Caught in the Act

Posted on Thu Jun 25th, 2015 @ 2:22pm by Lieutenant JG Ronnie Wolfe

404 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Deadly Diplomacy
Location: Aboard the Night Star

ON

Ronnie spent a few minutes cleaning up her work, shutting down all but the passive programs, turning out the lights, and locking the door.

Her data crystals were carefully hidden away so they wouldn't be found. She didn't dare keep them on her person and she didn't dare leave them where they could be found by Stryfe or his crew.

It was one thing to wear data crystals as earrings when you were running, quite another to be caught on an Intel ship with them. At least she had the comfort of knowing that if anyone but her tried to use them, the data on them would decompile and become useless.

Humming softly, she made her way back to the quarters she shared with Damion.

As she did she heard two men coming down the corridor, talking to each other. Ronnie quickly ducked into the nearest room and listened to what was being said.

"...screwing up. I don't know what he was thinking ot let himself get caught like that. Stryfe is ready to chew nails."

"He always was a rogue. Are you sure he won't tell them about us?"

"Nah. He knows if he does there's nowhere he can go to get away from Stryfe. The guy's got more contacts than anyone I know. Even Hunter."

The other man laughed. "Stryfe has a plan. We're gonna cut and run and leave the Calypso to one of his contacts."

"What about Kayte?"

The voices were getting further away and harder to hear. Ronnie strained to get as much as she could.

"She'll go with the arms dealer. Then we'll deal with Wolfe and his..."

They were too far away for her to hear the rest of hte conversation. Ronnie waited until she was sure they were gone and ran back to astrometrics to send another message to her contact. She had to warn the ship that something was up.

The message sent, she waited just long enough to be sure it went through and then turned to head back to her quarters.

As she stepped into the corridor, she heard a voice. "What do you think you're doing?"

She turned slowly to face the woman. "Updating stellar maps. That's what stellar cartography is for."

The other woman took her by the arm. "I think we need to talk to Wolfe."

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Lieutenant JG Ronnie Lancaster
Former Assistant Chief Science Officer
USS Calypso


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