<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6b/Lt_Laura_Alicia_Hicks.jpg)</div><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Lt. Commander Laura Allecia Hicks</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td> Outside of the colony airlock</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Colony CO</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Commanding and flirting</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Laura wished that she could wipe the tears away, but that would have to wait until there was air to breathe and they could get out of the  environment suits. But, she could try to chear up her friend and lover, "Me? Set a bad example?" She gave Lou an innocent face, "Who? Me?" She scanned the uploaded document and with a grin mentally signed the order, "Thank you Colonel Sweetcheeks... and as queen of Mars, I hear and obey." She laughed softly and blew Lou a kiss, "I'll be sure to bring my best massage oil... if I can find it..."<br/><br/>Laura Hicks wasn't particularly picky about who she slept with, although she had a particularly strong bond with the older woman. They had known that anything official would of been premature when one of them may of ended up several million miles away for the rest of her life, but Laura had not made any illusion about her willingness to continue the relationship. She knew herself to not be the marrying type... people in her line of work rarely had successful marriages, but at the same time, at least the first generation of colonist would need to be easy to offer the widest possible genepool for future success and that alone meant that perminent pairings would not work.<br/><br/>The security chief was young enough to have several children and knew that unlike active service, she could, and would be expected to punch out at least a couple... she intended one of them to be Lou's... although she hadn't told her boss that yet. "I packed the... toy too..." she said with awaggle of her eyebrows and watching Lou go off to work, turned her attention back to the job at hand. She switched frequencies again and called out, "I want the engineering people right here in 30 seconds!" Her own job was to make sure that the people getting the reactor up and running got to the reactor more than a klick away. "We have work to do kiddies, lets see about some lights and heat, shall we?"