I'll think of one later

Posted on Wed Jun 1, 2016 @ 8:48pm by Fleet Captain Rhea Kennit

553 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: The Fall
Location: Ready Room

Since the meeting with Admiral Macedo had adjourned, the Captain had been busy with preparations and supply request forms to get filled out and filed so that the Victory could be resupplied prior to departure from Helios Colony. With the Admiral's signature on the forms, she was making certain that her ship was fully resupplied while they were able to do so!

Seated in her Ready Room, she was finally taking a moment to get something eat and had sought the relative quiet found in the Ready Room to eat rather than trying to find somewhere to sit in the officer's lounge.

Alec stood outside Rhea's Ready Room has he pressed the chime to announce his presence. He held a PaDD in his hand containing the ship's readiness reports of all departments. He knew Rhea to know it would be something she would be keenly interested in. It also afforded him the opportunity to talk with Rhea privately one on one. So as he waited admittance he tugged on his tunic as well as wiped unseen lint from it.

After a moment, the doors parted. From inside came the Captain's voice, "Enter."

At hearing the sound of Rhea's voice to enter. Alec did just that,striding across the room to come to a stop in front of her desk. He handed her the PaDD. "Operational reports Captain. All departments are manned and ready to go with readiness readings in the upper 90s."

Taking the PaDD from him with one outstretched hand, she thumbed through scanning his report while picking up her coffee mug with the other and allowed herself a healthy swallow from the rick brew of Irish coffee it contained.

Still thumbing through the report, she gave him a cock-eyed look over the top of the PaDD and waited for him to speak.

Alec stood silently as he watched Rhea study the report, He cocked his head in response to her look. "Question Captain?" He asked. His voice more personal, more warmth in it.

At that, she lifted her eyes towards him, but didn't alter the angle of her head so that she was effectively peering at him through a stray lock of hair which had fallen down across her face. "Yes Commander?", she answered.

"I was asking if you had a question Captain but since you asked, do you mind if I get something from the replicator?"

The Captain did not speak, but she did wave him toward the replicator with one hand.

Alec nodded by way of reply and got himself something to drink,(some gold colored drink). Making his way back to Rhea, he plopped himself into the nearest chair and looked up at her, " I hope you have a plan for this." As he took a sip of his drink.

"It seems simple enough. Locate a Borg ship. Access its central core and download as much data as we can and return with the information to Admiral Macedo." Was her reply.

Alec let out a humorless chuckle. You make it sound easy. Locate a Borg ship, access the core and come back to the Victory. A walk in the park." He shook his head, "We both know it's not going to be that easy."

"No?" She answered. "You could be right. They could just come and find us.."


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