05-28-2024, 10:27 PM
==Post Artemis Mission, 3 Days prior to Artemis Ready Room TL==
The door chime rang, and Benjamin's heart sank down into his boots. He pressed a control that finished his log entry - his final as Artemis Chief Engineer, he was certain now, if not as a Starfleet officer.
He'd been in the visiting officer's quarters on the station for maybe two hours, mostly settling in, taking a long shower, and generally trying to distance himself from the mission that just completed mentally instead of just via physical distance. However, it looked like he wasn't going to get that chance. Why the hell did you send that message? he asked himself. Of course, he knew the answer to that: it had seemed like the thing to do at the time.
The door chimed again, followed by a hard knocking at the door. "Come in," he said, and the door slid open. Three officers in security yellow walked in, two with hands on phasers though no one was bringing anything to bear just yet. The third one had a padd and an extra pip the others didn't have.
"Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Elias?" he asked officially, and Benjamin just nodded, standing. "Would you come with us please? There are some questions we would like to have answered regarding a log entry you forwarded to the JAG office."
Benjamin nodded. "Just for the record, if I were to refuse?"
The man with the padd sighed, and the other two moved their hands across the handles of their phasers. "For the record, I've been granted the authority to bring you in no matter what. Refusal would just make it more difficult for us."
"Well," Benjamin sighed, "we wouldn't want that, now would we?" He stepped calmly towards the group, hands spread at his sides. The leader stepped out with one of the armed guards beside him, while the other took up station behind him. And in silence, they moved towards the turbolift.
>>Promenade>>
The door chime rang, and Benjamin's heart sank down into his boots. He pressed a control that finished his log entry - his final as Artemis Chief Engineer, he was certain now, if not as a Starfleet officer.
He'd been in the visiting officer's quarters on the station for maybe two hours, mostly settling in, taking a long shower, and generally trying to distance himself from the mission that just completed mentally instead of just via physical distance. However, it looked like he wasn't going to get that chance. Why the hell did you send that message? he asked himself. Of course, he knew the answer to that: it had seemed like the thing to do at the time.
The door chimed again, followed by a hard knocking at the door. "Come in," he said, and the door slid open. Three officers in security yellow walked in, two with hands on phasers though no one was bringing anything to bear just yet. The third one had a padd and an extra pip the others didn't have.
"Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Elias?" he asked officially, and Benjamin just nodded, standing. "Would you come with us please? There are some questions we would like to have answered regarding a log entry you forwarded to the JAG office."
Benjamin nodded. "Just for the record, if I were to refuse?"
The man with the padd sighed, and the other two moved their hands across the handles of their phasers. "For the record, I've been granted the authority to bring you in no matter what. Refusal would just make it more difficult for us."
"Well," Benjamin sighed, "we wouldn't want that, now would we?" He stepped calmly towards the group, hands spread at his sides. The leader stepped out with one of the armed guards beside him, while the other took up station behind him. And in silence, they moved towards the turbolift.
>>Promenade>>