Ambushed!

[Jackie Clawson]

<<USS Horizon - Admiral's Ready Room - Several days later>>

It was good to be back, even if it took some convincing to let medical 'set her free', but not without strict orders to take it easy and not to strain herself and report to sickbay every day for a checkup. Not that the Caitian followed orders easily.

In nearly a week since she's been released, Jackie's not left the bridge and/or the ready room at all, sleeping on the couch when she could, staying mostly in her ready room letting Chadwick and the rest handle the ship for the time being whilst she caught up with paperwork and whatever else that was necesarry. From the looks of things, she wasn't going to change that for quite a while.

Jackie disregarded the first order from sickbay right off the bat as she studied the damage reports and her mind tried to piece together what happened whilst she was out of commission.

Thus far things didn't look too good. The Horizon was virtually dead in the water with engineering having to do a complete core wipe given what Sorak put into there. M'Karll had taken off in a shuttle to get some supplies for Barnes and a couple of new crewmembers.

Barnes and his engineering teams were busy repairing the damage, security teams were sweeping every inch of the ship making sure Sorak hasn't left any surprises. Jackie knew someone from security constantly kept an eye on her, even if she didn't see them.

Jackie took the 'downtime' to try to get back into swing of things. She's been out of it for too long, she knew. Jackie took in a small breath fighting off a wave of dizziness, she still wasn't a hundred per cent al right, but far be it for her to admit it to herself or to anyone else.

She tapped at the console, catching her mind and forcing it to focus on the data that flowed onscreen. She was vaguely aware of just how much data Chadwick had initially kept from her; for reasons she understood all too well, she couldn?t really be mad with him even if she wanted to. Besides, he did save her life and did a wonderful job on keeping the Horizon going with her out of the action. At the last she owed him a hell of an explanation for what happened.

She glanced over the crew compliment, shaking her head at the empty department head spots, zeroing in on the empty XO spot; Nutley seemed to have just disappeared somewhere in the madness of things. That inconvenienced the crew that much more; fortunately Chadwick was there to take on the reigns since he was also the Second Officer.

Jackie paused, blinking away a slight daze, rubbing at her forehead a little the Caitian made a command decision. Bringing up the crew dossiers of a few officers, Jackie made the necessary changes of note then she stood up.

Instantly regretting the decision Jackie flopped back down onto chair fighting a wave of dizziness.

'one step at a time' She reminded herself as she laid her head down on her arms and closed her eyes.

The Caitian woke up with a start, dazed she looked at the chronometer, she?s been out for nearly two hours. Jackie shook her head to clear it and reached for a handful of qavIn beans. She popped a couple in her mouth and leaned back to mentally nudge herself awake as she savored the taste of the beans as she bit into them.

"Allright, okay...you're okay." she told herself as she regained her bearings fully.

Jackie rubbed at her head as she glanced at the monitor on her desk again, the file there instantly reminding her of what was going on. Taking in a breath, Jackie stood up and headed for the bridge.

She stood silently for a moment, observing the people working all around her, without a desire to bring attention to her presence there. She spotted Chadwick at the Tactical console, catching his attention, Jackie nodded at her ready room signaling she wanted to see him there.

Chadwick nodded and after exchanging a few quick words with an ensign nearby headed for her ready room.

By the time he entered, Jackie had managed to chew down several more of the beans; as the door slid shut behind her Chief of Security Jackie motioned for him to take a seat.

"Remember when you came here first you wanted an opportunity to show me how good an officer you can be?" she asked him, gently leaning on her desk more to keep her balance than anything else.

Chadwick nodded as he waited for her to go on.

Jackie smiled, "you didn't have to, but clearly your conduct and actions on the Horizon since you've been aboard have been quite commendable" she said tossing a small black box at him, she moved behind her desk as he caught the box.

"I think you'd look better in red though" she noted holding up a red tunic, "as is more appropriate for an Executive Officer of a ship" she spoke tossing the tunic at Chadwick with a smirk as she regarded his reaction.

Alex looked at the box in his left hand and at the tunic in his right.He thought for a moment and then swallowed hard.

"I don't think....I mean i don't want." Alex looked back at the admiral obviously frustrated.He hadn't set out to get himself promoted....let alone made the ships executive officer.

"I was just doing my duty ma'am.I'm sure there is someone else aboard that's more qualified or deserves this more." Alex set the tunic and the box down on her desk.

"I don't think i deserve this." alex said looking at the admiral with uncertain eyes.The usual steely gaze he practiced gone.

Jackie took in a deep breath before replying; the Caitian took a seat before her legs gave way. She needed rest, but right now she had more pressing matters to attend to.

"I know you were just doing your duty." she began, "truth is you were due for a promotion anyway, I've seen your file" she spoke, "and there's no one aboard that's more qualified for a position of the Task Force Flagship's XO than you right now." she tapped at a PADD, before clasping her hands together and leaning gently against the table; Jackie looked at the man across from her "your actions whilst getting me and Admiral harmon from Sorak have shown so much. This wasn't a situation anyone expecpted, yet you managed to take up reigns of the Horizon and keep everyone straight despite my obvious absense on the bridge or the ship"

She blinked, briefly rubbing at the bridge of her nose. If anything given things, she was the one who shouldn't be in charge of a starship, yet alone a Task Force, but Jackie kept the thoughts to herself.

"why do you think you don't deserve this?" she asked him, her gaze semi-strong, yet a bit weary, attempting to hide the full impact of what Sorak's done to her.

Alex paused to consider his words.He crossed his arms behind his back and looked her straight in the eye.

"I've never desired command ma'am. I live to serve." Alex shook his head."Not to command."

Alex indeed saw himself as more of a footsoilder.A loyal officer to whomever he served.During the crisis he had indeed taken control and got the ship back flying straight and steady.It had come as second nature.He recalled what admiral jefferson had said to him in those fatefull days before everything went so horribly wrong.The admiral had told alex he indeed did have what it took to command.He only needed an oppertunity to prove himself. Maybe that allready happened.......and maybe this was meant to be.

"Even better," Jackie smiled, "I won't have to worry about my XO being taken away anytime soon by accepting his own command" she said, "seriously though, XOs don't always become commanding officers if they don't want to. I'm not asking you to take command of the Horizon. I'm asking you to be my number one, because right now I need someone i can rely on in a crisis instead of wondering where's my number one ran off to and whether the Horizon's in capable hands if something were happen to me again" she noted.

"Let's hope nothing happens again, but I'd like the crew to be in capable hands if it did." she said, being careful to choose her words so as not to say anything wrong or anything that could set alarms in his mind.

"I already lost two XOs, one to his own command, the other .. well" Jackie shook her head, "long story there, but ..." Jackie trailed off, closing her eyes for a moment as she recollected her thoughts.

"You know, I haven't desired command either. I was quite happy aboard the Rayden pulling double duty as Wing commander and Chief Security officer; being the crewmember, I wasn't even an XO before I got the Horizon" she said, "my attitude at the tournament shown that clearly, I'm not exactly the typical command type, I'd rather be in on the action. I often fly the Horizon or meddle about in Security's issues, because that's what I do best." she said, "you live to serve. right now i need you to serve as my XO." she said, her tone wavering slightly but the Caitian quickly regained her composure and moved on. "we made a great team on Serenity taking care of your security 'issue' with the Klingons, didn't we?" Jackie smiled, "consider this something similar."

Alex smiled and picked the box of pips up off the desk.He held them in his hand and looked at the admiral.He was sure now.

"I accept ma'am.I won't let you down." Alex removed his Lt.pips and placed the new Lt.commander pips on his colar. Alex looked down at the tunic and smiled.

"I hope you don't mind but i'll put this on later." Alex didn't want the admiral to see the scars all over his chest and back from the incident that shamed alex so much on serenity.

"I want to ease into wearing target red around my neck." Alex chuckled.

Jackie chuckled.

"It's been years, I'm still not used to wearing red..." she said, 'brass red I'm never gettin' used to' she thought.

"trust me, once you're a target, no matter what color you wear, they'll find you" she spoke, Jackie frowned, taken aback by her own particular brand of humor given things, "trick is not to let 'em get close enough" she finished with a sly yet weary grin.

"Oh and before you go, " she glanced at her desk fishing out the right PADD in a matter of seconods, "have a look at this, if you're ok with it, let me know" She said, waving a hand saying he was free to leave. Jackie's gaze strayed over to her console and she was deeply immensed into what was on the screen as Chadwick left her ready room.

OFF:
Joint post by Alex Chadwick and the killer kitty.

Open tags to all. Folks waiting to get aboard, now's your chance. ;) I'm around in the ready room IC; if you wanna JP and have an idea for a JP, drop me a note, tag me, etc (just please, don't tag all at once unless you're up for a multiplayer JP! I can only be in one place at one time and talk one one one otherwise, eh? ).

[Hayden Shaw]

ON:
<Transport Shuttle, Nearing USS Horizon>

Hayden was awoken by the humming of the shuttle’s engine. It had been a long flight from DS5 and in space, every flight was a red-eye.

“Home again,” Shaw said to himself.

The orders to move had come fast to Hayden. Too fast for his liking. And the quartermaster was as unreliable on short notice as he was any other time. Thus, the (once again) Petty Officer Shaw would present himself to his superiors in civvies.

Hayden grabbed his cane and stood up. His leg hurt less now that he was exercising often and living in artificial gravity, but it still hurt when He woke up and when he was on his feet too much.

To his luck, the transport had a replicator. Hayden grabbed his cane and ambled over to it.

“Earl Grey with cream.” he said. A steaming cup materialized in front of him. Replicated tea bothered Hayden to no end but on a shuttle it was hardly practical to brew a cup manually. And on this 15 hour staggerer of a flight, it would have to do.

Shaw sat down in his seat and sipped the tea. “Too weak as usual,” he mused. He wished someone would explain to the replicator how to make tea but he didn’t have that kind of technical skill.

A cheery voice came on the speaker above his seat. “Attention passengers, we are leaving warp. All hands brace. Say again, all hands brace.”

A shudder of deceleration went throughout the ship and sent Hayden’s tea straight into his lap.

Expletives later, Hayden was looking through his baggage for a pair of pants. He hadn’t brought any. Why bother, he would be wearing his uniform most of the time anyway.

Hayden’s gaze shifted to the taped parcel next to his baggage. It was from his son Eli, a parting gift he bought for him on his leave from SF Academy. “Don’t open it until you reach your next posting,” he said. And he said it had clothing in it.

“Close enough to the Horizon…” he said as he began to open the parcel. The note on top read. “Remember where you came from. –Eli”

Opening the black cardboard box behind the packaging paper, Hayden flushed. His son had bought him a kilt.

“It’s better than tea-stained pants.” Hayden said, in the back of his mind dreading what his officers will think of him when he arrived in this.

The loudspeaker chirped again. “ETA to USS Horizon: 35 minutes. All hands prepare for landing procedures.”

Hayden donned the kilt and sat down in his seat twirling his cane in anticipation.

[Roman Dagara]

ON Lounge

Roman sat in the lounge slowly sipping his beer trying not to worry about what he had done during the last couple of weeks when Admiral Clawson was out of it. He had feared that Admiral Harmon would torpedo his career. Being the head nurse on the Flagship of this part of the fleet was great and he thought that he would be gone since had almost caused the death of the admiral by trying to get Harmon to get treatment and scanning.

Roman knew he should check in on the Admiral since this she hadn't been to Sickbay as often as she should be. He didn't have the proper abilities to order her around to get her to get checked up on more and he knew she would fight him with every fibre of her being if he tried to get her to come more often.

Roman finished his beer and left the lounge and headed for his quarters. When he got there he entered and then started to shy away. He knew he had a message waiting from some of his friends about what it was like being on the flagship.

Roman grabbed his PADD and started to look over the information he had copied on the virus. He wanted to learn about this thing so he could at least prepare if there was something like this again that happened. Roman had been studying hard the past week trying to get ready to take a medical exam as he really wished to become a Dr. He was also trying to spend as much time as he could around Jalovel as he found he was falling in love with her. She was kind and was very helpful.

He sent off a quick message as he had spent lots of time in sickbay trying to reorganize some of the stuff and make sure they had enough of all the drugs since part of them were destroyed.

He tapped his comm badge. "Ensign Jalovel this is 2nd LT Dagara would you like to meet for dinner sometime tonight??""

TAgs Jalovel

[M'karll]

OOC: I have no idea where our dear doctor has gotten himself off to. He stopped replying in the JP that we had going via PM.

<Antigua>

"Yar, I say ye'd best be stayin' quiet back thar or I be scourgin' ye, even if ye do all be me superior," M'karll roared back into the main passenger cabin of the Antigua as yet another bout of raucous laughter issued from that direction. Truth be told, he didn't really mind the general merry making that was going on between his two older brothers and the other two new crewmen. His only problem with it was that he couldn't wander back and partake in the fun since, after all, someone had to man the shuttle's controls, and that was kind of his job in life at the present time.

"Aww lighten up Karl," Izzy called forward into the pilot's cabin from his spot passenger cabin with the rest of the runabout's passengers. "We can have as much fun as we want, you're just jealous. That's all."

M'karll was just about to reply when suddenly the sensor suite started squawking. "Ya-har, what matter of devilry be this," M'karll demanded, punching up the sensor records and controls to see why it was going all berzerk. Punching a few more buttons, the pilot opened communications on the runabout to the incoming vessels of unknown origin. "This be the Federation runabout Antigua, what be ye wantin'," he demanded, perhaps a bit more bluntly than first introductions typically required, but they were, after all, flying without transponders.

"Antigua this is the Silver Sabre..." M'karll swallowed, the ship's name was familiar to him, as it would be to anyone that was a Federation pilot operating in this area. The Silver Sabre was the flagship of the pirate group that called themselves Jalok's Cutthroats, one of the more well known pirate organizations that was operating in these here parts. They were known to go after the big liners, mostly, but every so often when business was slow they'd pick off small craft and sell the occupants as slaves to the Orions. "We'll be taking your ship and whatever else you have that we think might be of use."

"Ye'll be doin' no such thang, ye scurvy space dogs," M'karll roared into the comm, punching up the shields and arming the weapons as he did so.

"Ye great blowhard, we be sendin' ye ta the depth's of Davy Jones' spacelocker," M'karll heard faintly in the background of the transmission, followed by a very audible crack and the words "You're not tha damn captain!" M'karll turned his eyes out the main viewport and there the pirates were. Their lead ship, the Sabre was one of the old Miranda-Class vessels, before any of the refits had come down the line. No doubt the band of cutthroats had hijacked it from a Federation depot. Off to the port side of the Sabre was, no doubt, the Jade Scorpion a vessel which derived its name from the green color of its hull, but then all B'rel class Birds of Prey were that shade of nasty snot green. M'karll made a mental note to ask the Horizon's resident psychopath, QaDghab, about that quirk in coloring. To the starboard side of the Sabre was the Talarian Observation ship that the band had dubbed Wraith. Where the other two ships that the group was known to operate were was anyone's guess. But, with just the ones that they had brought to the fight, M'karll would have a tough time of it.

"Yar, strap in back thar," M'karll roared to his passengers. He'd pick on the Scorpion as that seemed to be the ship that presented the most even match-up with the Antigua. The Caitian mashed his paw down on the comm channel button again. "Yar, this be Antigua ta the 'Rizon. We be havin' a 'bout with da pirates, requestin' politely some back-up." M'karll cut the transmission to the Horizon and reopened the lines of communication with the pirates. "Ye can 'ave me baby Antigua ifn ye can be takin' 'er from me fat fuzzy ass!"

M'karll kicked the Antigua up to full impulse and began his run on the pirates, unloading a full phaser spread from the runabout's phaser arrays and chasing it with a trio of micro-torpedos from the Antigua's forward launchers. In a second, M'karll was passed the pirate formation. "'Old on." He slammed the runabout's engines up to maximum emergency warp speed, laying in a course straight for the Horizon and leaving several dormant tropedo gifts in his wake for any pirates that were considering trying to follow. M'karll was sure that they would follow, of course, but he was betting on being able to safely reach and land on the Horizon before they could round him and his merry band up.

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Starbase 103 Prior to Departure,
Joint Post Part 2 of 2

Yes, This is Delaney, and I’m Dr Tanis Heavenway, were Both being Transferred to the USS Horizon” Tanis interjected, saving Delaney from a rather potentially embarrassing awkward moment. Tanis couldn’t help but stare, he had never seen such people before either.

"So, you're going to the Horizon too eh," Izzy asked, hopping up on his brother's back and wrapping his left arm over one of Vas' shoulders to secure himself. "Gotta keep testing... and you're too tall Vasy!" Izzy playfully batted one of S'leyvas' ears with his right paw.

“D-do you mind?” Delaney said with curiosity. She reached over and rubbed Izzy’s Cheek. “Wow…so soft” She said with a smile.

Izzy purred softly when Delaney rubbed his cheek. "You have no idea how relaxing that is, to me anyway. Dunno if Vas likes to be petted or not though, Vasy here is a pacifist. Insanely competitive but non-violent," Izzy replied, bopping his brother lightly on the nose as he spoke. "Seems like a misnomer, if you ask me. I was just testing him, again, to see if I could make him take a swing at me... so far, no success!" Izzy chuckled and rested his chin on his brother's shoulder.

Delaney looked at Vasy. She decided not to try to pet him. As curious as she was about the cat people. She would settle with petting Izzy and having him fulfill her curiosity.

"You're heavy, Izzy. Go on a diet," Vas said, using his paw to disengage Izzy's arm from his shoulders causing the shorter white Caitian to slide off his brother's back and down to the deck where Izzy proceeded to poke his head around his taller brother.

~Strange Couple they are~ Tanis thought to himself.

“Would you guys like to go for dinner, we were just looking for somewhere to eat, we have a few hours before our shuttle arrives.”

Izzy walked around Vas and held his arm out gallantly to Delaney, causing his brother to chuckle. "What's so funny, Vas," Izzy demanded, shooting his brother a very immature look.

"You," was all his brother said by way of reply.

"I know a good place to eat here. We stopped once when I was with the Dublin. Well, it's a good place if you like Terran seafood anyway, which I do," Izzy replied. "Do you guys like Terran seafood? I'm rather fond of tilapia myself."

Delaney looked at Tanis who just nodded.

"Sounds good to us" She said happily.

Tanis decided to leave out the comment of how he had been eating nothing but seafood for a meer week while stranded on Risa.

Delaney couldn’t help staring, She couldn’t help but think the one called Izzy, looks so much like her Parents cats on the farm...just bigger...and walking on two legs.

"I really don’t want to sound rude, but...I’ve never seen your race before." She took it upon herself to pet Izzy on the head again, she thought it was cute when she could make him purr. "What are you?" She asked bluntly.

"We're Caitians, from the planet Cait," Izzy replied, tipping his head slightly in Delaney's direction to encourage further petting. "You mean to say you've really never seen a Caitian before? I know there aren't as many of us in the fleet as, say, the Andorians, Terrans, or Vulcans but we still have a fair number here... mostly in the sciences and medicine." Izzy led the group onwards towards the restaurant he'd mentioned. "Here we are, Taste of the Bay."

* Hours Later *

Tanis, Delaney, Izzy and Vasy had just finished there supper, in a restaurant near the mall area of Starbase 103. At Izzy’s request they had decided for a seafood restaurant, as much as Tanis was disgusted with seafood at the time.

During the meal Izzy asked why he didn’t seem interested in his food. Throughout the Dinner Tanis entertained the group with stories of how he was stranded on Risa for a week, was forced to eat fish every day, and whatever other eatable things that came along.

Almost as soon as Tanis finished telling them about his rescue by one of the crewmen from USS Nimitz, an alarm chimed signaling 20 minutes to departure.

“Wow that was quick” Delaney said, she was quick enthralled in the story Tanis was giving.

“yeah, we still got to grab our bags, We’ll meet you aboard the shuttle” Tanis said to the cat people who nodded in acknowledgement.

They left the restaurant and headed to their temporary quarters to get their bags.

“Wow, I’ve never seen a Cat Tain before” Delaney said. She hoped she didn’t step out of line by petting Izzy.

“I could tell,” Tanis said laughing. “You think If I grow a beard you will pet me to ?”

She grinned and looked at him. “Guess you will never know will you”

* Shuttle Antigua *

Tanis and Delaney took their seats sitting beside one another, There bags had properly been stowed by Starbase personnel. It wasn’t long before Izzy and a few others boarded and moments later the shuttle had taken off.

OFF:

Joint Post

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO USS Horizon

Ensign Delaney Orion
1st year Councilors Assistant
USS Horizon

Ensign M'karll R'pas
Chief Shuttle Pilot
USS Horizon

OOC: My Apologies for my sudden AWOL M'Krall, Work had me away far longer then i planned, and i have no access to internet at work.

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Shuttle Antigua

All Tanis and Delaney could do was watch from the back seat as the Pilot dodged some phaser fire and input evasive maneuvers in the shuttles command console.

“Pirates?” Delaney asked almost confused.

No body seemed to hear the question. “Isn’t Davy Jones Locker from old earth literature?” Tanis asked almost laughing, it would have if his situation didn’t seem so dire at the moment. “These Pirates seem to be a ways from Davy Jones Locker”

Delaney watched as weapons fire was exchanged and the shuttle launched a spread of Torpedoes. She wanted to do something, but she was scared. She was going to USS Horizon for practicum, she should not be in this situation, She didn’t know what to do.

Tanis noticed her Apprehension during the tense moment.

“Don’t worry, It’ll be ok” Tanis tried to say to Delaney. He probably sounded weird trying to comfort a councilor.

She just looked at him. “I at least want to graduate Starfleet Academy before I die…” she said.

“Were not going to die” Tanis said. “Trust me I have been in worse situations then this”

“I know, You told us over dinner remember” She said.

"Old on." Came a voice from the front of the shuttle.

Tanis instinctively grabbed onto something sturdy right before the shuttle suddenly Lurched and he almost fell out of his seat as the shuttle did some sort of emergency maneuver. Seconds later the shuttle steadied itself as it entered warp.

Tanis walked up to the weapons locker and took out a bunch of phasers. “Just incase” He said. He did happen to overhear that the pirates wanted them and their shuttle. He passed out the phasers to the other crew sitting in the back with him.

And then he grabbed the emergency first aid kit and put it under his seat for easy access, just incase he might need it.

“You really think we will need this?” Delaney said looking at the Phaser. She has never held a real phaser before.

“Like I Said, just incase, I can’t think of how many times I wish I had one of these at a time where it would have helped”

Delaney just sat quiet with the Phaser in a tight grip in her hand.

OFF:

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS Horizon

Ensign Delaney Orion
1st Year Counselor Assistant
USS Horizon

[Sammy Jo Swan]

On: Sammy entered the quarters she shared with her father she had just finished her shift on the bridge, instead of going to the messhall for food she came back to check on him. She went to the stove and ground some beans for qa'vIn brewing a large pot and pouring it into two mugs she took one through to him.


QaDghab grunted softly as he slowly struggled up to sit. The brace on his back was small but annoying as he could feel it beneath him when he laid down and it buzzed against his back, as it used a sort of force field to hold his disks in alignment. However as long as it held them in alignment he had some use of his legs at least. He took the mug before he go full balance and ended up spilling it all over himself with a low groan.

Sammy took the now empty mug from his hands and replaced it with her own, "take care that is hot and we are running low on beans unless you have some hidden somewhere." she said as she went to refill the mug.

He grunted, "I kind of figure it was hot when it spilled on me. As for the beans, there is more in the cargohold." He said as he looked down as his wet clothing. He still didn't wear any armour, wearing a black pair of shorts and black sleevless shirt most the time.



"Good i will bring them up later" she said as she returned to sit on the couch.



He grunted, as once more like everyday he attempted to stand and walk.

Standing he could do, but walking was more difficult. Until the his back was healed completely he would have difficulty walking. He stumbled forward and landed against a table.



She did not move to help him he needed to do things for himself as much as possible, she sat there drinking her qa'vIn "the Doctor should be here anytime now once they arrive you can have your opperation and be back to full strenght very soon after" she stated.



He straightened once more and wobbled slowly toward the chest, arriving a few minutes later he dug into one of the jewers (sp) for some dry cloths. He pulled them out and then with them in one hand he slowly started to move towards the chair next to his Daughter.



"Once you are back to full strenght I expect you to keep your promise to me" she stated wondering if he would remember what he had promised her.



"Promise?" He asked as he sat, or rather fell into the chair, wincing slightly as the brace was bumped, reminding him with pain that he was not fully healed just yet. He started to strip off the wet clothing.



"Yes your promise to teach me how to be more Klingon, to teach me what it means to be a Klingon" she said quietly



"Teach you how to be more Klingon..." He repeated with a chuckle. "I will tell you how you will be more Klingon..." He paused for emphases. "Don't do anything I do. I am a terrible Klingon." He laughed.



"Then I shall also be a terrible Klingon aswell as I only have you to teach me, and the best lessons are learned through example they tell me" she replied laughing.



He chuckled, "I believe there is a Human phrase... Like Father, Like Daughter?" He chuckled once before groaning slightly in pain as he attempted to bend down to pull on the dry cloths.



"Indeed there is and it would seem the longer I am around you the more I am getting like you" she replied



The brace on his back buzzed when it kept the disk from sliding out of place as he dressed. He finished breathing heavily as he laid back in the chair. "It's a shame though, I would hope my daughter would have more Honor than I." He said as he breathed.



Her smile fell from her face at his words she did not know if he ment it or not, but he had basically just told her he thought she was without honor. She got up and went to the drinks cupboard and drew out a small vial from where she had hidden it, she went back to him and gave him the vail "drink this" she said as she stood there watching him to make sure he did.



He made a sour face at it, "Why?" He asked, not in a big hurry to drink the foul stuff.



"Because if you don't you will end up back in sick bay until after your opperation" she replied slightly coldly.



That was enough to get him to grab the vial and drink it down. Then he wanted something else to drink to wash the taste out of his mouth.



She passed him the bottle of bloodwine she had in her other hand, "here this will also help" she said siting down beside him again.



He took a drink of the Bloodwine and looked at her with a sigh. "I don't want you to be like me..."



"I can never be the same as you I will never have to live through the same things you have" she said "But nor will I ever truely be Klingon"


He sighed, "I'm sorry puqbe'. I wish I could have been a better father."



"You can not change the past, but the future is yet to be written" she said taking the bottle and drinking some.



He nodded and drank some after her.


She sat in silence drinking the bloodwine with him wondering just what her future held.

QaDghab slowly started to drift off the medication once more making him tired.


A Joint Post By

QaDghab lagh
Security/Tactical Officer
(Klingon Exchange Officer)
USS Horizon (http://horizon.taylord1.co.uk/main.php?pageref=bio&crewid=92)

and

[M'karll]

OOC: Been awhile since I wrote for the big blueberry Engineer. He's a temp. until the Rizon finds a real CEO... mind you I should very much prefer that he be a P-NPC as I may decide to pick him up again at some point in the future.

<Antigua>

The Antigua rocketed through space at speeds exceeding warp eight. The tiny little runabout was booking it as fast as possible away from the pirates in question and back towards the Horizon which would provide some sfae harbor, or so M'karll hoped.

"I'll be taking that now," I'zzad said softly, plucking the phaser from the hands of Delaney. "Nothing to worry about, my little brother is the best pilot in this part of the galaxy." Izzy grinned reassuringly at Delaney and patted her on the knee gently with his paw before standing and returning his and Delaney's weapons to the weapons locker on the Antigua. In keeping with his pacifistic nature, his brother S'leyvas had refused to even touch one of the phasers.

Once he had the phasers put away, he returned and dropped down next to Delaney on one of the bunks, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. He had failed to notice it before, but she was just a cadet, as denoted by the ghost grey of her uniform. "First time out in space," he asked in a soft purr, squeezing her shoulder gently.

"By the way, Doctor," S'leyvas said, addressing Heavenway. "In case my brother neglected to tell you... and he alsmot certainly has knowing him, he is the Horizon's new surgeon. He's a bit quirky to be sure, but he knows his stuff and, as you can see, has a good bedside manner." S'leyvas chuckled lightly to himself.

Just then M'karll's voice floated over the intercom system. "Ya-har, we be moorin' wit' da Rizon in fifteen minutes." The whine of the engines died down as the Antigua slipped from warp back to impulse and made it's way to the Horizon docking smoothly in the main shuttlebay. "Might I be da firs' ta welcome ye ta her new 'ome!"

M'karll led the way down the Antigua's ramp and out into the shuttlebay, followed by the runabout's passengers. Once they were all off and the runabout was secured, M'karll turned to address the assembled group once more. "Ye three," he pointed at I'zzad, Delaney, and Heavenway, "will prob'ly be wantin' ta see yer new sickbay. Computer can tell ye 'ow ta get there. So, fair wind in yer sails." The pilot turned his attention to his other brother, S'leyvas. "Yer boss likely be floatin' 'roun' 'ere somewhere. Ye be lookin' fer Jaloval, or Jalovel, er Jal somtin' er other. T'ain't really met the woman yet." M'karll waved his paw dismissively at S'leyvas to indicate that he was done speaking with him. "As fer you, Commander Ch'gra'thaniy ye'll be comin' ta da bridge wit' me. I got a report ta make 'bout them pirates, and I spectin' Cap'n be wantin' ta see ye right off." The big Andorian with the cybernetic right arm and white dredlocks nodded and fell into step next to the piratey pilot and they exited the shuttlebay.

"That was some fine flying back there, ensign, and believe me I've served with some excellent pilots in my day," Prith said softly in the Caitian pilot's ear. "Also served with some Caitians on Deep Space Seven, they wouldn't be relatives of yours, would they?"

"R'alka an' Yolen'da," M'karll asked, glancing at the big Engineer out of the corner of his eye. "They be me firs' cousins same as J'al who serves 'ere on the Horizon."

"Ah," Prith chuckled lightly to himself. "I'm surprised R'alka would put up with the piratey lingo," the Andorian continued as the pairenetered a turbolift.

"Yar, Bridge," M'karll comanded of the lift and it started on its way. "R'alka t'was never a big fan of it," he replied. "Len, on the other paw, would sometimes be joinin' me on da holodeck fer a spot o' fun... me thinks she rather likes the cannons and cutlasses." M'karll winced slightly in rememberance of his most recent experience with the cutlass. Beofre more could be said, however, the lift doors were opening and the pair was stepping out onto the main bridge.

Surveying the bridge quickly, M'karll noticed that the Admiral was not on it, and surmised that she had squirrled herself away in her Ready Room for the time being. "Yar," he whispered in Prith's ear. "I be thinkin' arr Cap'n be in her cabin away from home, if ye be takin' me meanin'."

Prith nodded and followed the Caitain pilot in the direction of the Ready Room. Once the pair of them were standing in front of the doors, M'karll pushed the door chime and then called in a tone that was much louder than was needed. "Yar, Cap'n I come presentin' ar new lackey from Utopia Planitia R&D, an' I swear on me mother's 'ead I be not bein' a docter!"

[Hayden Shaw]

<Shuttlebay, USS Horizon, 15 minutes later>

As the shuttle glided slowly to a stop, Hayden waited by the shuttle’s hatch with his gear, and reviewed a PADD with his immediate orders. Simply, stow gear in quarters, report to Security and dive into the piles of paperwork inevitably waiting for him. No one had told him anything about the Horizon, except for that it was and Intrepid class in the Rayean Sector and that he was assigned to it. In the back of his head the words, “It’s better if you find out for yourself.” from his old XO on Deep Space Five rang. To Hayden, that translated to “You don’t want to know.”

A voice said behind him. “Is this your first time in space, civilian?”

Hayden turned to see a young Petty Officer in an impeccable uniform.

“Hardly.” Hayden said, annoyed at being labeled ‘civilian’ simply by his attire. At least the PO didn’t laugh at his kilt. “I’ve been out here since I was 22. Haven’t been to earth since. You?”

“First assignment. My name is Petty Officer Leeroy Jenkins. I’m the Admiral’s Yeoman.” He said as he swelled with pride.

Hayden repressed a smirk. The boy wouldn’t think it was so fun after the Admiral had reamed him out for getting his coffee wrong. Poor Jenkins. As far as Hayden’s experience with the admiralty went, he knew they liked coffee and hated paperwork. And the yeomen were there to tighten up both those ends neatly.

Shaw went on to wonder what his CO would be like; he would probably be a war veteran, and either part of the “blood and guts” old guard, or the strict, standards and drill type. Those were, after all he only people he knew of that were Admirals. And it was a smaller ship than he was used to so he would probably get a chance to know him better than most other CO’s. “So I better get used to him.” Hayden thought to himself.

As the shuttle’s door hissed open. Hayden made his way into the bay. A slight breeze ran past his legs, and Hayden had almost forgotten what he was wearing. “Way to present yourself, Hayden,” he said to no one in particular.

[Grenn]

<Outside Sickbay - USS Horizon>

J'al had just completed a followup for his stab wound, and was leaving sickbay with two PADDs in hand. Both of them held records and transfer orders for one I'zzad R'Pas and one S'leyvas R'Pas. Both cousins of his, brothers of M'Karll, and for the second time in a month, more family joining the Horizon's crew. If he didn't know better, he'd swear somebody in Intel was messing with him and editing transfer orders.

In the hallway, he saw I'zzad walking up with two others. Both newley assigned, and both in medical. He recognized them from their files, but not their names at first. No matter though.

"This place is becoming one giant family reunion. What gives? Next thing I know, my brother's going to be here in flight control, and one of my sisters will drop by with their ship or something. Now...." he said, holding up the PADD. "Our family accounts for 80% of this ship's Caitian population. And that's just because of the Admiral." he said, walking up to Izzy and staring for a second, waiting for a reaction though he was glad to see him. It was just un-nerving to have any family here since he was not used to being around any.

OFF: :p :)

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Tanis left his quarters and dropped off his baggage. He had only just arrived on Horizon from the Trip from starbase on the Shuttle. "Man, that was rough" He said to himself. He had no time to unpack and thought it would be best to head directly to Sickbay and see what kind of trouble awaits for him there. He wasn't scheduled to start until tomorrow, but after recent events he didn't want to waste any time.

He Entered and looked around, there were a few nurses around cleaning up. "Hello Sir" One of the nurses said as she approached him. "Hello" Tanis said Back. "I have devised a report of recent activity in Sickbay for you Sir, and everything you need to update you on the current health status of the crew" "Thank you" He said and took the Padd and read it over.

Sammy was sitting in the security office going over reports and the list of new crew that were due to join them.

She received a message that the new CMO had arrived so she tidied away the reports and headed for sickbay.

QaDghab grumbled softly as he struggled up off the floor. The nerves in his back on fire as he slipped on the spilled Qa'vIn on the floor and landed right back down there. He cursed his legs which refused to cooperate like their supposed to as he pulled himself up once more and stumbled to the chair, dropping heavily in it.

Sammy decided to go by her quarters and check on QaDghab, to see what he was up to and let him know the CMO had arrived.

Tanis went to his new officer and sat down. He reviewed the PADD the nurse has given her. ~A bit has happened as of late~ Tanis thought to himself. He made a Mental note to check on the CO once he was settled in, as a sort of House call Check up.

Moments later the nurse Popped in again. "Uh Sir, Just to make sure you know, There is a crewmember aboard awaiting Surgery" "Thank you Ensign" Tanis said. He opened up the Medical file on the crewman to get a bried of what he was waiting on Surgery For.

"Shall I Prep the Surgery room sir?" she asked before she left. "Yeah, do that and we can get started within the Hour. Have a Nurse go to his quarters and inform him we will start within the hour and get him prepped" "Yes sir"

QaDghab looked up as the door opened, his single good eye studying her Silhouette in the doorway while his blind eye twitched as it often did when he was focused on something.

"puqbe'?" He called out to her.

She walked in "yes it is me vav" she said as she took in the mess around the room. "I see you had some problems today"

A nurse walked up to QaDghab's Quarters and hit the Chime.

"Some." He said and was about to say more the the Chime rang, he grunted as he attempted to get up to get the door.

Sammy sighed seeing him try to get up "Enter"she shouted

The Nurse Entered and seen QaDghab and another person in the Room. She noticed QaDghab was having some trouble. "Are you Ok ?" she asked.

"I will be..." He grumbled, he hated admitting weakness. "What do you want?" He asked in traditional Klingon greeting.

Sammy looked up to see a nurse standing there, "What can we do for you" she asked

The nurse stood there un affected by the Klingons Rough attitude. She had gotten quite used to if over the past while. "Our New CMO Has arrived a few hours ago, Lt Tanis Heavenway and will be able to perform the needed Surgery within the Hour, We need to get you prepped and to sickbay" The nurse said.

"Good" was all Sammy said

The nurse walked up beside QaDghab. "Transporter Room One, 3 To Beam to Surgery" She had decided to use the Transporters to lessen the stress of QaDghab Back.

Sammy was surprised to find herself standing in sickbay she was even more surprised to find her father there too, "Nurse it is normally a good idea to ensure that we have nothing cooking before taking us from quarters" she said glad she had not yet put the gas on.

QaDghab grumbled about hating transporters as the Transporter took them, the quarter's fading from sight to be replaced by med bay. QaDghab attempted to take a step forward, but his balance was off and he started to go down.

The nurse noticed QaDghab starting to lose his balance and tried to get a hold of him, but the weight caught her off guard and she began to fall as well.

Sammy was beside them as they started to go down she caught her father by the front of his jerkin and the nurse by the arm bracing them both. This allowed the nurse to regain her balance and allowed Sammy to help QaDghab

The nurse Guided QaDghab and Sammy to the Biobed in the Surgery room.

"QaDghab I need you to Remove your Clothing and Fit into this outfit." The nurse handed Sammy the Gown. "I can help you or Sammy" She gave QaDghab the Option.

"puqbe'." He said, choosing his Daughter as he sat on the bed, breathing rather heavily after the fall.

The Nurse left the area for them to get changed. "Are they ready?" Tanis asked the nurse. "They are changing now, a few minutes i presume" "Thank you, are my supplies ready?" "yes Sir, Drugs and Equipment are prepped and set up near the Bio bed" The Nurse said.

Sammy looked at him surprised he had called her that again in public "You should be careful QaDghab you are calling me puqbe' in front of others again" she stated as she got him into the gown.

Tanis walked up to the divider that separated the Patients from the room.

"Are you Prepared QaDghab?"

"You are my puqbe'. Why shouldn't I call you that?" He said as he helped were he could with the changing. Fortunately he wasn't wearing his armor so less hassle. When the Doc approached he was ready physically though he was uncomfortable mentally and Damok was making his presence known again in his mind. "Be silent Damok." He muttered once as he nodded to the Doctor.

"You told me you did not want others to know as yet" she replied as the doctor entered the area.

"All Right" Tanis said. "I have overlooked your File and your previous medical history including everything related to your Disk, Now i believe i have devised a way to permanently fix the problem" Tanis said and waited to see what he would say.

"Medical History!" he barked a laugh, "How did you get it from Klingon Hands?"

"Your medical records would of been sent along with your service record" Sammy said

Tanis had no idea what he was talking about. Though his History was short, it was everything in putted into the Data base by the previous CMO. "I am Unsure what you are Referring to"

"Most of my Records in the Empire are Classified." He grumbled in response to both of them.

"The reports I have referred to are of the current situation of your back, Now are you ready?"

Sammy stood quietly beside them as they talked, this was down to QaDghab to sort out now.

QaDghab nodded, though he remained sitting up until told otherwise.

"Ok, Nurse!" Tanis called. The nurse came walking in. "Our Patient is Ready"
He said and the nurse took her position. "Now QaDghab, I WILL need to Sedate you during this procedure" Tanis put hard emphasis in WILL, he didn't want any arguing from the Klingon, or as little as possible.

"Only if my puqbe' is allowed to stay as my guard." He said simply as he looked at his daughter.

"I am going nowhere vav" she replied in a tone that made it clear she would have to be unconscious to move her

Tanis thought for a minute. "If that is the case then you will have to change into a surgical gown and step get Sterilized." Tanis turned to the Nurse.

"Please help her get ready" Tanis said and the nurse asked her to follow her.

"I will be right back vav" she said as she went with the nurse and changed as required.

"Now" He said again, looking at the large Klingon. "Ill need you to lie on your stomach and once your puqbe gets back" he tried to say the klingon word as best as he could. "I will sedate you and after that, ill need to make an incision in your back. and the procedure should take 1 - 2 hours."

Once she was ready she came back and stood by the bed side once more.

He nodded and slowly worked his lower half so that he lay on his stomach, unembarrassed as his backside showed along with it's scars.

Tanis looked. There was so much Scare tissue on his back. "I can remove those for you" Tanis said. It was probably Uncomfortable, not only that but the Scar tissue had very little in the way of nerves so his back, at least where the scar tissue would, would have no sense of feel, or very little.

"You never remove a warrior's scars unless asked, everyone of them is a history." He said, knowing his Daughter listened. It would be something more she would learn from him.

It was one of the few things she knew about Klingons but it was not her place to say anything so she kept quiet.

Tanis only nodded. He had a feeling the large Klingon would say something like that. He got his Hypo and laser scalpel ready as well as some other large pieces of Equipment, Including a Medical Replicator and mini Medical Transporter, each about the size of a Med Case and sat on top of a portable table a Nurse had set beside the Bio Bed.

QaDghab listened as his single good eye focused on his daughter, his head turned so that he could see her though he couldn't see the Doctor. But he trusted his Daughter.

"All right Lets begin" Tanis said. "ll need you to keep back about 3 feet" Tanis said to Sammy. And with a nod from Tanis The Nurse gave the Klingon the Sedative.

As the Sedative took effect his vision narrowed and his good eye closed as he drifted off, his blind eye oddly remaining open.

Sammy stood there keeping eye contact with her father right up to the point he went under, the sedative worked fast and he was soon asleep.

Tanis watched the Vitals, Blood Pressure, Respirations, Pulse Rate, and Temperature all remained within Klingon Normal Limits. The nurse handed him a Sterilizer, and he cleaned the site he was to cut open.

He then took the Scalpel and made a 6 inch Incision which in turn exposed 6 inches of the Klingons Spine.

With his Tricorder he scanned the area to make sure nothing was wrong. The Nurse handed him another Tool, which he used to place over a Dozen Micro Scanners On the Disk Itself.

Sammy said nothing she just watched as she knew nothing of this level of medical matters.

The Micro Scanners were strategically placed in order to get an Absolute, More Detailed Scan then any Tricorder could Give, also it would give the Medical Transporter An Exact Area of which needed to be Transported out down to the Cellular Level.

With another Device he placed Probes on the Vertebrae Above and Below the Disk which in turn used Invisible Fields to stabilize the Spine so it does not move or shift position after the Faulty disk is removed.

"All Right, Lets get the Medical Transporter ready." Tanis said. The nurse moved over and powered it up. After a series of scans the Faulty disk appeared on a display and showed the tissue that was to be transported out. "Ready Doc" The Nurse said.

"Transfer all data from the Micro Probes to the Replicator. The Data it gives us should be enough to replicate a replacement Disk which we will then Transport in replace of the Faulty one."

The nurse hit a few buttons and it was done. "Ready Sir" She said. "Do It" Was all Tanis Said. Time passed quickly with all the Preparation, all the Scans and re scans they had to do. They made sure to re scan everything at least twice to ensure accuracy.

The nurse hit a few buttons and it was done. "Ready Sir" She said. "Do It" Was all Tanis Said. Time passed quickly with all the Preparation, all the Scans and re scans they had to do. They made sure to re scan everything at least twice to ensure accuracy.

The Nurse Initiated the Small Replicator, which Replicated a Fake Disk, almost exactly similar to the one in the Klingons Back, except it was made of synthetic Material suited for imitating the Real thing, and without the Defects of the real one currently in his back.

Tanis moved to the Replicator to scan over the Synthetic disk himself, to make sure everything was as it should be. "It looks Good" Tanis said. "Lets use the transporter to beam the faulty disk out of his back." The Nurse, Who happened to be quite Skilled at Transporter Surgery in the Academy looked over the transporter and inputted all the information. "Energizing" She said. And seconds later the faulty disk was beamed out of his back and lay on the Mini Padd of the Medical Transporter.

The Probes on the Klingons Spine came to life, Invisible force Fields came to life to make sure no tissue moved into the open gap where the Disk used to be. The nurse put the Replicated Disk on the Transporter Padd and With a few more scans by Herself and Tanis, was ready to Transport. "Go ahead" Tanis said. And seconds later the Nurse beamed the Synthetic disk into the Klingons Back.

"Now, lets remove the Micro Probes and see if the Disk will hold its own" Tanis said. and the nurse did as she was asked, after a few minutes all the micro probes and scanners were removed. after a series of scans by the doctor things looked good. "Lets sew him up!" The doctor said enthusiastically.

The doctor looked at Sammy. "Were Done, I suggest keeping him sedated for a few more hours to make sure his body accepts the implant."

"Ok, i'll be staying with him though" she replied and pulled a chair over to sit on.

Tanis nodded. The Nurse finished sewing him up and rechecked his Vitals. They had not changed throughout the entire procedure. "Ok, He will need to stay on his stomach until he wakes up, we will know for sure that everything is ok in about an hour, if you need me ill be in my office."

Sammy just nodded and sat by her father holding his hand, so that when he awoke he would hopefully stay calm.

A joint post by

QaDghab lagh
Security/Tactical Officer

and

Tanis Heavenway
Chief Medical Officer

and

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy sat by her fathers bedside watching over him as she had promised, she had not left him during the whole procedure and would not leave until he awoke and knew he was safe.


She just sat there holding his hand not the most Klingon of things to be doing but then she was part Human too.

Delaney Orion had finished unpacking her stuff, the trip to the Horizon had been stressful for her. It had only taken less then an hour to get her things in her quarters and organized. She was still stressed out from the trip, she was a councilor not a military officer or anything like it. She had managed to find her way to the lounge to have a few drinks. And thought she would go talk with Tanis. She headed to sickbay.

The doors opened and she entered. "Hello?"

Sammy turned round to see who had just spoken, "Hello, the doctor will be out in a moment" she said

"Oh" Delaney Said. "Did i come at a bad time?" She stopped at the door looking around.

"No I don't think so, is there something I can help with while you wait" she asked

Delaney looked at her. "No...no, I just don't know anyone else aboard the ship besides Lt Heavewnay" She said formally, she was after all new to the ship and still in the academy for that matter. "And was hoping to find someone to talk to, That's all"

Sammy looked at the woman "well i'm gonna be here a while if you wanna talk, the name is Sammy" she said holding out her spare hand

"Delaney Orion" She said, she gently grabbed Sammy's hand in a small handshake. "Assistant Councilor" She finished.

