Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Calloway / Hammor Quarters - Guess Who?

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in Calloway / Hammor Quarters - Guess Who?

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Calloway / Hammor Quarters - Guess Who?
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“You’re right, you don’t. But I would understand if it brings up a lot of complicated stuff.” Dag always claimed he had dealt with all that stuff, and perhaps he had, but feelings had a funny way of launching a sneak attack.

Hand still on his arm, Faye gazed at him intently. “I’ll dig. But the question still remains, why is this woman trying to hand over a bunch of assets to you? If she isn’t your mother, what’s her goal in all of this besides getting us mixed up in potentially criminal activity?”

~Faye

Daggum shrugged. “My knowledge of Orion contractual and family law is pretty damn limited. I hear even Ferengis get a third and fourth opinion when they make deals with the Syndicate. Do you know anyone who knows about that kind of stuff? Maybe we could another set of eyes on it… give us some perspective.”

Daggum

Her mind traipsed to the first most likely person and then thought better of it. That was just… messy. Faye nodded. “Yeah, I have someone in Intel I can call. Once we know how this might look, we can evaluate her claim better. Send me the documents when she send them over?”

~Faye

“Got ‘em right here. She was quick to send it.” and he shunted the file to Faye’s system. He looked back at her and said “My first thought was to ask you know who… but I thought better of it. Thats too much of us I don’t want him to have… you know?”

Daggum

Faye stared at him. “He came to my mind as well. And I agree that it would be a bad idea. How about only as a last resort? And probably not even then. Frankly I’d rather talk to Intel, and that should tell you something.”

Moving back to her desk, she moved the file he sent into a secondary secure area of her system where she could gather everything together and pinged her contact. “Might take a bit till I can talk to them. What do you feel up to in the meantime.” She held up a finger. “Specifically, something interruptible.”

~Faye

Daggum turned and looked at her and said “Interruptible only means ‘to be continued’.” and he stood up and walked over and grabbed her, throwing her over his shoulder and turning towards the couch. “And I wouldn’t want an old friend to think you aren’t exercising so far out here in space…” and he laughed as he laid her down on the couch and kissed her.

Daggum

She wrapped her arms around him, pulling him close with a soft laugh. Ahh, married life was so fantastic! Never mind that before they were married they were quite literally stationed in different quadrants. Sometimes Faye wondered what their relationship would have been like if he had never left. But then again, that time apart had allowed her time to grow, so that when she needed someone to help her make sense of the chaos his random call had been at the right exact time, the right moment she was open to his care and affection. Faye didn’t do relationships in any sort of expected way, so should her and Dag ever have been.

Twenty Minutes Later

Her console chirped and Faye groaned, extricating herself and her limbs from Daggum’s. Trying to get her breath quickly under control, Faye channeled her yoga breathing and simply slipped her shirt and pants back on, tossing her hair into a loose ponytail. She looked over her shoulder at her husband and winked. “That better be continued.”

Sitting at her desk and bringing up the call they were expecting, Faye looked every part the professional. Well, herself as a professional. They weren’t mutually exclusive, but they also could conflict. A red-haired Human appearing person appeared on the screen. He was a bit older than her, though she was now higher ranking (ha!) and she instantly wanted to wipe the smug smirk off Todd Aubrey’s face. Oh, to be in the same room.

=/\=Calloway, to what do I owe this auspicious honour? I thought our last conversation would last us plenty?=/\=

“Shut it, Aubrey,” she said with a withering glare. “I need a favour.”

=/\=Oh, well isn’t this a turn of events?=/\= he said, clearly amused. Faye gave him the middle finger and that just made him laugh. =/\=Go on, how can I help?=/\=

Faye folded her arms on the desk. “You worked with the Organized Crime Unit and did a lot of work on Orion, so what can you tell me about how inheritance works there. It’s a personal matter but we want to make sure we’re not getting ourselves into legal trouble because there are side rules we didn’t know about.”

Aubrey nodded. =/\=Well, technically it does work like many places. A person can legally name the person they bequeath assets and possessions to, and so long as those documents were done correctly, it’s legally binding. That doesn’t mean others can’t contest the Inheritance Order, and the main issues is the timeframe. Once a person dies, the inheritors have a ten-year period to claim otherwise it is turned over to the State.=/\=

She frowned. “Eye-ee, The Syndicate.” He nodded. “So… for arguments sake, let’s say the claim we have been informed about is legit. What if another person, genetically related is about but named in the Order. How does that change anything?”

The agent sighed. =/\=Well, it doesn’t, but like I said, if they felt they were entitled to some or all of it, they could try to sue. And that court process would be expensive and time-consuming.=/\= He eyed her. =/\=I would be cautious. You know how much the Syndicate loves making examples of people.=/\=

She held up a finger and then muted the comm, turning towards Dag. “Anything else you want you or me to ask as follow-up?” Either way it sound like they had some serious decisions to make after they verified the legitimacy of any of this.

~Faye

Daggum lay on the couch in all his glory, seriously wanting ‘to be continued’ to be right then. But he did have the presence of mind to say “Yeah… ask him if he ever heard of ‘my mother’.” And yes, he used air quotes.

Daggum