#☆ﾟ ncc 2896 . uss aurora ↳ lt. cmdr. mackenna ‘mac’ mccoy ◝

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Liri glanced at Hunter and Grayson, humming. Well, they seemed to be doing good. She looked over at Min. “Excuse me.” She stepped away, over to Sollem and Mac, clearing her throat. “Are you two… okay?”

Arthur nodded, blinking at her calling him a child, pouting quite childishly. “Adult! I’m twenty! I’m not a kid.” He wrinkled his nose a little, straightening and saluting her on instinct. “First Sergeant Arthur Doe, ma’am.”

Starla sighed heavily at the salute, forcing herself not to flinch. She didn’t like that. She really hated that.

Min nods, trying not to frown when she steps away.

Mac looks up when Liri steps over, startled, quiet, nodding abruptly. Sollem is still trying to focus on his breathing, and Mac gently rubs his arm, one hand holding his wrist.

Lily wrinkles her nose back at him, about to say something when he responds to the question and physically recoiling. "Right. No. I ignored it th' first time because I had bigger concerns. No. Yer no' Starfleet and yer no' one of my engineers. I don't care if it's Lily, Miss Scott, Miss Lily, or 'ya dumb chaotic Scottish bitch', don't call me ma'am. And ya certainly dinnae need t' salute, lad. Again, yer no' a Starfleet officer."

[offleetsfinest]

Tag Dump- Muses, pt 1

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Liri jumped at Mac’s interruption, blinking. Huh? Ease into it? She thought for a long moment. Why would they need to ease into it?… wait. Oh, right. Lab generated people. He probably didn’t have the best experience with doctors.

She cleared her throat, looking at Min. “What’s going on is… you’re not up to date, physically, with this century. Which means…” She took a deep breath. Easy, easy. She glanced to Mac for help. She’d done this before. Liri hadn’t.

“It could’ve been a lot worse,” Melina chuckled. “I still get surprised thinking about you getting outside time.”

Arthur shrugged. “We were expected to eventually integrate into mixed society. Humans that knew about us. So we had to learn about the society that didn’t know about us first, and it’s easiest to do that with kids.”

“Still a surprise. We didn’t leave our lab until we left for good,” Melina sighed. Arthur’s eyebrows furrowed as he thought about that. Wh…? Melina laughed. “I’m just like you, kid. Melina, escaped a lab in the middle of the desert in 1969. Siren and demon.”

Min looks at Liri, confused, listening to her, his eyebrows furrowing, looking back at Mac when the other does.

Mac reaches up and wipes away her tears from her eyes, settling herself, forcing herself not to think about Mackenzie and going over to the boy, smiling weakly and kneeling to meet him. “Hey. I want you to know you’re going to be okay through this, but... to get you caught up with everything physically, you have to see a doctor.”

Min rips himself away from her, his skin instantly hardening to scales, breathing hard. “NO!”

Lily stays quiet through their interaction, going back over to Starla and pulling her close, watching the pair quietly and rubbing her girlfriend’s shoulders, looking at her.

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Liri smiled softly, nodding. “Okay. Then you stay. But that does mean that you’ll need to be taken in by someone here. Like, uh… a mentor.” She paused, shrugging. “I’d be happy to be that for you, if that’s something you’d be alright with.”

Arthur straightened at the appearance of the man, immediately looking to him but not making eye contact. Never eye contact. Never. He nodded when he was introduced, lifting his hand to salute but stopping himself halfway, slowly lowering his hand again. “Pleasure to meet you, ssss… Chief LaMarr.”

Starla cleared her throat, looking over at John. “2009, apparently. Fresh from a warzone. And yet, one of the easiest to pop through so far.”

“Easiest of what to pop through?” Melina asked, walking in, looking around. She tilted her head when she spotted Arthur, squinting, pointing at him. “You look familiar.”

Arthur blinked, tilting his head. She looked… very familiar. Why? He stared at her for a second, then blinked again. “You! You’re that woman! We were- were outside, for our rec time, I was just a kid-”

“And I recognized a logo on that old guy’s jacket!” Melina gasped. “Holy shit! Holy shit, I got arrested for that!”

Min pauses, then nods quickly, lighting up. “Okay. Okay, that’s okay.”

Peterson sighs and nods, turning back. “Mr. Sindas, take him with you to m--”

“NoooOOOOOO, don’t say the word,” Mac interrupts, which is so going to get her in trouble but her eyes are bugged out, holding up her hands. “Do not finish that word. Whoa, okay, you’re gonna want to really ease into this part.”

Min looks confused. “What’s... going on?”

Lily blinks, watching Arthur and Melina, raising an eyebrow slowly, sighing and shaking her head with a dry chuckle. “Well, tha’s no’ th’ mos’ unusual reason people have been familiar with each other.”

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Mackenzie gritted her teeth, breathing through a contraction. Wonderful timing. Just wonderful. Not to mention that at least one of her dads heard her say that.