"Sammy Jo Swan Assistant Chief of Security" she said "You have just joined us I believe"

Delaney Smiled, "Yeah, I just arrived from Starfleet Academy, Im on a 12 Month Practicum on Horizon" She moved beside Sammy and sat on top of the Biobed. "Well That's one more crewman i know, only a couple hundred to go" she said Joking.

"Well the ugly one here is QaDghab lagh you will meet him professionally I am sure" she said indicating her father

Delaney looked at the Klingon. "Maybe" She said "Not sure how much Klingons like councilors."

"He does not like them but he has no choice in the matter, he has to speak with one of you every so often about his condition" she said cryptically

"What Condition is that?" Delaney said curiously. She wasn't overly enthusiastic that her first Patient would be a Klingon. She recalled her class back at the Academy that one of the hardest patients a councilor would have to deal with would be a Klingon.

"Well for that information you will have to talk to your Boss, I just know he is meant to see her. and don't worry if he gives either of you any trouble just call me and I will sort him out."

"You and him" She hinted towards the unconscious Klingon. "You to Close?"
"We are as close as can be in our situation" she said with a grin " He is my father"

"Do you enjoy serving on a ship this close with your Father?" Delaney asked.

"My Family is back home on Trill" She said.

"Until we were both assigned to this ship neither knew the other was alive, infact he did not know I had ever existed" she said

Delaney almost wasn't sure how to respond to that. But then she thought about the last year of her counseling school, she didn't want to push the subject, but at the same time she wanted to touch it a bit more. "Can i ask how that came to be?" she said sympathetically.

"What that he never knew I existed, simple he left my mother before she knew she was even pregnant" she replied simply.

"Im sorry to hear that" Delaney said. "How did you take the information after you found out?"

Sammy laughed "When he found out who I was he tried to kill me, we had many fights until he decided to accept me" she said seeing no reason to hide it any longer.

"Is that just the Klingon way?" She asked Sincerely. She was glad she was talking about this then her shuttle trip that nearly got her Killed.

"He was ashamed at first to have a half-blood child, it is a complex thing and not easy to explain. Though he has now changed his mind and decided that it's not shameful to have me as a daughter" she said "Even with my record" she commented laughing lightly.

"How do you feel about your Father?" She asked. "To be here beside his bedside you must care for him a lot" she said. She had no idea why he was unconscious at the bedside but she seen no reason to ask at the moment.

"He is my father I have only just got him in my life, and yes I love him and will do anything for him" she replied flatly.

"Well if you need to talk about anything, I am here, even though I just arrived, I would like nothing more then to help out any way I can" She said, It seemed to Delaney that things seemed ok between the two, though the potential for problems was High, But she offered her hand in Friendship and left it to Sammy to take it when she needed it.

"I know a person who only recently discovered she had a Father, and She always had trouble accepting him, I cant say i know exactly how you feel, but whenever you need to talk or Vent, Im here"

"Thanks I might just take you up on that chat again soon" she said with a grin.

With the end of the conversation, Delaney suddenly felt, invigorated. Proud that she was already able to help out a member of her new ship she was to serve on. Maybe her first Friend. "So why is he here?" She asked Lightly

"He had to have a disk in his back repaired before it crippled him" she replied
"Oh, Is that why Tanis..I mean Lt Heavenway is Busy?"

"Yes he had only just finished the operation when you came in, he is probably sitting in his office writing his notes. I am sure he will be glad of the distraction" she said grinning having noticed the slip on his name.

~What's that suppose to mean?~ Delaney said eyeing Sammy. "Well perhaps i will come back later. Im going to the lounge for a Drink, Perhaps you and Lt Heavenway would like to join me?" She said Extending an Invitation.

"It means that if he hates paperwork as much as I do he will appreciate the distraction from it, nothing more" she said flatly

Delaney Grinned at Sammy. She figured she meant more then that. "Feel free to Join Me" She said laughing and left Sickbay.

Sammy just grinned as the woman left and turned her attention back to her father.

A joint post by

Ensign Delaney Orion
1st Year Councilor Assistant
USS Horizon

and

[M'karll]

<Outside Sickbay - USS Horizon>

"This place is becoming one giant family reunion. What gives? Next thing I know, my brother's going to be here in flight control, and one of my sisters will drop by with their ship or something. Now...." he said, holding up the PADD. "Our family accounts for 80% of this ship's Caitian population. And that's just because of the Admiral." he said, walking up to Izzy and staring for a second, waiting for a reaction though he was glad to see him. It was just un-nerving to have any family here since he was not used to being around any.

"Heya, J'al," I'zzad greeted warmly, sweeping his cousin into a tight hug. "Yeah, we R'pas' are starting to take over the show here. You'd better watch your back or else you're going to end up under my command instead of the other way around," he continued with a chuckle. "One second."

Izzy stuck his head through the open Sickbay doors for a second. Spotting Delaney talking with Swan he waved at the two of them. "Lieutenant I'zzad R'pas, surgeon," he called to the Klingon woman whom he had not yet had the oppertunity to meet. "Anything going on in here that I need to be in on, Delaney," he asked in a purring tone. "If not, my cousin J'al here was just getting ready to show me around the Horizon, weren't you cousin," I'zzad asked, winking at the Caitian in intelligence.

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon - Outside Sickbay>

OFF: Oy! No copy/pastin' in here! :D

ON:

"Sure.... why not." J'al said. "At least you don't talk like a pirate all day long." he said with a slight grin as Izzy turned to follow. "Nice to meet you both. I'm Lt. Grenn, Chief Intel Officer. If you'll excuse me though, I have to make sure my cousin doesn't get into trouble." he said, giving both of the new arrivals with Izzy a nod. It wasn't that he was unfrendly. Just that it wasn't the best time to meet more new crewmembers.

OFF: :) Don't worry. It'll get better. :D

[Jackie Clawson]

<<USS Horizon – Ready Room>>

Jackie’s spend plenty of time on the couch of her ready room, part of it was rest, most of it was spent reading PADDs and piecing together bits of what had happened. It was going to be awhile before things got back to ‘normal’ aboard the Horizon, not that ‘normal’ was even a word that describes any given crewmember on the Horizon. The Horizon seemed to attract certain…oddballs. Or was it Jackie herself who attracted them?

Jackie let out a breath of air and stood up laying the PADD aside. She blinked taking in a sharp breath still feeling the after effects of her ordeal with Sorak. Shaking her head, the Caitian stared out the view port watching the starry space fly past as the Horizon sailed by; and sail it did, given they couldn’t get warp speed until all the repairs and tests on the warp core were complete, which would take some time at least according to Barnes.

Jackie thought back to the ordeal on the Rayden years ago, it took engineering nearly a week to get everything back and operational so that they could continue their journey; granted the Rayden had been hit much worse than the Horizon. Still, the Intrepid took quite a beating, much like its captain did, but it still prevailed, much like the Commanding Officer; although Jackie wasn’t fully sure about the second part of the statement.

“I’m fine” she shrugged, gently tracing something random on the wall.

“Nope, not yet, but you will be” Mark’s gentle tone rung in her ears. Jackie flinched whirling around half hoping the man was here, she shook her head, of course he wasn’t here, he was back on the Rayden.

“And I’m back home on the ‘rizon” she spoke to no one in particular, “picking up the pieces…” Jackie let out a sigh shaking her head to chase away the memories and thoughts ravaging at her. Making her way to her desk, she picked up a PADD and skimmed the contents of the latest status report.

Jackie’s head shot up her stare locked onto the ready room doors as a loud voice called out.

"Yar, Cap'n I come presentin' ar new lackey from Utopia Planitia R&D, an' I swear on me mother's 'ead I be not bein' a docter!"

M’Karrl was back...with company apparently. Jackie hoped it wasn’t a counsellor or any such silly thing; her problems couldn’t be solved with talking. Jackie tossed the PADD aside and took in a breath to compose herself and slip into her ‘usual’ self, or at least as usual as she got when in command.

“Come!” she called out as the Vice Admiral plopped herself behind her desk and reached for a couple of qavIn beans and tossed them in her mouth as the doors slid open letting M’Karrl and his companion in.

OFF:

tags to M'Karrl obviously. ;) tag me for a JP in a PM if you got time, i'll see if i can pop on an IM.

[Jackie Clawson]

“Come!” she called out as the Vice Admiral plopped herself behind her desk and reached for a couple of qavIn beans and tossed them in her mouth as the doors slid open letting M’Karrl and his companion in.

"Yar, into the cannon's mouth," he roared as the doors to the Ready Room opened. M'karll stepped inside, putting a paw in the middle of the Andorian's back and propelling him inside ahead of him. Once the doors had whooshed closed behind him and Prith, M'karll turned to Jackie. "I be needin' ta file a report with ye, fair maiden," he began jovially, a grin splitting his face."You and 89% of the ship not to mention the rest of the Task Force and the sector" Jackie rolled her eyes a tad. "What is it from your end?" Jackie queried, " and who's your companion?" she added nodding a greeting to the Andorian.
"He be dread Commander Pr'ithitan Ch'gra'thaniy," M'karll replied with a roguish grin. "He be our resident from R&D! An' I be needin' ta speak wit ye about some pirates... the space kind, not the Terran kind."

"Okay one thing at a time….R & D?" Jackie raised an eyebrow, "I don't remember hearing anything about…." She trailed off shaking her head, Jackie threw a glance at the stacks of PADDs layering her desk, maybe something was mentioned in one of them, or one of the ones she hasn't read through yet. "Okay Commander, care to fill me in?" she spoke silently motioning for the two to take a seat.

"Yar, what abou' da real pirates? Tis a very real problem," M'karll interrupted as he took a seat. "This great blue whale be tellin' me all about upgrades an' experiments an' whatnot. Lot o' techy mumble jumble dat I dun really get, fair maiden," he continued as the Andorian took a seat and waited for the exchange between the freshly minted ensign and the Admiral to end badly... somehow, Prith saw it coming. Jackie wasn't the first flag he'd worked with.

"Yes Mr R'pas. We're in the Raeyan Sector, expect more pirates here than anywhere else" she spoke her tone level. "Now as for fiddling with my ship… I need to know what , how and where and why to make sure we don't get the bad end of the stick when dealing with pirates, Confederation, C'Haks or who knows what else's out there. " She said her tone serious, well aware she had to depend on her ship as much as her crew, if one failed, the consequences could be…Jackie didn't even want to go down that road, instead she took in a breath and took the conversation elsewhere, "she held up well thus far" the Caitian spoke in a softer tone as she reached out to gently pat a bulkhead, "but I can't let just anybody fiddle with her. " she said. 'not after what's gone on thus far' she added to herself.

"Yar," M'karll replied, crossing his arms over his chest and going silent. He really didn't want to have to sit through a complete engineering lecture. Those were supposed to be over after the end of the Academy. Sighing loudly, the piratey Caitian remained quiet.

"Lieutenant Commander Pr'ithitan Ch'gra'thaniy," the Andorian said, extending his bionic right arm in Clawson's direction. "Sorry, I don't have a knack for the pirate lingo like the Ensign here," he continued with a chuckle. "I'm out here to test a few small upgrades to the warp core. Since you just did a core wipe, it makes installing and testing them a whole lot easier."

Jackie threw a quick glance at the shuttle pilot as the Adnorian spoke.

"Jackie Clawson" she spoke extending her hand to meet his extended bionic arm, "what sort of upgrades?" Jackie queried, "Who authorized it?" she asked, not recalling reading anything about it, 'then again I *was* out of action for a good while…' she reminded herself wincing silently, well aware of just how behind everything she still was, despite spending quite a lot of time catching up thus far.

"Admiral Jellico authorized the tests," Prith replied easily. "If you want to know all about them specifically I'd be more than happy to tie up about three hours of your time going over each and every one of them though. Who is the Horizon's Chief Engineer, I'll be needing his assistance. Oh, and please, call me Prith."

Jackie smirked, "I'd like to know what's going on on my own ship," she remarked, "just give me the details and keep me up to date on things" Jackie spoke, "I'm sure you can find Lieutenant Barnes down in engineering; his teams have been at it putting things back together as quick as they can" she noted.

Prith nodded. "Nothing too grandiose really. Mostly stuff to make the routing of energy to and from the core more efficient... nothing to make the Horizon go any faster though. I also promise to try and stay out of Barnes' hair as much as possible. Know how angry it would have made me to have some big wig come in and muck with things."

Jackie chuckled, "quite. He's got his work cut out for him after our last…." Jackie paused, not sure how to describe it, "ordeal" she finally said. "Go ahead. " she nodded, "if you need anything I'm sure Lt Barnes will accommodate you, if not, feel free to talk to my XO or me" she said. "Now about them non-Earth pirates…" she turned to face the still silent M'Karll. "what've you got?" she asked.

Prith nodded and stood. "If there's nothing else then, Admiral, I'll excuse myself and go down to Engineering." Prith nodded and left the Ready Room. In his experience, Admirals could be a bit testy sometimes and it was best to be in and out of their presence as quickly as possible.

"Yar, bout dem pirates," M'karll started in, his eyes lighting up at the mention of a topic he genuinely was interested in. "We had us a little gale with Jalok's Cutthroats an' da Silver Sabre on the return trip."

"And in plain speak, that would be…?" Jackie spoke rubbing at the bridge of her nose her head refusing to process what the Ensign's just said, Jackie shook her head letting out a short breath of air as she got herself back under control before she fully lost it "What happened?" she asked, trying again.

"Yar, I be speakin' plainly," M'karll replied with a chuckle. "Jalok be firin' a broadside on me Antigua, an' I make a fancy maneuver!" M'karll leapt to his feet, reliving the moment, his paws weaving through the air to demonstrate. "We be makin' bes' speed in da direction of the Jade Scorpion... a B'rel 'ginst me runabout! An' we escaped!"

Jackie regarded the other Caitian holding back a groan, she reached out for the qavIn beans again as he continued.

"I expect full details of the encounter on my desk in a couple of hours" she spoke, " including anything they've done and said" she said, "not in pirate lingo. I have enough of a headache trying to decipher what the locals are saying on a good week" Jackie noted.

"Sorry. Headache. Right," M'karll replied, instantly losing the pirate lingo. "Basically, they wanted to capture the shuttle, steal our stuff, and kidnap us all to sell as slaves. I got us away with some rather handy flying if I do say so myself and we beat a retreat back here. I guess they weren't feeling up to going head to head with an Intrepid class ship."

"I wouldn't count on that. They can be quite resourceful when they want to be." Jackie responded throwing a glance at her console for a moment. "They took on a Dreadnaught awhile ago, and left it quite in a nasty shape, not to mention made off with the medical supplies and handheld weapons" Jackie smirked as she got up, the smirk fading briefly as the Caitian's senses were overwhelmed for a moment, catching a breath, Jackie made her way to the viewport, watching the space outside, "Expect the unexpected" Jackie finally said turning to face the other Caitian, her tail flickering behind her.

"What like a pack of angry space pirates randomly attacking an Admiral's flagship... um... Yar-har," M'karll asked, shrugging. "Should I have the runabouts and shuttles refit to serve as fighters in the short term?"

Jackie shrugged, "even a better reason" she smirked, "not many can boast going head to head with a Flagship, even fewer who win against 'em" she said, "refit a couple, but not all, I want ot be ready, but no overkill" she noted.

"Which one's do you want converted," M'karll asked. "I would recommend the Antigua, Royal Fortune, Ranger, and Hardi."

"Convert whichever ones you feel need to, just keep it proportional to the number of pilots and fighter pilots we got aboard, if anything happens, I want them behind the helm of the modified shuttles" Jackie spoke, crossing her arms as her tail flickered from side to side.

"You mean I don't get to play with my toys after I make them," M'karll asked, making a pouty face. "That takes some of the fun out of making them capable of making explosions that are really wicked cool!"

"Last time I checked, you were a pilot" Jackie spoke, "and careful with the explosions, we might want to capture some, they could provide useful Intel on the sector and their whereabouts."

"Woo," M'karll cried happily. They'd tried to keep him away from the fighters at the Academy, something about not being well suited to controlling that much firepower, or something like that. "Just little explosions," he continued, holding up a thumb and forefinger about an inch apart. "Teeny tiny ones."

Jackie shook her head. "Blow stuff up isn't the only way to fight battles, M'Karll" she remarked. But of course, males will be males, especially if they are pilots to boot too; Jackie had to admit she was keen on the whole explosion thing back when she was at the academy and even on the Rayden.but things changed once she took over the Horizon. At least they changed to some extent.

"Maybe not, but it's a good way to start and win," he replied with a grin. "Besides, it's real pretty for a couple of seconds before space snuffs out all the glowy parts. Almost as pretty as our here fair maiden!"

Jackie raised an eyebrow.

"'s what the holodecks are for." She spoke, "all the glowly explosions you ever want and need" she remarked.

"Real ones are more fun and gratifying," M'karll replied. "Though if you want some glowy explosion fun ye should come and partake in a pirate program on the holodeck with me sometime," M'karll continued, a slightly hopeful note in his tone.

"No, glowly explosions is the last thing I want right now" Jackie spoke, "unless I blow these up, " she said motioning at the piles of PADDs, "but that wouldn't help matters any" she smirked.

"I could make them go away... there is an airlock in here if I remember correctly... WHOOSH!" M'karll exclaimed with some glee.

Jackie smirked, "wont help, "I still gotta read 'em all to catch up with what's been going on" she said."Airlocks only work well for tossing Romulan scum out" she said, holding back a growl.

"Did we catch that pointy ear'd space devil," M'karll asked, his eyes flashing angrily. "I'll toss him out myself and save ye the trouble!" Suddenly, there was a ring on the door chime. "Wonder who that could be?"

"Nope, this one's all mine and Mark's" Jackie spoke sternly, her ears flickering at the chime, Jackie shook her head. 'now what? Did we loose a nacelle?' she thought. "Enter!" she called out leaning on her desk for support before she lost her balance or worse….

OFF: Part 1, next up part 2

[Alex Chadwick]

Chadwick's quarters
USS Horizon

Alex stood in front of the mirror wearing the new uniform.The red colar would take some getting used to,As would the new set of pips in his hand.

"Not what i signed on for." Alex said with a slight sigh as he pinned the new set of pips to his colar.

"Computer request activation of new command codes." Alex waited a moment for the computer to recognize his new authorization packet from starfleet.

"Command codes accepted enter old codes for upgrade to new security clearance."

"Recognize Chadwick Alexander Percey Command code Gamma six echo."

Alex picked up his phaser and was about to put it on his belt when he paused.
It wasn't required for his new job.Alex set it down reluctantly.

"I need something......" Alex turned and walked to his dresser and pulled the top drawer open.Hidden beneath his dress shirts was his old cricket phaser.With a smirk he tucked it into his tunic and zipped it back up.

[Jackie Clawson]

ON:
<<USS Horizon – ready Room>>

"Izzy," M'karll roared happily. He engulfed his brother in a big hug before turning to Jackie and shooting her a glance that obviously said 'Please don't tell him I dropped the pirate lingo.' "Well, I'd best be off to the shuttlebay ta be gettin' ta work on da re-riggin', yo-ho!"

I'zzad oofed softly when his younger brother hugged him and watched as the doors closed behind his retreating form. "Sorry if he's been bothering you, ma'am," the Surgeon said by way of greeting to the Admiral. He had a feeling that she knew who he was and that he was a doctor even though he was wearing a crimson command tunic and no uniform jacket.

"Nothing I'm not used to" Jackie spoke regarding the Caitian, as she waved him to take a seat but remained standing but gently leaning on her desk herself.

"I'zzad R'pas," the white Caitian replied, offering the Admiral his hand. "Please, be seated Admiral," he said in a soft purr as he took an offered seat. "I'm the new surgeon and I'm well aware of what you've been through of late. Thanks in no small part to my little brother. And please, call me Izzy." Smiling plesantly, Izzy leaned back in the chair.

"So, came to convince me to take a trip down to sickbay then?" Jackie spoke as she shook his offered hand, then reached for a couple of qavIn beans popped them in her mouth.

"Well, that was the general gist of what I figured I was supposed to do... but all in all I'm a bit fuzzy on all that," he replied with a chuckle. "Besides, it might be getting off on the wrong foot if I threatened to have you deemed medically unfit for command right off the bat as one of my predecessors once did on the Hades. Funny story for another time." Izzy pulled out a medical tricorder. "If I might borrow you for ten maybe fifteen seconds," he asked easily, indicating the tricorder in his paw.

"No you may not" Jackie spoke simply, "I'm perfectly allright, and you don’t need a tricorder to tell you that." She added, "The only thing I'm 'commanding' now are stacks of PADDs" Jackie spoke, indicating the PADDs on her desk.

"Now Admiral, I'm trying to be reasonable here," Izzy replied soothingly. "You well know I could demand you come to sickbay or remove you from command. Not really my style as a medical officer. I prefer to be laid back, but if you force my paw..." Izzy trailed off. "I'm only asking to take a few scans to double check that you are alright, it is part of the job of the medical staff to make sure the CO stays in good physical working order." Izzy shrugged. "Even if she is only commanding a stack of PADD's at the moment."

"Is it also part of the job of medical staff to nag the CO half to death with queries to get 'em checked up?" Jackie shot back crossing her arms on her chest."this scan wont be any different from the last one I had" she said 'however long ago that was….' She thought. "therefore there's no need for it"

"Admiral, I'm hardly nagging you. Hell, I just came aboard today. I'm just trying to do my job, please don't make me play hardball with you." Izzy stood up to his full height, which was just a hint taller than Jackie. "Because I will."

"you can play hardball all you want, I didn't get to where I am today by being intimidated by folks taller than me" she remarked pushing herself off of her desk her tail flickering in annoyance; "I didn't get here by constantly being stuck in sickbay or off duty either" she turned to face the view outside crossing her arms.

"I don't plan on taking you off duty or sticking you in sickbay," I'zzad replied easily, pulling the tricorder back out and waving it with mocking menace. He even went so far as to open it and pretend to scan Jackie with it. "You don't even have to pay attention to the scan." He lowered the device and surreptitiously activated it, holding it open at his side in a paw and slowly panning his wrist to try and obtain the scan. "At the very least you could let someone bring you something decent and unreplicated to eat. Better than qavIn beans anyway."

Jackie whirled around. "These aren't replicated" she spoke her eyes narrowing as her ears flickered lightly, "and turn that damn tricorder off" she spoke, "I know when these things are on considering how much I've been around 'em" she said. "Now is not a good time for a medical checkup" she noted her tone level.

Izzy purred softly and in a deliberately slow manner raised the tricorder up to his face level before snapping it slowly shut. "QavIn beans make a good snack and they're good for keeping you awake, but you should get a solid meal," he said easily, dropping back down into the chair, having obtained the scan he came for. Now he was going to try and convince Jackie to eat something, or at least have something brought up to her.

"I get a solid meal, several in fact." She said, "any *other* advise?" Jackie asked briefly catching her breath as she blinked back a wave of memories. Jackie flopped onto the couch grabbing a PADD off of the coffee table there.

"No need to be snippy," Izzy replied. "Will you permit me to have something brought to you here in your Ready Room," he asked soothingly. It would not be overly difficult for the white Caitian to throw something together in his quarters.

"I got everything I want or need right here" she said, "I'm sure you have other duties and more urgent matters to handle than babysitting your Commanding Officer"

"Delightful, though actually I really do have nothing better to do than harass my new CO until she becomes a little more willing to let me help her in the least intrusive way possible." Izzy leaned back and laced his fingers behind his head, closing his eyes. "If you would just let me bring you something to eat... do you treat all medical staff this way? I've tried to be nice and you've shut the door in my face at everyturn."

"The only way medical staff can help me is if they leave me alone now and let me get back to work after what's gone on" Jackie replied in an even tone. "They've done all they can to get me back on my own two feet , and I'm thankful they did, but I can handle things from there on." She said. "I don’t need a guard, I don't need medical staff tailing me everywhere I go telling me to take it easy. " Jackie stood up making her way to her desk again, she placed both hands on the top before continuing, "because 'taking it easy' isn't how I recover" she spoke.

"Have I asked you to stop working? Have I asked you to sleep? Have I actually followed through on threats I had no intention of following through on," Izzy replied with a chuckle. "I trust you to know how to help yourself. But, I also know that basic nutrition is something you need too, and it was really simple to pull up the replicator records for the Ready Room and the Bridgecrew told me you hadn't left here in quite some time."

"I'm not in the mood for anything beyond what I get from the replicator" Jackie remarked pushing herself off her desk; she landed in her chair with a light grunt as a shot of pain shot up through her stomach from the sudden jolt. The Caitian caught her breath recollecting her thoughts. "I assure you if I get any cravings for anything else, I'll make sure I get it, right now I'm fine with what I get here"

"You're following me, I'm sure. I'm not taking no for an answer, Admiral. Now I think I've been, all told, rather easy going despite your hostility. The least you could do is throw me this small bone," Izzy replied evenly, turning his gaze out the viewport.

"And I'm sure you're following me as well" Jackie remarked, slight smirk masking her distress, "'sides as surgeon, you should also know about aftereffects of having a blade shoved through your gut. So forgive me if I have no desire to eat much right now" she said her tone remarkably even.

"Desire and need are two very different things," Izzy replied. "Please, just let me bring you a small sandwich or some soup from the Officer's Mess. I'm not suggesting a three course meal here."

"Ah but there is no need without desire" Jackie spoke, she frowned absently tapping at the console in front of her before saying anything further. She was getting a headache with all the arguing and nagging and people talking to her, "okay, but " she held up a hand, "just this once, " she said, maybe then he'll leave her alone. Maybe then they'll all leave her alone to… Jackie blinked surprised at the thoughts in her mind.

"Thank you, Admiral. As a very famous Terran once said... I shall return," I'zzad said, standing and offering a sweeping bow. "Well fought, well fought." With those parting words he was out the Ready Room doors and onto the bridge.

OFF:

[Leroy Jenkins]

OFF:
Enter the Aide!

ON:

<<USS Horizon – Ready Room >>

Jackie growled throwing a PADD aside after I'zzad left. 'will they ever stop?' she wondered, closing her eyes and dropping her head into her arms on her desk. 'will they ever leave me alone?' 'No, they won't' a thought came to her, 'they never do' she buried her head deeper in her arms in the hopes that maybe they'll go away if she just dug a hole somewhere. It was a while later she heard the all too familiar chime once again.

"Argh!" she growled in frustration. Jackie looked up throwing a glare at the door before she said anything else.

"Enter!" she spoke through her clenched teeth, barely containing herself from saying anything more. She grabbed a bunch of qavIn beans and tossing them into her bit right through them. 'Better biting into qavIn beans than crewmembers.' she thought as the doors parted to let a male in.

"Um. Admiral Clawson. I'm Petty Officer Leroy Jenkins" the man spoke, "I've been assigned here as your .. uh…" he stopped short slightly twitching at the deathly glare of the furry creature sitting behind the desk.

The Caitian bit into another qavIn bean; Jenkins gulped at the fierce stare she kept locked onto him as she did so. He mentally pictured her snapping him into two;. Jenkins stopped himself, wondering if she could do that to him, at least mentally, if not physically. He fiddled with his PADD as he looked for what to say.

"You've been assigned as my, what, Petty Officer?" Jackie queried, Jenkins blinked, surprised at the soft and steady tone of her voice , but he knew better, he's seen her profile, at least the parts he's had access too. And he talked to people. Oh boy did he talk to people. And oh boy did they tell him things!

"Your Aide, ma'am" Jenkins spoke standing at attention hoping she wasn't noticing anything he didn't want noticed.

Jackie did a double take, the look on her face saying it all. Jenkins hoped...nay prayed... he'd get out of this first encounter with the Caitian Admiral in one piece, nevermind getting out of the whole assignment in one piece!

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Tanis had just finished his reports, he had politely asked anyone that had come to see him to not disturb him for about an hour so he could finish putting his reports into the computer and finish trying to get settled in. If he had it his way he wouldn't even have been here at that time and would have been drinking with Delaney, and maybe even getting to know other crewmembers.

But he couldn't put off the surgery of one crewmember for his own personal indulgences, especially when the surgery meant being confined to Quarters or roaming unhindered throughout the ship.

Now, he found himself in sickbay 15 minutes after he arrived, and this is where he had been for the last many hours. He finally finished inputting all the data into the computer, and he was now overdue to check on the Patient. "How is he?" Tanis said walking up to the Unconscious Klingon, even though he knew very well that the Patients Vitals were stable and nothing had happened in the last few hours.

"He seems peaceful enough at the moment" Sammy replied without looking round.

Tanis was surprised. The klingon had been in surgery for over an hour, and in recovery for over Two, and Sammy, had not left her spot at his side the whole time. "That's good...He must be pretty Important to you, you barely moved since he arrived" Tanis said, more of a statement then a question.
"I made him a promise, I will not go back on it" she replied, he obviously did not speak Klingon or he would know exactly what he meant to her.

Tanis scanned over the Klingon with a Tricorder over and more in depth at the surgery site. "What promise would that be?" Tanis said not so discreetly. He didn't look away from his tricorder at all, he seemed totally enveloped in his work at the moment.

"I swore I would not leave his side until after the surgery, that I would guard him and allow no-one to harm him" she replied

"Well I could have done that" Tanis said half Jokingly. "he is my patient after all"

"You are not family" was all she said there was no point trying to hide it any longer it had been mentioned to much recently.

Tanis thought he seen Sammy start getting Mad. He decided to leave it at that. "Well everything looks Good." Was all he said. He was sure she meant that The klingon was her father, Not that it mattered at this point, If he really wanted to know all he would have to do is scan them, more or less. "Im going to administer a drug to wake him up." He said and he loaded the Hypo and pressed it against his neck.

Sammy got ready for trouble hoping there wouldn't be any but ready for it if there was.

The Klingons Vitals Spiked, only for an instant as the drug Kicked in. And Tanis waited himself for the Klingon to wake up.

The difference between being out cold and awaking was immediately obvious as his muscles coiled, becoming tense. His mind was in a haze and the first thought was he had been drugged, in that point the first reaction was he was in enemy hands and he came full awake lashing out.

Sammy pushed the Doc out of the way and took the full force of his blow herself, it hit her straight across the stomach and doubled her over his next blow hitting her in the head. "vav you are safe calm down" she called to him
Tanis hit the floor with a Thud. He wasn't sure what just happened and was about to call for security before whoever it was attacked him again.

"You ok Doc, didn't mean to push you that hard" Sammy said as she continued to try and calm her father

QaDghab shouted in Klingon, "Cardassian bastards will not hold me!!! Will cut your throats out..." He raged as he rolled off the bed from his thrashing and landed hard in the floor with a groan.

"Good...." Was all he said he got up and came up to the patient. Tanis immediately loaded another drug. "Here..." He said injecting the Drug. "Its a Paralytic" The Klingon went Limp.

"vav it is me your puQbe' you are safe I swear it you are safe their are no cardasians here" she spoke firmly in klingon to him at the same time as trying to stop him hurting her or himself any further

"He is conscious but Paralyzed." "QaDghab!" Tanis said his face in front of his. "You are Aboard the USS HORIZON, My Name is TANIS CMO Of this Vessel, Do you Understand?" He looked directly into his eyes. "I Injected you with a Paralytic Drug, you are Paralyzed until i give you a counter agent, you Attacked me and i felt i had no choice, If you understand Blink Twice" He looked at the Klingon and Waited for a response.

Sammy swore "give him the antidote now, it was not you he attacked" she stated trying to control her temper.

QaDghab breathed heavily his heart racing as the images of his captivity flew threw his mind, though he couldn't move the images were still there.

"If at any point i feel my Patient is in danger of himself or anyone else IN MY SICKBAY, I will take any precautions to minimize any injury" Tanis said Defensively.

"He does not see us right now and paralyzing him now will only make what he is seeing more real. If you are worried for your own safety then either stay behind me or put a field up around us both . But I need you to give him the antidote before I lose him to his visions" she stated calmly

Tanis gave the Drug and took a step back. "Must be a Klingon thing" Tanis mumbled to himself. He then hit the Silent Alarm on the Biobed Console, The alarm Itself sent a message to security asking for assistance.

Sammy saw what he did "They will be of no help doctor, tell me have you ever been the prisoner of cardasians have you ever been experimented on or tortured by them. If the answer is no then do not try to understand what he is seeing just put a level 1 quarantine field up around both me and this bed NOW" she said flatly

QaDghab thrashed once more, shouting out more things in Klingon. Most of it being about Damok and Cardassians and killing, and heads. His fist hit the side of the biobed a number of times, making a cracking sound and once or twice lashing out towards sammy.

Sammy took all his blows but never once struck back instead she just kept talking to him in Klingon . "vav the carrdasian scum is not here look at me, see me, vav come back to me" she called to him.

"IF you don't get him under control NOW, I will sedate him again" Tanis said. "Much more and he risks permanently damaging his back."

"If you sedate him again now we may not get him back" she replied "Now trust me and let me get him back" she said simply

Slowly QaDghab started to calm as she spoke to him, the images in his mind getting further and further apart. His heart still raced, but his mind was clearing and he stopped thrashing.

The doors to Sickbay Opened and Security Walked in phasers Drawn. Tanis held up his hand to tell them to Hold On.

"vav you are here with me on the Horizon you have just had your back operated on, you need to calm down you are safe I swear it" she said as he slowly calmed down and started to focus on her. She heard the doors open and knowing the drill she knew her officers would be armed and their weapons would be drawn. Unless you guys are gonna shoot me in the back I suggest you put those weapons away."

He calmed and groaned softly, realizing he was in pain. He gripped her hand tightly.

Sammy held his hand tightly and gently stroked his hair back from his face "I told you I would not leave you" she said to him then spoke to the doc "Ok you are safe to come in now Tanis I will need your help to get him back on the bio-bed" she stated

Tanis lowered the forcefield and got the Heavy Klingon back onto he biobed.
Sammy stood beside the bed dripping blood onto the floor from a badly broken nose and a split lip but she had no intention of going anywhere just yet.

Tanis scanned them Both. "His back will be fine, and You" He said to sammy, then signaled for a nurse to come. "The nurse can fix that up right away"

"Only if she does it while I am sitting here" she replied not letting go of her fathers hand just yet.

Tanis rolled his eyes, and the Nurse didn't say anything. "Looks like things are ok out here, Ill be back in my office, Holler if you need anything." Tanis said.

The same hand that held Sammy's hand was also bloody from having punched the biobed. He had cracked a few knuckles, but seemed oblivious to it.

Sammy looked over to the security team that were standing there wondering what they should be doing. "Well boys if the Doctor is happy to let you go then I suggest you get back to work instead of standing there staring at me" she said in a firm tone.

The doc nodded in conformation that they were not needed and the team left sickbay.

QaDghab looked at his daughter and attempted to squeeze her hand, though his hand had gone stiff.

Sammy noticed that his hand was not moving well and got the nurse to take a look at it, "vav you will have to let go while the nurse fixes your hand, I will still be here" she said

He nodded and attempted to let go, his fingers only twitched.

Sammy prized her hand lose from her fathers so the nurse could work on him, "You know for an old man just out of surgery you still hit hard" she said jokingly.

He simply grunted, "Sorry..." He said as he shifted slightly feeling mild pain where he had been opened for surgery.

"better me than the Doc" she replied simply.

He simply grunted as the nurse took a look at his hand.

The nurse quickly and efficiently reset the bones and wrapped his hand, "Be careful not to hit anything or anyone with this hand for a little while" she said flatly as she then turned her attention to Sammy's face it did not take her long to reset her nose for her and stop the bleeding then once she had finished she just walked away shaking her head.

Sammy turned to QaDghab "So apart from the broken knuckles how are you feeling now" she asked

"My back hurts.... but I can feel my legs." He stated simply as he closed his eyes a moment.

"Good that is the important part"

"Damok won't be silent..." He grumbled.

"Just tell him he is just like a bothersome gnat after a while you just ignore
them and carry on with life" she stated.

He chuckled, slightly stopping only when laughing caused his back to ache more.

Sammy grinned at her father "I must return to work will you be ok here if I leave you now" she asked him seriously

He considered a moment and then slightly nodded. "I think so. If the memories stay at bay."

"If they start or you need me call me and I will return" she said bending to kiss him on the forehead. Then she turned and went to dress back in her uniform.

He nodded and lay back in the bed, his eyes closing a moment as he wanted to rest a bit.

Sammy finished dressing and told the nurse the same as she had told her father if he started to have the visions again call her straight away, with that done she left sickbay and headed back to the security office to fill out the report on the call to sick bay and get some work done.


A Joint Post by

QaDghab lagh
Security/Tactical Officer
(Klingon Exchange Officer)
USS Horizon

and

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS Horizon

and

[QaDghab]

Qadghab rested for a little while, but then he became restless and tiring of Medbay. He hated being in Medbay. So slowly he tested his legs, sliding off the bed onto them, finding them weak and unsteady, but as long as he moved slowly he could use them. Not minding that he was still in a gown with his backside showing he slipped out of medbay, hoping to stop by the Mess Hall for a drink.

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon>
<Bridge>

J'al had gone up to the bridge while M'Karll and Izzy went to see the Admiral. He hadn't had a chance to talk with her very much since the incident with Sorak, but maybe that was for the better. She seemed quite stressed, and he figured the best thing he could do to help her was to just stay away until a few more days had passed.

He was getting work done on their Fighter by himself for the time being. Hopefully, he'd get the impulse drive installed by the time she started working on it again. Running was another thing, but if it was at least in the frame, it would give them all kinds of work to do.

M'Karll had come out a minute earlier, and left the bridge after giving J'al a thump on the back. Izzy came out after a few more minutes passed.

"I'm surprised she didn't kick you out on sight for your blue collar." he said with a grin, knowing Clawson was sick of Doctors. She didn't hide it very well.

OFF :) TAG!

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon - Mess Hall - Later that Day>

M'karll plopped down in the officer's lounge with a plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Just because he liked to dress and act like a pirate did not mean that he had to eat the same nasty food as they had on their ships. Grunting, he stared out the windows of the lounge, occasionally shooting glances in the direction of the doors and replicators in case someone interesting caught his eye. Finally, gold struck. "Ya-har," he roared over the din of other conversations, spying someone from his department... someone female.

Jennifer, having just walked into the officers' lounge, looked around to see if she could find anyone she knew. No such luck. She found an empty seat and walked towards it, but was interrupted by a roaring "Ya-har" over the crowd from behind her. She turned to find a Caitian Ensign sitting over a plate of spaghetti.

"And just when I thought this ship couldn't get any weirder," she laughed to herself.

"Who be ye, ye great scurvy space dog?" the Caitian asked.

"Caitian pirate, eh? Classy. I'm Jenifer Dylan, the all-too-new ACFCO... Jen, Jenny, Dylan, Ensign, ma'am... they all work." She laughed, but wasn't entirely convinced the pirate cat got the joke.

"Yar, I not be bein' a pirate in the strictest since o' tha word," M'karll replied, plopping a meatball into his mouth. "An' I be workin' in yer de-par'ment," he continued around the meatball, as he indicated a chair opposite him. "Please be with tha sittin' Jenny. I swear on me mother's honor I don't bite... hard."

Just then, J'al Grenn, the CIO, walked by, and turned to look down at M'karll when he made that statement.

"Matey, I know your mother, and she would say that you do. As I recall, you went through one of the worst teething stages in the family." he said as he walked up.

"Yar, but I not be puttin' me canine through me tongue like some of us here," M'karll roared back, slapping his cousin heartily as J'al found a seat with them.

Jennifer laughed at the mock rivalry between the two Caitians. She was starting to sense that the entire crew of this ship was just a big Starfleet family stuck in a flying metal plate. Not that that was a problem, she was sure she'd adapt.

"Mine if I join my staff for dinner?" J'al asked the two Ensigns. He wasn't Chief Flight Control Officer yet, he was still Chief of Intelligence, but would be very shortly.

"Your staff, Lieutenant? You're intel!" Somehow she figured there was something she hadn't been told.

"For now, yes. Bot that's why you were transferred here as Assistant Chief. Also why you don't have a boss yet. I've been flying for decades, just don't have Starfleet's qualifications for large ship piloting yet. Though I could do it now. Admiral Clawson is signing off on my certifications. I should be transferred to the department before too long." he said as he sat.

"As fer meself, I've no great love fer flyin' da caps," M'karll continued, gesturing grandiosly with a flamboyantly bejeweled fork. While the jewels were all replicated, and therefore worthless, they looked good in his opinion. Besides, it made the meal more rich to eat it with swag. "I prefers ta be stickin' to me shuttles, named after pirate vessel's o' course!"

It was about that point QaDghab stumbled into the 2 Caitians.. spilling his meal and drink everywhere as he tripped over M'karll's tail and landed with a crash at their feet.

"Gagh," M'karll cried, snaring several of the worms out of the air and stuffing them into his mouth. "Ye great scurvy braggart! Ye'd best be watchin' where ye throw da eels, not all have such a taste for them! An' 'ave ye not learned that rum be far superior to..." M'karll sniffed. "Blood wine?"

"Ensign Dylan, have you met one of our two Klingon exchange officers, QaDghab lagh yet?" he asked her, looking at the Klingon at their feet. Luckily the food missed all of their persons.

"He be me crazy piratin' partner in da holodeck, be that right there matey GaDghab klagh," M'karll asked, butchering the man's name and rank, though not intentionally too much.

QaDghab growled as he got to his feet. "Partner!!! You gave me a Holoblade while you had a real one, you insulted my first wife, and you knocked me out!" QaDghab growled... "And the name is QaDghab!" He bellowed.

"Now, now, ye great braggart," M'karll began, rising slowly to his feet. "Ye need ta not be so sloshed ye not be knowin' da diff'rence between play an' seriousness. Ye're naught but a great blowhard," the Caitian continued, levelling a finger at QaDghab. "Ye'd best be layin' off the sauce!"

QaDghab had no idea what the cat was saying, but it didn't matter as his fist flew out and he struck the cat in the side of the face.

All of a sudden, the one human at the table blared out, "pejotegh DaH! yIba' quSDaq QaDghab!" in near perfect tlhIngan Hol, although with a distinctly Terran accent. The Klingon exchange officer was so stunned by the fact that she spoke his language that he immediately followed her orders and took a seat in the chair next to her.

"tIchpa' Hegh wa'DIch be'nalwI'..." he said bitterly in the Klingon language. He leaned down and scrapped up some of the food he had spilled on the table.

M'karll rose from the ground and was about to return fire with a punch of his own when he got a distinct look of 'don't do it' from his cousin J'al. Growling a little, he resumed his seat. "Yar, ye'd not be needin' ta protect one-eye," he muttered under his breath in Caitian, well aware that J'al would know exactly what he said. "I kin 'andle that blunderin' oaf."

Jennifer, disturbed by their linguistics battle, switched back to Federation Standard. "So," she said to the others, "now that we've all introduced ourselves, established what languages we speak, and punched each other, I suppose it's time to seek out a new topic."

QaDghab said nothing else as he scrapped up some of the food and ate it, grabbing a few wiggling qagh which threatened to go off the table into J'al's lap.

"How about the Horizon? That seems appropriate," Jennifer suggested. "What all have you guys done with her?"

"I not be havin' much ta do," M'karll replied around a mouthful of spaghetti, returning to his normal cheerful demeanor once again, though he did stick his tongue out at QaDghab. "I on'y be flyin' da shuttles... and the ridge-head 'ere t'only be good fer nothin'! Ha-Har!," M'karll roared.

"Watch it Grishner Cat... or I be cutting your tongue out and making you eat them words." QaDghab growled around a mouthful of qagh.

Jennifer felt the urge to snap back with, "If they insult your wife or your daughter again, I'll kill them myself," which would have been entirely true, but wouldn't help calm them down any.

"Okay, are we willing to engage in..." she was about to say 'human conversation,' but stopped herself when she realized she was the only Homo sapiens sapiens at the table. "Polite, civilized discussion now? If not, perhaps we should take this up with the Admiral?"

"Yar, ye think I be scared of ye, ye great yeller bellied, stink bait livered, maggot infested pataQ," M'karll roared back across the table at QaDghab. "I be ten times the warrior o' ye, an' bestin' 'undred times the man, ha-har!"

This was going on far enough. Both of them were acting like idiots. J'al looked at his cousin and spoke firmly, but controlled. "Knock it off, rr'alaven. That's an order." he said. He basically just called his cousin a fat-@$$.

He then looked at Quad-Gab. "If you want to fight, drag him in to the holodeck by the tail, or knock off the postering." he said, speaking as the ranking officer in the area.

QaDghab got out of his seat and grabbed M'karll's tail and started to pull. Clearly he was taking J'al Seriously.

If there was one thing that M'karll was not going to stand for, it was being dragged around by his tail by some hefty Klingon warrior, well, wannabe warrior. Besides, who was the one that had done all the physical assaulting to this point? QaDghab, that was who. It was time to even the score to M'karll's way of thinking, and he knew just where and how to hit QaDghab to end it quickly. With a roar, the Caitian was on his feet, and thanks to the amount of give a Caitian's tail has, the pilot was able to spin in towards QaDghab while the Klingon still held his tail. As he spun, M'karll launched a swift kick that was aimed around QaDghab, towards the Klingon warrior's unprotected and weak back. If it landed the situation would, M'karll hoped, be defused since QaDghab would collapse on the deck in massive fits of pain and have to limp off to sickbay, again.

The Cat was quick, quicker than the Klingon's Aged scarred body would move. However he managed to roll with the blow to his back, not that it did much other than prevent it from completely disabling him. The blow was enough to cause him to collapse with pain shooting threw his back and down the main nerves in his legs. He roared as he went down and as a defense pulled hard on the Caitian's tail.

"Release me now," M'karll hissed, eyes flashing dangerously as he moemntarily lost his usual piratey demeanor. He placed a foot on QaDghab's offending shoulder and applied some pressure, though not too much at first. "Release now, or the claws go in," the tiger appearing Caitian demnaded in a low growl. The pilot knew he had to be careful to use only as much force as was required to defuse the situation, which was why he'd kicked QaDghab instead of going for the throat with his claws. Enough to defuse was justifiable self-defense, too much was assault.

J'al had jumped back as the engagement started and before he could say anything, the two had exchanged a few shots.

