Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sage Brennan (2nd Officer - CMO) in Side Sim - Ummm… hypothetically speaking, of course…

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Siobhan DeNaris (Sub-DH Xeno Biology) in Side Sim - Ummm… hypothetically speaking, of course…

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sage Brennan (2nd Officer - CMO) in Side Sim - Ummm… hypothetically speaking, of course…
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SNIP

She sat down, the PaDD coming to rest on her knees as her hands clasped together on top of it, saving it from being ruined. “Well, I mean, I don’t want to trouble them with this, but I think I need someone…” she thought of the right word, “higher? I mean, more than just the head of Science or Medical.” She realized how silly that sounded since that was, technically, who she was sitting in front of. Swiftly she once more covered her nervousness with more talk. “I know someone that’s in a bind. Well,” her eyes widened as she corrected herself without missing a breath, “in a bind with a figurative issue, I mean. Something I wan… we wanted to check on with someone else. I mean.”

She didn’t give the Lieutenant Commander a chance to speak before running on headlong into the issue. “She is having a problem with, ummm if someone she knew, or heard of, I mean, that was being blackmailed or strong armed into something by someone in a high enough position there wasn’t anyone over them they knew of to go to for filing a grievance, what would she do, to ummm tell them to do?” She looked down at the PaDD realizing how stupid that sounded. “Just curious, I mean, not that it’s probably happened to anyone, I mean.” She closed her eyes and winced with a sigh hoping she didn’t sound as foolish in real life as she sounded in her head.

Siobhan
Xenobiologist
(oh yeah… ridiculously foolish sounding)

Sage sat quietly for a moment. The amount of nervousness and stumbles over the choices of words, told her that the Lt was speaking about a real problem, not a hypothetical one.

“Just to make sure I understand… You have a friend who is being put into a questionable position by someone with significant rank, and they want to know who to take their grievance to?”

—Sage

Siobhan turned red in the cheeks. It highlighted her freckles and her nervousness. “I mean, I was just…” she sighed realizing lieing was by no means her strong suit. “Yes, Ma’am. An Admiral to be exact. She’s no longer technically in his structure, in Ops.” She knew if she didn’t come clean with as much as she could, that it wasn’t going to help her friend any. “But everyone says you never really leave. And he wants her to do something for him, to spy on her current CO for the Admiral. And if she doesn’t, he claims he can ruin her. There’s no one she can go to. I don’t know how to help her.” For just a moment, there was a helplessness to the lilt of Siobhan’s voice that spoke of a desperation to help her friend. But then it was gone before her words finished as she pulled herself back together.

Siobhan
Xenobiologist

She’d listened in silence, trying to piece together exactly what the xenobiologist was trying to tell her, and cypher what DeNaris wanted in return. In her mind, Sage traveled back to before the amnesia that had almost torn her and Calvin apart. She’d gone on a secret mission, in the middle of the night, for Admiral Draper—a man who really hadn’t given her a choice about accepting the assignment—and something that should have only taken a few days, had turned into months, a brain injury, six months of amnesia and almost losing the love of her life. She’d never received any word from Draper after she’d departed the secret ship. Not a ‘thank you’ or ‘good job’. Just silence.

DeNaris’ situation was sounding a lot like what Sage had been through, herself.

“Tell me the name of the Admiral.”

—Sage

That’s what she had feared and why Siobhan had wanted it to be anonymous and hypothetical. She took a deep breath and looked at the PaDD for a long moment. Slowly she picked it up and tapped the button to bring it to active mode. She wanted to be sure she said the name right. Last thing she wanted was to accuse the wrong man. After pulling it up, she shut the screen down and set the small computer back on the Lieutenant Commander’s desk.

She looked at Sage and took another deep breath. “Do you really need to know? I don’t want her in trouble. And I certainly don’t want to accuse someone without proof beyond the fact my friend’s never lied to me and I know what’s she is going thru.” The way Siobhan phrased the last statement would make Sage think she had been in the same spot as well.

Siobhan
XBgist
(cause it’s easier to type and looks cool)

Sage licked her lips before she began. “If this was really a hypothetical discussion, I’d let it go. But your friend really experienced this. It’s possible that you’ve experienced something similar too, if my training isn’t deceiving me.” She sat straighter in her chair and clasped her hands on top of the desk. “Someone who uses their rank or position to force compliance or favors from others, needs to be exposed. So…who is he?”

—Sage

Siobhan swallowed hard. Apparently she wasn’t as over it as she thought she was. Looking down at the shut off PaDD as if it would bolster her courage somehow, she finally glanced back up at the woman. “Admiral Draper. But please we can’t just go accusing him. He is really good at covering his power plays. With me, he had me doing all kinds of menial and dangerous things. But sometimes he sent one of his pet officers along so he couldn’t be accused of riding me. It was just a simple thing he would say, I even sent Abel along. Would I do that if I was trying to punish her? But Abel was always just there to watch and see to it I did whatever it was he sent me to do. And when it wasn’t Abel, it was some other flunkie boot licker of his.” She actually shuddered remembering now the things she did just to keep her career. And now Macy was dealing with him.

She clenched her jaw and shivered once more. All kinds of insubordinate thoughts running thru her head.

Siobhan
(The X scientist person)

Hearing the name of the Admiral, Sage bit her lower lip. Draper was the one who had sent her on a secret mission of her own. He’d threatened her career if she didn’t do it and it had cost her dearly. Not only had the mission turned into something that took much longer than it was supposed to, on her return trip back to the Genny, her shuttle had been fired upon and she’d sustained the near fatal head injury that cost her three months in a hospital and six months of amnesia. She had no fond feelings for Admiral Draper.

“Believe it or not, I’ve had my own experience with that particular officer.”

—Sage

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