Family is

Posted on 20 Mar 2019 @ 12:23pm by Lieutenant Commander Iria Taltos

Mission: Ka Hakaka Maikaʻi - The Good Fight
Location: Taltos Quarters
Timeline: After Frog Squad

Iria sat in the middle of her quarters grumbling as she worked on straightening yet another part from the 1979 Harley, she had rebuilt this bike three times, first from junk pile find, then after her brother Runi and Case crashed it, then again after Runi, Walon, and Case had admitted to showing off and crashing it yet again. Now she was on her fourth time she was determined to not have to rebuild it in a short amount of time again.

=/\=Lt Taltos you have a message from a Freighter called Lucky 13,=/\= the on duty communications officer's voice sounded as surprised as she felt at the moment.

=/\= Send it down to my quarters please and thanks!=/\= Iria replied wondering what her father and brothers would need to talk to her about.

She got up from the floor and wlaked over to her console and touched the screen, it immediately showed the face of her closest older brother Runi, and behind him was the rest of them, Ryley, who was the oldest by an hour, Tristan, was older than Iria by 40 minutes, Case, was older than Iria by 30 minutes; Walon, was older than Iria by 20 minutes; Runi, was only five minutes older than she was. They were all taller than she was, the lucky jerks were 5'5' to 5'9". Getting the six of them in a room together standing side by side it was funny how each was slightly shorter than the one before them, with Iria hitting the bottom of the bar with her mere 4'11" frame.

"What do you jerks want at this hour?" she asked though it was obvious she had not been asleep yet by the fact she was wearing her favorite worn teal shirt and what used to be gray pants but with all the paint and grease smears they looked like a melted marbled rainbow of sorts, added to the fact her hair was in a high ponytail on the back of her head. She didn't sleep with her hair pulled back, usually.

"Whatcha up to Sparks?" Runi shot back not impressed with her snark at them.

"You dating anyone yet, brat?" Ryley commented with a grin.

Walon, Case, and Tristan, waved and made bunny ears behind Runi and Ryley's heads.

Iria shook her head, "If you must know I am about to finish getting Harley back together, just what the hell did you guys do to turn it to such a mess anyway?" she ignored the comment about dating, as she usually did, they tended to become really annoying if she actually showed an interest in someone. Though she didn't think that they would actually be much of a bother to Edward Bolingbroke, she didn't want them bugging him either. Mostly because if they couldn't find a way to annoy the Marine they would try and scare him off by telling him stunts she had pulled as a kid. She was no angel but still the idea of her brothers making pests of themselves to Bolingbroke or Kosu, or hell even Walken bugged her. If they couldn't bug them they would turn the table and try to get her into trouble one way or another. Yeah, it was a good thing she had NOT invited them to see the Hawaii, her new home.

"Oh good when do you think we can have it back?" Runi said his eyes alight with delight at the news.

"Oh hmmm how about a week from after Never again?" Iria said as she moved to wave at the still in pieces motorcycle in her floor, "I am not going to send it back to you lot, you've crashed it enough for two lifetimes and we only supposedly have nine so nope not happening." she said as she crossed her arms glaring at them.

"Fine, what about the Shelby?" Ryley piped in leaning into the screen on his side. "Who you got your eye on Sprite, you know we have to make sure they are good enough to be part of this family."

Iria sat down glaring at the screen and her brothers, "Nope the Shelby is mine, and I am not dating anyone currently not that I would tell you if I was anyway because after the last time. No way in hell will I be making that mistake again." A dance was all it was supposed to be instead her brother's crashed the date after the stories and a few punches date was over and her dress was ruined. Iria never made the same mistake twice. The only way her brothers would end up on the Hawaii was not going to be by HER invitation. Nope, no way no how.

The rest of the call went downhill from there, mostly old snarky nicknames grumbled at each other. Finally, after what felt like hours Iria called it quits. "Good night you jerks, keep dad away from the Dabo tables and say hi to JC for me."

"Night brat," Ryley said.

"Stay safe Sprite." Tristan retorted.

"Sleep is for the weak, Sparks." Case said as he made a face at her.

"Don't blow up out there Nova." Walon muttered as he thumped Case on the back of the head, with his knuckles, so hard Iria heard it over the thunk,
over the communication channel.

Iria didn't wince though she saw how fast Case blinked, he didn't say a word about it though, tough guy act in full force.

"Be careful, Iri," Runi said as he stepped away from Walon and Case.

Iria shook her head as the connection cut off. "Family is more than blood but jeez they are the worst sometimes." she got to her feet and started cleaning up the mess of parts in her floor. She had to get to work on Marine armor upgrades or camouflage with the Gorn attachments.

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Iria Taltos Lt ACENG
USS Hawaii