[Volunteering] Who: Fred and Captain Kirk What: Discussing the New Arrivals Where: Kirk's Office When: After Dean's Arrival Rating: TBD
It had been a strange couple of days. Things had started off quite well - Fred had finally got the hang of life on a spaceship, and she'd even started to curb her enthusiasm a little bit - but life on the Enterprise apparently wasn't going to be as simple as that.
(She'd worked for Angel Investigations, then Wolfram and Hart. She wasn't sure why she was so surprised about that. Maybe it was because it had been three years since her arrival and the last trace of a portal. Now they seemed to be appearing thick and fast, and that couldn't be a coincidence.)
She felt so sorry for the new arrivals. She knew what it was like to be sucked up and spat out by a transdimensional portal. Twice. She knew what it was like to realise there was no way back to your old life. It had been natural for her to volunteer to help. She was one of the few people - quite possibly the only person, actually - who could really understand what they were going through. Whether the arrivals wanted to believe that or not.
This would be the first time she freely admitted her own origins, though. The Captain was one of the few people who knew the truth. (Well, he was the Captain.) Fred spent a lot of time worrying that people would see through her pretense and realise she wasn't from the 23rd century at all. It would be nice to be able to let her guard down, even if it would only ever be for a tiny amount.
They hadn't spoken properly yet - he was a Captain, and she was a lowly scientist with an unnatural predisposition for tacos - but she trusted him. She'd read the reports about the Narada, such as they were, and when she'd watched him receive his captaincy she had been certain that he'd deserved it.
If anyone could help the people popping through subspace and landing on the Enterprise, it would be him.
Now, as she knocked as politely as possible on the door of his office, she just had to work out whether or not she was supposed to salute or not.