The home of Police Commissioner, or Chief of Police as he was colloquially known, Joseph Karlson was a rather stately manor house of French design. It was common knowledge that it had been acquired by Josephs brother in a poker game many years ago and transferred brick by brick to Oed years ago before he arrived during the kidnapping of then-Governor Anu Zar. The house comprised of three floors, two towers each with at least two-floor spaces and three basement levels. It had been partially redesigned by Joesph and his wife to accommodate their interests and needs.

Joseph changed one of the Towers into a sort of museum to his career filled with weapons, armours, trophies and similar items he’d gathered in his many years as both an adventurer and Soldier. His wife had designed her own medical suite and lab for her work. They each had their own offices connected to these rooms and an interconnecting secret passageway system allowing them to travel in between the walls to wherever they wished in the house. They spent most of their time either in the backyard tending to their plantlife or swimming in the pool. During the evening they spent their time together in one of the towers that had been refurbished as a library filled with actual books and several comfortable reading areas.

Two of the three basements were used for storage, the first was a wine cellar filled with several bottles of alcohol they’d either been gifted or our purchased themselves, the second was storage for items they had no place for but did not wish to throw away. The third basement was a secret one not showing up on any blueprints or scans. It was a place that they used for all private engagements and as a safe room if necessary, there were only four people on the Colony with access, the two of them, Joseph’s brother and his daughter.

Right now they were sitting together in the library, Joseph lying on his wife and Neema reading to him from the most recent ‘Federation Journal of Medicine’. It Had been three years since they celebrated their Ruby wedding anniversary and in 2398 they would celebrate their Gold anniversary “Research in Mendaxic neurosclerosis show potential in treatment using an active postironic matrix but without…” She paused “Am I boring you Joe?” She said with a half-smile “You’re usually more engaged” She nudged her husband. Joseph returned her smile and opened his eyes

“I’m sorry Nee, I got a call from my sister yesterday, she told me Jack wants to visit here with his cousin Ben, I was thinking about calling Timor and asking him to visit with his family”

Neema cocked her head “Doesn’t seem like much of a conundrum, those three boys were inseparable as children, Timmy would jump at the chance”

Joseph shook his head “He would but the Scandinavia is stationed at the Romulan border, I don’t know if he could get here in time”

She chuckled “Call your brother, ask him to send one of his overly expensive warp nine taxi’s to pick them up” She paused and smiled knowingly “You two aren’t speaking are you?”

“No” He said in an uncomfortable tone of voice “One of his ex-wife’s called me the other day, you remember T’zha”

“Right the Vulcan with an attitude, not one to forget” She said with a barely suppressed laugh.

“Well apparently she is coming here for a lecture and was hoping I’d mention this to him, He, of course, took offence to the fact that I’m on good relations with all of his Ex-wives and Husbands and we started arguing again. It turned heated, he mentioned Matok and I reminded him of Sarah and he huffed out of my office. It’ll be at least a month until he’ll even take my call”

The Trill shook her head in amusement “The two of you have always been like this” she lowered the PaDD “Tell you what, I’ll talk to him about Timor then I’ll invite him to Dinner for next Thursday, then you two can fight it out in the Dojo, he’ll feel better after giving you a black eye and you’ll feel better after cracking some of his ribs”

Joseph placed a large hand on his wife’s cheek “Thank you love” He smiled sweetly “I don’t know what I’d do without you”

Neema leaned in and kissed Joseph gently on the lips “Neither do I” She raised her PaDD and continued reading “But without the necessary components turning the theoretical into practicality is…”

Joseph and Neema