Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Vanessa Slade (CNS) in How to Make a Counselor Mad as Hell
Vanessa looking irritated was not a common site but also not an uncommon one, especially when on her personal communicator. Usually, the person on the other end of the line causing her to wrinkle up her nose paired with a huff or eye roll was named Slade. The occasional nod of her head and smile to those watching her as they passed her in the halls was the only thing that melted her expression into the more familiar optimistic expression she tended to show. Vanessa was on her way to the mess hall for her lunch date but stopped just before entering to speak to the other person on the line. Turning to face the wall of the corridor, however, the tone of her voice was anything but perky. “Listen to me you,” she erupted into a flurry of expletives that seemed to center largely on their intelligence or apparent lack of it. It was clear whoever was on the other end was not someone Vanessa was pleased to be talking to. “I will make it my personal mission to hunt you down and destroy you. Not just destroy but completely annihilate every scrape of self-worth you possess.” The fire and anger in her voice were mirrored by the redness in her cheeks and death glare shooting out of her eyes.

“Oh oh oh you don’t think I can handle you. I swear to God,” she belted out raising her voice from an icy whisper to a much more audible threat. “There is no place you can hide from me.”

Vanessa Slade CNS

“Is there a problem Lieutenant,” Calvin stated in a controlled tone reaching the door to the mess hall and seeing what possibly was the exact image of what his adoptive mother termed a conniption fit.

“There are few places to hide on a star-ship…” Well actually there were many, but few that the ship internal sensors couldn’t penetrate.

Calvin Marius