"Dangit! I said knock it off!" he shouted at both of them. "That's an order! Or you'll each spend a day in the brig!"

"Oh please," M'karll shot back in Caitian. "He's done nothing but physically assualt me since he came in, Cousin. You can't really expect me to sit still and continue taking crap off some washed-up never was. I am defending myself, and now I want this behemoth to release my tail, just as you would if he had ahold of you. Besides, I don't think he'll be walking much of anywhere for awhile." M'karll turned his attention back to the Klingon. "Dammit, I said let go of me," he snarled, switching back to standard. "Idiot pataQ," M'karll growled, repeating the insult, which was one of the only Klingon words he knew. He began to apply more pressure to the shoulder with his foot.

QaDghab growled and yanked on the tail once more before letting go. "This is not over Grishner!" He spat as he made an attempt to get up.

"Yar, I be thinkin' it do indeed be over, an' I think I be the one winnin' chihuahua," M'karll replied in ahissing tone as he resumed his seat at the table. "There be on'y so much crap I kin take inna day," he continued, digging into his meal once more.

"What the hell is happening here? Someone called a security team to the lounge." Hayden said, approaching the table. His eyes scanned the party once as he leaned on his cane. "I guess a commission doesn't guarantee intelligence."

=^= False alarm, boys. Don't bother coming. =^=

QaDghab slowly got to his feet, though his back was tender, the damaged disk had been replaced, thankfully or he may as well have lost use of his legs. He got up and with a growl, back handed M'karll across the face, before he started to move towards his seat.

M'karll snarled and wiped blood from his nose with the back of his paw. Lightning quick, one of his legs shot out to trip up the Klingon. He doubted that the man would be able to dodge it, and to his satisfaction there was a resounding thud as the big man hit the deck. "Ya-har, ye ruddy great sea cow," M'karll roared. "Me thinks ye ought ta be more careful when ye be walkin' ye great dog. Here!" He dropped the bowl of gagh down on QaDghab's head. "I seem ta be recallin' dogs be what eats on the floor while the civilized ones be eatin' at da table with silverware!" M'karll roared with laughter as one of the gagh worms crawled its way over QaDghab's head.

"None of us called Security, so watch your mouth, Chief." J'al said as the two scuffled on the ground. "But since you're here, do you want to lock them up for being idiots, or something else?"

QaDghab growled and kicked the legs of the Chair breaking them and sending the Caitian down on top of him, were he had a fist waiting...

Hayden looked at the Intel Officer, "Sorry Lieutenant, a crewman passing by made the call. And if it was up to me, they'd be strapped to the outer wall of the port nacelle. But confinement will do."

=^= Security to the Lounge. For real this time. =^=

"BOTH of you are spending the next day in the brig." Hayden said sternly at the combatants. "People have been demoted or discharged for less. You can decide whether the Admiral and Ensign Swan need to hear about this. So knock it off, or the two of you can be taken to the brig the hard way."

QaDghab kicked M'karll off of him and pushed himself to his feet were he glared at the newcommer. "Who are you to be giving commands!!?"

Goddamn showboating Klingons. Hayden thought. "I'm the one that can arrest you. Or would you rather the next report you daughter reads be charges for assaulting an Starfleet officer paired with a Drunk and Disorderly?" Hayden turned to speak to both of them at once. "I think one day for both of you to cool down would be generous on my part."

Sammy had been standing off to one side watching the two males since the call went in for a security team unseen by anyone, she decided it was time to let them know she was there "I will look forward to reading the report" she said from just behind them.

"I suggest haveing them beamed straight to the brig Mr Shaw, I will be in the office if you require anything more in the way of autherisation" she stated then turned and walked away not even addressing her father or the others round the table.

QaDghab wasn't happy and he growled at M'Karll in warning as he tried to go after his daughter. "I don't need your foul transporters!! You going to put me in the brig for defending my first wife's Honor!?" He raged and seeing he wasn't getting her attention he called out... "puqbe'!!!"

"Silence ye great blowhard space barnacle," M'karll roared, punching QaDghab hard in the face before delivering a forearm to his gut. He was trying to disengage, he really was, but the Klingon wouldn't let go and it would be pretty stupid to stop fighting and let the Klingon throttle him. "Can't demote me below ensign," he called cheekily to his cousin J'al in Caitian so as not to get in too much trouble for the remark.

J'al saw the two go at each other once again, even after the Chief had spoken. Getting nowhere, he stepped back and searched behind the counter for a moment, pulling out a type-2 phaser. He checked it ans set it on medium stun, generally enough to knock a Klingon out, and brought it up to aim.

Aiming at the deck below and to the side of them, he fired a shot, impacting the floor and shooting up a few sparks. Both looked over at him and stopped for a second.

"Get to the brig, NOW, or you'll both be dragged there after getting knocked out! You!" he said to M'Karll "shoudl know how to act like a Starfleet Officer, and You!" he said to QaDghab "have to abide by our rules, or get off this ship!" he said loudly and firmly, holding the phaser at a ready position. "Chief, get them out of here. Anyway you need to." he said to the Petty Officer.

"Will do, sir", Hayden said carefully. The shot had made his heart skip a few beats. He was rarely the one not shooting in theses instances.

"I'll get you two cells across from each other so you can talk it over," he said turning to the bloodied Caitian and Klingon. "No walk of shame either. Don't keep the brig guard up past lights-out."

=^= Transporter Room 1, beam Ensign R'pas and QaDghab lagh to Brig cells Charlie and Foxtrot. Energize.=^=

The transporter beam hummed and shimmered over the both of them and they were gone. Hayden shuffled over to the nearest chair, sat down and felt the tension ease in his leg. It had hurt something awful through the whole ordeal. He must have forgot to keep his weight off of it. He turned toward J'al. "Do you think we should tell Admiral Clawson about this?"

OFF: OK! This was getting way too large. This covers it up until Post #55 in the Ensign Dylan JP. From 55 on it is a new JP by M'Karll and Quad :)

Joint Post by:

Ensign Dylan

Ensign R'Pas

PO2 Shaw

QaDghab lagh

Ensign Swan

and

[KVok]

K'Vok was hunkered over the Ops station, glaring at the monitor when an alert came up. "Phaser fire in the lounge." He barked, looking over to Security. Federation alerts were too complicated, they sounded at everything. Soon they'd find an alert for 'Knife fight', then 'Stubbed toe'. Of course, he wasn't all to interested at the moment, he was interested in the Ready room and the person inside. And he had a plan.

[Grenn]

<Horizon - Lounge>

"I have a feeling that the Admiral will find out on her own. But I could mention it if I see her. Either way, I know you have to fill out a report on this, so go ahead and forward it right to her once you do." J'al said after the two were beamed out. At the same time, he heard K'Vok's voice come over Shaw's commbadge.

"Oops. You better head off the security team that will beam in in a moment." he said with a slight laugh, motioning to Shaw's commbadge.

OFF: :) Ok forget the ending I posted for our part in the JP. We can write it out here IC. Then Karl and Quad can post their own little bit out of that later.

[Hayden Shaw]

Too late. Hayden thought as the team materialized in front of both of them.

“Reporting, Chief!” said the squad leader with authority, his eyes shifting from Hayden' face to his kilt to his cane and back again.

“Well, that was disappointing,” Hayden said addressing the team of 5 crewmen. “The show was over before you even got here. Do you realize that someone could have been killed because you were so slow?”

“It never happens.” Retorted the security officer. “I didn’t think–”

“It does happen, crewman. And it was quite obvious you didn’t think. You better get used to drills because we’ll be having lots. The Chief of Security should concern her self with nothing less than murders and intruders, not fights. The next time you get called you have 2 minutes. I don’t care if it’s ‘Security team to Earth.’ Get back on duty before I notice.”

The team tromped out promptly.

Hayden turned towards the Caitian officer. “I’m barely here for one hour and already I'm going crazy.” Without giving Grenn a chance to answer, Hayden left the lounge to go find his quarters.

[Jackie Clawson]

<<USS Horizon – Ready Room>>

"Do you have to be so…." Jackie cut off her Aide in midsentence as he was rattling off some statistics she had no interest in, even if they were concerning her ability to keep going without many breaks. She was slowly loosing her patience, at least any patience she had left given things.

"Admiral, according to protocol…" Jenkins began again

"Spare me the details, Jenkins. I don't want to know You're here to help, thus far all I've heard from you are 'according to protocol', 'protocol says'." Jackie snapped, "I don't… care!" she nearly hissed at the man causing him to take a step back and get a tighter grip on his PADD. "If it works, don't fix it!"

"Yes, ma'am" Jenkins noted curtly, "however at the rate you are going, there is an 87.5% chance that you will collapse in less than 48 hours unless you take a break"

Jackie shot him an icy glare.

"You ain't aiding Jenkins" , she said, "thus far the only thing you're doing is nagging. And I'm not getting any work done here" she spoke tossing a qavIn bean into her mouth and biting into it as if to make a point. Jenkins gulped.

"Yes, Admiral" he replied curtly. "I will start on these" he indicated a pile of PADDs on her desk.

"Quite" Jackie spoke as he picked up the pile of PADDs. Jackie watched him disappear with the pile in his grasp, her mind wondering over to a conversation she and Falco had had some time ago. Maybe an Aide would help, she just wished timing was different and Starfleet hadn't send him now.

"or if they have, maybe someone who's less… rigid about everything" she murmured rubbing at her temples to chase away a headache. She wondered if Starfleet was doing this on purpose. Jackie let out a sigh and looked out into space out there beyond the Horizon as her mind wondered off.

<<Meanwhile elsewhere in the Rayean Sector>>

The raider safely cloaked was just out of scanning range of the Horizon, just to be on the safe side. It's captain not wanting to take any unnecessary risks, after all, this was no federation starship. Fornell regarded his small all-human crew as his thoughts wondered.

"So why ain't we going after 'em?" a fierce looking male in his 30s asked impatiently.

"I told you. I have a plan." Fornell spoke evenly glancing at the schematics of an Intrepid class on the side, "All in good time, " he smiled.

"Your plans aren't always the best out there" the other man spoke. "Now my plans.." he held up a Klingon disruptor.

"Oh yes. Your plan....What're you going to do, take on a flagship with that thing? Even if it IS an Intrepid class?" Fornell shot back. "This ain't a suicide run. There's a time for shootin', and there's a time for waiting, now we wait." He said. "They ain't going anywhere for a while, if the info we got is right."

"It's always that with you Fornell" the other man spoke. "we waited for years for Federation, they haven't done anything. Why wait now? It's time for action."

"If you don't like my orders, we can always drop you off...airlock's right here" Fornell responded, "I don't have time or patience to see something like this get screwed up by a trigger happy lunatic" Fornell spoke, "do you realise what's at stake here? Do you realise who that ship belongs to?" he grabbed the other man by the collar dragging him closer. "we accomplish this, this will be a blow to at least the Task Force, and with the Task Force, very likely the Raeyan Sector and with the Raeyan Sector…" Fornell smiled.

OFF:

[QaDghab]

(OFF: This is a backpost for before Grenn posted the Dylan JP :p )


ON:
QaDghab made it down the Corridor a ways before pausing to lean against a wall, sweat dripping from his brow as he rested his back some. He still had
them *cursing* drugs in his system. His legs were shaky and his back felt like he was carrying something around that was twice his weight. Maybe he just wasn't used to having a normal back, he wandered. It had been years since he had injured it, remembering all to clear the blow to his back that had been the only thing stopping his Killing spree on Cardassia. Unlike his eye and ear, he had not injured it in captivity. He was dazed a moment so he sat down there in the Corridor, a passerby noticing him went into medbay to inform the Doctor.

* Sickbay *

Tanis had just finished the update of QaDghab, "The Klingon" As he always referred to him. He couldn't pronounce QaDghab at least Not well enough at all anyways.

The doors to sickbay Opened and a crewmember walked in. "Doctor?" He called.

"Yes?" He said, he put the PADDS away and turned off his computer, the paper work finally finished.

"Your Patient is stumbling down the hallway, I thought you should know" He said.

The doctor looked at him, Red Uniform, Ensign in rank.

"Thank you" He said, he signaled a few nurses to escort him as he went to try to find the Klingon.

QaDghab was found to be sitting on the deck in the curve of a Corridor, blinking as if dazed and not sure where he was at the moment. His mind was remembering, how he had injured his back so long ago.
It hadn't been an injury won in glory of battle. He had lost it in the battle of Cardassia and his team members had to chase him down. He had gone on an insane dishonorable Killing spree, breaking into Cardassian Homes and killing the families and children who were no more than bystanders in the battle, much like he had done on a Romulan Colony years before after his First Mate had been killed in the Kithomere Massacre. Then suddenly it was not a Romulan or Cardassian Child's face he saw in his death grip. It was his daughter, and he let out a Long Animal-like Wail which broke the image.

Tanis and the nurses fallowed the horrible screaming that seamed to travel down the corridor when they found QaDghab sitting against a bulkhead.

"QaDghab" Tanis Tried to say, not sure how well the pronunciation of the name went. "Its The Doctor!" He tried to say.

Tanis instructed the nurses to help carry him back to sickbay.

QaDghab shuddered allowing without complaint the nurses to take either side of him. He had stopped his wail and was now muttering under his breath as he carefully moved one foot in front of the other, his forehead dripping with sweat. "Drink." He suddenly said as he tried to turn the other direction.

"Let this be your last warning QaDghab" Tanis said, As they hauled him back to sickbay. "IF i need to confine you to sickbay For the rest of your Healing Process, I will, Let this be your last warning for the next time"

Tanis Finished. "Ill be forced to use a restraining field."

Tanis and the Nurses set QaDghab on the Biobed and Tanis scanned him once more. QaDghab seemed fine, However Tanis wanted him in sickbay for at Least 2 More hours before he was to be released. And with that last Mental Episode QaDghab had not long ago, he wasn't even sure if he should be released into the general public until he knew more about what the hell happened to him. He decided that he would have to talk to Sammy about it at a later date.

"Here" Tanis said as he injected a drug into QaDghab's Neck. "Its a Relaxant, Now lay down, Relax and in 2 Hours you can walk your self out of sickbay ASSUMING you cause no more trouble" Tanis said with a smile

QaDghab merely growled and laid down, his muscles unwillingly relaxing as the drug took effect.

* * * 2 Hours Later * * *

Tanis was glad to say that since he gave the Klingon the Relaxant, he hadn't made any sort of struggle. Hardly any words to him or any of his staff.

He would utter the Odd Klingon word Or Grunt here and there, but that was about it.

Satisfied that the Klingon would not be causing any more trouble and he had ample time to keep an eye on his Recovering Wound.

He decided he would release the Klingon.

"Well, your free to go, if you have any pain, or any other problems, come back right away so they can be taken care of" Tanis said.

QaDghab grunted, "I am loosing hearing on that side. Talk on my other side." He said pointing to the side were his external ear was missing, replaced by ugly scar tissue.

Tanis moved over to the other side. "YOU CAN LEAVE NOW!" He said and walked away as the Klingon started to get up and leave sickbay.

QaDghab moved rather quickly, glad to escape med bay finally, though now he wanted to get his armor back on. He felt bare without it.

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Dr. Tanis Heavenway
Chief Medical Officer

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[Sammy Jo Swan]

As soon as QaDghab appeared in the brig he did something utterly stupid. He ran directly into the force field and got thrown back to land heavily on the floor on his back, stairing up at the ceiling and cursing loudly in Klingon.

Sammy made her way back to the security office but instead of going to her office she went to the brig and pulled up a chair between the 2 cells that held thier 'guests' she sat there for a moment looking from one to the other.

"Ok guy's one at a time start explaining why I should not be reporting this to the Boss and letting her decide what to do with you, other than she is very busy" she said sounding tired.

M'karll roared with laughter as QaDghab was hurled back to the deck after slamming into the forcefield. "I see washed up never-were Klingon warriors are a little short on brains," he taunted, dropping his normal piratey demeanor for a second. If he had to spend a night in the brig he could at least try and goad QaDghab into slamming himself into the forcefield as many times as possible. "Common, maybe you can break through it if you try again, wrinkle-head," he taunted loudly, eyeing the Klingon to see if he'd stupidly charge the forcefield again. "Maybe your Cardassian brain pal can help ya!"

QaDghab raged, "SILENT GRESHNER!" He spat. "You know what a Grishner is don't you!? It's a cat who sounds fierce but has no guts!!!" He growled.

M'karll turned his attention to Sammy as she sat down. "What, because I'm innocent that's why," M'karll protested, holding up his paws. "Ask J'al or anyone that was there. I was sitting and enjoying a nice replicated Terran dinner when that psychotic pataQ attacked me for no good reason in the mess. He kept up with his little attacks and in the end I snapped and defended myself. There's only so much physical crap I'll take from any one, mentally unstable or not, before I defend myself. He pulled my tail. I got up and kicked him in the back, no claws. Then there was a scrum, but he started it. I was only defending myself. Had I wanted to kill the ignorant fool he'd be dead. My people do have handy built in weapons." M'karll flashed all his claws briefly to illustrate. "And bonehead there might be stronger, but I'm a lot quicker. There were at least three times I could have slashed or cut his throat or wrists and I didn't because I was defending myself and not trying to seriously kill or injure anyone."

QaDghab laughed, "So you say Grishner. You skip over the fact that you insulted my first wife, and fought like a coward on the Holodeck!!" He sneered.

"Well, maybe if you had some honor, pride, or balls," M'karll fired back past Sammy at QaDghab. "Your words are meaningless and honorless, old man!"

Sammy sat there and shook her head this was gonna be a long night she turned to M'karll "If you wish to get out of here before your next birthday, I suggest you stop the racial remarks as I also find them offensive and am not quite as controled as QaDghab once angered. As I am sure my previous CO will confirm, he still bares the scars from our last fight and I was unarmed at the time. If you are going to insult a klingon insult him not a dead mate, you are walking dangerous ground by doing that." she said


She turned to her father "As for you father you should know that he would not understand such things and ignore his words as you would those of a child, He I am sure did not know he was insulting her with his words or what doing so would mean. Now I suggest you sit down and let me sort this out so that niether of you end up on charges." she said in terren so both could understand her words.


As she spoke to her father M'karll threw another insult at him.


"I will not warn you again Ensign, this will stop or I will have you both sedated until the Admiral or XO are free to deal with you personally" she said coldly.

"I don't need you to tell me I am without Honor Kitten, but I certainly am not a coward. I've killed a thousand Romulans with my bare hands for what they did to her. Do not think I couldn't do the same to you if I wanted." He said with a sneer, talking over Sammy to M'Karll. "A dishonorable Klingon is more dangerous than one with Honor."

"Or maybe just more stupid and broken down," M'karll retorted. "I'm innocent," he pleaded to Sammy. "Your psychotic father is the one that needs to be spaced!"

Sammy got up and walked out of the brig area closeing the door and turning off the lights as she went. "Sleep well" was all she said as she left them there.

"Wait, put noise shields up on his cell... please," M'karll asked hopefully.

"Don't leave me here with this stupid cat!!!" QaDghab roared, knowing that it would go on deaf ears though as he spat the the cat, his spittal hitting the forcefield and sizzling.

Sammy ignored thier pleas as she closed the door let them suffer for a while, she would go back in a little while and see if they had calmed down if not well she would deal with that if it came to it.

"Well nothing to do now," M'karll muttered, raising his paws. "Common ye ruddy great blowhard! Ye most cowardly space eel! Come an' get me!"

QaDghab growled, "Silent you overgrown tribble!" He growled as he pulled out on of his hidden blades and hit the forcefield with it. "I could make tribble Kabobs out of you!" He sneered, motioning his blade as if doing so.

"Bring it on, ye ruddy great blowhard! Ye great coward! Hit that forcefield again, ye slimey Romulan devil! I wanna see if morons really do fly!," M'karll taunted, trying to get the Klingon to be stupid again.

QaDghab roared and slammed his blade into the forcefield again.. the force field crackling under the blow.

Sammy sat at her desk "computer do a scan on both our guests for weapons" the computer scanned both occupants "weapons found" came the computers reply "beam any weapons out of the cells onto my desk" she ordered and a moment later the stash of weapons appeared on her desk. She just sighed and sat back to wait.

"Maybe ye should try harder! Ye great washed up, never was, disgraced, honorless, Cardassian fish-headed, pointy-ear'd Romulan space sluggy devil of a targ's hoof! Ye most ignorant pataQ!," M'karll continued to taunt. He was half hoping the moron would break through both forcefields so he would be justified in killing the buffoon in self-defense.

His weapons disappeared and he let out a louder roar, expecialy realizing even his DaQtagh had been transported off of him. "Snarling like a great beast he slammed the forcefield with his fist. Knowing if he kept up enough the forcefield to weakened under the stress.

"Use yer head, ye moron! Yer head," M'karll taunted derisively.

"Your the Moron, fur ball, you even speak standard like one!" He sneered as he hit the Forcefield again, the force field straining under the stress.

Sammy sat watching the monitor showing force field integrity as well as the two cells in night vision. She was slowly losing her temper with both occupants. the field integrity on QaDghabs cell had dropped to 80% if she allowed him to keep this up he would eventually break through the field.

Every word the two idiots had said since they had been beamed in had been recorded and so had thier actions. She got up and walked back to the brig turning the lights back on she entered "Well" she said in a quiet vioce that her father should recognise as being very close to dangerous "It would seem as though the two of you do not have the brains to stop this stupidity" she looked at her father "Computer increase power to forcefield on cell foxtrot, this is your last chance to calm down before I have you knocked out with gas" she turned to face M'karll "The same goes for you" she said as she stood there waiting for their reaction to her words. Her voice had not raise even slightly it was low and cold but if they looked at her eyes they would know she was no longer playing along with them.

"I'm not being violent... I'm just sticking a probe into the proverbial nebula," M'karll replied jovially with a chuckle.

"Silent, you overgrown neutered Housecat! He sneered still and looked at his daughter. "The only stupidity here is this cat who don't know when to shut his mouth!"

"Or this moron who doesn't know when to stop hitting the forcefield... common, charge it again! That was funny!"

"You have been warned either you both be quiet now or you will both be silenced" she said in the same tone ignoreing thier comments to each other.

QaDghab growled and simply spat at the field and paced the cell angrily. "When are you giving me my DaQtagh back!?"

"Who cares, it's a rusty piece of junk anyway... just like your people's so-called starships," M'karll shot back in reply, crossing to his bunk and laying down.

"Once it is deemed safe to do so until then you will stay here weaponless" she replied coldly

QaDghab looked at his daughter and growled, "Tell that fool that if he doesn't shut up I'll cut his tongue out as soon as we are out of here!"

"I will do no such thing, that would be enough for him to press charges against me as well as you. Also it would be stupid of me to do such a thing, I will not take sides in this matter. Now i suggest you lay down and rest, you will both be here until I have decided how to progress with this matter." she said to them both then left the cell area again.

M'karll, from his position lying on his bunk stuck his tongue out most childishly at QaDghab. "You tell him Ms. Swan!"

"I do not threaten lightly fool. If I say I will cut your tongue out, I will!" He growled, "So I suggest you be silent Kitten."

Sammy went into the office and hit the button that would fill both cells with a sleeping gas, as they both chose to ignore her warning she would silence them this way. Once this was done she had no choice but to report this to the Admiral, this was now out of her hands.


"Not fair," M'karll cried loudly. "I was quieting down!"

QaDghab growled bitterly... "I warned you kitten..." He said even as he started to fall unconscious, to hotheaded to even see the gas.

The gas slowly seeped into the cells and put both occupants to sleep, at the same time Sammy was sending a full report to the Admiral along with a copy of the recording of all that had been said or done since they were locked in thier cells. She was not happy doing this but they had left her no other option.

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QaDghab lagh
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Ensign M'karll R'pas
Chief Shuttle Pilot

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[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy sat at the desk in the security office she waited for the CO or XO to inform her of what they wanted done about the two fools in the brig, it seemed for the time being she was in charge again.

The gas she had used would knock the two of them out for between 2-4 hrs just long enough to hopefully calm them both down, and for the boss's to decide what was to be done.

Right now she was not happy about this whole situation, if they had just calmed down and talked the situation through she would not of had to involve anyone else. As it was the Admiral had enough to deal with without these two, but as she had used the gas to shut them up she had to report it to her superior officers.

Now all she could do was wait and see if she too would be in trouble for having done so.

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[Alex Chadwick]

Security office
Uss Horizon

Alex walked slowly into his former office.It was going to take getting used to being the XO.He had heard about the ruckus and had come down to check things out for the admiral.He smiled at the method Swan had used to quiet the two down.Shades of himself in the technique.

"Ensign." alex said with a slight smile.

"I hear we had a problem down here a little while ago."

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy snapped out of her thought pattern when she heard his voice "Sorry Sir I did not hear you come in" she said as she stood up and walked round the desk "They are both still unconcious but should start to come round in the next hr or so, I only reported it to the Admiral because the use of the gas otherwise I would of continued to try and sort things out between them myself." she said as she then waited for his reply.

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[Robert MacDonald]

It was to be his first assignment on board a starship,despite having had dealings with Starfleet for a number of years,well he had been Counselor for New recruits at Starfleet Academy ,yet despite never having held a Starfleet rank as such enjoyed his time at the Academy.One of his students had once remarked;''How can an Earthbound Desk Jockey be of any remote use to those of us who are preparing to head off out into space?''.a reasonable enough enough question but at last it seemed that the powers that be were giving him a chance to ''go up there''.He had by means of two supply vessels,and two starbases later made his way to DS-5 ;where he had learned he had only just missed out on a shuttle heading back to his first starship assignment;the USS Horizon.He reckoned that the useage of the supply vessels to get him from Earth to his final destination was for two purposes,one to break him into to the delights of space travel,and secondly smeone had a warped sense of humour.Apart from a few brief notes he did not know much about the crew of the Horizon,only that he had been told they ;''Were not your average Starship crew Mr. MacDonald,and who knows there may even be a couple of papers in it for you.''.He was being asssigned as a Civilian Detachment to the Horizon as Counselor.Among the crew on which he did have notes on there was one which he recognised from his time at the Academy,true it was only a one off visit she had to him,and it was not all that long ago that she would have forgotten him.He had managed to wangle his way on board a freighter and persuaded the captain to catch up with the Horizon.A hail had been made from the freighter to Horizon requesting permission to launch a shuttle carrying one passenger aboard.

[QaDghab]

QaDghab stirred earlier than expected, but he was still heavily effected by the Gas, his stomach turning and emptying before he was fully conscious and he shuddered, as he stubbornly fought to awaken. With it came anger as he slowly realized what happened and he growled out curses in barely tangible Klingon as he struggled to move. But oh, was he bitter, his daughter had gassed him, and he was pissed. He got half way sitting up before he collapsed, his eye rolling and barely focused on the wall which seemed to spin. His tongue stuck to his dry mouth with every attempted curse, and the smell of the gas still remained, seeming to soak in his brain. But still he fought it...

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy could hear her father curseing and grimaced he sounded angry, and with her luck his anger would now be focused on her. She left him ranting for now, she should of known the gas would not keep him out as long as it should.

She just stood there waiting for Chadwick to decide what the next course of action was to be.

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[Robert MacDonald]

As he sat in the shuttle awaiting conformation from the Horizon,that he would be allowed to board,afterall not all the crew knew that he was being posted to the Horizon,he took a moment to check over the bits and pieces he had brought along with him.It also gave him more time to go over the notes on certain of the crew which he had in both written form and on a PADD;he used some of the time transcripting the notes from the handwritten onto the PADD,afterall in this day and age who really needs to use handwritten anything,but then again there were some useful and interesting snippets.He also knew that from the make up of the crew that not all would take kindly to the usual ''counselor/patient'' routine of ;''let's sit down and talk'' mince.Then again judging by certain of the crew ,would they even be allowed up on the furniture ? The methods he was considering trying would in some circles raise a few eyebrows,if not be outright shouted down..but then as anyone who was good at the job they did,there were occassions where you had to adapt the tools you had to do a job different from what they were intended.Of all the crew members onboard Horizon ,it was the older Klingon that posed him his biggest challenge,not because he was afraid of Klingons,there had been a couple at the Academy over the years.The challenge was in trying to see if the techniques ;which he rather successfully utilised on the Klingon students with some surprise to his colleagues,and at the last he had heard were being written into to the Academy Counselors' Training manuals for the future courses;would work on a fully fledged Klingon Officer.as for the Caitian crew members well he had started working on some material to be incorporated into a holo programme for use with them.In the meantime just sit back and relax,and await instructions from the Horizon.

[TanisHeavenway]

Relieved that the Old Klingon he had in his sickbay was finally taken care of, Tanis had finally finished the paper work and sent the report to the CO.

His regular duty schedule wasnt set to start until Tomorrow but he didnt want to put off till tomorrow what he could do today. Now tho, He thought he would head to the Lounge, have a few drinks, and perhaps meet with Izzy again, his travel partner from Starbase 103 to Horizon, They didnt get much chance to talk and perhaps, considering it was the end of the day pretty near, they would come out for a drink.

Tanis hit his commbadge. "Ensign Delaney, Izzy, Do you have time for a drink in the Lounge?"

He waited for a reply as he headed for a drink.

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Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS HORIZON

[Jackie Clawson]

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K'Vok hit the chime of the Ready room carefully. He was holding a bowl of soup in one hand and a mug of bloodwine in the other, while wearing a Cheshire cat grin. It would take all of his debating and luck to get this plan to work, but hopefully the bribes would help.

Ears flickering at the chine, Jackie took in a breath calming herself down. Jenkins, a PADD in hand, cut off in midsentence at the sound of the chime took a step back so as not to fall into her view. Jackie closed her eyes rubbed the bridge of her nose chasing away a variety of thoughts and ideas of what she could do with the person behind the door.

"Enter!" she called out, tugging at the hem of her uniform as she slipped into her typical mode.

K'Vok entered, throwing a slight glare at the puny human enlisted man before looking at the Admiral. "I bring dinner, libation, and a proposition. All three of which would be very good for you to accept."

"I'm not hungry. I don't need any libation... and whatever the proposition is.. it better be damn good for me to accept" Jackie spoke throwing a side glare at Jenkins who quickly left the two of them alone.

The half-breed made a chiding sound, "Food is good for you. Besides, it's soup, easy on a wounded stomach, good for being solid, but a still not being too heavy... Plus bloodwine to wash it down, you know you like bloodwine..."

"Right now, I don't indulge in a lot of things that I like" Jackie responded tapping at the console to move to the next screen of data. "Besides, I don't want to eat anything right now" she spoke evenly reminding herself that K'Vok was one person she wouldn't want to get violent with, considering the results of last time the Caitian did so.

"But it's Vulcan, prepared with the very best of Vulcan spices...salt. Really, think it a treat, I don't cook Vulcan meals often. It's hot, it's fresh, it's...soupy. Give a warrior some credit, I brought you food that wasn't still moving..." K'Vok sighed, "Anyway I have a proposition for you. Shield guards."

"I wasn't aware you cook." Jackie spoke, finding the idea of K'Vok cooking, a bit strange; if not somewhat disturbing. She absently tapped at the console, reading the data there but not really concentrating on it as K'Vok went on. She looked up sharply as he finished what he had to say.

"Shield guards? Like you being Ta'pez's kr'tach? " she blinked, "what does this have to do with the Horizon?" she spoke.

"Everything. You are an Admiral, Admirals need shield guards. Shadows, confidants, protectors, not to mention they look cold...cool...look cool."

Jackie shook her head. The Caitian stood and grabbing a PADD off her desk made her way to the observation area looking out at the view of the stars passing by as the ship sailed on. Jackie's mind raced forth along with the ship, K'Vok's statement bringing back a lot of painful memories as well as reality setting in.

"No" she spoke simply, yet firmly, she turned to face the exchange officer. "I cannot be protected" she said, "Admiral or not. Mark tried despite the fact that he knows he can't protect me either," she noted. Jackie turned back facing the space outside, she let out a small chuckle. "Nobody can protect me" the Caitian spoke, 'not after what I'd done' she thought closing her eyes for a brief moment her mind taking her back 14 years in the past.

Jackie's ears flickered at the painful memories, the PADD dropped to the deck with a thud jarring the Caitian out of her daze.

"Yeah, maybe I should eat something" she spoke heading over to retrieve the plate as she fought to regain control of her senses.

K'Vok's dark eyes kept locked on the Admiral Kitty, "Why can't anyone protect you? Is there something you have to prove? Besides, shield guards aren't just for protection, they're a show of position and authority, a matter of tradition...and I know someone who's well trained in the position of kr'tach..."

Jackie shook her head, "no. I am not the one who has something to prove" she said gingerly reaching for the soup. "I'm just the one with a price on my tail" she smirked before closing her eyes and catching a whiff of the soup, half wondering if she should taste it or would that be a mistake. "And you're forgetting this is a Federation starship, and I am not a head of a House" Jackie spoke, "besides, I doubt Ta'pez would approve"

"You hardly have to be a Head of a House to have kr'tach, you have to be either a head of a house, or a flag. You're a flag, I've been meaning to harass you about this for a while, but someone rudely interrupted by attacking you, sending you into a coma, kidnapping you, proving my point, running you through with a blade..." He growled slightly at the end, "Giving a bad name to pointy ears in general. But the point is, flag officer, your focus should be on command, not on who's going to try to kill you next."

Jackie looked up from the soup and chuckled.

"K'Vok, d'you have any idea how many people try to kill me every now and then?" she asked the male, "if the deathmatch at this year's tournament was any indication of that. Sorak's not the first, " she said, "he's not the last either." She spoke finally taking a taste of the soup the male has brought her. "Half of Romulus's got a price on my head, the other's hunting me down; and that's just the Romulans. There are plenty other races out there who'd like to get their hands on me"

She paused for a moment before saying anything else.

"K'Vok I can't hide behind bodyguards and whatnot. I have a job to do. And it's not just command, I pissed off a lot of people in my career, as do other Starfleet officers. But they don't hire bodyguards or anyone to cover their asses, I don't either. I used to be a security officer amongst other things, I know how to take care of myself" she smirked slightly, "again, if the tournament's any indication of that" she said levelling her gaze on her Chief of Ops.

"besides, I don't think I need kr'tach." She spoke, "what Sorak did…" she trailed off her mind searching for something, "I've been through worse, and I'm still here." She shrugged. "You can't protect me. Mark can't protect me. Nobody can protect me" she said. 'not with my record and my past' Jackie thought to herself.

"It's not just about protection, Admiral, although the fact that you have so many people after you ought to get it into your fuzzy brain of yours that you can't do everything. Not even Klingons are that stubborn, that's why they have kr'tach." K'Vok stood up, running a hand through his hair. "It's tradition. Admiral's body-guards are traditional, you can't just break tradition. It doesn't have to be me, it can be one of your trained Federation monke- security people..."

Jackie smiled wryly.

"I'm not your typical Admiral" she said taking another spoonful of the soup, "like I said, no one can protect me. You can try, but…" she trailed off pausing to savour the taste of the soup. "last thing I wanna be is your typical Admiralty" she said making a face.

"Well it's not like you have a choice on the protecting. My outfit might not gleam, but I'm going to be imitating that, what was it, 'gnat in shining armour'? At least until you are fully proficient with all manner of Klingon blades." And I'm the one teaching, so there's no avoiding me...cue the evil laughter. K'Vok thought wryly as he watched Clawson eat. "Oh, the soup might not be wonderful...I do cook, but usually not Vulcan. Unfortunately, all of my Klingon soup recipes included live things or a bottle of bloodwine."

Jackie looked up. "what's wrong with bloodwine? Or live things? Or Vulcan food, other than the fact that it's vegetarian" she queried. "and I think it's… 'knight' in shining armour, as humans put it."

"I only had good vintage and replicated bloodwine tends to make it go badly...and live food is good, except not for recovering stomachs, which is what yours is." K'Vok shrugged, "As for Vulcan food, it's bland, unless you ignore the recipe and go by taste."

Jackie shrugged.

"Figure, as long as medical lays off of my tail before I kill someone," she spoke, "right now what they are suggesting isn't what I require" she said polishing off the last of the soup, "neither is what you suggested about shield guards. Chadwick already has security watching me around the clock, however discreet they are." She smirked a little "once a security officer, always a security officer" she added. "then there's Jenkins…" she slapped her forehead, "Last thing I want to have is a whole entourage following me around"

"Maybe if you had shield-guards, Chadwick's guards would go away, and besides, I'm sure we could scare off the scrawny Jenkins so you wouldn't have to deal with him." K'Vok winked slightly. "Medical is always over-protective, but eating soup isn't medical advice; it's a warrior's advice. Bloodwine also helps for the stomach, in moderation, not enough to get drunk, only half a bottle or so..."

"They are, for most part staying out of the way" Jackie noted, "with shield guards I don’t think that would be possible. To start with, this isn't a Klingon vessel, and I'm not in KDF. What do you think the impact on the ship will be once they hear their CO has gotten a kr'tach?" She said, "and Jenkins is my Aide apparently. So for the time being I have to deal with him."

"A good Shield Guard isn't intrusive..." K'Vok grumbled, though he didn't answer on the part about the crew's reaction. He didn't know how humans thought, he could hardly figure out how he thought day by day. Grunting, he decided to take a more tactical approach. He would present this idea to her again, later, after a couple bottles of bloodwine.

"Much like a good bodyguard," Jackie smirked, "or a security officer" she added, "this might have been easier if I were Klingon and in KDF and this was a KDF vessel abiding by KDF and Klingon ways, at least in a way; but since this isn't and I'm not…." She trailed off shaking her head. "Besides, like I said, you cannot protect me." She spoke, her tone shifting gears as she clasped her hands together, "not all the time." She spoke, her eyes locking onto her Chief of Operations.

K'Vok grunted, "There's no choice on protection, Kitty. No one can face life alone, and even those pips on your collar don't require you to try. Don't forget to finish your soup."

"Didn't start out facing life alone" the Caitian spoke her tone taking on a darker lower shade as painful memories briefly resurfacing again.

Jackie pushed herself away from her desk and stood up. Silently making her way to the observation area, Jackie's eyes locked onto the stars slipping away from her gaze as the Horizon swept past them as Jackie fought off the mental assault.

K'Vok followed her, hesitating slightly before leaning against her, putting his hands on her shoulders as he lowered his voice. There was something she was hiding, something in her past she didn't want to talk about, something that now K'Vok was curious as a terran cat about. "Then why live life alone now? What changed?"

Jackie flinched, before a low growl escaped her throat, the Caitian caught herself before she made any moves she'd regret as she recalled the betleH tournament and the bar on Serenity. .Last thing she needed right now was a repeat of that particular incident.

"I suggest you are careful with where you park your hands next time, ne' " she spoke, her tone curt as she whirled to face him and at the same time made some distance between the two, "I'd like to get back to work now," she added her tone less strained, "I have wasted enough time already talking to people today as is" she said making her way back to her desk again.

Abort mission! Abort mission! Mini-klaxons and alarms were suddenly ringing in K'Vok's mind. Sighing, the half-breed ran a hand through his short hair. "We'll talk when you're less busy then. Remember, mekleH training 1900 on Tuesday. Don't be late."

"Yeh" Jackie responded lightly waving a hand in the air as if to shoo the half breed out of the room her eyes locked onto something on the screen infront of her.

K'Vok grunted, then turned and left, leaving the soup and bloodwine behind. He would continue this later, but a direct approach would never work. He needed more information. He needed to find out why she was closed off. He also needed Caitian mating rituals...


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SOmeone might wanna clear our counselor to come aboard. ;)

[Delaney Orion]

Delaney Orion Left her quarters, she had spent the last few hours wandering the ship, saying "Hi" To various crewmembers but not actually getting to sit down and talk with anyone, even getting to know them for that matter.

The only one as of yet she actually knew was Tanis, the CMO. And then Izzy, but even then, she didnt know a whole lot about that Caitain....Cataine....Cat Person, Whatever it was he called his people.

She laughed at the thought of petting Izzy back on starbase 103, How Mature that must have looked, Delaney thought as she walked the cooridoors.

She entered a turbolift.

"Tanis to Ensign Delaney, Got time for a Drink?" She heard over her comm badge.

"Yeah" She replied. "I would love that, I was planning on making a stop first, ill see you after that"

"All right" Tanis said "see you then"

The turbolift doors opened, and Ensign Delaney entered the bridge. She had yet to see it and it was bustling with activity...or at least thats what she thought, she had Never been to a starship bridge before, at least not a real one.

She stared in Awe, and then searched for the room where the CO would be.

After a quick walk about, she found it, and suddenly some Klingon exited the room.

~At least i know she isnt busy now~ Delaney thought and Rang the Door Chime to Admiral Clawsons Ready Room.

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Ensign Delaney Orion
1st Year Councilor Assistant
USS HORIZON

[Robert MacDonald]

''Why do they make these shuttle seats so uncomfortable'';he thought to himself,they obviously werent built for luxury space travel.But then again this was his first time off planet,it is maybe like a horse's saddle,something one gets used to given enough time.Carrying on with his transcripts of the written notes to the PADDS,he had reached the only one of the crew he had had direct dealings with;a brief smile passed over his face as he recalled to mind their first encounter and how the problem she was having had been resolved.As was typical of the way of things she had even gotten into space before him,not only that but onboard the same ship he had been assigned.

[Jackie Clawson]

ON:

Jackie stared at the screen infront of her as K'vok exited the ready room. The Caitian fought the resurfacing memories as she read the screen infront of her, or at least tried to.

'didn't start out facing life alone' Her own words rung in her ears, she took in a sharp breath looking aside and locking onto the small band lying on a little plate like object out of sight from anyone standing on the opposite end of the desk, but visible clearer if one were sitting right where Jackie was. Jackie picked it up and held it in her hand for a moment not saying anything as if lost in thoughts and memories.

She heard a faint sound from a distance, a chime, the door chime bringing her back to the real world. Taking in a breath, Jackie replaced the ring on it's base softly smiling at the image that flickered on and hovered above the ring for a brief moment. She whispered something in Caitian as the image flickered out.

The chime sounded again, Jackie slid the small object off her desk and into a drawer and closed it shut away from possible prying eyes from the parade of doctors, counsellors, and other types that have visited her ready room in the last few hours alone. 'c'mon, back to work hotshot' she chided herself as she slipped into her 'usual' self showing no signs of trouble or worries.

"Enter!" Jackie spoke, her glance steady locked at the door as the Caitian took a swig of the bloodwine that K'Vok's brought along with the soup.

[Delaney Orion]

Delaney entered the Admirals ready room as the doors opened.

Her heart was beating rather fast, she was nervous...Back at the Acadamy she learned that USUALLY a "Captain" Captains a ship, and that would have been ok at this moment, but instead...Her boss is an ADMIRAL.

She felt her face grow hot and sweat start to bead on her forhead. She would have to be on her best behavior, They say that some captains can be damn Uptight...well Luckey for Delaney...She has an Admiral, she only hoped she would be easy going like some other captains she heard about.

As she entered she looked at the Admiral and her eyes almost widened at the sight...A Cat Lady!

"S-Sir!" She said in Acknowledgement, she stood at attention.

Delaney stared right into the admirals eyes...Not to be rude, It was the last thing Delaney wanted, but, Being only the second or third Caitain she had ever met...The whole species she thought...were Gorgeous...They looked so...Cuddly Delaney thought.

"I thought I would come down and report in before my Duty Shift tomorrow." Delaney said...And then she raised an eyebrow.

She looked around but couldnt find the source of the smell she suddenly got a whif of...Almost like, some sort of Alcohol.

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Ensign Delaney Orion
1st Year Councilor Assistant
USS HORIZON

[Grenn]

<Horizon - Bridge>

After following Izzy for a bit, J'al came back to the bridge. As he got there, he found nobody in particular in charge. Most likley, the Admiral was stil in her ready room then, waiting for something to happen. So as it was, he was the senior most officer here for the moment.

Not wanting to really do anything about it, he slid back to his station and pulled up some data on the Pirates that M'Karll had encountered. Things such as their known operations, reports from Intel agents, and reports filed by Starships that encountered them recently.

As he did this, the Ops officer on watch called out to him. "Lieutenant. Freighter SS Laconia is hailing us. Requesting permission to send over a crew member assigned to us. Counseling Department."

J'al thought for a second. This must be their new Counselor. Not an officer, but a civilian. The Horizon didn't have very many Civilians aboard. But if he wanted the assignment...

"Let him dock. Send a guide to escort him to where he needs to be." J'al said as the Ops officer complied.

OFF: :D I'm on the bridge again :p Imagine out counseling assistant seeing another one of us when she leaves the office. BWAHAHAH! :p

[Jennifer Dylan]

< Horizon - Bridge >

"Lieutenant. Freighter SS Laconia is hailing us. Requesting permission to send over a crew member assigned to us. Counseling Department."

J'al replied slowly, ""Let him dock. Send a guide to escort him to where he needs to be."

Jennifer pulled back on the throttle a bit, to give the pilot a clearer shot at the ship. She'd heard stories about civilian pilots and their inclinations to come in too fast and leave deep gores in the sides of starships. She really didn't want to risk it, for fear of ticking off an officer 8 ranks higher than her and getting sour looks from the entire Engineering department for the rest of her post there. She glanced at the throttle, then nudged it back a bit further.

So... they were getting a new Counsellor, eh? Wouldn't do the crew much good, she thought. What they really needed was a bigger brig and maybe a few more security officers.

"Counsellors are great," she thought to herself, "but I've learned here that some relationships can't be repaired but with a swift kick in the face."

She laughed at the thought of QaDghab. She knew he meant well, but he was really a typical Klingon. He'd try to kill anyone, friend or foe, if they insulted him, and couldn't sit through an entire conversation without feeling insulted by something. Ironically enough, the Caitians tended to be like that, too. Save for the admiral, Jennifer didn't feel she could actually talk to a single Caitian on that ship without worrying that the next passer-by would have their head ripped off. I mean, sure they were a passionate species, but she'd never seen anyone so hostile to their freinds in her life, except a few select Klingons she'd known. Yeah, one time some random guy she met one day almost walked out of a bar with a betleH through his gut for a comment he made to her. Not that he didn't deserve it, but it goes to show you how Klingons can act sometimes. Anyway, Jennifer didn't know how much longer she could stay sane on a ship like this. Judging from the way the rest of the crew acted, it wouldn't be long.

Maybe a counsellor would be a good idea, after all...

