Posted July 28, 2021, 9:25 a.m. by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Civilian Micah Pikelsimer (Federation Security Agent) in Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home
Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home
Posted by Civilian Micah Pikelsimer (Federation Security Agent) in Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home
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“Dont let her fool you, Nadine. Shara was and is one of the most effective and dedicated reconnaissance and surveillance experts in the whole of the Federation. She’s spent her life protecting you, your students, your friends… and she does it because she believes in what she does.” Micah said flatly. “I’ve worked with hundreds… thousands, maybe… none are like Shara.”
Micah
Nadine took in each word, his expression and tone of voice and knew he wasn’t just saying it. He believed it with everything he was, and so she shifted her gaze to Shara. To her birth mother, whom she was just starting to feel like she was understanding a tiny bit.
There he went again. Shara wanted to say he was exaggerating but Shara knew all to well he wasn’t. It was strangely humbling. She cared very little what others thought of her, but Micah was one of the few exceptions. “Well… I feel after all this time, of always doing what was asked of me it was time to do something that I needed.” She gazed at Nadine. “I mentioned that I didn’t know Faye was alive after Tracken fell. Well, by the time I learned that tidbit, she herself disappeared and I didn’t know where. And when she applied and was accepted to the Academy, I had accepted a commission and was recruited by Intelligence. I myself essentially disappeared for many years after that. There’s a bit of the story that I’m not sure if entirely mine to tell, but it wasn’t until two months ago that we were truly reunited. Nadine, it had been twenty-five years!”
Nadine’s face blossomed with shock. “But… that means you didn’t raise her or… how old was she when you were on Voyager?”
“Thirteen,” Shara said quietly.
“All those years,” Nadine said in a hushed voice. “And your husband died. And you’ve been working all this time… alone?”
Shara nodded slowly, picking at her bass. “More or less. Faye and I are just getting to know each other again. And now you’re here too. So understand that you’re joining a family that’s just forming itself anew. And Micah and I are new too. So just expect that things might be messy at times, but… we’re doing the best we can.”
Nadine took that in and nodded as she too dug back into her dinner, the fish long having cooled but still utterly delicious. But she looked at Micah. “Okay then, so we do it your way. Think positively.”
~Shara & Nadine
“Think practically, but let your heart guide the process. I’ve spent way too many years watching people over analyze or let their emotions just run amok. Find the balance and you’ll rarely go wrong.” and he smiled and ate his last bite of fish.
Micah
Nadine’s gaze shifted back and forth between the pair and she shook her head slightly. “So… Micah, do you do what she does , or did, or is it different?”
Shara smirked a little and scooped up some of the tender mushrooms. Gods this was a good meal! Maybe one of these days she’d learn to do more than scorch stuff. There was only so many times you could get away with claiming it was ‘fire charred’ after all.
~Shara & Nadine
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