Amazing.

Great.

This was fine.

Tayen carefully helped Mackenzie into the chair, grabbing her communicator and flipping it open aggressively. “Tayen to James, get your ass down to medical. Right now. Mackenzie’s water broke.”

Liri looked back at Grayson, nodding to him silently. She gestured to Hunter, turning her attention partially to T-092. She didn’t want to see the kid go… why?

Starla blinked, completely baffled at the interaction between the love of her life and the captain. Huh? “Did he just hang up on you?”

“Sounds like it,” Arthur said slowly, half crossing his arms, looking between the two women still. Well… if they weren’t Michaels and Pepper, he was good with it. He wasn’t really feeling like having an ass chewing. “So, uh… couple questions. Where am I, and is it always this, uh…”

Sollem is on his feet, disregarding all rules and regulation, looking at the screen, at his baby girl as she’s quickly being taken off her bridge, offscreen...

Mac goes over to him and leans against him softly. Sollem focuses on his breathing.

James doesn’t even respond to Tayen’s call but the “HOLY SHIT!” from science bay is heard throughout a wing of the ship as James goes flying to sickbay.

Grayson glances to Liri and nods, going over to--

“Wait, hang on,” T-092 says, looking at Grayson properly.

Grayson jumps and looks over. That voice-- “Shit, T-092, what the fuck are you doing here?!”

“Holy hell, it really is you,” he laughs. “I think Mackenzie forgot to mention it was you she was referring to, X--”

“Grayson,” he interrupts, clearing his throat. “Gray-- Grayson. And... probably. She’s my mom now. And I need to get back over to her.” Turning to Hunter, he adds, “All right, you. You’re a demon hybrid, right? Aunt Kenna... she gets a lot emotional trying to talk about you.”

Hunter clears his throat. “I, uh... I guess? That’s what I was told. Uh, demon and brownie.”

“Yeah, okay, so you know in lore and myths of old how they say angels have a sword unique to them they can summon? In our universe, the same principle applied to demons, but our weapons varied. For example--”

He holds out his hand and summons his sword back, chuckling, flexing his fingers along the grip. Mom doesn’t let him draw this half as much as he wants to, so it’s kind of... nice, having it in hand again. “Well, I actually do have a sword. But we’ve got others on the Orville, with dual swords, or a bow and arrow, so on. Appears when we reach for it...”

Lowering his hand, he drops the sword again, “And disappears when we release it. So, what do you have?”

“Oh, uh...” Hunter pauses, frowning. “Sorry, can you show me how you did that again? I still don’t really understand what I did.”

T-092 sighs, looking around, back at the spotted woman again, who’s still staring at him. He cocks his head at her slightly.

Lily looks back at Starla and shrugs wildly. “Apparently. Rude.”

Looking back at Arthur, eyeballing his uniform, she pauses. “I think a good question add onto tha’, lad... wha’ year do you think it is?”

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Liri frowned a bit. Well… she knew the Aurora didn’t take strays, Phoebe had been a special case, but… something in her was… sad at the idea of the boy going anywhere. Especially to another ship.

Mackenzie opened her mouth to respond, immediately freezing when she felt… something. Something… very, very wet. “I regret to inform you that I can��t help you, Captain Peterson, because it appears I need to take an urgent trip to medical.”

Liam looked up from his station, worried. This was his sister-in-law. And something sounded wrong about the way she said that. “Why?” he asked slowly.

“Because, Liam,” Mackenzie said flatly, “I am nine months pregnant, and my water just broke.”

Starla blinked, tilting her head. “Uh…” She cleared her throat. “I think so. I’m pretty su… re…” She straightened at the appearance of a… stranger on the transporter pad. Which shouldn’t be unusual. Except…

He was wearing an old fashioned military uniform.

Arthur glanced around, blinking at the women, slowly pointing between them. “You… aren’t my COs.”

T-092 looks back at Heather again. Wait, leaving?

Ed shoots out of his chair at what Mackenzie says. “Sonofa-- Mx. Janeway, get medical up here.”

“Aye, sir,” Addi answers, jumping on a channel and calling down to sickbay. Hannah and Claire launch to their feet and get things together to get to the young woman, but as soon as Addi clicks off... “Captain, engineering for you.”

“Now what?” Ed asks, looking over.

Lily blinks at the boy, looking at Starla and back at him. “Aye, and you aren’t the boy I just sent off of this ship. Erm... just a moment.” She reaches back over. “This is engineering to bridge.”

There’s a pause and then she hears Ed ask that. “Uh, captain, can I have you confirm that Grayson is aboard the Aurora? We just had a new arrival suddenly appear and I’m worried they traded places.”

“...you’ve gotta be kidding me,” Ed mutters as Claire and Tayen get to the bridge with a hovering chair to go ahead and get Mackenzie back down to medical in. Ed turns back to the screen. “Captain--”

“Trying, Ed,” he answers, looking to his communications offic--

The doors open and Mac leads the young man onto the bridge. “Captain Peterson, Grayson. As requested.”

