A Stressful Debrief

Posted on Sun Sep 6th, 2009 @ 2:58am by Commander Acle Walex

Mission: Into a Devil's Heart
Location: Sickbay and Chief Intelligence Officer's Office.
Timeline: Directly after " Pre-Arrival Briefing"

...Ashley was laying on the biobed as a nurse was attending to her, after puking she felt much better, so did her head, unfortuantely she wished she had memory loss right about now, she knew she was going to be demoted for striking a superior. She just knew it...

Acle walked into sickbay, his face it usual stoniness. Although for those that knew him, somehow, his face appeared even more akin to granite then normal.

He cast his eyes about, not missing a single detail until they lighted on the NCO. His long strides quickly took him to the NCOs side, although he was careful to stand a safe distance back. For those trained in a martial combat, they could also tell that he was ready. He was on the balls of his feet and his arms were close to his sides.

Acle glared at one of the nurses who was transversing the sickbay floor. She promptly found something to do do outside the curtained off area. Acle then turned his gaze onto the NCO once again. Doing nothing else.

"Sir, I am sorry for striking at you. I didn't know if you were orion slave masters or pirates looking for the score of a life time. All I heard were voices and being in that damn escape pod for 3 days disorientated me. So Ill understand if you wish to demote me for striking a superior, I just hope you can be lenient and forget I did it, because I really wish I could." Ashley said getting up weakly.

"Your probably wondering what happened, well the main jest of it is that Peter Brown came to me and asked me for my special skills to assist him in stealing the Lincoln and go to some planet to save his father or he was on a vendetta thing I don't remember. But before we could reach the Lincoln to steal her, because, I thought it was the right thing to do. Im an NCO, its my job to get into trouble. But anyways, he knocked me out and I feel that he took advantage of my kindness to assist him and I felt that he assaulted me, stuck me in that pod and you know the rest of the story." Ashley said remembering the best she could but also fearing the worst that Acle would do.

Acle said nothing for a long moment, continuing to hold his gaze on the young women before finally speaking in a low voice. "Come with me. Do not try anything or you will be restrained and we will have our conversation in the Brig. We are heading to my office. Lead the way Petty Officer."

...She knew she was dead but got up none the less to head for the CIO's office...

Acle followed behind the NCO. A nurse moved to intercept the two of them, a stern look on her face. The original nurse that Acle had shooed away with a glare was looking from behind the stern nurse. Acle would hear about this from CMO...

"Halt!" Acle's voice barked out going back to his own days as a NCO, stopping the nurse in her tracks. "We will be going to my office. File a complaint if you want, but, she is going. Good day." Acle said, then motioned Ashley on.

"But sir, I didn't......"she was cut off as she walked backwards, noting every detail of the ship as she walked backwards. "I am sorry sir, I didn't mean to punch you, it was a reaction. I swear to god! I thought you were Orion raiders!. How was I supposed to know I was really being rescued by the Iapetus. Seriously....." She was cut short by the glares from Acle and she turned back around and marched off to the office in silence.

"If your going to demote me, put me in the brig, chop my head off, make me scrub the plasma manifolds, just do it, I don't want to go threw the unsettling feeling that i'm about to walk the plank for doing what was natural." she said breaking her own silence as they went, she didn't stop talking until they were at the CIO's office and in they went, Ashley knew she would have been killed or maybe a worse death, a slow, painful and agonizing death, the thoughts of what Acle would do raced threw her mind, and she began to have a panic attack as she fell to the floor, breathing heavily, sweat pouring down her forehead and neck, as if she was grasping for air.

Acle had stayed silent through Ashley's non-stop talk until they had reached his office. Upon reaching his office, he sealed the door behind them and turned, to find Ashley on the floor, suffering from what looked like a panic attack. Sheer shock stayed him for a moment before he reached down and yanked Ashley to her feet. He held her by her shoulders and looked in her eyes. Despite his best intentions, concern colored his eyes.

"Get a hold of yourself Petty Officer!" Acle barked. "You are a non-commissioned officer of the United Federation of Planets! You will conduct yourself as such!" He held her firmly for a moment, then gingerly let her go.

...She felt Acle let her go and she slumped down a bit and quickly made it to the replicator to get a drink of water, then laid down on the couch that was nearby...

Acle spoke softer then "What happened? You are an intelligence operative... You have been trained to resist harder interrogation tactics then silence. Further more, you know that I cannot do anything more to you then submit you for UCMJ action and a JAG court. No matter your crime, you are entitled to a honest and non-partial hearing... Are you in control of yourself?" Acle asked, genuine concern touching his voice. Damn women... He could never interrogate women...

"What do you mean? I told you what happened, you don't believe me! Do you?!" she said raising her voice from the couch.

"I meant what happened with your break down Petty Officer..." Acle said a bit dryly. He sighed then went to sit on his desk. His traditional approach to getting information wouldn't work today it seemed.

"But, since you did bring it up... You are telling me that Lieutenant Commander Brown talked you into going out and stealing a vessel of the United Federation of Planet. You clearly admit guilty to that and you had full knowledge that you were helping another being steal, commit mutiny, go AWOL and various other charges?" Acle asked, his voice becoming colder the further he went.

