The Devil's in the Details - Part One

Posted on Thu Mar 12th, 2020 @ 3:43am by Division Admiral Thomas Lasky & Commander Beth Woerner & Commander Tienn Iteela & Commander Ennis Cullen & Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Yamaguchi-Solusar & Lieutenant Morg "Morgan" Wolfsong & Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Yamaguchi & Lieutenant Commander Ouros Yamaguchi & Lieutenant JG Rachael "Ripcord" Yamaguchi-Cullen & Lieutenant Savannah Yamaguchi & Division Admiral Celeste Yamaguchi-Hobbs & Post Captain Plataea "Phantom" Lasky & Lieutenant Commander Kameron "Foehammer" Solusar-Yamaguchi & Lieutenant Lasarra "Silverbolt" Yamaguchi & 1st Lieutenant Selendis "Ratchet" Yamaguchi & 1st Lieutenant Atin Temetti

Mission: Mission 86: A Hero Falls
Location: Various Locations - USS Manticore
Timeline: 0700Hrs - May 18th, 2392

Commander Thomas Lasky regarded Lt Commander Beth Woerner with a smile. "Commander. I'm going to take the next couple of hours as I want to pay my respects to my friend. I'm having her family over for breakfast and I expect to be there for quite some time." he explained to the smaller woman.

"So I'll be handling things while you're hanging out with Captain Yamaguchi's kin," Woerner responded, a faint smile playing at her lips. "I don't think I can get over being excluded, skipper. But don't think I won't try to do so." her smile only grew as she spoke.

"I think I'm going to like working with you. Beth," Lasky commented with a smile. "Assuming this ship doesn't end up like the USS Roanoke."

"We still could skipper. Anyway. Go and enjoy breakfast and look after her kin while I look after the ship." Woerner commented. "Hey, some of us need to do a full shifts work."

"I'll be back soon." and with that he went into the Captain's Mess. Lasky personally considered the idea of a private mess hall to be a waste of space that could really go to better uses but this was not his ship permanently and Lasky knew that him saying all of this was a waste of time. It would be up to the next skipper of this ship.

Meanwhile down the hall stood a rather striking woman of mixed descent, she wore intelligence black but when a member of the medical staff looked at her, they would see Elizabeth Yamaguchi looking right back at them but to those who knew better, this was not Elizabeth Yamaguchi, it was her twin. Ouros as she had a different figure to Elizabeth.

The tall female smiled as the man she was waiting on came around the corner. "Hey, you are a hard one to find," Elizabeth commented with a grin at her twin.

"I'm good at being able to vanish into walls, floors, and doors," Ouros responded, a smile playing on her lips. "I got an invite to breakfast with the skipper of the Manticore. All of my siblings did likewise and they are presently gathering inside now."

Just then a shorter female wearing Engineering gold came around the corner. "Hey Ouros. What's up?" as Rachael Yamaguchi-Cullen could easily tell her siblings apart, she was one of a very select few that could do this, however. The look in her eye betrayed her true mental state, her voice said she was alright but her eyes were another matter.

Ouros gently gave the shorter female a hug. "It's okay sweetie." she smiled down at Rachael. "So other than the obvious, what's up with you?" Yamaguchi-Cullen inquired.

"My blood pressure, the ceiling, the hull, the stars across the cosmos." she smiled at the shorter female. "Oh. Right. Morg, meet Rachael Yamaguchi." Ouros quickly handled the introductions. "Rachael, meet Morg Wolfsong."

"It's good to meet you, Miss Yamaguchi." Morg and Rachael shook hands. "I was raised as a human rather than a Klingon," he added, by way of explanation.

"I had wondered," Rachael admitted with a smile as a second male came around the corner. "Morg, meet Ennis, my husband."

"Most do," Morg answered his first comment with a comment of his own, he turned. "Hello Ennis, we meet again."

"Indeed we do Morg, are the ladies on Dreamcrusher being good to you?"

"No, they are demanding and hold me to ridiculously high standards," Wolfsong explained. "Which is what I prefer, to be honest."

"Well, at least they are consistent," Cullen responded before turning to his wife. "We've met before."

"Ahh," Rachael responded with a smile. "Shall we go see the Commander?"

"Yes." the tall female responded. "Let's do that," Ouros responded before she gently took Morg's hand in her own. Ennis grinned at the sight of it but he chose to say nothing on any level whatsoever. Rachael meanwhile looked at Ennis as if to say 'I heard that.'

