problems carrying out the desired wish, that is, unless something new that hasn't been added to the equation comes up. If that does happen, I will contact you first before going ahead. Although, I don't see what people have wrong with a six-foot hamster. I do understand that some people are delicate when the situation of meeting something that looks like the pet hamster they would normally keep in a cage or haven't yet had the pleasure of keeping in a cage comes up, so yes, meeting them is not exactly a choice I have to make, I'm just going to have to do it." she shifts in her chair trying to get into a comfortable position.
"I think I already know what your answer is to my next question, but I'm going ask it anyways, Just to make sure - Do you place more loyalty to the ship and the crew, or the JMC command?"
"The JMC employ me, they put me through training, and who do you think I'm going to stand by? The crew of course, my loyalty lies with them, they need someone who is going to stand by them in any type of situation, no matter how bad it looks, and I'm sure they would do the same if it was necessary."
"Okay Alota, One last question. A hypothetical situation - Let's say your Commanding officer, let's say it's not me, but somebody else, informs you that he or she has been having some disturbing dreams about something which he or she suspects have occurred at some specific place, and he or she asks for your advice on whether he or she should or should not investigate into their suspicion further, even though it may be just a dream, what would your advice be to him or her?"
"Well he or she should first of all decide what gender they want to be, it gets utterly confusing" she pauses chuckling slightly "It would be a waste of resources sending the ship on a wild goose chase, but I would advise that they send a smaller ship out, if they do encounter anything then they can call for back up, at least then it would have been investigated."
The Gargantuan hamster nods while tapping the pen on his chin for a moment in thought, and then suddenly putting away the pen & pad in his vest pocket and standing up, "Alright Alota - as of now, I'm taking Jay off, and reassigning you as temporary XO for three weeks, to see if can you handle the job. But hopefully, I'm not being to premature in saying - Congratulations Alota." As he extends his right paw to her for a handshake.
Alota stands up and nods "Thank you sir, it is a great honor." she took his paw in the offered handshake and the large hamster got up to depart, he paused and glanced momentarily at the flashing “12:00” on the video recorder in their entertainment center with a sticky note stuck to it saying ‘It’s your turn to program the recorder, Jay!”. The overgrown hamster pulled out his notepad, scribbled another quick note on it, before returning the pad back into his vest pocket and turning towards Alota and commenting, “You know, Alota? I may not have been married before, But I do know that your comment about ‘married women are always right’ sounds about as wrong as the common store manager’s saying ‘the customer is always right’. I think both should be an equal partnership where the participants treat each other respectfully, and do their part regardless of who’s wrong when it comes to correcting stuff. Oh, By the way, Your first order of business as the First Officer is to find out who you’d recommend for filling in your soon to be vacated communications officer post.” The huge hamster smiled for a moment, and then left through the door.
Alota shut the door behind him and plopped down on a chair still seemingly in a little shock.
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Joint post featuring:
Lt. Commander Alota Chrysler
Communications Officer and First Officer Pro Tempore, Blue Dwarf
&
Captain White Wolf
Commanding Officer, Blue Dwarf