Major Trouble : Part One

Jayme had been on the Hades now for a week and she'd just gotten her arm out of the sling and was working with one of Hali Danar's kinetic therapists on strength and flexibility but she was bored and wandering the halls.  She was about to interrupt and see about joining  a card game when she ran into Aidan just down from one of the gyms.  "Hey, how's the leg doing?"  Jayme asked.

"Doing better... hopefully I can be released from Paladin when we return. How are you doing ?" Aidan replied.

"Bored, bored, bored..." she blew out a breath and ran her hand through her hair.  "Fine, got the sling off this morning and been to physical therapy.  Starting to get twitchy, and its going to be days before your mother releases us back to Paladin." 

"Was looking for something to do ?"

"I know the feeling. Heck I'm hoping not to have to return at all but I have to see Bentara at least once before I head back to base.  I know its not only going to be one visit.  But as for something to do any ideas come to mind, I'm sick of cards.  Beat the Hades pilots handily more than once already,"  At that comment Aidan had to smile,

"Do you know any of the martial arts instructors onboard?"  Jayme asked with a smirk.

"Do I know them. Yeah you could say I do.  Who do you think was my first instructor in that realm. It won't take much to get them to look the other way or assist us in a non-contact training session."

"Lets go, girlfriend."  Jayme “hi-fived” Aidan and both women turned to head to the gym.  "What style?"  Jayme asked thinking of the one she knew and the bits of several others she'd participated in over the years in the corps.

"Depends Karate, Caiopera and several others come to mind.  I've trained in both the traditional, the mixed and more practical street style fighting," Aidan glanced in Jayme's direction as they walked.

"I have a black  belt in Shotokan Karate, and some Kung fu here and there along with the traditional boot style fighting taught as basic and LI school." They continued to walk.

"Nice yeah Karate is my main martial art.  First one I trained and earned my black belt in.  So I'll leave it up to you which one you feel like since neither of us can go full contact."

"Lets see if we can join a group doing techniques--kata and Kihon. We can spar some other time on base when we are both in one piece.  Hopefully our keepers won't find out about this..."

"Agreed those two techniques can do wonders mentally and physically," Aidan hoped they could get away with this one.  It would be a good physical test of her leg.

Both women entered a matted gym area that had half a dozen men and women in marine shorts and tanks warming up.  Jayme followed Aidan up to a middle aged man with a flat top cut.  "Sure they'll let us play?"  Jayme asked.

"Oh yeah they will.  Just watch," Aidan smiled then approached her former Sensei, Gabriel McCombs..  "Good day Sensei." He smiled then replied,  "Didn't expect to see you here Storm but you and your friend are welcome to join us.  I won't say anything and I have a feeling you two could teach my students a valuable lesson."

Jayme made a polite bow, and said, "Aye sensei."  She followed Storm's lead to the end of the line and started warming up and stretching.   Finally, he called the group to order, and they knelt and bowed to the front and then recited a traditional phrase, bowed and hoped to their feet and coming to ready.

Sensi McCombs had been an excellent teacher, Aidan only hoped that he could help her again.  In need of a good training session just to work on her focus both mentally and physically. They began a series of katas, each one progressively more difficult than the previous one.

Jayme had to think fast and using her peripheral vision she could make almost instant correction to stay in step and maintain her form while the kata's varied slightly from the versions she'd been taught.  She noticed halfway through that Aidan was favouring her leg.  Both women were sweat soaked when Sensei called a halt.  Jayme walked over to Aidan and wiped her face on her  shirt before smiling at the other women.

"Felt good.  Granted I'm not in perfect form yet but I can deal with that I guess." Aidan replied as someone handed her and Jayme some towels.

"Thank you," Jayme said to the Marine as he passed by.  "I think we should both quite before we hurt ourselves...next session is Kihon which can be three times as intense as Kata." Jayme said rubbing her arm.

"I know and believe me I'm at a point where I'd easily overdo it."

"Shall we thank Sensei and head for showers?"

Aidan smiled then approached her former teacher, "Thank you that helped a great deal Gabriel.  I owe you one...more than one but you did us a great service today."

