Posted by Lieutenant Allison Scott (Doctor, Pediatrics) in Cos Office - Parker Twins
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: : Remembering he had roughed his hair, Rico made a subtle effort to make it tidy again before moving around to his seat behind the desk, just in time to watch Candy/Bambi whichever one was which out of the corner of his eye cross her legs slowly. Easy Rico he thought to himself, these two are trouble, like holding a lit firework in your hand it’s a whole lotta fun at the time but then everybody is going to know what kind of stupid stunt you pulled and he slid into his seat with a wide, pleasant smile.
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: : “Oh I am sure I can do you both right now” he said, and the smile slid off his face as he realized he had walked into her suggestion, and he found himself clearing his throat again and adjust a PaDD slightly. “Who wants coffee?” he offered, moving to carry on the conversation before he made things more awkward for himself, “And then one at a time, tell me how I can help you ladies.”
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“Well see this bump,” Bambi leaned forward. “Some guy accosted me in the hall,” she replied letting her hair fall back into place. Yesterday night about 9 pm I was walking back to my quarters with Bob Grayson talking about duty rosters and out of nowhere someone pushed us both bodily into a maintenance closet. I didn’t see him because it was a blur but I bumped my head on the....door.” Bambi was not about to say that the momentum of the push had sent her and Bob into the closet, nor that she was leaning on the door with pretty much all her body weight on Bob. She could not have Rico thinking her discussion with Bob was anything less than official. “I think that qualifies as an assault charge right?”

Bambi Parker

“Assault?” Rico asked her, “you’re sure it was assault? There may be other explanations for that. Maybe the door just opened by itself? Did you stop for a moment and lean on it at all?” Rico remembered Bambi the previous night, and it seemed his recollection of the event was a little more complete than hers. In point of fact, there didn’t seem to be much talking going on at all, or walking, and it had seemed to Rico that Bob had his hands full, literally, at about that moment while Bambi had kindly appeared to be helping him with a stuck zipper, or something.

Rico cleared his throat as the memory passed and he seemed to be entering information onto his console, taking notes. Okey so, maybe it could qualify as Assault. So who did it?” He looked at Candy as he stopped speaking, “Did you see anything? I think someone said you were in the area last night to yes?”

Lt Vanhall
CoS

Candy looked at Bamby who shrugged. Both sisters had been waiting to find something to on the golden girl who had seemed to make Rico Vanhall think she was perfect. As luck would have it, they finally hit paydirt. There was no way Amazing Ally, as the sister’s snidely referred to her as, would come out squeaky clean after this. “Lt. Allison Scott,” Candy said with a confident tone in her voice.

“Who?” Rico said, not because he didnt recognise the name but because the claim Ally was involved was so out of left field and unexpected that for a moment he seemed otherwise speechless. After a few moments he raised his hands a made the universal ‘calm the heck down’ motion. “No no, you are mistaken. There isn’t any way Ally was involved, she was busy last night. I can vouch for her personally.”

“It is not like this is her first time assaulting someone. You know what they say…once a person gets a taste for the criminal life they never can come back,” Bambi added and then in a more sympathetic tone. “You did know that Ally had been formally booked on assault charges about six months ago didn’t you?” Now Rico would have to investigate and little Miss perfect teeth and hair would go bye-bye leaving the Parker twins to vie for which one of them would be the rebound girl.

Bambi “Sherlock” and Candy “Watson” Investigators not so extraordinaire

The look on Rico’s face was confused, but all the same cautious. Ensign Fabio had told him a story about how these twins had tricked him into a night of exhaustive passion by pretending to be the same person, feeding him performance enhancing medication and then tagging in and out without the Ensign knowing any different. Oh he hadn’t wanted to complain at all, and Rico wasn’t too sure exactly where the true story ended and any fabrication began, but he knew that these twins were clever and often made sure the got what they wanted. That thought made Rico even more determined to ensure he exposed their littke game for what it was.

“What are you talking about?” Rico said to the pair, looking from one to the other in his best stern and disbelieving face. “Ally has no record of any assault on her file, I’ve checked the entire crew, including yourselves and I can assure you that compared to some records” Rico paused and looked from one to the other knowingly, “Ally has a spotless record. She even got recently promoted so explain yourselves and how you presume that even if she did, she had anything to do with you and Bob getting shoved into that supply cupboard.”

Lt Rico Vanhall
CoS

Bambi sighed and pulled out her personal communicator. Punching a few buttons she then turned the screen to Rico. On it was the mug shot of Allison Lily Scott looking none too thrilled or like the Ally most saw on a day to day basis. The ponytail was there but looked disheveled with more than a few strands falling everywhere around her face. Scanning down under the picture was a link for a report. “Care to read it,” Bambi asked almost triumphantly.

Bambi Parker…super slueth

Rico reached out and took the communicator, roughly and without apology at his abruptness. Then raised an eyebrow at the two and flicked up the image on the communicator and her personnel image from when she joined the Ogawa, the two events apparently only a month or so apart. They matched close enough even without facial recognition. Without yet reading the report he looked at Bambi.

“How did you get this? This is not a Starfleet mugshot.” As he waited for her reply he brought up the image and link on his own console by the magic of Gaggle. The latest and greatest Exonet search engine. “Unless you can explain to me how this links Ally to your assault, I fail to see the relevance and I’m not going to investigate her as a suspect of any kind on mere heresy.”

Lt Vanhall
CoS

“Click on the link,” Candy suggested. “It is very interesting. Seems Ally is not always so loveable.”

