" Eureka "
(Previous Post was Serena's " Operational Detour ")
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Stardate: 60298.1955
Setting: USS ANUBIS, Enaii and Sabrina's Quarters
The young woman stood over the sleeping form of the young child, cherishing every instant that passed by. In a universe filled with chaos and hardships, the redheaded woman could not help but feel in complete awe at the sight… one of such simplicity and purity that it seemed to make everything else vanish into nothingness. As soon as Sabrina was convinced that Talia had been sound asleep, she leaned in closer and pressed her pink lips against the child's soft forehead before quietly retreating out of the young girl's room.
"What happened in the gymnasium?" Enaii quietly, yet forcefully at the same time, demanded of the young woman as she emerged into the main living area of their quarters… the ILO having entered without the redheaded woman having heard the slightest noise.
"First things first… you will *please* stop doing that! This ability of yours to walk into any room without anyone knowing it is flat out creepy… not to mention a serious risk of giving someone like me a heart attack." The young woman snapped back while making sure to keep her voice to just above a whisper so as to not wake their daughter.
"What happened in the gymnasium?" The ILO demanded again as she followed her life-mate to the couch, not giving the slightest hint that the objection voice by the crimson haired woman had been acknowledged.
"Talia fell." Sabrina sighed as she closed her eyes and shook her head from side to side.
"That I know… what I want to know is what caused it, who was there and what happened after." The ILO elaborated, hinting that the interest in the accident had not been that of a mother towards her child… but more of an Intel Operative investigating something that she perceived as a potential problem.
"Talia and I were play fighting in the gym… we were supposed to be there to get some exercise so as to work up an appetite for a couple of nice Andorian chocolate sundaes. She got tired of it rather quickly and when she decided that it was time to leave, I went in front of her and blocked her way. She saw that as a new game and we began sparing with one another. At first she was kicking my ass all over the matt, but I soon got wise to her tactics. She tried a flying side-kick against me… a move that I wonder where she learned… but I moved out of her way. She landed off the matt and suffered a bleeding nose for it." The young woman explained, glaring at the still standing ILO whom she knew beyond certainty had been the source of the child's fighting skills.
"Who was there?" Enaii inquired, the tone of her voice sounding as cold as ice, as if the ILO had been in the middle of an interrogation.
"I don't remember… I think there was Crewman Tsao, Ensign Hallison and a couple of others training on the machines. Ensign Summers was also there… she rushed in after Talia fell and offered to help with treating her injury but I took care of it after reminding the good Doctor that I was more than medically qualified to take care of a blood nose." Sabrina announced, the memory of her encounter with the aCMO back on NEW ALEXANDRIA still very fresh in her mind.
"What did she do?" The ILO demanded, the right corner of her lips curling up ever so slightly as she did so.
"She did *nothing*… relax will you. She is still suffering from the full effect of the mind wipe that she was subjected to when she left NEW ALEXANDRIA. She doesn't remember me, what she did to me, *OR* what you had been ready to do to her in response. She was there and offered her medical assistance, something that was actually very kind of her, so cut her some slack. She was so wanting to help that she took a towel and cleaned up the blood that was on the floor… a job that should have been done by an Engineering clean-up crew." The ExO said, not really wanting to side against Enaii on this or any other issue but feeling that Ens. Summers had already been through enough.
Before Sabrina could even think of saying another word, Enaii had pivoted on her heels and exited the room as if she had never been there in the first place.
For a brief moment the ExO debated about what to do next… run after Enaii, if only to make sure that the ILO did not do something to further cause the CO to be upset with her or just call security to have them keep an eye on the visibly upset Intel Agent. Within a few seconds, the redheaded woman decided to go after her life-mate… there had been no need to place anyone else's life on the line.
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Stardate: 60298.1955
Setting: USS ANUBIS, Deck 11, General Use Lab
Since Lt. Serenna had put a stop to the comparative blood analysis, Sickbay had been as dead as could be and although she needed to rest, the aCMO had decided to venture around the ship and try to become reacquainted with the ship and personnel of which she remembered next to nothing about. Ens. Summers could tell by the looks on people's faces that many of them knew her… unfortunately very few if any had seemed happy to see her. This of course only caused the woman to wonder even more about what had happened… a curiosity which had lead her here.
"What are you working on?" The aCMO inquired of the CSciO, the science station where the Shillian had been working at filled with artefacts and engraved stones of all shapes and sizes.
"Trying to decipher the language on these stones… I know that they are both part of or related in some way to the fabled *Mind Stone*, but so far I have not been able to figure out exactly how." The Shillian replied, her attention never wavering off the items that had captured so completely the scientist's interest.
Glad to see that her presence had not triggered any sort of negative reaction, the aCMO pulled up a stool and joined the CSciO in her research thinking that maybe her experience in Archaeology and linguistics might prove to be in some way useful. After looking over the items on the table, some real, some holographic, Summers turned and looked at the Shillian.
"You know… I saw some very similar inscriptions on another item."
The sparkle that had appeared on the scientist's eyes left no doubt that her interest and curiosity had been peeked to no end.
"Let me think… I remember seeing those three symbols on a stone of some sort… I just can't seem to recall where that stone was. Wait, now I remember… it was Luke… he had it in his possession when we escaped from that awful prison."
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Sabrina Jones {sabrina_sweet@hotmail.com}
Commander Sabrina Rikar
Executive Officer
USS ANUBIS, NCC-18501
As well as…
Lieutenant Kittianna
Intel Coordinator
NEW ALEXANDRIA
"We are Grey, we stand between the Candle and the Star, between the Darkness and the Light"
-Entilza Delenn, Babylon 5
2005 post #032
