Acting Captain Amber in:- Promenade Peril

OOC - I'm not doing too well at this posting thing at the moment am I?  Belated Merry Christmas to you all and hope your 2009 goes better then 2008. :DWho: AmberWhere: Drive Room, in orbit above New Tennerife
When: After Rose returned to Blue Dwarf~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The new shuttle craft were in the Shuttle-bays, sitting there waiting for their chief of navigation to service them and check that everything was in order. Or at least, assign someone to the job. Amber had sent a memo down to Efof about the job, seeing as he was currently Acting CNO. She glanced around into the adjoining office at the mountains of paperwork that had built up over the last few days, they said there was no post on Christmas, but Amber was beginning to wonder if forms and reports were an exception to the matter. She had gone from a fairly mid range job on Blue Dwarf to Acting Captain in under a year. She shook her head and wondered what her mother would say if she could see her daughter now. So many people had sat in this chair. So many people that Amber thought were doing a much better job than she was or ever could. Well, OK there were some exceptions, she was unlikely to go on a rampage and try to kill everyone like Captain Cannon. Alots dwelled on her mind, this had been her chair until Amber had taken that away from her in a mind controlled, drug induced, Hymenopteran rage.The big blue space ship was practically deserted, everyone was on leave and Rufus was on some mad experimental frenzy down in his lab. He had mumbled to Amber in passing excitedly about the holodeck and Tara. The Drive room was empty except for a few select staff. Amber was bored, nothing was happening, she doodled on the arm of the chair in pencil, adding to the "Seymour is a wuss" and "Cannon sucks" graffiti on the chair. She made a note to see if it was possible to get a new chair. Slowly, a picture of a Hymenoptera worker bug appeared in a cartoony style and was mercilessly stabbed through the thorax by a sword.---- Later ----After a few more uneventful hours, Amber decided to take a walk, leaving her masterpiece, to look around for someone who was slacking off and who wasn't on leave that she could shout at to make herself feel more Captainly. She perused her way to the Promenade, intending to go to to Parrotts and see someone there who was doing something that they shouldn't. However, she was marginally distracted when she caught site of a new pair of heavy duty boots in a department store. She walked in and ogled the pair of utility boots, wondering if she could afford them with the temporary pay rise she was getting for this job.It was only a small feeling, but she suddenly got the sense that someone was watching her. She spun around to see Jed Calvert looming over her."What the?!... Jed?...Uh, i mean Captain!" She snapped to a salute. "No one told me you were back, or that you were fit for duty. I'm sorry, please, feel free to take over again." Amber stepped back, noticing the hungry look in his eye and the stalker like approach that he made. "Look, I'm sorry OK, lets not get violent now...." Amber also noticed that he didn't have a bottle of whisky in his hand, or a small of stale booze and cigars around him.<Tag Onion, unless you wanna JP>