OOC>> Takes place shortly after meeting between Cortez,
Guzman, Rangi and Trent.
***1st Task Force CO offices ***
Pakossi, ever polite, stood from his seat as Rangi and Trent
left Shanes office. He watched them leave his outer office
wondering silently and without sign of doing so, at their
serious expressions.
Once outside, they began to walk along the corridor side by
side. Rangi glanced at her companion and asked:
"That's it then. What do you propose to do?"
Trent stopped for a moment to consider the question.
"I don't know," Trent said honestly before turning to face
Rangi. "In your professional opinion with everything that
you know so far, how serious do you think this could get?"
"Bad." she answered simply. " At this moment, we have not
even a glimmer of a solution."
"What is the worse case scenerio?" Trent asked.
She looked past him along the length of the corridor then
remet his eyes as she answered.
"That the whole base is infected...every deck and
department over run."
It was a chilling thought but was a possibility that was
fast turning into a probablilty.
"This is why being a security officer is much easier than
being in a position of command," he muttered to himself,
not even realizing he was speaking outloud.
He noticed Rangi staring at him.
"I have no problem in firing on an unruly mob if it becomes
necessary. Actually, I do, but that's neither here to there.
I'm hoping we can avoid that."
Rangi nodded. It did not sit any more easily with her than
with Trent and she knew too that Shane had not given the
order lightly.
If infected persons could not be contained by other means,
then they were to fired upon as a last resort.
This encompassed everyone from the most senior officer to
the youngest civilian.
"I'm still hoping that you can find some sort of cure to this
before it gets to that point," Trent said. "Or is that wishful
thinking on my part?"
"Its just time." Rangi replied. "...and i can't help but think
we're running out of it."
"Yeah, we always seem to run out of time, don't we?" Trent
said more as a thought spoken out loud than anything else.
"Keep working on it. And if you need anything, let me know."
Captain Trent Rodgers
XO, 1st TF, SSF Command
XO, SB 234: UNITY
and
Commander Rangi Summers
Med Adv 1st Task Force
CMO
SB Unity
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