Ennis regarded his wife with a smile as the four of the people gathered walked into the Captain's Private Messhall. Ennis smile only widening as he selected a seat. Rachael looked at him. "What?"

"I'll tell you later," Cullen responded in a low voice.

Meanwhile from the other hallway came Lieutenant Gabriel Yamaguchi with Savannah Yamaguchi right beside him, both were wearing their uniforms but nothing could hide their grief. Neither had slept well and both looked groggy and tired. "Hey, guys." Gabe greeted his siblings when he entered the Captains Mess.

Commander Plataea Yamaguchi seemed to appear as if conjured by magic before she embraced Gabriel from behind. "Hey sweetie," she said quietly to him and Savannah who was next to her husband.

Both of them turned. "Hey." Gabe greeted her, he was clearly unsure of what to say to this version of his mother but Unal resolved it for him with her statement in front of the half dozen or so people who were already gathered. "Gabe. I might not have given birth to you, but you are mine. You were mine from the day I met you. I loved you the second I saw you. Nobody can change that." Unal explained herself. Nobody in the room missed what she had said either.

Savannah blinked, she did not see it coming as Gabriel gave Plataea a hug, she gently slipped her arms around his frame as she held him. "It'll be alright," she commented quietly. Meanwhile, Selendis came around the corner and through the door, her boyfriend beside her. Temetti paused a moment as Selendis sought out a chair for herself, she ended up sitting down next to Rachael Yamaguchi-Cullen. "Hey, Rachael. How ya doin'?"

"I've been better to be honest.," Yamaguchi-Cullen admitted. "I.. I don't know how... to even begin to start processing it." Rachael paused. "I mean... It was all so sudden.."

Selendis nodded. "It'll be alright."

"How?... You still got your mom." Yamaguchi-Cullen indicated Plataea from across the room.

"That doesn't mean anything," Selendis responded, in a quiet tone. "She was my mom too."

Yamaguchi-Cullen sighed softly. "She's dead but..she's not dead. I don't understand it." as she indicated Plataea who was presently giving Savannah a hug.

"Don't try," Selendis responded as she gently rubbed Rachael's shoulder with her hand before she embraced the other woman. "It's gonna be okay."

Lasky watched the scene as the final group of people he had invited began to arrive at the get-together. Commander Celeste Yamaguchi came through the entrance before she made her way over to where Lasky was standing. "Why are you standing here by yourself?" she inquired of him.

"Because you guys are her kin. I was just her friend." Lasky responded quietly.

"I happen to know that's not true." Yamaguchi smiled at Lasky. "She had a child with you," Celeste added with a grin.

"That's complicated and a long story. Torilla.." he stopped before he sighed.

"I know all the details," Celeste commented, a gentle smile playing at her lips. "Kurt will grow up as a good, strong man that we can be proud of and respect." the heavily pregnant woman smiled.

"Because Torilla was his mother and no matter what happens, nobody can ever take away his mother from him," Lasky responded, a gentle smile appearing on his own face.

"Exactly. Now, come on over and join us." Celeste then took his hand in hers before she led him over to the gathering.

Tienn Iteela came through the door with Nebris right beside her as she found herself in a gathering she didn't expect. She looked at Elizabeth Yamaguchi and then over at Ouros Yamaguchi, for a moment the small Bajoran female assumed she was seeing double as she paused. "I umm.." she stopped herself.

Nebris regarded the small Bajoran before he found himself looking at the massive form that was Elizabeth Yamaguchi who was nearby, she separated from her own husband and ambled on over towards him and Tienn.

Elizabeth smiled down at the small Bajoran female before her. "Hey, Tienn. Hows the little one?"

"You know about that?" Tienn inquired softly. At the nod from Elizabeth, the small Bajoran explained. "Well, it's doing okay for now. But a Half Bajoran, one-quarters human and Halanian has never been seen before." she paused. "I'm concerned."

"Well. I can ask Dreamcrushers medical lab to run a few tests, help try to set your mind at ease if you'd like." the tall female smiled down at Tienn. "I'll move you to the top of my list and stick a rush on it. Whatever it takes."

"You'd do that?" Tienn paused. "For me... Even after what-"

"That was a long time ago Tienn. You shouldn't worry about what I think of events gone by, what's matters is that the issue was resolved and I moved on. I forgave you long ago."