Open Secrets - Part One

Posted on Fri Jan 1st, 2021 @ 2:11pm by Captain Robert Connor & Division Admiral Celeste Yamaguchi-Hobbs & Post Captain Plataea "Phantom" Lasky

Mission: Mission 98: Building Our New Home
Location: Various Locations - Starbase Vanguard
Timeline: 1330Hrs - October 5th, 2393

The doors parted at his approach while Captain Robert Connor walked into Operations, he had been called to come to see Celeste Yamaguchi-Hobbs on a matter that she needed to brief him about. He smiled as he looked about while he spotted Celeste Yamaguchi-Hobbs presently having a chat with the dockmaster which also doubled as the Starbase's chief operations officer and he knew it had to be exhausting for Captain Lasky to handle both jobs, considering that Lasky was pregnant, only added to her considerable workload.

Yamaguchi-Hobbs smiled. "Well, you need not worry. Captain Emerson should be arriving soon then you can hand off Dockmaster to her and you can handle my computer issues only."

"It'll be nice Celeste. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the workload but I'd like to breathe and not feel like I'm having to run at a million miles an hour to get everything finished so I can go home on time, y'know." Lasky commented softly.

"I do Plataea. I did handle the request and the issues. Starfleet Command and Fleet Admiral Duval agreed with me and with you. besides you did an exemplary job handling both assignments for over a year now."

"Well. I did what I can... Starfleet wanted to know if they could trust me." Lasky sighed. "I wanted to raise my second family here and see my first family do well with their lives and their careers," she explained with a gentle smile. "I'm a grandmother who's having children."

"You earned that trust and more." Yamaguchi-Hobbs smiled warmly at the other woman. "I know Jake has a special place in his heart for you."

Lasky nodded her head, she knew why he felt this way. It was obvious to her. "Its because any time he looks at me, I'm Torilla to him." she sighed softly. "I can't be his wife, even though I am here in all respects save one, I am not her." as she sighed. "Rob is here," Lasky added in a quiet tone.

"I need to see him. How long before you are due?"

"Oh, any day now," Lasky answered with a smile. "I can't wait. Soon I will have my body back and I can enjoy being a mother without the drama of being pregnant too." the heavily pregnant female explained with a gentle smile. "I know it was the same for you."

"Yeah. Jackson was and still is a handful. But Bree and I manage." Yamaguchi-Hobbs explained as Connor approached the two women but he did not interrupt their chat. Yamaguchi-Hobbs turned to Connor. "Ahh. Rob. Let's head into my office so we can talk."

Connor nodded his head. "After you sir," he commented as he was unsure of what to say to her, considering their history had been a long and strange one, a short period of passionate and love followed by a long period of hatred and separation, followed by a passionate sexual encounter that had left the two of them on the floor, covered in marks and bruises and now the two of them were working on getting along. Connor followed the tall woman into her office as she sat down on one of the various chairs before her, as she indicated the chairs. "Help yourself, they aren't for decoration," she explained. "We have a concern and it directly pertains to you and me.":

"Let me guess, Bree did not like the fact that you and I had sex on your office floor that one time?" Connor inquired, it was the easiest place to start this chat and it was also an easy assumption to make, considering their relationship up to this point.

"Actually no. Bree understood why you and I spent two hours fucking each other senseless, she did understand why it happened but no. That's not the issue." Yamaguchi-Hobbs paused as she decided to go all-in and simply tell him, rather than dance around the issue that needed to be addressed. "No Rob, the main issue is not with you and me directly... Though I will be frank, I greatly enjoyed our encounter. It was great..." she smiled happily. "I got all my issues resolved in one fell swoop."

Connor regarded the woman next to him. "Cel, do you know how long I've wanted to simply grab you, peel off your clothing and then have my way with you?" he decided to be blunt on the matter, knowing that the woman before him respected such matters.

"About as long as I've wanted to do it to you too..." Yamaguchi-Hobbs smiled at him. "There is nothing wrong with a little lust... But... We should address the matter before us..." she paused a moment. "When you meet the skipper of the Peerless, do remember that she is a very special case."

Connor regarded Yamaguchi-Hobbs with a look of confusion on his face. "I don't understand Celeste," he commented quietly, he knew that she was priming him before she dropped the hammer on him and any sort of nagging, getting irritated at her would not help matters at all with her. He would simply have to wait her out.

Yamaguchi-Hobbs regarded him. "Recently, we have been receiving guests from a parallel reality to this one. One of them was that realities version of me. She was since stranded here... and well, she phrased how she feels of the starfleet in this reality... Well. I'll let her speak for herself." as she turned to face the display before the two of them. "Computer. Access airlock twenty-four security monitor, Stardate 70739.38 Seven on Seven Three Nine point Three Eight." she sighed. "Time index twenty-two hundred."