"Traitors In Our Midst"
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Stardate: 60299.0700
Setting: NEW ALEXANDRIA, Administrative Offices
Events had seen Lea leave this place without the memories of why. Chance, or lack thereof, had seen Lea be captured while she searched for what had supposed to be an artefact of little importance. Luck had made Lea encounter Luke, a strange and mysterious man who had turned out to be her benefactor and saviour. Lastly, irony had made it so that she had returned to this place feeling the hatred of many without knowing why.
Lea sat in the waiting room, looking at the smiling receptionist with a sense of deja-vue. Like on the ANUBIS where Lea remembered the layout of sickbay as if she had been there before, the Assistant CMO remembered this room, the woman behind the desk and that smile. There was something about the way she smiled, but Lea couldn't figure out what it was. In the end Lea accounted the goose bumps on her neck to being a nervous reaction at having been called in to see the Admiral.
"Are you certain that I cannot get you something to ease your wait?"
Smiling Lea shook her head. Maybe if she said nothing the receptionist would in turn stop asking the same question over and over again. It was nice to deal with nice people, but Lea could never bring herself to fully trust anyone who was just *too* nice.
Since making eye contact with the receptionist only made things worse, Lea turned away and examined the many statues that were there. Because of her background in archaeology Lea found the stone-made sculptures very interesting, but her mind was on something entirely different: treason. Lea had not been on the ANUBIS for all that long, but it had been enough for her to hear bits and pieces about the Romulans, their escape, and Enaii.
Lea could not remember why the name of the ILO sounded so familiar, or why it scared her so. What the Assistant CMO did remember though was that Starfleet had no love lost for any type of traitor. Too many people had claimed to be friends only to show their true colours through their actions, and Lea wondered if Enaii fell into that category. Had the ILO been one of those people who vowed their loyalty to one side while working for the other? Given the secrecy that surrounded Enaii, the possibility of her being a spy,as well as countless others, could be true. Maybe despite being a Starfleet officer, the ILO's real allegiance rested beyond the border of the Romulan Star Empire. Maybe that had been why the Assistant CMO had felt something odd about the woman. Then again the opposite could prove to be true and the actions taken by Enaii had been for the better. Only one person knew for certain and Lea doubted that she would speak about it to anyone.
"Ensign Summers," Admiral Koneki said, coming out of his office like the king of the castle that he was. "I am glad to see you back in one piece. I will admit that there was a time when I doubted that we would see you again."
"You will have to thanks Luke for that," Lea said as she jump to her feet. "If it wasn't for him and all that he did, I would not have made it back."
"I am glad that you brought Lieutenant Onison up. He is the reason I summoned you here this morning. I need you to tell me *everything* that you know about him."
"I thought he was a member of SFI?" Lea said, wondering if Luke had lied about the person that he was. Maybe the traitor on board the ANUBIS had not been the person they had originally believed.
"Lieutenant Onison *is* a member of SFI," the Admiral said, stepping closer to the Assistant CMO, "but there are several questions that are not been answered and I am hoping that you will be able to clarify a few things for me."
"I will do my best Admiral," Lea replied making the older man smile. At least her reprogramming in regards to her behaviour towards him had not been affected by her ordeals.
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Tiffany Rose {lady_tiffany_rose@mail.com}
Ensign Lea Summers
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
USS ANUBIS
2005 post #036
