Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Kane’s Quarters- Confessions and Collaboration

Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Scientist, Medical Researcher) in Kane’s Quarters- Confessions and Collaboration

Posted by Lieutenant Dr. Solomon Kane (Medical Research & Development) in Kane’s Quarters- Confessions and Collaboration
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“I’m glad we’re in agreement,” Dira said, actually rather sincerely too. She set the glass to the side and had to blink. It really was strong stuff. She’d only had, what, one measure? Then again, she rarely drank very heavily. There was a part of her though that wanted to tip the entire thing down her throat now that the emotions she had had such good control over were more loose than they should be. “What is that anyway?” she murmured.

About that time the door opened, Frigga practically herding Alexis into the room. Alexis paused catching the tail end of Solomon’s voice, and her focus returned the room in front of her rather than the manic chaos that was currently her head space. She took in his expression, his body language, the certain way he didn’t shift that said his back was bothering him, but he was too angry to allow it to show. Her gaze fell over Myqian....they were talking about her. Her stomach churned and knotted, and she knew she was about to be sick. Her throat ached as she tried to swallow. Just like on the Hathaway, everyone knew and everyone was talking about it. She didn’t look at either of them. “He won’t go away, he thinks he’s smarter than you. If he is or not doesn’t matter, he takes what he wants and does whatever he wants to get it.” She turned walking back out the door. She had no idea where she was going....
Lt Bonner

Dira was on feet a split second later, but dizziness washed over her. She wanted to hurry after Alexis but she was clearly in no condition to. “You go,” she said to Kane. He would anyway and better there wasn’t a scene in the corridor.

Commander Myqian, XO

Kane moved quickly and went to Alexis. “Alexis, come back. We weren’t talking about you… well we were, but not like that… we were waiting for you and talking about what to do. Come back, okay?”

Kane

Alexis turned back around and a moment of stubbornness that was rarely seen outside the lab surfaced. “No you weren’t. Waiting for me anyway. You knew I went to the lab this morning. She already talked to me there, and she knew I left the lab. She didn’t tell you that though did she? She wanted to discuss what to do with my life. Just another pawn in someone else’s game. I even told the Cmdr I don’t want to play his games, or anyone’s games. She said I am no one’s pawn, but that’s all I am. She even said we’d change the rules of the game. But it’s still a game, and I’m still her pawn, Solomon.” She shook her head and walked back into his quarters with him. She glanced at the XO, “You want a way to stop him, but you can’t. But while you two have been busy trying to figure out what his problem is… you’re focusing on the wrong…” She shook her head looking the Cmdr over. She reached into a bag pulling out a medkit, she swapped out the vial and stared hard at her and then dialed it and set it in front of her. “Alcohol inhibitor. Take it or not, but it will get rid of the effects of what you’ve been drinking.” One of the projects she’d worked on for while she was away.
Bonner

Dark eyes affixed on Alexis, Dira did yet another thing that was unusual for her: she took something without question. She had a medical degree- she knew how to inject a hypo properly. Med school 101. The hiss was strangely reassuring as if it might clear away the rest of the emotional distress she had been feeling. Time to find some boxes to put them in until they could be processed later. She didn’t need to say anything to Alexis, but the acceptance of the hypo was probably enough.

Alexis took the hypo. “I have no idea what you had or how much, but based on the dilation of your eyes, the unsteadiness of your stance when you started to stand it will take a maximum of 3 minutes. But see Cmdr, I told you what it was and what it would do and I left you with the decision of whether you wanted to use it or not. I didn’t take your freedom to choose.” Alexis was making a point in her own way.

When she finally felt clear-headed enough to speak, Myqian exhaled slowly. “I did tell him I went to see you. What I hadn’t told him yet was that you walked out on me when you got angry. Whether you’re ready to admit it or not Alexis, you’re feeling things and I had a hunch that Lieutenant Kane would need to be ready for that. And the part of the conversation you missed was the part where I just explained that Intelligence was involved in the death of my fiancee and that I’ve had, may I add pretty recent, experience with someone obsessed with me to the point where I couldn’t function. This isn’t just about you Alexis. Or Soulis. We’ve had a massive security breach on this ship plus the guarantee it’ll happen again. So I might be handling this all wrong, but we’re all doing our best to muddle our way through. I would have loved for you to have been with us for the entire conversation but you ran away. But if you want to take control of this situation, if we all want to see this end in a way other than disaster, then you can’t run away again. I couldn’t before, and you can’t now.” Okay, maybe the emotional boxes weren’t working so well today.

Commander Myqian, XO

A low laugh issued forth but was short lived. It was just too much. Lies, they all fed her lies, or maybe it was just their truth. She listened very carefully and then ordering her thoughts. “And there is the problem with Betazoids. You ‘heard’ what was said in private in the hallway and feel the need to comment. I didn’t walk away angry. I walked away annoyed. I asked you to let me work and you just wanted to keep talking. Yes I’m feeling things, a whole lot of things and I don’t want to talk to you about them. I have a counselor. You thought Lt Kane would need to be ready for my anger. Really? This man right here? You thought he should be warned that little ol’ me was mad and he couldn’t deal with it? Or he needed to be warned that I was spiraling so he could, what? Help me? You were concerned for my mental health and someone needed to be warned but you let me wander the ship alone? And it wasn’t the first thing you said to him? I am sorry about your fiance, I truly am. Anyone lucky enough to find someone to love them doesn’t deserve to lose them. I am sorry that person disrupted your life, but I have no stopped functioning, yet. I function differently. You’re very very wrong. This IS about Soulis. He created a security breach on your ship, do what you need to. But I promise you, if I leave he leaves too, there is nothing else on this ship he wants because I take it all with me. I didn’t run away, I walked away, because I had work to do. We have combadges it wasn’t that hard to contact me to come here. But see I can’t walk away, I can’t ‘hide’. I won’t allow others to be hurt by him. Because if he can’t get me to do the work for him he’ll find the next smartest person, and the next and the next. I took an oath to save lives, and maybe this isn’t an operating room, but he is a vicious deadly virus that needs eradication before he turns into a plague. I cannot begin to understand how your experience shaped you, but I’m not you. I don’t know how this will shape me. But one thing I have learned is I can not be judged by others’ standards.”

This frustration wasn’t Alexis, she was usually quiet, simply because no one ever really listened to what she had to say, she was above them or uninteresting. Only Solomon really listened to her. But she had something to say about all this and she said it. She took a deep breath and she turned to Kane. “See while the two of you were busy talking about feelings and what I should or should not be feeling and how you two feel about it, I did something. You may be very angry at me for this, but honestly I don’t care. You’re about to get a call, making you the case agent for this whole ‘problem.’
Lt Bonner