Stark Industries [Wednesday]

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Naomi came in on time for her shift. Once she had made sure that everything was set up and had opened, she sat down with a transmission that B'Elanna had sent her that morning, telling her that she would be coming to visit her for Parents Weekend. Naomi was definitely looking forward to seeing her on the weekend.

Stark Industries is open.

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It was Wednesday, and Jack was there with another sack of burgers.

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"Hey Jack," Naomi smiled, trying not to feel took awkward since she hadn't really spoken to Jack since that weekend.

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Oh, awkward. Jack was swimming in it; at least, maybe that's why he's moving so slowly.

"Naomi," he stated, a grin playinc across half his mouth. "I, uh, burgers?" Awkward.

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Naomi nodded, "burgers would be great thanks," she gave a small smile.

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"Great!" Since he had burgers and all. "Um. I just got the usual. Hope you don't mind. How's things?"

Perfectly innocent query, really.

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"Not to bad," Naomi said, when she wasn't thinking about certain things, "I'm looking forward to Parents Weekend," she was probably one of the few who actually was.

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"Oh, really? Who's coming in?"

Jack might want to hide from Naomi's parents if she'd told them about... their baby.

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"B'Elanna Torres," Naomi said, "she was Voyager's Chief Engineer and she's one of my friends from back home,"

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"Oh, that's cool! SO.. it's... not your mom or dad, then, right?"

Which meant that Jack may survive Parents Weekend.

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"No," Naomi smiled, "just a close friend, my parents were too busy to come this year,"

Of course this was B'Elanna and she'd probably react worse than what her parents would have.

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"That's good." He took a big bite of burger and then realized what he'd just said. "I mean," he started to say when he'd managed to choke down the burger and get the foot out of his mouth, "that it's good that your parents are busy. Busy people are good things. Your friend isn't busy?" Smooth, Jack.

Jack should just start running now. Maybe he'd get far enough away.

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"Well, she's still in Starfleet but because of her daughter she's not as busy as she was on Voyager," Naomi explained, "Tom would have come but he's going to be looking after Miral,"

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"You know people with kids?" Jack blinked a bit. "That's...oh, man."

B'Elanna would definitely kill him.

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"Yeah...I know a few people with kids," Naomi said slowly.

Poor Jack.

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"This is on the spaceship, right? How many people are on one of those?"

Poor Jack. There would be an entire starship after him. He'd get phaser'd!

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"Uh...not just on a starship, but as for how many it depends on the type of ship," Naomi said, "Voyager had the capacity to hold 150,"

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150. A hundred and fifty people who would be very concerned about their little Naomi.

"So is this Voyager a big ship or a small ship?" Maybe he'd get to fly in a big ship like that.

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"Well I'd say Voyager would be average, compared to the ships that can hold 1000 it's small," Naomi said, "even though Voyager hasn't been in action for a few years, its a museum now,"

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"They put those in museums?" he asked, thinking of submarines and war ships. "Are they, like, in a building or just floating in space? Cuz...they put boats out in a harbor and you can take tours. Huh. I suppose even everything has a shelf life, even ships in space." He shrugged.

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"No, the actual ship is a museum, it's on Earth," Naomi gave a smile, "in San Francisco near Starfleet Headquarters,"

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"I'll have to visit that someday." He grinned. "Wait a minute, how many years am I going to have to wait to see it?"

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"There's a very good chance that what happened in my future won't happen in yours," Naomi said, "but I'm from 374 years in the future,"

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"Oh, man, there's no way I'll be able to see that then. I won't even be an old man, I'll be dead!"

Depressed, Jack finished his burger. Woe.

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"Well...I can always take you to visit my home and you can see it that way?" Naomi offered, "if you'd like to that is,"

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"...really? You'd do that?" Offers of transportation were serious business.

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Naomi nodded, "I'd do that," she said with a smile, "I'd have to check with Tom and B'Elanna first, I stay with them when I visit home, but maybe in a couple of weeks or so?"

Of course that was providing that B'Elanna didn't kill Jack on the weekend.

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"That's amazing. Actually up in space..."

At least Jack would have a good funeral before he was ejected out into space.

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"Well the museum itself isn't in space, but I'm sure I can arrange a visit up there..." Naomi said. "Tom's a shuttle pilot,"

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"Shuttle pilot? Like the Space Shuttle? Awesome!"

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Naomi nodded, "shuttles are the common mode of transport in my time," she said.

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"See, we don't use the shuttles too much, from what I can tell. So... it's new. To me, at least. Nifty!"

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"Yeah I can imagine," Naomi said, "we don't have any land based vehicles back home,"

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"None?" he asked, amazed. "Then how do you haul everything around?"

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"Usually it's done by the transporter," Naomi said.

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"WHo's that?" he asked. Maybe there was a job for truckers in space after all.

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"It transports an object or person from one area to another," Naomi explained, "it's pretty quick,"

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Jack was thinking of a cargo ship with a big motor since he's still thinking in terms of land-based machines. "Can't wait for the future!" he exclaimed.