Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Control What You Can

Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Scientist, Medical Researcher) in Control What You Can

Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Control What You Can

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Dira could read a situation, and if Bonner wanted a more straightforward conversation, then she was happy to oblige. But her training was too deep and she knew too much to just assume that Alexis was in a good enough place to just jump right into business, as it were. Many people just shut down if you pushed them in a the wrong direction and if she was treading carefully, it was she knew all too well that in the immediate aftermath of something difficult, certain things could and often were brushed off only to come hitting hard later. Whether that was the situation here with Bonner or not, she didn’t know, but she was moving carefully, regardless.

“Tell me what happened. I’ve had one side of it, but I haven’t heard yours. What happened the night before and tell me also about the previous time he approached you, and how,” Myqian said simply.

Commander Myqian, XO

Alexis worked rapidly through several documents before answering, determine how to approach the question. In the end she decided on a chronological account. “I left the lab with Frigga at 180 and went back to my quarters. I fed Frigga and then I took a shower. When I came out, Frigga was gone and the lights were off. I tried to turn them back on but the computer didn’t respond” she spoke over that quickly but there was tension, a forced factual tone to it. “He was behind me.” She stopped the data on the PaDD pulling her attention and then she wrote something with the stylus and flipped to something else. “He…he always approaches that way. From behind me, I can feel is breath before he speaks he gets so close. He’s very quiet.” Another several swipes, scans, notes, “Reminded me he wasn’t finished with me yet. Told me if I went with him he’d give me all the work my mind could handle. I told him to leave.” Frigga moved then, carefully maneuvering Alexis to sit on her stool, and then pressing heavily against her legs. “That must be when I fell. I don’t…don’t remember anything else.” There were other details, but she either didn’t find them relevant or found them too personal to share. And of course once she fell all there was, was panic and terror and darkness. Then a shrug, “Which previous time do you want Cmdr? The Hathaway, on the starbase, or during my sabbatical?”

Lt Bonner

Watching and feeling what Alexis was letting through her carefully constructed guard, Dira kept her posture relaxed and open, and her gaze curious, though she was definitely a bit concerned. Well more than a bit but she wasn’t about to put that on Bonner. “Whatever you think is relevant to the situation we find ourselves right now. Events don’t usually spring out of nowhere. If the full sequence of events helps add needed context to what we’re dealing with, then by all means give me the whole thing. But I’m going to trust you to decide what is and isn’t relevant. If I’m confused or feeling like I’m missing something, I’ll ask more questions.”

Commander Myqian, XO

Alexis wasn’t really sure what was relevant for the commander. She supposed anything that was connected with the Ogawa. “While we were assigned to the star base he approached me, told me he was being assigned to serve on the Ogawa. Had the transfer orders and everything. Approached me on the edge of the promenade the same way, while I was sitting and reading. That’s why I took the sabbatical, to get away from him I agreed to work on Ever’s project.” She knew it was cowardly, she’d run, but she wasn’t strong and so she’d done what she needed to, to protect herself, and they’d tricked her. “But he wasn’t assigned to the Ogawa, he was the head of her project.”
Lt Bonner