Spa a Day away.
Posted on Fri Jun 1st, 2018 @ 11:20am by Staff Warrant Officer Jennifer Masters - Calhoun
Edited on on Thu Jun 7th, 2018 @ 9:02am
2,924 words; about a 15 minute read
Mission:
Episode 3 - Weary Travellers
Location: Hydrixia Spa Program, Zulg Holosuites, Empok Nor
Timeline: MD001 1130 hrs
The fresh clean look of the white tiled floor and surfaces along with the naturally rough but also white washed walls, the natural curving lines of the place specificly designed so the whole set up flowed together, and the gentle but audable swish of the pool set off to one side, all contributed to the sense of relaxation. It was into this environment a brunette human female entered, clad in a oversized but highly comfortable white bathrobe. She looked back over her shoulder into the changing area waiting for her crew mate, holding the door open, she sighed and smiled contentedly. After the excitement of the last few days and the workload it had generated she was looking forward to the destress and pampering this Spa would afford her, made all the better for having some one to share it with.
Jenn walked out of the changing area wearing an equally white bathrobe. She never been to a spa, so this could get interesting. She heard a lot about it though. The place comfortably warm and smelt pleasantly pleasing. "You know, why don't I have this environment in my quarters? I could sleep here for weeks." She thought about that a second. " Oh right, that's why." She stood next to Heidy. "So, what can we do here?" She asked, curious to know what relaxing things one does at a spa.
Heidy giggled at the retorical question, these places did tend to have that effect on a person, which is why she kept coming back. "Wait until you've spent a bit of time here, if it's your thing you'll be back for more. So we've got steam rooms, a sauna, jacuzzi, regular pool but the water has a high mineral content, do full massage, mud bath and i stopped reading the description after that, i was sold, sound good so far Jenn?" She explained as they stood, the warmth of the environment already soothing and caming her.
"Oh most definitely, I just don't know where to start," said Jenn. She looked around. "How about a swim in that mineral regular pool and then we get a massage. What do you think? Or maybe have a mud bath and then sauna?"
"I was thinking the steam room, well that tends to be mind first stop, gets the body ready for the other stuff." Heidy suggested waving and rotating her arms out in front of her before pointing to one of the doors just arround the corrner marked STEAM.
Jenn looked curious in the room. "Alright, let's do that, I will follow your example." She opened the door and walked in. She pulled her bathrobe off and hung it on one of the hooks. She then took a seat. "Oh this nice," said Jenn. "I can feel the heat on my tense muscles."
Heidy smiled as she stepped into the room, slipping of her own bathrobe, once it was hung, she took a seat herself a little further over than Jenn, leaned back and started to relax. "Feels good doesn't it, but this is just the start, it just gets better. But for now let the heat do its job." Heidy responded leant back as far as she could, eyes closed as she embraced the feeling of relaxation. "Before I forget remember to drink, you tend to loose a lot of water because of the heat, need to keep hydrated. There should be a complimentary counter somewhere. We'll have look in a moment or four."
Jenn leaned back as well and closed her eyes. "You bet ya." She let all her muscles relax and just smiled pleasantly. "Oh this is nice. I can't wait for the better stuff." She just let all the stress of the last period just melt away.
"I'm of the strong opinion that starships should have these as standard, like a real setup somewhere." Heidy agreed still with closed eyes. "That said the big ships probably do, but biggest I've served on is steamrunners and cheyenne-class." Rolling her head lazily to one side as she grasped an opportunity to find out a little more about her crew mate. "How about you Jenn, ever served on a big ship?"
Jenn sighed looking back at her life. "No, I was expelled from the academy and just hung around with merchants and bad guys before I was asked to return to starfleet." She looked up at the ceiling. "I think this is the biggest ship I have been on so far."
The start of feeling of familer between Jenns experience and her own began here, Heidy responded with a hint of her own. "That's rough, really rough, but it sounds like you made an impression at some point, got a sort of second chance type of thing. I know all about those, second chances that is? "
Jenn smiled at that. "You're right, I does feel like a second chance, with new people and a chance to do what really matters."
"That's what it's all about." Heidy responded with a smile, she sat up for a moment a mischievous smile creeping in as on impulse she asked a question. "Okay I got to ask, you ever done those supper secret mission, like you get in the spook holo novels, only for real?"