“Okay, he’s here, so you just picked up another one,” Peterson turns back to Ed.

Ed sighs. “Catch that, Miss Scott?”

“Aye, cap’n,” Lily nods. “Could use some help down here if ye can spare anybody. Although it’s an improvement we don’t have a gun pulled on us.”

“I’ll see what I can do. bridge out,” Ed motions for Addi to cut off.

Lily blinks. “Did he just-- really?”

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Mackenzie was not pleased.

Not in the slightest.

She sat there, glaring at the screen, both hands on her very very swollen belly. The damn Aurora. Sure, she couldn’t exactly blame them, not if it was Hunter. But that didn’t mean she had to be happy about it. Especially about sending her son there.

She blinked and sat up when she saw the boy. “Son of a bitch.” She rubbed her eyes, then held up a hand. “M-562, but if you call me that, I’ll ask Grayson to smack you, so call me Mackenzie. Yes, I’m an adult. Yes, I’m pregnant. Yes, I’m very, very grumpy. Any questions?”

“Several,” T-092 responds.

“And they can be answered when you’re over with them because the Aurora doesn’t do this stuff,” Peterson remarks. “I want him off my ship, I want Lieutenant White helped, and I really, really just want this ship to get its act together a little bit. Is that too much to ask?”

“Nope,” Ed answers with a chuckle, turning to Addi, who pauses and nods to him after fixing up a channel. “This is Mercer to engineering, energize Ms. Scott.”

“Aye sir,” Lily answers, turning to Grayson on the transporter pad. “Just don’t kill anyone, lad, it’s in and out.”

“Easy for you to say,” Grayson growls a bit, and Lily sends him off.

Rowan and Mac sit up when the transporter goes again... and their hearts sink at the boy who appears. Rowan clears her throat. “Grayson--”

“I’m not here for you,” he says bluntly. “I’m here to help explain to a scared demon hybrid how our demonic weapons work. You can point me to the bridge and fuck. Off. Clear?”

“Grayson, the Aurora isn’t like the Orville. It’s Federation built, not Union built, it’s completely different from what you’re used to. It’s probably better you have someone lead you up to the bridge,” Mac sighs, holding up her hands.

“Whatever,” the demon growls, his eyes turning black, and looking away. “Lead the way.”

Mac sighs, looking at Rowan, kissing her head before getting up and going over. “Right this way, then.”

Lily frowns. “He did make it over safely, correct? Because... the transporter isn’t shutting down.”

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Liri noticed that. She watched the group leave, pausing to look between Rowan and Mac. She wasn’t sure how to talk to them about what she wanted to say. In all her lifetimes, she’d only had children once, and never had she lived long enough to see them shun her. Especially not for nine entire months.

So she just nodded to them, and rushed back out after Peterson.

Rowan and Mac don’t, can’t meet Liri’s eyes when she looks back at them. The Orville was coming here? Coming-- coming to them?

And then all this business with the poor boy arriving from the same breakout...

Mac sniffles. Rowan immediately reaches out to hold her wife before she breaks down crying, holding onto her and gently stroking her hair.

About as Peterson returns to the bridge, the communications officer looks up. “Sir, we’re being hailed by the Orville.”

“Onscreen,” Peterson orders, walking down to his seat but not sitting down this time.

On the bridge of the Orville sat Ed, Kelly, and an extremely grumpy looking, extremely pregnant young woman who seemed content with glaring at the world.

Ah. Mackenzie.

“Captain Peterson, if you’re ready I have Grayson waiting to beam aboard to speak to your lieutenant,” Ed says.

“That’s great, now can someone explain him?” And with that and no real form of grace, Peterson reaches out and grabs ahold of T-092, pulling him into frame. The boy looks disgruntled but waves a bit, looking at the people on the screen that had just been a window, he was pretty sure.

[offleetsfinest]

unscrxpted​:

Liri raised an eyebrow, glancing around. Well… this would be interesting. She squeezed Hunter’s shoulder, then set off after Peterson and Heather. What could they possibly need the captain back in the transporter room for?

Once down there, Peterson rounds the corner into the transporter room to find...

...seriously? He glances to Rowan. “And who is this?”

“Well...” Rowan sighs. “We’re not entirely sure yet? He just sort of appeared...”

“Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean any trouble-- I’m just, I’m running from this cult...” The boy keeps his hands up defensively.

“...and there’s that,” Rowan says tensely. “It’s... familiar, to say the least...” She clears her throat.

Mac sighs, looking like she’s planning to start drinking. Heavily. And it’s 10 in the morning. She’s sitting down in the chair beside the transporter computer, well, more like leaning back dramatically and resting her forehead against her hand, rubbing it slowly. “Mackenzie said it to us some decades ago when she arrived on the Cygnus.”

Peterson blinks, looking back at Min. “Son of a bitch. You’re kidding, right?”

“Nope,” Mac answers.