The perks of being a parent [Bendytimed to before podpop]

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Oh boy.

Samus has had an excellent start to her new job. She was a little wary to take on the responsibility of security. After all, she always considered herself better as a free agent rather than part of the organized system. She always seemed to need to bend the rules in order to get things done. Leon understood this, though, and still offered her the position. Maybe it would even give her a bit more freedom in her methods, having to answer to less superiors. Maybe this would be a good thing.

Except for the fact that it now gave her adopted bird son even more unsupervised freetime around this very dangerous ship, which is exactly why the new Chief of Security was sitting with her head in one hand next to the passed out Komali in the Med Bay instead of in her new office in the precinct. Oh the joys of being a single parent.

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[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

"No," she shakes her head and goes onto explain, "He's already seen one. I'm just waiting for him to wake up."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"I see..." Nura is still standing there, one flip-flopped foot tapping against the floor, then stopping. "Are you this child's mother?" The woman and the child don't really look anything alike, but the way that the woman is by the child...that protectiveness...must be maternal.

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Samus hesitates. She wasn't technically Komali's mom, but she might as well have been. Hell, even Komali called her that. Still, it felt strange to admit it when actually asked...

Quickly though, she nodded and with confidence answered, "Yes, I am."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Then you have an adorable child," Nura says, looking upon the child with a smile, which became a brief wince when her tiny migraine made itself known once again. Sprock it!

But she pushes back the next round of a sore attitude, and instead says, "I'm Nura, by the way. It's nice to meet a fellow ship-mom."

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

"Samus Aran," she extended her arm for a handshake. Even in mom-mode, she couldn't shake that professional habit.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura takes Samus' hand and gives it a shake. "That's a very proper name, Samus. It has a ring to it." She smiles somewhat wryly. "What is it that you do on the ship? I think I have heard of you somewhere...I just can't quite remember where."

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

"Security," She answered quickly. "I recently took over the department when Kennedy was elected captain."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Oh. That's right!" she laughs more to cover her embarrassment of not knowing the charges of the ship. She knows Wanda is on the Council, but that is because she cares enough about Wanda to be aware. "Congratulations, by the way."

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hm, thank you," she guesses. She just did what came natural and ended up getting promoted. There isn't much to be congratulated about in her mind.