Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in You Have To Trust Someone Eventaully

Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in You Have To Trust Someone Eventaully

Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in You Have To Trust Someone Eventaully
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He did smile a little bit. “If you build me a time ship, we’ll never have met. I don’t think I can live with that, either.” Sisnil said, grinning at her.

~ Zoi

Dradvia was sure that would affect her more than it would him. “If you warn yourself ahead of time, you will alter the future and you won’t know you never met me.” Her smile was sad, “You’d be with your crew, with Vash, and Noril. That’s much better than here.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Hmm.” Sisnil said, like he couldn’t decide. “Let’s think about something else,” he said at last. Otherwise he’d cry and he’d not stand for that.

~ Zoi

“Okay.” Dradvia looked around the scene, “How… how did you learn to do all that? I’ve only ever seen military groups pull some of that off.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“I’ve had ex military crew before, but honestly? You get good, or you get dead,” Sisnil said with a shrug. “We have to be better than Starfleet, to steal from Starfleet.”

~ Zoi

“You taught yourself all of that?” Dradvia waved to the holodeck scene around them. She was impressed, she couldn’t imagine learning all that without a teacher… well maybe she could. She had taught herself a lot about medicine in the same way. “Necessity.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. “Necessity.” He looked at Dee, “Noril and I bought our ship intending to be honest freighters. Things just… Didn’t turn out that way.”

~ Zoi

Her head tipped to the side, “What happened?” There was no judgement, just curiosity and willingness to listen.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Work wasn’t very… Plentiful.” Sisnil said. “Then.... Well, the Syndicate happened. Trying to make money, we stepped on their toes.” Sisnil gave her a look, she knew what that meant.

~ Zoi

Dradvia nodded. “You were good. So rather than put you out of commission, they decided to profit off of you. If you hadn’t agreed, they would have killed you all.” She had been privy to some of those ‘negotations’. Lokhar was very pleased to show her off. She had been a prized possession. He used Kryssa to read people’s minds, and kept her close by to control Kryssa.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Exactly. We all became Syndicate members. My ability to read minds made me more valuable than some others. One of our crew was killed on the spot.” Sisnil shrugged, “It was years ago now, it is what it is.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia wasn’t surprised they had killed someone. Usually the one they felt was the least useful. Sometimes it was who was the biggest threat. The Syndicate preferred to keep them though. “I’m sorry about your friend.” She sighed. “Why is life always so hard?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil shrugged. “Bad luck?” It had been the “least useful”, a newer crew member with little experience. The death hadn’t been quick. He hadn’t deserved that. “I’ve gotten… A little numb to losing people.” He said with a shrug.

~ Zoi

Dradvia stared intently at him. She didn’t believe that. He had just got good at pushing through and burying the emotions. She wasn’t going to call him on it. Allowing yourself to be numb was sometimes the only way to get through. “What about your crew now? You have a medic? What is he like? Other than yelling at you?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“His name’s Eli, he’s… Well, what you’d expect of an ex-combat medic.” Sisnil said with a little chuckle. “It helps, my crew can be stubborn as all the hells, but he can handle them. There’s John, he’s part of my crew. Stubborn and abrasive but good at what he does. Engineering. And Nathan, my first mate and our weapons expert.”

~ Zoi

“Good engineers are underrated. Mako… he was taken a few months after us. He was really good. Lokhar found out. He was put to work in engineering. 4 month later he was ‘employeed’ rather than…” Well, Sisnil knew. “I was happy for him.”

“He’s lucky.” Sisnil said.

She looked confused, “Noril isn’t your first mate?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“We’re co-captains.” Sisnil said. “We work together. With me gone, well… It’s just Noril now. He’s never been as… Assertive as I am. I hope he’s alright.”

~ Zoi

“He will be. He didn’t get this far and not learn. You said so. I am sure Vash and Eli will keep him that way. Yeah?” She couldn’t help the slight twinge of jealousy that she hoped she tramped down before he noticed. She had no right to be jealous of any of them, but she was. They had each other.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“If they don’t, I’d put money on John being the one to backstab him.” Sisnil said as if making a completely normal, casual comment.

~ Zoi

“He must be really good to keep him around if you think he would betray the crew,” Dradvia observed.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“He is very good, but he’s also the most unpredictable and the most hardheaded. When I was there, I sensed no question in his loyalty. But with a weaker leader… I am less sure of him.” Sisnil shrugged, “Nothing I can do about it now.”

~ Zoi

“He’ll be okay. He may defer to you when together, but I’m sure he can stand on his own. He’ll be okay.” She cautiously reached over and set her hand on his arm. “Can he pass your training programs?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“We compete and see who does better.” Sisnil said. “There’s thing I’m good at and things he’s good at.” He shrugged, “Guess I’ll find out once you get that message out.” He appreciated her touch. Sisnil was a physical person. It had been hard for him, since meeting her, to refrain from touching her.

~ Zoi

Dradvia nodded. Perhaps she could find a way to get a message back from them. “So his style might be a bit different, play to his strengths, but he’ll be okay.” Dradvia had been an affectionate child, but that had been… her time in the Syndicate had killed that. It had been hard though, not to have anyone to lean on, confide in, be close to. She couldn’t manage it though. She was too afraid now.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. He set a hand gently on hers. “We’ll both keep doing what we do. Keep moving on.” He said and smiled.

~ Zoi

A tremor went through her at his touch. Fear or delight was uncertain, but she didn’t pull away. She would handle this so she could help him right now. “That’s all any of us can do. It’s not all bad. Maybe not ever great, but not all bad. You have time to work on your programming.” Dradvia was rambling now, unsure what to do or say.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil laughed. “The only challenging thing I’ve done was the gardens, and I accomplished that in one day. I think I’d rather test myself against the Security department or something. Though,” he winked at her, “I might need a doctor on call if I do that.”

~ Zoi