Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Alt. Universe: Starfleet Command - Operation Bedlam

Posted by Lieutenant Siennadye Nox (Counselor) in Alt. Universe: Starfleet Command - Operation Bedlam

Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Alt. Universe: Starfleet Command - Operation Bedlam
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This? he wondered. He did not disagree with her suggestion, but he had no idea what this was.

He promptly turned 90 degrees to his left and started walking away from her and the Ensign. Nox, being familiar with this facility, would recognize that he was actually walking toward a set of conference rooms, each with a glass wall that faced into the operations center. He found an unoccupied one and set the privacy screen up; the glass frosted over, so that people walking past would know that it is in use but not be able to see who exactly was in it and what they were doing.

She was a little surprised by his abrupt movement. She had made the suggestion, she hadn’t expected him to just turn and walk off like that. She glanced for a moment at the room at large and then followed him.

With that done, Johann immediately found the nearest seat and collapsed in it, not even trying to maintain any sort of outward composure anymore.

– Johann Dvorak, CO Korolev

She stepped in and saw him take a seat. It was obvious, even without their telepathic connection, she knew he was hurting. Sienna walked towards him and took the seat beside him. Her friendship may have been from a different universe but he was almost identical to her Johann. She reached out and took his hand in her own.

He looked at her hand, which did not posses a wedding ring, and then at her face. Did we…?

“No need to keep up control in here.” Sbe paused for a moment and then continued. “I am sorry I haven’t found a way to bring her back.”

Nox

“Oh, you’re sorry you haven’t found a way to bring her back,” he said angrily. It was more at himself, and at the lecture he had gotten not more than ten minutes ago. But mostly himself. Five years of failure was something he usually noted as the absence of his wife, but today it was made manifest in this woman here. This woman whose mind and personality he did not know, but whose body he was very familiar with. It was a body he wanted to be familiar with again.

She sucked in a breath at his sudden anger. Sienna hadn’t expected it and it took her by surprise. Unlike her far more even keel counterpart, this Sienna was no psychologist. She couldn’t read the visual cues that his wife probably would have noticed.

“Who are you, exactly? You must be from where she is. Where we aren’t married, I presume.”

– Johann Dvorak, CO Korolev

She stood up too, a bit of anger flaring inside her in response. “Well. Yes. And no? Hell I don’t know Johann. In the year I spent with your wife in my universe, there was very little difference between us in personality and mannerisms. Our jobs and occupational training differed and she met you at a very different time than when I met my Captain, but everything else was so much the same.”

He calmed down slightly. So she’s… safe? he thought.

She sighed, letting out her tiff of anger. “By the time I met Johann. I was his XO. I never let myself consider a relationship. I’ve never been married. The only slightly romantic relationship I’ve had in the last ten years was a few dates with Q.” She flung her hands up in the air in frustration and sat back down.

Nox

“Q?” he asked more calmly. “Q? Like… Q? That entity that was always chasing Picard around? That Q?”

She grinned. “Yeah. That Q. He was impressed by me for a time. Eventually he moved on to other things I suppose.”

Must be unusually driven, he thought. Then he wasn’t so sure; would his wife still be single too? Was finding a blind man stumbling in the hallway the only way she could have met someone? Well, maybe? He had trouble believing it, without stopping to think why he might believe it.

Joe

“As far as we could tell, when comparing lives, she and I differed in our career path. When she chose to stray from physical medical care to the mental. I had been inspired to go for Command. I was quite busy and it seems I missed out on something quite special as a result.” She smiled softly. “Is it narcissistic to have become friends with myself I wonder.”

Nox