The rough necks had a free pass for a while. After the intense shipping and receiving the last few days each one unwound in their own way. who knows when a free day off would come again.
Mike was use to sleeping on the dock. Now he had extra time, sleep was the last thing on his mind. The bar by the docks did seem like a good start so that's where he went. Mike placed an order before finding a booth. The first round of drinks came to him on a tray. Giving each one a girls name he had known at some point in time, He downed shot after shot. By the time he got to Lisa he stopped and pushed her aside. His hand slow but steady found the one drink by its self and pulled her forward. "There you are. You got a lot of balls to kick me. I have a good mind to leave you on this tray and make you watch me and Lisa have a good time." Shaking his head he looked at her with double vision. "You got some, some nerve, I'll show you." Barely making it to his mouth he took her. He never made it to Lisa instead he sat in quite inebriation of the empty chief.
Kim didn't wait when the floor lights came up she turned off the loader and left. she stopped by the locker room and took off the jumpsuit and boots. She took out the casual wear of the time. Reassuring the locker was secure she left. She took a lift to her floor. Once being a dock chief she had the pull to keep her larger then normal space. She also was technically retired but no one dared to ask her to down size. She got inside locking the door behind her. Kim made some food and turned on the station comm for an off world call.
"Hello lee how is my favorite son?"
"Mom I'm your only son. I thought you were working the docks?"
"I' got some time off you know your mother still runs this place." They both laughed.
Beth left the medical facility feeling better. She knew it was a game she had to play to stay on the books but the woman Gaia was unusually careing. Beth chalked it up to being new. She went to the real part of the tower taking the lift to the sub levels where most people wouldn't go. The only reason she went was for the contacts she had there this shut down was unusual and her street experience taught her in confusion there was profit. She had the money Ashala gave her to bribe the way into the usual places. Bombshell had the skills to get people to talk who normally wouldn't. Wheeling and dealing she found some of the issues currently going on and that the new T-1 was missing. The boss would pay her for that information. She stuck around trying to get a crate back Beth had seen on the docks only yesterday.
Ann was a workaholic and with the floor lights in yellow everywhere she let out a sigh of disappointment. Her place was small on the books she was a dock hand so her rating allowed for a small room. However she knew how to play the game. Some money to bombshell and a few influential conversations to the electrical crew was all it took. Her room was small but had a dedicated comm and power unit. In addition she had a sound and display upgrade equal to the T-2 life style. The screen took up half of a wall. Her room being on the primary power grid meant that she would lose power only if the tower lost power. The comm upgrade allowed for free and secure off world signal. She used this as a second source of income. No one could see the transmission unless they looked for it, and knew how to separate the code from the normal station beacon. Most of her clients were through bombshell and the people who didn't want the security teams knowing about their illegal enterprises.
Jimmy went strait to his floor and slid the access card to enter his room. He had just got the job and living on his own was exciting. The room was small but it had all the stuff he cared about. He sent a comm to his parents and some money to help out. He changed out of his work clothes and took a shower. To be on a part of the rough necks was really cool they did things off the books and saw him for what he could be, not for what he was. Jimmy was drying off and watching his favorite anime. It had everything he loved fantasy space and two scoops of Ecchi for every volume.
They all received Ashala's wave and all thought the same thing. "WAS that a dress?"
