[Engineering, Chief Engineering Officer's Office]
As she awaited a response from the bridge, Caelene frowned as an Ensign dropped off another small stack of PADDs. He shrugged and offered an apologetic smile before leaving her office quickly. At this rate, there was no way she wouldn't be pulling a second shift unless some of these reports were a lot more succinct than she feared.
Steve perked his head up at the mention of orange jello, but he soon nestled his head back down, where T'Ra rubbed it with one hand, reaching for her comm badge with the other. =/\=Acknowledged, Engineering. And keep up the good work, Miss Tam. I'm sure you and your team will have everything sorted in no time. Keep us apprised. Bridge out.
It was good to hear that T'Ra had faith in her and her team. After the fiasco with the ship's systems, the Trill had wondered if she would get demoted since it had happened on her watch. At the very least, she assumed she wouldn't be asked to be in charge of the bridge any time soon.
However, the opposite had actually been the case. It seemed that James and T'Ra felt she had handled a difficult situation well under pressure; they had not only promoted her to Lieutenant Commander, but also Second Officer of the Shran. Caelene had been completely shocked and just barely managed to thank them as she had been at a loss for words. Even now she found it hard to believe, but her slender fingers moved up to her collar and brushed over the new third half-pip.
Picking up the next PADD, she carefully read through the report regarding the main power system. A level one diagnostic had been completed and they found a few remnants of the rogue coding that Cara had used to disable the system. It had then been removed and a second diagnostic turned up no additional anomalies. Even with that in mind, Caelene had already decided that Gamma shift would regularly run level 5 diagnostics - or higher level ones when they could - just to be certain that nothing out of the ordinary was happening.
[30 minutes later]
After wading through several more reports, she was growing restless and felt the need to do something. Her eyes moved to her toolkit, which she quickly picked up and headed for the door. Caelene looked around Main Engineering until she spotted the person she was looking for. "Lieutenant Revan (NPC), I'm going to take a look at that replicator with Lestrade (NPC) and the holodeck systems. Until I return, you're in charge. If something comes up, contact me."
Seeing him nod in the affirmative, she gave him a small encouraging smile before she turned to the doors and left. It would be good to do some real work. The reports were necessary of course, especially since she was the department head, but that didn't mean she couldn't or shouldn't get involved. And it would give her a chance to see how Gabriel was coming along.