STF

Side Sim - You Want The Good News Or The Bad News? - Tag Calloways

Posted Jan. 14, 2021, 1:11 p.m. by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) (James Sinclair)

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Side Sim - You Want The Good News Or The Bad News? - Tag Calloways

Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim - You Want The Good News Or The Bad News? - Tag Calloways

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Side Sim - You Want The Good News Or The Bad News? - Tag Calloways
Posted by… suppressed (2) by the Post Ghost! 👻

(snips)

Everything froze- except for the slight drop in her jaw. Faye forced herself to breathe but it came out as a sharp inhale. Hands folded in her lap, they shook and she had to fight to keep some semblance of her composure. “Alive,” she whispered. That sorry excuse for a person they had captured had told her he was, but she hadn’t believed it. It seemed… incongruous with what else she had known. “Is… is he okay?”

For her part, while desperately relieved, Shara kept quiet, her attention partly on Faye to monitor how she was doing.

~The Calloways

Cochrane watched Faye as he spoke. “Well… he is alive. And he will be okay, but he was definitely put through it. From the report from the Field Agent, Strickland had been tortured for an extended period. Intel garnered from the site indicated they were after something, but he didn’t give it up. Strong one, that guy. He is currently undergoing surgery and rehab on a medical ship that will be bring him to the Event Horizon.”

Ah hell! Whatever reserve of composure Faye had evaporated as Alex spoke. Tears slipped down her face. Event Horizon. He’d be close by soon then. But she processed what the CO said and shook her head. Tortured for an extended time. “They had to have switched in the fake just after I was given this assignment.”

Shara nodded. “The timeline does seem to fit,” she said softly.

Cochrane paused and looked at both women. “Look… because of the nature of this… well… fiasco is really not the choice word for this… I had to go outside Star Fleet and call in a favor. That favor comes with another layer of complications, as most do. I just want you both to know that going forward. Okay?”

Cochrane, CO

For her part, Shara just gave a half-shrug. “Life’s complicated…”

But Faye wasn’t so nonchalant. Rising to her feet, she began to pace slightly. “It’s all so wrong!” she muttered under her breath.

Shara’s expression sank. “Faye… this is not your fault.”

Spinning, Faye stopped and pointed a finger at her mother. “No! you don’t get to sit there and say that. This is because of me. And you can spin it anyway you want, but that is the truth. He deserves soooo much better than that. I was supposed to have his back just like he always had mine!”

~The Calloways

Cochrane rose to his feet and half-yelled “Sit down, Lieutenant! I’m not done yet!” He didn’t like raising his voice, but he knew Faye well enough to know that at the moment only a shock to her system would get her attention. The joys of dealing with truly intelligent people. he thought to himself as he waited for her to sit back down.

Faye actually physically startled enough that she held her breath in her chest for a moment and was forced to breathe. There were still tears but she managed to still everything enough to comply with his instruction and retook her seat.

While Shara might not have opted for that particular method, it was effective and it garnered the same outcome anything she might have done.

“Now, then…” he said in a calmer manner and took a seat himself. “As I said, Strickland will recover. And from all the evidence that I have seen -” and he shot a look at Faye that said ‘Pay Attention’, “- you are only a part of what they were after. It also appears that the operation to infiltrate Intelligence was planned far earlier than your assignment was proposed. So no, Lieutenant, this isn’t just about you. But you are an important piece in a much broader picture. But the odds are great that this incident would have happened regardless of your participation.” and he looked back and forth between the two. “Questions before we proceed?”

Cochrane, CO

Faye wanted to point out that they went specifically after Leroy because of her, but wisely kept her mouth shut.

“Not so much a question, as an addendum,” Shara began. “But my investigation so far has uncovered five intelligence officers, including Faye, who were given false orders. With Faye’s particular task here on the Manhattan, I can piece together they why of it. But the rest is still very much up in the air. Whatever is done going forward has to be done carefully, lest we risk innocent to get to the traitors.”

~The Calloways

“Which is exactly why I brought in who I did.” He tapped a few commands into the desk display and a PaDD near his elbow activated as it downloaded the file he sent. He slid the device over and said “That is who found and extracted Strickland. The operation report is attached as well. We will now be working in conjunction with him… I would expect he will be with Strickland on the station, but I don’t know for certain.” and he watched the two read the files.

(Personnel file: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/character/195/ ))
(Operation: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/stf1/manhattan/posts/116407/ )

Cochrane, CO


Posts on USS Manhattan

In topic

Posted since


© 1991-2024 STF. Terms of Service

Version 1.15.9