OFF: This was an awesome post, I have to say. :p

[Jackie Clawson]

Jackie looked up at the ensign in teal, she casually clasped her friends infront of her and gently leaned on her desk after throwing a passing glance at the screen.

"At ease Ensign...Orion" she spoke in a soft tone noticing how nervous the woman was. She cringed mentally at the 'formality'. "Welcome aboard, I'm sure this will be quite a learning experience for your practicum" She paused seeing the Engisn raise her eyebrow.

"Is there a problem?" she queried as she gently leaned back in her chair casually watching the Trill female.

[Delaney Orion]

Delaney looked at the Admiral. The Fact that SHE WAS an Admiral made her even more nervous then she had hoped, Almost Ten Fold.

"Thank You Sir"

She kiked herself mentally for showing how nervous she really was, she was hoping to make a good impression, and this was not a good way to start.

She was still in the Acadamy, Practically a Cadet with an Ensign Disignation, And one wrong move aboard the ship, and the Admiral could Technically Remove her from the whole program altogether.

At the sound of 'At Ease' She relaxed, at least as much as she could have.

The Admirals Cat Eyes looked into hers. If she wasnt so nervous it would almost be Cute.

"Sir...Uh Ma'am" She corrected. "I..." She stopped and took a deep Breath to gather her thoughts. "I just wanted to Thank you for Allowing me aboard"

The smell of the Strange Alcohol seemed to sting at her nose, and the Admiral was on duty...Tho being an Admiral, surely it was her Perogative to drink on the Job...But how much? Delaney wondered to herself.

"Maybe There is" Delaney said, she braced herself for the question...she had to ask it, It was her responsability..."Have you Been Drinking Admiral?"

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Ensign Delaney Orion
Councilor Assistant
USS HORIZON

[Jackie Clawson]

Jackie smirked, "a little bloodwine never hurt anyone, Ensign," she spoke indicating the mug; Jackie paused, "well unless you throw it at 'em, but why waste good bloodwine" she noted.

Jackie couldn't help but notice the assistant 'analyzing' her in some way, already. What counselor wouldn't, she supposed. Jakcie reached for the pile of qavIn beans nearby and tossing one inside her mouth bit into it straight away.

"Don't worry Ensign, I'm not the over indulging type" Jackie added, 'Once was enough' she thought to herself; Mark still teased her about that one.

[Hayden Shaw]

Hayden made his way into the Security office wearing a spiffy new Starfleet uniform. At least the Quartermaster had his act together. The door swished open and he saw Ensign Swan and the XO. "Are our lovebirds still sleeping peacefully?"

Sammy turned to see who was speaking to her "One of them is, the other is currently cursing his daughter" she said with a grin.

"Marvelous," Hayden said returning the grin. "That was a little harsh of you though. You even took away his little knife. I've prepared a list of charges for both of them. And it doesn't bode well for your father."

"He may be my father but he is still a member of this crew, and as such he has to follow the rules" she said the smile fading from her face.

"The way things are facing up, he won't be a member of the crew for long," Hayden grunted as he slid arthritically into a chair and laid his cane beside it. "Even if we ignore the Insubordination, the Drunk and Disorderly, (and the list goes on), and unprovoked attack on an officer is enough to pitch him off this ship and back to the KDF."

"That is not for either of us to decide, that is why Commander Chadwick is here" she stated flatly.

"With all due respects to the Commander and the Admiral." he continued quietly. "If Ensign R'pas realizes he can break the chain of command and presses charges through JAG, all anyone can do is sit back and watch. Any lawyer can pin M'karll's actions on self defense. And the Insubordination he's charged with gets him one month tops in the cooler. And your father gets drummed out of the exchange."

"I am well aware of that having been through that system myself on attempted murder charges" she stated.

Hayden stared blankly at her. He'd never seen a Klingon in blood rage but he had heard that it was almost unstoppable. It was almost unthinkable that the person standing in front of him had almost killed someone. He was glad she was on his side. Hayden composed himself.

"Then you know full well the trouble he is in. And you also know that to prevent this, we have to either appeal to M'karll to not press charges or keep him ignorant of his legal rights."

Hayden sighed in his mind. It was so much more complicated when two crewmen fought. Wars were easier in that sense.

"I do and if I ever hear you even suggest that I, or any other officer in this department hides a prisoners rights from him you will be very sorry. Do you understand me?" She asked sounding angry that he would even suggest such a thing to her.
She knew just how bad things could go for her father, but at least no-one had been hurt.

Way to make an impression, Hayden. he thought.

"That wasn't even meant as a suggestion." Hayden continued with the Assistant Chief. "But I've seen people do worse. But that was another time. Ensign M'karll and QaDghab have to get on civilized terms in the brig before we do anything. Or things will escalate fast. The one thing we don't have to worry about is a Klingon asking for a lawyer. Otherwise the rest is mud."

"Right now all of QaDghab's anger is aimed at me for three reasons. I ordered them both transported to the brig; I confiscated all of his weapons and then gassed him. So right now I would think he feels a lot of anger towards me he may even feel that I have in some way betrayed him."

"As for convincing Ensing M'Karrl to forget any of this happened I wish you both luck, I can not get involved for obvious reasons. What ever decision is made concerning them can not be made my me or it will be criticized as I am related to one of the prisoners" she replied

This time Hayden sighed audibly as he got out of his char and retrieved his stick. "I'll see if I can get this done without getting the Admiral involved. All she should read on the report is 'Dealt With'. I'll go over to the delinquents once Ensign R'pas has roused."

Before Hayden made it out the door he turned to address Swan. "If you want, I can deliver your father his knife. It might be a first step."

"He has been informed he will get his weapons back when he is released, and you will do nothing or say anything to either prisoner unless Commander Chadwick orders it.

As for Admiral Clawson she already has a full report on what has happened since they were put in their cells, what ever else she sees will be down to Commander Chadwick to decide." she replied

"Yes Ma'am." Hayden replied promptly. The simple thing about orders was that you didn't have to like them. You just had to follow them. "I'll be in the armoury. I'd like to inventory our weapons."

"Very well, you will find a phaser missing from the cases, it is in here" she said.

"I hope we have better circumstances for working under than this." Hayden said as he began to exit the room.

"I just hope we will still be working together after this" she replied sounding slightly sad.

JP betwixt

Ensign Sammy Jo Swan
Assistant Chief Security/Tactical
USS Horizon-A
Taskforce 58

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[Delaney Orion]

Delaney was Relieved, She almost wished she took the question back as soon as she asked it.

The Admirals calm demeanor to her question allowed her to settle down a bit.

"Thank you Ma'am" Delaney smiled. "I should let you get back to your Duty, It was good Meeting you, I still need to get settled in"

A few moments Later Delaney left the Ready room Smiling...She certainly seemed nice, A lot nicer then she had expected, and she headed to the Lounge to meet Tanis.

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Ensign Delaney Orion
Councilors Assistant
USS HORIZON

[Robert MacDonald]

Having heard the hail from the Horizon he replied;''Horizon thank you,this is Counselor Robert MacDonald reporting for duty,please inform whoever is on duty at the shuttlebay that as I have never flown a shuttle before I will be coming in on autocontrol,well would not want tae gouge out any parts of your fine ship.And if M'Karll is around I have a message for him from the Captain of the Laconia regarding the shuttle I am coming to you in.''.He finished that last sentence with a grin,before flicking the controls to autocruise.Some impression he would make crashing in on the Horizon on his very first visit.As the shuttle homed in on the Horizon's shuttle bay;he hoped that the crew member from the Laconia had given him the correct information how to do this;he took the remaining time to gather up his various PADDs and notes ,packing them into one of his flightbags.

[M'karll]

OOC: Skipping here a bit.

<Lounge, Izzy>

Izzy looked up from his Saurian Brandy as the doors to the Officer's Louge opened. He had just been discussing with Dr. Heavenway a polite request to be informed of any surgeries that were being performed in the Sickbay since he was, after all a surgeon. "I would just like to know about the procedures is all," he said with an easy-going smile. "I certainly would never dream of taking such a simple procedure as the one you performed on QaDghab from you, if you really wanted it." Izzy took a sip from his drink and waved a paw in Delaney's direction. "Over here Orion," he called, drawing a few stares for shouting Orion across the lounge, but not really caring. "I also got the Admiral to let me take her something to eat... she really has it in for us doctors, even Caitian ones," he muttered as Delaney approached their table in the back.

<M'karll, Brig>

M'karll shook his head as he came to in the brig. Trust the big stupid Klingon to already be awake and shouting his brains out, not that there was much there. "Don't you ever shut-up," he barked at QaDghab. "You're in a lot more trouble than I am, after all."

M'karll sat up and shook his head again. Far be it from anyone to keep his rights from him, it was one of the perks to having a Rear Admiral for an Aunt and a Lieutenant Commander that had served as aide to several Generals for an older sister. For the moment, M'karll was largely disinclined to not press charges, so long as he could leverage enough to keep himself out of trouble. Although, if some security officer neglected to mention his rights to him, in full, then the Caitian would press charges against that officer through the JAG's office faster than anyone could bat an eye. Plus, just because he wasn't planning on pressing charges against the idiot lug-head now didn't mean he couldn't come back and do so at a later date.

<Main Engineering, Prith>

The Andorian engineer rounded a bend in the corridor and stood before the main entrance to Main Engineering. Taking a small breath, the dredlocked Lieutenant Commander strode through the door and into the hustle and bustle that was the true hub of any starship as far as he was concerned. Engineers were running helter skelter all through the place, but Prith was able to (for the most part) make heads and tails of what was going on. "Where is teh Chief Engineer," he asked, catching a passing ensign by the arm.

[QaDghab]

<M'karll, Brig>

M'karll shook his head as he came to in the brig. Trust the big stupid Klingon to already be awake and shouting his brains out, not that there was much there. "Don't you ever shut-up," he barked at QaDghab. "You're in a lot more trouble than I am, after all."

M'karll sat up and shook his head again. Far be it from anyone to keep his rights from him, it was one of the perks to having a Rear Admiral for an Aunt and a Lieutenant Commander that had served as aide to several Generals for an older sister. For the moment, M'karll was largely disinclined to not press charges, so long as he could leverage enough to keep himself out of trouble. Although, if some security officer neglected to mention his rights to him, in full, then the Caitian would press charges against that officer through the JAG's office faster than anyone could bat an eye. Plus, just because he wasn't planning on pressing charges against the idiot lug-head now didn't mean he couldn't come back and do so at a later date.


"Didn't I tell you I would cut your tongue out if you don't be silent, kitten?!" He growled as he climbed up to get water from the cell's replicator unit. "You get what you deserve Kitten." He said as he drank from the plastic cup that was only material other than food and some drinks, that the cell's replicators were programed to make.

[Roman Dagara]

ON -- Lounge

Roman sat sipping his drink. He had been informed that the Chief Medical Officer had come on board. He really didn't know what to expect from the new Medic that came on. He had been sleeping a lot lately since the attack and near death of Admiral Clawson. He knew that the Klingon had got his surgery done and he had talked to the Nurse that had assisted in the procedure. Roman was glad he wasn't there at the time as he knew that he would be in the way as he was trying to study to get his own Dr liscense.

Roman stared around as he had for the last few moments he thought that now might be the time to get to Sick Bay and start doing the performance reviews on his Nurses. He still hadn't really checked up on any reports on how Admiral Clawson was doing however from what he remembered of her she didn't seem to like medical personel in any way.

Roman slowly got off of his bar stool and walked towards the door. He saw that some of the officers were now in the lounge but Roman didn't really feel like meeting these officers now. Roman wasn't in his marine uniform and he would never wear the starfleet standard uniform of the medical personel. He hated the blue colour on him.

ON SickBay

Roman walked into sick bay this was his first day back on since the Admiral's near death experience. He had spent a lot of time sleeping to try and get his strength back. He hadn't even had a chance to meet with the new Dr's who had transferred to the Horizon.

Roman looked at his desk and saw that there was a PADD awaiting him. Roman picked up the PADD and started to read it. It was a report on how the Klingon was fairing after the surgery and was a report on what the Nursing staff would be doing in the next few days. He was still trying to get inventory fully set up again in Sick Bay as they had lost a lot of items when Sickbay was damaged.

Roman sat back and saw that Nurse Emil was coming over to him with a cup of Java in her hands. "Here you go Sir. I also left you the report on the Klingon."

"Thank you Nurse Emil. Have you had the chance to meet the new Dr yet that transferred on board?"

The nurse looked at Roman and shook her head "Sorry Sir I haven't had the opportunity. The Nurse that helped him with the surgery is currently not on duty. That Nurse will be in first thing tommorrow morning."

Roman smiled at the nurse "Thank you Nurse Emil. "

The nurse strode away and Roman began working on the appraisals of his nurses. They all were good nurses but a few of them were a bit to casual with him and the other staff members. He was a Marine and that kinda rankled him a bit. He was used to clearly defined roles in all areas. As he began first with Nurse Emil he noted that she was the best Nurse currently on board the Horizon and she should be given a shift supervisory position when he wasn't around. He would have to discuss this with the new CMO to get her that position. He made a note that he would have to meet up with the CMO and get authorization for this and to find out what he expected of him. Roman needed the clearly defined sense of procedures since he came here the CMO that was with them had not even made an appearance to introduce himself.

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[Jennifer Dylan]

OFF: You read my post! Yay for shipgoring!

| USS Horizon
| Bridge

Jennifer heard from the comm station that the counsellor was coming in. She heard something about autocontrol and gouging out parts of the ship. Not really wanting to be at the wheel when a shuttle came crashing into the corridor next to the shuttle bay, she jumped up and grabbed Chief Daniels, dragging him to the helm seat.

"You might want to pull the throttle back a tad or two.. or four, " she said.

The Ensign didn't really think she heard him. He was probably too stunned by the sudden inter-sex physical contact to even be cognicent. Perv.

Shaking off the Chief Daniels thing, Jennifer skipped off to the turbolift and sent it off towards the shuttle bay to greet the new counsellor. (And maybe help repair the damage to the hull... You never know with autopilot...)


| USS Horizon
| Shuttle Bay

Ensign Dylan walked into the Shuttle Bay to find the entire exterior bulkhead intact, and a shuttle landed cleanly in the middle of its designated landing zone. Coming from an autopilot program, that was pretty darn good. Next to the shuttle stood a man in a blue Starfleet-issue medical uniform. Jennifer walked up to him, and said, "You expecting an escort?"

He shook his head and said, ''Och, no, lassie, I wisnae telt about any escort.''

"Too bad," she laughed, "you've got one."

Laughing along with her, he replied, "And a finer escort I could nae have asked for. A fine ship she is too, ye have here.''
She nodded, "Well worded, my friend. I assume you're Mr. MacDonald?"

He nodded to her. ''Aye, I am he. Guilty as charged. And who might ye be, lass?''

"I'm Ensign Jennifer Dylan, our acting Chief Flight Control Officer." The man shot her an odd look as if to say, "And someone's flying this thing, right?"

Jenny laughed, seeing what he was getting at. "Don't worry. I've got Rob... Chief Daniels at the wheel." She corrected herself when she realized what the interim driver would think hearing her call him by his first name. She shivered just thinking about it. "Anyway, follow me. I'll show you around."

With that, the two of them walked out of the shuttle bay together and off towards the medbay.

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[Robert MacDonald]

Having said his good byes to Ensign Dylan outside the Medbay,he wandered in to search out which was going to be his office.There would be time enough to find his own qurter's later.Firstly he had some people to see before he did anything else.

[M'karll]

<Brig, M'karll>

"Didn't I tell you I would cut your tongue out if you don't be silent, kitten?!" He growled as he climbed up to get water from the cell's replicator unit. "You get what you deserve Kitten." He said as he drank from the plastic cup that was only material other than food and some drinks, that the cell's replicators were programed to make.

"An' ye be gettin' kicked out o' Starfleet and da KDF, ye great blowhardin' honorless targ," M'karll shot back in retort. "'Sides, ye'd never be sober 'nuff ta be makin' good on yer threat thar matey," M'karll continued, crossing to his cell's replicator and ordering the same meal of spaghetti and meatballs he'd been trying to enjoy when the retard with ridges had arrived.

The pilot grinned when the plate of food materialized with a glass of water. It was almost too good to be true. The replicator had made a knife with the meal. A butter knife, granted, but it was still a knife. The Caitian knew he simply had to taunt QaDghab about this one. "Ahoy,pataQ! It would be mos'ly seemin' ta me that I be havin' a knife 'ere in me cell! Remind me again t'what be 'appinin ta yer pointy litt'le dagger an' who be the one ta be takin' it ye slimey honorless space eel!" With that M'karll waved the knife around in the air and then took a bite of his food, listening closely to see if QaDghab would stupidly charge the forcefield head first again. It could be dinner and a show that way.

[Alex Chadwick]

Brig:Before the boys woke up.

She just stood there waiting for Chadwick to decide what the next course of action was to be.

Alex smirked and shook his head. "I don't think we need to let this go anywhere beyond the brig.You did what i would have done given the circumstance."

Alex turned and looked at the two in there cells.

"Let them sweat it out in here for a little while longer and then turn them loose.Monitor there movements and if they get within 50 feet of each other beam them back to the brig call me and we'll phaser them together."

[Sammy Jo Swan]

"Aye Sir" she replied

A short time later

Now that both them were awake and by the sound of it becoming verbal again, she went through and opened M'Karll's cell. "Ok Ensign lets go talk" she said.

Tag M'Karll

[QaDghab]

"I was kicked out of KDF a long time ago fool! They can't do it twice!" He growled, becoming silent only when Sammy showed up, and then growling lowly as she opened M'karll's Cell.

[Robert MacDonald]

IN THE COUNSELOR'S OFFICE : He now had time to settle not just into his office but quarter's too.Having made tidy the effects which he had brought with him onto the Horizon.The first thing he did was send a memo to the Admiral's Ready Room Computer requesting an audience with her.From reading the notes on the ship's computer about any cases needing his attention,he ordered them into a list of prioritisation putting at the top of the list those cases which were the more in need of immediate attention.With some surprise he noticed that the top two names were in the brig;and were therefore not going to be too hard to find.Picking up a PADD he flicked off his office computer and headed off looking for both Ensign Swan and the Brig.

[M'karll]

<Brig, M'karll>

Now that both them were awake and by the sound of it becoming verbal again, she went through and opened M'Karll's cell. "Ok Ensign lets go talk" she said.

M'karll nodded and stood from his bunk, crossing first to the replicator to recycle his dishes and waht was left of his food. No reason to leave a mess after himself, after all. "Sure," he replied, turning from the replicator and flashing a very impish grin at QaDghab. He knew he shouldn't, but he just couldn't help baiting the Klingon.

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy waited while he cleared his food stuff and then took him through to her office, Sammy took her seat behind the desk and indicated that he should take the seat infront of it. Once he was sat down she spoke, "Ok Ensign I have been instructed to release you both without charge, the only restriction on the release of both of you is that you keep away from each other." she looked at him for a few moments knowing he would expect her to try and protect her father from any repercussions.

"What I need to know from you is whether or not you wish to procede with charges of your own against QaDghab lagh. Under the federation laws you know proberly better than me what your rights are in this matter,though I will not have you accuse me of not informing you of them or of showing any favoritism towards the other prisoner. You also have the option of bringing charges against me for the use of the gas on you if you think it was unwarrented." She passed him a padd detailing in full what his rights were and sat back in her chair waiting for his reply.

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[M'karll]

Sammy waited while he cleared his food stuff and then took him through to her office, Sammy took her seat behind the desk and indicated that he should take the seat infront of it. Once he was sat down she spoke, "Ok Ensign I have been instructed to release you both without charge, the only restriction on the release of both of you is that you keep away from each other." she looked at him for a few moments knowing he would expect her to try and protect her father from any repercussions.

"What I need to know from you is whether or not you wish to procede with charges of your own against QaDghab lagh. Under the federation laws you know proberly better than me what your rights are in this matter,though I will not have you accuse me of not informing you of them or of showing any favoritism towards the other prisoner. You also have the option of bringing charges against me for the use of the gas on you if you think it was unwarrented." She passed him a padd detailing in full what his rights were and sat back in her chair waiting for his reply.

M'karll considered for a moment before replying. "What repercussions will I be facing from the command staff," he asked finally. It would be good to know whether or not he needed to use his bargaining chip before frittering it away. After all, might come in handy.

[Sammy Jo Swan]

"As long as you do not purposely put yourself in place where you will meet QaDghab lagh, and you do not continue with your attempts to bait him into further trouble there will be no repercusions for you. The only places as far as I know that are not included in this would be the parts of the ship where crew socalise, if he is reported to start any trouble he will be transported straight back to the brig and the XO will then deal with the situation. The same will happen if you are reported to be starting trouble with him, that will include your making fun of him or insulting him in the hopes of angering him into doing something against you." She replied.

"If you wish to bring charges against me there will be no repercusions for that either it is within your rights to do so, nor will there be any repercusions against you from me if you do decide to press charges against either QaDghab lagh or myself Via J.A.G." she replied and waited for his response.

[Robert MacDonald]

He got on the turbolift on deck 5;asking it to take him to ;''Deck 9.'' Once he was off the lift,he then made his way towards the brig,where hopefully his first two clients were awaiting him.On entering ,he noticed Ensign Swan with who he reckoned by appearance from the notes he had read on his way over from the Laconia ;as being M'karll.Clearing his throar slightly;''Ensign Swan ,is Qadghab lagh still being entertained by you and your team ? ''.

[QaDghab]

QaDghab paced the floor of his cell, angry. The shirt under his armor sticking where blood had dried on his back, the sealed opening where the surgery had been performed having split a bit in the fight. He paid it no mind though as he continued to pace and mutter under his breath, his mutterings turning for a time to harsh words towards Damok who continued to taunt him in his mind...

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy looked up at the interuption and seeing the blue uniform of a councilor smiled evily, "Yes he is, go on through but do not attempt to open his cell" she replied and continued with the job at hand.

[Robert MacDonald]

Shaking his head ; ''I would not dream of opening up his cell door,afterall do not want to put you out of a job .'' He made his way over to where the cells were,stopping in front of the one which held his first client on board the Horizon. ''You have to be Qadghab lagh , I hope I have prounnonced it right? I am Counselor MacDonald ,may I have a few words with you ? ''.

[QaDghab]

QaDghab turned to glare at the Counselor with his single good eye, and spat, spital hitting the forcefield with a sizzle. "You have nothing to say that is of any concern to me!" He sneered.

[M'karll]

OOC: Break up that long thing as needed/wanted. :D

<Brig, M'karll>

"As long as you do not purposely put yourself in place where you will meet QaDghab lagh, and you do not continue with your attempts to bait him into further trouble there will be no repercusions for you. The only places as far as I know that are not included in this would be the parts of the ship where crew socalise, if he is reported to start any trouble he will be transported straight back to the brig and the XO will then deal with the situation. The same will happen if you are reported to be starting trouble with him, that will include your making fun of him or insulting him in the hopes of angering him into doing something against you." She replied.

"If you wish to bring charges against me there will be no repercusions for that either it is within your rights to do so, nor will there be any repercusions against you from me if you do decide to press charges against either QaDghab lagh or myself Via J.A.G." she replied and waited for his response.

Before M'karll could begin to respond the doors to the office split open and admitted someone who was, surprisingly, wearing civilian attire. Beofre either of them could ask who this newcomer was he spoke. ''Ensign Swan ,is Qadghab lagh still being entertained by you and your team ? ''

Sammy looked up at the interuption and seeing the blue uniform of a councilor smiled evily, "Yes he is, go on through but do not attempt to open his cell" she replied and continued with the job at hand.

Once the man had left M'karll returned to the situation at hand. "I didn't start the brawl in the lounge in the first place," he groused. "He walked in, tripped over my tail which was completely not my fault, spilled his gagh everywhere, then punched me in the face with no provocation. Even then I didn't retaliate, though it was mostly because my cousin shot me the 'don't do it' look. So, I insulted him a little bit instead of throwing a punch. So, we all sit back down with J'al and Ensign Dylan and try to keep having some semblance of a meal. Next thing I know, that lunatic is threatening to cut out my tongue and calling me a Grishner cat, whatever the hell that is. Then he stands up and starts yanking on my tail. Well, that was enough for me so I kicked him in the middle of his bad back, he went down and kept pulling on my tail so I stomped on his shoulder to make him let go after, uh... less than politely requesting that he release me. He did and I turned around and sat back down at the table, trying again to resume eating in a semi-normal manner. Next thing I know, that idiot backhands me across the face. So, I swept his legs out from under him and dropped his bowl of gagh on his head... and repeated a few more choice words. Then he kicked out my chair and hit me again and we scrambled to our feet and were beamed to the brig, where the doofus promptly charged the forcefield, which was honestly hilarious. An' I dun be thinkin' I ought'a be da one bein' punished when there be none o' this that be bein' me very own fault. I think if'n there bein' anythin' done to that great space eel, he outta be the one havin' ta leave any place I be wantin' ta go. Af'er all, I be innocent. An' fer the moment, so long as he get's coun'slin an' ye not be makin' me go I be disinclined ta be pressin' any charges 'gainst either of ye. Truthfully, wasna thinkin' o' pressin' charges 'gainst ye anyway, ye did what ye 'ad to, so no 'ard feelin's there."

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sitting back in her chair and listening to his every word even though it was being recorded, she nodded at a few of the points he made but said nothing until he had finished.

"Ensign R'pas as I have told you there are no charges or any restrictions being set other than those I have already mentioned, as for you not pressing charges I assume you know that you have the right to change your mind if things turn sour again" She said locking her eyes on his.

"As for not pressing charges against me personaly I am glad you understand that I was only doing my job, I also hope that you take note that you were both treated in the same manner and that no favoritism was shown to either of you."

[M'karll]

Sitting back in her chair and listening to his every word even though it was being recorded, she nodded at a few of the points he made but said nothing until he had finished.

"Ensign R'pas as I have told you there are no charges or any restrictions being set other than those I have already mentioned, as for you not pressing charges I assume you know that you have the right to change your mind if things turn sour again" She said locking her eyes on his.

"That be, o' course, somethin' I be knowin'," M'karll replied. "Sometimes it be payin' ta have a great-uncle and an auntie who be bein' flag officers, though I did be tellin' 'em not ta be pullin' strings ta be gettin' me promoted ner nothin' on account o' bein related ta flag officers."

"As for not pressing charges against me personaly I am glad you understand that I was only doing my job, I also hope that you take note that you were both treated in the same manner and that no favoritism was shown to either of you."

"O' course. Now then, if ye had na been treatin' us equal I mighta been seein' a need ta be pressin' charges. But, unlike Gwaghdab I do be knowin' the meanin' o' duty an' that ye on'y be doin' yer job," M'karll replied.

[Sammy Jo Swan]

She knew he was trying to provoke her to anger by continuing to insult her father as they talked, but she had to ignore it she would not allow him to anger her with mere words. This was one of those times she was glad to be part Human, "Well Ensign there is nothing more I need to discuss with you at this point." she passed him another padd "if you would just put your print on this padd confirming that you have been informed of your rights, and that at this time you wish to take no further action against either the other prisoner or myself for your treatment whilst in my custody. You will then be free to go" she said politely.

tag

[M'karll]

<Brig, M'karll>

The Caitian nodded and pressed his thumb against the padd and then stood and walked out of the office, a free kitten.

[Hayden Shaw]

<Armoury>

There’s enough small arms in here to occupy Paris. Hayden thought as he entered another 16 Type-3e phaser rifles to the PADD. Every time he thought he was done with the armoury another rack of phasers or another box of photon grenades or even a couple bat’leths jumped out at him.

I guess the Admiral prides herself on being armed to the teeth. Hayden mused to himself as he counted yet another box of grenades. He hadn’t even met the CO yet and he was already finding things out about her. From what he pieced together from the crew, he knew that she was female (the first surprise), a Caitian (second surprise), a workaholic (not surprising), and had a ravenous caffeine addiction (even less surprising). And now the armoury told him that she was either cautious, paranoid, or both (all three very useful traits in a ship’s captain).

After finally arriving at the opposite side of the armoury, Hayden spied one last container on the top shelf of a ballistic locker. He judged that it was too high and grumbled as he went to fetch a stool. Hayden levied himself up on the stool with his good leg and strained to reach the box. As he stood on one foot to reach the box, his balance shifted and he was sent sailing to the armory floor. Hayden landed on his left leg, hard.

Hayden cursed loudly. Pain erupted through his bones and muscles. After the shock had worn off he tried to get up using his cane and the other leg. He got up okay, but one step and the pain came back twofold. Hayden sat down and cursed again before he tapped his combadge.

^=^ Shaw to sickbay. Send a medic to the armoury. ^=^

[Sammy Jo Swan]

He knew from experience that Klingons' as a race were not the most talkative of folk at the best of time.let alone whilst incarcerated in the brig.He had the occasion to deal with a couple of exchange students and had developed a counseling programme which was more in tune with their way of thinking.It got results in the end where merely talking would have failed.With his attention now on the older Klingon;''I would not insult your intelligence by saying to you,come now let us sit and talk.Oh no for you I have something different in mind.But before we proceed how is your back holding out these days ? ''.

QaDghab looked at the Counselor suspiciously before making a curt reply. "Better..." He snapped, "What is it of your concern?"

Pulling up a chair in front of the cell's forcefield;''Because what I have in mind for you as regards your counselling 'treatment' had when applied at the Academy on a couple of young,fit Klingon's at first been labelled as somewhat unorthodox,and it might be a bit much for an older one like yerself.But I am sure I could modify it a wee bit to accomadate you.Afterall we both ken that the let us sit down and talk,look at the silly inkblots,have a wee cuppa tea routine does not wash with your people.Therefore to continue your therapy let us call it I need you out of the brig first of all and secondly access to a holodeck.'' Crossing one leg over the other he activated one of his PADDS.

"There is nothing you can do for me Human!" He said with venom, "Nor do you want to know of anything in here!" He said as he pointed to his head, and laughed.

With a slighty sly grin on his face ; ''Och now jist you hang fire a minute my klingon friend.It is not so much what I will be doing for you,but more to with what you can do for yourself is what I have in mind. ''. Pausing momentarily ;''As for what is inside that head of yours,whatever needs to come out will but only when it is good and ready to.There is no point in rushing into these things blindly. '' .

"I do not want your aide..." He spat and then folded his arms as he turned sharply around, so that he stood with his back to the Counselor, a classic insult by Klingon standards.

It was then that he noticed the damp patch on the Klingon's back.Too regular a patch to be a sweat stain.It looked more like blood,was QaDghab being just that bit more stubborn when he answered that his back was fine.''Qadghab,at which point were you goung to seek medical attention for that back injury of yours ? The point at which you are lying crippled on the floor no doubt hmm laddie? ''. On saying that he hit his comm badge,which since his arival he was now wearing ;''This is Counselor MacDonald in the brig,we need medical help here as soon as. ''

"It is fine!" He snarled, not happy that the Counselor had called Medbay. "Tell them they need not come!" He said fiercely as he turned to glare at the Human with his single good eye.

With what was becoming a now familiar shake of his head;''Unfortunately you are in no fit state to argue,it will be in your own interest to have things checked out.Afterall what good is a warrior who cannot even stand on his own two feet,which laddie is exactly what is in store for you if you ignore that injury of yours.''. He was not trying to taunt the older klingon,rather trying to persuade him it was in Qadghab's own interest to have things looked at.

"It has stopped bleeding and I am still standing. I do not need to see the Qel." He argued.

Sammy finished tidying up the padds after dealing with M'Karll and collected her fathers blades to return to him, she left most of them on her desk taking just his daq'targ with her.

She entered the cell area and silently walked up to stand behind the councilor as he spoke to QaDghab.

Raisng both hands up and out at chest height,unaware at this time that Ensign Swan was in the area of the cells ;''Listen up Qadghab,if you persist on being stubborn because of your own macho ideals and it goes pear shape,you not just have to think of yourself ,imagine the effect it will have on your daughter,how will the other Klingons' regard her..Oh that one ? ah yes her father the cripple,the old wizzened one sitting in his wheelchair,the useless one..want me to continue ? Let the Med team get your injuries properly attended to and then years from now your daughter will be spoken of as..Ah yes Her? she should be proud of her father,he died in the line of duty batleh in one hand,dag'targ in the other.'' Pausing to draw breath;''Well ? the choice is yours .'' .

He scoffed, "Clearly you are out of date with the medical reports. The disk in my back was replaced, I will not be crippled fool!" He sneered, "Besides there will never be any good words of my death, I head to Grethor when I die!" He growled, leaning in close to the Forcefield to stare the Counselor right in the face.

Without saying a word Sammy walked out from behind MacDonald and opened the cell, as she did she held out QaDghab's daq'targ for him to take back.

"Ok lets go and talk in the office" she said as she stood there waiting for him to take the blade.
He paused from his stare at the Counselor as he took the blade in one quick movement and put it in it's sheeth, then he started to head out of the cell, taking Sammy's Lead.

She followed him to her office and sat back behind the desk, "Sit down QaDghab lagh" she said formaly.

QaDghab remained standing, stubbornly. Nor did he say anything.

She frowned "Sit down" she said "I need to know your side of the story about the fight before you are released" she stated watching him carefully.

He sat, "I told you my side, you ungrateful targh." He growled, "You chose not to listen!"

A look of total anger crossed her face but she held it in check."No you told me nothing, I tried to talk to you both and all i got was insults, and ignored much like now. Well have it your way, you will stay away from Ensign M'Karll or you will be returned to the cells. If that happens you will be charged under Starfleet regulations this time, is that clear QaDghab lagh." she asked coldly.

He growled and backhanded her, "I told you, it's that kitten who wouldn't shut him mouth." He growled angrily and spat in her face.

She wiped his spit from her face, "That tells me nothing" she growled as she headbutted him. Her anger slowly getting to the point she would lose control of it.

He stepped back and landed back in the chair. "The fool insulted my first wife and fought cowardly in the Holodeck, he gets what he deserves!" He sneered.

"Then make it a proper challenge next time" she stated angrily her fists clenched by her sides as she fought to stay in control.

"I did! That fool doesn't know when a challenge is being given!!" He growled, "Or when he has given one!!"

"There is nothing more I can do, there will be no charges brought against you unless you attack him again" she said "you are free to go the rest of your weapons are on the table over there" she stated pointing to the table containing his other knives.

He grunted as he turned his back towards her as he picked up his weapon's putting them in place.

Roman heard the paging coming in for the medical personel. He was quite busy at the time so he tapped his comm badge. "This is medbay 2nd Lt Dagara here. What is the nature of the emergency? "


For all his bravo, QaDghab felt weak as he left her office and came to face the Counselor again. He didn't realize that it had not stopped bleeding yet as he had thought. Then top it all off he never got around to eating anything at the Mess Hall and hadn't eaten anything since before the surgery.

Sammy hit her comm badge "We will need someone to come and check over QaDghab lagh, it seems his fight might of ripped the stitches in his back open. He is currently in the brig so it is not possible for him to come to you." she replied

She then turned to her father "You will have to agree with the conditions of your release or you will be staying here for a while longer" she said as he walked out of her office.

QaDghab just growled at her unhappily as he steadied himself on the doorway. "The fool gets what he deserves." He grumbled.

"If you do not agree to stay away from him and cause no further problems you will be put back in the cell" she replied with a snarl.

He didn't hear the last part as he headed out the door.

She did not go after him instead she went back to her desk and hit a series of keys, then suddenly QaDghab reappeared in his cell then she beamed his weapons back onto her desk. She walked back into the cell area "When you decide to accept the conditions let me know" she said.

He just growled and spat at her, the spital hitting the field and sizzling.

"That will not help you now, nor will charging the field all that will happen if you do that again is you will be gassed once more" she said as she stood watching him.

"I told the fool that if he speaks again I would cut his toungue out, I do not threaten lightly." He said simply as he turned his back on her once more and walked to the bed, dropping heavily onto it.

She sighed heavily and turned to walk back to her office, the councilor was still there waiting for her now sat in the spare chair in the office. She sat down and looked at him but said nothing, as they waited for the med staff to arrive.

(OOC we will leave it there for now til after the christmas break)


A JP BY

Robert MacDonald

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QaDghab lagh

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[Jackie Clawson]

<<USS Horizon – Ready Room>>

Jackie shook her head, yeah maybe the soup and bloodwine helped a bit, but she still had an uneasy sense of familiarity. Jackie tossed a PADD aside and got up; her thoughts interrupted by a sharp pain shooting through her stomach and her entire body, Jackie took a sharp breath shutting out the pain in an instant as she regained her bearings.

"Yeah…" Jackie murmured laying a hand on her stomach, "I've been there before all right" she said to no one in particular.

'and what'd you do last time?' she asked herself, Jackie shook off the memories brought forth by her own query and let out a low growl. No, she wasn't going to go through a repeat of what had transpired so long ago.

"Computer!" she spoke, "side to side transport. Transport me to my quarters" she announced. The computer beeped in response complying with her order and a few moments later Jackie found herself in her quarters. "Lights. 25% intensity" she said as she made a move towards her bedroom.

Fifteen minutes later, clad in a navy jumpsuit, and hefting her betleH Jackie sprinted softly across Deck 3 heading for the turbolift. Blade in hand, she stopped to catch her breath as she called up the Turbolift.

The slight burning sensation in her stomach let her know and reminded her of the recent wound she's received in the skirmish with Sorak. With a curt mrr, Jackie pushed the thoughts away and entered the turbolift. She called up Deck 6 as her blade rested by her side and the lift began ascending towards its destination.

<Deck 6 – Holodeck 1>

Jackie flipped a few isolenear chips over and made a minor tweak to the controls before entering the holodeck with a soft smirk on her lips.

Swinging the blade upwards, the Caitian swung into action in a swift flawless move just as the holodeck doors slid shut behind her.

OFF:

Open tag to anyone not in the brig right now. :P

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon - Shuttlebay - Hanger Section>

After the initial fallout from the morning's excitement passed, and the excitement died down, J'al wanted to relax a little. And what better way to do that then work on the Iron Claw.

He had dubbed the fighter he and the Captain were rebuilding as such. Of course, he still needed to check it out with her and see if she had any other ideas, but for the moment, he figured the best thing he could do for her was to let her be. She'd get back into her routine before too long. Besides, he'd see her at their next flight training session. As far as he knew, it was still on.

If nothing else though, it was relieving to the crew, and in particular the senior staff to have the Captain back onboard and safe. The last few days had been.... long.

He walked into the main shuttle bay with his own toolkit in hand and strode across to the hanger entrance. He entered the hanger and saw the frame of their fighter sitting right where he left it a few days earlier. All the flight crew knew to just let it be.

He sat his kit down on the shelf along the wall near the craft and took off his uniform jacket, then grey department undershirt, leaving his standard blue/grey T-Shirt on, and his uniform trousers. He slung them over the grab bar of an anti-grav unit and started getting to work on installing the first layer of deck plating in the still bare frame. Then he could start running all the electronics and pipes for various systems.

OFF: JP to follow that will pick up from here. :)

[Alex Chadwick]

<Deck 6 – Holodeck 1>

Alex paused just inside the holodeck out of the admirals view.He knew he had been right monitoring the decks use across the ship.Only one person would use this program and modify the controls as such without setting off alarms.

He slowly and quietly removed the betleH from its case.He thought back to his tenth birthday when K'tec had given it to him.He lightly ran his finger over it sharpened edge.A true warriors weapon.Deadly sharp balanced to his terran abilities.

Alex walked forward into view behind the admiral and banged his weapon on the deck hard a few times.

"This a private dance admiral?" "Or can anyone join in?" alex said with his usual smirk.

[Jackie Clawson]

The Caitian whirled around, blade in hands. She smirked recognizing the former chief of security as she flipped the blade over to her right hand briefly blinking at the burning sensation in her stomach. These sudden moves didn't help her condition any, she was well aware of that, but it's what made her feel alive again and not focus so much on what had happened. It worked last time, even though medical department aboard the Rayden wasn't particularly happy with her new set of injuries acquired with the safeties off, but Jackie had no intention of killing herself in the holodeck then, and she had no such intentions now either.

"Wouldn't call this dancin', you're welcome to join me however" she responded with a nod, "always good to go up against a real person as opposed to a programmed one" she noted flipping the blade over and catching her breath for a moment Jackie closed her eyes and shook her head.

"How'd you find me here, so quickly." she asked shifting the weight of the blade in her hands as she found a good grip on the weapon. "As far as anyone's concerned, i'm still in my ready room" she noted.

OFF:

JP in the works for this

[M'karll]

<Prith, Main Engineering>

The dreadlocked Andorian surveyed the carnage that was Main Engineering. Rumor had it that their Chief Engineer was still in Sickbay convalescing from some rather nasty injuries he had sustained in the last few weeks, and that he was still in a coma. That made Lieutenant Commander Ch'gra'thaniy the ranking engineer onboard. Prith shrugged his shoulders, he hadn't planned on coming out her to be the Chief Engineer on this little ship. Hell, he didn't even like variable geometry warp fields... whole bunch of crap in his opinion. Still, when in Rome...

The big Andorian stuck two fingers from his left hand in his mouth and blew loudly. A shrieking whistle reverberated around Main Engineering. "Everyone, get in here," he barked in a loud clear voice. Within a couple of minutes the Engineering staff was gathered around the Andorian with the metallic arm. "While your Chief Engineer recovers I will be assuming command of Engineering," he held up a hand to forestall comment. "As the ranking Engineer on board, that is my right and duty. Now then, I want a full report on my desk within an hour as to the situation on the Horizon and we're going to begin modifying the Horizon's propulsion system. If the modifications go well there should be a slight increase in power and efficiency within the engines. Your fine ship is serving as the testbed for these modifications that could someday be implemented across the Federation. So, get to work."

[Kiara Krezek]

OFF: A backpost... actually, two posts from Starbase 99's mission, which explains her story, and whm she has been for the last little while. There's an appearance from Lokal Krezek in it too... I mentioned him earlier in the Crew Lounge. He's now an NPC somewhere out there...

ON:

[Four months ago]
[Starbase 99]
[A shop in the Canterra City area, during a boarding action]

Major Lokal Krezek walked out into the Canterra City area into the middle of a firefight.

"What the Hell?" he said to no one in particular, as a phaser blast went right by his head. Lokal ducked around a corner, grabbing a piece of debris that he found, a long piece of metal bar about 1.6 meters in length, and headed out into the fray himself.

Shore leave would have to wait.

Picking the first person that wasn't in a uniform that was shooting at someone in a Starfleet uniform, he slammed the bar down on the man's arm, hearing a resounding crack as the bone broke. Twirling around, he brought the bar into the man's face, using it as a staff weapon to knock the man down on his ass. A second man that turned to see Lokal doing this to one of his compatriots tried to bring his weapon to bear, but Lokal struck it away with one sweep of his weapon.

A third came at him with his firearm, but Lokal rolled, grabbing the dropped rifle and took aim, firing and hitting the third combatant right in the chest.

"Freeze scumbag!" someone called out. Lokal turned to look and it was a fourth one coming up to him from behind. Lokal dropped the weapon down, right near his foot. The fourth took a step forward, coming just enough into range...

Lokal kicked with his foot, throwing the rifle into the man's face, then, after regaining his balance, ran towards him and jumped, feet first, right into the chest of the stunned mercenary, knocking him back into a bulkhead. The man slumped down, unconscious.

Finished, Lokal took a look around as security personnel swept in, carefully covering the area with Type 3 rifles. "Clear," he called out.


[CAG's Quarters]

Commander Ana Langley looked to Kiara Krezek and then at the now unprotected doorway. "If you find your cardassian Gell in the hallways, make sure he gets what's comming to him. I'm sure it could be taken to court as a self defense measure..." It was then that she heard a pained roar bellow through the deckplates. "...sounds like trouble in canterra city." Ana looked
to Kiara in order to finish her thought. "Or if you find him in the middle of the action, it could be a wrong place wrong time sort of argument." Ana winked.

"Understood," Kiara said, smiling with her blade in hand.

"In light of the current situation, I will offer my assistance to get you to your half brother, but if you don't think you need the help. I'll go check out the situation at Canterra." Stated Ana.

"If I know Lokal, he'd be in Canterra by now," Kiara said. "He seems to gravitate towards trouble. I'll head there too... besides, the nearest armory is headed that way too."

"Alright, sounds like a plan." Stated Ana.

Headed out the door, armed with her sword, Kiara checked both ways in the light of the emergency lights. Not seeing anyone, she kept it up as the two made their way down the corridor.


[Canterra City]

Lokal had volunteered his services to the security personnel, and as a result got deputized and assigned to a team that was sweeping Canterra City, looking for stragglers and the injured.

"Come on, come out from there," he was coaxing. The child was definitely human, about six to seven years old, female, and terrified. It was probably her first firefight, Lokal realized as he reached out to her, offering a friendly hand. Slowly, she peeked out from the cover that she took, and took the offered hand, seeing his Starfleet uniform - he had a habit of wearing it, even off-duty, though he was down to just uniform vest and green undershirt - and then came out, hugging him completely. "What's your name?" Lokal asked.

"Isabelle," she said shyly, burying her face into Lokal's shoulder.

"Isabelle, where's your parents?" he asked.

"They're in that shop," she said, pointing at a nearby storefront. There were definite phaser scars around the area.

"That one right over there?" Lokal asked, confirming it. When he saw the half-nod, he called over one of the security enlisted that was in his team. "Isabelle, I'm going to go look for them, see if they're all right. I'm going to leave you with this nice man right here, and he's going to take care of you until I can find your parents. All right?"

"Okay," Isabelle said. She pushed back some of her red hair out of her face as she let go of Lokal and went over to the security crewman.

"Crewman, watch her, I'm going to take a look for her parents in there," he said, indicating the storefront, headed that way with rifle down, but ready.

The store was a mess inside. The transparent aluminum of the front
window front had shattered under a high-setting energy burst, probably
from a Rak'torian-type disruptor set to setting 7 or higher, from a
species subservient to the Romulan Star Empire. He had seen a few of
those weapons lying about.

Inside was not a pretty sight. The same beam that had cut through the front window had sliced into a Bolian - probably the store manager, from what Lokal could make out - and put a hole in his chest. "Anyone alive in here?" he asked.

He heard a moaning from behind a collapsed display, and headed for the area. There was a man lying there, cut up severely and with a slice across the front of his neck. "Major Krezek to Cleanup Team One, I found a survivor, medical emergency, code blue, home in on my location!" he said as he took out his emergency medkit and applied the hypo to the man's neck. "Sir, it's all right, help's on the way."

