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CO's Office: The new COS's in town

Posted May 16, 2020, 12:15 p.m. by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) (Calé Reilly)

Posted by Lieutenant Zoi Haven (Chief of Security) in CO’s Office: The new COS’s in town

Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in CO’s Office: The new COS’s in town

Posted by Lieutenant Zoi Haven (Chief of Security) in CO’s Office: The new COS’s in town
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Zoi had not really spent any time with their captain since she came on board over a year ago. It was not unusual for crew members to rarely, if ever, see their captain. Afterall, the captain was the most busy of all the crew and also the most isolated from the day to day operations of the ship. When Rico left, Zoi had been put in charge of the security crew of the Ogawa, it was in a rather hasty way due to the mid mission needs. She accepted this, as the highest ranking security officer, but she wanted to meet the Captain to get a better feel of what they wanted for this ship and its crew.


TO CAPTAIN WILLOW TAYLOR

Request: Meeting with new COS as soon as convenient.

Requestee: Lt. Zoi Haven


Willow yawned and stretched at her desk. Picking up her glass she realised belatedly she was out of iced tea. Raising she moved to the replicator only to stop when she heard the notification on the computer. She paused and reading it realised she hadn’t properly spoken to Zoi. That was a mistake, and one she should correct.

She sat again and opened a really but paused and then standing again headed to the security office. She paused just inside the door and looked around.

Willow Taylor
CO

The office was in mid transfer. A medium sized case sat open on the table in the middle of the room filled with random trinkets and obviously personal items that had belonged to the previous COS. Zoi stood with her back to the door, picking up the last framed item from a shelf she had been clearing. She turned around to place it in the box and noticed the Captain right away.

“Oh Captain Taylor. I am sorry. I did not mean you had to come down here. I would have come to you.” She smiled and placed the items carefully in the case. She had not personally spoken to the Captain and though she had been a Security officer longer than Taylor had been alive, Zoi still felt a rush of normal anxiety that came when meeting your superior for the first time. “Rico left in such a hurry that he did not have time to pack up his office. I am sending everything via courier by the end of the day so I needed to finish this.”

Haven, COS

Willow watched and smiled warmly with a nod. “That’s kind, can I help at all?” She asked moving further into the office, “And not at all, I could use the excuse to stretch my legs truth be told.”

Willow Taylor
CO

“OH! Yes, please. He has some PaDD’s in the bottom left drawer. I need them each to be put in a case and placed in the box. No doubt Star Fleet will go through them before they are returned to him in order to make sure nothing beyond whatever his current security clearance is remains on the devices. Cases are on the desk ready to be red taped.” She replied and turned back to the shelf to pull some clear sheets that had been resting on the shelf. The red tape cases were sitting on the desk as directed. They were thin and grey and once closed, a red ribbon of tape could be wound around it securing it for Star Fleet. The clear sheets were likely personal, but she had to make sure or add them to a red tape case. “How goes being Captain?”

Haven, COS

As instructed Willow began emptying the drawer and looked up briefly at the question. She smiled. “It always strikes me how no matter how much training and experience you get, you always think back to your early days in starfleet when someone asks that question,” she laughed. “It goes well. How about you? I’m glad you were available to take up the department head position.”

Willow Taylor
CO

She nodded with a fast and easy grin. “It helps that I have done the job for many years. I also don’t think I will be going away like I have in the past. I have decided I really want to be here, in the now of my life. It’s quite refreshing to finally feel like I should entirely live my life.” She stopped, pausing in her transferring of the clear sheets for a moment. She realized she had never said anything like that to anyone on this ship. Zoi had been keeping people at a distance for much of her Star Fleet career and before her tour on the Ogawa, she had rarely confided in anyone about her desire to live her life without the ties that bound her to her mother.

“Well that was a deeper answer than I was expecting to give.” She said with a half laugh, shaking her head and returning to her work.

Haven, CoS

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Willow smiled as she finished packing a box and started another. ”I have that effect on people” she laughed slightly as if to sure Zoi that it was in jest, ”i love the sentiment of that however, it’s a very important message I think we could all take more of.”

Willow Taylor
CO

“That is what my mother’s doctors would say… or rather did say when they pushed me to leave my mother in their care and actually return to life in Star Fleet. They were very ‘tough love’ in that way.” She slid the clear sheets into their pouch and placed them in the security pouch for processing by Star Fleet security on the nearest base. “Sometimes it is easy to find excuses to stay in the comfortable.”

Willow listened, nodding her head but didn’t pry. It wasn’t her place after all but she empathised with the idea.

“So, Security has been run by Rico for a while. Are you liking what he has done here? Do you have anything you wish me to work on or fix?”

Haven, CoS

With a shake of her bead she responded. ”I want you to decide how you’d like your department run. Every sectoonand department had is different and has different ways of dealing with and managing their staff. Please don’t feel you have to do things anyone else way.” she finished the box she was packing and sealing it looked around for something else to put away.

”However if you fancy some fish is be happy to give option some of mine. Their tank seems a little full now that there are 7 of them instead of just 4. ”

Willow Taylor
CO


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