Jenn grinned. "That would be super cool, wouldn't it. To be honest no, so far I have only been running trough intelligence data required by those intelligence spooks. I am human intelligence, I am in contact with those people, and I do super cool interrogations. Maybe if I go on an away mission I can gather intelligence by talking to people. And I promise I won't hit anyone." She smirked at the last bit.
Heidy cracked into a giggle at the last comment, ending with a shrug and sigh. "That's a thing, it's been ages since I've been on an away mission, to be honest I much prefer the talkey and interogation things, to all the shootey stuff. But that's the job at times I guess." She flexed both arms in front if her and ran hands across them. "Anyway I'm suitably warm and sweaty, time to move on to the next thing, if your ready."
"Sure thing," said Jenn as she got up and rubbed her neck and shoulders a bit. "And I hear you on the shootey stuff. I rather sit behind a console and push buttons and shift trough intell, and even the questioning stuff, then all the shootings. But what can you do." She smiled getting her robe. "So what's next?"
Moving towards the door, Heidy reached behind Jenn for her own robe, slipping it on she stated cheerily. "I'm thinking it's mudbath time. Now you'll either love this or hate this, if it's not for you we'll hit the pool." Stepping out of the steam room the reletive lower temperature was quite refreshing to Heidy.
"I think we can do mud bath, as long as we can do the pool sometime in our program," said Jenn. She never had a mud bath before, but she heard good things about it.
Heidy nodded as she shuffled across the warm tiles round to the right towards the area setback and in an wide alcove, they passed a wide stone counter and the need to hydrate reoccur ed to her. She moved towards it and seeing no one about stretched over the counter for water, at that point a holographic server walked out from behind a screen. "Welcome ladies, a glowing pair of ladies as well, the facilities are to your liking i trust? What can i get you?"
"Why thank you mister, we've only just started but it fabulous so far. Two bottles of water if you would, keep the hydration up." Heidy responded with a sweet smile, attractive staff in these programs just added to the experience Heidy felt. She picked up the water bottle from him.
"And for you miss? Please enjoy the facilities and call if you need anything?" The male server held out a bottle of water towards Jenn.
Heidy strolled off towards the rows of stone carved bath like objects. Two of them were half full of a clay - mineral enriched mud compound. Turning to Jenn gestured towards them both. "These are ours."
Jenn looked in them. "So what do we do here. Lay in there or cover ourselves?" She had no idea, she never had a mud bath before.
"Lay in." She responded si.ply at first slipping out of her robe and hanging it on a nearby peg. "You'll want to lose the robe and then we climb in like so." Using the stone step set half way up the out side of the 'tub' Heidy stepped in, letting first one foot then the other squelch in, lowering herself slowly into the cool mud. "Come on in its great."
Jenn took off her robe as well and hung it on the peg next to the one Heidy put it on. "Alright, let's try this." Jenn climbed on one of the tubs and stepped in. She lowered herself in and felt the cool mud move up her body. "Well, I think I could get use to this. It feels better then I expected." She grinned.
Heidy giggled at the reaction as she spread the mud along her arms. Slapping some on her shoulders as well. "Arms, shoulders and face, don't be shy with it" Heidy encouraged as she slapped both arms on the the surface of the mudbath, despite how grownup, refined or whatever this was supposed to be the childish urge to mess with the stuff was to hard to resist. She scooped a small ball and lobbed it over towards the next bath, it broke up mid air, mud raining down on Jenn as a result. "Oops."
Almost automatically Jenn ducked covering her head with her hands and getting mud in her hair. "Oh you didn't..." Said Jenn as she moved her hands trough the mud and then scooped a big gulf she threw to the other tub. Then she just rubbed mud in her face. She muttered some noises as she did so.
"Apparently I did." Heidy threw her arms up against the return glob, which spread the result a little more, mud slapped onto her face, hair and arms. She shrugged and smiled devilishly, one hand scooping up a little more, all pretence of being sensible gone, she flung the glob aiming straight at neck and face. "Have a little more."
"Oh you're gonna get it now," said Jenn, she scooped some mud herself and threw it all at Heidy. They both got mud flying back and forth. Jenn was actually giggling with Heidy. "Ok we should stop this before we got everything covered in mud."
"Okay, okay, truce." Heidy responded just about managing to collect herself from a giggling fit to respond. "Wow that was hell of a stress relief, given the last few days. So shall we clean up and hit the pool?"
"Yea, that sounds good," said Jenn, she agreed on the stress relief part. It's been a while for her since she had so much fun. Or that she had a friend like Heidy. Ever since she left the academy she was mostly left to vent for herself. She climbed out of the mud to get cleaned up.