"Isa... belle?" the man barely got out.

"She's fine, we found her earlier," Lokal said, busy ripping off some cloth from his own uniform undershirt and then applying pressure to the man's primary injury with the cloth. "You're bleeding severely, sir, please don't strain, the medics will be here soon."

"My wife..." the man was saying, "...captured... by a... Cardassian..."


[Brig]

A security petty officer walked in, checking on the status of the prisoner, currently listed only as one Ri'ta Gul Eliam Gell, Cardassian military, retired. What he saw was one knocked out security guard and a missing Type 2 phaser from the man's hip...


[Canterra City]

Kiara Krezek stepped out onto the main walk of Canterra City with Commander Langley, both armed, Kiara with a Type 4 rifle and Langley with a Type 3 from the Marine armory. Walking down the way of Canterra City, they both soon spotted Tholson and group, but Kiara ignored them. Without Ana seeing, she snuck off, headed off to see if she could find Lokal.

After asking around, and finding the security guard that was watching Isabelle, she headed into the store that Lokal was reported going into. There, she saw Lokal, busy giving medical attention to someone injured on the ground.

"Lokal!" Kiara called out.

Lokal looked up. "Kiara, we need to really make these vacations to somewhere more enjoyable. Maybe next time, all of us can make it to Risa." He turned back to his duties of attending to the injured. "Check the rest of the store, this man's wife is somewhere around here and apparently was kidnapped by-"

"A Cardassian," she said.

"Yes, how did you..." Lokal trailed off, looking up and seeing what Kiara saw.

There was Gell, pointing the phaser at them and holding the man's wife as a human shield, hand on her throat. "One wrong move and I rip her throat out," he declared, squeezing slightly and causing the woman to wheeze.

"Well, isn?t this just a reunion..." Lokal commented.

Time seemed frozen for the two Krezeks as they stood there. Kiara, her weapon up and pointed at Gell. Lokal, hypo in hand, trying to save Gell's hostage's spouse from slipping into oblivion...

And it was all interrupted by one flying blur of a Klingon.

Both of them didn't know what the Hell to make of this latest development... but it was very obvious that they weren't the only ones that this Cardassian had pissed off in his lifetime.

"I knew we'd med before." Rex said, smiling a toothy Klingon grin, despite being held by the neck. Then bringing Gell's face closer to his own. "And something tells me..." He chortled. "Neither they nor I will have mercy on you the second time around."

"Lokal, take care of them!" Kiara called out, moving forward. She abandoned her rifle and procured her sword – she still had it from when she was in her quarters. Before anyone had reacted, she had the blade right at the Cardassian's throat, and one swift thrust from either her or Rex would end the small, pathetic existence of the man that Kiara once cowered in her bunk on Bajor, trying to avoid at all costs...

And yet, she noticed that the blade was not being held still.

She had power over him. She could end his life, here and now, send all the years of fear, self-loathing, contempt, and unadulterated hatred for this man – no, that wasn't even the correct term, this thing – loaded into one small movement to sever his spinal cord right below the second vertebrae...

And she was shaking.

It was the Starfleet training that she had acquired that was holding her back partially, she realized as the blade slowly came down from where it was. The Marine Corps had drilled into her that a person without a weapon was a non-combatant, unless he threatened someone, and from the looks of Rex's face, he wasn't threatened in the least by the old man.

The blade's hilt hit the floor of the burnt-out storefront, and Kiara fell to her knees. It was much more than that, she thought to herself... "Rex... don't kill him," she whispered softly. When he didn't acknowledge her, she repeated, "Don't kill him."

"And why not?" Rex demanded.

"Because..." she said. "Because death here would be too easy... and too good for him. It would be much more honorable to let the few decide what they are to do with him, and let the many know what he did." She heard a noise, and turned to see a few security personnel approaching. "Besides, once Vladis hears about this, I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to eat Gell."

"Don't you hate him?" Rex asked, almost screaming. The logic that this woman was showing was very flawed.

"With every fiber of my being," she replied.

And that was when the security whisked Gell away from the situation. Kiara could not take her eyes off of Gell the entire, for fear that if she did, he would somehow find a way out of this...

[Brig]

"Why exactly are we taking care of this Cardassian scum-bag anyway?" one guard was saying.

"Because Lieutenant Vladis ordered us to," the other replied. "Do you really want to mess with a Nosferatan? You know they like to eat -"

"Don't remind me," the first guard said, turning a slight shade of green.

"Queasy?" a voice came from behind them. They both turned back and saw Gell sitting there, smiling. The older Cardassian's wrinkled face was twisted in a sort of smile that was sickening to the guards, and both of them felt slightly disturbed by it.

"Quiet," the first guard said.

"Oh I don't think so," Gell said, still sitting there with a smirk on his face. "You see, I am not afraid of anything that the Federation and their lax imprisonment regulations have to offer. And for that matter, their lax security protocols as well."

Before either of the guards could say anything else, the forcefield dropped that seperated them. The Cardassian was up on his feet, ramming both of the security guards and knocking them down. Gell doubled back before the guards were able to bring their weapons around and knocked one out of the first guard's hands. The guard was on his knees, and Gell broght his kneecap right into the man's face, pushing his nose bones up into his brain. He fell down limp.

The other guard was a little slower to react to the fall, and was only just getting up and grabbing for his phaser. Gell grabbed the loose phaser, thumbed the power up and shot the man in the chest, leaving a hole where his heart used to be. The body hit the deck with a sickening thud.

Alarms went off and Gell knew that he didn't have time. He headed over to the nearest security console and accessed the comm channel. "The eye of the order is always upon us," he said simply.

And he dissapeared in an orange glow.


[Four months later]
[USS Alert Bay, Bridge]

Major Kiara Krezek watched out of the viewscreen as the Saber Class vessel dropped out of warp, the streaking of stars slowly reduced to just points of light. The viewscreen swung around as the ship banked towards the Horizon, which came in view as she watched.

It had been a long four months. Facing her demons... it was a liberating experience to say the least. She had been chasing Gell ever since, taking a LOA from the Marine core to even do it after Starfleet stopped supporting her chase directly. Aran had helped as much as he could - for being in an engineering unit, her twin brother sure did have a lot of Intel sources, she had mused - but even that wasn't enough.

So she had to put it on hold and return to the 'Fleet.

And they found her a security job.

She hadn't been the happiest at recieving this assignment. She was a pilot, and a Marine. Not someone whom investigated, someone whom kicked ass and took names. But with her current service record... she was lucky that it was a department head position and not a toilet cleaner position on the IKS meH'Haj. A nice collection of reprimands and awards, it was an interesting combination, even her COs in the past have acknowledged this.

But it was underneath a female Admiral... Clawson, she remembered. Caitian. Had some... colorful records as well, as well as holes that intrigued her. First officer was the former security chief, Alex Chadwick. She had a feeling that he would try to step on her toes in his former department. A couple of Klingons in her department, and other departments... Kiara made a mental note to not beat up the male Klingon crewmembers until after she made it clear that she wasn't going to mate with them.

She kept going through this as the captain of the Alert Bay was talking about hailing the ship. She tuned that out, examining the Horizon. She didn't look battered - a shame, she wanted some firefights - but she did look a little dirty. Maybe some space dust buildup? she thought with disappointment. A dirty ship meant a larger sensor profile in combat, since there was more on the hull to detect.

"...Major Krezek?" the captain was saying.

Kiara was broken out of her examining of the vessel by the mention of her name. "Sorry sir?" she said politely, hiding the fact that she thought that the CO was a pissant.

"I was just saying that it's all right for you to beam over to the Horizon now," he said, a dead expression on his face. "Though I really worry for that ship if that's the way you act on the bridge of a starship."

"Thank you sir," she said as she stood up. She held back the biting remark about his parental lineage as she walked towards teh back of the bridge. "I will send Admiral Clawson your warmest regards."

"Thank you, Major," he said with a smile that Kiara was very tempted to wipe off his face with a left jab.

Once the doors closed from the bridge to the turbolift, Kiara's face twisted into one of disgust, and she called out, "Transporter room." She gripped the PADD she had with all of her information on it, and once the lift had deposited her near where she needed to go, she walked down the corridor to the transporter room. She had left her bags in a storage locker in the area - one of her preferences for short-term hauls. She waved to the operator and said, "Thanks for storing this stuff, Benny."

"No problem, Major," he replied.

"You didn't snoop through my bags, did you?" she asked.

"Well, I did find your collection of Ferengi oo-mas porn to be very intriguing..." Benny said with a smile.

Kiara shot the man a look. "Benny, I remember now why I hung out with you at school," she said with a slight chuckle.

"Of course, Kiara," Benny said, grinning widely. "They're ready for you."

Kiara stepped up onto the transporter pad. "Well, thanks for the hospitality, Benny. Write me one of these days, you crazy fool."

"Will do," he said, and then he activated the transporter and watched as Kiara dissolved into a pillar of blue.

OFF

Well, that marathon post is over. I'll post more later, unless someone wants to intercept Kiara somewhere near the transporter room...

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy was still sitting in the office that had for the most part since she arrived here had been hers, now she was looking at a message that said she had yet another new boss this one would be arriving in about . . . she looked at the clock on the wall "dam it to hell" she swore the new Chief Security Officer was due any minute now. She shut the terminal down and ran from the office, she should be there when the Boss arrived and it would not look good if she was not.

She ran along the corridor and into a lift she waited while it took her to the correct floor then as the doors opened she exited them again running, she just made it to the transporter room as a blue beam appeared on the padd. She pulled her jacket down to tidy herself up and stood to attention as her new boss appeared.

"Major Krezek welcome aboard the USS Horizon Ma'aM, I am Ensign Swan Assistant Chief Security/Tactical Officer. Where would you like to go first your quarters, office or to the bridge." she asked whilst still standing to attention.

Tag Major Krezek

[Kiara Krezek]

ON:

[USS Horizon]
[Transporter Room]

Kiara was just finishing the rematerialization process and had barely noted the similarities in between this Intrepid Class and the last one that she served on - the Hornet - there was someone in orange speaking to her.

"Major Krezek welcome aboard the USS Horizon, I am Ensign Swan Assistant Chief Security/Tactical Officer. Where would you like to go first your quarters, office or to the bridge." she asked whilst still standing to attention.

Kiara glanced over at Ensign Swan. Ambitious Klingon... there's words that I never thought would be put together... she thought with a touch of sarcasm. Noting that the ensign was standing at attention, Kiara waved her hand and said, "All right, first, stop it with the attention thing. I'm not in dress whites, and I haven't even taken my assignment yet." She said this with a touch of disdain; she hated wearing gold instead of her favourite green. She hoisted her bag, which had her daisho sticking slightly out of it, and continued, "Quarters, then bridge. Don't think I need my bag spilling and having everyone see how I prefer my undergarments on the first day of the job. That's more of a third day revelation."

Kiara led them out of the transporter room after a curt nod to the transporter operator. "So, anything... interesting... happen lately?" she asked with a hint of curiosity. She had read the mission logs about the Sorak kidnapping incident, but she wanted someone's impression of what happened.

TAG: Swan

[Sammy Jo Swan]

"That would depend on what you call interesting Ma'aM, the Captain was recently injured when someone posing as crew planted a bomb behind a wall panel. Then later after she came round the same person kidnapped her and another Admiral and almost killed them both, but we got them both back and as far as we can tell the culprit died in the explosion he set off. Other than that it is just the normal crew punch ups and disagreements." she replied flatly.

Tag

[Kiara Krezek]

"That would depend on what you call interesting Ma'aM, the Captain was recently injured when someone posing as crew planted a bomb behind a wall panel. Then later after she came round the same person kidnapped her and another Admiral and almost killed them both, but we got them both back and as far as we can tell the culprit died in the explosion he set off. Other than that it is just the normal crew punch ups and disagreements." she replied flatly.

"Sounds like some fun..." Kiara said. She was intrigued that this kidnaper could circumvent so many security procedures without being detected. "I also noted the slight amount of blood on your uniform, accompanied by your split lip. Is that an example of a 'normal crew punch up'?" she asked.

TAG

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy blushed she had not noticed the blood on her uniform "Errmm not exactly Ma'aM, that would be a heated discussion with QaDghab lagh one of the security officers and my father." she replied quietly then paused before continueeing "He is currently in the brig disarmed and very angry, though not for the assult on me he is there for a different assult." she stated.

Tag Krezek

[Kiara Krezek]

Sammy blushed she had not noticed the blood on her uniform "Errmm not exactly Ma'aM, that would be a heated discussion with QaDghab lagh one of the security officers and my father." she replied quietly then paused before continueeing "He is currently in the brig disarmed and very angry, though not for the assult on me he is there for a different assult." she stated.

Kiara stopped. "Oh," she said simply. "I see..." She continued down the corridor again, after considering what this meant. A daughter served as superior officer to her father... whom was now in the brig for assault.

This was going to be a blast of a tour of duty...

Kiara changed the subject before she started prying. "So, how's the CO and XO? I want to get a beat on them before I meet them for the first time."

TAG

[Sammy Jo Swan]

She noticed the change of subject and was glad for it there would be plenty of time to explain things about her and her father later, "Hmm thats a more difficult one. Lets see the Captain well she is a strong willed stubborn person who has the skills to back up her words from what I hear, the new XO well he has not been here long and has only just become the XO. He was previously in your job, though he had not been here long when things got interesting with the Captain and the whole kidnapping thing. So there is not mucch I can tell you about him, and as you will find out from my records I have not been here long either. Also I am only here because Admiral Clawson was the only CO that was prepared to give me a second chance, the others were affraid I would do the same to them as I did to my last CO." she finished and then waited for the set of questions, she had no reason to hide what she had done afterall it was all in her record.

Tag Krezek

[Delaney Orion]

ON: USS HORIZON : Lounge

<A Few Hours Previous Right After Delaney’s Meeting
With Adm. Clawson>

Tanis and Izzy sat in the Lounge, They had only been
in there a short time, and they waited for Delaney to
arrive as she said she was on her way, she stated she
was going to meet with Admiral Clawson before coming
to the lounge.

Izzy looked up from his Saurian Brandy as the doors to
the Officer's Lounge opened. He had just been
discussing with Dr. Heavenway a polite request to be
informed of any surgeries that were being performed in
the Sickbay since he was, after all a surgeon. "I
would just like to know about the procedures is all,"
he said with an easy-going smile. "I certainly would
never dream of taking such a simple procedure as the
one you performed on QaDghab from you, if you really
wanted it." Izzy took a sip from his drink and waved a
paw in Delaney's direction. "Over here Orion," he
called, drawing a few stares for shouting Orion across
the lounge, but not really caring. "I also got the
Admiral to let me take her something to eat... she
really has it in for us doctors, even Caitian ones,"
he muttered as Delaney approached their table in the
back.

Delaney approached the Table, her Green and blue eyes
looking to Tanis and Izzy, Her gloomy mood seemed to
lighten as she looked at Izzy. She let herself smile;
tho she was still a little bummed out about the
meeting with Admiral Clawson. “Hey Guys” She said and
took a seat in between Izzy and Tanis. “Have I missed
anything interesting?” She combed her short hair with
her hands to get it out of her face and looked at the
full glass in front of her.

“I took the Liberty of having something waiting here
for you” Tanis said smiling.

"You haven't missed much of anything really," Izzy
replied, taking a sip of his brandy.

"Not much at all, we were just discussing that the
good Admiral seems to not be overly friendly towards
doctors."

“Ohhh really…” Delaney said curiously… “Would have
been nice to know that fact before I met with her and
accused her of Drinking on the Job” Delaney said
sounding a bit Distraught.

"Don't worry about it," the surgeon replied, patting
her arm with a paw. "Took me twenty solid minutes of
back and forth arguing to get her to allow me to bring
her something to eat up in her Ready Room. I think she
thinks we're spying on her," he finished with a soft
chuckle.

Tanis tried hard not to choke on his drink. “You
accused her of Drinking?” He couldn’t help but laugh.
“Cant say I did anything like that to any of my
commanding officers upon first meeting them” He gave
her a reassuring smile. “How did she take it?”

Delaney looked at Tanis. “She didn’t mind…I guess…I
should have thought before I spoke…Bad habit of mine I
guess.” She took her first gulp of her full glass
sitting before her…in moments the Glass was empty…
“Good Stuff…seems to calm the nerves” She looked to
Izzy. “Has she always been like that?”

The Caitian shrugged. "Don't honestly know," he
replied. "Never served with her before."

“I overheard people in the hallways talking…she was
hurt pretty bad a few days ago during there last
mission, you hear anything?” She said. She wanted to
ask the Admiral about it, but after her last question,
it suddenly became the last thing she wanted to talk
about with her, and if she could get more information
on what happened last mission, then she would feel
more confident talking about it.

"Poisoned and run through with a cutlass, my little
brother accidentally did the running through," Izzy
replied. "He was quite distraught."

Delaneys bright eyes widened a bit. “How?” She asked
Curiously.

Tanis sat there sipping his drink, he didn’t want to
be the one prying for information, however curious he
was about the situation…And it did make him
think…Perhaps he should check in with the admiral as
well.

"She was kidnapped by, how did M'karll put it... 'a
great pointy-ear'd green blooded space eel' I believe
were his exact words," Izzy replied with a chuckle.
"He and my cousin gave chase in two of the shuttles,
and forced the kidnapper to make planet fall
somewhere. In the course of trying to apprehend him
the Admiral was inadvertently shoved onto M'karll's
cutlass... he's got a thing for pirates."

“Oh…” Was all she could say. “I had no idea”

A bartender came up to the Table “Refills anyone?”

Delaney held out her glass. “Ill have whatever it was
I had last time” she said, She had no idea what was in
there, but thankfully the Bartender remembered.

Tanis held up his glass “Still working on it” The
bartender looked at Izzy.

"I'm alright for now, Saurian Brandy is not meant to
be chugged, after all," he replied indicating the
still three-quarters full glass before taking another
sip of the beverage.

The bartender nodded and walked off.

“How is your brother doing now after all that?” She
asked. “If you don’t mind me asking” She added.

"He seems to be recovering nicely, even picked up his
pirate accent again. You can always find him in a
crowded room that way," Izzy answered with a chuckle,
swirling the contents of his glass slowly.

“Well That’s good.” She said. “Perhaps I could meet
with him to sometime…Tho I’d hate to have to meet
everyone on a professional basis”

“It’ll Take time” Tanis said. “You have already done
better then I have…I still only know you and Izzy
here, Besides the nurses in the medical staff, I have
not yet had a chance to meet with them outside of
sickbay, And Izzy, I guess I should Apologize, what we
were talking about earlier, you are Right, You are The
Head Surgeon after all” Tanis took another sip of his
drink before Continuing. “Perhaps I should have
consulted you before doing Surgery on a member of the
crew”

The surgeon waved a paw dismissively in Tanis'
direction. "Don't worry about it. It's not like the
surgery was a particularly interesting or difficult
one. I would hardly consult you before prescribing
minor pain killers or sleeping agents to someone with
a little problem."

“Perhaps you are right” Tanis said finishing off the
last of his drink. He was starting to feel a bit light
headed. “Perhaps I have had enough, my first duty
shift starts at 0500, Ill see you in the Morning,”
Tanis got up ready to head for his quarters.

"See ya in the morning," Izzy replied as the Doctor stood. "Course, my first shift isn't until 1000 hours, so I can be a bit more of a night cat tonight," he continued with a small smirk.

"Not if i call you in for another 'SIMPLE' Surgury" Tanis said laughing, putting emphasis on "Simple" as Izzy seemed to think the last surgury was so simple a first year med student could do it.

"True, but unless it's a super emergency I'm sure you could handle it," he shot back with a grin.

The doors to the lounge closed behind Tanis and he headed off to bed.

"So" Delaney said, with a rather large glass of some beverage in front of her. "I still dont know much about you Cat People..." She said curiously. She looked at him with her colorful eyes. "Tell me about them"

"Not much to tell, really. We're basically walking, talking house cats. We can purr." Izzy purred a little to prove his point. "Swish our tails, we have claws, we can see in the dark, and we have a wider range of hearing than Terrans. Also, most of us don't like water, my Aunt Ressi being an exception. Our planet is considerably warmer than Earth, and we tend towards being a more physical race than most other sentient beings."

OFF: TO BE CONTINUED

JOINT POST

Ensign Delaney Orion
1st Year Councilor Assistant
USS HORIZON

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS HORIZON

Lieutenant I'zzad R'pas
Surgeon
USS HORIZON

[M'karll]

<Prith, Main Engineering.

The Andorian engineer examined the report in his hands. Everything seemed to be shaking out in good order as nearly as he could tell. Apparently, Barnes had run a tight ship. In addition to all of the repairs being nearly completed the test upgrades to the Horizon's propulsion system were nearly fifty percent completed as well. Holding the PADD in his left hand, Prith exited Main Engineering. He'd set the schedule to make tomorrow his first official day on the job. For now, he'd go report in to the Admiral and spend the rest of the night likely familiarizing himself with the layout of the Horizon.

Entering a turbolift, the Andorian headed for the bridge. It was only a few seconds before he stepped out onto the main bridge and headed for the Ready Room. He rang the chime once, and got no response. He rang the chime a second time and still no response. Concerned, he opened the doors manually and entered the Ready Room to find it empty. Shrugging, he exited back onto the bridge and headed for the auxiliary engineering station. It would be a relatively simple matter to pull up the internal sensor logs and figure out where the Admiral had gotten off to.

After a few minutes of searching the logs he discovered that she had hidden herself away in one of the holodecks. Figuring that, perhaps, it might not be the best idea to interrupt what was likely the only recreation time the Admiral had had in some time, Prith simply programmed the computer to alert him when the Admiral left the holodeck. When she was done doing whatever it was that she was doing he'd put in an appearance. In the meantime he could return to his quarters, grab a bite to eat, and break out the Andorian Ale he'd brought with him.

[Kiara Krezek]

"Hmm thats a more difficult one. Lets see the Captain well she is a strong willed stubborn person who has the skills to back up her words from what I hear, the new XO well he has not been here long and has only just become the XO. He was previously in your job, though he had not been here long when things got interesting with the Captain and the whole kidnapping thing. So there is not mucch I can tell you about him, and as you will find out from my records I have not been here long either. Also I am only here because Admiral Clawson was the only CO that was prepared to give me a second chance, the others were affraid I would do the same to them as I did to my last CO." she finished and then waited for the set of questions, she had no reason to hide what she had done afterall it was all in her record.

"I'm sure your records has a full copy of what you did," Kiara replied, rounding the corner to come to a turbolift. She pressed the call button, and the doors opened - good fortune that she had a 'lift right away, she thought. "Deck three," she called out. The computer beeped in reply and the 'lift started moving.

"Besides, no one has the cleanest past, not even me..." she said, flashing back to Starbase 99 and the standoff with Gell. The feeling of having the power to end his life... "Ensign, let me just say that I don't care what you have done in the past. It's passed on. All I care about when it comes to my department is what they do about the past in the present. Do they act upon it, do they live in it, or do they acknowledge it exists, learn what they can from it and move on?"

She paused. "It's what we do with the ast that defines who we are," she said. "It took a long time for me to understand that... and once I did, my life got a lot brighter. I hope that you eventually do, too."

The 'lift stopped at Deck Three, and they continued walking towards Kiara's quarters.

OFF

TAG: Swan, if you want to keep on with the convo. :D

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy looked at her new boss and frowned "I am sorry to say mine is not that far back in my past that it can yet be forgotten, it still effects my life to much and will do until I can fully resolve the matter. But that is a conversation for a long quiet shift, when there is nothing else to talk about or after you have read my record and wanna hear my side of things before judging me." she said with a touch of her normal grin showing through

Tag Krezek

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Sickbay

Sickbay was quiet; Gamma shift nurses were inventorying their equipment and restocking the shelves from what was used during the previous shifts. There was only 3 of them on duty during Gamma shift, a shift Supervisor, and 2 other nurses, both ensigns.

“So I heard our New Chief is a pretty good guy” Said one of the nurses as she sterilized the last of 3 biobeds, a tall human male.

“I’ve never met the guy” The other said, a short Bajoran Female.

“I heard he likes to go for drinks after shift, Quite a bit from what I understand.” Said the human.

“So what are you saying? Our Chief is an alcoholic? So he likes to drink.” The Bajoran replied.

“You don’t have a problem with that?”

“What’s the problem in going for a few drinks after shift?”

“Hey” The supervisor came out of the office, overhearing the conversation. “Save It for Off Duty” He said.

^=^ Shaw to sickbay. Send a medic to the armory. ^=^

Immediately the 3 medical personnel snapped to attention.

“All right you heard the Man” The shift Supervisor said “Grab the Med Kits and get down there”

The male and female nurse each grabbed a different Kit and ran out the door to the armory.


OFF: Tag Shaw

Nurses Played By
Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS HORIZON

[Hayden Shaw]

Roman heard the paging coming in for the medical personnel. He was quite busy at the time so he tapped his comm badge. "This is medbay 2nd Lt Dagara here. What is the nature of the emergency? "

No, don't worry. Don't come if you don't want to. Hayden thought sarcastically to himself. He tapped his badge in response. =^= The ground broke my fall. Followed by my leg. Can we get medkit? =^=

Roman heard the voice and started to get a bit annoyed and he slowly counted to ten in 3 different languages very quickly.

Roman tapped his comm badge. "I am sending Nurse Anders to your position she will be there momentarily. " Roman tapped his badge and continued the work that he was doing with Jennifer Dylan.

"Sorry for the interruption Ms Dylan. "

<Nurse Anders>

Nurse Anders walked in quickly and say Hayden "Sir I am here to help please let me get you on the medstretcher and I can get you to sickbay in just a few moments.

"Thank you, Nurse." Hayden sighed as he supported himself as the female nurse got him on to the stretcher. His leg ached in protest as it was pivoted into place, straight on the stretcher. Hayden gave a wince of pain. "Careful! This is damaged goods..."

The Nurse rolled her eyes and carted the Chief out the armoury.
Nurse Anders after rolling her eyes at the Chief pushed the hovering stretcher out and towards sickbay where Roman could get a chance to look at it and if need be would have to call a Dr in to have something done.

Nurse anders got him there fairly easily and she kept watching the leg as well as the eyes of the Chief.

SICK BAY

Roman watched as the stretcher was wheeled in. Roman had just given Jennifer the granola style bar to eat. He walked over to Nurse Anders and looked down at Mr Shaw. He motioned for Nurse Anders to move him to the biobed. He looked down at the biobed and without really thinking much about it he reached down "Mr Shaw, please brace yourself this may hurt slightly."

Roman watched and then slowly picked up Mr Shaw with a fair amount of ease. Roman was quite strong and he worked out on a regular basis to keep himself able to do things like this when necessary. Roman gently set the Chief down on the biobed. Roman grabbed his tricorder and started a scan on the leg.

Roman slowly began to scan the leg and what he saw there he knew should be relatively easy to repair. He also knew how painful any kind of tear in the Meniscus or ACL/MCL could be. Roman grabbed the knife that he carried and quickly slit up the uniform pants. He needed a clear view of the knee and he didn't want to have to make more pain when rolling it up.

The swelling had started. "Nurse Anders please bring me the cold pack. I want to try and make sure the swelling doesn't get very far."

Roman looked at the man laying on the biobed. "Mr Shaw. There is some damage to your knee that you have done." Nurse anders rushed back with the cold pack. Roman gently put it on the knee as Nurse Anders quickly went off "Well I see some Meniscus damage but that looks to be caused by the tear in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. Now I will need a Dr. to correct this fully. May I give you something for the pain?"

"As many meds as you want." Hayden said without thinking. "Tell me I'll be able to walk on it." The pain in his femur from his original injury was numb for now, as if to remind him it was still there. His knee felt as is it was coming apart at the seams. He took a quick glance down, his joint was the size of a grapefruit.

"I'll just look at the ceiling for now." He wasn't usually this squeamish, but things were different when you were injured instead of seeing it someone else. "I am getting way too old for this..."

Roman reached up and grabbed the hypo. He knew how painful this could be and that if not corrected you could potentially lose the use of the leg without constant agony.

"Mr Shaw if this gets corrected you will be able to use this at 100%. Now I am going to give you a sedative that will take some of the pain away and I am going to see about getting a Dr down here to help do the necessary corrections."

Roman slowly put the hypo to the knee and released the pain killing medicines. "Mr Shaw it will take a few moments to work."

Roman walked over to see who was on duty for the Dr's. He didn't see any of them on the duty roster for now. So he grabbed the regenerator. "Mr Shaw I can fix this in just a few moments. However if you would rather have a Dr fix this then I will understand and call one down here to fix it for you. Also you may need to rehab a bit with the knee injury?"

"I trust marines more than doctors. And you've been to more med training than I have. Do your thing," Hayden said. It was true though. Every doctor he had spoken to had suggested that he amputate the leg in the first place. And every marine he had met had ended up doing somethin' right. "If you botch it though," Hayden said playfully. "I'll kick your teeth in with the other leg."

He felt the pain begin to numb and he breathed an inaudible sigh of relief. He made a grin as he stared down an the cut leg of his uniform trousers. The quartermaster is going to love me, Hayden thought, grinning.

Roman refrained from laughing. He didn't fear any repercussions nor an attack. He was a marine and pain was his life. Roman didn't think that Mr Shaw really meant what he said. It was the pain and frustration with the fact that he was injured.

Roman slowly started to move the regenerator over the area where the tear was. It took him less time then expected but it wasn't a huge tear in the ACL. He used the regenerator to reattach the tear and to heal it enough that he could use it. It took about 15 minutes all in total to fix the issue

"Mr Shaw. I have corrected the issue. Please take it easy for a few days. You will need to strengthen your leg somewhat again but when it heals fully and the stiffness leaves it you will be back to 100% your normal self. You may want to come back in a day and I will give you some exercises that can help you strengthen your leg."

"Thank you, Lieutenant." Hayden said as he shifted from the biobed. He groped around for his cane but realized he left it in the armoury. The meds would keep the pain off the leg but his limp would be more pronounced. Better that than asking for one though.

As his feet landed on the floor his leg felt stiffer then usual. It was still swollen, but not that much. He took a few steps around the sickbay and found that he could amble around as good as anything.

Hayden started for the sickbay door. "Thanks again, Lt. Dagara. You make a damn fine doctor."

Roman smiled. "Thank you Sir I do aim for that goal."

Roman tossed his a bottle "Take one pill if the pain gets to much sir."

A joint post between:

2nd Lieutenant Roman Dagara
Head Nurse

and

[TanisHeavenway]

ON:

The Nurses made it half way to the Armory and more chatter came over the medical comm channel.

"This is medbay 2nd Lt Dagara here. What is the nature of the emergency? "

=^= The ground broke my fall. Followed by my leg. Can we get medkit? =^=

"I am sending Nurse Anders to your position she will be there momentarily."

The Human and Bajoran nurse halted in the hallway and confirmed with Lt Dagara that They will be heading back into sickbay as she was already en route to Shaw’s Position.

“Jeeze” The human said, “Wish all calls were as easy as that, don’t even have to fill out a report”

“No Kidding, Hey were about due for a lunch break, lets go grab some grub”

“Sounds Good, let me put this crap away and ill be there, Grab us a table”

The human nodded and took the equipment into sickbay and the Bajoran headed for the lounge.

OFF:

Nurses Played By
Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS HORIZON

[Kurt Barnes]

Kurt Barnes awoke with a start, a result of a jolt by the shuttlecraft in which he was traveling. Glancing about, he noticed that the other two passengers, who were also his crew, were sound asleep.
They had been traveling for some time, a matter of hours, and Kurt was beginning to wonder if they would ever find what they were looking for; The USS Horizon.

“How goes it?” He inquired. The pilot responded: “Well look for another 20 minutes, then we’re headed back.” “Sounds Good.”

Really, however, Barnes wanted to scream and force that man to search until the ship ran out of fuel; He had been stationed at Starbase Bravo and Raeya for the past three years and wanted to get into the action of this volatile section of space. The Horizon was the first ship that could bear him hence, and as the flagship of the local Starfleet forces, it, he hoped, would prove to be an endless source of good material.

Pilot: “I’ve got somethin...... yep! It reads as the Horizon. I’ll take us in.”

Barnes withdrew his imager and captured the view on the screen. His search was over......

Pilot: “Shuttle Whisp to the Horizon, I’ve got some passengers for you, may we dock?”

<Tag Horizon/Someone on Bridge>

[Roman Dagara]

Roman walked out of sickbay. This had been a heck of a busy day. The damage to the leg had been relatively easy to repair. He didn't know much about the Chief Medical officer yet. He hadn't had the chance to meet him since Roman had taken on a lot of the later shifts because there were a lot of issues recently.

Roman walked into the lounge and saw Nurse Anders waiting with a drink in her hand. Roman walked over to and thanked her for the help today she had managed to go and do some of the work that he had needed to get done.

Roman ordered a drink and he and Nurse Anders began talking about ways to make the Nurses work more together and less as individuals. Most of them were fine nurses but couldn't really do that much alone. Most of them needed some supervision to make sure that they didn't make any mistakes. On simple stuff they were great but if it came to fixing people up slightly they couldn't really do that much.

Roman sat with Nurse Anders for a while and chatted. Roman stood up and headed slowly back down to his quarters. Tommorrow he would need to try and meet up with the new Head of Medical. Then he should see about the Admiral make sure that she wasn't overdoing it and if she was he could see the reaction. At least with him maybe it would be easier since he was a Marine and he could push things a little bit to get the rest of the staff to pay attention. Some Dr's just weren't forceful enough .

OFF

[Alex Chadwick]

ON:

<Deck 6 – Holodeck 1>

Alex paused just inside the holodeck out of the admirals view.He knewhe had been right monitoring the decks use across the ship.Only oneperson would use this program and modify the controls as suchwithoutsetting off alarms.

He slowly and quietly removed the betleH from its case.He thoughtbackto his tenth birthday when K'tnec had given it to him.He lightlyranhis finger over it sharpened edge.A true warriors weapon.Deadlysharpbalanced to his terran abilities.

Alex walked forward into view behind the admiral and banged his weapon on the deck hard a few times.

"This a private dance admiral?" "Or can anyone join in?" alex said with his usual smirk.

The Caitian whirled around, blade in hands. She smirked recognizingtheformer chief of security as she flipped the blade over to herrighthand briefly blinking at the burning sensation in her stomach.Thesesudden moves didn't help her condition any, she was well aware ofthat,but it's what made her feel alive again and not focus so much onwhat had happened. It worked last time, even though medical departmentaboard the Rayden wasn't particularly happy with her new set ofinjuries acquired with the safeties off, but Jackie had no intention ofkilling herself in the holodeck then, and she had no such intentionsnow either.

"Wouldn't call this dancin', you're welcome to join me however" sheresponded with a nod, "always good to go up against a real person asopposed to a programmed one" she noted flipping the blade over andcatching her breath for a moment Jackie closed her eyes and shook herhead.

"How'd you find me here, so quickly." she asked shifting the weight ofthe blade in her hands as she found a good grip on the weapon. "As faras anyone's concerned, i'm still in my ready room" she noted.

Alex spun his blade in front of him and smiled. "You really have to askme that?" alex replied with amusement."I've been waiting for you to dosomething like this.Suprised it took you so long."

The Lieutenant commander thrust out with the tip of his blade.The admiral quickly knocked it away.She was hurt but still quick.

"You sure your ready for something like this?" Alex said assuming his first stance.

"You really have to ask *me* that?" Jackie smirked as she assumed herstance balancing the blade in her hands. "I ain't out until I'm out"shespoke swinging the blade forth. "...and even then it's not a certainty"she remarked as their blades met.

Alex pushed back against her blade.Not as hard as he could just enoughto shove her off and back.He stepped forward quickly and swung theblunt end of his blade towards her chest.She attempted to parrie lowtothe left to knock his blade up and away.Alex sensed the move andsidestepped it coming around behind her knocking the blunt end of hisblade lightly into her back.He stpped back to allow her to recover andspun his blade quickly in his hands assuming his second stance.

"Not out no..." alex replied.

"But you need to..."

Alex couldn't even finish his sentence before the admiral spun around to strike again.

::Hot damn she's good alex thought to himself::

"I need to...what?" Jackie asked, a slight smirk lighting up herfeatures as she blinked away the burning sensation in her stomach andresisted the urge to hold it with a hand. She mrred softly as sheflipped the blade over in her hands and faced the man again. "theydon't know what it is I need" she murmured her grip tighening on theholds of her blade. She chased away the resurfacing memories and lookeddown at her blade then up at the man across from her.

"Don't you start too." she spoke as she lashed out and their blades metonce again. "heard enough of it in my ready room from medicalstaff,K'Vok, my Aide...so what is it that i need?" she asked her voicelevel and a notch softer, her eyes meeting his for a brief moment astheir blades met again.

Alex paused for a moment.Did she actually just drop her guard a little bit?
He pushed back off her blade and walked slolwy backward spining his blade before him as he considered his words.

"What i meant to say was that you need to learn when it's ok to gethelp from someone." Alex stopped walking backward and spun his bladearound his back taking up his third stance.He paused again wondering ifhe should be showing the admiral this much of his ability with theweapon.

"We're all in this together.Even K'vok has your best interests atheart.As crazy as that sounds." Alex leaped into the air as the lastword left his mouth his blade zooming out before him.It connected withthe admiral's with a loud Clang.He held it there for a moment notputting his whole weight into it.

"No matter what you can count on me to always be an available ear to talk to."

Jackie grunted as their blades locked together, gritting her teethtogether she took a small step back to alleviate the sudden jolt ofpain that rushed through her body as their blades met. She twisted theblade to unlock both of their blades for a moment. She thrust the bladebackwards half spinning it to change her hold on the blade. SHe spuntaround thrusting the blade forward just as his blade came downagain.Their blades et with a loud clang, the jarring causing Jackie togrunt.She tightened the grip on her blade gritting her teeth togetherchasing away the pain in her stomach as her XOs words sunk in.

"What is there to talk about?" she inquired, shifting her blade down onone side as she met her XOs gaze. "You saw what happened, I'm sure youread reports on what happened. what else is there? Talking isn't goingto change what happened." she shrugged before thrusting her bladeupwards to release the hold on his blade. Her tail twitched behind heras she regarded her XO the two facing each other, their blades aimedforth.

Alex shrugged and spun his blade slowly in his hands. "I don'tknow....anything really i know how tough it can be hold that rank onyour colar." Alex adopted a casual stance and drove the tip of hisblade into the hologround beneath them.It stood straight up and alextook a step back and rubbed his neck slowly with his hand.

"I remember talking with admiral jefferson......i think sometimes heneeded to....maybe wanted to tell me things he couldn't..." Alex walkedback and sat on a rock his hands clasped staring at the ground.

"I guess we both know how well that all turned out.What i mean to sayis you ever need a sounding board for anything..." Alex looked up tomeet the admiral's gaze.

"I'm available."

Jackie lowered the blade ever so lightly as she regarded her XO as hespoke. Finally she released her blade from one end and whipped it up byher side as she considered his words; her ears flickering at thememories his words have brought up.

"It's not a question of how hard or easy it is to hold the rank I do"Jackie finally spoke in a level tone, "frankly I dont know why I holdthe rank I do given things, but..." she shrugged, "more reason for menot to act like the typial Admiralty."

She flipped the blade around and spun it in front of her as she continued.

"Why do you think I've been known to fly the Horizon amongst otherthings?" she chuckled a little then paused taking in a sharp breath.

"and they might still come after me, after what happened on Serenitybase" she said, "I *was* involved even if i weren't the one whodelivered the final blow." she paused, a sly look on her face, as shemet her XO's eyes again "I did deliver a few other things" sheremarked, "Sorry about that.. I don't normally...uh...well I've beenknown to cause trouble" she said after a brief pause, "not surprisedabout anything that happened at the tournament" she said shaking herhead, "well aside maybe lack of Romulans trying to kill me."

She paused, taking in a few breaths, the Caitian mulled over what he's said once again.

"Look it's complicated." she said shaking her head to chase away thememories, "there's a lot that could be said, at the same time alot ofit i can't say. my record speaks for itself, and hell I shouldn't evenbe where i am today based on that. " she said, "I shouldn't even *behere*" she re-iterated, her betleH slicing through the air with anaudible sound as if aimed at something there; as if trying to help makeher point.

"I think a lot of people on this ship feel the same way.We're a unique bunch."

Alex knew that more now than ever.Looking over the crews files had beenan eye opening experiance to say the least.Alex reached out and pluckedhis betleH from its spot in the ground.

"It's like these weapons.Deadly in the right hands foolishly awkward inthe wrong.It takes time and discipline to learn how to do anything...."

Alex ran his palm along the blades sharpened edge slightly cutting intohis hand.A ritual he had learned from his teacher.Even in a friendlysparing match blood was always offered.He ran his palm along theweapons side leaving a wide streak.

"Thank you for the exercise admiral." Alex said while standing.

"I should get back to the bridge my duty shift is about to start."

Jackie smirked, "sometimes unique is good" she said holding up her blade, "Sorak clearly underestimated what the crew could do" she spoke, her tone level as she focused on the edge of her blade. "We're definitely a weird bunch," she remarked, "makes it interesting I suppose," she shrugged.

She twisted the blade over in her hands as she looked up at Chadwick.

"Thanks." she spoke, "I knew i made the right decision when I picked you as XO despite...things" she noted, "and... you ever want to uh.. talk....or..need a sounding board as you say, you know where to find me" she said, "I won't talk if you won't" she added, smiling a bit as she met his gaze.

"Now go on, before M'Karrl redecorates the bridge old Earth pirate style or the Klingons get weird ideas" she smiled, and for a moment the Jackie Chadwick'd first met at the tournament was back.

OFF:A JP by your ruler and her evil toadie

[Jennifer Dylan]

“Shuttle Whisp to the Horizon, I’ve got some passengers for you, may we dock?”

Since no one was at the comm station, Jennifer hit the hail button and said, "Horizon to Whisp, you're clear to dock." She checked the dock display on her console and ended, "Dock 3 is open. Welcome to the Horizon."

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon - Shuttlebay - Hanger Section>

J'al started welding the first layer of original non-replicated deck plating to the fighter's frame in strips from a sitting position under it. He had a supply closet alongside the bay filled with original parts for this thing. The goal was to use as many non-replicated, original parts that they could. With a little help from the Captain, he was able to "acquire" a fair amount of storage space in the hanger for the assorted pieces.

As he finished a weld, he lifted the welding mask to inspect the quality, when he caught a glimpse movement at the other end of the bay. He looked a little closer and saw an orange and black tail stick out before disappearing behind a shuttle again.

"He got out...." he mumbled to himself as he stood up, and took off the mask, setting it aside with the welding tools. He walked over to the shuttles that his cousin was messing with, and peered around one to find him with an open access hatch on the outside of the Flying Dragon.

"She sure is a good shuttle. Flies like a dream." he said to M'Karll, patting the side of it.

"Ya-har, cousin! Glad ye be likin' 'er... lucky's fer botha us, the good Cap'n be tellin' me I be allowed to give a might bigger teeth to some o' them, at least in the short term while that great blueberry be patchin' us up a bit belowdecks," M'karll replied, bypassing some of the Dragon's secondary systems so he could begin removing the secondary sensor suite to replace it with a more sophisticated targeting sensor system. "Might bigger teeth too, yar-har!"

"So.... you're giving it more firepower..." J'al said, wondering what he had ever done to have a family like this.

"By the way, nice job in keeping your butt out of the fire. I figured you'd be in the brig with stinky for the next few days." he said, referring to M'Karll's newest mortal enemy.

"He be nothin' but a great blowhard, and 'sides cuz we both be knowin' he started it an' the logs be bearin' out my complete innocence in this matter. Twas all self defense, an' we both be knowin' it," M'karll replied, crudely ripping the secondary sensor suite from its housing and dropping it on the deck with a metallic thunk. Truth be told, the piratey Caitian had little real use for any hardware on his shuttles that was non-military. In his opinions the smaller craft should be used as one might use gunboats or frigates while the fighters served to fight off enemy forces. After all, the shuttles could be equipped with full-size armaments in a pinch so what was the point of not hvaing them so armed? Grunting, he siezed the new targeting scanner and shoved it home into a housing that was slightly too small for it. "Yar, why be nothin' military standard size," he complained, ripping into ODN relays and beginning the task of cross splicing them together. It wouldn't be a pretty job, but it would be nonetheless effective.

"Uh huh...." J'al said, watching in amusement. "Just don't burn the fur off your forearm from a power surge."

For a few moments, he watched M'Karll try to jam the relay in, finally being somewhat successful.

"You want to sneak into stinky's quarters later and slip a fake tribble into his bed?" he asked with an amused grin.

"Amusing twould be," M'karll replied, grunting as he tightened down the new targeting system at last. "But I be un'er orders ta be stayin' 'way from him, and I not be a big fan o' da brig. I did be tryin' ta make sure he got ta be seein' the new shrink though. Ha-ha-har, I be so sure that one be a bowl of laughs, prob'ly 's good as him runnin' 'ead firs' inta the forcefield in the brig!"

"Yeah, he doesn't give up easily." J'al said.

He started chuckling to himself. "And if I get him mad, at least he can't grab my tail." he said, starting to laugh. "I'll never forget the look on your face when he did that."

"Twasna funny," M'karll replied angrily. "Twas funnier when I kicked him in da back, ha-har!" With that the pilot slammed the panel shut and stood. "An' now the real fun begins, ya-ha-ha-har!" The pilot seized a sledge hammer and proceeded inside the shuttle with every intent of making extra space for full-size torpedos the hard way.

J'al followed him in and interjected before he could start swinging.

"Yeah.... before you go destroying the interior of this piece of Starfleet Property..... I could use some help installing the basic parts of a Type U Pulse Phaser system in the Rogue." he said, referring to the project fighter.

"That be fun, this be work," M'karll replied, heaving back the massive sledge hammer again and preparing to swing. "'Sides, I be pickin' up all o' da little pieces an' recyclin' them. Nothin' be bein' put ta waste an' with all this shuttle been bein' through, probably be being a good thing!" He roared and readied to swing the hammer. "Ye ought ta be helpin' me ye great barnacle lovin' bilge rat!"

J'al attempted to comprehend what was being said, especially since it was being spoken in some form of Terran, but he gave up and went back to Caitian.

"Fine.... swing away. Don't hit yourself with that thing." he said, watching what would happen next.

