Star Trek Enterprise- Malcolm & OC

Chapter 2: A Room To Share

Hoshi looked at me with a big grin
"What?" I asked smiling back at her slightly confused

"He liked you from the moment he set eyes on you!" she blurted out excited

"I am not sure what you are talking about?" I laughed, I only just had met her, but I liked her already.

"Mister Reed, Malcolm. We all have been on here for a few months now and I have never seen his eyes light up like this" she poked me into my side, when the lift stopped, and she stepped out.

"You're lucky, our room is next to Malcolm's" she winked.

"Hey, I don't think he likes me more than he likes anyone else on here, plus, who is to say I like him!" I put my hands on my side

"Oh GIIRRLL, I saw you blushing"

She walked a little further down the hallway and then stopped in front of a door, she showed me our passcode and the door slid open.

"This looks nicer than the rooms at the academy" I noticed

"Usually, there is bunkbeds but for some reason our room has two beds" she said, "This is my bed, that one there is yours." she explained and sat down on her bed.

Hoshi's bed was on the same side as the Door and mine was on the other side of the room.

In between our beds was space for two desks with computers on them. Next to each bed was a locker like wardrobe. I opened the door to mine

"Wow, what a variety of clothes" the sarcasm in my voice was clear as water
"Hoshi, which one shall I wear? This blue suit, this blue suit or this blue suit?".

Hoshi was laughing so much but she stood up, walked over to me and pointed to the one I haven't included.

"Great choice!"

I took it out and threw it onto my bed, then I pulled my suitcase to me and started putting my 'normal' clothes into the free space.

"Where is the bathroom? I want to make myself a little fresh" I asked

"The ladies bathroom/Shower room is opposite our door"

"Oh, that's handy!".

I grabbed a fresh pair of underwear and my uniform.

We all wore blue jumpsuits, which displayed everyone's specific division of service, shown in the form of coloured piping at the shoulders, Hoshi's and mine were blue for the science division, gold would be the command division, red the operations division and then there was red and white for flag officers. The Starfleet uniform itself also bore several distinctive features most prominent being several zippers and pockets and an assignment patch, which is based on the wearer's home assignment. The Uniform is made from flame-retardant material. Fitted close to the body, the uniform jumpsuit closes at the front in addition to zipping at the cuffs and pant legs, several pockets were lining the legs, arms and chest, with the pocket on the right bicep typically used to hold our communicators. The Rank insignia, presented as rectangular silver pips, is displayed on the right chest set within the division colour piping, Hoshi and I had one silver pip for being Ensigns. The underwear was for everyone the same as well, for the ladies it was bright blue with black trimmings. The underpants were boxer-brief style shorts and tank tops which were cropped and left our midriff free, for the men it was regular waist high boxers. The underwear is supposed to be flame-retardant as well. Usually one would also wear a black, button-up mock turtleneck, blue pants with pockets and leather-like boots, but I was too warm and decided not to wear the black shirt.

I walked out of our room and wanted to walk over to the shower room when I heard a familiar voice
"Hi Ensign" ... Malcolm's voice.

"Oh, hello Lieutenant Reed" I gave him a shy smile. I noticed my underwear hanging out and quickly crammed it into my uniform

"Please, call me Malcolm, at least when we are off-duty" he walked a little closer and I had to lean against the wall because I had the feeling my legs would give away, what is this man doing to me?

"So, have you settled in?" he asked, his eyes drawing me in

"Ehm, kind off, I still need to get used to this horrible uniform" I looked at the Uniform in my arm

"I am so sorry Ensign! Did I stop you from something?" he had a light discomfort in his voice

"I was about to have a shower, but don't worry I like to meet my new colleagues or as Jon would say, my new family. And please Malcolm, call me Anja"

"Were you are about to go into that bathroom there?" he motioned to the door where Hoshi had said was the ladies bathroom, so I nodded
"Hoshi said that's the Ladies bathroom" I was confused as he started to laugh a little

"What is it?" I got irritated

"Come, I show you were the Ladies is" he put his hand every so lightly on the small of my back and steered me down the hall

"Oh, was that one of her funny 'welcome aboard' jokes?" I asked

"Must have been, because that door leads into my room" he said this without looking at me

"Good that you have a second communications officer now"

"Why is that?" he stopped and furrowed his eyebrows

"Because one of them is going to have a terrible accident" I explained in a monotone voice, he shook his head laughing and continued walking.

After just a few seconds he stopped again
"This is your Ladies Bathroom" he said

"Thank you so much Malcolm" we just stood there for an awkward second not knowing what to do next

"So, I see you later for dinner at the Captain's mess hall?" I asked

"Yes, the Captain invited me. Is it true you're interested in armoury?" his eyes seemed to lighten up

"Most defiantly!"

"What do you do after you refreshed yourself?" he asked seemingly shy

"Nothing much, except planning an attack on Hoshi" this made him laugh again

"How about I show you our torpedoes and the phaser-guns instead?"

"That would be amazing! Meet me in 30 min outside my room" I requested

"Okay, it's a date... I mean deal, it's a deal" he blushed a little, scratched the back of his head awkwardly and walked off.

After I had my shower I slipped into my uniform, but I left the front zip half open so one could see my bright blue underwear top, but it looked like just a cropped top and I was well build and had curves in right places, so I liked to show a little bit sometimes, but I also was extremely warm.

I walked back to our room and got in.

Hoshi sat grinning widely on her bed, I threw my dirty laundry on the floor and jumped onto her. My still wet hair slapping her in the face

"Stop it!" she giggled and after we wrestled for about 5 minutes, we were both breathless and laughing.

"I can't believe we are so familiar with each other even though you only just came on board" she exclaimed

"I guess, we were made to be friends. Plus, I am quite grateful for your little prank" I blushed, got up towards the mirror on my wardrobe, grabbed a hairbrush and brushed through my wet wavy auburn waist long hair and braided it loosely over my right shoulder. My bangs still hanging wildly in my face, I just decided to brush them through and straighten them later.

"What do you mean?" she asked, and I could see her face in the mirror, I turned around to face her

"Malcolm is going to show me the ships armoury sector" I gave her a little smirk

"Is that the reason you have your boobs half exposed" she teased me back, I pulled up my top a little and stuck out my tongue to her. When it knocked on the door and I looked at the clock on the wall

"Oh dear, I am late! I see you later.I invite you to have dinner with me, Jon and the others later at the Captain's mess hall" I smiled and didn't even wait for an answer to rush out of the door.