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USS Lewis

Observation Lounge

 

Nick sighs to himself as he takes a sip of his tea before returning his attention to the stars beyond the windows. He murmurs "A year...such a fragile short thing..and yet..." He sighs again and shakes his head. With the coming holiday his mood had definitely taken a turn for the worse. It was annoying..this Christmas was supposed to be special, the marking of the passing of the first year of his marriage to Ethan. And yet with the destruction of the Aegis and it's subsequent rebuilding, the process of which has just barely started, he had barely any time really to think of something to get her or how exactly to celebrate. And it didn't help that the quarters they were sharing on the Lewis weren't home. What he had considered home was the joint quarters they shared on Aegis...quarters that had managed to escape most of the damage done to the Station but still what they had left behind was likely to remain lost.

 

It was going to probably be months before he could even step foot on the new Aegis and get back to some semblance of what had been normal for him. And then..even then it wasn't going to be the same. He wonders how long he's going to feel out of place this time..how long it would be before he felt like he had a home again.