Now free of the mud, Heidy padded over to the shower set up at the far end, smacking the button, releasing a high pressure jet of water and then turning about in the a few times to rid herself of the mud. "Hey I don't think I've asked before how long have you been aboard? How are you gelling with your people?"
"I have been with the crew a while now," Jenn said as she stepped under the shower. "But, you know us spook types, always cooped up in the belly of the beast." She was debating if she should talk to Heidy about Calhoun. She never thought about it, but unexpectedly, she liked the man. But he was so much older then she was. Finally she said, "You know, there is this man I like and I am not sure what to do with those feelings. I don't even know if he likes me, but if he does, he probably wouldn't come forward with cause he is so much older then me." She looked to the ground. "I work with him and I can't just keep pretending by calling him old man all the time, right?" She asked.
"Hmm, there is somthing about the older man, they have an intrigue and a charm all of their own." Heidy commented with a warm smile, it had been a while since she'd had a chat on this sort of topic, but the taxable sense of uncertainty from Jenn made her temper her enthusiasm a little. "That and I love a good departmental romance." She added stepping from under the shower. "Come on, this seasoned fella got a name?"
Jenn smiled at what Heidy had said. "His name is Leslie Calhoun, Senior Patty officer Leslie Calhoun. You know, I am not sure what I get in to if I do pursue this, he is way older then me." She said as she got out of the shower. "What do you think? Should I ask him?"
"Yeah go for it!" Heidy replied with a wide smile, but she wanted more detailed and asked questions based of the feelings she remembered. "Do you feel comfortable the times you get work together?"
"I guess, well, I do think that I have been hiding my feelings a bit by teasing him and calling him old man." Jenn smiled. "And you know he makes me feel useful and special. And he can dance, wow, you should have seen us. The way he threw me around that other night in the bar. I never danced like that."
They were walking slowly towards the pool area at this point, Heidy fining herself a little giddy and happy for a friend being in that place, she knew that place, it was a good place. "Wow Jenn. You got to go for it. Descriptions of those feelings only do them half justice, ask, see where it leads you." They reached the pool and she slid into it carefully.
Jenn followed her example. She loved the pool. "I intend to, I think I am just a little nervous about it. I don't know what to do. What he likes to do?"
"Food. All of them like a good meal, suggest going for something to eat and see how he reacts." Heidy responded fairly quickly, submerging herself leaving only her head above water, after a little more thought asked. "Does lean towards historical stuff? is he a active fella?"
"Active, oh you have no idea. After a couple of Whiskey's I got him to join me on the dance floor and he showed me every corner off it." She laughed a bit. "He let me do moves I never done in my life. It's a good thing I have a well trained body or I wouldn't be able to pull them off."
"It pays to be flexible, for sure." Heidy responded with a cheaky smile. "But I think you've got a starting point, suggest a meal with a bit of dancing afterward, she what he says." She suggested still with a smile adding. "But be ready for him to open up and make other suggestions, some of the older fellas in the fleet have gotten used to not being first choice when it comes to dating and such, but they've got ideas stored away they just need a bit of coaxing out."
"Well the thing with Calhoun is, he is probably older then all the other elder people combined. He may have seen everything at least once in a lifetime, and I don't know if I could bring in something new to that table." She laughed nervously. "I could feel him on what his interests are. That might help. And maybe he could teach me a thing or two. I wouldn't have no idea."
"Does it really matter, you'll figure that out as you go, as long as your enjoying each others company." Heidy responded again with a shrug, although all these points were worth thinking about, the answers would come on the date. "Jenn don't over think it, if he makes you happy your onto something. Go have fun. Also were having lunch the day after and I expect details"
Jenn smiled. "Maybe you are right. I shouldn't overthink things. but that's just who I am, paranoid and overthinking things. And lunch the day after, sounds good."
"Excellent. I'm doing a bit of exploring on the station tommorow, I'll see if I can find a nice spot." Heidy responded with a pointing motion towards Jenn. "Now how about a nice massage to finish up here? Or did you want to floath around a little longer?"
"Sounds great," said Jenn as she made way to the ledge. "Let's a get a massage, I think it is all good for now." As she got out of the pool she stretched herself. "Ah, that was nice."
A Joint Post By
Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer Masters
HUMINT Agent, USS Pioneer
Petty Officer 2nd Class Heidy Dilucca
Brig Officer, USS Pioneer
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