Posted by Commander Ardashir “Jack” Creed (Executive Officer / CIO) in Event Horizon Station- Crew Quarters

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Event Horizon Station- Crew Quarters

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The woman held up her hand and stuck out a thumb. “Because someone is feeding the Manhattan alternate orders and you need my help to figure out who,”-she held up her index finger-“and I’m the one whose assignment has been to track all this for more than two years, and”-she added her middle finger-“I’m with Intelligence like you, but I’ve only ever been undercover until recently. I can give you my code name, but then you’ll learn everything about me and I need to know if you’re going to give me the benefit of the doubt before I blow up the carefully constructed world some people have built.” She didn’t say that it was Faye’s world she was mindful of disrupting- he didn’t need to know that just yet.

~?

“You and I both know that isn’t going to cut it, anyone could tell me they are intelligence. That doesn’t mean anything. Give me more of a reason or I walk out and come back with a security team. I am not going to ask again, who are you… designation, rank… I want it all. I don’t have time to play games, and if you want to help this Faye out like you claim now is the time to start talking or else.” Jack said with a furious glare, he was growing tired of secrets and people refusing to answer. If he wanted answers he was going to drag them out of her if he had to.

Creed, XO

“Geez. Most people would be more interested in the whole ‘my ship is in danger part’.”

She could easily just play the game longer, but it wouldn’t serve them any good. So, she finally gave in. “I’m Commander Shara Calloway. Faye is my daughter,” she said softly, gazing deeply at Creed. She had every reason to want to protect Faye, but there were so many variables at play right now and her being her mother was actually lower on the list than one suspect. It was, however, the variable that made all this more urgent to her.

~Cmdr. Shara Calloway, Intelligence