<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fa/Mars_test.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Lt Colonel Louise Cotter</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Suiting up room</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Laura, Vlad, Stephan and everyone else...</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Pretending not to be in charge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>"Thanks for the offer, lover, but I can manage". Louise was only a few steps behind Stephan, she had actually followed him from the Command dome, and had just missed him at the elevator and had to wait for the next one. Laura's message asking to prep her suit had arrived in her implant just as she's got in to the elevator to ride it up.<br/><br/>She grinned. "Hi Stephan, Vlad, please excuse me a moment, I need to consult with my X-O for a moment." Saying that, she dragged Laura around a bank of lockers and kissed her passionately. "Damn, I've missed you the last few days. Make sure we get in the same survival tent, or I'll relieve you of command of this expedition!" She grinned. "Just long enough to make sure we are assigned the same tent, then I'll let you take over again..."<br/><br/>With another deep passionate kiss, not really caring if anyone was watching, Louise turned away and found her own suit locker. "Oh, anyone not suited up doesn't get on the 'plane. I know you know that, but... I'm not having it happen again. Not on my watch, nor anyone else's."<br/><br/>She quickly and efficiently prepped her suit and began the slow, methodical task of getting into it.