"You willingly assisted a now rogue agent with full intent that he was becoming rogue... Before we continue on with the rest of this... debriefing, please explain to me... What the hell you were thinking?!" Acle thundered.

"I didnt steal anything, he told me, he needed my help, I was working under the impression that he had orders give to him by Krace. How the hell was I supposed to know I was working against the Iapetus, against the command structure of this ship. I didnt know what he was doing, he didnt tell me anything. He told me he needed help and to learn to brush up on my flying, he didnt tell me what we were doing. I thought this whole damn thing was some Intelligence mission and you put Brown in charge of that mission. I was merely following the orders of a superior officer who now has commited an act of treason....." Ashley said thinking for a moment.

"THATS! why he assault me, sent me back here. He is using me as his escape goat, im taking the fall for his actions. That low down dirty Targ." Ashley said as she got up and paced the room as she threw another glass of water on her face, in hopes of cooling herself down.

"HE ASSAULTED ME AND NOW IM HIS DAMN ESCAPE GOAT! that little!, when I get ahold of him, I am going to rip! his heart out, if he has one!" Ashley said as all panick went away, now she was furious with herself and she knew exactly who to take it out on. But instead she punched the wall several times. Blood was mildly coming out of her knuckles as she took out her frustration at the betrayal.

Acle remained impassive until she started to punch the unoffending wall. Acle then moved forward, planting himself and siezed her arms, pinning them to her side and in doing so getting a firm grip. He swung his torso and lifted, using his own momentum and strength to literally propel her from her feet and airborne towards the couch.

...Ashley felt herself picked up and flung in the air, where she landed on the couch stunned...

Acle's face had not changed, but, his tones had become cold again. "If I have to stop you from hurting yourself one more time... Or if I have to step in a grab you because of a panic attack or some other outburst... I will have you thrown in the Brig and personally restrain you so that you can cause no more harm to yourself. IVs will be hooked to you so that you will be fed and to avoid dehydration. Then we will continue this debriefing at that time. Do you understand Petty Officer?"

"Understand. You been working out, sir." As she relaxed for a moment.

"Furthermore, contrary to your belief, he just saved your ass." Acle said. The fact that he was using swear words was an implication of his emotions. "If you had been on that ship when he had taken it, you would be considered a rogue agent... Moreso, a rogue intelligence agent. You and I both know what happens when an intelligence operative is declared rogue. It used to be my job to hunt those individuals down as well as foreign intelligence operatives. I used to take particular joy in hunting down rogue agents."

Acle paused then said "All this is besides the point. We will bring in Brown and justice will prevail. Do you know what his plans were? You mentioned that you went to help him save his father or some vendatta thing... Clarify that for me." Unobtrusively, Acle activated a hidden recorder.

"He mentioned stealing the Lincoln, then mentioned some planet, I don't remember what planet, I just know I was under the impression of following orders, he went to steal the Lincoln, but before we did, he knocked me out, assaulted me physically for all I know after he sedated me, then he has some sort of Vendetta to settle, he mentioned his father or some family member of his. We can start there, I semi remember him saying his father was captured, or one of his family members captured, or in a slave camp. I don't remember the entire details." Ashley said as she blathered it out.

Acle went and returned to his perch on the corner of his desk. He crossed his arms and appraised the NCO for a moment before saying. "Try hard to remember Petty Officer."

"All I remember is what I told you." Ashley persisted to say over and over and over again.

"So you knew where Brown was going at one time. Did you not think this important information to take note of? If for nothing else then to research the area where you would be operating? Are you still in contact with Brown?" Acle asked, firing the questions.

"SHUT UP!" Ashley screamed as she covered her ears to get silence back, she started to hum to herself as she rocked back and forth trying to settle herself down...

Acle looked taken aback for a minute, then hit his combadge

=/= Medical Team to CIO's Office. Have a Psychological Trauma team on standby. ==

Acle moved off of his desk, ready to step in again to prevent the NCO from hurting herself in required. Something much more then just nerves were at stake here.

"Petty Officer Williams..." He began slowly, raising his voice so he was heard. "A team will be arriving to escort you to sickbay once again. Hold together okay? We are here for you."

...The silence was slowly returning as the effects of being stuck in a escape pod for 3 days, being drilled by several people and reliving her initial reaction of punching a superior kept being related in her head...

Acle barely turned his head as he heard a muffled bang on his door of someone trying to get in. "Computer, open hatch." He said, still keeping his eyes on the NCO.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Lisette Gevaudan hurried into the office, followed closely by two male nurses. She took a glance at the Lieutenant Commander before moving to the NCO, a hypospray already in hand. She quickly placed it at the NCO's neck and depressed the button, aiming to hop back quicker then the trained intelligence operative could strike.

Acle groaned aloud as he saw the nurse's intent and stepped in, prepared to physically restrain the NCO if he had to. He did not really want to get into a full blown combatives match with the operative. He was reasonably sure he would win, but, he really wasn't positive...

...Ashley fell unconscious and was taken away to sickbay...

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PO3 Ashley Williams
Intelligence Operative
USS Iapetus

Lieutenant Commander Acle Walex
Acting Executive Officer / Chief Intelligence Officer
USS Iapetus