"Dun min' if'n I be doin' dat Matey," M'karll replied, launching a massive overhand swing into the powered down shuttle's built in replicator. They'd want that space to help store an extra torpedo magazine. There was a satisfying crunch as the hammer made a solid connection on the control panel. With a few more bangs on the side of the device, M'karll succeeded in launching it several feet out the back of the shuttle's landing bay. "Ye be seein' 'ow much faster that be than yer way, cousin," the tiger-appearing Caitian asked, hefting the hammer and heading towards its next victim, the co-pilot's seat.

"Just because you lost your ship to that demented Romulan unlike some of us..." J'al said referring to himself. "... doesn't mean you have to take it out on the one that made it back." he said with a chuckle.

"I takin' out nothin'. I be refittin'," M'karll replied, hammering a blow down on the back of the co-pilot's seat and blasting it from its bolted down moorings. "An' ye ought ta be 'elpin' me do it," he continued, picking up the seat and heaving it down the ramp.

"I'm still wearing grey for the moment." J'al replied, indicating his department. "But I will take the opportunity to smash things." he said, finding another hammer.

"Le's see 'ere," M'karll purred. "Yar, da bunks can be gettin' rid o'," he roared, taking a heavy swing at one of the four bunks. Once they were down he'd chuck them out the ramp as well. You could fit several real torpedoes into the space that they occupied. "Common, cousin, ya-har!"

J'al looked around, and found a console for weapons control on the side.

"Well, we'll have to put a new one of these in anyway..." he said, taking a swing at the stand alone station.

A series of cracks, and satisfying star pattern appeared on the face of it, as he took another swing at the side, denting it a

With an earsplitting shriek of metal being torn from its housing the first of the bunks came free and crashed down. Grunting, M'karll picked it up and chucked it down the loading ramp before starting in on the second bunk. "Satisfyin' idn'it, matey," he asked, hammering away on the second of the four bunks. By the time they finished the shuttle would have some serious teeth.

As both Caitians began beating the shuttle senseless, they both heard the shuttlebay doors opening. Wondering what it could be, they walked out of the hanger and into the main landing bay as a shuttle glided through the forcefield keeping the bay from depressurizing, and came to a stop on the pad while the bay door closed behind it.

They looked at each other for a moment and strode over to where the door would be opening from the craft. M'Karll was in uniform, but J'al wasn't. He didn't even have a commbadge on. Just a grey untucked t-shirt and black slacks.

"Wonder who this is...." J'al said to M'Karll while crossing his arms in front of him just before the door started to open.

OFF: Tag! Guess we were in the right place at the right time :) Apologies if you meant to have the shuttle dock with an airlock on the side of the ship instead of the shuttlebay, but I wasn't sure, and me and M'Karll were already in the bay in our in progress JP, so I figured I'd get us involved. Either way it gets our new crewman on the ship. :D

Joint Post by

Ensign M'Karll R'Pas

and

[Jackie Clawson]

<<USS Horizon -- Deck 6 -- Holodeck1>>

As Chadwick left, Jackie closed her eyes and brought her blade up infront ofher, the sharp ends facing up. Her ears flickered as the holodeck doors swungshut behind her XO what he's said still ringing in her ears.

Jackie steadied her breathing then opened her eyes to focus on the blade. She took in a breath then opened her hands andsteadied the blade on her palms balancing it well enough so it wouldn't toppleover. It was something Mark had taughther years ago, useful when she wanted to center herself and find the rightbalance.

Jackie released the breath she held as shefocused on the razor sharp tip on one side. The blade she held in her palmsrepresented that much more to the Caitian than it would have if she'd havepicked it up under any other circumstances all those years ago. By all accountsshe shouldn't even be alive today; by all accounts Jackie should've been deadon a number of occasions in the past given the close brushes with death she'shad over the years.

Sorak just added to the count. And her stomach would be a reminder of that fora while to come.

And there'd be more, Jackie was sure. Her battle wasn't over yet. And rest wasn'twhat she needed right now. Neither wastalking. Jackie didn't recover by resting or talking. Far from it…

She narrowed her eyes and with a swift movegrabbed a hold of the blade and swung it around flipping it over in her handsin a quick move sent one end flying towards an invisible enemy.

She caught the blade pulling it back and ina swift motion swinging it to her side with one end pointing to the floor, theother upwards. As the blade came to rest, the Caitian let out a short yelp as asudden jolt of pain shot through her lower abdomen. Blinking it away Jackie letout a low growl; frustrated at herself. She wasn't giving in to the pain quite so easily, not until she was through, not until she could put what had happened with Sorakbehind her long enough to get back to her old self instead of hiding away on the bridge.

And the only way she was going to achieve that is to keep going.


"Computer! Run program Clawson K8"she spoke, the scenery flickered changing to a darker setting, the computerbeeped to signify it's ready "Begin" Jackie called out as she raisedher blade ready to take on her holographic opponent just as he flickered into existencehis own betleH ready.

OFF:
Open Tag. Hate to see the reaction of medical staff should they see 'er pullthis sorta stuff around^ but best not confront 'er about it when she's wielding a betleH. ;) bad for your health

[Kurt Barnes]

Barnes sat up and rolled the sweater he was using as a pillow into a ball and stuffed it into the small bag he had with him. The others in the back, now almost fully aroused, began packing what things they had withdrawn during the course of the trip. Other than that there was not much to do until they landed.

That event happened a few minutes later, and the doors to the shuttlecraft opened, and Kurt cringed as the bright lights of the Horizon's shuttlebay greeted his retina. He leaped from the craft onto the ground, and nearly collapsed; having not taken a step in several hours.

After regaining his composure, Kurt picked up the bag he dropped and proceeded past the crewmen scampering about to finish the docking procedures on the shuttlecraft and made his way to the small compartment on its stern to collect the equipment they had brought along.

By that time, Mark and Jen had gotten out, and also came to retrieve the gear.

Jen: "Well, at least this ship is more roomy than that shuttle; I never want to ride again!"

Mark: "Oh, stop whining, it wasn't so bad."

Jen: "Not so bad! I can't feel my feet!"

Mark: "I've been in worse scenario's."

Kurt: "And I worse. Stop bickering and lets find out where we're going!"

Kurt, as always, grabbed the least bulky and lightest container and headed off towards the door. After all, what else were assistants for?

Kurt looked around at the empty hallway. **So much for hospitality...** His assitants hobbled up behind him.

<Open for Tags>

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon - Shuttlebay>

J'al and M'Karll stood off to the side of the shuttle's doors as the passengers hobbled out without paying them much attention.

"I guess Humans really do have bad vision." J'al said to M'Karll. The two Caitians laughed to themselves as the group headed towards the exit and the hallway. They followed behind and when they were behind the group that still did not notice them, J'al spoke up.

"Greetings, and welcome to the Horizon. I never really noticed before, but it must be true. Human vision is not as acute. You walked right past us, friend." he said with a good natured laugh to Mr. Barnes, though he did not know who the group was yet.

OFF: Tag! Please read the last 3 or 4 paragraphs of my above post before Clawson's. You missed a tag, Mr. Barnes. I was trying to help you get something to write about. ;) Would have been hard to miss us standing there. :p

[Kiara Krezek]

OFF: Sorry about not posting until now... standard holiday stuff.

ON:

Sammy looked at her new boss and frowned "I am sorry to say mine is not that far back in my past that it can yet be forgotten, it still effects my life to much and will do until I can fully resolve the matter. But that is a conversation for a long quiet shift, when there is nothing else to talk about or after you have read my record and wanna hear my side of things before judging me." she said with a touch of her normal grin showing through

"I might just take you up on that offer," Kiara replied as she approached the turbolift. "Well, I think I can find the bridge from here. Thank you for the... rather enlightening opinion on the crew and on yourself, Ensign. If you have any more problems with your father, let me know, I'll help you beat him. Just make sure that he doesn't take it as affection from me."

<TAG>

Kiara gave Swan a curt nod, then entered the turbolift and called out, "Bridge." The doors snapped shut.


[Bridge]

The ride was disconcertingly short.

Perhaps she was used to Marine operations, where her office was all the way down on the lower levels of the ship, but her general bridge position, when they had grabbed starships to go on Starbase 99, was Tactical... when she wasn't in a starfighter.

She glanced around. it had been the first time stepping on an Intrepid class ship's bridge since the Hornet under Summers, and the place was starting to bring back a few memories as she wandered out of the lift by the Tactical console...

OFF

TAG: Anyone actually on the bridge at the moment?

[Jennifer Dylan]

OFF: I am. :)

ON:

| USS Horizon
| Bridge

Jennifer noticed a new face walk out of the turbolift behind her. As she could have guessed, the face wasn't human. She appeared to be Bajoran, or at least partly. The newcomer walked over to the tatical console next to Jennifer's position at the helm. When Jen realized this was the new Chief Tactical Officer, she got up and walked over to the Bajoran, extending her hand. She was right about to introduce herself when a gold leaf on the newcomer's green collar caught her eye. She was a Major.

The Ensign was more than a bit stunned to see that her new counterpart held a marine rank three pay grades above her own, and was two ranks her senior even with deferrance. "Um, H... Hi," she said, now wishing she were still sitting down, "I'm Ensign Jennifer Dylan. You can call me... well, you can call me whatever you want, actually." She was really just hoping that the marine wouldn't crush her skull in or anything. Apart from those friends of hers that chose to take the marine path after the Academy, Lt. Dagara was the only marine she'd ever known, and, well, he was a nurse. She really had no idea how such a high-ranking marine would act towards a peppy blonde girl such as herself, much less an Ensign. She hoped for the best.

TAG

[Kurt Barnes]

OFF: Yeah, missed that one, sorry bout that :)
ON

<USS Horizon - Shuttlebay>

J'al and M'Karll stood off to the side of the shuttle's doors as the passengers hobbled out without paying them much attention.

"I guess Humans really do have bad vision." J'al said to M'Karll. The two Caitians laughed to themselves as the group headed towards the exit and the hallway. They followed behind and when they were behind the group that still did not notice them, J'al spoke up.

"Greetings, and welcome to the Horizon. I never really noticed before, but it must be true. Human vision is not as acute. You walked right past us, friend." he said with a good natured laugh to Mr. Barnes, though he did not know who the group was yet.

Barnes spun around and nearly dropped his bags..... sneaky sneaky, he thought to himself. Was it he who had missed them or they who had evaded. <Shuders> *Catians....* Putting on his best behavior and most forced smile, Barnes replied.

"Umm. Yes, hello uh friend, nice to meet you" He extended his hand.

<Tag>

Barnes: "Kurt Barnes, Federation News Network Correspondant. And this is Jennifer, my equipment specialist, and the thing behind that large black box is Mark, my assistant. We've been dispatched to cover the sector, and we figured what a better place than on the flagship of local starfleet authority." Kurt, of course, was lying. He would have taken any assignment, but the Horizon happened to be what was available. Perhaps, however, it would turn out to be best. What he said was true, the Task Force Command Ship was sure to run into some interesting things out in the black.

<Tag>

<Tag>

[QaDghab]

QaDghab lay in uneasy sleep, on the bed in the brig. In his dreams he was surrounded by children. Romulan and Cardassian Children, with their necks and back in unnatural angles, some with daggers in their guts and more than a few were just babies. He was surrounded by the walking dead. The children his had massacred, and they closed in on him, the youngest crying while others chanting as they circled in on him with blood rage in their eyes.


"You shall pay. Our blood runs on your hands, it demands vengeance. It demands the blood of our killer." They chanted, as those with blades embedded in them pulled them out as one and closed in on him, daggers ready to stab.

QaDghab stared at them, his body uncooperative and useless as emotions that seemed to not belong to him welled up in him. Fear, that pushed his body to want to flee, or attack, but his body refused to move. He was helpless as they surounded him and came in to attack.... then suddenly out of them came his daughter.

Only her eyes was full of the same blood rage, and he suddenly found himself as helpless as the children he killed, as her hand larger than life crushed his throat, squeezing the life out of him.

As darkness came, he suddenly awakened with a long painful wail, his hands grasping his head as the chanting still rang around his head. "Silent! SILENT!!! SIIILLLLLEEEENT!!!!" He roared as he ran headfirst into the force field of his cell and rebounded back to lay in a heap with low sobs. For the time being he was nothing more than a shell of a Klingon. As for a long time he cowarded like a child before he could bring himself back in control.

[Hayden Shaw]

<Brig>

"Silent! SILENT!!! SIIILLLLLEEEENT!!!!"

Hayden heard the klingon roar as he entered the brig. He dismissed the guard and walked into the cell, keeping his hands close to his phaser. He saw QaDghab bolt upright the instant he shut down he field.

<TAGS>

[QaDghab]

QaDghab trembled uncontrollably as he wavered on unsteady feet, a smear of blood left behind on the deck where he had laid, even more showing on the bed where he had originally been asleep. "What do you want!?" He spat, though his attempt to sound fierce failed as he still shook with the aftereffects of the nightmare.

[Hayden Shaw]

OFF: (Err, the med team did fix you up after your JP with Sammy, right...?)

"I thought we could have a little heart to heart." Hayden said quietly, ignoring all the blood in the room. "One warrior to another." After saying that he went and disabled the cell's force field. "I trust you not to run. You won't get far anyway." Hayden pulled a chair into the cell and laid his cane along his lap.

[QaDghab]

OFF: (The tag was posted, but no one answered it yet, so I assume it not taken care of yet)

ON: "Heart to Heart?" He asked with a tone of disgust as he watched the man pull the chair in and sit with the cane across his lap. He glanced at the place the forcefield used to be, but did not feel up to testing the man's word. "Who are you?" He demanded, as he didn't remember meeting him before.

[Hayden Shaw]

Hayden sighed internally, This might cause a problem. "I was the security officer in the lounge that arrested you and the Caitian. Remember now?"

[QaDghab]

QaDghab growled and turned his back on him, in a classic Klingon insult. "Your the ONE! It was my challenge to make fool!" He growled angrily.

[Hayden Shaw]

"And it was my duty to perform. Where I come from, men of honour do not shirk their oath to serve and protect just because they feel like it." Hayden chose to ignore the back-turning insult, demanding that he face him would just cause a row between them an, Hayden did come here for a reason.

"There is a reporter on board." Hayden started. "And in my experience with reporters, they cling to scandal like flies to a dung cart. It would not be prudent for their to be any senior officers in the brig when he takes the tour, if you catch my meaning."

[QaDghab]

QaDghab snorted as he turned around to face Shaw. "Who are you calling a senior officer, fool?" He said as he studied the Man with his single good eye, his blind eye twitching. Though the rest of his body wasn't quite steady either, weakened by hunger and bloodloss.

[Kiara Krezek]

The Ensign was more than a bit stunned to see that her new counterpart held a marine rank three pay grades above her own, and was two ranks her senior even with deferrance. "Um, H... Hi," she said, now wishing she were still sitting down, "I'm Ensign Jennifer Dylan. You can call me... well, you can call me whatever you want, actually." She was really just hoping that the marine wouldn't crush her skull in or anything. Apart from those friends of hers that chose to take the marine path after the Academy, Lt. Dagara was the only marine she'd ever known, and, well, he was a nurse. She really had no idea how such a high-ranking marine would act towards a peppy blonde girl such as herself, much less an Ensign. She hoped for the best.

Kiara looked over to the small, redshirted ensign and inside she was laughing her head off. She had fear in those blue eyes of this Ensign Dylan. From what position she was in when she first stepped on the bridge, she's the person whom makes sure that the ship doesn't crash into a red giant at warp five... and from the way she spoke, Kiara really hoped that she didn't pilot that way either.

Or else she might just have to show her what a pilot could really do.

Outwardly, instead of laughing, she just smiled at the fellow blonde and said, "I'm Major Kiara Krezek. I blow stuff up with the weapons array around here, and get to beat up people that don't follow regulations. And I can call you anything, can I? How about we call you... 'Bob'." She looked the ensign once over. "Yes, 'Bob' will do nicely for a callsign for you. Now, where's the senior officer on duty?"

OFF

TAG Bob :P

[Hayden Shaw]

"Don't play games lagh." Hayden said suddenly getting sterner. "Reporters are worse than inspecting admirals. One toe out of line and the whole world comes crashing around our ears. Pictures, headlines, editorials. Your grimace will be shown under the text "MAD KLINGON ATTEMPTS TO KILL CAITIAN".

Hayden didn't like reporters. In the Dominion war one article about his fighter squadron's conduct (or lack thereof) got nearly all of them demoted or discharged in Starfleet's attempt to save face. If he ever got his hands on the reporter he would make his death look like an accident.

Hayden got up out of the cell and left the door open. "You are free to go, and you have agreed to not touch M'karll." Hayden reminded himself that this was a kilngon and put some bravado into it. "We'll put it this way. If you assault M'karll, I will shoot you. And it be in an important place."

[QaDghab]

QaDghab starred at Shaw a moment longer, he had made no such agreement, but of course he didn't say that, but he currently didn't feel up to testing Shaw's threat. Instead he moved cautiously and slowly out of the brig cell, bumping Shaw's shoulder as he passed, leaving a smear of blood on his clothing. He headed for the door, speaking as he did. "You humans exagerate everything." He said with a laugh.

[QaDghab]

QaDghab starred at Shaw a moment longer, he had made no such agreement, but of course he didn't say that, but he currently didn't feel up to testing Shaw's threat. Instead he moved cautiously and slowly out of the brig cell, bumping Shaw's shoulder as he passed, leaving a smear of blood on his clothing. He headed for the door, speaking as he did. "You humans exaggerate everything." He said with a laugh.

[Jennifer Dylan]

Kiara looked over to the small, redshirted ensign and inside she was laughing her head off. She had fear in those blue eyes of this Ensign Dylan. From what position she was in when she first stepped on the bridge, she's the person whom makes sure that the ship doesn't crash into a red giant at warp five... and from the way she spoke, Kiara really hoped that she didn't pilot that way either.

Or else she might just have to show her what a pilot could really do.

Outwardly, instead of laughing, she just smiled at the fellow blonde and said, "I'm Major Kiara Krezek. I blow stuff up with the weapons array around here, and get to beat up people that don't follow regulations. And I can call you anything, can I? How about we call you... 'Bob'." She looked the ensign once over. "Yes, 'Bob' will do nicely for a callsign for you. Now, where's the senior officer on duty?"

"Well, last time I heard from Admiral Clawson, she was in the Holodeck with Commander Chadwick. So that makes you the senior on the bridge, ma'am. And, um, about the 'Bob' thing... when I said 'anything,' I was referring to the fact that you outranked me... I think 'Ensign Dylan' or 'Jennifer' would be more appropriate."

[QaDghab]

QaDghab left the brig area, only to be tormented moments later by the hallucinations of the dead children. The mothers and children he had brutally killed in his madness. They chased him in the caverns beneath Cardassia, the caverns he had escaped threw when escaping imprisonment. He ran, roaring for silence, as they chanted and chased him, till finally he burst threw metal doors and collapsed in a hollowed cavern.

Tanis entered his quarters, He had recently finished grabbing some R&R in the Lounge with Delaney and Izzy.

As the doors closed behind him, he removed his uniform and threw them on the floor, for some reason he was exhausted. And crawled into bed

It was mere seconds later he drifted into an easy sleep, Dreaming of his Family, Trying to remember what his long lost mother looked like...He could never remember...

Suddenly There was a loud Explosion of Noise, and Tanis, startled, hit the floor.

"What the Hell...LIGHTS!" he hollered. Instantly lights filled his room.

QaDghab was scrambling across the floor, looking behind himself with a horrified look as he tried to get away from something only he could see. "Silence... SILENCE!" He cried out as he suddenly stopped dragging himself across the floor and tried to fight off the demons. He then suddenly made a choking sound as in his vision he was being choked by one of the children who appeared as his daughter.

Tanis quickly got up out of bed, the initial shock of the sudden explosive intrusion into his quarters gone. "QaDghab ?" Tanis said, He knelt down beside the Klingon. "What’s Wrong? Can you Here Me?"

The bleeding from his back left a smear of blood where he had dragged himself, he seemed to lost in the delusion though to answer Tanis. He still made the choking sound and at times cried out in Klingon.

Tanis was without a Medical Tricorder, it wasn’t like he kept one in his quarters, he was off duty after all. He Did a quick physical assessment, his hands starting from the his head, and working down to his feet, feeling around and under his armor, he was feeling, and looking for any sign of trauma, he was bleeding, and without a medical tricorder he relied on physical findings to tell him what was wrong.

As Tanis' hands reached the back his hands came out bloody. "Found it" Tanis said. he tried to roll the hefty Klingon to get a visual of his back, He found the area where he had recently performed surgery was wide open and actively bleeding. "Dammit Man!" Tanis said. "Are You Trying To Kill yourself!?"

Tanis hit his comm badge "Transporter Room, 2 To Beam Directly to Sickbay" Tanis double tapped his comm badge "Sickbay, Medical emergency, Transport In Progress, Have a Uniform ready for me"

QaDghab shook, his single good eye glazed and moving wildly around as his mind played out scene after scene. Thankfully he wasn't fighting much. The transport however faintly registered threw it, and as it didn't simulate anything in the visions some of the delusions where broken.

The Transport was instant, in mere moments they were in sickbay with the Klingon on a Biobed. Nurses stood around the area ready for whatever emergency befell them, but then, they stood there in silence as there CMO stood before them, with nothing but his Underwear.

"Sir?" One of the nurses asked in confusion. At least they knew why he needed a uniform.

"Get QaDghab Stabilized, and close up his wound in his back, I need to change"

2 Nurses moved to QaDghab and removed all his armor. And one Injected the Klingon with a sedative and another grabbed a Dermal Regenerator to close up the wound. In less then a minute Tanis was back, in full Dress. He scanned the Klingon and compared it with previous known scans of him. He brought up the display on a console. "Status?" he asked his Nurses.

"5 Mg Of Hemaxoran, Respirations, 26, Pulse 170, Blood Pressure 150 On 110, However They are beginning to stabilize now" One nurse reported on the Vital Signs. "Wound repaired on his back, no Long term Complications are anticipated"

Tanis nodded and continued studying the readings he was getting. There seemed to be activity on parts of his Brain where theoretically there should be none at this time.

Tanis had not had a chance to read up on the Implant which plagued this Klingon's Brain, and somehow...What QaDghab was experiencing, he had a feeling it was because of this device.

QaDghab groaned, his hands slowly going to his head. His head felt like it was about to explode. That in turn set him to reliving the time that the Cardassians had implanted it. He coiled, and suddenly burst into a fighting frenzy.

Tanis Signaled for Medical staff to restrain the Klingon, and Told another Nurse to give another 10 MG of Hemaxoran, a heavy relaxant.

6 Nurses and doctors struggled to restrain the Klingon as the drug flowed through his system.

QaDghab slowly stopped fighting as his muscles became lax, and before long he lay limply on the bed, his breathing coming in slow shaky breaths.

"Have him temporarily restrained to the Biobed, I don't want him moving for a few hours, and I want Constant monitoring on him, if ANYTHING changes, I want to be notified ASAP!" Tanis ordered.

"Yes sir" said the nurse.

"I'm going back to bed, I'll get the report done in the AM"


JP
DR. Tanis Havenway
CMO

and

[Grenn]

<USS Horizon - Shuttlebay>

"Hi." J'al said, returning the shake. "Name's J'al and this is my cousin M'Karll. Who might you be?" he asked, knowing that both he couldn't really know who himself and M'Karll were, since they were not in uniforms, and didn't even have their commbadges visible. Just the way he liked it. Don't give up too much information.

Barnes: "Kurt Barnes, Federation News Network Correspondant. And this is Jennifer, my equipment specialist, and the thing behind that large black box is Mark, my assistant. We've been dispatched to cover the sector, and we figured what a better place than on the flagship of local starfleet authority." Kurt, of course, was lying. He would have taken any assignment, but the Horizon happened to be what was available. Perhaps, however, it would turn out to be best. What he said was true, the Task Force Command Ship was sure to run into some interesting things out in the black.

"Ah, well the Horizon seems to get into its share of trouble, so I don't think you'll have much trouble finding a good story." he said, glad he didn't actually mention what his position was. Reporters liked to ask senior officers questions before anybody else.

OFF: Tag! :) Oh, and minor note. Killer Kitty doesn't like us leaving tags in the middle of our posts. Tagging at the end is fine, but if something we do requires a lot of back and forth banter, we can JP it in the Joint Posting section. ;)

[M'karll]

<USS Horizon - Shuttlebay>

"Hi." J'al said, returning the shake. "Name's J'al and this is my cousin M'Karll. Who might you be?" he asked, knowing that both he couldn't really know who himself and M'Karll were, since they were not in uniforms, and didn't even have their commbadges visible. Just the way he liked it. Don't give up too much information.

Barnes: "Kurt Barnes, Federation News Network Correspondant. And this is Jennifer, my equipment specialist, and the thing behind that large black box is Mark, my assistant. We've been dispatched to cover the sector, and we figured what a better place than on the flagship of local starfleet authority." Kurt, of course, was lying. He would have taken any assignment, but the Horizon happened to be what was available. Perhaps, however, it would turn out to be best. What he said was true, the Task Force Command Ship was sure to run into some interesting things out in the black.

"Ah, well the Horizon seems to get into its share of trouble, so I don't think you'll have much trouble finding a good story." he said, glad he didn't actually mention what his position was. Reporters liked to ask senior officers questions before anybody else.

"Ya-ha-har," M'karll roared, slapping his cousin and the reporter heartily on their backs simultaneously. "Plenty o' gold thar be 'ere on tha Horizon," he bellowed. "Jus' las' coupl o' days we be havin' the run-in within them thar space skallawags!" He grinned maniacally at the group. "Ye mus' be seein' an' reportin' on the spe'shul upgradin' we be fixin' in da shuttles!"

(tags oh mighty reporter)

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Quarters of Dr Heavenway

Tanis lay in his bed, all he could think about was QaDghab, Why was he constantly plagued with mental visions, visions that seem so real to him, and the Implant, what was its purpose, why couldn’t it be removed?

He had been tossing and turning in his bed for the last 6 hours. It was going to be an all nighter, even though he isn’t even at work.

His quarters were dark, just the way he liked it, he couldn’t sleep very easy if there was any light anywhere in his bedroom.

His mind constantly on QaDghab and the Implant, he tried so hard to rid his mind of it but every time he thought he did, it came back.

Suddenly, Tanis felt something on his bed. He swept the bed with his hands, but nothing was there.

“Shit…I must be just tired” Tanis mumbled to himself, and let himself drop down onto his pillow again.

He stared into the empty ness of his quarters; the blackness that he hoped would help him fall asleep.

He tossed over some more, his eyes open, he was wide awake, and only had 3 more hours before shift start.

Then, Tanis felt something on his bed again. This time he didn’t move, He wasn’t sure if it was his tired mind playing tricks on him, or if it actually was something there. His instinct was to call security, but how much of a fool he would look when they get here and there’s nothing.

He was glad engineering fixed his doors while QaDghab was in sickbay, or he would have to think someone might just have snuck into his quarters.

The feeling of something on his bed, seemed to get closer, it felt as of some thing was walking up towards his head, from the bottom of the bed.

This time for sure, he wasn’t dreaming, or his mind wasn’t playing tricks on his mind.

“Computer Lights” He said calmly. His heard was beating faster; he wasn’t sure what he could find.

The lights came on and the creature on his bed stared right into his face, and for an instant, Tanis was scared, then, realizing what it was…relaxed.

“Bones?!” He said in shock. “What the Hell are you doing here?!”

Bones was a small feline creature, who had saved his life back on his last mission on the USS NIMITZ. He was stranded with another crewmember on a deserted island for almost 10 days, and the creature he now called Bones saved his life many times during those 10 days. Tanis realized during those days after discovering Bones, that he wasn’t just some ordinary animal, it was Unique in some ways…Tanis thought on many occasions that the Feline could read his thoughts, and if that was indeed the case, anything else that’s special about the creature Tanis could not figure out.

“Your not suppose to be here!” Tanis said, whispering, as if someone next door would hear him. Bones’ ears fell back, and dipped his head, looking as if his feelings had been deeply crushed. “I could get in so much trouble!”

Bones furry tail wagged back and fourth, Deep down Tanis was ecstatic to see bones again, he was sure after his unwanted extended vacation in the depths of Risa he would never see Bones again.

Tanis didn’t know what to do, they were a LONG way from Risa to return bones…he wasn’t sure if he could keep Bones a secret for long.

Bones walked up to his face, rubbing his soft soothing fur against his cheek, and began to purr. “Your just a trouble maker I think” Tanis said. Bones’ ears perked and he moved to lay down beside him. Tanis stroked Bones’ fur, and stared up at the ceiling. “Lights Off” And his quarters were dark once again.

Bones seemed to purr a bit louder at being petted, and within minutes Tanis closed his eyes and was instantly asleep. Bones watched Tanis closely as if observing him for the first time, and lay down next to him and slept.

* * *

“The time is now 0830” The monotone Computer voice said.

Tanis stirred and the computer repeated itself.

He opened his eyes, and looked at the Chronometer. “I’ve only slept for 2 hours?” He said in disgust. “Going to be a long day”

He expected himself to be extremely tired, but for some reason, he was wide awake and full of energy. Then he remembered…Bones!

He looked around, but bones was no where to be seen. “A Dream?” He asked himself.

He got dressed and headed for sickbay.

* * *

“Stauts?” He asked as he walked into sickbay.

“QaDghab has been resting peacefully since we brought him in”

Tanis nodded.

“He demands to know when he can be released”

“How were his vitals through the night? Any other complications?”

“Negative sir”

“Good, release him, tell him I personally want to see him every 4 hours for re-evaluation”

“Yes sir”

The nurse left to tend to QaDghab and get him ready to leave and Tanis went into his Office.

OFF:

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS NIMITZ

[QaDghab]

QaDghab finally got off the bed, he was tired, having not slept the entire time. What little sleep he did have the last 2 days had been filled with tormenting nightmares.

He ignored the order for the evaluation every 4 hours, he had no interest in being back in this place, and wasn't intending to willingly come back. Of course he said none of that as he headed for the door.

[Kiara Krezek]

"Well, last time I heard from Admiral Clawson, she was in the Holodeck with Commander Chadwick. So that makes you the senior on the bridge, ma'am. And, um, about the 'Bob' thing... when I said 'anything,' I was referring to the fact that you outranked me... I think 'Ensign Dylan' or 'Jennifer' would be more appropriate."

Kiara just gaped at the ensign. "So you're a pilot and you've never been blessed with a callsign?" she asked, shocked. "Perish the thought, Bob. Every pilot around me must have a callsign... and for that matter, every senior officer and their assistants, for security measures, must have a call name so that communications can be as short as possible."

(OOC: It's a little thing that goes back to the Secret Service, actually. The President, First Lady, kids of the First Family, VP, all the Secretaries of something, and all the aides of the President all have call names chosen for them so that the Service isn't guessing which Smith they're talking about.)

"Now, to the security office, after a quick tour of the brig, since none of the senior staff seem to be here." She looked at Dylan again. "See you later, 'Bob'," she joked before turning back to the turbolift.

TAG

[Jennifer Dylan]

"The brig, eh? Say hi to QaDghab for me," the Ensign joked. Now that Kiara... Major Krezek had mentioned it, Jennifer didn't have a callsign... She could think of quite a few that might be a bit more suitable than "Bob," but she wasn't going to complain. Something that senseless couldn't last long.

[Hayden Shaw]

<Brig>

Hayden chose to remain in the brig after the encounter with QaDghab, and clean up some of his blood. He sighed as he looked at the stain on his shirt. So far, he was 3 for 3 on uniforms since the short time he got here. More reasons for the quartermaster to hate him.

It was a fact that Hayden disliked Klingons highly. "You humans exaggerate everything." QaDghab had said. That was true and untrue at the same time. Hayden said it only to intimidate QaDghab ("Bloody likely" a voice said in the back of Hayden's mind,) but he would shoot him to make good on his word. Anyway, he was authorized if he attacked the M'Karll. Why not. ("Because you might get sacked from Starfleet again..." said the voice once more).

Hayden suddenly burst out laughing. They assigned him on the perfect ship. The review board that was. Three or four klingons outranking him (and a CO with a bat'leth affection), doctors and med staff everywhere, only two human department heads, and now a fleet correspondent on board. Someone in charge obviously had a large sense of humor. Obviously the "homo sapiens-only club" mentality of Starfleet didn't apply here.

After his brief laugh attack, Hayden went over to the replicator in the cell made a cup and a golf ball and proceeded to play mini-put with his cane.

[Alex Chadwick]

Alex's quarters

Alex stood before the back wall of his quarters and hung his batleth back on the wall.The blood on the blade had dried now and alex slowly ran his index finger along it.He remembered the first time he heald the weapon.How heavy it had felt in his young hands,how deadly it looked back then to him.

He turned from the wall and pulled down on his uniform to to smooth it out.He was due on the bridge in five minutes.

Bridge USS Horizon

Alex walked off the turbolift and down to the command deck.He quickly sat in his chair and went over the hourly status report.Several new crewmen had arrived including the new security chief.Alex made a mental not to pay the new chief a visit.There was a slight variance in the warp core engineering was getting it worked out.The replicators on deck 5 were producing nothing but something called steak tartar.And shuttle craft three was down from maintenance.All in all a pretty routine day.Alex liked that after the past month anything normal and routine was more than welcome.

[Delaney Orion]

ON: USS Horizon : Sickbay

Tanis watched as QaDghab left sickbay, he seemed so tired, even for Klingon standards. He made a mental note to visit him after a few hours, for right now he had a few reports to file.

* * * Quarters Of Delaney Orion * * *

Delaney Orion awoke, she had a good restful sleep, She smiled at the thought of staying up so late with Izzy, She regretted not asking him if she could pet him again, He was so soft, but yet she wondered if all Caitains were as soft as that or if it was just Izzy, maybe he took better care of his fur then others, And he was just, adorable.

There was still so much information about Caitains she wanted to know, But was to embarrassed to ask, such as, to they have litters of kittens, do they breed outside of their own race…and other things she decided to stop thinking about it.

She got out of bed and dressed in her Medical Services Uniform, standard blue, There was a few things she had wanted to accomplish for today, meeting with more of the crewmembers, including Admiral Clawson again, but first, she couldn’t start the day without coffee, and she knew Tanis would be in sickbay, so she ordered 2 cups of coffee to go, and made her way to sickbay.

It only took a few minutes to walk to sickbay, crewmembers greeting her good morning as she walked by.

The doors opened and Delaney walked in, looking around, and seen he was in his office.

“Good morning Doctor!” She said with a smile. She took a seat and put the coffee cup to go in front of him.

“Good Morning Councilor!” He said with enthusiasm. “I can’t believe you brought me coffee, its like you read my mind” He said laughing.

“Well it’s my job to know the crew is it not?” she said, and took a sip. “You seem to be pretty Chipper for a Monday morning” Delaney added. “I would have thought you would have been dragging yourself up out of bed this morning after last night”

Tanis recalled last night, up late in the lounge with Delaney and Izzy. He did get to bed rather late, or at least a lot later then he would have liked.

“Yeah…I can’t really believe it myself, but Last night I had the best sleep in my life, at least It sure felt that way” Tanis took a sip of his coffee. He closed his eyes and let the aroma wash over him. “This is great coffee” He said, slightly changing the subject.

“My Mothers specialty, Tho the replicator doesn’t do it justice” Delaney studied Tanis, “If I didn’t know any better I would say something happened to you last night” she said.

Tanis mentally kicked himself for thinking he could go about his day as if nothing happened last night…Did something happen?

“Well, Sort of” He began. He took another sip of his coffee to gather his thoughts.

Delaney finished her cup and put it down on the desk, listening intently to Tanis, She was right, something unusual did happen.

“What do you know about dreams Councilor?”

“Dreams are answers to questions you have not yet learned to ask.” She said. “At least that’s what some people believe.”

“Do you believe that?” Tanis asked.

“Yes” she said truthfully. “However, I don’t believe every dream is that way, I also believe dreams is actually your subconscious working out the information that your brain has absorbed for the day” she paused to take a breath. “Have you ever gone to bed, with some sort of unsolved puzzle, question, or problem, and wake up the next day with the answer?”

Tanis nodded in understanding.

“There are many other interpretations of what dreams are and what they mean, Those are just a few that I believe to be true, some people believe dreams are the people of the spiritual world coming to send them a message” Delaney said making her point. “Did you have some sort of dream last night?” she asked trying to make a doorway for Tanis to open.

“Well” He began. “I’m not sure”

He tried to recall last night.

“Do you remember on our shuttle ride to the Horizon last week, or whenever it was?”

Delaney Nodded.

“And I told you about my last mission, or shore leave as it was suppose to be, We were attacked by some sort of Creature, which ended up stranding us on a deserted Island for 2 weeks?”

“Yeah, and you were later rescued by members of your crew?”

“Right, but There was more, I ran into some sort of creature, I’m not sure if it was native to Risa or not, but, it was as if he was sent to me to be my Guardian Angel”

Delaney nodded. “How do you mean?”

“I know it sounds kind of stupid, but, it was as if this creature, a Feline, could read my mind, it seemed to sense my thoughts, what I was feeling, it brought us food when we were hungry, and companionship when we were lonely. I don’t know where it came from, it just showed up.”

“And you had a dream about this creature last night?” Delaney asked trying to put the pieces together.

“Well, I think so” Tanis said. “I only got 3 hours of sleep, I tossed and turned until almost 0500…Then it happened, I seen him, Bones, I named him, was on my bed, he looked at me almost sympathetically and laid down beside me, next thing I know I’m waking up 3 hours later, and felt as if I had the best sleep of my life.”

“Do you believe it was real?” Delaney asked.

“I don’t know, I looked for Bones when I got up this morning but I couldn’t find him anywhere, I scanned my entire quarters for any sort of lifesigns, and the tricorder didn’t pick up anything, the security systems did not register anyone or anything entering or leaving my quarters between the hours in which I was in there, so, logic dictates, it was most likely a dream”

“What do you think it means?” Delaney asked.

Tanis shrugged “Maybe a sign that my Guardian angel Is still with me.”

“Perhaps” Delaney agreed. She stood up, “This was very nice” she said referring to their talk and morning coffee.

“Yes, thank you for talking with me” Tanis said.

“Perhaps ill stop buy for lunch” she said.

“Sounds good to me”

With that Delaney left to her office.

OFF:

Joint Post

Ensign Delaney Orion
Councilors Assistant
USS Horizon

AND

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS Horizon

[QaDghab]

QaDghab left sickbay and wandered the corridors a bit before his mind wandered to a hobby he had not done since leaving the Homeworld, Blacksmithing. He always loved the way the metal bent and shaped into wanderious designs under his hammer, the blast of heated air that blew from the hot coals.

Though it would not be a replacement for real life Blacksmithing he headed for the holodeck, taking the turbolift down to Deck 6 and making his way to Holodeck 1. The only thing is he forgot to check to see if it was in use, and moments later he was standing, watching the Elegant form of Admiral Clawson, fighting with a batletH.

After a few moments of watching her he left Holodeck 1 and entered Holodeck 2, this time making sure it wasn't in use. Once in he tapped the controls, creating the scene of a cavern with hollowed out ditches full of flowing, slowly hardening lava. In the middle was a few various shaped Anvils set on a bolder which half the bolder had been cut away to provide a flat surface. It was a holographic representation of a forge he had worked in near his cabin.


He quickly over-road the safties an picked up a bucket set over the lava, full of liquid iron and poured it into a mold set in cool water where it would harden into a iron block, then picking up an already solid block he began pounding away.

[Roman Dagara]

ON: Quarters of Dr Heavenway

Tanis lay in his bed, all he could think about was QaDghab, Why was he constantly plagued with mental visions, visions that seem so real to him, and the Implant, what was its purpose, why couldn’t it be removed?

He had been tossing and turning in his bed for the last 6 hours. It was going to be an all nighter, even though he isn’t even at work.

His quarters were dark, just the way he liked it, he couldn’t sleep very easy if there was any light anywhere in his bedroom.

His mind constantly on QaDghab and the Implant, he tried so hard to rid his mind of it but every time he thought he did, it came back.

Suddenly, Tanis felt something on his bed. He swept the bed with his hands, but nothing was there.

“Shit…I must be just tired” Tanis mumbled to himself, and let himself drop down onto his pillow again.

He stared into the empty ness of his quarters; the blackness that he hoped would help him fall asleep.

He tossed over some more, his eyes open, he was wide awake, and only had 3 more hours before shift start.

Then, Tanis felt something on his bed again. This time he didn’t move, He wasn’t sure if it was his tired mind playing tricks on him, or if it actually was something there. His instinct was to call security, but how much of a fool he would look when they get here and there’s nothing.

He was glad engineering fixed his doors while QaDghab was in sickbay, or he would have to think someone might just have snuck into his quarters.

The feeling of something on his bed, seemed to get closer, it felt as of some thing was walking up towards his head, from the bottom of the bed.

This time for sure, he wasn’t dreaming, or his mind wasn’t playing tricks on his mind.

“Computer Lights” He said calmly. His heard was beating faster; he wasn’t sure what he could find.

The lights came on and the creature on his bed stared right into his face, and for an instant, Tanis was scared, then, realizing what it was…relaxed.

“Bones?!” He said in shock. “What the Hell are you doing here?!”

Bones was a small feline creature, who had saved his life back on his last mission on the USS NIMITZ. He was stranded with another crewmember on a deserted island for almost 10 days, and the creature he now called Bones saved his life many times during those 10 days. Tanis realized during those days after discovering Bones, that he wasn’t just some ordinary animal, it was Unique in some ways…Tanis thought on many occasions that the Feline could read his thoughts, and if that was indeed the case, anything else that’s special about the creature Tanis could not figure out.

“Your not suppose to be here!” Tanis said, whispering, as if someone next door would hear him. Bones’ ears fell back, and dipped his head, looking as if his feelings had been deeply crushed. “I could get in so much trouble!”

Bones furry tail wagged back and fourth, Deep down Tanis was ecstatic to see bones again, he was sure after his unwanted extended vacation in the depths of Risa he would never see Bones again.

Tanis didn’t know what to do, they were a LONG way from Risa to return bones…he wasn’t sure if he could keep Bones a secret for long.

Bones walked up to his face, rubbing his soft soothing fur against his cheek, and began to purr. “Your just a trouble maker I think” Tanis said. Bones’ ears perked and he moved to lay down beside him. Tanis stroked Bones’ fur, and stared up at the ceiling. “Lights Off” And his quarters were dark once again.

Bones seemed to purr a bit louder at being petted, and within minutes Tanis closed his eyes and was instantly asleep. Bones watched Tanis closely as if observing him for the first time, and lay down next to him and slept.

* * *

“The time is now 0830” The monotone Computer voice said.

Tanis stirred and the computer repeated itself.

He opened his eyes, and looked at the Chronometer. “I’ve only slept for 2 hours?” He said in disgust. “Going to be a long day”

He expected himself to be extremely tired, but for some reason, he was wide awake and full of energy. Then he remembered…Bones!

He looked around, but bones was no where to be seen. “A Dream?” He asked himself.

He got dressed and headed for sickbay.

* * *

“Stauts?” He asked as he walked into sickbay.

“QaDghab has been resting peacefully since we brought him in”

Tanis nodded.

“He demands to know when he can be released”

“How were his vitals through the night? Any other complications?”

“Negative sir”

“Good, release him, tell him I personally want to see him every 4 hours for re-evaluation”

“Yes sir”

The nurse left to tend to QaDghab and get him ready to leave and Tanis went into his Office.

OFF:

Lt Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS NIMITZ


Roman stood up when he heard the Dr come in. He tried to be discreet as he didn't know what the new CMO would think of his chief nurse being a marine. Roman was wearing a very military look today. He had on his Marine uniform and also had with him a weapon hidden in his boot. This ship he could expect anything. Roman had seen to much not to be wary. This new Dr might be harmless and perfectly alright but who knew for sure.

Roman walked over to where the new Dr was. He didn't know what to really expect with this new Dr. His Nurses had briefed him on the new Dr and from what he heard it seemed like this Dr would fit right in.

"Good Morning Sir. I am Lt Dagara I am your Head Nurse?"

TAGS CMO

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Sickbay

Tanis watched as Delaney left his office. Her short Brown and Blonde hair, spiked at the ends, with a decorative braid on one side of her head. He admired the spots that trailed across her forehead and down her face and neck.

He couldn’t help but be reminded of Katrine while looking at her. They had only been a couple for a short time, about 10 days…strangely enough the same amount of time they had been stranded together on Risa, fighting for their lives. Who would have thought a planet of such pleasure could hold such deadly secrets.

He had just enough time to finish inputting the reports for the Klingon that left his office not to long ago.

Tanis was then met by a uniformed male bearing the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.

He introduced himself and Tanis wasn’t sure if he should shake his hand or Salute, he had never worked with the military type before.

Tanis came to attention and offered a salute. “Lt.” Tanis greeted.

Tanis grinned, he had never had to salute any of his subordinates before, and it felt to strange, he decided instead to offer his hand, in a manner he was more familiar.

“Lt Tanis Heavenway” He said.

Though he fully knew his head nurse knew who he was.

OFF: Tag

[Roman Dagara]

Roman was a little shocked at a senior officer saluting him. He didn't really do that much with the military being on a standard Federation ship in which marines tended not to.

The fact that Roman was the first Marine aboard the Horizon had a lot of distinct advantages and disadvantages.

"Sir it is nice to meet you. I hear you have had an interesting time since you got here. Sorry I wasn't able to be with you when you did your surgery on the Klingon with the back problem. I was sick when it came in and wasn't able to come down. I hope my nurses did a fine job in assisting you"

TAGS Tanis

[TanisHeavenway]

Tanis Smiled at Roman. "Ive certainly had a busy time since I got here" Tanis started. He montoned for him to come into his office and take a seat. "I have barely been on board for an hour and I found myself doing surgury on a crewmember, Your nurses were of great help, very skilled and knowlegable in their work, I like that" Tanis said.

He walked to the replicator and got a coffee. "Coffee?" Tanis asked.

Tag

[Kiara Krezek]

[Brig]

Kiara Krezek walked intot he brig area, expecting to find a Klingon behind the field, but all she found was an enlistedman playing golf with a cane.

