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Sariel's awake when her door chimes. Gamma shift doesn't start for another few hours, but she's acclimated enough to the watch she's been assigned of late that early evening for most people is morning for her. She's expecting another junior officer, an acquaintance from down the hall, a recent transferee in search of a still-unfamiliar set of quarters when she answers it. "Come in."

What she gets is a tumble of arms and legs and engineers' colors and a stream of chatter that all but drowns out the sound of the door swishing closed, and it's reflex that brings her to her feet the better to keep her best friend from landing in her lap as she bounds across the room and, for lack of a better word, glomps Sariel in excitement. Sonya's literally bouncing up and down as she lets go, barely staying grounded despite ship's gravity, and her words spill out at impulse speed and faster. "Sariel! Ohmygosh, guess what just happened? You're never gonna believe this Sariel!"

It's a minute before everything registers. Several blinks and a half-puzzled, half-bemused expression later, she manages an answer. "... sonya? What--what are you talking a--" and then she notices her friend's lapel and the second pip that's joined the single insignia there, gold beside the expected black. "Wait. You didn't!"

That merits another round of bouncing, and if she was grinning before, Sonya's positively beaming now. "Yes, it's true! I got a promotion! I. got. promoted!" She barely pauses for breath before going on, thoughts and admissions running together in her haste to get everything said. "I didn't know it but Commander La Forge recommended me, and crew evaluations just finished and I guess I've been doing *something* right because--eee I don't believe this! You're the first person I've told and now I have to tell Lian and Mandy and everybody and... eeee! "

Sariel isn't even trying to keep her own ear-to-ear smile contained by the time the engineer pauses to take a full breath. "Sonya, congratulations! that's wonderful! ... Lieutenant Sonya Gomez?"

She doesn't add just how right the new rank sounds; too awkward, too revealing. this is neither the time nor the place.

"Yes, can you believe it? I'm twenty-seven and I made lieutenant! I have to send a message to my parents, and then I want to do something to celebrate!"

"They're going to be thrilled, I know they are. And maybe when we're off watch, we can--all of us can meet in ten Forward." Sariel's cursing inwardly as she scrambles to cover her slip, praying all the while that Sonya didn't notice. "It isn't every day a friend gets a promotion."

She's in luck; the stumble goes undetected as the engineer seizes on the idea. "We should! and I promise not to pull rank on you and Mandy and everybody unless I *really* absolutely have to. but... ohmygosh, I thought Captain Picard would never consider me after I spilled that hot chocolate on him that day! I guess I was wrong."

Sariel's too busy giggling to reflect right away; that story is legendary among their small circle. It's only later that she realizes just how bittersweet a certain phrase had tasted, true or not. It isn't every day that a friend gets promoted.

Just a friend. Nothing else.

somewhere between one report to the senior officer on night watch and the next, a decision is made. She's going to tell her.

Somehow or other.

and it's the twenty-fourth century. Nothing horrible is going to happen. At worst she gets gently let down , and at best...

the butterflies in her stomach do nothing for her concentration, and she refocuses on the display before her. she's going to tell sonya... somehow.

Just not tonight.

Tonight there's a promotion to celebrate.

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