Rude Awakenings

Posted on Mon Jan 14th, 2019 @ 3:22am by Lieutenant Commander Aurelia Taylor & Lieutenant Commander Turak

Mission: Season 2: Episode 3: Determination is not always a good thing
Location: Elysium-Brig
Timeline: after Something's Wrong Here
1313 words - 2.6 OF Standard Post Measure

Having beamed back to the ship, Lia now made her way to the brig. It took her only a short time, she was about to speak to the guard on duty when a loud voice stopped her.

Her head hurt. Severely. The woman who had identified herself as Queenie slowly opened her eyes, shutting them quickly again as the light in... wherever the hell she was was too much for her at that moment. She didn't know where she was, but she knew where she wasn't and clearly she wasn't on Cortic anymore, "Bloody hell..." She groaned, "That bitch, she shot me." She ran a hand over her hair, wishing the room would stop spinning long enough for her to plot her revenge on Annie, "Gonna scalp that pretty bitch."

She walked over to the 'door' of what she now knew was a prison cell and began to pound on the frame loudly, careful not to touch the force field and get one Hell of a shock, "HEY!!! HEY!!! LEMME OUTTA HERE, YOU BASTARDS!!!" She screamed, "HEY!!! YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!! I GOT RIGHTS!!!"

Hearing the racket, Lia walked into the cell area. "If you don't shut the fuck up, I'll stun you again". She turned before the woman could answer, in the mean time the guard had found out that Commander Brett had sent the woman. Lia now contacted her for information, =^= "Holmes to Brett, you wanna tell me why I've got a Amazon Bubba sat in my cell area stinking the place up?"=^=

=^=Happily, Commander. Queenie there was just stopping by to tell me all about her gang's terms and conditions for releasing Crewman Dorso, but not Chief Liorga.=^= Anje answered, deciding not to share the gruesome details of their negotiations, =^=Figured you'd be better for that part. Oh, and can you beam Dorso's commbadge back to me? Need to trace the location so we can go meet the rest of Queenie's court.=^=

'Queenie' could hear the conversation and recognized the voice, she wanted to scream and curse Annie out, but she'd save that for later, she'd save a lot of stuff for Annie for later, ~Bitch is gonna pay for that.~ She vowed to herself, then broke out laughing, "Yeah, you go ahead and try that. You're gonna be one dead, dumb bitch, Annie love."

Putting her head around the entry way Lia responded to Queenie, "HEY BUBBA!!! I told you to shut the fuck up, now do as your told or I'll put my Klingon prisoner in there with you". She didn't have a Klingon prisoner, but the Bubba didn't know that. =^="Lieutenant Brett, the comm badge is on it's way. But just what the hell am I supposed to do with two ton Tessie from Teddington? And I want both crewmen returned, so if this F.R.U.B. knows anything she won't find my hospitality welcoming".

~What the hell is a frub?~ Anje wondered, but then realized she didn't really care enough to slow down her work to find out, =^=I was hoping you could get her to talk, Commander.=^= Anje answered, =^=I mean, I can track their locations with the commbadge's location memory software, but that can give us any number of potential locations, maybe you can convince her to give up something more specific.=^=

Standing up Lia wandered back into the cell area, she looked at Queenie. =^="Lieutenant Brett, I won't promise anything. But if this (F)at (R)epulsive (U)seless (B)astard knows any details about our missing crew members, I will attempt to extract it post haste"=^=. She knew one way of doing it, but that would take time. Time they may not have.

=^=Thank you, Lia.=^= Anje replied, dropping all pretense, =^=I'll get to work on tracking them down here.=^=

"Oh, you've fucked up now, Annie love!" Queenie laughed loud, "And I ain't tellin' nobody nothin' either! I'll ride out my life in this cell before I face Quin again..."

That's when it struck Anje, that was genuine fear in Queenie's voice when she mentioned this Quinn person, =^=Commander, is it possible we can, oh, I don't know, release her on her own recognizance back on the planet? I mean, I'm sure this Mr. Quinn misses her...=^= ~And now we wait....~

As Turak listened to the conversation, he wondered who this Quin was - so naturally he asked, "Who is Quin and why don't you want to see him again? Maybe we can help with a private reunion between the two of you, that is unless you want to cooperate with us?"

"You can't do that." 'Queenie' replied with a sneer, "You got a whole big book a' stupid rules ya gotta follow, you can't turn me over to Quin." She might have been born at night, but it wasn't that night, "Besides, Quinton wouldn't believe I'd talked to the cops anyway."

She looked at the Vulcan man again, he had actually been the one suggesting it, that was troubling. She hadn't learned a lot in school, hadn't been able to stay in long enough, but she did know one thing, Vulcans never lied. ~If he says he'll take me back to Quin, he might well mean it.~ She paused for a second, "But, if I was interested in givin' ya Quin, what's in it for me? I never squeal, but I'm not stupid, I'm willin' to negotiate." She'd not come into the company of Quinton Dunphy of her own volition, none of the girls since Nancy had, and she'd dreamt of being rid of him, starting a new life; maybe she could use this to make a nest egg for it?

Turak replied, "You haven't answered my question yet, who is Quin and why are you so afraid of him? Why would we even want him? As for him not knowing about you speaking with 'Cops'" Turak put the word in quotations, "don't worry, he'll know when we are the ones who drop you off. Oh, and don't even think about trying to give us misinformation, we always find out in the end."

"I've been threatened by better than you." 'Queenie' laughed, "So don't try hardballin' me, okay? Anyway, Quin is Quinton Dunphy, he's, well, for lack of a better word, he's my boyfriend." She stopped there, it wasn't exactly that way, not by a long shot, but she wasn't going to let on to them.

"Who's playing hardball, I mean what I said," Turak replied, "and if he is your boyfriend, as you put it, then why would you be afraid of seeing him?"

"Well, you seem nice enough, so I'm gonna level wit' ya, hey?" 'Queenie' began, "Quin's courtships ain't in no traditional manner. Well, less you consider slavery and cave man kidnappin's a tradition. None o' us were proper asked ta be wit' him, we was more... coerced. Yeah, I think that's the right word."

"…and did he 'coerce' you to kidnap the Star Fleet members?" Turak paused, "What can you tell me about the whereabouts of Dorso and Liorga?"

"Whoa, here's the thing, mate." 'Queenie' replied, "I weren't part of no kidnappin', least not since me own. And the pretty baldie's just fine. Other fella looks rough though..."

Standing out of sight, Lia listened as Turak spoke to Queenie. *He's doing alright, I'll leave it to him*, she thought. =^="Holmes to Brett, Anje it seems Lieutenant Turak may obtain the information you want. I'll let him finish up, then I'll release the Bubba back to you. Sometimes people surprise you, hope it all works out. Holmes out"=^=.

=^=Thank you, Lia.=^= Anje replied, now confident that she had done the right thing and gotten the rescue started in earnest.

Commander Lia Holmes
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS Elysium

LTJG Turak
Security Officer
USS Elysium

Lt. Commander Anje Brett
Chief Operations Officer
USS Elysium