"Ten HUT!" she called out, catching the enlistedman off-guard. She strided up to him and gave him a once-over. "Petty Officer, last I checked, golf wasn't part of the duties normally afforded to anyone on duty." Shaw opened his mouth to speak, but Kiara cut him off. "Now, since you seem to think this duty is so much slack that you can play golf on-duty... how about we give you some other work..." She grinned while walking aorund him, behind his back. She was beginning to enjoy this... but her face was carefully stern when she was back around his front. "You just got elected to security detail for Deck 15."

TAG: Shaw

[Kurt Barnes]

Barnes ghasped for air, he wasn't expecting that.... and he hoped there was no fur residue left on his jacket.....

"Umm... Yes, so you ran into some trouble recently? I saw some damage on the way in.... excuse me....

He turned over to his assistant, Mark, who was still strugglin with the heavy box.

"You can put it down, you know...."

Mark: "Oh, sorry."

Barnes popped the locks and withdrew an audio recorder, then returned to the two Catians. He would put his uneasiness aside, he needed SOMETHING to report....... and though he should have asked.

"Kurt, Barnes, USS Horizon, IV 0-0-1.

So, what's happening here? Uh, we do have a few minutes don't we?"

"Yar we always be 'avin' a few grains o' sand," M'karll roared, wrapping his paw around Barnes' wrist and pulling the mic right up to his face. "HI MOM!"

J'al grabbed the mic too, and spoke. "Hey! It's your nephew! Your son's still talking like a pirate! Make him stop! I tried, but he won't listen to me." he said, as Barnes lost his grip on the mic, which was now in both J'al and M'Karll's grip.

"Hey, is there a camera on this thing?" J'al asked bringing it up to his eye before extending it out like a holo imager, facing it at him and his cousin.

He put his arm around M'Karll and acted like he was going to take a picture of them. "Heeeeeey. Hi Federation! I won't say who I am, but you're on the Horizon. Most fur in the fleet!" he said, hammimg it up with M'Karll and hoping it did have an imager on it.

M'karll blapped J'al on the back of the head. "Aunt K'atcha, ye should be tellin' yer son ta not be takin' me job as pilot," M'karll roared into the device. "Hey, we oughta be tellin' Ressi hi too!"

J'al started talking next, almost overlapping M'Karll. "Let's see, let's see.... we got Ressi, Ravi, N'Surr, Yolen'da, R'alka... she's an Admiral by the way. Same as my dad T'onna. You might have heard of him if you travel through the Vulcan Sector. He runs the thing." J'al said into the mic before collecting his thoughts again. "Um... L'anna, L'san, Izzy... oh wait he's on board now. He doesn't get one.... um.... I think that's it. We have a lot of family, I don't think I remember all of them..." he said laughing.

Barnes: "GIVE ME THAT!" Barnes stammered, and snatched up the mic... I'm sure your entire litte...... family will be happy to hear from you." He uttered, while thinking **I'll be sure to edit out these few minutes...** And by then, Jen had set up the camera and linked it to the mic.... "So, you ran into some trouble back there, what happened?"

M'karll cast a sideways glance at his cousin. "Yar, where we even be startin' the tale," he asked. Then he held up a clawed finger. "I be knowin' jus' da thing!" He reached behind his back, and seemingly out of nowhere produced a flask of rum. Uncorking it, he took a long pull. "Drink," he demanded, shoving the flask into Barnes' chest. "We be shipmates, ye great bilge rat. That means we be sharin' a drink!"

"Indeed. All new crewwmbers, civilian or not need to take a drink. Kind of a tradition here on the Horizon." he said with a sly grin.

Barnes couldn't be sure what the cat-man was trying to do, was it a friendly gesture or a test of Character? You could never tell with these sly creatures.... If the former, he would return it, if the latter, there's no way he'd let anyone think less of him. Used to hanging around pubs, bars, and rough crowds on many less hospitable planets, Barnes wrenched the flask from M'Karll's grip and took a long swig, the camera taking it all in.

The stuff tasted like acid; it was probably used as such, but Barnes forced it down, and all while maintaining the perfect "Poker Face". After finishing the gulp, he returned it to his "shipmate".

Barnes reached inside his jacket pocket and withdrew his own polished silver flask, containing whiskey, and passed it to the Catian.

M'karll took the flask almost greedily and tipped it up to his lips. First was a long pull on the rum, followed by an equally long pull on the whiskey before passing them both to his cousin J'al. "Yar, matey... that be not half bad, but I be stickin' with me rum!"

At thsi point, J'al noticed the camera set up and walked over to it and behind it. "Oh, that's more like it. Camera time. But why do this in a hallway? Let's go where the action is." he said, picking it up and pointing it at M'Karll. "Hey, this thing adds like... 30 pounds, fatso." he said good naturedly before giving it back to Jen.

((TBC))

-A JP by Grenn, M'Karll, and K. Barnes.

[Hayden Shaw]

"Yes ma'am!" Hayden replied instinctively. He hadn't heard "Ten-HUT" since Basic Training, but the DI's made damn sure those things stuck with you. Hayden snapped to attention (probably quicker than he should, have his leg panging in protest) and gave the Major the once-over as well out of the corner of his eye. Hayden recognized his new Chief Tactical Officer from the memo. Were just pleasing everyone today, aren't we Hayden? He thought to himself.

Hayden did a mental rundown of the ship to see if it even had a deck 15... It did, maybe three people including the Chief Engineer ever saw it, but it existed. Not exactly what we would call a security priority (but come to think of it, if Hayden ever had to infiltrate a Intrepid class he would do it there.) Hayden decided to try and dodge the bullet.

"Ma'am, I have a drill for the security team lined up in two minutes. I was merely killing time. Do you care to watch ma'am?" Hayden said with authority, protruding an analog stopwatch.

[Kiara Krezek]

"Time, Petty, kills you. You do not kill time. Remember that." Kiara said, grabbing the one seat in the brig and just sitting back and watching. "Let's see what this drill of yours entails. Better yet... why don't we get the entire security staff on board for this one."

Kiara hit some buttons into the brig security console, calling up some things in the computer system, while muttering to herself, "I have a master at arms that plays golf on duty, and I have a father-daughter Klingon team that likes to beat on each other. This is going to be a fun tour of duty..."

"Ready... set... go!" she called out before activating the comm. system. "Krezek to all security and tactical personnel. Action stations. Hostile vessel approaching on the starboard bow. This is a drill."

OFF

Well, I think we might need to be doing a joint post for the entire department. See the JP section for participation thread.

[Roman Dagara]

Tanis Smiled at Roman. "Ive certainly had a busy time since I got here" Tanis started. He montoned for him to come into his office and take a seat. "I have barely been on board for an hour and I found myself doing surgury on a crewmember, Your nurses were of great help, very skilled and knowlegable in their work, I like that" Tanis said.

He walked to the replicator and got a coffee. "Coffee?" Tanis asked.

Tag

Roman came in and sat down in one fo the chairs. "Please sir I could use it. Too many late nights"

Roman smiled and really was pleased with the compliments that his Nurses were of great help and had a lot of skill and knowledge "I appreciate your words in regards to my Nurses sir. They are a good bunch but I haven't been here myself that long and am still learning about this ship. I wanted to see also sir if you had been brought up to speed on the current ship predicaments?"

TAGS Tanis

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Sickbay, CMO Office

Tanis sipped his coffee, He let the aroma momentarily sweep him away, the scent seemed to relax every muscle in his body. Tho that might have just been his imagination due to his love for the morning Fluid of life.

“Your nurses are good, Trained well, as for the ship predicaments…I’ve written and logged so many reports over the last day I have hardly had time to read up on all the personnel files and current health status of the crew” He looked at Roman “Do you know something I have yet to find out?”


OFF Tag

[Sammy Jo Swan]

ON:



As she heard her voice reverberate in the room, she saw Shaw's reaction to her little surprise drill for the department. It entailed an assault and eventual boarding by an unknown force, and required her to be at the console at the bridge, so she headed for the nearest turbolift.

Marvelous, thought Hayden as he tapped the button on his stopwatch.

=^= Fire Teams Bravo through Foxtrot report to the armoury on the bounce. Prepare to be boarded. =^= Hayden said though the Combadge. He started to make haste to the nearest turbolift to get to the armoury and start dealing out the weapons.

When Hayden got there it was occupied by three Tac personnel already. "Deck 6!" he shouted to the computer and the lift accelerated upwards.

QaDghab cursed as he dropped the sword he was hammering into shape, the redhot metal barely missing his bare chest. He had stripped off his upper armor while working in the Holographic scene of a forge he worked in on Qo'noS.

It took him a moment to realize what was said over the comm, then he called the program to save for later and shut off. He grabbe dhis armour in his hand and headed out of the Holodeck and down the Cooridor only to realize he didn't know where his battle station was.

He called back over the comm. "QaDghab here, where is my battle station?"

"Battle station is the armoury, for now, Deck 1 afterward. Get yourself armed and secure the bridge area." Kiara entered the turbolift and called out, "Bridge."

Inside, she sighed. She didn't want to be too much of a hard-ass on this first day, but Shaw's little display with the golf ball and cup was inexcusable, in her eyes. One minute, and she would be on the bridge.

"Krezek to Swan, report," she called out.

"Teams are moving into place. Phasers are active; whomever's on the bridge is doing a good job at keeping two ships at bay."

"Let's save the evaluation for after the drill." The turbolift arrived at the bridge and Kiara took the Tactical console from the person that was there. The petty officer took the back console, the secondary tactical console that was used during battle stations. "Boarding ships are approaching the Deck 6 docking port, and a second one is approaching Deck 1's docking port. Prepare to repel. Swan, take a security team to the Deck 6 port."

Hayden made it to the Armoury and started to arm himself and the assembled fire teams. Boarding situations required the four parts of the ship that could explode or incapacitate the vessel, (Bridge, Deflector, Armoury, and all of Engineering) to be rendered inaccessible by any enemy force. If any invader made it to those places, the ship was considered lost. In addition, more fire teams were to head to each compromised docking bay to "lay out the welcome mat" as the saying goes. The rules of engagement were simple, stun, capture or kill anything that poses danger to the ship.

Squad leaders for any red alert were sorted out as such:

Fire Team (FT) Alpha: Chief Tac Officer
FT Bravo: Asst Chief Tac Officer
FT Charlie: Master-At-Arms
FT Delta to Juliet: Security Officers and Enlisted

Hayden saw Swan move out with Bravo towards the Deck 6 docking bay. This was dangerous because the Armoury was on the same level. The security force would have to move at double time to arm themselves before the boarders started to trickle through the defenses.

"Alright," Hayden shouted over the equipping personnel. "We're closing up shop in 30 seconds! Get your payload double time." Hayden turned to the wall and picked up a type 3e phaser rifle and tactical display headset.

=^= Fire team Charlie awaiting orders, Major. =^=

QaDghab made his way to the Armoury, arriving moments later, gasping out of breath. He nodded to Shaw as he looked at the weapons and grunted. Clearly the chief didn't know he was already armed with Klingon weapons, but he picked out a Starfleet type phaser anyways as there was no stun setting on his disruptor.

He then headed for the bridge. Once more arriving moments later and taking up guard at the doors.

<Armoury>

Hayden saw QaDghab arm himself and galavant off to the bridge without support. A nice way for a Klingon to gain a glorious death, but a poor way to guard Deck 1. Hayden gestured to Delta to reinforce QaDghab and the bridge entrance, and to Echo to meet the boarding party on Deck 1.

As per standing orders, the four security teams on patrol (FT's Golf though Juliet) were on their way to Engineering to secure the area. The remaining fire teams finished arming, and assembled outside the Armoury. "Computer, Erect a Level 10 force field around the Armoury, authorization Shaw-Beta-Six." The field flickered to confirm it was operative. Three down, one to go, granted that the teams already on patrol all made it to Engineering.

Kiara watched the clock as the readiness reports came in. First the Armoury - she would have to congratulate Shaw, he had the lowest time - and then the Bridge was secured. Two minutes, thirty-five seconds.

"Swan to Tactical. Deck 6 docking port is secured."

Crewman Dodgers to Tactical. Deck 1 docking port secured."

"Engineering and Deflector teams, report!" Kiara barked.

There was a second or two delay in the communications with the first one, "Engineering team here, moving into place now."

"Deflector team here, we've got an injury during the drill. Moving the person out to compensate."

Kiara scowled at the news. "Not good enough. You have thirty seconds."

Swan waited for further orders as her team held the docking port, she kept a shart eye open for anyone that might blunder into thier drill. If anyone did they would be held until after the drill was over and the Chief cleared them to be released.

QaDghab ignored the other security officers that had been sent up to guard the bridge with him. He remained in his place at the side of the lift doors, having made sure the doors where not on the side he was blind on. That would certainly do no good, as he would not be able to see the doors clearly without turning his head full around.

He did however glance at the new Security Chief a few times, studying her. It seemed it possible he may have found someone who hates Cardassians as much as he does.

After waiting for 5 mins when no further orders were forthcoming she opened a comm channel "Swan to All Security and Tactical staff - report to the Security office now - Swan out" she hit her badge again closeing the channel her tone had been cold and hard, the teams would know she was annoyed and that there was going to be trouble.

She left docking port and headed for the office, she had a feeling she was gonna be in hot water after this shambles of a drill. The only thing she was certain of was that no matter how much trouble she was in the sec/tac staff were in a whole heap more.

A short time later she entered the sec/tac office and waited for everyone to arrive.

A JP by

Major Kiara Krezek
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS Horizon

and

Petty Officer 2nd Class Hayden Shaw
Master-at-Arms
USS Horizon

and

QaDghab lagh
Security/Tactical Officer
(Klingon Exchange Officer)
USS Horizon
(http://horizon.taylord1.co.uk/main.php?pageref=bio&crewid=92)
and

Ensign Sammy Jo Swan
Assistant Chief Security/Tactical
[B]USS Horizon-A
Taskforce 58

Off: OK guys report in here, the JP thread is now closed.

[Hayden Shaw]

Oh hell. Hayden thought as he deactivated the forcefield on the Armoury and started storing his weapon. The ACTO did not sound pleased. He clicked his stopwatch again, while the armoury, engineering, and the bridge were secured, as well as the two docking bays suitably "defended", the deflector was compromised, and in a real situation, some radical, post-war Cardassian terrorist cell would be holding the ship hostage from there, threatening not only to make the shields go away for a very long time, but to irradiate the front part of the ship with radioactive particles or whoever knows what. Time elapsed, 7 minutes, 56 seconds. Entire fleets had been destroyed in less time and we couldn't even secure the deflector array, Hayden thought as whacked an empty box with his cane in frustration.

Swan and Krezek are going to tear us a new hole to breath out of. Hayden and the 14 other crewmen with him went to the elevator and immediately down to Deck 9.

[Grenn]

At this point, J'al noticed the camera set up and walked over to it and behind it. "Oh, that's more like it. Camera time. But why do this in a hallway? Let's go where the action is." he said, picking it up and pointing it at M'Karll. "Hey, this thing adds like... 30 pounds, fatso." he said good naturedly before giving it back to Jen.

"Yo-ho Matey," M'karll roared. "I can still be kickin' yer ruddy great behind!"

"Great, well let's go! I'll give you the nickel tour. You want a story? Let's show your viewers what life's like on an Intrepid Class Starship. One second though..." he said, ducking back into the bay and retrieving the rest of his uniform. He pulled on his grey shirt with rank insignia, and threw his jacket on with the commbadge still attatched.

He came back into the hallway with his uniiform properly fitted again and decided to at least introduce himself if he was going to be a tour guide. He shook Barnes's hand as he walked to lead the group down the hall. "Lieutenant Grenn, by the way. Chief of Intelligence. I'll have to pull up your file later. Trust me, the Horizon will be better then Targus 2 and all those other godforsaken places you covered in the war." he said, taking the point. "First stop, Deck 2!"

Banres: **Not only a cat, but a spook too, lovely.**

Kurt told his assistant to leave the heavy transmitting equipment and other things behind in the shuttlebay for the moment, then asked him to assist Jen in capturing the tour on camera; being sure to turn it off in all "sensitive" areas. Barnes then began walking backwards in front of the camera........

"Welcome Federation! We're here today aboard the USS Horizon, NCC-74611-A, at present located somewhere within the Raeyan Sector. Myself, Kurt Barnes, and my crew have just arrived aboard this, the intrepid-class flagship of local Starfleet forces. At present, we're ..... Tailing ...... lieutenant Grenn, -

Despite the Catian being garbed in his gray Starfleet Intelligence uniform, Barnes knew all to well that putting an officer of that tricksy department on the screens of thousands of public citizens and viewers, and mentioning their name/position could compromise a mission if they ever had to go undercover.......therefore he neglected to mention what Grenn's role aboard the ship was.

- "who has kindly offered to give us a tour.... and you've also been invited to tag along....."

Barnes turned around and began walking regularly, following Grenn and M'Karll down the corridor, Mark and Jen monitoring the recording from the rear.

"Yar, I be runnin' through 'ere just the other day," M'karll remarked, slapping his cousin on the back. "That business with the pointy-ear'd space devil."

"Yeah, something like that. Sorry for Ensign R'Pas. He likes to talk like a pirate." J'al said, as they entered the lift and proceeded to Deck 2. Stepping out he turned left and headed to the Mess Hall.

"Ye mean I can't be tellin' the tale, matey," M'karll asked, smacking his cousin on the back. "The big cap'n be givin' me a shiney for it... I tell ye abou' the shiney."

"Yeah, me too." J'al said, trying to deflect the conversation. "Talk about it, and the Captain will make a mast on the aft hull and hang you from it by your tail."

J'al started as they walked in and walked backwards himself as the camera followed them into the room. "Alright, this is our crew's mess hall. While there are replicators everywhere, most species tend to prefer eating in open areas with other crewemmbers, so we cater to that here. There is also an actual Kitchen here in the back where anybody can come and really cook a meal if they are so inclined. Incidently, I make a great R'aklan Omlette. Getting real eggs is difficult, but worth the wait." he said as they panned around the room to see a few crewmembers milling.

"Yar, listen to ye...," M'karll began, then he adopted an almost dead-on impression of J'al. "'When I can get real eggs...'," he bobbed his head side-to-side in a mocking manner. "Yar," he excalimed. "Le's go visit Cap'n!"

"Sure, why not... I know she'd love to meet a reporter..." J'al replied before hitting his commbadge. "Computer, location of Admiral Clawson."

"Vice Admiral Clawson is in Holodeck One." came the reply.

J'al immediatly got an image of what she was probably doing in there. If he brought reporters with cameras in there while she was swinging her Bat'Leth, there would probably be trouble. Last time, he and M'Karll had walked in to her wearing Klingon armor. Awkward.....

"I dunno, matey. Cap'n been un'er some stress lately," M'karll said, an image of the captain in Klingon armor springing into his head. "Might be a good idear ta not be interruptin'."

J'al cleared his throat and spoke. "You know what? Let's try somewhere else. The Bridge for example. Plenty of interesting folks there..." he said, as he remembered the new Security Chief would probably be there. He had not met the Major, but like the rest of the crew, had her file committed to memory. "Or maybe even Engineering.... yeah, Engineering would be better right now." he said.

"Ya-aar," M'karll said. "I not be thinkin' the blue one be wantin' visitors down there. I be votin' fer the bridge, they can be meetin' da new Firs' Mate."

OFF: More to come!

(A JP By)

Ensign M'Karll R'Pas

Kurt Barnes

and

[Roman Dagara]

ON: Sickbay, CMO Office

Tanis sipped his coffee, He let the aroma momentarily sweep him away, the scent seemed to relax every muscle in his body. Tho that might have just been his imagination due to his love for the morning Fluid of life.

“Your nurses are good, Trained well, as for the ship predicaments…I’ve written and logged so many reports over the last day I have hardly had time to read up on all the personnel files and current health status of the crew” He looked at Roman “Do you know something I have yet to find out?”


OFF Tag


Roman smiled "Well first I had to fix the meniscus for one of our people. Was simple to fix thankfully. Then we have our Commander Officer. I worry slightly about her as I have a feeling she will overwork so soon after the injury she sustained. I plan to keep an eye on her as much as possible. I don't think she likes medical personell too much though. I know Admiral Harmon didn't happen to like it too much when I wanted to sedate him so he could get treatment. I feel I let them down when I wanted to sedate him instead of allowing him to work to find a cure for Admiral Clawson. If he would have let me know immediately I could have helped instead of trying to ensure that he was looked after. I am not sure what has been reported about the incident. Have you received anything in regards to it?"

TAGS

[Kiara Krezek]

[Bridge]

Kiara sighed as she looked at the reports trickling in from the various security teams that were filed. It was absolutely pathetic, the times she had seen coming from the teams that were securing the most vital areas of the ship.

Armoury was done in a good amount of time, though, but she did see room for improvement. She had caught the entire department off-guard when she called for the drill within ten minutes of stepping onboard - exactly what she wanted.

No ship of hers was going to get boarded and taken over.

She made a mental note to talk to Swan about retraining the entire security force, if need be. 'Fleeters she thought with disdain as she looked over the report of the person whom broke their arm in the middle of the drill. He had slipped and got his arm caught in a closing storage locker door, giving him a hairline fracture in his lower arm. She was sure Sickbay would get that one, and hoped that the Marine that she saw on the roster for sickbay personnel - a Nurse, which made Kiara smile a bit - would give the young man Hell for it. (OOC: Hey, Roman... *poke*)

She signed off the station after sending a message to Swan, and headed for the turbolift. Once she got in, she called out, "Deck...3."

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy sat at the desk reading through reports whilst she waited for the teams to report in, as she picked up the next padd the console chimed with an incoming message. She sighed and opened the message as she read the message she visably paled at what her new boss had left unsaid, she was not looking forward to thier next meeting she got the feeling she was about to be in a world of hurt oneway or another. She quickly typed in a reply and sent it.

Tag all Sec/Tac staff.

[Hayden Shaw]

Hayden felt a lump in his throat as he lead the crewmen into the Security office. Swan was there reading through reports, deathly quiet, with a matronly air that made her look all the more livid. The crewmen filed into the office, most of them pale. Hayden did his best attempt to remain looking strong, and mature for the younger crew, but the ACTO scared the hell out of him just as the rest when he saw her at her desk, calmly asserting her right to take a seat while denying you yours. They probably had entire courses that taught you that at Officer School.

Hayden took his place in front of the enlisted security forces, and awaited the coming storm. "Ten-HUT!" Petty Officer Shaw belted out. All the crewmen snapped to attention at once. Hayden turned on his heel to face the Ensign Swan. "Petty Officer Second Class Shaw, reporting for the Tactical and Security Division, USS Horizon, ma'am. All enlisted ranks present and accounted for."

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Sammy looked up from the reports to see exactly who was present and who was not, it seemed the only one missing now was QaDghab lagh and knowing his habit of ignoring orders or taking his time to respond she did not wait for him.

She made eye contact with every man and woman there, her face was serious and her tone when she spoke was cold "Our new Chief decided to test us today to see what we are made of . . . . . . . . " she paused as she stood and started to pace behind the desk after a few minutes of silence she stopped and turned to face them again "I do not think I need to tell you how that test went, the times for that drill are the slowest in this ships records. I will not allow this to happen again you will all be on a strict training programme for the forseable future, those of you that were off duty are dismissed those who are on duty get back to your stations. Shaw you will remain here everyone else get out now before i have you all on double or triple duty's." Her voice never went above normal level she did not need to shout to be understood.

Once everyone other than Shaw had left she sat back down again, "At ease Shaw and sit downyou look worse than I feel right now" she said in a slightly lighter tone though not much lighter.

Tag - Shaw and QaDghab and Krezek (if she wants to join us) I'll start a thread in the JP section

[Roman Dagara]

Roman saw the Security officer walk in holding his arm and Roman knew something was wrong. He had seen a lot of injuries in combat and knew how to handle the basics. The good Dr would be able to handle the issue of doing the medical work but he was about to see what happened to this security officer


Roman walked over to the young security officer and glared at the man. Not known for being very diplomatic. I mean he had threated to have not just one admiral but two put out so they could work on them. That wouldn't earn him many friends especially as he was more harsh then most of the nurses he had ever worked with.

"How did you break your arm?"

Roman asked and the man quickly responded "I fell sir and got my arm caught in a locker"

Roman rolled his eyes and couldn't believe that a security team member could be that clumsy. Roman had never before heard of such clumsiness in regards to security. He knew he wasn't the man's superior but he was planning to give them man some lessoning. Maybe he should help this poor man and get him to understand the better points of physical activities "I assume that you are fairly new. You are going to eventually kill yourself or someone else who is with security. You must not be so quick and learn to take your time. More then your life will depend upon this."

The man was shocked. He couldn't believe the Nurse was telling him this "But sir, I had to get there quickly"

Roman just glared at him "You need to know your limitation and rushing in could get you or any who are in your group killed. If that happens you will never forgive yourself. Now from what I have seen the new Head of Security will definitely be able to help you learn this but you may want to learn to be more careful. "

Roman fixed the mans arm fairly easily not worrying about how the man looked very uncomfortable. Roman smiled inwardly knowing that the security officer would probably report the words he had used to his superiors. Heck they allowed a Marine to join up as head nurse and they probably knew he wouldn't be the most well liked of the Medical staff.

"You are dismissed Officer please report back to where you need to go. Here is something if there is any residual pain. And remember what I told you. Speak to your Commander they can possibly give you more training"

Roman walked away from the poor security officer and smiled to himself. That was fun. Fun which he hadn't had since the injury of the Adminral. He hoped he would hear from the Security chief soon

OFF



[Bridge]

Kiara sighed as she looked at the reports trickling in from the various security teams that were filed. It was absolutely pathetic, the times she had seen coming from the teams that were securing the most vital areas of the ship.

Armoury was done in a good amount of time, though, but she did see room for improvement. She had caught the entire department off-guard when she called for the drill within ten minutes of stepping onboard - exactly what she wanted.

No ship of hers was going to get boarded and taken over.

She made a mental note to talk to Swan about retraining the entire security force, if need be. 'Fleeters she thought with disdain as she looked over the report of the person whom broke their arm in the middle of the drill. He had slipped and got his arm caught in a closing storage locker door, giving him a hairline fracture in his lower arm. She was sure Sickbay would get that one, and hoped that the Marine that she saw on the roster for sickbay personnel - a Nurse, which made Kiara smile a bit - would give the young man Hell for it. (OOC: Hey, Roman... *poke*)

She signed off the station after sending a message to Swan, and headed for the turbolift. Once she got in, she called out, "Deck...3."

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Medical Office

Tanis sipped the last of his coffee and thought for a moment about his question.

Then he looked on his desk at the dozen or so padds that were sitting there. “I’m sure the information to which you are referring is in this pile of stuff somewhere. I was told however that the Admiral was involved in an incident where she was stabbed, and that was about it, Is that the incident you are referring?” Tanis asked, sifting through his pile of PADDS to see if it was in there somewhere.

He simply shrugged his shoulders and put the padds back down. When he looked up from his desk Roman was gone.

Tanis got up to see just where the sly nurse gotten to with not so much as a word. Then he seen him, Some security officer walked in holding his arm.

Tanis smiled, his head nurse wasted no time in tending to the patient to assess the situation. Tanis simply stood in the doorway and watched, noticing he was beside the food replication he ordered himself some more coffee and continued evaluating Roman’s Assessment, treatment and patient contact abilities.

Tanis took a sit of his fresh hot coffee…He closed his eyes savoring the first sip of fresh coffee, it was always the best, His enjoyment was interrupted when he overheard Romans voice, Scolding the security officer.

“You are going to eventually kill yourself or someone else” He overheard, then moments later, “You need to know your limitation” Tanis tried to hold back his laughter, the poor security guard looked so helpless.

After Roman treated the officer and walked away Tanis approached. “Hows your arm now” he asked and picked up a Tricorder and did a quick scan.”

“Uh, fine sir” the security officer said.

“Don’t worry, even the best of us fall and break something sometimes.” Tanis said, and with a smile turned and headed back into his office.



OFF

[QaDghab]

QaDghab had heard the call, but he ran into a little problem on the way there. Visions of Cardassia had come up again, and him traveling the tunnels leading from the base he had been held captive in.

When his senses returned moments later it was to find himself in the Jefferies Tubes again. Rather than leaving the tubes he continued in them until he reached the security office and popped his head out of the tube. "I'm here puqbe'!"

[Sammy Jo Swan]

"Glad you could join us, take a seat we have things to discuss" she said still in the same cold tone as she waited for him to sit down.

Off: Ok this continues in the JP area

[Alex Chadwick]

Admiral's ready room

Alex sat on the sofa and watched the security drill happening on the vid screen.
He had decided to remove himself from the bridge.Some of the older security personel might look to him at times when they should be following there new chief.

A marine....alex never understood the perceived rifts between "fleeters" and marines.In the end they all served the same organization and had the same chain of command.

"What would i know.I'm just a red shirt now." alex said smiling as he picked up his cup of coffee and took a sip.Somewhere some little part of him wanted there to be a little booze in the cup.Said he needed it.....Alex set the cup down with one unsteady hand and continued watching the screen.

[Roman Dagara]

On MedBAy

Roman sighed as he saw the man walk out the door. There was an accident waiting to happen. Roman knew he had been rough on the man. But one accident in the field could destroy not only his carreer but could end up with lives being lost. If he had taken more time in preparing then there wouldn't be the issue.

Roman turned back and put in some information in the file and appended it so that the commander of security could know that the man was treated. He didn't bother to append anything about how hard he was to the poor man. He heard the CMO

After the security officer had left he went back to see the Dr. "Sorry sir. I have spent quite a bit of time doing security and medical at same time during training. I have seen men like that who were careless or didn't take the necessary times and ended up costing other good mens lives. I was rougher on him since he seemed not to understand the gravity of the situation"

TAGS Lt Heavenway

[Kiara Krezek]

[Deck 3]

After pacing around her quarters a bit, getting a feel for the slightly larger space than she was used to - for some reason, the CAG's Quarters on Starbase 99 were exceptionally small for a base's officer suite, and Marine quarters were usually cut down to a minimum anyway - she called out, "Computer, locate Admiral Clawson."

"Admiral Clawson is in Holodeck 1," the computer replied.

For some reason, Kiara never liked the computer voice on starships. It always sounded too... friendly. In fact, most things seemed overly friendly, even the decor on some of these "friendly" engineers. She liked the Marine way of doing things: "Screw aesthetics and form, I want something that WORKS."

She liked the EMH, though, that was on 99. Something about an accident involving the hologram and a Klingon sparring program had fused the EMH to a Klingon body. She actually thought it was an improvement of the bedside manner of the EMH Mark I.

She chuckled slightly at the memory of her first meeting with the Klingon EMH, whom had proceeded to try to cut out a piece of shrapnel that she had lodged in her arm with a bat'leth.

Fun times.

Kiara kept chuckling as she walked out the door and into the corridor, headed for the holodeck at a quick pace. She had already started her job, it wasrude to be late to report to the captain of the barge.


[Corridor outside Holodeck 1]
[Ten minutes later]

"Stupid turbolift..." Kiara muttered, the humor completely govne from her face as she crawled out of the Jefferies tube junction that led into Deck 6 outside the holodeck. She guessed that enough people were using the system due to a shift change or some other reason. Maybe a party in the Mess Lounge.

Or the other Holodeck.

Whatever the reason, she decided to do the three deck distance through the tubes. Almost tripped over an engineer whom was working on transporter controls, and fell down a ladder and bruised her elbow slightly - not enough for Kiara to worry about - but she was otherwise unharmed.

And otherwise ready to crack some heads.

She approached the large double-doors of the holodeck, looking at the control panel, seeing the name of the program as a personal program of Admiral Clawson. Wondering what she could possibly running, she diverted for a second towards the control panel and tapped in, wondering if the door was locked. She saw that it wasn't, and wondered what the nature of the program was.

She hit a few buttons, requesting entry. The computer spoke back, "Program already in progress. Enter when ready."

Taking a breath, she approached the doors, not knowing what to expect...

And the last thing she did expect to see was her new commanding officer fully engaged in combat with a full-grown Klingon.

Kiara raised an eyebrow as she saw the two combatants clash, bat'leths clanking together to symbolize the struggle that they went through together in the flickering light of the torches. The light and shadows danced around the cavern, almost maddening at the ferocity as it mimicked what was happening in real life.

Kiara decided not to interrupt as she saw Clawson attack, swinging her bat'leth and contacting her opponent.

OFF

Who took up the open tag? ME! Tag to our CO. Fight it out!

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Sickbay Office


Tanis looked at Roman still sipping his hot coffee. He loved coffee, especially when it was Scolding Hot, it seemed the colder the coffee, the more bitter it was.

“I Understand where your coming from Lt. However, being Medical officers, it isn’t our place to tell security officers how to do their Jobs, that would be like a security officer going up to you and saying “Don’t Use that Scalpel to fast, you could sever an artery!””

Tanis said. He wasn’t sure if he made a whole lot of sense but he was sure he got the point across.

“Anyway, when was the last time Sickbay had a Simulation Drill ?”


OFF Tag

[Roman Dagara]

Roman nodded "I can understand that sir. I guess somethings just get to me quickly especially as I was a Marine always and a Nurse second. I guess I need to work more on the bedside manner."

Roman heard the word drill "We haven't had one since I have been with the ship sir. I admit I haven't been here long. With all the emergencies we have had recently I was kinda rushing around like a Dr."

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: USS HORIZON : Sickbay

Tanis raised an eyebrow at the comment of “Running around like a doctor”

“I hardly think doctors… ‘Run Around’” Tanis said trying to stifle his grin.

His coffee at this point, had been long empty and put the cup in the Replicator.

“Well, As Chief Medical Officer, it is my responsibility to know where my staffs strengths are, and weaknesses and act upon that information to maintain those strengths and build up on our weaknesses.” Tanis began, he had moved into his office and signaled Roman to sit down.

“And I have only been on this ship short of a day now, and running a Department wide simulation in the holodeck just might be the way for me to find out this information”

He took a breath and pulled a padd out of the many that were sitting on his desk. “I have a simulation here that will be able to test and grade our medical staff on Triage, Assessment, Critical Decision Making, Treatment, Among other things And after seeing how the scores ranged in the security department, I can only hope our department scores are much higher.”

Tanis looked at Roman and waited for some input.

OFF: TAG

[Roman Dagara]

Roman thought "I do think that a drill would help us. Also maybe get a chance to find where each needs to improve. I know that speaking for myself want to know where my strengths lay and how to improve on what weaknesses I have."

Roman thought about this. Knowing his nurses would be helping a lot including in triage, and helping with the minor wounds and even helping with surgery. Roman was hoping to become a Dr one of these days. Maybe LT Heavenway could point him in the right direction to achieve this goal.

OFF

[TanisHeavenway]

ON: Sickbay Main Office


Tanis held the PADD in his hand, a Department wide drill sounded more of a good idea every minute he thought about it. Although to get a good set of test results, they would have to do it in the Holodeck, and wouldn’t be much of a surprise, but on the other hand, It would take a good few hours to complete, and was sure his staff would do the best they could in it.

“Well, Then that settles it, Inform your Nurses that sometime during the week I will be running a department wide Simulation in Holodeck one, and the results will be recorded in each staff members file, Also, if you could inform my Head of Surgery As well, I think I’m going to take a quick coffee break and head to my quarters for a few minutes.”

Roman nodded and Tanis walked out and headed to his quarters.

He had been thinking a lot about Bones, The Wild feline he had befriended back on Risa, when him and Katrine were stranded, and literally fighting for their life on the Pleasure planet itself.

Who knew there was a monstrous sea creature lying In the Depths of Risa. The Memories of the Massive tentacles coming up from the depths of the water and grabbing his boat and splitting it literally in 2 were burned in the back of his mind. And then Jorge, his Tour guide, he was a funny person, Tanis hoped for his sake, that his death was quick and painless when the tentacle wrapped around his body and dragged him to the deep depths of the ocean.

Tanis wondered how such a creature could go unnoticed in the ocean water of a place like Risa.

His best guess was that some tourist wasn’t happy with some ‘pet’ they had purchased from some vendor and tried disposing it in the local waters. Such things were Not unheard of, but not common practice now a days either.

Last night he was having trouble sleeping and THOUGHT he seen and felt Bones in his bed, and even lying beside him, or was that a dream?

Tanis arrived in his quarters and entered. “Lights” He said, he put his PADD down that he brought with him from his office and looked around. He pulled out his Tricorder and did a quick scan. Like he thought, there was nothing out of the ordinary, no life signs, no bio chemical signatures…Just his empty quarters.

Suddenly the door chime rang and Tanis turned around. He opened the door to see who it was.

“Morning Doctor!” Said a friendly voice. Delaney Orion stood at the door holding 2 cups of some sort of steaming liquid. The scent seemed to race to Tanis’ nose, he could smell coffee from miles away.

Tanis’ heart almost skipped a beat when he realized it was her standing there.

“Delaney!” he said surprised. “Wasn’t expecting you to show up here” Tanis said, he motioned for her to come in, his tricorder still in hand.

Delaney entered and looked around, she offered him the coffee which he accepted with his open hand. “Well I thought I would stop by and chat some more, and the computer said I would find you here” She looked at the tricorder in his hand. “Is there something wrong Tanis?”

OFF: TO BE CONTINUED

Ensign Delaney Orion
Councilor Assistant
USS HORIZON

AND

[Alex Chadwick]

Main bridge Uss Horizon

Alex rubbed the corners of his eyes and yawned quietly.If this was how command was going to be he might have stayed in security.Then again quiet times on federation starships rarely lasted long.

He leaned over and checked the center readout display.Nothing on sensors.....nothing om the ships internals or diagnostics.Maybe he should have stayed in the holodeck with the admiral.......

Everything was 5x5 but still something in the back of his head was bothering him.Like soon everything was going to get turned upside down and inside out.
Then he heard it....a sensor blip....he leaned over again as a small craft appeared on screen.....an old starfleet runabout registered as a civilian craft.

The duty officer at ops spoke up.

"Sir were receiving a hail.Craft identifies it self as the Wanderer....."

Alex turned to the ops officer. "Is it in our logs as being such?"

Alex waited as the young ensign checked.

"Aye sir it checks out.The ships pilots states two passengers with orders to report aboard the horizon."

Alex stood and turned to face ops. "Have them transmit....send them over to my station." Alex turned and looked at the orders as they scrolled across screen......two names he never thought he would see again.....his chest started to burn with a memory of an old phaser wound.

"Send reply and open the shuttlebay." Alex sat back down......i guess today is going to be more interesting than i thought.

[Delaney Orion]

ON: Personnel Quarters: Tanis Heavenway

“Wrong?” Tanis asked. He took a sip of his coffee and noted that she was looking at his tricorder. “Oh” He said, realizing what she was referring to. “No…no, I was just….Scanning my quarters”

Delaney looked at him almost strangely. Her bright blue and green eyes gazed into Tanis’.

“Well, Honestly, I was just seeing if anything…Strange, would come up on my Tricorder” he admitted.

“Does this have something to do with your dream?” Delaney asked curiously.

Tanis motioned for her to have a seat on the couch, Tanis put his cup down and did another quick scan of the living area, again there was nothing. “Well, I’m not certain it was a dream, I thought absolutely for sure, Bones was in my bedroom last night”

Delaney looked at Tanis, she could see the sincerity inside him, but wondered if what he was experiencing wasn’t some sort of Post Traumatic Stress.

“And yet” Delaney began; she used a free hand to move a strand of hair away from her gentle face. “And yet, your scans have showed nothing, and you can’t find anything unusual in your quarters?” She asked, making sure she understood everything.

“No” He said sounding a bit miserable. “Nothing, But I know what I saw” Tanis sat down, defeated.

“Perhaps you were seeing what you wanted to see” Delaney said sympathetically. Her last semester of school focused on how to read your Patient, she had just recently finished a report on Post Traumatic Stress and a project on what to look for in the backgrounds of your Patients. With the war efforts going on at the time, the academy had really expanded the Class on Uncontrolled Emotions and Post Traumatic Stress for the Counseling department in anticipation that, that in itself would be a large part of what the councilors would be dealing with post war.

Tanis looked at Delaney almost as if he was insulted. “What is that suppose to mean?”

“Only that, your record shows you have been under a significant amount of stress over the last few months, The USS Nimitz being taken over by Romulans and the crew left to Die on an Ice Planet, Before that, Being attacked by Re-Animated Dead beings, and just recently Risa,” Delaney explained, laying out Tanis’ previous missions out before them. “All I’m saying, is that maybe, emotionally, you have taken as much as you can in the terms of stress, and your mind wants a release, maybe your mind is making you think you seen something that you want to see and not what you actually are seeing in reality.”

“Why is it that every time you come see me you end up counseling me on different matters?” Tanis asked with a fake smile.

“You forget I am a councilor?” she said with a genuine smile.

Tanis did see the logic in what she was saying, but he knew it wasn’t true, Bones was real, he was here, he didn’t know how or why he was here, or even where he was now, but he DID see the strange, feline creature that he discovered on Risa. “You think I’m suffering form some sort of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?” he asked bluntly. “You don’t believe me, and you want to chalk it all up to stress?” Tanis felt himself getting angry, and stepped back, picking up his still hot coffee and took a sip, relaxing him a little bit.

“All I’m saying is that maybe, it’s a possibility”

Tanis Sighed. He didn’t know what else to day. “Maybe your right, maybe I’m just so stressed out that last night was all in my head, my imagination running away with me.”

Delaney didn’t say anything, she simply sat back, sipping her coffee and let Tanis Vent. She learned that there is a certain point where some patients get angry, and while trying to calm them down, could potentially make them angrier, and then some, while letting them vent, sometimes can diffuse themselves.

She wasn’t saying that Tanis was really angry, but taking a step back and letting him speak seemed to be the best course of action.

“Maybe I need a vacation!” Tanis said. “No, Wait, I tired that, and almost got eaten by some monster, starved half to death, nearly drowned…no vacations are more stress….”

“Have you ever talked to anyone about your experiences before?” Delaney asked sympathetically, she could see Tanis had a lot of bottled up feelings that right now, seemed to be trying to escape from the depths of where Tanis seemed to be keeping them.

“Not very often” Tanis said, there was no use in trying to lie to a councilor, they would find out before the words left your mouth.

“Well you know, if there is anything else you want to talk about, I’m here, not just as a councilor, but as a friend.” She moved closer to Tanis on his couch, she could see in his eyes that there was something that bothered him, something that troubled him, though what it was she could not tell. Perhaps something from long ago; earlier in his life.
She put a gentle hand on his arm, “All you have to do is ask, and I’m here for you”

Tanis considered for a moment, Thought back to all the things that happened to him in is career in Starfleet, even before his career in Starfleet, Back when he was only a young child when Starfleet discovered his Freighter adrift in space, the whole crew dead, and himself the long survivor, that was so long ago.

“Not at the moment Councilor” Tanis said. His coffee had grown cold in the lengthy conversation they had in his living area.

“Well how about another coffee then?” She said with a smile. Delaney felt she had reached into Tanis somehow, Touched him, Helped him, at least in some way, but she knew what she accomplished was only the beginning. At the Academy, to really help someone, doesn’t just take one session, although sometimes it can, but usually takes multiple sessions with the patient, before any councilor notes any improvement in the patient’s emotional condition.

Tanis felt as if a weight was lifted off his chest, though he was still not happy at the thought of the ships Councilor, even the Assistant councilor considered him a victim of Post Traumatic Stress.

Tanis nodded, and watched as Delaney got up and moved to the replicator. His heart seemed to skip a beat, and he pictured her in something other then an Official Starfleet Uniform.

Moments later she came back and gave him a fresh cup of steaming coffee and instantly he threw the thought out of his mind, as attractive as she really was, he did not want to be thinking such thoughts at a time such as this.

“So tell me more about Bones” Delaney said, curious about the feline creature that Tanis discovered on Risa, maybe talking about it more, she could discover if what was experienced last night was a cause or an effect of the stress Tanis had been going through over the years.

“Well” Tanis started taking a sip of his coffee, and gathered his thoughts. “There isn’t much to say really, he’s small, maybe about a foot high, and long, yet very soft fur, Silver in color, some parts a hint of gold, like on his feet and tail.”

Delaney listened intently and sipped her own coffee.

“There was something special about Bones” Tanis said.

“How do you mean?” Delaney prompted.

“He would always seem to appear when you needed something, or hurt in someway, or lonely…when he first appeared, Katrine and I, didn’t have any food, and there was Bones, Brought us Fish, when we were lonely, or sad, bones was there, it was as if he could read our mind, or our Feelings, and even at first, he never seemed scared of us.”

Delaney began to wonder if Bones, the feline creature was again, just part of some sort of Post traumatic Stress. Though there were indeed strange creatures on some worlds, even telepathic ones, and in this instance, they were on Risa, and the only reports were what came from Tanis and Katrine, there was no proof.

“And then when we were rescued from the Nimitz, bones was just gone, have not seen him since.”

“Except for last night” Delaney Confirmed.

“Right”

Tanis wasn’t sure what else he could say about the situation. He knew the Councilor, Delaney, didn’t believe Bones was actually there in his quarters, when he himself was sure he did.

“So” Tanis began, “Think we can talk about something else now?”

Delaney was a bit surprised at the question. “Of course” she said. She wondered if she got to him in some way, a bad way or good. “What would you like to talk about?”

“Well every time were together were always talking about me, so why not you” he said. “It’s your turn”

Delaney let out a nervous chuckle. “And what about me do you want to know? I don’t have any deep dark Secrets just to let you know” She said. She was glad to see that that statement made Tanis laugh and it seemed some of the tension that grew in the room partially dissolved.

“What about you and Izzy?” Tanis began. “You seem like him a lot, Find him attractive?”

Delaney was again, surprised by the question, she didn’t see it coming. “Well, he is certainly cute…”

Tanis’ heart seemed to sink a bit, although it wasn’t like he and Delaney had anything going on anyways.

“But I’m not sure if it’s because he's so soft and cuddly and looks like a large Kitty, or because I’m attracted to him….” Delaney admitted, her cheeks seemed to flush at the statement.

‘‘My dear councilor, I believe I have embarrassed you!” Tanis said with a large grin.

“Yup, I believe you have…” she admitted again. “But I have only met Izzy a couple of times, and have not yet had the chance of really getting to know him, besides…there are others on this ship I might find attractive” She gave Tanis a flirtatious grin.

“And who would that be?”
“Ill never tell” she said and pretended to busy her mouth by taking a sip of coffee.

