A time to just hush.

Posted on Friday September 23rd, 2022 @ 1:13pm by

Mission: Shore Leave
Timeline: Just before JP :- Chaos in small package

[ON]

-Flash Back-
-Abercrombie place , Edinburgh, Scotland, Earth.
-23 years ago-

Her mouth. Why was she so unable to keep the opening under her nose closed?

She hated her dress. A white bodice with embroidered red flowers and a large pink frilly skirt.

“Why couldn’t she wear her red dungarees?” Penny asked

“ Because young madam. Your Great Aunt Prudence is a very traditional person. She is also easily offended. So if you want anymore birthday presents past your recent 6th birthday. You will behave like a young madam. Yer hear?” Her grandmother warned.

Great Aunt Prudence. Was at that time the family matriarch. A very traditional person who refused anything modern. She even would not believe in Starfleet. Saying it was all myths and fancies. Aliens indeed. What nonsense.

The nonsense was being paraded in front of the old goat every three years.Well after today that ended and it was not Penny’s fault!

It was her cousin Stan who said the old woman smelt of pee.All Penny did was to assure her Great Aunt. That at her age it was perfectly natural to wet herself.

“ Well really. I have never been so insulted in my life.” Great Aunt Prudence said.

“ But at your age, Great Aunt Prudence, you must have been already.” Penny replied.

Silence.

-Present-
- Personal quarters,USS Oberon-

Now here she was again. Only the dress was now a uniform.The insulted Great Aunt a much respected Starfleet Captain. The confiscated birthday present her rank as Lieutenant and loss of Department head. Being dragged by the arm before she could upset Prudence. Having to leave one ship and join another.

If only she had kept her mouth shut! Great Aunt Prudence died a year later , of a heart attack.. They say she got into an argument with her dressmaker. After discovering they used a machine to make her shawl.So Penny would never have seen her again.

McTaggard could of told them where to stuff there little pip. But for once the thing below her nose. Actually developed some common sense and was silent. Her arm was nudged and a wet nose touched her arm.

Her pet Chihuahua could sense his mistress was upset. So it sidled its small body against her. Idoly she stroked it’s over-sized head. But suddenly it bit her. Penny waved her hand and gave it a tap on the paw.

“ Yer naughty wee monster.” She said

Like her. The Wee One also had a problem with its mouth. But in the dogs case it was because the Wee One bit.

“ We are both going to have to keep control of these things under our noses.” Penny said

[OFF]

Ensign Penny McTaggard
Science/Medical
USS Oberon