Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Ready Room - Calling Faye

Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Ready Room - Calling Faye

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Ready Room - Calling Faye
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He nodded at her and said very well. He tapped the comms and said =^= Commander Creed and guest to the Ready Room immediately.=^= He then looked at Faye.

“You get three minutes to sell them on the plan, then I want you to bolt out of this room as fast as you can. I know you well enough to know that you can elude patrols. They will catch you in the shuttle bay. Reasonable? We need to sell it, after all.”

Cochrane, CO

Faye nodded and simply put her first two fingers together to her forehead, giving him a cheeky salute. It was as irreverent as it was serious. It was Faye to a tee. Mentally though, she was already working through a route and plan of action. There were things she was going to need in order to pull this off well. And she needed to do this exceptionally well or they were all hooped. After all, it wasn’t just her affected here. If she made it out of this in one piece, there were things to be done and things to say.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

Ardashir wasn’t long before the two arrived back in as Jack looked around at the door with a quizzical look, wondering just what might be the next steps. “Well… what did we decide on?” he asked with a curt tone.

Creed, XO

Faye eyed them both and then exhaled audibly. “The only way out of this is to make sure I’m in a place where I am safe from whatever external forces are pulling strings. And the only way to do that and keep me on the Manhattan where I want to be is to make the crew thing I’m a spy and arrest me,” she said simply.

Shara was genuinely surprised. “Absolutely not!” she said, shaking her head.

Faye snorted. “Sorry, but you don’t get a say. This is my life, my career. You and Creed and I know the reality here, and that is if someone has framed me for anything, I’m done. I’ll be arrested for treason and this whole thing will have been for nothing. I’ve been convicted for treason before and let me tell you, while I don’t doubt the Federation has nicer prisons, I’m not interested in being a prisoner again. So, we’re doing this my, so that afterwards there is still a possibility that I can have a life where I’m free to make my own choices.”

Not really having a good counter-argument to that, Shara just went quiet, though she folded her arms across her chest.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

“Espionage.” Cochrane said. “Treason will make too big of a splash. But I think Calloway is right… and at the end of the day, it is she who is caught in the middle. She should decide how best she wants to address it.”

Cochrane, CO

Shara gazed deeply at Faye, her brows knit. Suddenly her well crafted mask was having a hard time staying put. “I don’t disagree with that,” she told Cochrane before focusing again on Faye. “You’ve been through enough,” she said, her tone much softer and nuanced than earlier.

Faye’s eyes narrowed. “You know nothing about what I’ve been through.” She was trying to keep the venom out of her tone, but it had been decidedly difficult. After all, regardless of what the other woman had read in a file, she had no idea of what Faye had actually experienced.

Shara sighed. “Actually, I do, but that’s neither here nor there. Right now, you have a plan?”

Biting her tongue, Faye glanced at Alex and then turned to Creed. “We’re going to play this out right now. I’m going to take off and you’re going to give me enough time to reach the turbolift. After that, it’s game on. You go ahead and try to find me and we show down in the shuttle bay. Call in security to help, since we need witnesses.” Faye grinned, more at the absurdity of her next statement than anything. “All I ask is that you keep it to light stun. I’m a lot healthier than I was a year ago but I don’t have much weight on my body still. So if you end up trying to take me down, know you’ll need less power to do so.”

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

Cochrane gritted his teeth and said “Now is the part I hate the most.” He reached into his desk and pulled out a type 1 phaser. He set it to its lowest power level, but wide beam. He then slid it across the desk. “Not a soul on this ship will believe that you simply ran away from the three of us. Fire, the alarms will sound for weapons discharge. That should give you a solid 3 or 4 seconds to hit the turbolift and make your ‘getaway’. Hit all of us so that we can say you incapacitated us temporarily. Medical will back it up when they scan us after your ‘capture.”

Cochrane, CO