They laughed together and Tanis was grateful that they were talking about something other then himself now. But even the change in conversation didn’t stop him from thinking about Bones. He truly wanted to believe it was real; it worried him to think he was indeed suffering from PTSD like the Councilor thought.

He wished that Bones, if he really was here would just show himself so he could stop doubting himself, and so the Councilor would stop thinking that he was going crazy…if anyone else on the ship found out about this…Especially the Admiral, things wouldn’t be so good for him here anymore, But he didn’t worry about that, Delaney was the only one who knew, and he trusted her implicitly.

Delaney was about to take a sip of her coffee, and suddenly, she let out a startled yelp, her coffee cup falling to the floor, spilling its contents.

Her eyes were wide, as if terrified. Tanis was about to ask what was wrong, when he looked to see what she was staring at, there on the coffee table, was a Feline looking creature, and it was staring right into Delaney’s eyes, as if trying to read her thoughts.

“Bones!” Tanis cried out, he put down his coffee cup more carefully then Delaney had.

At the sound of his apparent given name, Bones looked at Tanis, his ears seemed to perk and tail began to wag in Excitement. He pounced into Tanis arms and purred.

OFF: Joint Post

Lt Tanis heavenway
CMO
USS Horizon

AND

[Delaney Orion]

ON: Personal Quarters of Tanis Heavenway

“That’s Bones?” Delaney asked astonished. She had no idea where Bones had come from. She didn’t see or hear anything and all of a sudden, there he was.

Tanis looked at Delaney, she looked almost scared. “It’s ok” He said. “He’s very gentle”

Bones seemed to look at Delaney, his eyes big and ears laid back. Bones moved toward Delaney, and she just stared at the silver feline.

Bones rubbed up against Delaney and purred.

“Wow” Delaney said with a smile.

“See” Tanis said.

“I can’t believe it” Delaney moved to pet Bones, and the feline brushed up against her hand encouraging her for more. “He’s so soft…”

Tanis grinned at the large smile on Delaney’s face. “Now…What is the admiral going to say about me having a pet cat?”

Delaney looked at Tanis smiling. “I have NO Idea”

“Is this one of my Imaginations?” Tanis said to Delaney teasingly.

“I’m Sorry I didn’t believe you” she said as she scratched behind Bone’s Ears. “Obviously you actually experienced what you experienced, regardless of what I may have thought at first.”

“It’s fine, I at least knew I wasn’t crazy” Tanis said.

Delaney smiled and got up. “Well have a few things I need to get done, Can I come by later again?” She asked.

“Of course”

She said goodbye and left Tanis Quarters.

OFF


Tanis Heavenway
CMO
USS NIMITZ

AND

[Sammy Jo Swan]

Once both men were seated she began.

"Right that drill was a shambles, it is obvious that the whole department needs re-training and if we want to keep our jobs we had better darn well see they get it.

We need to come up with a rigerous training program to improve their fitness as well as thier skills, I want your ideas and suggestions." she stated then sat back in her chair waiting to see what ideas the two men had.

After getting over the initial shock of having QaDghab using the other other door to get into the office, Shaw sat, rubbed his forehead, and thought longingly of the bottle of aspirin in his quarters.

"Well after that fiasco, the Major probably thinks every swabbie on the ship is incompetent," Hayden said. "We'll have to schedule more surprise drills, mandatory marksmanship classes, armed and unarmed combat classes as well." Hayden knew that was stating the obvious, but it needed to be said.

"Also," he continued. "You'll like this, we pulled this trick during the war. You limit the crew's holodeck time, say to one hour a week, but you don't outlaw it completely. There's a catch though, all they can do is train, and do simulations that the department deems conducive to their training." Hayden sat back. "It worked like a charm, on most people. I was doing a WWII sim with some friends of mine, and our squad communication got better. The Tac Officer nearly flipped when she saw us using hand signals."

She listened intently to everything he said she did not even pretend to know more than this man about being a security officer, he had more years of practical experience than she did. Her father also had much more experience than her when it came to such things.

"Your idea about the holodeck is a good one i want it impelmented as of now, one thing to remember here though is the security and tactical departments on this vessel are one and the same. So you will need to make sure that your program covers both sides of the job, all members of this department are expected to go through this training and yes as often as possible that includes both QaDghab and myself.

You will be responsible for running the holodeck program, the chief and ourselves will be the only ones able to access the holodeck for more than that hour a week from this section. Anyone else wishing to use the holodeck must first gain a code from yourself, that code will also restrict the programs that can be run if you need assistance to set the protocols for it then get one of the engineers to help you. You will have until the end of tomorrow to get the whole thing up and running."

She let the task she had just given him set in in his mind as she once again sat back in her chair. "What other ideas do you have for me" she asked them both.

QaDghab grunted, not to happy that this could mean him using the Blacksmithing program of his, but did not say anything about it. Instead offering up his suggestion. "We should do some drills without telling them they are drills. Have phasers set to imitate being fired but to not actually harm. Perhaps somehow use the Holodeck for this." He said, by now having climbed out of the tube and sat down.

"That is also a good idea, one thing i want each shift doing at the start of their shift is the assault course program that i have already installed in the holodeck. They are to 10 laps of it each day apart from anything else you have set up for them, they can start that with the next shift I will not have them let me or the chief down like this again." she stated "Do either of you have anything else you wish to add" she asked.

"We should assign proper fire team leaders on the duty roster," Hayden said. "We have one team comprised of almost all petty officer's and one with a crewman second class leading them up. Not that they're not efficient, its that we need to distribute the experience. We might even go so far as to shake the whole thing up."

Hayden groaned internally when he thought of some younger security officers. They were sometimes like such children. Can't get left with the newbie to screw up your shift. although, said crewman second class was gaining a myriad of experience by leading a fire team. Hayden made a mental not to drop his name for promotion when the department was out of the dog house.

"Also," Hayden continued, "we should start getting used to taking a more offensive role if we ever have to get on a planet. Especially if an officer is compromised again. Knowing marines, Major Krezek may ask us to start doing some "marine" things, and assault is one of them. The territorial advantage should spread far beyond the ship."

"I will pass your concerns on to Major Krezek and I am sure that we can make some changes to the shifts and the fire teams. I beleive that there will be some major changes now that we have a department head again." she stated

"Thats if this one sticks around" she mumbled to herself.

"Anything else you think needs to be changed tell me now, you will only have this one chance so make the most of it. She stated firmly she was slowly calming down but she would not forget what had happend today.
QaDghab had nothing else to say and remained fairly quiet except to mutter to Damok some.

"I think that sum's it up quite nicely." Shaw said. "All we have to do now is get her done. I'll start adjusting the shift roster immediately, when there will be one shift training, one sleeping, one off duty, and one on duty from now on. The weapons training will be easy to implement, but do we have anyone that can teach unarmed combat?"

"Thank you Petty Officer Shaw but I will rearange the rotas myself after discussing all of this with the Chief, as for teaching unarmed combat I am certain I can sort that out too. For now you will work on the holodeck program's as ordered and leave departmental changes to me." she said coldly "You are both dismissed"

QaDghab wasn't paying attention and didn't hear her as he muttered lowly to himself and Damok, so he remained seated.

"You bet." Hayden said. It had been a long day and it was just about to get longer. Hayden stood up and attempted to smooth the wrinkles out of his shirt. He nodded to Ensign Swan and headed out the door.

Sammy sighed when she saw her father still sitting there, "Ok vav what is it you wanna say that you could not say with Shaw here" she asked him.

He still didn't seem to hear her, and he was clearly distracted. "Silent Damok or I will see who else still lives you care about." He growled.

She sighed it seemed he had nothing else to say he just was not listening fully "vav" she shouted " Do you have anything else to add to what we have been talking about" she asked

Startled a moment he looked at her. "Nothing else..." He said as he rubbed his head and went back to muttering.

"vav you need to go and get you hearing sorted out, you will be no good in security if you have gone deaf." she said load enough for him to hear but not to carry to the others outside.
"No Doctor..." He muttered as he got out of his seat and stumbled towards her, pounding on her back as he gave her a rather Klingon-like hug.

"As you wish but do not blame me when they dismiss you from service and make you leave the Horizon" she said hoping to stir him into getting the problem sorted out.

She almost flinched when he pounded her on the back, it was not something he normally did she also wondered why he was going behind her when the door was in front of her.

His eye was seeing the cavern again and he headed for the perceived door. Muttering numbers and insults at Damok as he crashed into the wall.

Sammy got up and grabbed her father pulling him back and forcing him to sit down, "Come on vav come back to me, your on the Horizon in the security office. Come on remember" she called to him as she held his arms.

QaDghab growled as he slammed his head forward into hers. His arms held restrained. "21 heads, there are 21 heads. I told you!!"

She growled and punched him hard in the stomache "Come back , you are not on cardassia anymore" she called to him as the blood fell from her freshly broken nose.

He curled at the punch, falling forward out of the chair to land on top of her.

She pushed him off her and made sure he was ok "QaDghab where are you" she asked hoping for the right answer this time.

"Cardassian bastard!" He growled as he attacked her.

That was not the answer she wanted she thought as she tried to protect herself from his assult.

He punched her and tripped her with a kick to her legs, causing her to fall on top of him this time. Then suddenly he went still, gasping for breaths.

She sat up and used her weight to pin his arms and legs "vav snap out of it, don't make me hurt you to bring you out of this. Come back you are not on Cardassia and I am not a Cardassian" she said.

He had already snapped out of it, and he looked at her. "Let go of me, puqbe', of course your not a Cardassian."

Sammy sighed and pushed herself off him to sit on the floor with her back against the wall, "Glad to hear it" she said as she wiped some of the blood from her face, her uniform was a mess but that was nothing new.

He got off the floor and came up to her, quickly grabbed her nose and pulled, popping it into place.

"aahhh why does it always hurt more when you fix my nose than when you break it in the first place" she asked as she gave him a look that said thanks.

He didn't hear her, rubbing the scar where his ear was missing.

She gently took his hand and moved it away from his ear "You are going to get your hearing sorted out" she said firmly.

He winced as the hand brushed the ear, the ear canal swollen. "No doctor." he growled.

"You will see the doctor of your own accord or i will take you there underguard, an officer that can not hear is of no use to this department" she said coldly.

He looked at her, "I will when I am ready to." He muttered but didn't swear.
"I will give you 2 days to get it sorted out on your own" she replied as she stood up her nose had finally stopped bleeding, she took off her uniform jacket and took a clean one out of the office draw and put it on.

He ignored her as he left the office.

She sighed and shook her head as she sat down to write up the report on the drill and the meeting afterwards. Her shift was due to end in around 2 hours and right now they could not go past quick enough.


A Joint post by

Petty Officer 2nd Class Hayden Shaw
Master-at-Arms
USS Horizon

and

QaDghab lagh
Security/Tactical Officer
(Klingon Exchange Officer)
USS Horizon (http://horizon.taylord1.co.uk/main.php?pageref=bio&crewid=92)

and

[Delaney Orion]

ON: MESS HALL

QaDghab wandered into the Mass Hall once more, this time looking for something different to drink other than what he had in stock at his place. The Bartender looked to him with an expression of dread. He knew what was to happen next as it happened before. QaDghab grabbed the bartender by the collar and set him aside like some object in his way and began digging behind the bar, behind bottles of the syntehol for some of the Alcoholic drinks he knew the Bartender kept hidden.

Delaney was in the Hall having a drink, more coffee, just what she needed, She had spent the last few hours Talking with Tanis in his quarters and she needed a 'Pick me Up' Drink. She noticed QaDghab enter, and she vaguely remembered that he was on the Councilors 'To See' List and decided she would at least go meet him.

She set her coffee down and went over to him.

"Excuse Me" She said.

QaDghab didn't seem to hear her as he send several bottles crashing to the floor, making the bartender wince. Not finding what he was looking for he got up to face the Bartender. "Where in it!!" He roared.

Delaney tried to lean over the counter to see what he was looking For. "Is that It?" She said Pointing

He looked, "No! I will not drink that synthetic Ferengi swill." He spat.

~Moody~ Delaney said to herself. She wasn’t all to sure how she could start a conversation with the Old Klingon, and she took another try. "Ah, This must be it" She took another bottle and held it up for him to see.

He turned to her and studied the bottle with his single good eye, his blind eye twitching and he quickly grabbed the bottle from her, pooping the cork and taking a drink.

"You going to share that Damn Thing or what?" She said. She was surprised at herself for her Abruptness

He handed the bottle towards her stopping at her chest. Half od the bottle already gone.

She took it and Took a swig. Normally she wouldn’t have even thought about it, but back at the academy, she seen a few of her friends participate in the same type of uncanny behavior when out with Klingons.

"What Brings you down here?" she said.

"Alcohol..." He sneered, clearly not realy happy at having to share the bottle.
"Is There a Problem? " She asked Straight out

"What do you want?" He demanded.

To Have a Drink with you, I never met you before" She said.

He studied her thoughtfully and grunted, walking past her to sit at a table, the drink left in her hands.

She fallowed, and grabbed 2 Klingon looking Goblets. She filled them and set one in front of the Klingon. She raised her glass. "I’m Delaney"

"QaDghab." He said in return, his name translating to Dried meat.

"You got a problem with me talking with you?" She asked. She looked at him and he still seemed quite annoyed with her presence

"Why do you talk to me?" He grumbled.

"Because You are a member of this Crew, and So Am I" She said in all seriousness

He snorted, "That is no excuse. Why would you speak to a Klingon without Honor." He growled, taking a heavy drink,

"I would Speak to Any Klingon I So Choose" She said. "DO you NOT want to speak to me Because I am NOT Klingon?"

"What do you have worth saying to me, Human?" He said bitterly.

"I have MY Honor" She stated

"Then why associate with one without Honor?" He asked her, this time plainly.

"Are you Complaining because I am talking to you?"

"It is not a complaint; it is a question of sensibility."

"I want to talk to you because I WANT to talk to you"

"Then say something worth me listening to." He took another heavy drink, draining his tankard.

"Are you always this aggressive and stubborn to people on this ship?"


Delaney found herself getting rather annoyed....she took a big gulp of her drink that was in front of her.

"If they act like fools, I treat them as such." He said plainly.

"Are there any people on this ship you don’t consider fools?"

"Few..." He said plainly.

"I’ve noticed you haven’t shown up for any of your scheduled Counseling meetings" She said, She long decided to skip any small talk and got right to the point.

"Councilor's talk, I have no need for talk." He dismissed the thought as he started to get up for more drink.

"What about Friends? You have any need for those?"

"My chance for friends is long past. That chance died with the Romulan children under my hands," He sneered.

"What If I want to be a friend?" she said, she had finally found a door into QaDghab and Took it. She motioned for him to sit and she got another bottle of the stuff he was Drinking. She heard back when she was in the academy, if you want to talk to a Klingon, get Him Drunk....She certainly didn’t want to get him drunk, but perhaps giving him some drinks might help, she would soon find out.

"Then you are a fool." He said bluntly as his single good eye followed the bottle as it was brought to him.

“Then I guess I am" She said. "What does that make you?"

She refilled both of their Goblets not that she drank much of her last glass.

He barked a laugh, "A fool"

He took another heavy drink

Delaney Smiled. "So were Both Fools ,I guess were in good company" She took a small sip of the potent drink.

He merely grunted as he drank.

"What happened to the Romulan Children in your hands?" she asked. She had no idea how he was going to respond to the question.

He laughed heavily in a crazed manner. "I killed them!"

Delaney was taken aback by the crude statement. "And does that bother you?" she put her drink down, no longer interested in even pretending she liked it.

He snorted, "The bastards deserved their death!"

"What did they do to you?"

"They killed my wife!" He slammed his tankard down on the table and started to get up.

Delaney sat astonished, parts of her wondered why she even Bothered.

"Sorry To Hear that" was all she said. She was after all only an Assistant.

He just muttered about Damok as he went behind the counter again and started to prepare some meat.

Delaney started feeling a bit Ill. Whatever it was she had, she had never drank it before, and was starting to feel really Nauseous. "Well." She said. "We can talk more later." She got up and hurried to sickbay.

OFF: Joint Post

QaDghab lagh
Security/Tactical Officer
(Klingon Exchange Officer)
USS Horizon

AND

[Alex Chadwick]

Shuttlebay

Alex stood with his arms crossed as he watched the runabout finish its landing.
He wiped a bead of sweat from his temple.He hoped the debriefing starfleet had given the man inside that runabout had included orders to keep his life on serenity a secret.Not even admiral clawson was able to access alex's true record of his time after the batleth tournament.

He watched as the doors to the runabout slowly opened and a tall man with dark hair emerged.He was carrying a set of luggage which he quickly set down.He turned back to the door and helped a young looking woman with a bright beautifull smile down from the ship.Alex didn't recognize her untill the tall man leaned forward and gave the pretty woman a quick kiss.

Bryan Cash and Bettina davies had come back into alex's life once again....

And then as he was about to approach a red alert klakon began to sound and the ship was rocked by disruptor hits on her hull.Alex looked up just in time to see Cash flying at him his arms streached out wide.Alex's first reaction was to go for his phaser......which he didn't wear anymore.....damn!Cash hit alex mid chest and both men went flying as a large piece of conduit hit the deck where he had just been standing.Alex looked up at cash who was smirking.The ship was shaking again with more disruptor hits.

"Hell of a welcome aboard commander." Cash said helping alex to his feet.

"It always this exciting around here?" Bryan turned and motioned for bettina to emerge from the runabout again.

[Bettina Cash]

Shuttlebay

And then as he was about to approach a red alert klakon began to sound and the ship was rocked by disruptor hits on her hull. Alex looked up just in time to see Cash flying at him his arms streached out wide. Alex's first reaction was to go for his phaser......which he didn't wear anymore.....damn! Cash hit alex mid chest and both men went flying as a large piece of conduit hit the deck where he had just been standing. Alex looked up at cash who was smirking. The ship was shaking again with more disruptor hits.

"Hell of a welcome aboard commander." Cash said helping alex to his feet.

"It always this exciting around here?" Bryan turned and motioned for Bettina to emerge from the runabout again.

Bettina gasped, tightly clutching the small crate that was now emitting a pathetic wail. Buster, her beloved cat, was not happy. "Are you two all right?" she asked in alarm, setting the crate down when she deemed it safe, and stepping toward the men. Staying at Bryan's shoulder, she nodded to the familiar man confronting them. "Commander. It's good to see you again." She recalled him from the tournament. "It seems you are stuck with me for a while this time." She stepped closer to Bryan as the ship shuddered again.

TAG
CASH
CHADWICK

[Jackie Clawson]

OFF: okay.. in short…I know we've jumped ahead abit here....sorry about that..


In a nuthshell , Bettina and Bryan arrive'the next day (the day Tanis woke up a few days ago OOC)' (the bunch of JPs anda post I got right now that's almost complete will take things over to blendthese things together and bring us into the same timeline) the JPs you got going with eachother right now are fine.


As the two arrive, Horizon's taking firefrom an unknown source (unknown for now….)

I'm also JPing with Tanis right now via email, that takes placeright before we're attacked, but before someone else takes things to anothertangent, I'm posting this as a place holder with the end of the JP here. JPitself will be posted once it's complete.

ON:
<<Somewhere nearby>>
||during Bettina and Cash's arrival||

Fornell smiled as the raider's weapons lefta mark on the Intrepid. They weren't cloaked, taking the moment a shuttleslipped into the ship's shuttle bay to decloak and mask their signature. A fewmore shots and the pilot of the small raider guided the ship under the belly ofthe Intrepid and into a blindspot, the small ship nearly touched the shields,or rather what was left of them, but the pilot kept a steady hold on thecontrols for the time being making them invisible to the shields for the timebeing; this close to the shields, the Horizon wouldn't pick them up as anythingtoo significant until it was too late.

"Excellent….!" Fornell's smilegrew wider as he saw how close they were to the ship. How close they were tohis goal… and no one aboard was the wiser.

<<USS Horizon -- Ready Room >>


<<<<<<<Place Holderfor JP in progress >>>>>>>

Jackie felt the ship shudder under them, asif they were taking fire… as if? She knew they were, no doubts about that. Jackieleapt up from her seat, whatever said between her and the Chief Medical Officerdismissed for the moment. The Caitian headed out onto the bridge leavingHeavenway in her ready room. A quicklook around the bridge showed her Chadwick wasn't there.

"Report" she snapped as sheheaded towards the command centre wondering why hadn't the sensors picked upanything before the shots were fired. "what the hell is going on?" she wondered outloud as she took the center seat and called up the ship's recent status to take a quick look; the Caitian didn't sound pleased at all.


OFF:
Tum dum dum… dodgy sensors? ^^ sneaky pirates....

[Alex Chadwick]

Shuttlebay

Bettina gasped, tightly clutching the small crate that was now emitting a pathetic wail. Buster, her beloved cat, was not happy. "Are you two all right?" she asked in alarm, setting the crate down when she deemed it safe, and stepping toward the men. Staying at Bryan's shoulder, she smiled at the familiar man confronting them. "Commander. It's good to see you again." She recalled him from the tournament. "It seems you are stuck with me for a while this time."

Alex frowned as the ship rocked again from some unknown combat.

"Both of you are with me." Alex turned to the tech on duty.

"Take the petty officers crate and see to it that it's placed in there quarters...Safely"Alex turned back to cash and bettina.

"Come on i want to ask you both a few questions on the bridge."

Main Bridge

Alex strode out of the turbolift and quickly down to the admiral's side.One the view screen he could see the ship causing the trouble.A raider.....Alex grumbled in disgust.He motioned for cash to come down and join him.

"Admiral clawson Bryan Cash.....I think his arrival was used as some sort of cover for them to approach and possibly decloak to fire on us.Did you detect anything unusual on your journey here cash?

Bryan thought a moment and then opened his mouth to comment.

"Only a few sensor ghosts from time to time.........I assumed they were from the Wanderer's bad drive coil...." Bryan looked at the view screen.

"That was a stupid rookie mistake."He braced himself as the ship shook again.

Alex stepped forward."Helm come about to heading 086 mark 612 .Tactical full spread of phaser fire across that ships spine.

"Let's see admiral if there as tought as they think they are."

[Jennifer Dylan]

"086.612 aye," Jennifer responded to the Commander's order. She entered the coordinates into her control panel and engaged the impulse drive. She coud hear the hum of the phasers charging as Major Krezek turned on the offensive systems from her seat on the opposite side of the bridge.

[Kiara Krezek]

[Deck 4]

Kiara was making her first day rounds of the ship when the shots shook the ship.

She stumbled a bit under the fire as she didn't know they were coming until they were there, and collided with the side bulkhead, pain cauliflowering in her right shoulder. She didn't say anything, but her face showed only a slight amount of pain as she recovered her balance.

By the time the red first flash of the red alert light was done, she was running for the Bridge.


[Bridge]

Kiara arrived before the executive officer and tried to find the ship that was shooting. Another rocking of the ship showed that they were still there, but she was having trouble locating them.

Minimizing their energy signature and keeping themselves discreet. Kiara would have asked them for pointers if they weren't trying to kill them at this time.

It took a moment, but she found it: there was a raider underneath them. Armed sufficiently enough to hurt them. She brought it up on the main screen by the time Chadwick had walked on the bridge with a few other people - people that she would have to interview later.

She heard orders, and started to follow them. "Phaser pattern Delta-One-Five locked in, firing..." she said as she pressed a few buttons.

The phasers fired, striking the ship in the spine and spreading the damage along their shielded hull. Shifting strategies slightly, she shot at the weapons array that the ship was equipped with, aiming to disable their torpedo systems before they really had a bad day...

[Roman Dagara]

ON Sick Bay

Roman felt the shudder as the ship quaked around him. Roman reached out and caught the closest door frame. He saw a cabinet start to unlodge itself. The cabinet started to roll towards him. Roman moved to the side at the last minute swearing under his breath as the cabinet struck the desk.

Roman reached into his desk and pulled out his phaser and strapped it on to his waist. Seeing nurse Dalys running towards him when the ship shook again. Reaching out he quickly snagged her before she could fall over.

"Nurse Dalys be careful back here. This place looks like it could fall apart. Get the emergency kits out and make sure you watch for flying objects" Roman pointed to what was a cabinet that had almost taken him out.


Roman grabbed what he c ould that would be necessary. He snapped on the belt that had been designed for him years ago which held his phaser as well as the Medical tricorder.

OFF

(Will do more later when my mind can function)

[Delaney Orion]

On: USS Horizon

Delaney moved down the corridors heading for sickbay. She had never met QaDghab before and thought she would introduce herself. Before she approached him she recalled everything her friends back at the Academy told her about Klingons. But somehow QaDghab did not seem like any original Klingon.

She held her stomach as she rounded the last corner, she could see sickbay doors up ahead.

She tried drinking with the Klingon to get him to talk, she was always told that was a good strategy, except with QaDghab, it wasn’t. Now she was sick, she fought with all her strength to keep from Throwing up.

~Mind over Matter~ She told herself.

She was a few feet away from the sickbays doors, and suddenly the ground shook violently and she lost her footing, her head hit the wall, and nearly blacked out. She could feel something wet trailing down her cheek. She was loosing the self control that was keeping her from throwing up…she fought harder, she had no idea what was going on and just wanted to get to sickbay.

She found strength to get up and entered sickbay. The ground shook again, her stomach felt even worse. She seen Roman Dagara, the Chief nurse and approached him. She was about to speak and threw up all over him, and fell to the floor Unconscious.

[Grenn]

[Bridge]

J'al arrived on the bridge after the Major started firing. He had been on Deck 2 and used a ladder to get up to Deck 1 rather then jam the turbolift up. Running to his station, he pulled up what was shooting at them. A small raider in a blind spot.

Running a quick check, he found a match in the Intel Database.

"It's a "Firecracker", he said referring to Intel's ID tag for the small class of ships used by the local pirates. "Definately a pirate ship...... this particular one's not on file." he called out. A lot of those ships were not on file. Nobody was sure how many had been produced, and nobody was sure how many were still around.

OFF: Doing my job :) Information :D

[M'Rall]

USS Horizon – M'Ralls Quaters

The thing about starships M'Rall reflected was that they where a small commuinty in themselves. That was the problem at times, so far her life had been eventful, she couldn't say it had not been with all that had happened. The choice of ships in the area had been few and M'Rall had wondered if someone was not out to get her. So far she'd kept the fact she was a hybrid out of her records mostly by asking the doctors not to put that into them, so far it had worked well enough. Her parnets had been a human male and a female Caitian, hybrinds on the whole where fine it was just where she had grown up Hybrids had been looked up as less than fully Caitian, a few even had voiced that such 'fusions' shouldn't be allowed as they where poluting the gentic gene pool. Keeping her human half hidden away from people seemed to have calmed alot of things down.

She'd just finished breakfast when the first sounds of the red alert klaxon souned into the room, standing quicvkly she knocked the bowl of cornflakes over spilling the milk slightly over the right leg of her duty uniform. As she entered hallway out of her quaters the ship shook under a barrage of weapons fire, she put out a handpaw to steady herself and sighed softly.

"Mother said there would be days like this, guess she was right"

The ship lurched again and M'Rall swore under her breath very softly, she was'nt a fan of being knocked around. She sighed and rooled her eyes as she continued forwards heading for the turbolift, she wondered who could be attacking only two foes came to mind both she hated with a passion and zeal of someone who had been personaly in deep ways. It was plain she had no love of Cardassians or the Obsidian Order. Then there was the Borg and they where ' a whole new kettle of fish' as humans said.

"Hmm if this is the Borg I'll give em 'Resistance is futile'" she commeted to herself.

Entering the waiting turbolift car she put a hand out to keep herself from falling over. Her upper right arm hurt it always did when the ship or herself was in battle, why she didn't know it just did everything from the lower shoulder was cybernetic, not because of the Borg but because of the attack on Ceti Naru III. M'Rall could hardly call it an attack more of a few fantaics that wanted to keep the world out of the Federation. The bomb had claimed M'Rall's right arm but she had shielded the Ambasador and that was the thing that was important. It wasn't a small thing to say M'Rall was proud of the medals she had won, granted they numbered only four but they where enough for her. The medals where the Starfleet Decoration of Gallantry, a purple heart for wounds recieved during the Dominion war, the Dominon War medal it's self and Christopher Pike Medal of Valor

"Bridge" she annouced.

As soon as the turbolift made it's way to the bridge she exited and headed for her station she started a sensor sweap even thought they could see the attackers. Perhaps she noted to herself it was just a habit.

Tag Bridge Crew

[Jackie Clawson]

<<USS Horizon – Bridge>>

Jackie watched the little ship dodge thephaser shots with relative ease, someone quite skilled must've been behindthose flight controls, Jackie noted to herself; this close to the Horizon…

She narrowed her eyes as the ship returnedfire. The Horizon shook on impact, the little ship on screen putting somedistance in between them right after it fired.

"Admiral! They're hailing us"came a somewhat surprised voice from the Operations console.

"Shoot first, talk later…and they sayI'm bad" Jackie smirked, "On screen… let's see what they have to saybefore we blow 'em outta here" she spoke.

The image onscreen changed from the smallship's exterior. Instead the space and ship were replaced by a male human formin his mid forties. The man had a peculiar look on his face as the Caitian methis gaze.

"Steven Fornell here, Admiral. How'sthe stomach wound?" he inquired as if he knew her, clearly he knewsomething…. The casual tone of his voice raised a few curious glances aroundboth bridges.

'is there anyone in this damn space whodoesn't know?!' Jackie mused as she met Fornell's sneer with a steely look.

"Call up just to ask that?" sheinquired, almost purring and not in that nice way that a Caitian could

"Oh just hoping you can…'stomach'what's coming your way here, Horizon" Fornell noted, almost laughing.

"I hope you can stomach what's comingyours." Jackie met the pirate's eyes before signalling Ops to cut off thecommunication with a flicker of her hand.

"Ms Krezek. Photons. Full spread." she commanded as she got to her feet. "Let's wipe that smirk offhis face. Disable their shields and primary systems. " she spoke regardingthe image of the sleek Firecracker class on the screen ahead. "Ms Dylan. On your toes. Try not to getus hit by anything." The Caitian spoke, her tail flickering behind her asshe watched the screen.

<< Pirate ship>>

Fornell laughed, his informant was right,the Caitian was indeed quite feisty.

"O'Riley how's it coming?" heasked.

"All set, I got in the second youconnected, just as your contact said. As soon as they'll fire, they'll wonderwhere their shields are." The small man chuckled. "And then…"O'Riley made a whooshing sound as his fist connected to the open palm of hishand held in the air. "They won't know what hit 'em"

"Excellent." Fornell clasped hishands together. "Get ready to cloak, and re-join the others at therendezvous point as soon as the Horizon fires" Fornell said. "McIntire." He lookedat the man fidgeting with a Klingon disruptor in his hands, beside him. "Thenwe use your plan" McIntire grinned a toothy grin, his eyes gleaming withanticipation of a battle. Too bad itwasn't going to be just them and the Intrepid. No, Fornell didn't think theycould take on a lousy Intrepid!

OFF: Tags to Kiara, Dylan and co.

[Kiara Krezek]

Kiara smiled sadistically. "Readying a full spread of photon torpedoes," she called out, readying six photons, three in each tube. She selected her targets carefully. Three were dedicated to the shield generator, one was aimed for the weapons array, one for the naviagtional array, and the last was saved for the impulse reactor.

And without ceremony, she hit the button that launched the torpedoes.

And the station exploded.

[Kurt Barnes]

OFF: Ok, I just want to slap this in here so I can move Barnes along with the present storyline. Following the introduction of Virgil Shephard, the new CDO, K. Barnes will simply return to his quarters and then reappear when the ship starts shaking. I'm not sure of the time gap between these events, but That can be worked on. Right now, I'll post this and after I'm caught up on all the reading, will add an appropriate response.


ON:
By now, Kurt was being buried under a stack of burdens; First he was tired from traveling for hours to FIND the Horizon, second, he was contending with the unique lexicon of his pirate companion, third, he had nowhere to lay his head for the night, and fourth, all the "Hot Spots" on the ship were off limits, thanks to the recent encounter.

"Look......Gentlemen, I'm afraid I need to get my bearings, would it be possible to continue this tomorrow? Then, perhaps more of the crew and decks would be available, and I would be fully prepared to conduct a proper session. "

"Ya-har, he be feelin' a might touch o' the shuttle lag," M'karll said, clapping the reporter on the back.

"Much appreciated". He said. "I was hoping you could direct us towards our quarters........ I believe I had our requested accommodations forwarded by my assitant. Are they available?"

"Should be." J'al said, somewhat disappointed. "Deck 5, section Baker, room A8."

"Excellent..... I'll be right back, I must retrieve some things. "MARK! Recover the camera!"

Barnes, Jen, and Mark re-entered the shuttlebay and headed towards their massive pile of equipment. They arrived just in time to find the wisp gone, and another shuttle entering the bay.....

Chief Diplomat Virgil Shepard was sitting aboard the shuttle entering the cargo bay, preparing for his introduction aboard the USS Horizon. Surely, there would be the typical pomp and circumstance, the handshaking with the Captain and major officers, being 'proud to meet the noble crew of this fine ship'... Shepard straigtened his badge as the ship touched down, and stepped out with a regal air into a cargo bay filled with boxes, disheveled equipment, and a varied assortment of smells as he saw two crew members exiting the area, and three civillians standing in a corner.

The three stood there. Barnes pulled a cigar out of his bag, cut it, then lit it, and popped it in his mouth. The door to the shuttle slid open, and out stepped a person garbed in purple.

Barnes walked over, the cigar still in his mouth, extended a hand, and muttered "murt larnes, vederaton ews etwok orre'spondent".

Barnes despised diplomats as much as he did catians; they had the same cunning, only the purple ones had the guile of the everyday man of politics. Barnes removed the cigar, and said: "Kurt Banes, Federation News Network Correspondent!"

Just then, the room erupted with flashing lights, shrilling alarms, and damage contrl parties.

FIRE! Someone managed to shout....

Barnes: "Sonnova B@$%~! These snazzy computers still can't recognize cigar smoke from a damned fire.

"TURN THAT OFF! There's no FIRE!"

Barnes tipped the cigar over into his gloved hand, and put it out, sending the damage control party back. Now of course, the whole ship was alerted. Soon enough, though the alarm and cancellation announcement was through, the minor "disaster" averted.

"Anyway, Kurt Barnes, and you are?"

Virgil gathered his composure, and sighed inwardly. *So much for pomp and circumstance... five minutes aboard this ship and he's already been thrown into a near crisis created by a raving Federation Reporter, let alone enter the ship through its back door.* "Eh... I'm Chief Diplomat Virgil Shepard... a, ah... pleasure to meet you."

"Nice to meet you. Just arrived myself. According to "Ya'aar Yonder Pirate Cat-Man", it's a tradition to share a drink here. Whiskey?"

*So much for a noble crew, too.*, Virgil contemplated. It would be rude not to accept... "I'd be glad to have some." Shepard took a swig from the flask. Clearing his throat, he asked "So, shall I be meeting the Crew and Staff in a formal meeting elsewhere?"

Barnes wasn't trying to be rude, really, he wasn't. It had just been a long day, and he needed rest, and a Diplomatic Officer just pushed him over.....

"Ummmm Yeah! They threw a big party for me..... I can't imagine what they'll do for a hotshot CDO! Heck, maybe they'll stop repairs!"

Virgil: "Really?"

Barnes: "ABSOLUTELY!" You just wait here and see." He said, smiling. "Oh, and be sure to talk like a pirate, it'll really get you going. I know it's a bit odd, but trust me, OK?"

Virgil: "I'll ah... be sure to... aye, matey." This wasn't a positive development...

"Good..... I mean ya'aar."

Virgil: "Alright, mate! I ah... will be sure to talk like the pirates of uh, yore. I'll be awaitin orders down here." Shepard noticed the gagging motion of Barnes crew members, perhaps motioning .not. to talk like a pirate.

"Y'aar, that 'be better. We'sn be off to collect yar 'ounty! Aye mates?"

Mark: "Ummm No."

Barnes: "Arr, pay those skallywags no heed, m'ate."

Barnes turns, laughing inside and retrieved his belongings, and returned to M'Karll and Grenn.....

Virgil stood at attention, preparing for the Captains supposed arrival. "Eh... Yon saftey crew! You can go back to your previous duties... savvy?"

====

Upon arriving, he saw the officers were still standing at there previous location.

"Are you burning the ship up already?" J'al asked the reporter.

"Oh, there was no fire, it was uhhhhh.. a malfunctioning alarm system yes. Oh, and incidentally, Mr. M'Karll, there's someone looking for you in the shuttlebay.

"An' who might be stalwartly seekin' out the mos' handsome and bedevilin' pilot in the Federation... and Klingon farces too," M'karll asked, cocking an eyebrow at Barnes.

Barnes: "A diplomat, who just so happens to be fascinated with linguistics. He would find your dialect most intriguing! I told him to expect someone.........."

<<M'Karll placeholder>>

Barnes bade farewell to the two Catians then left for Deck 5, Baker section.

Upon arriving at his quarters, Barnes unpacked his belongings and sat down. Upon his insistence to the quartermaster, Barnes was granted the use of room A-9 As well, which was near another vacant room on the deck. Jenn and Mark were situating themselves there.

After getting unpacked (Which, for the reporter meant flinging his clothes into the drawers and standing up a few photographs on the counter), Barnes surveyed the room. He was scanning for the ideal place to set up his studio..... after a few modifications were made. The opertions staff onboard the starbase nearly lossed their minds upon entering the room. Barnes was curious to see how Clawson would handle it. This time, however, not wishing to lose the opportunity to remain on the Horizon, he had drafted a proposal for the CO to approve, essentially mentioning the assembly of the news desk, and installation of several special screens and projection equipment (All to be done by his team, of course). Kurt "forgot" to include the cutting, drilling, welding and other processes which would alter the room's physical attributes.

<<Some Time Passes>>

Kurt left A-8 and rang the chime on A-9.

The doors swooshed open moments later. Mark was reclined on a sofa, while Jenn was still busy unpacking......

Barnes: "My God woman, what did you bring?"

Jenn: "Only the essentials...."

Mark: "Yeah, if the essentials means her whole appartment" He said.

Jenn: "Oh yeah, and who will be the first one begging to borrow?"

Barnes: "Allright, allright, Just hurry it up. I need you two to get started on the studio."

Mark: "Did you get permission this time?"

Barnes: "No, not yet, but I will. I'm not expecting you to pull out the tools just yet, all you need to do is get started replicating the necessary components."

Jenn: "I'll have nothing to do with this! The last time we tried one of your schemes we nearly got sent back to the Alpha Quadrant!"

Barnes: "Well, the FNN isn't going to arrange for a solo camerawoman to stay here without a correspondent, and I'm still going to proceed. Therefore your argument is void and you should help."

Jenn: "Should? Why should I?"

Barnes: "Because I head this team and I'm telling you too!"

Mark: "We still have to wait until she finishes unLOADING everything....."

Barnes: "It'll go by faster if you help her, Mark."

Jenn smirked and shot a glance at Mark, who had a rather unpleasant look about him.

Barnes: "The replicator isn't going anywhere, so when you're done helping her, you can get started."

Barnes turned to leave when the ship was suddenly struck and shook violently...........

((TBC))

OFF: A Joint Post by

Grenn,
M'Karll,
Shephard,

&

[Jennifer Dylan]

"Ms Dylan. On your toes. Try not to getus hit by anything." The Caitian spoke, her tail flickering behind her asshe watched the screen.

"Of course, Admiral." 'Jenny,' as she had come to be called by some of her crewmates, slid her hands over the controls and laid them down on the panel in what she called the "key position." Left hand on the directional controls, right hand on the coordinate keypad and warp controls, and right pinky on the throttle slider. She'd always found this position the quickest for jobs that required quick evasion of danger. It covered all the basic controls, and allowed for quick movement between them. That's always a good quality to have. She looked up at the viewscreen and zoomed out a bit so that she could see all incoming attacks, and hoped the Admiral would understand.

[M'Rall]

USS Horizon – Main Bridge

M'Rall was scanning the other ship, she was pretty sure she'd not seen anything like it before perhaps there would be something in the library computer. Sensor returns where a little mixed up with all the phaser fire out side. M'Rall swore softly under hear breath she never liked battles, granted she'd seen enough of them but she would sooner have a slightly easier life if she could. Not the best way to start a new day she thought, the other ships sheilds had taken a battering, and she scanned around the leading edges of the other ships shields. Pirate ships she wondered if they would ever stop, it was like having a constant annoying pest in the area with you, she'd never liked them and that was enough for her.

"Pirate ship shields down fifteen percent, Admiral"

At least M'Rall thought it wasn't the Borg, she could really do without that right now. She moved slightly in her chair and itched the shoulder of her right arm. Perhaps she'd see the doctor after all this was over, she looked back to her console and watched as the Horizon returned fire.

Tag Clawson

[Roman Dagara]

On: USS Horizon

Delaney moved down the corridors heading for sickbay. She had never met QaDghab before and thought she would introduce herself. Before she approached him she recalled everything her friends back at the Academy told her about Klingons. But somehow QaDghab did not seem like any original Klingon.

She held her stomach as she rounded the last corner, she could see sickbay doors up ahead.

She tried drinking with the Klingon to get him to talk, she was always told that was a good strategy, except with QaDghab, it wasn’t. Now she was sick, she fought with all her strength to keep from Throwing up.

~Mind over Matter~ She told herself.

She was a few feet away from the sickbays doors, and suddenly the ground shook violently and she lost her footing, her head hit the wall, and nearly blacked out. She could feel something wet trailing down her cheek. She was loosing the self control that was keeping her from throwing up…she fought harder, she had no idea what was going on and just wanted to get to sickbay.

She found strength to get up and entered sickbay. The ground shook again, her stomach felt even worse. She seen Roman Dagara, the Chief nurse and approached him. She was about to speak and threw up all over him, and fell to the floor Unconscious.


Roman quickly bent down and felt for a pulse carefully not moving the neck. Roman could feel a strong pulse. He could see blood trailing down her head. "Nurse Dalys get me a regenerator." Roman took out the medical tricorder and began to scan her. He could see no real bad damage. The cut was fairly shallow but still long. He couldn't see any form of concussion. Roman slowly picked her up as gently as possible. He carried her with ease and set her on a biobed. A lurch and he was able to keep his balance with the extra weight. A rolling cabinet again dislodged. This time he couldn't dodge the cabinet but he would redirect it. Roman snapped a kick as quickly as possible redirecting the cabinet away from him.

Roman sat Delaney down and began to scan her again. He opened her eyes and took a look into them and again no issues there. He wasn't worried about the fact that he was thrown up on. He reached for a towel and wiped himself off as best he could. He was wearing a white robe so he removed it and tossed it to the laundry hamper and began to scan Delaney again.

Nurse Dalys was trying to rush back in with the regenerator. Roman knew that she didn't have the best balance. "Take your time Dalys. There is no major injury and I don't want you hurt as well"

The nurse slowed her pace. Not wanting to lose full concentration he began to gently move his hands together as soo as Dalys handed him the regenerator he began to move it over the wound. "Dalys, please bring me a glass of water this young lady will need it when she awakes to take the pain killers she will need. She must have hit her head but there is no blood on the floor where she landed." Roman slowly tried to revive Delaney

"Ms Orion, can you hear me. Please do not try to sit up quickly"

TAGS Delaney

[QaDghab]

(OK hope this not confusing, this is a kind of catch up post)

QaDghab was in no hurry to get out of bed for shift. Or what should been his bed as in middle of night he had gotten up and fallen asleep in the floor across the doorway, he was still covered in a fur blanket thankfully though as he wasn't wearing anything else at the time. He slept soundly.

Sammy woke and stretched she had had a good nights sleep and now she was hungry, seeing her fathers bed empty she called out to him "vav who is cooking this morning" she waited for his reply not realizing he was on the floor asleep yet.

He didn't respond, still asleep, one of the few times he was soundly asleep.

Not getting a reply she got up and went to shower before dressing in a pair of black pants and a gray sleeveless shirt, as she went to leave the bedroom she spotted her father sleeping soundly. She carefully stepped over him and went to brew some Qa'vIn, and rustle something up for breakfast.

A short time later she came back to the bedroom with a plate of almost raw meat and eggs and also carrying a large mug of hot strong Qa'vIn which she waved under his nose.

He stirred slightly, smacking his lips and mumbling his first wife's name before turning over and settling back to sleep.

She used her foot to poke him between the shoulders "Get up lazy bones or the Qa'vIn will be cold" she called loudly

He was still tender there from the surgery and he startled awake, swatting at her foot, his blanket falling away.

"Time to get up" she said as she waved the mug in front of his face, not bothered by the missing blanket.

He grabbed the mug quickly, spilling some of the hot Qav'In on himself as he took a drink.

She grinned and passed him the plate of food, "We have some tests to run on the new training programs this morning before our duty starts so I suggest you eat now" she said as she stood there waiting for the mug she knew would soon be empty.

He drained the mug, handing it back to her as he covered himself again and took the food.

She returned to the kitchen area and poured him another mug full and returned with it before going and sitting down to eat her own breakfast.

He accepted the food and drink gratefully, eating and drinking while still sitting on the floor.

Sammy ate a much lighter breakfast than the one she cooked her father, she just had a bowl of musli with extra fruit and yogurt along with her mug of Qa'vIn. She finished and cleared her dishes away then sat on the sofa to relax while she waited for him to finish and dress.

As he ate he started to remember a earth food he found he liked one time, but he couldn't remember what it was called, so he brought it up. "There is an earth fruit I found I liked when I was with your Mother, however I don't remember it's name..." He said between bites.

"What did it look like" she replied wondering what one it could be.

He thought, "Round... orange and red. Like many earth fruits it did not have a tough outer skin. It had a large seed in the middle." He described.

"furry or smooth skinned" she asked again

"Smooth," He said simply and bit into his meat.

"That would be a nectarine then, sweet and juicy with a soft but not mushy flesh. they are a nice fruit" came her reply

He nodded, "Do you have any of these neqturines?" He asked mispronouncing the name

"Not here but they might have some in the mess hall" she called back

He nodded, finishing his meal and getting up. It was about that time the ship bucked, tossing him into her.

She helped him up then stood herself just as the red alert klaxon went off "Get dressed quickly we have to get to the bridge, and make sure you are armed with an energy weapon as well as your knives" she said as she hurried to strap her own weapons on, she went to the wall safe she had had installed and punched in the code