"You were checking up on me?", Zoe scolded as she met Nicole on Governor's.
"How'd you know?", Nicole answered.
"Tanis is my friend.", Zoe answered still upset.
"Is it true?", Nicole asked.
"Nicole, you have known all along what my dreams are. I want to be a wife and a mother.", Zoe responded, "I have dreamed of that since I was a child."
"You can be these things. What about Brenna and Mac? They call your father, Grandpa.", Nicole looked sternly at Zoe.
"Those are your children, Nicole and General Braze is not my father, Mark Smythe is my father.", Zoe reminded Nicole about being raised by a human.
"I could be your wife.", Nicole tried to mend the fences.
"I love what we do, Nicole but this is a pacifier, this is not a marriage. A marriage is a union between a man and a woman.", Zoe brought the colony back to a puritan age with one short sentence.
"I think you should pack your stuff and leave my house.", Nicole looked at the Bolian.
"Don't be fool, Branson. I know you like it. I know you like a marine to be your leader in bed. You could have that.", Zoe offered.
"I have had a marine before and maybe will again, Beamon but I am not as young as a I once was. I want someone who wants to be with me when I am old and grey.", Nicole looked at Zoe.
"It is the 24th century, Branson. No one has to be old and grey anymore.", Zoe scarred Nicole with her words.
"Get out of my house!", Nicole was now much more forceful.
"By the end of the day, Rear Admiral Nicole Branson.", Zoe was suddenly very professional.
Nicole sat down at the table in concourse area and rested her face in her hands. Her life was never easy and now it was going to get worse.
Posted by:
Rear Admiral Nicole Branson
Director of Fleet Services
King's Fleet
