Posted by Lieutenant Rico Vanhall (Chief of Security) in Orion Surface A Need to get Away

Posted by Lieutenant Rico Vanhall (Chief of Security) in Orion Surface A Need to get Away

Posted by Lieutenant Allison Scott (Pediatrics/Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Orion Surface A Need to get Away
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Hitting the door release she decided to get out and help Rico. “I’m Lt. Allison Scott and this is my,” she began before realizing just how big her security chief boyfriend was. The way he was standing, his body completely blocked the door to her exiting the vehicle. “This is my,” she started again trying to move around Rico’s body to exit the car. The maneuver made her look anything but graceful as she crawled out between his legs and finally found her feet next to Rico.

“What, Ally, you know I’m standing like that for a reason. Be careful with… no.. stay where.....” The men facing the car, weapons drawn, looked at each other in confusion as they watched the woman crawl out between the large, muscular mans legs and him try in vain to pin her with his knees. Wriggling, she pushed her way through and to her feet. They looked at the big man, Rico just shrugged in resignation, hands still in the air.

“This is my boyfriend Rico. Hello,” she said extending her hand as if the man was offering them a cold drink instead of phaser fire. “Rico say hi,” she said out of the corner of her mouth, “and try to less intimidating.”

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“Me?” Rico said looking hurt. “Me be less intimidating?” He waved his hands at the ground and the phaser lying there. “I put down my weapon, see? How can I be intimidating?” He looked at the nearest of the men and glared at him, he was a guy, he would have his back. “I’m not intimidating, am I? I’m the one over here, hands in the air like I just don’t care and you got the bomb. That’s right, you got the gun pointed at me, don’t you? Your not intimated at all right? So what that I’m a foot taller, three times wider and could pop your shoulder out of its socket with the inside of my elbow like a walnut faster that you could bring your finger down on that button? You’re not intimidated at all, right?”

“Rico!” Ally snapped putting her hands on her hips.

“Um, no, no, not at all.” The man mumbled, and switched the gun from Rico to Ally and back as if he was unsure exactly what was going on. Rico turned to Ally and put his hands on his hips. “See. Told you. I’m not being intimidating.”

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“Are you mocking me,” she crossed her arms across her chest. “Because I know you are not mocking me,” Ally had a twang to her voice that might have sounded like Lucy Washington’s third cousin twice removed if Rico listened carefully enough. Allison Scott cocked one eyebrow and stared at Rico as if they were in his quarters and not in the seediest section of town imaginable surrounded by men with guns.

Rico just stared right back at her, hands still on his hips and said nothing, then raised his chin slightly.

“Is she serious,” one of the armed men said to the guy beside him. The look on his face told everyone that he was totally invested in the answer anyone would provide.

“As serious as a heart attack probably. I mean you know women. Once they get their dander up. Jolene last week went on a tear about I have no idea. I just gave her the nod indicating I was listening but it was all mwah haha haha ha ha,” he made a yapping motion with his hand.

“That guy is braver than a Tarkanien Badger in mating season,” another said quietly.

“Yes, I am serious. He,” Ally turned to the men surrounding her and took a stance like she was ready to give a courtroom tirade.

“What in blazes is going on here,” a man pushed his way into the crowd. He had a far more serious expression on his face than the rest of the group. Instantly they stopped the playful jabs. The tension in the area increased ten fold. “You are the doctor,” he said never stopping his stride towards Ally. “You’re late,” he reached out grabbing for her elbow. “I don’t have time for this feculence. Move your skinny rear and earn what I just paid for.”

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His hand never got to Ally. A large fist with an iron like grip clamped down on the mans wrist, the thumb digging into a pressure point. To the mans credit and Rico’s surprise, he only flinched slightly at the touch. Clearly, the man was surprised to have been manhandled but was able to handle the pressure being applied. The tension around them only increased, and the men shot unsure glances at each other unsure of what they should do. They had been told not to harm the doctor, but they were unsure about her companion and with their boss directly in the firing line, they could only wait and see.

Rico looked at the man through narrowed eyes and his voice was cold and clearly held a warning to the man he held, he was applying enough pressure that if he squeezed just a little more and twisted slightly to his left, Ally would have a patient with a compound fracture right here as unlike his doctor girlfriend, Rico had taken no vow to do no harm. “I don’t care about the men with guns behind you,” Rico told him, “if they were going to shoot, they would have done it already. I’m Lieutenant Vanhall of Starfleet Security, Chief of Security on the USS Ogawa. “Before we go anywhere with Doctor Scott, you are going to tell me what the hell is going on, what exactly you paid for and why we were just in a smuggling warehouse that got raided by OrSec. I shot cops for you to be here, now tell me what’s going on before you use those fancy words you’ve got to describe the feeling of needing a hook on your arm stump the rest of your life because I swear, I am so over this I will rip your hand of and shove it so far up your back end you could pick your nose with your tongue.”

His eyes shifted to Aly slightly as he spoke, then back to the man. This was wrong, all wrong to him and he was sure his girlfriend, for all of her eagerness to help and do what was right had somehow gotten herself involved in something way over her head. His mind went back to the Lauren woman she had known, he knew somehow she was involved in this, and he was going to need to have words with her at some point very soon. Putting him in danger was one thing, but putting Ally in danger with people like this was another thing entirely.

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