Amelia "Amy" Jessica Williams (nee Pond) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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ten_fwd2015-02-22 05:43 pm
and_she_waited) wrote in ten_fwd2015-02-22 05:43 pm
Mrs. Amelia Jessica Pond-Williams Cordially Invites You to Get Your Freak On {Blind Date Mixer!}
In some wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey universe where it is a perfect Saturday night and certainly not a Sunday afternoon, one can walk into a lounge out in the heart of space and see it made over with candles and linen tablecloths and red rose centerpieces. It's not anything quite as grand as what Q could do. Amy is using the romance of the room: windows looking out across the stars, soft lighting; she even has a trio in one corner playing flute, cello, and violin.
As you walk into Ten Forward, you'll see a sign which says ♥ BLIND DATING TONIGHT, 7PM ♥ and a redhead standing by with those name tags you stick on your shirt that say HELLO MY NAME IS ______ and a clipboard of seat assignments. Not all the tables are taken; even if Amy's first go at this had been that big of a success, the woman in charge, Guinan, insisted the room stay open for other patrons. She's taken mostly the tables around the outside of the room, where there is the best view of space and a little privacy, and each of those tables has a number on it.
If your name is on her list, you'll get a name tag and a little card with your table number on it. "Here you go. The bar's open while you wait, I bribed Guinan t' have out the real stuff, so you can tell her I sent you. No gettin' carried away, though. And no funny business, you treat your date with respect or I'll have you by the ear before night's out. I'll be round if you need anything."
Once everyone's been checked off her list, she's going to settle at the bar and have a drink. Match-making's hard business, but she truly thinks she outdid herself this time.
[ooc: So for everyone who's been on a blind date before, you know the drill. You and your partner will get a card with your table number, introductions can happen there and where it goes after that is up to you! The Date Gone Wrong scenarios are here if you need a refresher. You can mingle with other participants at the bar; after all, this is all about meeting new people! Threadhop, tag around, tag someone you might not otherwise meet, have fun with it. Again, you don't have to use this post, you can make your own locked posts for your dates, but this should give you a good idea of the setting you have to work with. Amy will be close by if anyone needs her, and I will be available all night if anyone needs me! HAVE FUN. :D]
As you walk into Ten Forward, you'll see a sign which says ♥ BLIND DATING TONIGHT, 7PM ♥ and a redhead standing by with those name tags you stick on your shirt that say HELLO MY NAME IS ______ and a clipboard of seat assignments. Not all the tables are taken; even if Amy's first go at this had been that big of a success, the woman in charge, Guinan, insisted the room stay open for other patrons. She's taken mostly the tables around the outside of the room, where there is the best view of space and a little privacy, and each of those tables has a number on it.
If your name is on her list, you'll get a name tag and a little card with your table number on it. "Here you go. The bar's open while you wait, I bribed Guinan t' have out the real stuff, so you can tell her I sent you. No gettin' carried away, though. And no funny business, you treat your date with respect or I'll have you by the ear before night's out. I'll be round if you need anything."
Once everyone's been checked off her list, she's going to settle at the bar and have a drink. Match-making's hard business, but she truly thinks she outdid herself this time.
[ooc: So for everyone who's been on a blind date before, you know the drill. You and your partner will get a card with your table number, introductions can happen there and where it goes after that is up to you! The Date Gone Wrong scenarios are here if you need a refresher. You can mingle with other participants at the bar; after all, this is all about meeting new people! Threadhop, tag around, tag someone you might not otherwise meet, have fun with it. Again, you don't have to use this post, you can make your own locked posts for your dates, but this should give you a good idea of the setting you have to work with. Amy will be close by if anyone needs her, and I will be available all night if anyone needs me! HAVE FUN. :D]
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"I've never been to California," She said. "I've been almost everywhere else though, or so it feels like. I'm from Storybrooke Maine. It's a small town, that not many people have heard of. What do you do Alex?"
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"I haven't heard of it either. Never got anywhere away from home... not until later." He grinned as she asked that question. "Well, these days, I try to catch up with science. Before now? Well, i was recruited right out of my trailer park to be a Starfighter, to fight against Zur and the Kodan Armada. I thought it was just a video game until Centauri, the recruiting agent, took me to space. We eventually beat the bad guy, and they asked me to stick around and help build a better Starfighter Corps. So, I stayed, first doing that, then leading them, then eventually designing new Starfighters. "
His hands moved as he talked, almost sketching out actions. "See, when I was young, I loved putting things together, so when i was suddenly confronted with starships, I started looking into how they worked. By the time I resigned as Commander, I knew more about them than anyone else, and I had a list of things to improve. I did that for almost ten years, and then when testing the latest prototype, something went wrong, and my ship spun out of control, and the emergency cryosleep function activated. And I slept for almost four hundred years."
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It would be like stealing candy from Henry, and Emma just couldn't do that.
"How long now?" She asked, puzzled.
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he knew his story wasn't like that of most other people here. As Alex looked at her again, he smiled. "It's an amazing place, an the technology is, well, the phrase seems silly to say, but out of this world feels like exactly what to say about it." He grinned wider at her.
"So, as to what I do, now, well, mostly I am learning. what did you do, before you got dragged here?"
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"I don't think my mother stayed asleep for 400 years though."
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"Sounds like a mess of a situation. And I think mine was just a safety mechanism that just had no one to listen to it." And he didn't want to think what that meant about Rylos and the other starfighters.