The girls left the gym as he called the group back to ready for kihon, and would follow with three point sparing,  Jayme had almost wanted to hang out and watch but knew that Nathan would be looking for her in their quarters.  Both women entered Jaymes quarters with Aidan and found Nathan and Heli sitting there talking with Aidans father.  "Oh hell..."  Jayme muttered.

Not the best of situations and Aidan hoped they could simply pass it off as a rather intense rehab session.  In fact her sessions had been getting that way.  Running into her mother, Nathan and or Counsellors had become a common thing lately.

Jayme nudged Aidans shoulder and started laughing and when Nathan stood she gave him a full body contact hug which got him all wet.  With a giggle Jayme said, "We were in the hydroponics lab on deck 3 when the sprinklers shot on and we were admiring the miniature lemon trees--you know over by the roses ... anyway; we both got soaked...really should be posted." Jayme gave Nathan another squeeze and said to Aidan, "Want to borrow some dry clothes and visit ? or were you still going to head back to your quarters ?"

"Well since every one is here at the moment is seems, unless I'm intruding," Aidan too was laughing with a vivid image of the spriklers in the hydroponics lab failing and getting them all wet.

"Come on, I'm sure I have a spare pair of scrubs you can pull on."  The door closed and both women smothered their giggles and took their time to wait for their heart rates to return to normal before joining the company.  Once back outside the bedroom Nathan handed both women iced water with lemon wedges.  "Thank you, honey."  And they all found seats.

"So what are both of you doing in here?" Aidan asked her parents but only got a slight smile as an answer.   Taking a sip from her glass of water, as if nothing had out of the ordinary had occurred other than an unexpected shower.

"Cut the bull shit...Major Danar's father spotted you guys in the gym on his way here to visit with us."  Nathan said giving Jayme's hand a squeeze.

"Oh hell."  Jayme said setting her glass down and looked over at Aidan.

"We may have been in the gym but theres nothing against saying hi to a good friend an former mentor of mine which is exactly what we were doing." AIdan replied calmly.  If the rest had to come out fine but they were in the gym to talk with McCombs true enough.

Jayme stayed silent and just sat there holding Nates hand and smiling at both parents.  She reached over picked up her glass and sipped.  She leaned her head against Nates shoulder and he wrapped his arm around her and she noticed his casual touch and pause at her wrist.  "She choked on a chip of ice and sat forward coughing."

Aidan looked at her parent then at Jayme for a moment, "He'd asked me to stop by.   Anything beyond that was my rehab session. " That too was also true as far as Aidan was concerned.

Nathan sat forward slapping her wife on the back and looked at the high flush still on Aidan, and how damp her hair was and how she kept kicking her bad leg like it was bothering her.  "Fine, then you will report to sickbay at 09:00 ship standard time for a complete physical exam, Major."

"I’ll be there."  That was Aidan's only reply and she didn't flinch.  Everything she'd said was the truth because that short kata session had been great rehab.  If this one resulted in a chewing out she'd been through them before.

Hali's gaze drifted to Jayme and stuck with determined conviction. "Anything to add, Major.? You too will report to sickbay for a full physical exam.  I expect to see both of you at 09:00 on the double."

"Aye, sir ! Jayme snapped back as she leaned back against Nate and knew that no harm had been done to either of them because of that workout but it was still unauthorized and a little more risky then they'd been given leave to do.  She could take her lumps too.  She met Aidans eyes and shrugged.

Aidan knew she had pushed her limits too far but it had improved her mental state which as just as important.  No one had been hurt in the process which was a good thing.

"I'm sorry to cut the evening short, but I'd like to take a shower and call it an early night and get plenty of rest since you are hauling us in for physicals in less then twelve hours."

Jayme stood and walked into the bedroom and headed for the shower leaving Nathan to play host as she showered.  He entered and handed her a protein shake and her meds as she came out of the bathroom and he headed in to shower.  "You could have stayed a little longer and visited, Jayme."  He said joining her on the bed and massaging her shoulder for a few minutes while she relaxed.  "I know--was just tired."

She slept hard and woke with enough time to dress and rush out to sickbay and arrived at two minutes til.

Aidan had departed at the same time Jayme said her good byes. The evening consisted of a shower, a healthy dinner and an early evening. The next morning Aidan arrived early for her physical.