Considerations and Manifestations - Part Eleven

Posted on Fri Sep 30th, 2022 @ 5:04am by Commander Galiaan Fordring & Post Captain Heris Dvald

Mission: Mission 118: The Christmas from Hell
Location: Various Locations - Starbase Vanguard
Timeline: 1505Hrs - December 1st, 2393

"In Valens name," Dvald answered. "She had no idea... Did she?" she whispered.

Fordring regarded the other woman with a pitiless expression. "Heris. You've had children of your own as have I." Fordring's expression darkened. "I have many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren." she paused. "How would you feel if what you thought was a second child turned out to be a cancerous tumour." she paused. "It's not just a threat to your child but to you as well."

"She could have resolved this long before now," Dvald answered, pressing her first concern ahead to the front of the line.

"She tried to deal with it. People kept adding to her workload because she's the big bad Beth who's our motherfucking servant of god. She's put up with a ton of shit from the people;e in this department and then some. You know where I speak dammit Heris. What would you have her do.?" Fordring answered softly. "You know she's had a right shit time with this pregnancy and people still abused her with their excessive demands of work."

Dvald regarded Fordring in silence. "Go on, speak freely Galiaan. You've been wanting to get this off your chest for a while now."

Fordring sighed. "Let me clock out first." The massive woman turned and went over to the master display nearby. She tapped a few buttons which marked her as 'sighed out.' before she turned. She came back into Dvald's office. She closed the door before the large female took a seat. "You know better than most what she endured. You let her do it."

"She said she could handle it," Dvald answered, it sounded hollow even to her ears.

"Of course, she could. Because she had to prove she was worthy of her Lt Commanders rank which she had restored to her. No thanks to those idiots in Starfleet personel who knew others were fucking her around and let them away with it." she explained. "She spent four years at Ensign and two years at Lieutenant JG before finaly making Lieutenant. She was that close to becoming a senior officer and department head. It was on Dreamcrusher no less... Had she been allowed to remain there then she would have become their Chief Medical Officer and we'd have Tanya Stevenson here."

Dvald sighed softly. "Siaxx seems to love her and the other members of her family," she commented. "Mention Elizabeth's name to Siaxx and she instantly becomes overjoyed." the tall Bolian then sat down across from Fordring, who looked downright irritated. It was because of recent events.

"Did you ever ask your sister as to why that's the case, Heris?" Fordring inquired of the large Bolian before her. "It was because Siaxx and Elizabeth made an effective team at handling each other's issues. I was able to assist. When Siaxx decided she wanted two daughters. Elizabeth and I got together to make it happen." Fordring regarded Dvald. "It's why I don't require Elizabeth to observe the usual rules when it comes to my usage of medical lab one." she then smiled. "Though, she does anyway. Something I do appreciate." Fordring took a moment to calm herself, as she could feel her precious control slipping away from her with each passing second. This was something that she found easy to do these days, something that she found rather disturbing.

Dvald regarded the other woman in silence as she vented her issues and problems. She knew that Fordring had two very young children in the house and that was part of her issues. The thing with Elizabeth was also a major player as Elizabeth and Fordring were at one point, the very best of friends and now they seemed to be almost unable to stand being around each other. "Were you able to work anything out with her?"

"I was able to work more out with her husband than anything else. I went for a swim and when I surfaced. I screamed once. I was enjoying myself, I was having fun... They misunderstood me, Kam came charging across the pool area and since he wouldn't stop, he crashed into me. I caught him at the last second. I was expecting him to hit me... Instead, he hugged me and told me it would be alright. I'll admit. I fell apart at that point."

Dvald nodded her head. "Fell apart?"

"I wanted to pin Elizabeth down for five weeks and counting. I wanted answers from her, very badly and I was prepared to do anything to get them... I was prepared to tear her into bloody ribbons for it." as she looked down at her hands. They were shaking softly. "I wanted to make her feel my pain."

"I'm sorry," Dvald answered.

"Don't be. I waited for her to come to me, she was busy so I should have gone to her and I didn't. I wanted to give her space so she could sort out things. But I should have gone to her much sooner." Fordring answered. "My own children are also being demanding... Then there was my bout with alcohol poisoning," she admitted. "I didn't think it would get so out of control." she paused a moment. "Had it not been for Siaxx and her husband..." she then sighed.