Posted by Lieutenant Sofia Demakis (Chief of Security) in Security Office

Posted by Captain Mathias McGarrett (CO) in Security Office

Posted by Lieutenant Sofia Demakis (Chief of Security) in Security Office
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Sofia settled into the chair behind her desk, intent on putting a dent in the minor mountain of paperwork that had greeted her this morning. Setting her mug of coffee down, she perused the PaDDs, prioritizing them according to how easy it was to complete whatever was needed on them. She’d whip off the easier ones first, they were minor annoyances that could quickly be taken care of.

Then the rest could be worked on as her day progressed, prioritized in order of deadlines.

~Sofia Demakis~

Mathias sighed. Of course he actually felt like he needed to speak to the counselor a couple days after she got reassigned. Normally he’d ignore those feelings, stuff them down, and move on. Captains really didn’t have time for inconvenient things like emotions. Usually that was his approach. But something drew him to his new security chief’s office this time. Funny that he’d go to her and not one of the many officers he’d long served with. He thought it made sense though. He pressed the chime and waited.

Captain Mathias McGarrett, CO

“Come in,” Sofia called, pondering who was stopping by to see her this morning.

~Sofia Demakis~

Mathias strode in and stopped a few feet into the room. “Good morning, Lieutenant.”

He opted not to start with what actually brought him here. Perhaps Mathias would change his mind and not go there after all. “I haven’t see the report yet about the incident that happened in the gym. I’ve never heard of a fight breaking out during ballet practice before. I’m expecting you’ll be providing me some entertaining reading.”

Captain Mathias McGarrett, CO

“It’s probably in here,” Sofia indicated a few PaDDs on her desk, “I’m just working through the reports, unless I get interrupted, you should have that report in a few hours.”

~Sofia Demakis~

“That will be fine,” said Mathias.

There was a silent pause as Matthias realized he didn’t exactly know how to bring up the topic he was thinking of discussing with her. He had concluded earlier that it had made sense to have this conversation with Sofia, despite barely knowing her. But now here he was, in the moment, a moment which he had thought he had mentally prepared for. He was normally a natural at winging it and portraying confidence when he wasn’t exactly feeling it. But this wasn’t a typical conversation for him and the words didn’t come out as easily as they normally would have.

“Lieutenant, I normally don’t care to show hints of weakness or let my guard down with people I’m just starting to get to know. But I’m wondering if you might have some advice for me. I’m aware of one very traumatic experence you went through. All Starfleet officers who’ve been serving for some length of time encounter intense and difficult experiences, but as someone coming up through the security discipline I imagine you’ve had to deal with it more often than others. How do you move on when something like that happens? Maybe you have it more figured out than I do.”

Captain Mathias McGarrett, CO