{"id":288,"date":"2012-03-16T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/03\/16\/friday-flash-we-could-get-discharged\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:09:00","slug":"friday-flash-we-could-get-discharged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/03\/16\/friday-flash-we-could-get-discharged\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash: “We could get discharged!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Totally spaced out writing something this week, what with all the editing going on in my personal life, ha! So here, seems only fitting that I should give you an excerpt from the files this week. Decided on a little of the usual confrontation between Danielle and Miranda<\/a> because it’s fun. (Also, brief note, as this series takes place in 2007<\/a>, DADT is still a thing.) Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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            She rummaged through her locker in the showers. Her pride wasn\u2019t as hurt as she announced earlier, but she was <\/i>embarrassed about the public tousling from Miranda and then beat to boot. She wasn\u2019t expecting to overthrow her and become the little cancer-patient-that-could; however, it would have been nice to prove to Miranda that she was capable of defending herself.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cFor the love of God, where is it<\/i>?\u201d Danielle muttered, stuffing herself further into the locker in hopes of finding the undershirt she left there earlier.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cLooking for this?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Danielle pulled herself out at the sound of Miranda\u2019s voice and braced herself. Over her shoulder she saw her captain, still in gym clothes and with the same smirk on her face, dangling a wrinkled, white undershirt over her right hand. \u201cUh, thanks,\u201d Danielle muttered, and reached out to snatch her shirt back. Miranda lifted a wary eyebrow and lowered her arm. \u201cWhere was it?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cI found it on the ground. Didn\u2019t want it to get dirty.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Danielle continued to frown as she brushed off some dust on the white fabric and considered how she was going to get Miranda to go away. She was not comfortable undressing in front of her.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cLook, Danielle\u2026\u201d Miranda approached her with the wariness of a cat sensing a predator, the odor of slight sweat becoming stronger the closer she got. \u201cI want to apologize for what happened back there. You know I\u2019m under a lot of pressure.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cI guess.\u201d Danielle slammed her locker shut once she had all her clothing back. \u201cBut you know we\u2019re going to be talked about now by anybody with two retinas and half a brain.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Miranda continued to stand with a placid countenance. \u201cI don\u2019t mind.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Danielle threw her clothes down on the bench and swerved around, her cheeks flushing red as Miranda\u2019s cool suggestion ran through her ears. \u201cWell I <\/i>do, you know!\u201d she shouted, and then realizing that her volume was too high, looked down at the ground and uncurled the fingers from her fists. Miranda stood without a glance of surprise on her face. \u201cI mean\u2026\u201d and a rough spot formed on the back of Danielle\u2019s throat as she tried to pass her next few words on, \u201cI\u2019m not interested in you, you know. And it\u2019s just easier if people don\u2019t assume those things. We could get discharged<\/i>for Christ\u2019s sake!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Miranda lowered her eyes and saw a glimpse of gold on Danielle\u2019s wrist. \u201cI thought I told you to get rid of that,\u201d she snapped, her voice flatter and firmer than any of their body parts combined. \u201cYou better do that before Noyes sees you. Get back to work within the next fifteen minutes.\u201d Miranda then pivoted on her cross trainer heels and stalked towards the locker room exit.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Danielle was left to stand in sheer awe at how Miranda ignored her statement. Didn\u2019t she realize what such flirtations would mean for the both of them? In the end Miranda had more to lose than Danielle did \u2013 longer time under recruit, a higher status, a bigger paycheck, more benefits, a life in general\u2026or Danielle had to assume. She did not know much about her superior\u2019s personal life because it was just not appropriate.. They were not friends beyond general work-related acquaintances, and although it was obvious that Miranda was romantically interested in her, Danielle hoped to do nothing to inspire more of that thought in her commander’s mind.<\/span><\/div>\n
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—-<\/span><\/div>\n
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Totally spaced out writing something this week, what with all the editing going on in my personal life, ha! So here, seems only fitting that I should give you an excerpt from the files this week. Decided on a little of the usual confrontation between Danielle and Miranda because it’s fun. (Also, brief note, as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[257,43,209,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossrebirth","category-excerpt","category-friday-flash","category-queer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-4E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}