Scrolling down Rico would see the report.

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Location: 34th and Baron Street, Orion Prime
Arresting Officer: Lt. (j.g.) Celina Rodriguez
Stardate: 11252393

Background: A call was sent to local authorities and then picked up byt Starfleet dispatch regarding shots fired in the block of 34th and Barron Street at precisely 22:46 hours on November 25, 2393. A car was dispatched. Upon entering the building at the location, the arresting officer was then assaulted by Ms. Scott as she attempted to leave the premises. Ms. Scott was detained and remanded to the local security station.

Action: Upon questioning, Ms. Scott alleges that she was walking by the establishment and heard someone yell for help. Upon entering the establishment as 34th and Baron, Ms. Scott attempted to help what she claimed was an injured civilian Orion. Ms. Scott claims a fight occurred with other patrons in the establishment while she was there producing the phaser shots reported to the dispatch. Per Ms. Scott, she attempted to flee the establishment and did not recognize or hear the warning from Starfleet security and the local authorities to get down. When she was grabbed by Lt. Rodriguez, Ms. Scott acted on impulse and not malice. She was however quickly subdued and restrained. Several low ranking possible members of the syndicate were also taken into custody but no one is collaborating her story at this time.

Result: After careful investigation of Ms. Scott’s alleged story it was determined that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her assault of Officer Lt. Rodriguez was determined to be accidental in nature provided the events occurring during her time at the location in question. The charge of felony assault was dropped to a misdemeanor of disorderly conduct and Ms. Scott was ordered to undergo mandatory counseling sessions weekly for the next year. Failure to complete or breach any of the conditions of Ms. Scott’s probation will result in one-month detention and the charge changed from a misdemeanor to felony. A sworn affidavit was signed by Ms. Scott and filed by the probation officer on Orion.

Lt. Ally Scott, Medical

Rico sat and read the report more than once, then glanced at the twins and held up a finger for silence, bringing up Allys profile and expanding the file to include non Federation misdemeanours and local body charges not covered by a Starfleet and Federation personnel file. And there it was. Rico rubbed his jaw and his eyes moved back to the twins, and Rico reached forward and deliberately turned off the screen.

“Alright” he acknowledged, “you found something on her file, how I have no idea. But that still doesn’t mean she assaulted you. I can’t believe Lieutenant Scott has the skill or the training to shove two alert and attentive, and not distracted Officers in the least though a doorway. She is hardly a Ninja.”

He continued, “If you have no solid evidence other than a six month old charge of assault many lightyears away, I’m going to have to investigate this myself.” Now Rico smiled, “I’ll review the video footage, holo imprint and replicator usage prior to your incident.” He said, making notes on the files. “Anything else?”

While he was speaking his mind was in another place. Ally had a record, okey not exactly a huge and overly serious one but assault was still pretty serious. And what in the blazes was Ally, pure, sweet good natured Ally, doing in a den of seduction, drugs and perversion like Orion Prime?

Lt Rico Vanhall
CoS

“We reserve our right to come back another time,” Bambi stood up. “Just know that you may think you know someone but that doesn’t mean you do. You’re the security chief. Be objective,” she said in a warning tone.

Candy and Bambi walked out of the office leaving the chief to think about what occured. Maybe if they were lucky, Rico would soon be back on the market.

Candy and Bambi Parker

Rico sat back in his chair for a few moments, minutes really and thought about what had occurred. How on Earth had the Parker Twins managed to dig up that kind of dirt on someone in the crew? It obviously wasn’t enough to prevent Ally from serving on the Ogawa in a Starfleet Uniform, but still, it was unexpected how his Ally suddenly had a record on Orion.

It took Rico half an hour of cross checking Federation sources, going over backdated news reports and bringing up Civilian profiles before he had a clearer picture of what had happened and the consequences, who the associates might have been, and confirming Ally’s actual whereabouts according to Leave and assignment records. There was no doubt, it was Ally.

=/\=Ally, babygirl, its Rico. Could you come down to my Office? I have something to show you. =/\=

Turning off the Comm, Rico sat back again in his chair and waited, fingers tapping lightly on the desk and humming a tune that had come mindlessly to him.

Lt Rico Vanhall
CoS

=/\=Sure thing. I am off duty in thirty minutes,=/\= Ally said happily before clicking off the comm. Exactly thirty minutes later, Ally palmed the control on Rico’s door and entered his office. Last night had been amazing. Well past the ocean incident and leaving a wet trail of puddles from the holodeck to the Reez quarters. If the kids had not decided last night was the opportune time to begin their journey into verbal language, the night would have been perfect. “Hello there handsome,” Ally said walking around to the back of Rico’s desk and wrapping her arms around his neck as he reclined in the chair. “So are you finally going to agree that being in the ocean at night under a full moon is far better than working 8 hours on duty,” she teased kissing him silly several times on the cheek being playful.

Lt. Ally Scott, medical

“Hello gorgeous” he replied, his smile wide and genuine. He was of course happy to see her, like always and every moment, the mere sound of her voice made him smile. Being in the same room with her, that was something that science had yet to come up with a word for.

“You know last night was amazing. You are amazing and I love you more than you know” he said, and took her in his arms and tipped her so she was lying across his lap, in his arms, most romantically.

“So I’ve got an idea” he said to her, looking line he had been planning this for some time. “The Ogawa is due to pass Orion next month. Now I know that it tends to be pretty shady but I know a few places I think you will love for some shore leave. What do you say Pumpkin? Just you and me and a weekend to dream about later?”

Lt Rico Vanhall
CoS