Discombobulated - Part I

Posted on Sun Feb 15th, 2026 @ 5:32am by Lieutenant Rynna Csira & Lieutenant Commander Rafael Montoya

1,414 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: A Day In The Life
Location: USS Orcrist

0445

Raf had tried to get some sleep but after failing he went to the gym to try and wear himself out.

As he worked up a sweat his mind drifted back to the hours before while he was working up a sweat on the dance floor. The way they moved together...

The lights flashed to the music as the moved around each other. She backed up to him as they swayed to the music, his hand moving from her hips to her thighs.

Her hand covered his as they slid up...

Raf was snapped back to the present by a hit that sent him to the mat. His sparring partner was shocked, since he had never managed to connect like that in all their matches.

"You alright commander? What happened?"

Climbing to his feet, not wanting to admit to what let his guard down, "Was a long day yesterday...". Rubbing his chin, "Good hit." After rolling his head and shoulders he brought his hand back up. "Let's go again."

0502

Ryn's dreams were filled with flashbacks of her date with Raf the night before. She hadn't been so sure it was a real date until they went dancing and then walked through the arboretum as she'd kind of forced him to take her to see his sister, who then invited them to dinner.

She'd woken up at some point when she dreamed of Karmen chasing her through the arboretum, yelling that Ryn wasn't good enough for her brother and was only infatuated with him. The argument that ensued had her getting up to make a cup of hot cocoa and listen to music before she could eventually get back to sleep.

But it didn't stop the dreams. It didn't stop her mind reliving the feel of his body against hers as he pulled her close for a slow dance, the look in his eyes as they met hers... She sat up suddenly and threw off the covers. No. She wasn't doing herself any favors by getting all hot and bothered over a dance. Or a night of dances. She'd danced lots of times with good-looking men. But none of them were Raf... her mind whispered.

She got up and took a cold shower. That only helped until she warmed up and dressed. Then the dreams were replaced by music. Not the music from the night before. No. This was from the Academy. One of her roommates was really into Disney Princesses and insisted Ryn see any play that came to a theatre nearby. Or any holomovie.

In desperation, she replicated a breakfast burrito and glass of chocolate milk and fled to her office to hopefully get some work done. All the while one particular song from Cinderella played in her mind.



0920

Raf had had a habit on DS4 to make the morning rounds of the various wards for the primary medical center before meeting with his staff on the status of the other medical facilities on the station. On the Orcrist 'morning rounds' took less than 10 minutes.

He yawned as he updated the case files on the one patient currently in sick bay and pushed back from the desk, turning to the replicator just off to the side. "Large Blue Mountain coffee, hot, cream, medium sweet."

As he sipped the coffee he leaned back in his chair, savoring the rich flavor as the aroma took him back to the night before...

Walking the Promenade they had come to a small coffee shop and stopped for the dessert they hadn't gotten after dinner.

They sat at the small, street cafe style table while they waited for their order coffees and cannoli. The shops cannoli plate consisted of two smaller pastries and two strawberries stuffed with cannoli filling.

At one point, Ryn had taken a drink from her coffee as she lower the cup, Raf stifled a laugh at the aftermath.

"What?" she had asked.

Reaching his hand across the table, stopping only for a second then continuing. His fingers touched her cheek at the corner of the jaw, his thumb touching her lips brushing the foam away.

He was snapped back to reality when one of the nurses came into his office reviewing the latest scans "Doctor Monto..."

"AHHH!" Standing quickly as his coffee spilled.



1021

The day seemed to drag on forever. Or was it that she couldn't keep her mind on what she was doing? Twice she'd tried to use the wrong sized coupler. But her thoughts kept wandering.

Ryn was replacing a power coil when her thoughts went back to when they'd cut through the arboretum after dancing in one of the clubs...

She'd stopped in front of a bush with deep green leaves and red flowers with golden centers that looked a little like hibiscus. She felt Raf come up behind her a moment before he ran his hands from her waist to her hips, much like he had on the dance floor, and pulled her gently back against him.

Her eyes closed as she leaned into him, grateful the lights had been lowered to simulate night. But she knew she couldn't stay there. To break the building tension she felt, she said the first thing that came to her. "They're beautiful, aren't they."

"Mm hmm."

She turned around to find Raf looking at her. They both stood there for several seconds. Then he leaned in and gave her a soft, brief kiss.

And then Ryn dropped the hypospanner she'd been holding on her foot. "Ow!"

"You okay, lieutenant?" a young ensign asked.

"Fine. I just dropped a tool." She really needed to focus on her work. Or go talk to the doctor, a voice whispered in her head.

"Okay...but if you need a break, I can finish up."

Maybe she did at that. "Let me finish this, then I'll take a break." Now that she had a goal, she quickly finished the job and put her tools back in her office to take a walk to the lounge for a snack. If she happened to go by sickbay, then she'd stop in and say hi. Nothing wrong with that, right?

Except that Raf wasn't there. He was in a meeting with a team of nurses and wasn't available.

With a sigh, Ryn decided she needed a chocolate éclair. And maybe a dozen caramels.



1245

In his second uniform of the day and his meetings over he was on his way to get some lunch. As he did he walked passed the lab where the stasis pod still sat.

Lily wasn't working on it today and he stepped over to it looking into the pod remember Ryn's Robin Hood vision and the Zorro comments that followed. Tapping the pod he headed out.

Going down a deck to he popped into Operations but Ryn was out, working no doubt, and didn't wanna bother her so he continued on to the lounge on his own. As he left he caught the scent of her perfume...well it was hers or damn close.

Walking down the corridor the scent he had caught had his mind drifting back to the night before. The smell of her hair has he held her during the slow music, how her perfume wafted off of her during other dancing, recharged as she heated up.

He sat on a bench seat in the lounge leaning his head back, absent mindedly putting his arm along the back, just as he had when she had leaned against him on the park bench while the enjoyed the artificial night sky.

His head came up as the female steward came over to talk his order and he smiled. She blushed. That wasn't good. All his...recollections were boosting his pheromones.

He left the lounge, needing a shower and another fresh uniform.



1300

"I hear he's been down to the planet four times with five different women."

Ryn recognized the voice of one of her new transporter operators. It was impossible to stop gossip on a starship, but she felt that more decorum was required when working in the transporter room--especially when they were on shore leave.

"How could he take four trips with five women. Did he take two at the same time?"

"Nah. I was told he went down last night with one redhead and came back early this morning with another."

(To be continued...)

Lt. Commander Rafael Montoya
CMO

P.O Esragg - NPC
C...blockng Bolian

Lieutenant Rynna Csira
Chief Operations Officer
USS Orcrist

 

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